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The Hon. Thomas Brooke married, in 1590, Susan, daughter of Thomas Foster
(Forster), Judge of the Court of Common Please, and nice of Robert
Foster, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The Fosters were a branch of
the ancient family of Etherstone, in the County of Durham. Thomas and
Robert Foster were grandsons of Alexander Comyns, Earl of Bucan, who was
descended from Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, a Magna Carta Baron,
and also from David I, King of Scotland, son of Malcolm III, who married
Margaret, daughter of Edward, the outlaw, son of Edmund Ironside, Saxon
King of England. King David's grandfather, Duncan I, was murdered by
Macbeth, and this royal line goes back without a break to Fergus II, King
of Scotland, A.D., 404.