350 COBHAM been granted to her for life by the King. He d. s.p., 24 Jan. 16 18/9, in the Tower, or hard by in the Minories.(*) His widow, who was b. before 1572, was bur. in Westm. Abbey, 11 July 1628. Will dat. 21 June, pr. 8 July 1628. The peerage had h&en forfeited, as afsd., in 1603. William Brooke, who but for the attainder would have been Lord CoBHAM, and who, occasionally, has been so designated, nephew and h., being s. and h. of George Brooke (attainted and executed for high treason, at Winchester, and bur. in the Cathedral there, 5 Dec. 1603), by Elizabeth, da. ofThomas (Burgh or Borough), Lord Burgh (ofGainsborough),which George Brooke was br. to the last Lord Cobham. He was b. 1 598, and by Act of Pari. (16 10) 7 Jac. I, was restored
blood and to some small portion
of the estate at Cowling and elsewhere, but a clause was added that he should not claim any of the property of his father or of his uncle Henry, Lord Cobham,and that he was "not to enjoy the title of Lord Cobham without the King's special grace," which was never vouchsafed to him. He was K.B., I Feb. 1625/6, at the Coronation of Charles I, and was M.P. for Rochester, 1628-29. He m., istly, Pembroke, da. of Henry (Lennard), Lord Dacre, by Chrysogona, da. of Sir Richard Baker, of Sissinghurst, Kent. He w., 2ndly, before 1 642, Penelope, da. of Sir Moyses Hill, of Hillsborough, co. Down, Provost Marshal of Ulster, by his i st wife, Alice, sister of Sorley Boye MacDonnel. He d. s.p.m., from wounds received when fighting against the King, at the first battle of Newbury, 20 Sep. 1643, when the right to the Barony, subject to the attainder, fell into abeyance^') between his 4 daughters and coheirs.(°) His widow, to whom Katharine (Stuart), sua jure Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, when it passed (with that title, which see) to her descendants, who still possess it, together with the Earldom of Darnley [I.]. [^) "Died in a room ascended by a ladder at a poor woman's house in the Minories, rather of hunger than any more natural disease." (Osborne's Court of fames /, vol. i, p. 156). V.G. C") The resuscitation of the title in 1645 in the person of the heir male must be considered a new dignity, in spite of the precedency clause therein contained. ("=) These were (i) Pembroke (by the ist wife), who m. Matthew Tomlinson (who d. 5 Nov. 1681) and d. 10 June 1683, and was bur. at East Mailing, Kent, her issue becoming extinct in 1703. (2) Hill (by the 2nd wife), who w., 6 Apr. 1657 (as his 2nd wife). Sir William Boothby, Bart., and d. 14 May 1704, aged 68 {hur. at Ashbourne, co. Derby), leaving issue. (3) Margaret, ot. 25 May 1665 (as his 2nd wife), Sir John Denham, K.B., the Poet. She d. s.p. 6, and was bur. 9 Jan. 1666/7, at St. Margaret's, Westm. (4) Frances, who w., istly, before May 1665, Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B., who d. 1682, and 2ndly, Matthew Harvey, of Twickenham, Midx., who d. 1693. She d. 1690, and her issue was extinct in 1694. Of these sisters, the 3 younger, daughters of the 2nd wife, were by royal warrant, 19 May 1665, raised to the precedency which they would have enjoyed had their father sue. to the Barony of Cobham. This favour was probably obtained by Sir John Denham, who, within a few days, m. one of these coheirs. It was not extended to the eldest sister,
