FLEETWOOD, Sir William (1603-74), of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants. and High Lodge, Woodstock, Oxon.

Family and Education

bap. 20 July 1603, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Miles Fleetwood* of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants. and Anne, da. of Nicholas Luke† (d. 1613) of Woodend, Cople, Beds.; bro. of Charles Fleetwood*.Bodl. Rawl. B.75, f. 29; Vis. Oxon. 1669 and 1673 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xii), 87; Vis. Beds. 1566, 1582 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xix), 180; Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 111-2, 149. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 3 Dec. 1618.Al. Cant. m. (1) bef. 1630, Frances (bap. 12 June 1605), da. of Henry Sture of Maridge, Ugborough, Devon, ?3s. inc. Miles Fleetwood*, ?1da.; (2) 18 Nov. 1638, Elizabeth (bur. 18 Dec. 1668), da. of Thomas Harvey of Twycross, Leics. ?4s. ?3da.Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 111-3; CSP Dom. 1638-9, p. 182; Ugborough, Devon, par. reg. transcript; Kettering, Northants. and Wootton, Oxon. par. regs. Kntd. 20 July 1624.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 185. suc. fa. 8 Mar. 1641. bur. 12 Feb. 1674 12 Feb. 1674.Northants. N and Q n.s. i. 111-3.

Offices Held

Court: cup-bearer by Aug. 1624 – May 1646; 10 June 1660–d.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 185; CCC 1403; E. Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia (1669), 270; CTB iv. 471–2; Officials of the Royal Household ed. J.C. Sainty and R.C. Bucholz, ix. 106.

Local: commr. sewers, Northants. 1627, 1633, 1634.C181/3, f. 218; C181/4, ff. 140v, 180v. J.p. 20 Dec. 1631–1646; Oxon. 23 June 1638–1646, July 1660 – d.; Woodstock 3 Aug. 1641, 20 Aug. 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 66; C231/5, pp. 300, 465; C181/5, f. 207; C181/7, p. 30. Commr. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629.C181/3, f. 269v. Ranger, Woodstock Park Aug./Sept. 1637-aft. 13 Oct. 1649, 1660–d.Bodl. Top. Oxon. c.85, f. 5; Woodstock Chamberlains’ Accts. 1609–50, 165, 168; VCH Oxon. xii. 440. Commr. array (roy.), Northants. July 1642;Northants. RO, FH133. rebels’ estates (roy.), Oxon. 3 July 1643;Docquets of Letters Paptent ed. Black, 53. poll tax, 1660; assessment, 1661, 1664, 1672; Beds., Northants. 1664, 1672; loyal and indigent officers, Oxon. 1662; subsidy, Northants., Oxon. 1663.SR.

Central: recvr. gen. ct. of wards, 8 Mar. 1641-May 1646.H.E. Bell, An Introduction to the Hist. of the Ct. of Wards and Liveries (1953), 25; CSP Dom. 1644, pp. 294–5; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 409. Commr. rebels’ estates (roy.), 3 July 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 53.

Civic: freeman, Woodstock bef. Aug. 1662.Oxon RO Woodstock archives BOR4/5/A1/1, f. 8v.

Parlimentarian

FLEETWOOD, Sir William (1603-74), of High Lodge, Woodstock Park, Oxon.

: Northants. and High Lodge, Oxon., Woodstock.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

FLEETWOOD, Sir William (1603-74), of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants. and High Lodge, Woodstock, Oxon.

Will

not found.

Estates

allowance from Woodstock Park, from 1637;Woodstock Chamberlains’ Accts. 1609-50, 168; Bodl. Top. Oxon. c.85, f. 5. manor of Bolnhurst, Beds. from 1640;VCH Beds. iii. 125. manor of Aldwincle All Saints, from 1641;VCH Northants. iii. 165. manor of Cardington, Beds. by 1648.CSP Dom. 1648-9, pp. 430-1. Fine of one sixth set at £720, Jan. 1647, but later reduced to take account of siblings’ annuities and other factors unknown, to as little as £400.CCC 1403; CAM 1070.

Oxford 1644

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