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Charles I and Parliament flared in the 1640s. Mainwaring would flee Wales to Ireland from 1641 to 1642 when the Long Parliament issued a warrant for his arrest. Brooke's appointment to command of a county in Maryland in 1649 neatly coincides with the execution of his
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Whitchurch from 1604 to 1611. The Brooke family arms were recorded in the Visitation of Hampshire, 1634. Robert and his ten siblings were orphaned in 1612 and were given into the care of their uncle Richard Venables, who managed the Brooke children's finances and saw to their education.
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Charles I's controversial policies such as ships-money. If Brooke wrote in support of the king in matters of theology, it does not appear his writings have survived, but his posting in
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but "included parts of St. Mary’s, Calvert, present-day
Charles and Prince George’s County"; the borders were redrawn shortly thereafter). This appointment was an expression of the friendship between Brooke and Cecil Calvert that they had formed at
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Like most of the wealthy emigrants who came to
Maryland under the patronage of the Proprietor, Brooke amassed many thousands of acres of land. He constructed three large estates, each named for himself:
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and the loss of his proprietary offices. Later he reconciled with Lord
Baltimore, allied himself with the conservative Catholic Party, and he and his family converted to Catholicism prior to his death.
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Maryland and Virginia. Robert Brooke would not serve in the Anglican Church after his arrival in Maryland, and in fact he and his family would convert to Catholicism prior to his death in 1655.
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The Brooke family of
Whitchurch, Hampshire, England; together with an account of Acting-governor Robert Brooke of Maryland and Colonel Ninian Beall of Maryland and some of their descendants
257:, he took the oath of Fidelity to the Proprietor. His sons each received separate grants of land in various counties of Maryland. Robert Brooke was constituted as Commander of newly formed
362:'s. Robert Brooke's pack of hounds descended through his family, which still kept and bred the pack at least as late as the 1940, a singular feat in the sport of foxhunting as well as
253:(June 1650) aboard his own ships and at his own expense, along with his wife, ten children, 28 servants, and a pack of hounds. On July 22, 1650, along with his two sons, Baker and
557:(B.A. 1620, M.S. 1624), and a wealthy and prominent planter of Charles County, Maryland… arrival of the Brooke family in Maryland, Mr. Brooke entered Harvard College June 3, 1651.
282:, Brooke was made Governor, and served in this capacity from March 29 to July 3, 1652. His co-operation with the Bennett-Claiborne Puritan faction brought him the displeasure of
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Brooke married first, on February 25, 1627, Mary Baker (1602–34), daughter of Thomas Baker of Battle in Sussex, England. Robert and Mary (Baker) Brooke had four children:
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On September 20, 1649, Brooke was issued with a commission as Commander of "one whole county" (in the province of Maryland) "to be newly set forth, erected, &c" by
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Murphy, Nathan (2015). "The Origin and Royal Descent of Margaret Domville, Wife of Richard Hatton, of Lymm, Cheshire, and of Richard Banks of Maryland".
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as it represents 290 years of breeding by one family. American Foxhounds from this lineage were additionally known as "Brooke Hounds."
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584:"Clergy of the Church of England Database: Brooke, Robert [175176]"
308:"De La Brooke Manor" (2,000 acres (8.1 km), granted July 28, 1650) in
54:, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Thomas Brooke was a barrister at
514:"Virginians and Marylanders at Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century"
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