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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL APRIL 20, 1907.

Burke says Barbara Legge was sole heiress

of her father.

Bishop James Fleetwood also had four

daughters :

1. * married John Hicks (who died

.about 1662). They had two daughters, Martha and Honora, living 1682 (Metcalfe's 'Vis. of Worcestershire 1682-3,' p. 56). Arthur Fleetwood mentions these nieces

, in his will.

2. Bridget, married Meale.

3. Mary, married Allison.

4. Elizabeth, married Webster.

Henry Fleetwood, who succeeded to the

Penwortham estates, received an ensigncy in the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, 12 June, 1685 ; was a second lieutenant in 1687 ; became lieutenant 2 Oct., and first lieutenant of his uncle Lord Dartmouth's company, 3 Oct., 1688. This was one of the regiments raised by James II. in the summer of 1685, Lord Dartmouth's commission as colonel being dated Whitehall, 11 June in that year.

It will be seen from the above pedigree that Honora, daughter of Arthur Fleetwood, was unmarried ; it is probable, therefore, that it was her sister Jane who married

Hinton. Arthur appears to have had

another daughter, named Katherine, buried

.at St. Michael's, Cambridge, 9 June, 1669 ( ' Registers of St. Michael's, Cambridge, 1538-1837 ').

Clutterbuck's ' Herts,' ii. 533-4, contains

-some biographical details of the Rev. John Fleetwood, Archdeacon of Worcester ; and there is a reference to him in Cussans's ' Herts,' ii. 35, Hundred of Broadwater.

William Beckford of Ashtead and William Beckford, the author of ' Vathek,' were descended from a common ancestor.

R. W. B.

that she was married three times. If so, she
 * It seems probable that her name was Ann, and

married Smith, by whom she had a daughter

Ann, who was to marry William Fleetwood, of St. Beriet's, Paul's Wharf, London (mar. alleg. 29 Sept., 1690) ; but if this be the case, Ann Smith's age, about 26, was understated. The other husband was Robert Neville (died 1694, see 'D.N.B.'), by whom she had issue Fleetwood Neville, one (?) year old in 1665, and two daughters, of whom the second, named Bridget, married a son of Sir David Watkins. Fleetwood Neville married Elizabeth Mitchell and had a son, also named Fleetwood (Chester's enses').
 * Marriage Licences ' and Foster's ' Alumni Oxoni-

MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND

THE 'D.N.B.' (See 10 S. iv. 21, 101, 182, 244, 364 ; v. 22,

122, 284, 362 ; vi. 2, 104, 203 ; vii. 63,

142.)

MAGDALEN is the only college in Oxford or Cambridge which has a full choral service twice daily. Peter Heylyn (see 10 S. iv. 21) in his ' Memorial of Waynflete ' rimes as follows :

The Quire consists of twenty-nine ; wherein There are four Chaplains, who by turns do say The Clergy-prayers, and more eight Clerks there

been,

And sixteen Choristers, o'er whom bears sway One, who doth teach them how to sing with ease. Whose nimble fingers on the organs play Gravely composed Church-music : and all these

With different notes, which sweetly do accord,

Sing Allelujah to the living Lord.

And the Rev. James Elwin Millard, himself a former Head Master and ex-chorister, says in his ' Historical Notices of the Office of Choristers' (1848):

"Bishop Waynflete did not look upon his

Choristers as mere necessary appendages for the due performance of church offices. They were considered as much a part of the body corporate as the Fellows, Demies, and other members of the foundation. The founder ordered that in case of great scarcity or dearth, and the failure of the College rents, the number of Choristers should be reduced only, from sixteen to eight, whereas, if the scarcity continue, he wills the Demies of his college to be ' totally suppressed,' and afterwards even the number of Fellows to be red viced, rather than the boys of his choir entirely abandoned."

The ' New English Dictionary ' notes that " since the close of the seventeenth century quire has been fictitiously spelt choir ; but the spelling quire has never been altered in the English Prayer Book." At Winchester College they still speak correctly of their quiristers. Among Magdalen choristers, besides those already noticed, may be mentioned Henry Robert Bennett (1825-8), who succeeded his father as organist of Chichester Cathedral ; Charles Lockey (1828-36) a native of Oxford, gentleman of the Chapels Royal, and principal tenor at the production of Mendelssohn's ' Elijah ' ; and Richard Redhead (1828-37), also a native of Oxford, organist of Margaret Chapel, Marylebone.

The Rev. Edward Vine Hall, sometime vicar of Bromsgrove, gave some interesting reminiscences of the School to the pages of The Lily for March, 1905, and March, 1906. He entered as a chorister in November, 1845, when the School contained only about twenty-six members in all. They were taught