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Robert Gookin (died 1666/7), an Anglo-Irishman who served as a captain in the English Parliamentary army in Ireland

Robert Gookin

Robert Gookin of Courtmacsherry (died 1666/7), was an Anglo-Irishman who served as a captain in the English Parliamentary army in Ireland, and received grants of land in Ireland.

Under the Commonwealth he received considerable grants of forfeited land, which, in order to secure at the approach of the Restoration of Charles II, he conveyed to Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, taking a lease of them for one hundred years.



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