[Illustration] Sir Thomas Brooke, Knight, Lord Cobham in right of
his wife, Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Reginald Braybrooke,
Knight, was sixth in descent from William de la Brooke, owner of the
manor of Brooke, in the county of Somerset, who died in the
fifteenth of Henry III. (1231). Sir Thomas Brooke died in the
seventeenth of Henry VI. From his eldest son descended the Barons
Cobham; from Reginald the second son sprung the present family. He
was seated at Aspel, in Suffolk, and here his descendants continued
for nine generations. Ufford came from the heiress of Thomson in
1761.
See Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,120, vol. xliv.; and
Gent. Mag. for March 1841, p. 306, for an account of the restoration
of the Brooke monuments at Cobham.
ARMS.--_Gules, on a chervon argent a lion rampant sable_.
Present Representative, Francis Capper Brooke, Esq.