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Hall, Suffolk, but died in 1657. After Lady Brooke died in 1683, and her unmarried daughter Mary in 1693, Cockfield Hall passed to Martha's son,
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Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suff. and Wanstead House, Essex', in B.D. Henning (ed.),
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