US. V.JAX. 20, 1912.1
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARYS'), 1912.
CONTENTS. -No. 108.
NOTES : Fleetwood of Missenden : the Kingsley Family, 41 Inscriptions at St. John's, Westminster, 42 The Australian Coat of Arms, 44 "The Thames "" Com- frey," 45' The Sacrifice of Isaac ' First Rhinoceros in England Hurley Manor Crypt, 46 Frances, Lady Lumley, 47.
QUERIES : Catherine Sedley and the Churchills Laner- cost Manor " Penard " St. Agnes: Folk-lore Motto for Milk Depot, 47 Capt. Sir R. Richardson St. Cuth- bert's Birds " Vicugna " Spenser Concordance Gaston L-tfenestre James Silk Buckingham : Autobiographical M3S. Alexander the Great and Paradise Weather- boirded Houses in the City " With Allowance," 48 Jennings Case Miss Anne Manning Curious Staff Dr. Brettargh Silver Snuff-box : Silver Buttons Fines as Christian Name Biographical Information Wanted Lord Lytton's House in Grosvenor Square, 49 Frederic Kendall Capt. Freeny Money-box Trussel Family 1 Mr. Punch : his Origin and Career ' John Howden, Famous Fanatic Scurr Family, 50.
REPLIES : Ancient Terms, 50 Authors Wanted Military Executions Capt. Cuttle's Hook, 52 Oxford Degrees and Ordination Foreign Journals in America West India Committee, 53 Salamanca : Capt. G. Stubbs "Riding the high horse" Our Lady's Fast Holed Stones, 54 Felicia Hemans Vanishing London : " The Swiss Cottage " Peploe Grant of Arms "Dillisk" and "Slook," 55 Lord Wharton's Bibles Ear-piercing Diseases from Plants, 56 Tattershall : Elsham Kings with Special Titles J. R. : Letters to Lord Orrery, 57 Cavendish Square : Equestrian Statue Coltman Family Keats's ' Ode to a Nightingale,' 58 Antigallican Society
Lucius Christmas : its Names, 59.
NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Romano - British Buildings and Earthworks ' ' Medieval Story ' ' Cambridge University Calendar.'
Notices to Correspondents.
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FLEETWOOD OF MISSENDEN: THE KINGSLEY FAMILY.
THE illegitimacy often assumed of the branch of the Fleetwoods who from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century nourished at Great Missenden, in Bucks, has been more than once called into question in the pages of ' N. & Q.' So far back as 2 S. vii. 317, 403, attention was called to it, and more recently in 10 S. vii. 302 by your able correspondent R. W. B., who mentions that the general opinion is not borne out by the context of the will of the father of William Fleetwood, the Recorder, who founded the line.
Having lately had occasion, for another purpose, to refer to this will, I venture to send to ' N. & Q.' the abstract of the same, for which, as usual, I am indebted to my friend MR. A. RHODES :
Robert Fleetwood of London, gentleman, 14 Oct., 1560. To eight poor men in the parish of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West at his funeral, 6d.
each, to pray for him, and for their dinner no
black for any but my wife, and to her household.
To the prisoners in Ludgate, Newgate, and
Marshalsea, 3s. 4d. each, &c. to the three
churches in Lancashire, .viz., Eccleston, Croston,
and Chorley, 20s. each, and 26s. Sd. a year for
one hundred four score and ten years to the
poor of St. Dunstan's in Fleet Street, 26s. 8d. every
Good Friday during the same period my house
in Fleet Street where I now dwell the children
of Edward Rice of Kidderminster, V. marks
to Anne Kingsley, if she do outlive me, Ql. on
her marriage and not before William Kingsley
to be kept to the school at my executors' cost for
2 years and then put to something he be meet
for to Dorothy Standen, if she outlive me, 6/.
my mother if she outlive me the wives of my
brothers John and Thomas Fleetwood, an angel
of gold my son William Fleetwood of the
Middle Temple, one of my best gowns and also
my best flagon and chain of fine gold to Edward
Buggyn my thick president book and my .book
of accounts upon the Case, which book he and I
did write when he was my servant (bequest to
Edmond Standen) my wife has an annuity
of Wl. assured by Master Anthony Browne out of
the parsonage of Croston, whereof he and I had
a lease for many years yet to run (deed enrolled
in Chancery) to her the house and garden in
Fleet Street for life legacies to godchildren
no one to have any legacy till of full age except
Agnes [Anne ?] Kingsley manor of Piddington
held by testator in trust Agnes my wife and
John Dister, exors. Martin John Hunt, Esq.,
Richard Earth, William Smyth, John Glascock,
Wm. Fleetwood, gent., overseers, for their pains
an angel each. Legacies to servants. Wit-
nesses : G. Grylle, Hieronimus Halley, Francis
Gyle, Thomas Heydon, Edward Ridge [? Rice],
Francis (?) . . . ." Pr. in London, 26 June, 1561
(23 Loftes).
It will, I think, be allowed that this will disposes of the illegitimacy theory. How such a notion came to be entertained is difficult to say. It may possibly have arisen, as suggested by R. W. B., from a misunderstanding regarding the coat of arms used at the funeral of the Recorder (see 'Lane. Funeral Certificates,' Cheth. Soc., vol. Ixxv. p. 29), coupled with the fact that in no known pedigree of Fleetwood is any wife named to Robert Fleetwood the testator. It is, however, abundantly clear that he had a wife Agnes and an only son, the after Recorder of London. About Agnes Fleetwood's parentage, however, we are yet in the dark.
Arising out of the foregoing will, but upon another topic, is a point of some genealogical interest. Who were the Anne (or Agnes) and William Kingsley named in the will, and in what relationship did they stand to the testator ? That the Fleetwoods and the Kingsleys were in some way connected is undoubted. The Kingsley pedigree in the 'Visitation of Kent, 1619' (Harl. Soc.), com- mences with William Kingsley of Rosehall,
