n s. ix. MAY 9, ISM.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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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
- Journey in Hampshire,' quoted in Wood-
ward's ' History of Hampshire,'^ but not a trace of it remains.
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.
