Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet

He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1647 and received legal training at Gray's Inn from 1648 and was noted as "very well versed in every kind of learning, but especially distinguished by the suavity of his manners".

It would still add to my happiness if I might (without offence) beg the care of one of your grace’s servants to procure me a small quiet lodging on Lambeth side of the river with a bed in some near chamber for my servant, and what is ordinary in the kind will suit well with my circumstances, which highly incite me to frugality and to wish for a short but happy Parliament.He was appointed to nine minor committees during James II's single Parliament - he was the first man appointed to the committee for the bill for the renewal of the Yarmouth Harbour Act, meaning it was probably he who had introduced it.

He was thus removed from his deputy lieutenancy and all other local office in February 1688 and in October that year refused to sit on the bench alongside Roman Catholics.

After brief sick leave early in 1690, he returned to Westminster and sat on twenty committees in the Convention Parliament, including ones to repeal the Corporation Act 1661, to inquire into the fall in rents, to adopt new oaths of supremacy and allegiance and to consider abolishing the hearth tax.

[12] He had to sell Broome Hall and is buried in St Mary's Church, Cranworth, in Norfolk, where survives his mural monument displaying eight heraldic shields and an epitaph which describes him as a defender of monarchy "equally unaffected by the wicked artifices of rabid Papists and schismatics".