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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 612 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COBHAM , a See also:

village in the See also:Medway See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, 4 M. W. of See also:Rochester. The See also:church (See also:Early See also:English and later, and restored by See also:Sir G. G. See also:Scott) is famous for its collection of See also:ancient See also:brasses, of which thirteen belonging to the years 1320—1529 commemorate members of the See also:Brooke and Cobham families. There are some See also:fine See also:oak stalls and some tilting See also:armour of the 14th See also:century in the See also:chancel. Cobham See also:college, containing 20 almshouses, took the See also:place, after the See also:dissolution, of a college for priests founded by Sir See also:John de Cobham in the 14th century. The See also:present See also:mansion of Cobham See also:Hall is mainly Elizabethan. The picture See also:gallery contains a fine collection of See also:works by the See also:great masters, See also:Italian, Dutch and English. The Cobham See also:family was established here before the reign of See also:King John. In 1313 See also:Henry de Cobham was created See also:Baron Cobham, but on the See also:execution of Sir John See also:Oldcastle (who had been summoned to See also:parliament, jure uxoris, as Baron Cobham) in 1417, the See also:barony See also:lay dormant till revived in 1445 by See also:Edward, son of Sir See also:Thomas Brooke and See also:Joan, See also:grand-daughter of the 3rd Baron Cobham. In 1603 Henry Brooke, See also:Lord Cobham, was arraigned for participation in the See also:Raleigh See also:conspiracy, and spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life in See also:prison, where he died in 1618.

With him the See also:

title expired, and Cobham Hall was granted to Lodowick See also:Stewart, See also:duke of See also:Lennox, passing subsequently by descent and See also:marriage to the earls of See also:Darnley. The present See also:Viscount Cobham (cr. 1718) belongs to the See also:Lyttelton family (see LYTTELTON, 1ST BARON).

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