Sir Robert Markham was also a lawyer of eminence, and became King's Sergeant. He married Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir John de Caunton, of Caunton, arid by her had one son, named Sir John, who, following in the steps of his father and grandfather, also became Sergeant-at-law. He was entrusted to draw up the instrument for deposing Richard the Second, and appointed one of the Commission to receive the crown he resigned in favour of Henry of Bolingbroke.
