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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. III. MARCH 24, 1917.

a very bad way, as it deprived the Sail of the assistance of the Bolt rope &

Olerk of y e Surveys Office, took into consid" the disposition of the Labourers found too many attending on Officers, and in stations which Intirely deprived the Governm* of the benefitt of their Service. Desired the Officers would take off from Stations in which they could be of no manner of use and Joyn them to the Body of Active Labourers.
 * FIn the Evening went with the Officers into the

Recommended to the Officers good Husbandry in their Several departments and took my leave on Tuesday evening.

Wednesday the 13th went on board the Commys 1 yacht and turn'd down through Spithead and as far to the westw 1 as about Two mile below Cows, where the Yacht was "brought to an Anchor Oposite to Leap at the mouth of the Bewly River and from thence about 1 past 3 proceeded in the Barge up the River to Bucklers hard where M r Adams is Build- ing the Coventry of 28 Guns by Contract, which is about 4i mile above Leap got there about \ past 4 took a View of the said Ship, found the Walls about and the Bottom about 4- plank'd up, Timber of the Frame in general white young sound Timber, plank [? s] wrought Irregular, and badly fay'd to which appear'd to be from want of care in Dubbing the Timbers Several of them being furr'd which should have been let out, and One Frame in the loff of the Starboard Bow too slack or rather y e Timber on each Side of him wanted to be beat away to fetch him. Hawse piers [?] very waivy [? wainy] and sappy in so much that nothing could be done but takeing the Two Middle pieces on each side out.

Overseer and Officers from Portsmouth who Inspect the said Ship much in fault to Suffer a Certificate to be given for the payment seeing such deficiencys and bad work, the Overseer should never be Employ'd again on any Other Ship his name is Snooks.

The work displeased me came away angry about \ past 5 and as the Tide and Wind was against the yacht and it was unsafe to attempt going up to Southhampton in her the people undertook to carry me from Bucklers hard to Southhampton in the Boat which in Order to save time was very agreeable to me and according? altho' very dark and Tide against us part of the way we landed at the Ferry call'd Itchener about 9 O'clock and from thence walk'd to Southhampton. Men had a hard row of it, they haveing from their leaving the yacht to their getting to the Ferry in South- hampton River Row'd full 22 mile.

Thursday the 14 Set out from Southhampton to Northam where the Resolution of 74 Guns is building by Contract by M r Henery Bird Jun r.

found the ship with all the Floor Timbers in but one Eight or Ten Frames up on each side and a great many more ready to get up, work and Materials as far as was done was good in its kind and every way equal to what would be expected but the Ship stands in a very dirty place and the River into which she is to (be) launch 4 very narrow, and will require a Dock to be dugg Opposite to where she stands to give her liberty to run off the Launch, and then must be brought fore and aft the River and Moord head and stern untill the next Tyde if she cannot with safety be transported down to y Ferry which is about f mile lo % wer down where the River is a good deal

broader, however I do not think this place at all proper for Building so large a Ship, and as I find by M r Bird that the Timber suitable for her must be bro aght about sixteen mile can see very little inducement there is for Building on such a place, there being no Timber fitt for her in that Neigh- bourhood, the Country round Southhampton is very woody as also about Bucklers hard but it appears to be all small in Fifty or Sixty Years if the Timber was left to grow "would be a fine Nursery for producing a great quantity fitt for Naval uses.

From Northam proceeded to Alsford and so to London in the Southhampton road and got to the Navy Yard Office on Fraiday [sir] Even of the 15 th.

Here this diary of a week ends, but on the next page there begins what was evidently intended to be the record of another tour of inspection. There is, however, but a single entry :

"Set out from the Navy Office on Tuesday the 22 Feb. 1757,"

and the diary was never kept, or it was kept and completed in another book.

PENRY LEWIS.

'FLEETWOOD GENEALOGICAL PUZZLE.'

WITH reference to the article under the above heading in 10 S. xii. 362, the following notes on the Fleetwood family may be of interest, though the mystery as regards the date of General Charles Fleetwood's death and his descendants does not yet seem to be satisfactorily explained.

The birth and baptism of Smith Fleet- wood, son of Charles Fleetwood, are re- corded at Felt well Parish Church as under : Anno Domini 1647.

" Bapt. Smyth Fleetwood Smyth ye sonne of Charles Fleetwood & Frances his wife was baptised July 29 nomini dedit by Solomon Smyth armitly.

" Nat. Bdom Smyth Fleetwood filius ejusdem Carol! Fleetwood armig. . . .natus erat apud Fleetwood febr 9 1644."

The entry is very indistinct and difficult to decipher.

In Blomeneld's ' History of Norfolk,' vi. 325, under " Pedigree of Smith Family," the following statement is made :

" Thomas Smith of Winston, Esq., died 6 June, 1639, was buried in Churchyard of Gillingham, All Saints, and left a daughter Frances, who married Charles Fleetwood of Newington. In 1648 Simon Smith of Winston settled the Smith estate on Charles and Frances Fleetwood. This Charles was the son to Major-General Charles Fleetwood, so well known in the usurpation. They were succeeded by their son Smith Fleet- wood, who married Mary, daughter of Sir John Hartopp (Baronetage, vol. i. p. 361). This Smith Fleetwood was bxiried by his father at Stoke