Source: Burke's General Armory. Col. Robert Saunders, who went to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell, was made by him Governor of Kinsale, and had a grant of 3,725 acres in co. Wexford, 1666. The heiress of this family, Jane, only dau. of Richard Saunders, Esq., of Saunders Court, m. 1730, Arthur, 1st Earl of Arran, to whom she conveyed the estates. He also bought land from Col Solomon Richards. Col Solomon used the money to raise the 17th Foot.