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 BROOKE 333 1628, in his 75th year, of wounds received from one Hayward, who had long been in his service.('') He was bur. in great state in his vault at St. Mary's, Warwick. M.I. Will dat. 18 Feb. 1627/8, pr. 12 Nov. 1628.^ II. 1628. 2. Robert (Greville), Baron Brooke of Beau- champs Court, cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of Fullce Greville, of Thorpe Latimer, co. Lincoln, by Margaret, da. of Christopher Copley, of Wadsworth, co.York, which Fulke was only s. and h. of Robert Greville, also of Thorpe Latimer, uncle of the last Lord. He was b. 1607; ed. at Cambridge; was M.P. for Warwick (town) Feb. to May 1628, in which year he sue. his cousin (by whom he had been adopted when but four years of age) in the Peerage under the spec. Imitation of the patent. Recorder of Warwick 1641 till his death. He early imbibed re- publican notions, and with Viscount Saye and Sele,('^) was one of the two noblemen who refused to profess their loyalty to the King as required by the Council at York in 1639. Joint Commissioner to the Scots at Ripon and in London, Sep. and Nov. i640.('') Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick (on nom. of Pari.), 1642. Col. of a Reg. of Foot, 1642; fought at the battle of Edgehill, 22 Oct. 1642, and was appointed Major Gen. (for the Pari.) for COS. Warwick and Stafford, 7 Jan. 1 642/3. (^) He m., about 1630, Catharine, ist da. of Francis (Russell), 4th Earl of Bedford, by Catharine, da. and coh. of Giles (Brydges), 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudley. He d. 2 Mar. 1642/3, at the house of Michael Biddulph, M.P., in Lichfield, in his 36th year, being struck with a musket ball while looking out of a window to direct the siege of St. Chad's Church. (') His widow d. about I Dec. 1676. (a) " My Lord B. is dead of his wounds given him by his man, who slew him- self." (Lord Dorchester, 30 Sep. 1628). He was stating to an old servant the dispo- sition of his property, when the fellow flew into a passion at the smallnessof the legacy which was to be left to him, and stabbed his master. Lloyd says of him (1665): " Sweet was his disposition, winning his converse, fluent his discourse, obliging his looks; public his spirit, and large his soul." V.G. (^) On his death such representation of the families of Willoughby and Beauchamp as he had derived from his grandmother, Elizabeth Willoughby, and her mother, Eliza- beth Beauchamp (a coh. of a junior branch of the family of Beauchamp, I'/z. Beauchamp of Powick), devolved on his sister and sole h., Dame Margaret Verney, who (according to modern doctrine) then became sua jure Baroness Willoughby of Broke, and to whose grandson and h. that Barony, in 1696, was allowed. (^) This connexion is commemoratedby the town at the mouth of the Connecticut River in the State of that name, being called " Say-Brook " as having been founded by a colony under their auspices. V.G. ('') For a list of the 16 " popular " noblemen appointed by the King to treat with the Scots, see note sub Robert, Earl of Essex [1604]. V.G. (') He was one of the " Captains in the armies of the Commonwealth." See vol. iv. Appendix B. V.G. (') "Just after he had prayed publicly that, if the cause he were in were not right anJ just, he might be presently cut off." " Those who were acquainted with