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- eldest surviving son
of Farmingwoods, co. Northampton,
Sir John having thus no male issue, his estates passed at his decease to his daus. as co-heirs, and the baronetcy devolved upon his brother
2 Mar 1715: Treasury reference to Hugh Cholmondly, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of the petition of Anne Robinson, surviving daughter and heir of Sir John Robinson, junr., of Farming Woods, Co. Northampton, and executrix of Dame Mary Robinson, relict and executrix of said Sir John; petitioner shewing that Charles II. anno 27 of his reign erected the office of Master Forester and Keeper of the said Farming Woods, part of Rockingham Forest, and Supervisor of the vert and venison there, which office (as also that of Receiver of the Castleward Rents within the said county of Northampton and the herbage and pannage of Farming Woods, and also the Hundred of Orlingbury and Mellesey in said county and the Sheriff's yield within the said Hundred, except execution of process), King Charles II. granted to Sir John Robinson, the elder, petitioner's grandfather, for 99 years terminable on the lives of William, John and James his sons, of whom William and John are dead, and petitioner is entitled to the premises during James's life as executrix to said Mary Robinson: therefore praying a new grant for three new lives.
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