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Sir ROBERT ATKYNS the eldest son created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles the 2nd. Afterwards Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer under King William and Speaker of the House of Lords in several parliaments; which places he filled with distinguished abilities and dignity as his learned writings abundantly prove. He died 1709 aged 88 years.
Of Sir EDWARD ATKYNS his youngest son Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer; which office he discharged with great honour & integrity, but retired upon the Revolution from publick business, to his seat in Norfolk, where he was revered for his piety to God and humanity to men; He employed himself in reconciling differences among his neighbours, in which he obtained so great a character that few would refuse [to leave] the most difficult cause to his decision: and the most litigious would not appeal from it. He died 1698 aged 68 years.
And of Sir ROBERT ATKYNS eldest son of Sir Robert abovementioned, a gentleman versed in polite literature and in the antiquities of this country, of which his History of Gloucestershire is a proof. He died 1711 aged 65 years”.
Sir Edward’s eldest son Robert was born at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire and baptised 29 April 1621. He was educated in Hertford and at Sidney Sussex college Cambridge, becoming a lawyer and later a Member of Parliament. He married Mary Clerk and secondly Anne Dacres. Again, even though he served in the Cromwell regime, he was knighted by Charles II, becoming solicitor-general to the queen. He was appointed lord chief baron of the Exchequer by William III and died at Sapperton Hall in Gloucestershire on 18 February 1710 (cited as 1709 in Old Style dating on the monument).
Edward Atkyns, second son of Sir Edward and Ursula, also attended Sidney Sussex college and entered Lincoln’s Inn. In 1656 he married Elizabeth Lucy and had two sons (one being Edward who erected the Abbey monument) and seven daughters. He was knighted in 1679 and lived in retirement at Pickenham in Norfolk although he died in London in 1698.
Robert, eldest son of Sir Robert and Mary, was baptised on 26 August 1647, attended Oxford university and was knighted in 1663. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1669 he married Louise Carteret and was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. His celebrated history of that county was published in 1712. He died in Westminster on 29 November 1711 and was buried at Sapperton church in Gloucestershire where there is a monument to him.

Atkyns family one way or other took over the manor of Coates,which had been in the Poole family for the previous 60 years the last one being Sir Henry Poole succeeded his father Sir William in 1651 on his death.
Robert sued his wifes cousin Rev Elias Carteret ,rector of Coates over Tiths of the manor which due to a misunderstanding had been claimed ,for the previous 31 years by other incumbents.
In 1678 it appears that Sir Robert was living at Pinbury Park,Sir Robert had a nephew,Robert Atkyns,of Lower Swell,on whom the manors of Trewsbury and Coates had been settled at the time of his marriage in 1701.
Giles Tombs Church warden of Coates for 25 years ,father of William.Was in 1755 tenant of the west part of Coates manor ,from Mrs Chamberlayne and Mrs Hoard,heirs general of Robert Atkyns
who died in 1753.leaving the manor to his cousin Edward Atkyns,Edward had two children John and Mary.

She met ~Samuel Pepys on the 24 Jun 1665 at her fathers house.”
Carterett's Nat.
Ordered, That the Name of Lovis Carterett, Daughter of the Right honourable
Sir George Carteret, Vice Chamberlain to his Majesty, be inserted into the
Bill for Naturalization.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow Morning, at Eight of the Clock.

From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 5 February 1662', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 358-59. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26451&strquery=Carteret.
Date accessed: 27 July 2005.