Robert Brooke; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 9, No. 4, 1901

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Robert Brooke

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 4.
   (Apr., 1901), p. 266.

                                  ROBERT BROOKE.
                      (See Inscription QUARTERLY, IV., P. 64).

   Copy made by Miss H. R. Rooker, Charles Town, W. Va., of a letter from J. L. Chester,
formerly of the College of Heralds, London.*

   "I have just had sent me a rubbing of the inscription of an old brass, still existing in
the church of Whitechurch.  When I first inquired there, a long time ago, I was informed
that no monument to the Brookes' remained.  This brass has since been discovered, stowed
away in the belfry, where no one thought of looking.  It is one of the quaintest I ever
saw, and extremely interesting.  Unfortunately it does not give us the parentage of Richard
Brooke, who heads your pedigree, but it does give us the precise dates of the death of him-
self and wife, which you can now add to the pedigree.  As they lived together forty-one
years, they were, of course, married about 1552 or 1553.

   Since last writing I have found that this Robert Brooke, the youngest son, who erected
the monument, died intestate, and letters of administration on his estate were granted
14 December, 1614.  I also learn that the parsonage house, in which the Brookes lived, at
Whitechurch, is still standing.  It is an interesting fact, that during the civil wars
King Charles I passed two nights and a day in htis house, the guest of the Brookes."

                                  NOTE BY MISS H. R. ROOKER.

   Copied January 9, 1894.  This Richard Brooke was grandfather of the Robert Brooke, who 
settled in St. Mary's county, Md., in 1650, and almost certainly was progenitor of the
Brookes of Virginia.  The oldest branch of the Virginia family lived at "Brooke Bank",
Essex county, which place has remained in their possession to this date.
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   *Copied and communicated to the editor by Miss Kate Mason Rowland.