Born in Chislehampton, Oxfordshire, Sir Robert was High Sherriff of Oxfordshire in 1577. In the role he attended the Summer Assizes in the Shire Hall at Oxford.
This was one of the so-called "Black Assizes" due the high number of deaths not only of the prisoners but those doing the judging. Known as "gaol fever", this was epidemic typhus caused by the bacterium =Rickettsia prowazekii carried by the human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis) which infested the dungeons.
Sir Robert's widow, Elizabeth, née Peryam, inherited his Greenlands estate and went on to marry twice more.
This was one of the so-called "Black Assizes" due the high number of deaths not only of the prisoners but those doing the judging. Known as "gaol fever", this was epidemic typhus caused by the bacterium =Rickettsia prowazekii carried by the human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis) which infested the dungeons.
Sir Robert's widow, Elizabeth, née Peryam, inherited his Greenlands estate and went on to marry twice more.
Born in Chislehampton, Oxfordshire, Sir Robert was High Sherriff of Oxfordshire in 1577. In the role he attended the Summer Assizes in the Shire Hall at Oxford.
This was one of the so-called "Black Assizes" due the high number of deaths not only of the prisoners but those doing the judging. Known as "gaol fever", this was epidemic typhus caused by the bacterium =Rickettsia prowazekii carried by the human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis) which infested the dungeons.
Sir Robert's widow, Elizabeth, née Peryam, inherited his Greenlands estate and went on to marry twice more.
This was one of the so-called "Black Assizes" due the high number of deaths not only of the prisoners but those doing the judging. Known as "gaol fever", this was epidemic typhus caused by the bacterium =Rickettsia prowazekii carried by the human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis) which infested the dungeons.
Sir Robert's widow, Elizabeth, née Peryam, inherited his Greenlands estate and went on to marry twice more.
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