171:; she cannot have been much more than fifteen at the time. They had one son, yet another Robert, who predeceased his father, and at least two daughters, Mary (died 1757) and Frances. Mary married as his second wife her father's close friend Sir Richard Levinge, who was more than forty years her senior. Although Levinge was close to seventy and in constant pain from
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