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remainder of his life at Lincoln’s Inn, and that he 'wished to 
retire from the office of Assistant-Recorder. His resignation 
'svas accepted by the Corporation, hut they desired him to con¬ 
tinue to he one of the city counsel, 'with the customary fee of 
£5 a year. 
In 1621 Mr. Brooke again sat in Parliament for York, with 
his former colleague, Alderman now Sir Robert Askwith, 
Knight ; and he was returned by his native city to the Parlia¬ 
ment which met on the 12th of February, 1624, and was dis¬ 
solved by the King’s death on the 27th of March, 1625. On 
this occasion he was provided with a new colleague. Sir Arthur 
Ingram, Knight, a member of the great council of the north, 
who in his letter of thanks to the Corporation for having ad¬ 
mitted him to the freedom of the city, and for acquainting him 
with their intention to make him one of their burgesses for the 
Parliament, expressed his wish that he might be associated with 
his worthy and good friend, Mr. Christopher Brooke, ^Svho hath 
(he says) of my knowledge, not only served the city faithfully 
in this particular, but hath done great and good service to the 
public otherwise, and I do hold him to be as able and as honest 
a man as any that will be amongst them.” 
In the first and second Parliaments of King Charles the 
First, both of short duration, the city of York was represented 
by Mr. Brooke and Sir Arthur Ingram. In the spring of 1628, 
when the third Parliament of this reign was convened, the 
name of Christopher Brooke no longer appears as a candidate 
for the representation of his native city. His place in the 
House of Commons was filled by Thomas Hoyle, an alderman 
of York, who after\vards acquired some notoriety—a rigid 
puritan, and a zealous opponent of the King’s government. 
]Mr. Brooke scarcely lived to witness the commencement of 
the great political struggle that was impending. His death 
took place towards the close of the year 1628, when he was 
approaching his grand climacteric. A few years before his 
death he had been employed in writing a poem, which he left 
in MS., evidently intending it for the press. It was entitled, 
^^AFunerall Poem, consecrated to the memorie of that ever 
honoured Presydent of Soldyership, Goodness, and Vertue, 
