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 n s. vi. OCT. 26, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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A FLEETWOOD MISCELLANY. (US. vi. 43.)

THE latest contribution to ' N. & Q.' by B. W. B. on the Fleetwood family is very interesting to Hampshire genealogists, throw- ing, as it does, additional light on the puzzles connected with the history of the Gifford, Dowse (Douse), andKirkiby families. In the note at 10 S. v. 403 it is stated that Sir Gerard Fleetwood of Crawley, near Winchester, married his first wife, Jane, daughter of William Lambert of Maiden Bradley, Wilts, " in January, 1598/9." But, failing the discovery of the date of this marriage, it may be remarked that Thomas Chamber- lain, in his gossipy letter to Dudley Carleton quoted by Woodward in his ' History of Hampshire,' ii. p. 283), says that Gerard Fleetwood, a lad of 18, married Jane Lam- bert, his senior by 20 years, before the Marquis of Winchester was buried, referring, of course, to Sir William Pawlett, first Marquis, who died at Basing House on 10 March, 1572. The ages of the Marquis's four sons will be found in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ' :

" Sir William Pawlett, aged 17 in 1595 (brother of Hector). Hector, son of Wm. Pawlett, Marquis of Winchester, matriculated at Trinity College in 1605, aged 16 (knighted 1619, brother of Hercules, John, and William of 1595). Hercules Pawlett, matriculated November, 1595, aged 11 (knighted 1618). John Pawlett, matriculated 28 November, 1595, aged 16, Magdalen College, of Hide Street, Winchester, and the Middle Temple."

And Berry, in his ' Hampshire Pedigrees,' under ' Pawlett,' gives the wives of these knights. Also, under ' Kirkiby of Stan- bridge ' (p. 267), he gives the marriage of Susanna Pawlett (their sister) to Thomas Kirkiby, who was 24 years of age in the forty-third of Elizabeth, as was stated at the Inquisition post Mortem of his father, Thomas Kirkiby of Stanbridge Earls, taken at Romsey on 18 July in that year, when " the widow Grace was living at Romsey. : ' (She was " Grace, daughter of Thomas Wallop of Fawley, Southants " ; vide Harleian MS. 1544, fol. 170c.) In the Chancery proceed- ings of Elizabeth (pp. 9-41) :

" A.D. 1600. Petition to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper .... William Pawlett, alias Lambert, of the Middle Temple, Esquire ; . . . . Fleetwood, Esq. [sic], and Jane his wife, one of the daughters of William Lambert, Esq., de- ceased; John Pawlett, alias Lambert, of the

Middle Temple ; Hector Pawlett, alias Lambert ; and Thomas Kirkiby and Susanna his wife, as in right of the said Susanna. The said William Pawlett [&c.] being sons of the said Jane, and Susanna being the daughter of the said Jane."

This confirms Foster and Berry, and goes to show that Susanna Kirkiby was living at Stanbridge (within a ride of Crawley) in 1600, and so continued until December, 1616, when Thomas Kirkiby died at Win- chester, and was buried in the Stanbridge vault in Romsey Abbey, and (according to his Inquisition post Mortem, taken on 20 March following) " Gerard Kirkiby '' was found to be " his son and heir, and thirteen years of age." It is, moreover, noteworthy that, shortly after Kirkiby's death, his widow Susanna was married to Lancelot, third son of John Warnf ord of Sevenhampton in Wiltshire by his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Dutton of Sherborne, Glos. (see 'Visitation Wilts'). After the death of his first wife, " the Lady Jane Fleetwood,'' in March, 1618, Sir Gerard married Mary, daughter of William Dutton of Sherborne (vide ' N. & Q.,' 10 S. v. 403) ; and since their son Dutton Fleetwood was 16 years of age when he matriculated at Oxford in 1639, the marriage must have taken place before the year 1623, supposing that Dutton was the eldest child, and not younger than

the two daughters, Elizabeth and, who

were probably also children of Mary Dutton. In Mr. F. W. Pledge's 'Crawley; or. Glimpses of the Past of a Hampshire Parish ' (Winchester, Warren, 1908), under ' The Great House and its Owners,' it is stated at p. 130 that "early in the reign of James I., John Holdaway, alias Edmonds, made over his lease to Sir Gerard Fleetwood ' ; and from Mr. Pledge's private notes from the Court Rolls (kindly lent for the purpose of these notes) it appears that Sir Gerard held lands in that parish from 1609 onwards until he was succeeded by his son Dutton ; also, that the lands were held upon lives. Moreover, he is always referred to as " farmer," while the Dawleys are described as ' ' gent. ' ' and ' ' Esquire. " ' The Dawley pedigree is recorded in the Visitation of Hampshire for 1634, where it will be seen that Walter, son of Antony Dawley of Ibsly in county Southampton, was seised of the manor of Laanston (near Sparsholt, in the vicinity of Winchester); and, according to Foster, Walter Dawley was 19 years of age when he matriculated at New College, Oxon, in 1610. By his marriage with Christian, daughter of Henry Whitehead of Norman Court, West Tytherley, he was father of two sons, John