Robert Booth (judge)

[1] His father died when Robert was about twelve and his mother remarried the noted Presbyterian preacher and Parliamentarian Thomas Case.

[1] Eustace, a staunch Royalist, was normally hostile to anyone who had been associated with the Cromwellian regime (although he had made his peace with it himself), but he admired Booth's legal ability and believed (perhaps naively) that his wealth would preserve him from corruption.

[1] He was passed over as Lord Chief Justice when the office fell vacant in 1673, on account of his strong Protestant sympathies.

At this time several Irish judges had open Roman Catholic sympathies, despite the practice of that faith being (in theory) a bar to public office.

Booth, who had been brought up by his Puritan stepfather, who closely supervised his education,[1] had a reputation as an extreme Protestant, while also staunchly loyal to the Stuart dynasty, and it was probably for that reason that Charles II appointed him Lord Chief Justice, despite objections from James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who thought that Booth was far too inclined to Puritanism.

Charles in more tranquil and tolerant times had previously held the same view, firmly rejecting Booth for the same office in 1673, due to his "spirit of Presbyterianism or indifference".

Her sister Susannah married Sir John Feilding, a grandson of the Earl of Desmond, and secretary to the Governor of Jamaica, and had issue.