346 COBHAM V. 1434. 5. Joan, apparently, sua jure Baroness Cobham, only surv.() da. and h. (by the 2nd husband, Sir Reynold Braybroke), was, at her mother's death, wife of Sir Thomas Brooke, of Brooke, Somerset, and of Holdich in Thorncombe, Devon, her marr. settl. having been dat. 20 Feb. 1409/10. He was 26 years old, Jan. 141 7/8, when he iuc. his father, another Sir Thomas Brooke; was M.P. for Somerset, 1417, 1421, 1422, and 1427. He was knighted between 1416 and 142 1, and appears, y«r? uxoris, to have been considered LORD COB- HAM. Will, in which he styles himself" Thomas Brook, Knight, and Lord of Cobham," dat. 12 Feb. 1438. C") He d. 1439, '^"•^ "^^^ ^^ ^^ Thorn- combe, Devon. M.L His wife survived him. VL 1443? 6. Edward Brooke, Lord Cobham, s. and h.; M.P. for Somerset 1442; he was sum. to Pari, from 13 Jan. (1444/5) ^3 Hen. VI to 28 Feb. (1462/3) 2 Edw. IV, by writs (') directed Edwardo Broke de Cobham Chivaler. He was a staunch Yorkist; fought at St. Albans, 23 May 1455, and took part in the solemn procession to St. Paul's, London, and was at the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460. He m. Elizabeth, da. of James (Tuchet), Lord Audley, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor,^) illegit. da. of Thomas (Holand), Earl of Kent. He d. 1464, before 8 Nov., when his widow Joan _sic had pardon for having m. without lie. Christopher WoRSLEY, " the King's servant.^) VII. 1464. 7. John (Brooke), Lord Cobham, s. and h. He was a minor 10 Dec. 1467, when his custody and marriage were granted to Edward Neville, the King's uncle. He was sum. to Parl.('=) from 19 Aug. (1472) 12 Edw. IV to 28 Nov. (151 1) 3 Hen. VIII. He attended the Coronation of Richard III, 6 July 1483,0 from whom he received several grants. (s) He was employed by Henry VI I (1491-92) in an expedition into Flanders, and on 24 June 1497 (with Lord Abergavenny) defeated the Cornish insurrection at Blackheath, where his cousin. Lord Audley (afterwards executed), was taken prisoner. He w., istly, Eleanor, {f) " Henry Oldcastle, son and heir of John, Lord Cobham," is mentioned in Patent Roll, 7 Hen. VI, but this appears to have been one of Sir John's four children by a previous wife. By Joan, Lady Cobham, he had, apparently, but one child, Joan, a da., who d. young. 1^) It is printed in Furnivall's Fifty Earliest English IVills, 1 387-1439. ('^) There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (f) See as to her parentage, The Genealogist, N.S., vol. xxviii, part I, p. 62. (e) Patent Roll, 8 Nov. 1464. V.G. For a list of the 35 peers there present, see note sub Humphrey, Lord Dacre (of Gillesland) [1473]. (8) He is wrongly stated {Materials illustrative of the reign of Hen. Vll, vol. ii, p. 282) to have been Steward of the King's Household and Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall 15 Mar. 1487/8. The man who held this post was Robert, 1st Lord Willoughby (of Broke). V.G.
