40 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VII. 



ancestor of the present Sir Frankland Russell, Bart., of 

 Thirkleby. 



Sir John Russell was succeeded by his eldest son, SiR 

 William Russell, 4th Baronet, who married Miss Gore, of 

 Ireland, and had two sons and a daughter, viz., William, his 

 heir ; Francis, successor to his brother ; and Mary, who died 

 unmarried in December, 1735. Sir William, having spent 

 the remainder of a considerable fortune in raising troops at 

 the Revolution, sold his estates at Chippenham, and, dying in 

 September, 1707, was succeeded by his eldest son. 



Sir William Russell, 5th Baronet, who died in Ireland 

 without heirs, in May, 1738, and was succeeded by his brother, 



Sir Francis Russell, 6th Baronet, one of the Council 

 at Fort William, in Bengal, who married Miss Gee, and was 

 succeeded by his only son. 



Sir William Russell, 7th Baronet, Lieutenant of the 

 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, who died unmarried in 1735, 

 and was succeeded by his kinsman. 



Sir John Russell, of Checquers, county Bucks, 8th 

 Baronet. He married Catherine, daughter of General George 

 Carey, second son of Viscount Falkland, and had two sons — 

 John, his successor, and George, heir to his brother. The 

 former succeeded his father in 1783 as 9th Baronet, and died 

 unmarried in 1802, when he was succeeded by his brother, 



Sir George Russell, who died without issue, April 25, 

 1804, when the Baronetcy expired, and the estate of Checquers 

 devolved upon his aunt, Mary Russell, Bedchamber-woman to 

 her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia, at whose decease, 

 unmarried, the property of the Russells of Chippenham passed 

 to her cousin, the Rev. John Russell Greenhill, LL.D. 



The kinof and court were at Newmarket from the 

 20th of February to the 7th of March, 1638. On 

 the 27th of February, Sir John Coke,^^*^ in 

 February— a despatch to Secretary Windebank, men- 

 tions that "the fair weather will keep us here 

 til the end of next weeke for ought wee yet know. 



