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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. i. MAY 28, im

there, as appears on an epigraph of the Carthusian monastery.

The Communion table lies upon a four- faced plinth (pallium), 2 metres long, 1 '27 broad, and 1 metre high, and is formed of seven Carrara marble slabs, in which are sculptured eight bas-reliefs depicting events in the life of St. Anne and the Virgin. Two slabs (one with the first two bas-reliefs, and the other with the third) form the front ; three slabs, with a bas-relief on each, face the apse ; and the other two slabs form the sides.

The subjects represented are the follow- ing :

In the front. (1) Joachim chased from the Temple for the sterility of his marriage with St. Anne. (2) An angel announcing to St. Joachim in the desert that God will grant him a son. (3) Meeting of St. Joachim and St. Anne at the Golden Door of Jerusalem.

At the right side. (4) The birth of the Virgin Mary. The Duchess Visconti appears disguised as St. Anne, with the cap and the ducal crown.

In the rear. (5) Mary presented in the Temple. (6) The wedding of Mary and Joseph. (7) The death of Mary among the Apostles.

At the left side. (8) The crowning of Mary among the celestial band by the Saviour.

May this magnificent masterpiece of the fourteenth century speak to the numerous connoisseurs of fine arts, not only of the recently restored church of Carpiano, where the precious work is preserved, but of the very Pantheon of Lombard sculpture that is, the Certosa of Pa via, whence it has come and as a brilliant gem of the national artistic patrimony !

(Dr.) DIEGO SANT' AMBROGIO.

Milan.

THE FLEETWOODS AND MILTON'S

COTTAGE. (See 9 th S. ix. 261.)

A FURTHER study of a number of Fleetwood wills enables me to add considerably to the results recorded in my previous communica- tion regarding the family of George Fleet- wood, the regicide.

John Fleetwood, of Chalfont St. Giles, co. Bucks, died intestate, and administration was granted to his sister Anne Fleetwood, 10 March, 1669/70 (P.C.C. Penn).

Anne Fleetwood, " eldest daughter of Mr. George ffleetwood, late of the Vach," co. Bucks, spinster, made her will 18 April, 1674. The will was proved 20 May, 1675 (P.C.C. Dycer, fol. 45), and is a particularly interest- ing document. She mentions her brother

Robert, and sisters Hester and Elizabeth, a legacy of 1001. apiece being payable to the latter two at twenty-five or marriage, if they marry with consent of mother and uncles- Sir James Smith and (Samuel ?) Cradock.

She leaves a life interest in 129?., now in the hands of Mr. Matthew Cradock, to her mother, to whom she also bequeaths 101. and a ring of 10s. To uncle Mr. David Fleet- wood likewise 101. and a ring of 10s.

" Alsqe I give to him and to his heires for ever my house with all the Apurtenances to it which is situate- in the Towne of Chalfont St. Giles, and is now in the occupation of the widow Gosnald."

To her aunt Mrs. Honoria Cradock she leaves " my father's little picture and my

brother's picture my mother's wedding

ring,"&c. Several relatives of the Cradock, Clarke, and Cooper families are mentioned, while her uncle Samuel Cradock, of Wick- hambrook, co. Suffolk, is residuary legatee and sole executor.

The allusion to " my father's little picture >T renders it certain that we have here the will of the regicide's daughter, as it is the miniature now in the possession of Mr. G. Milner-Gibson-Cullum, F.S.A., who has a complete record of its previous ownership.

The trustees of Milton's Cottage at Chal-" font St. Giles, about two years ago, had two- deeds relating to the cottage presented to them. One is the original deed of sale of the house by David Fleetwood to Thomas Cock the younger, a carpenter, for 63/!., in the year 1683. It mentions John and Anne as being brother and sister, and further states that in one part of the cottage " Elizabeth Gosnold, widdowe, now dwelleth," so there can be no doubt as to the cottage bequeathed by Anne Fleetwood being Milton's cottage. It is to be hoped that both deeds will eventually be printed, owing to their great interest as- documents relating to Milton's residence in Chalfont.

The Fleetwood deed is of much importance in connexion with the regicide's pedigree. The ' Dictionary of National Biography ' states that George was the " third son " of Sir George Fleetwood, of the Vache, but among the eight sons of Sir George there was no David. MR. PINK has drawn atten- tion (9 th S. ix. 430) to the Inq. p.m. regard- ing Charles Fleetwood, who died 28 May, 1628 (Genealogist, New Series, xviii. 129).' Three children are mentioned therein, viz. r George (who must have been born about 1622), David,* and Catherine. Turning now

family. A David Fleetwood appears in the register*
 * David is an unusual name in the Fleetwood