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 Catholycke Cause (1598); A Treatise concerning Policy and Religion (1606—10); An sit Vtilitas in Scelere &hellip; contra Macchiavellum (1610); On the Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance (1614); and a Life of St. Francis Xavier translated from Tursellinus (1632).

Son of John Fitzjames of Redlynch, Somersetshire. There is no record of his admission, but he was Reader at the Middle Temple in 1503 and Treasurer in 1509. He became Recorder of Bristol in the following year, Attorney-General in 1519, was called to the degree of the Coif and made a Puisne Judge of the King's Bench and Chief Baron of the Exchequer all in the same year, 1521. Lord Campbell, in his Lives of the Judges, represents this Judge as an active and venal instrument of the King in the disgrace of Wolsey, and in the trials of Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher; but Mr. Foss, with much show of reason, controverts this view, and shows at least that there is little or no authority for the statement. Fitzjames was made Chief Justice 1525-6, and retained the office about thirteen years. He died probably about two years after his retirement.

Admitted 9 February, 1682-3.

Only son of William, third Viscount Fitzwilliam. He was of the Privy Council of James II., by whom he was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in 1690. In 1695 (12 Oct.) he presented himself in the Irish House of Lords to take his seat, but was not admitted on not bringing a writ of summons, and on the 19th following, coming up again, he withdrew through scruples in signing the declaration. He was subsequently outlawed; but on 2 Dec. 1697, was reported as having "reversed the same" (Lords Journals (Irish), i., 675). He died 20 Feb. 1704. His admission to the Inn took place on the same day as James, Duke of Ormonde (q.v.), and a number of distinguished personages.

Son of Robert Fleetwood, of an ancient family in Lancashire. There is no record of his admission to the Inn; but he was Autumn Reader in 1563 and in 1568 "double Reader." He sat for Marlborough in Queen Mary's Parliament and for Lancaster in two Parliaments of Elizabeth. He was made a Serjeant-at-Law In 1580 and Queen's Serjeant in 1592. He was a favourite of the Earl of Leicester, by whose influence he became Recorder of London in 1571. He was also a member of the Society of Antiquaries and the author of the following works: An Oration delivered at Guildhall (1571); Annalium tarn regum Edwardi V., Richardi III., quam Henrici VIII. (1579, 1597); The Office of a Justice of the Peace (1658); A Table on the Reports of Edmund Plowden [in French]. He also wrote some Latin verses in Ghaloner's Republica Anglorum instauranda; Notes on Lambarde's Archeion; and is said to have contributed to Holinshed's Chronicles (last edition). He died 28 Feb. 1593-4.