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Sir Arthur Chichester, Baron of Belfast, Lo: High Treasurer 
of this Kingdom; one of his then Majesties most honourable 
Privie Counsel; and of the Counsaille of Warre. Written by 
Christ: Brooke, gent.”* 
It has a prose epistle dedicatorie to the Hon. gentleman. 
Sir Francis Ansley, Knight-baronet,” by the author, after which 
are some lines by George Wither, addressed ‘^To his ingenious 
and (which is more worthy) his truly honest frend, Mr. Christ: 
Brooke.” The poem has never been printed. 
Mr. Brooke’s will is dated the 8th of December, 16.^7. His 
wife, whom he styled the Lady Jacob, pre-deceased him. They 
had an only son, John Brooke, wdio at his father’s death was 
only eight years old. It seems probable that the gay bencher 
of Lincoln’s Inn did not enter into the holy state of matrimony 
until late in life, as he had passed the mature age of fifty wlien 
his son was born. To what family the Lady Jacob belonged, 
or what was the rank or condition of her former husband, I 
have not ascertained. They had a daughter, called Mary Jacob, 
whom Mr. Brooke names in his will, which w^as ultimately 
proved at Doctors’ Commons, on the 29th of November, 1638, 
by his son, John Brooke, who had then attained his majority. 
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society will not, I hope, deem 
unworthy of being recorded in its annals, the memorials I have 
brought together of a native of our city, who, although he has 
received but little notice from any of our local historians, devo¬ 
ted great part of his life to the active and faithful discharge of 
his duties as a public officer and a representative in Parliament 
of his fellow-citizens ; and whilst he maintained a high profes¬ 
sional reputation, was admitted into the brotherhood, and enjoyed 
the society and friendship of the poets and men of letters, who 
shone brightest in the age in which he lived, and was by all of 
them respected and beloved for his genius, his talents, and his 
integrity. 
March 5th. —The Eev. J. Kenrick read a notice of a 
Homan Altar, presented to the Museum by William Thompson, 
■* MS., 4to., 1625, pp. 48. 
