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extracts from P.C.C. wills. Collinson gives many references to the history of the family, but the unfinished ' History of Somerset,' by the Rev. W. Phelps, has what is probably the best account of Redlynch, the house .associated with their history (see Phelps, vol. i. pp. 247-9). Hutchins's ' Dorset,' vol. rv. pp. 129-33, is important as containing a tabulated pedigree up to the eighteenth century. It also has extracts from registers and monumental inscriptions of the Fitz- james family. Although the Rev. F. Brown tapped the Fitzjames wills in Somerset House rather freely for his article (see above), it would be advisable to compare his notes with the printed Calendar of P.C.C. Wills up to date as issued. In Archceologia, vol. xxxv. pp. 306-7, there is a good article by Edward Foss upon the relationship between Richard Fitzjames, Bishop of London, and Sir John Fitzjames, Lord dhief Justice. I think he corrects Lord Campbell's statements here and there. Three (at least x of the Fitzjames family were parsons, and held many Somerset livings. Particulars of these will be found in F. W. Weaver's ' Somerset Incumbents.'

Bruton Grammar School owes its founda- tion to the Fitzjames family, and details of this endowment will be ^found in A. F. Leach's ' English Schools at the Reforma- tion ' and in ' The Bruton Register.' In 1889 the Rev. Edmund Hobhouse, formerly Fellow of Merton, and Bishop of Nelson, N.Z., presented to Bruton School the boss bearing Bishop Fitzjames's dolphin, with the follow- ing inscription, now placed over the head- master's chair :

" To the memory of Richard Fitzjames, Warden of Merton College, Bishop of London, Co-Founder of this School, A.D. 1519. This boss bearing his badge, removed from Merton Chapel, was placed here A.D. 1889."

The Dorsetshire branch at Leweston were connected with the Duke of Northumberland, and in the Duke's muniment room are numerous seventeenth-century documents, particulars of which I append :

4to. Entry book of letters of John Fitz- James [most of them dated from Leweston, co. Dorset], 20 Oct., 1645, to 23 June, 1647. [Grace, daughter of Sir George John Fitz- James (who died in 1670), married Sir George Strode ; her daughter Grace married Henry Thynne ; her daughter Prances married the Earl of Hertford, father of the first Duchess of Northumberland.]

4to. Entry book of letters of John Fitz-James [most of them dated from Leweston], 30 Aug., 1647, to 10 Nov., 1649.

4to. Entry book of letters of John Fitz-James [most of them dated from Leweston], 17 Nov., 1649, to 17 March, 1651/2.

4to. Entry book of letters of John Fitz-James [most of them dated from Leweston], May, 1653, to 27 Sept., 1668.

Folio. Entry book of letters of John Fitz- James [most of them dated from Leweston], 9 Sept., 1654, to 2 Sept., 1656.

Folio. Entry book of letters of John Fitz-James [most of them dated from Leweston], 26 Jan., 1657, to 2 Sept., 1662.

4to. Entry book of letters of John Fitz-James [most of them dated from Leweston], 5 Dec., 1668, to 15 June, 1670.

Alphabetical commonplace book belonging to John Fitz-James. Paper, small 4to, seventeenth century. It contains chiefly Latin phrases and i nterpretations.

Folio. Commonplace book. " Liber Johannis Fitz-James, anno Dni 1640. Thoughe readinge doe furnish and direct a man's judgment, yet it doth not wholly governe it. Therefore lett thy readinge bee mixed with ye conversation of discreet, able, and understandings men, without which yu canst make little use of thy readinge either for thyselfe or ye comonw. where thou livest, the one beinge ye chiefest and principall guide of our actions ; the other butt supple- meiitall. F." Pp. 672.

4to. Commonpace book. " Liber Johannis Fitz-James, Det Christus studiis vela secunda meis, begun 1640." Pp. 1-159, and two leaves not numbered. At p. 23 begins : " Of the Parliament and of ye manner and forme of hoi ding of it in ye

time of Edw. son to King Elthred written

out of a copye of my father, Leweston Fitz James, &c." At p. 45, Notes of proceedings in Parlia- ment, beginning 5 Aug., 1641. At p. 139, An account of the reception of Prince Charles in Spain.

12mo. A commonplace book. On fly-leaves " Liber Jo. Fitz James," " Sarah Fitz James, 1641." Begins " Of ye invention of ye nine muses."

4to. Receipts. " Katherine Beale, Katherine Stephens, Aug. the 3, anno 1641." One end commences, " To cure the goute " ; the other end, " To candy rock candy that you may make sugar candy."

4to. " A booke of receipts, written by me Eleanor Fitzjames " ; begun 1667, pp. 33. Misc. entries, pp. 34-43.

4to. " A booke of medecines," pp. 1-150, and index ; "a booke of receiptes of cookerye,' contents 7 leaves, pp. 1-56 ; " the manner of medecines gathered into x tables " ; " Fitzjames his cordiall electuary " ; index. " This is Eadithe Beales boke, vii of Aprill, 1576." " Giace Strode her book, Aprill ye 29th, 1693 ; this book was my grandmother Fitz James grandmother Beales, who was att Paris in the massicar of St. Bartholumus day in the rain of Charles ye ninth of France."

Three members of the Fitzjames family have biographies in the ' D.N.B.' : James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick, 1670-1734 ; Sir John Fitzjames, 1470-1542 ; and Richard Fitzjames, Bishop of -London, died 1522.