Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 1372. (413) RICHARD COOKE. The following is from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes", by Dr Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio, (1939), on file at The New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston. Richard Cooke was the son of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall, Essex, England, who was a tutor of Edward IV. Date of birth unknown: His Will was dated 1579. He married Anne Cawton. 1. Anthony Cooke. Of Gidea Hall. 2. Phillipa Cooke. 3. Anne Cooke. Born 1572. She married Sir Nicholas Bacon. 2/1. Anthony Bacon. 2/2. Francis Bacon. (sir) Lord Veruliam, Viscount St Albans. 2/3. Elizabeth Bacon. She married Lord John Russell. 4. Mildred Cooke. She married Lord Burleigh, a treasurer of Queen Elizabeth. 5. John Cooke. Born 1575. He was a merchant tailor of St Antholin, London. 6. Francis Cooke. Born 1577, baptized October 25/1578 at St Martins, Charing Cross, London. He married in 1604 at Leyden, Holland, Hester Mahieu, daughter of the widow Mahieu who came from Dinan, France, and lived at St Antholin, near London. See subject 686 for issue and further particulars. Note by A Maitland 2/1/1998: Edward IV should be VI.