BROOKE, JOHN († 1582)

John Brooke, traductor, nació en Ashnext-Sandwich y murió en 1582. Era hijo de John Brooke y dueño de Brooke House en esa localidad. Aunque nombrado becario de Trinity College, Cambridge, por el estatuto de fundación de 1546, no obtuvo la graduación hasta 1553-4. Se casó con Magdalen Stoddard de Mottingham, pero no tuvieron hijos y fue enterrado en la iglesia de Ash. Sus obras son: The Staffe of Christian Faith... Translated out of French into English by John Brooke, of Ashe-next-Sandwiche, 1577; John Gardener, his confession of the Christian Faith. Translated out of French by John Brooke, 1578, 1583; A Christian Discourse... presented to the Prince of Conde. Translated by J. B., 1578; The Christian Disputations, by Master Peter Viret, dedicated to Edmund, Abp. of Canterbury. Translated out of French... by J. B. of Ashe, 1579; Of Two Wonderful Popish Monsters, to wyt, Of a Popish Asse which was found in Rome in the riuer Tyber (1496), and of a Moonkish Calfe, calued at Friberge in Misne (1528)... Witnessed and declared, the one by P. Melancthon, the other by M. Luther. Translated out of French... by John Brooke of Assli... With two cuts of the Monsters, 1579; A Faithful and Familiar Exposition upon the Prayer of our Lorde... Written in French dialogue wise, by Peter Viret, and translated into English by John Brooke. Dedicated to Syr Roger Manwood, knight, and Lorde Chiefie Baron of the Queene’s Maiesties Excheker, 1582.