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bottle. To my son Richard ffleming 1501. in monie and one gilt note. To my son Walter memmg the gilt cup with flowers, and in monie 250Z. ; also the silver bason in my chamber over the parlour at Stoneham. I give him the green bed with all the furniture belonging to it, and the chairs and stools and all other things in the chamber, and the six pieces of new hangings ; also the beds, bedding, and bedsteads, and all furnishing in my chamber, with the green cloth chairs and stools in needle- work, and the valence with the curtains in needle- work, and the coverlet which was my father's. a my linen to be divided between my sons Philip and Walter, onlie the [illegible] of damask tor my son Philip, and the drawn worked cushion cloath and cub board cloath, and the fine holland sheets with three breadths and the pyllobers. I give my son Philip all the rest of my chest except two silver flagons and that which is before given. Also in the Parlour I give him the black chairs and the stools, and the small and great pictures." Query, does she mean her grandchildren when she mentions " my little daughter Dorothie," and "little daughter Francke " ?

It is curious that in the Fleming pedigrees nothing is made of the distinguished military career of Sir -Francis Fleming, probably "Francis," son of John of Newport and Magdalen Lambert.* He was

" knighted in camp beside Roxburgh for his conduct and bravery at the great battle of Musle- fourgh, between the 18th and 25th of September, in nrst year of King Edward the 6th, at the hands the i he nigh and mi S h ty Prince, Edward, Duke of Somerset, "t

Sir Francis Fleming acquired the manor of Romsey infra (Broadlands) in 1543, after the dispossession of the nuns of Romsey Abbey, and there died on 27 Aug., 1553. His tomb, in the " south cross aile of Romsey Church," was noted in a seventeenth-century ward's ' History of Hampshire,'^ but not a trace of it remains.
 * Journey in Hampshire,' quoted in Wood-

From the will of this knight, together with his Inq. p.m., printed in the fourth volume of the Hampshire Field Club and Archspo- logical Society's Proceedings in 1904,|| it appears that he left his mansion at Broad- lands to his wife, the Lady Jane, upon cer- tain conditions as to her residence there, with remainder to his son William Fleming and the letter's wife (Jane Foster). The identity of " the Lady Jane," the " widow," has hitherto been a mystery, but a clue was recently given in an old will, which shows her to have been a sister of the " Richard

' Visitation of Hampshire.' t Shaw's ' Knights.' J Vol. ii. p. 330.

Inq. p.m. taken at Romsey 11 May, 1558. il Southampton, 1906.

Covert," one of Sir Francis Fleming's trus- tees. In the Covert pedigree, printed in Manning and Bray's ' History of Surrey,'* Jane, daughter of John Covert of Slaugham, county Sussex, is said to have been first married to Sir Francis Fleming, and secondly to Sir John Fitterplace, dying on 26 Jan., 1586. So that William Fleming must have soon had possession of Broadlands, which devolved in 1606 on his daughter and sole remaining heir Frances, who was married before 1576 to Edward St. Barbe of Ash- ington in county Somerset. The latter died in 1592, and Frances remarried before 1599 to a Shelley (whose identity is still being sought). John St. Barbe, the grandson of Frances Fleming, figured some time since in ' N. & Q.' as " Cavalier or Roundhead." See the note at 11 S. i. 342, where some original letters were quoted from Richard Cromwell of Hursley, and his brother- in-law John Dunch of North Baddesley, both connexions by marriage of Dame Mary's descendants. It should, moreover, be said that her daughter Anne Fleming became the second wife of Sir John Mill, and the mother of his seven sons. She must have shared the persecutions which he endured under the Commonwealth, and was surviving when he died of a broken heart in 1618, having lived to see her son and heir, the gallant Sir John Mill (knight banneret), killed near Oxford in fighting for the King in 1642.

In the Civil War the Flemings of Stone- ham took the Parliament side with their connexions, the Hoopers of Boveridge, but both were forgiven by Charles II. at the Restoration, as were the St. Barbes of Broadlands. It is interesting to observe that while so many of the old estates in Hampshire have .since frequently changed hands, the Flemings and the Mills continue to own their ancestral properties and to retain their names. F. H. SUCKLING.

Romsey.

THE YOUNGER VAN HELMONT. (See US- vii. 307, 378, 468 ; viii. 54 ; ix. 86, 128, 169, 207, 347.) Benjamin Furly, the English Quaker merchant of Rotterdam, born 1636, died 1714, was a personal friend of the younger Van Helmont. In 1830 Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, a descendant of Furly, possessed various papers belonging to Furly. Are these papers still in existence, and in the possession of descendants of Mr. Forster or Foster living at Walthamstow,


 * Vol. ii. p. 440.