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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vi. OCT. 20, 1912.

and Walter, and of a daughter Constance who married Oliver St. John of the adj oining parish of Farley Chamberlayne, where she was buried on 16 Sept., 1666. According to the Crawley Court Rolls, in 1634 Sir Gerard Fleetwood held his land "for the lives of Hamden Dowse and Antony Dawley " ; and by an indenture dated 6 Oct. 1641, on the lives of Button Fleetwooc and Anne Fleetwood, and Thomas Crew, Esq Hamden Dowse (often written Douse was son and heir of Sir Francis Dowse, Kt. of Berry Court, Nether Wallop, an estate acquired with his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Hamden Pawlett. These Dowses appear in the Hampshire Visitation of 1634 as of Moor Court (near Romsey) of which family Thomas Dowse of Broughton was a younger son, and father of Sir Francis and of several other distinguished knights. Hamden Dowse appears to have died s.p. before 1640. when his widow (Amabell, daughter of Sir Antony Benn, Recorder oi London) was married to Sir Antony Fane. According to Mr. Pledge's ' Crawley,'

" Sir Gerard Fleetwood was among the de- linquents in arms for the King in the tything of Crawley, and in January, 1646/7, paid 700L portion for his daughter, who married Thomas, son of Sir Francis Douse."

This was Thomas, brother of Hamden, born 1601, who matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxon, in 1619, was a student of the Inner Temple in 1620, a Bencher in 1640, and succeeded his father in his estates in October, 1649, when the latter was buried in Nether Wallop Church. Thomas must have married Elizabeth Fleetwood before April, 1644, when his daughter, Elizabeth Dowse, was baptized at Wallop ; his son Thomas (afterwards ancestor of the antiquary) was born in 1647. His burial is not to be found at Wallop, but he certainly died before June, 1656, when administration of his effects was granted to " Elizabeth Keckwich, alias Dowse, wife of George Keckwich, and relict of Thomas Dowse, late of Nether Wallop." Sir Gerard Fleetwood in his will (proved in February, 1657/8) men- tions his '' daughters Elizabeth Kekewich [sic] an d Gifford " ; also his " grandchildren Thomas Douse and Richard Gifford " (vide 10 S. v. 404). This is extremely inter- esting, as it gives a clue to the nameless wife of Richard Gifford of King Somborne (a parish close to Crawley). He was son and heir of Sir Richard Gifford, Kt., who entertained James I. at King Somborne in 1603, and was buried in the church of East Tytherley in 1643.

A Gifford pedigree is given by Berry, but does not continue far enough for the purpose of these notes. But in point of fact Sir Richard Gifford married his first cousin, Winifred, daughter of Sir Henry Wallop (Kt., Chancellor of Ireland, d. 1599) by Katherine, daughter of Richard Gifford (1500-1568) of Tytherley and Somborne. Sir Richard's children were Richard (afore- said), Henry (d. 1634), Winifred, Anne, and Susanna, who married John St. John of Farley Chamberlayne (1603-27), and was there buried on 5 May, 1628, under an interesting monument representing her kneel- ing in widow's weeds, facing her husband, with a baby in a cradle between them.

The will of Richard Gifford, son of Sir Richard and the supposed widower of Sir Gerard Fleetwood's daughter (Anne ?), was dated on 16 Dec. in the thirteenth year of King Charles II., and was proved in London on 17Feb., 1661/2, by the executors, Hugh Haswell and John Tynte. He waa " very sick " at the time of making his will, and desired to be buried in King Som- borne Church, and left his goods, cattle, corn, implements, &c., house, plate, and jewels to his executors,

" except such jewels and household stuff as are now remaining in the hands and custody of Joan Sutton, wife of Walter Sutton, and were delivered to her to keep for the use of my children, by my late wife and myself."

His executors were to sell those goods left in their hands for the payment of his debts, as also his

" lands, as well leasehold as freehold, for the same purpose, and for the education and main- tenance of his [unnamed] four children till they severally attain the age of twenty-one the three younger to have 300Z. a piece at their majority, and the surplus money to remain to the eldest man Hugh Haswell, Esq., John Tynte, Esq., Thomas Edmonds, Esq., and John Kelsey, Esq. (of Piddleworth), and Francis Bivett, Esq., overseer. Witnesses, Thomas Eads, Thomas Poore, John Aycriggs."
 * on [no name given]. His executors were his kins-

It would be very satisfactory if some reader of ' N. & Q.' could establish the testator's " kinship " to Hugh Haswell and to John Tynte. According to Burke's Commoners ' (vol. iv.), John Tynte of iheverley, county Somerset (who was aged in 1623), married Jane, daughter and heir of Hugh Haswell of Haswell in that county. Their son, Haswell Tynte, was created a mronet in 1673, and died in 1702.

Moreover, John and Susanna St. John vere succeeded in the Farley Chamberlayne istates by the former's brother, Oliver