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Family and Education
b. 1598, 1st s. of Sir William Cooke† of Highnam and Joyce, da. of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warws. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. BA 20 Jan. 1615; G. Inn 21 May 1617.Vis. Glos. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xxi), 45; Al. Ox.; G. Inn Admiss. i. 146. m. (1) Dorothy, da. of Sir Miles Fleetwood*, 5s. 6da.; (2) aft. Mar. 1633, Jane, wid. of George Herbert†, da. of Charles Danvers† of Baynton, Wilts. 3s. 1da.Vis. Glos. 1623, 45; Vis. Glos 1682-3 ed. Fenwick and Metcalfe, 47. suc. fa. 2 Mar. 1619. Kntd. 21 July 1621.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 177. d. June 1643.Glos. RO, D2700/QP1/2.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Glos. 15 June 1624–?, 9 May 1627–10 June 1642; Gloucester 1624–?C231/4, ff. 166v, 223v; C231/5, p. 528; Glos. RO, GBR/GB3/1, ff. 474v, 520; Coventry Docquets, 60. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, Glos. 19 Sept. 1632.Glos. RO, TBR/A1/1, f. 80. Capt. militia ft. Glos. and Gloucester by 10 Apr. 1635–42.Glos. RO, GBR/H2/2, p. 201. Commr. sewers, Glos. 26 June 1635;C181/5, f. 13v. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, Glos., Mon. 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a, 386a contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Glos. 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643;SR; A.and O. sequestration, 27 Mar 1643; accts. of assessment, 3 May 1643; levying of money, 7 May 1643; additional ord. for levying of money, 1 June 1643.A. and O.

Central: clerkship of liveries (in reversion), ct. of wards, 3 July 1638.Coventry Docquets, 206. Member, cttee. for examinations, 24 Feb. 1642.CJ ii. 452b. Commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.PJ ii. 403.

Military: col. (parlian.) in assoc. of Glos., Wilts., Som., Worcs. and Salop under Sjt.-maj.-gen. Sir William Waller*; army of 3rd earl of Essex aft. 11 Feb. 1643–d.A. and O. Gov. Tewkesbury 7 Apr.-bef 2 June 1643.Glos. RO, D2688, f. 88v; J. Corbet, ‘An historical relation’ (1645) in J. Washbourn, Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis (Gloucester, 1825), 37.

Parlimentarian
COOKE, Sir Robert (1598-1643), of Highnam Court, Churcham, Glos.
: Glos., Churcham.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

COOKE, Sir Robert (1598-1643), of Highnam Court, Churcham, Glos.

Will
8 June 1643, pr. 17 Nov. 1645.PROB11/194/318.
Estates
at d. lease in reversion of Fosketts and Blisworth, Northants.; Boseley manor and other lands in Westbury, Glos.; manors of Kingsholm, ‘Tweyworth’ and Longford, nr. Gloucester; interest in ship Charles of Gloucester.PROB11/194/318. Lands at Portbury leased to Bristol corporation, 1643.Bristol RO, 04026/22, p. 295.
Oxford 1644
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