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The eighteenth-century gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Dixie was heiress to the traitor George Brooke (who was attainted and executed for his part in the Bye Plot against James I) and his wife Elizabeth, eldest sister of the last Baron Burgh; Brooke had been brother and heir to the last Baron Cobham of Kent, who had been attainted for his part in the Main Plot.
He was rewarded with a creation as a Knight of the Garter before the end of that day, alongside George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr and William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
Brooke was the oldest surviving son of Thomas Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, and Dorothy Heydon, the daughter of Sir Henry Heydon.
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He returned to France during the 1520s, fighting with some distinction around Calais.
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In 1544, he occupied a high position in the English army that invaded Scotland; later that year, he was appointed commanding officer of English-controlled Calais.
His brother, Sir George Brooke, on the other hand, was involved in radical religious politics.
Aces George Brooke, John Stanley Chick, and John Herbert Hedley all flew in the rear seat with Makepeace and scored at various times.