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predeceased him at Naples, and administra- tion of her estate was granted to him on 15 Nov., 1721 (P.C.C. Buckingham). They had issue :

Mary, born 28 Feb., baptized 14 March, 1704.

John, born 15 April, baptized 2 May, 1706.

Anna Maria, born 18 Aug., baptized 4 Sept., 1707, married William Bury, of Epsom.

Sarah, born 10 Nov., baptized 18 Nov., 1708.

All the baptisms took place in the Charter- house Chapel ; and in the same register is the entry of the burial, on 23 May, 1709, of Edward Fleet wood, who was possibly an infant son, but no particulars as to his age or parentage are given (Harl. Soc., Register Sec., vol. xviii.).

John Fleetwood returned to this country, and purchased Tadworth Court, co. Surrey; he died at the age of fifty-one, on 12 Nov., and was buried on 21 Nov., 1725, at Ban- stead, his son John being then in Naples. His will, dated 2 Oct., 1724, proved 8 Dec., 1725, and on 16 May, 1728 (P.C.C. Romney, 250, and Brook), mentions another son, Gerrard Button, probably born in Naples, and creates an entail.

The elder son, John, inherited the manor and mansion of Tadworth Court ; he died at the age of forty-five, on 22 Feb., and was buried at Banstead, 27 Feb., 1752, leaving an only daughter Emilia, who married Giuseppe Calenda, of Naples.

Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood acquired any interest they may have had in the Tadworth, Banstead, and Ewell properties from his relatives, and sold the estate on 4 July, 1755, to William Mabbott, undertaking to get a private Act passed to enable him to effect the sale (29 Geo. II. cap. 30). He was of the Inner Temple, admitted 1726, called 1731, Master of the Bench 1763, Reader 1770, Treasurer 1771. He became Clerk of Assize for the Norfolk Circuit, and died unmarried, 20 Dec., 1795, at the age of eighty- six. He was buried in Leatherhead Church, where there is a tablet to his memory. He purchased Effingham East Court, co. Surrey in 1793, and in 1784 voted at the election for Middlesex as a freeholder in Golden Square. His will, dated 30 March, proved 23 Nov 1795 (P.C.C. Newcastle, 684), mentions his nephews Bion and Fleetwood Bury.

There are no monuments in the church at Crawley, and no entries in the registers relating to the Fleetwood family.

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FLEETWOOD OF PENWORTHAM, co. LAN- CASTER. The last direct heir male of this branch of the Fleetwood family, Edward

Fleetwood of Penwortham, died s./>. in 1704,. when, under a deed of settlement, the Pen- wortham estates passed to his kinsman Henry Fleetwood, who held them until his death in 1746.

The deed by virtue of which Henry Fleet- wood inherited is dated 26 June, 1676, and 1 directs that, in default of male issue to- Edward Fleetwood and Ann his wife, Pen- wortham should pass in tail male successively,, first to Arthur Fleetwood, of the city of Westminster, then to John Fleetwood, clerk, and then to Robert Fleetwood, " son of Henry Fleetwood, of Wathe, co. Bucks, deceased" (see Hulton's 'History of Pen- wortham,' Chetham Soc.).

Arthur Fleetwood died some time before Edward Fleetwood, leaving a son Henry, in whom the estate became vested in 1704, and who, by deed 5 and 6 August, 1705, and a recovery, settled the estates on himself in fee.

The precise family connexion between Edward Fleetwood of Penwortham and his- remainder heirs under the deed of 1676 has so far, I believe, not been ascertained. Recent research, however, has shown that Arthur Fleetwood, of Westminster, and John Fleet- wood, clerk, were brothers, being the first and second sons respectively of James Fleet- wood, Bishop of Worcester (died 1683), by his wife Martha Mercer, of Reading. The Rev. John Fleetwood, who was M.A. of King's College, Cambridge, was in 1676 appointed Archdeacon of Worcester. ^ His elder brother Arthur is described successively as of Lichfield, co. Stafford, and of the city of Westminster. He married not later than 1665, his son Henry matriculating at Brase- nose College, Oxford, in 1683, aged sixteen* Besides his son Henry, Arthur Fleetwood

lad two daughters : 1, Barbara, wife of

Goring, by whom she left a daughter Barbara,, married to Walter Chetwynd, of Grendon,

co. Warwick; 2, Honora, wife of Hinton,.

of Atherstone, co. Warwick.

The identity of the third remainder heir under the settlement, viz., Robert, son of Henry Fleetwood, of Wathe, co. Bucks, I "lave not discovered.

The kinship between Edward Fleetwood of Penwortham and Arthur of Westminster was not very close. James, Bishop of Worcester, was seventh son of Sir George- Fleet wood, of the Vache (d. 1620), whose* father Thomas Fleetwood was next brother to John Fleetwood (d. 1590), the original lessee of Penwortham Priory. The last- named John settled Penwortham upon his second son Richard, the great-grandfather of Edward Fleetwood, who died in 1704, and