BROMLEY — -BROOKE. 31 BROMLEY (co. Stafford). Sou •' Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, edu Stafford," Barony, cr. 1603 ; as. 1707. See " Bagot of Bagot's Bromley, co. Stafford," Barony, cr. 1780. BROMLEY HILL PLACE. Sec " Farnrorough of Bromley Hill Place, co. Kent," Barony, cr. 1S26 ; ex. 1838. BRONTE (Italy). Sec " Bridport of Cricket St. Thomas, co. Somerset, and of Bronte in the Kingdom ok Italt," Viscountcy, cr. 1868. BROOKE, or BROKE, alias COBHAM. Sir Edward Brooke, or Broke, of Cobham, co. Kent, who, in right of his mother, was the h. gen. of the Lords Cobham (cr. 1313) was sum. to Pari, as a Baron by writs 13 Jan. (1441/5) 23 Hen. VI, to 28 Feb. (1462/3) 2 Ed. IV. directed " Edvardo Broke dc Cobham, Chl'r." See under " Cobham," Barony, cr. 1313 ; {attainted 1604), such being, it is presumed, the proper designation of this title. BROOKE (Wilts). Barony by 1. Sir Robert Willoughby of Brooke in Westbury, Writ. Wilta, s. and h. of Sir John W. by Ann, da. and and coheir of Sir Edmund Cheney of Brooke afsd., was sum. to Pari, as a Baron j 1490 (LOUD WILLOUGHBY DE BROOKE) by writ 12 Aug. 1492 directed "Roberto Willoughby de Brooke,{') Chev." although his. s. and successor (another Robert Willoughby) was, by writ 5 Feb. (1514/5) 6 Hen. VIII, sum. as LORD BROOKE, [on?;/.] See under " Willoughby de Brooke," Barony, ( b ) cr. 1492, such being, it is presumed, the proper designation of this title. BROOKE OF BEAUCHAMPS COURT and BROOKE OF WARWICK CASTLE. Barony. J. Fulke Greyille, only s. and h. of Sir Fulk Greville of Beauchiunps Court in Alcester, co. Warwick, by Anne, da. of Ralph I. 1G21, (Nevill), 4th Earl of Westmorland, which Sir Fulke was s. and h. of another Sir Fulke Greville, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir (eventually sole h., being the greatest heiress of her time) of Edward Willoughby, ( b ) s. and h. ap. of (M " The title being taken from his place of residence, Brooke, near Westbury, Wilts, so called from the rivulet that runs there ; which place had formerly been the seat of John Pavely, Lord of Westbury, from whom by marriage with the coheiress of Cheney it descended to Sir Robert Willoughby." See " Family of Greville," 1769, p. 69. ( b ) The Barony of Willoughby de Brooke fell into abeyance on the death of the second Lord, s.p.m.s., 10 Nov. (1521) 13 Hen. VIII, between his three graudaughterB and coheirs. Two of these were dead, without issue, before the death of their sister Dame Elizabeth Greville (who d. in 1560), who, according to modern usage, would have been entitled suo jure to the Barony. She would have been sue. therein by her son (1560-1606) and, subsequently, by her grandson, Fulke Greville, er. in 1621, Baron Brooke. It was not, however, till 13 Feb. 1695/6 (when the representation had passed from the family of Greville) that this Barony was allowed to her descendant and representative, Richard Verney ; this being the first decision whereby a Barony by writ was allowed to the heir at law (thro' a female), lifter it had been in abeyance. The older and better doctrino was, that, as the effect of abeyance was to vest the dignity in the Crown, no right of succession, after such vesture, could subsequently ensue, other than by the special favour of the Crown.
