Richard Brooke married Elizabeth Twyne (d. 1599) circa 1552, and they had six children. Their tomb, which includes brasses representing them, is inscribed:
"PIETATIS OPUS
"This grave (oh grief) hath swallowed up with wide and open mouth
the bodie of good Richard Brooke, of Whitchurch, Hampton South
And Elizabeth his wedded wife, twice twentie yeares and one,
Sweet Jesus hath their soules in heuen ye ground flesh skin and bone.
In Januarie (worne with age) daie sixteenth, died hee,
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares, and more by ninetie three.
But death hir twist of life in Maie, daie twentith did untwine
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares and more by ninetie nine.
They left behinde them well to live, and growne to good degree,
First Richard, Thomas, Robert Brooke, the youngest of the three,
Elizabeth and Barbara, then Dorothee the last.
All six the knot of Nature's love, and kindness keepeth fast.
This toome stone with the plate thereon thus grauen fair & large
Did Robert Brooke the youngest sonne, make of his proper charge.
A Citizen of London state by faithful service free
Of Marchante great adventurers a brother sworn is hee.
And of the Indian Companie (come gaine or losse) a lim,
And of the Goldsmith liverie, all these Gode gifte to him;
This monument of memorie in loue performed hee,
December thirtie one, from Christ sixteen hundred and three.
Anno Domini 1603. Laus Deo"
Note, the date is given Old Style (ie. when "New Year" was still 25 March, so he actually would have died in what we consider 1594.
"PIETATIS OPUS
"This grave (oh grief) hath swallowed up with wide and open mouth
the bodie of good Richard Brooke, of Whitchurch, Hampton South
And Elizabeth his wedded wife, twice twentie yeares and one,
Sweet Jesus hath their soules in heuen ye ground flesh skin and bone.
In Januarie (worne with age) daie sixteenth, died hee,
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares, and more by ninetie three.
But death hir twist of life in Maie, daie twentith did untwine
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares and more by ninetie nine.
They left behinde them well to live, and growne to good degree,
First Richard, Thomas, Robert Brooke, the youngest of the three,
Elizabeth and Barbara, then Dorothee the last.
All six the knot of Nature's love, and kindness keepeth fast.
This toome stone with the plate thereon thus grauen fair & large
Did Robert Brooke the youngest sonne, make of his proper charge.
A Citizen of London state by faithful service free
Of Marchante great adventurers a brother sworn is hee.
And of the Indian Companie (come gaine or losse) a lim,
And of the Goldsmith liverie, all these Gode gifte to him;
This monument of memorie in loue performed hee,
December thirtie one, from Christ sixteen hundred and three.
Anno Domini 1603. Laus Deo"
Note, the date is given Old Style (ie. when "New Year" was still 25 March, so he actually would have died in what we consider 1594.
Richard Brooke married Elizabeth Twyne (d. 1599) circa 1552, and they had six children. Their tomb, which includes brasses representing them, is inscribed:
"PIETATIS OPUS
"This grave (oh grief) hath swallowed up with wide and open mouth
the bodie of good Richard Brooke, of Whitchurch, Hampton South
And Elizabeth his wedded wife, twice twentie yeares and one,
Sweet Jesus hath their soules in heuen ye ground flesh skin and bone.
In Januarie (worne with age) daie sixteenth, died hee,
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares, and more by ninetie three.
But death hir twist of life in Maie, daie twentith did untwine
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares and more by ninetie nine.
They left behinde them well to live, and growne to good degree,
First Richard, Thomas, Robert Brooke, the youngest of the three,
Elizabeth and Barbara, then Dorothee the last.
All six the knot of Nature's love, and kindness keepeth fast.
This toome stone with the plate thereon thus grauen fair & large
Did Robert Brooke the youngest sonne, make of his proper charge.
A Citizen of London state by faithful service free
Of Marchante great adventurers a brother sworn is hee.
And of the Indian Companie (come gaine or losse) a lim,
And of the Goldsmith liverie, all these Gode gifte to him;
This monument of memorie in loue performed hee,
December thirtie one, from Christ sixteen hundred and three.
Anno Domini 1603. Laus Deo"
Note, the date is given Old Style (ie. when "New Year" was still 25 March, so he actually would have died in what we consider 1594.
"PIETATIS OPUS
"This grave (oh grief) hath swallowed up with wide and open mouth
the bodie of good Richard Brooke, of Whitchurch, Hampton South
And Elizabeth his wedded wife, twice twentie yeares and one,
Sweet Jesus hath their soules in heuen ye ground flesh skin and bone.
In Januarie (worne with age) daie sixteenth, died hee,
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares, and more by ninetie three.
But death hir twist of life in Maie, daie twentith did untwine
From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares and more by ninetie nine.
They left behinde them well to live, and growne to good degree,
First Richard, Thomas, Robert Brooke, the youngest of the three,
Elizabeth and Barbara, then Dorothee the last.
All six the knot of Nature's love, and kindness keepeth fast.
This toome stone with the plate thereon thus grauen fair & large
Did Robert Brooke the youngest sonne, make of his proper charge.
A Citizen of London state by faithful service free
Of Marchante great adventurers a brother sworn is hee.
And of the Indian Companie (come gaine or losse) a lim,
And of the Goldsmith liverie, all these Gode gifte to him;
This monument of memorie in loue performed hee,
December thirtie one, from Christ sixteen hundred and three.
Anno Domini 1603. Laus Deo"
Note, the date is given Old Style (ie. when "New Year" was still 25 March, so he actually would have died in what we consider 1594.
