by descent from the sitters to Mary Cooke (d. 1750) of Highnam who married Henry Guise circa 1730;
Thence by descent in𒅌 the G🎀uise family at Elmore, Gloucestershire.

Sir Robert Cooke, of Highnam Court, Gloucestershire, was one of the most important figures in opposition to Charles I in the County during the second quarter of the 17^th century. He was the son of Sir William Cooke (d.1618), M.P. for Gloucestershire in 1614, and his wife Joyce, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote. Robert was knighted in 1621, was Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucesters🔯hire during the 1630s, Commissioner into the Forest of Dean in 1639 and during the Civil War raised a Regiment of Foot for Parliament. He was granted a Colonel's commission and sat for Tewkesbury in the Long Parliament from 1640 until his death 3 years later. He married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire, Reciever of the Court of Wards, whose brother, Charles Fleetwood was an equally important figure in Parliamentary opposition to Charles I. The younger Fleetwood fought for Parliament during the Civil War as a Colonel in Fairfax's New Model Army, was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1654, and became the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell, whose daughter Bridget he married after the death of her first husband, Sir Henry Ireton.  Sir Robert, on the death of his first wife, married in 1630, Jane, the widow of the poet George Herbert. 

Sir Robert lived at Highnam, just north of Gloucester, the estate which he had inherited through his mother.  Highnam had originally been owned by Gloucester Abbey, but on its dissolution in 1542 had passed to the Arnold family.  Sir Nicholas Arnold being one of Thomas Cromwell's leading henchmen.  His daughter, Dorothy, marrie🐭d Sir Thomas Lucy and their daughter was Sir Robert's mother.