Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
bap. 15 Feb. 1622, 1st s. of Charles Fleetwood of the Vache and Anne, da. of Nicholas Watkins.‘Pedigree of the Fleetwoods of the Vache’, Recs. of Bucks. vi. 107; R.W.B. ‘The Fleetwoods and Milton’s cottage’, N and Q 10th ser. i. 423. m. (1) 27 May 1647, Catherine, da. and coh. of John Oldfeild, Fishmonger and sugar refiner, of Bow and St Katherine Creechurch, London, 1s. 1da.;St Andrew Undershaft, London par. reg.; PROB11/269/170. (2) 27 Feb. 1651, Hester (d. 1714), da. of Sir Robert Smyth of Upton, Essex, 1s. 2da.St Mary, Whitechapel (Greater London marr. index); ‘Hester Fleetwood’, Oxford DNB. suc. fa. 4 June 1628.C142/441/21; ‘Inquisitiones post mortem’, The Gen. n.s. xviii. 129. Kntd. 15 Sept. 1656.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. d. bef. 9 Nov. 1674.R.W.B. ‘An unknown Fleetwood pedigree’, N and Q 9th ser. ix. 261.
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Military: capt. militia ft. (parlian.) Bucks. by Oct. 1642-bef. 1645;Bucks. Contributions for Ireland, 112. col. by 1645 – Aug. 1650; capt. militia horse, Aug. 1650-aft. June 1656.CJ iv. 335b; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 521; 1650, p. 509; SP25/77, pp. 863, 886. Dep. maj.-gen. Bucks. Feb. 1656-c.Feb. 1657.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 164; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 102. Col. of ft. Feb.-June 1660.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 402–3; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), ii. 135, 154.

Local: commr. for Bucks. 25 June 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. by Mar. 1647-bef. Oct. 1660;T. Langley, The Hist. and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough (1797), 17; A Perfect List (1660). Mdx. by Oct. 1653–?Mar. 1660;C193/13/4, f. 65; C193/13/5, f. 68v. Oxon. 8 July 1656–?Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 340; C193/13/5, f. 83. Herts. 10 July 1656–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 340; C193/13/5, f. 47v; C193/13/6, f. 41. Commr. militia, Bucks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. tendering Engagement, Oct. 1650;National Art Library, V. and A., Forster MS 58, no. 32. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 54–379. ejecting scandalous ministers, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth by Mar. 1656.TSP iv. 583.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651;CJ vi. 577b. cttee. for the army, 27 July 1653.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344b. Commr. visitation Oxf. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
FLEETWOOD, George (1622-bef. 1674), of The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.
: Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.
Likenesses

Likenesses: miniature, S. Cooper, 1647.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

FLEETWOOD, George (1622-bef. 1674), of The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.

Will
none.
Estates
inherited lands at Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. 1628;Lipscombe, Buckingham, iii. 227; VCH Bucks. iii. 188. worth £637 6s 8d p.a.LR2/266, f. 4.
Oxford 1644
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