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whom eight were sons. Three of these were older than the regicide viz., 1. Arthur, who matriculated at Oxford 24 May, 1605, aged seventeen, entered Gray's Inn in 1607 as " son and heir of Sir George Fleetwood of the Vache," and was dead before 1620 ; 2. Edward, of whom I know nothing, and who perhaps died young ; 3. Charles, who succeeded his father at the Vache and died 28 May, 1628. Will dated theday of his death. Inq. p.m. taken 26 July, 1628 (see Genealogist, vol. xviii. 129), mentions George, his son and heir, "aged 5 years and 26 months" (sic\ a second son, David, and a daughter, Catherine. This daughter afterwards married (see Miscell. Genealogica, second series, iv. 73) George Clerk, a merchant of London, and died in 1678, leaving issue. Did the sons George and David die in youth, and their uncle inherit] The Vache Fleetwoods must at one time have been very numerous Several of the eight sons of Sir George Fleetwood are known to have left issue. In addition, Sir George had apparently no fewer than seven or eight brothers, one of whom, Sir William of Cran- ford, Middlesex, had also a family of five or six sons, whose descendants in the next generation became very widespread in the counties of Middlesex, Northampton, Bedford, Bucks, and Oxford. It is hardly likely that these lines have all failed. Noble's account of these upon which most modern pedigrees are based is, as we have seen, both meagre and incorrect. That given in Lipscomb's "" many incongruities and contradictions
 * Bucks,' though somewhat fuller, contains

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be relied upon. Evidently a guesswork compilation,

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that it cannot it is largely

George the regicide being identified in the same pedigree in three different places, while George the Swedish baron and general is placed a generation too early. The late Mr. J. P. Earwaker com menced the compilation of a pedigraic account which, if completed, would doubtless have removed most of the difficulties in the somewhat involved and complicated descent of this historical family. His untimely death, however, occurred before the work had pro- ceeded much beyond the initial stages. In the meantime contributions like that oi R. W. B. are of great value towards the ultimate compilation of a complete pedigree

W. D. PINK. ' Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

In the middle of the seventeenth century a Robert and a Charles Fleetwood were in the service of the East India Company. Robert was Chief at Masulipatam, and Charles was a Senior Merchant at Fort St.

George. Robert left sons and daughters, whose names figure in the St. Mary's register Dooks until the middle of the eighteenth century. See ' History of Fort St. George,' by Mrs. Frank Penny. F. P.

INGLIS MSS. AT OXFORD (9 th S. ix. 347). MR. WALLACE-JAMES will find these MSS. fully described by my old friend the late Dr. David Laing in the sixth volume of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 284-309, where he gives an account of all the existing specimens of the lady's writing that he knew of. Of the volume preserved in the library at Christ Church he supplies a description with which

I furnished him, having examined it at his request for the purpose. I have notes of two other MSS. not found in his list : ' Argu- menta Capitum Geneseos,' in Bishop van Mildert's sale in 1838, and 'Argumenta Psalmorum,' sold at Mr. Edw. Quaile's sale,

II May, 1901, for 93^. W. D. MACRAY.

GENIUS AND INSANITY (9 th S. ix. 269). The passage quoted from Seneca is, I think, easier to find if the reference, 'De Tranquillitate Animi,' cap. 15, sect. 16, is given. The fol- lowing is the note in Ruhkopf's * Seneca':

" Aristotdi. Lipsius laudat IStagiritse hunc locum ' Cur homines, qui ingenio claruerunt, vel in studiis philosophise, vel in republica administranda, vel in carmine pangendo, vel in artibus exercendis, melancholicos omnes fuisse videmus.' (Aristot. Problem, sect. 30, Qusest. i., pag. 815, B, torn. 2, edit. Paris, 1629.) Quo respexit Cic Tusc. Dispp. lib. i. cap. 33, ubi confer. Intpp."

Compare Aulus Gellius, xviii. 7, where is told an anecdote concerning "Domitius, a learned and renowned grammarian, to whom was given the name of Insanus, because he was by nature somewhat rough and testy." Com- pare also Cicero, ' De Divinatione,' i. 37.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

St. Austin's, Warrington.

THE SMALLEST CHURCH IN ENGLAND (9 th S. ix. 47, 375). Until actual measurements are forthcoming this question will remain one for discussion and rivalry. Some, but not all, of those MR PAGE enumerates are quite familiar to me, and, judging from the known to the unknown, the bulk of them seem to come nowhere near the place claimed for them. St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, is the one best known, and has the commonly accepted reputation of being the smallest parish church in England ; but those who know both are well aware that St. Law- rence is a large and commodious edifice in comparison with Culbone, or, as it is cabled in