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Sisters : Mary, Frances, Carolina, Ann, and
.Jane Fleetwood.
Sir John Hartopp.
Her cousins, sons and daughters of Sir John "Hartopp, viz., John, Mary, Elizabeth, Frances, Ann, Bridget, Dortha, and Martha.
Cousins : Ann Barton, Nathaniel Gould, Esq.
Mother Ellen Fleetwood.
Dated April 29, 1710 ; proved Aug. 10, 1728.
Will of Sarah Fleetwood of Chediston, or Cheston, in co. Suffolk, widow (142 Tennison).
Mentions the following : Nephew Richard Jen- keiison of Chediston, Esq. ; latter's eldest son Bichard Jenkenson. Also Henry Jenkenson, .son of her late nephew Henry Jenkenson de- ceased. Also her cousins Dorothy Barlow, Penelope Newport, Martha Ewen.
Dated Sept. 21, 1716 ; codicil dated Sept. 18, 1717 ; proved July 7, 1718.
Will of Smith Fleetwood of Ermin glands, co. Norfolk, gent. (238 Price).
Directs that his debts should be paid out of "his part hi the 6,OOOL left by his dear father now deceased, now in the hands of his brother Charles Fleetwood, Esq. Mentions his wife Elizabeth Fleetwood and daughter Elizabeth. He makes the former his sole executrix.
Will dated June 23, 1714 ; proved by Elizabeth Ctibson (the relict), Sept. 6, 1733, and by the Rev. Abraham Coveney, on the death of Elizabeth Gibson, on Nov. 13, 1762.
Will of Charles Fleetwood of Irmingland, co. Norfolk, Esq. (11 Brook).
Bequeaths to Sir John Hartopp of Bedford Rowe in parish of St. Andrew's in Holbourne, in co. of Middlesex, and to Sir Nathaniel Gold x>f Newington in co. of Middlesex, all lands, woods, &c., in counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He makes these two his executors and trustees. He bequeaths to Sir John Hartopp, Sir Nathaniel Gold, and to the sisters of Sir John Hartopp ten pounds apiece.
To his brother-in-law Abraham Coveney
To his sister Ann, wife of William Gogney,
Makes bequests also to his sisters Elizabeth, Frances, Carolina, and Jano Fleetwood.
To his niec-i Elizabeth Fleetwood, daughter of 'tis late brother Smith Fleetwood, full sum of 1000Z.
Will dated March 14, 1726; proved March, 1728.
Will of Elizabeth Fleetwood of Northampton
(236 Marlboro').
Mentions her sons Miles, Charles, and William Tleetwood, and her daughter Anne Benson.
Will dated Feb. 26, 1719 ; proved Dec. 2, 1722.
"Will of Elizabeth Fleetwood, wife of John Fleet- wood, Harrington Street in parish of St. John's, Clerkenwell, co. Middlesex (474 Ely). Dated May 15, 1786 ; proved June 9, 1808.
Some of the wills above mentioned have probably nothing to do with the family of general Charles Fleetwood, but I have included them in case they are of interest. IThey are all at Somerset House.
Other Fleetwood wills and administra-
tions that might be of interest are at
Somerset House as under :
Ann Fleetwood, London, 1640 (23 Coventry).
Thomas Fleetwood, Middlesex, 1640 (27 Coventry).
Sir Miles Fleetwood, Knt., London, May, 1641 (administration).
Ann Fleetwood, Bucks, May, 1718 (adminis- tration).
Dame Mary Fleetwood, Middlesex, Sept., 1720 (194 Shalles).
Thomas Fleetwood, Esq., Stafford, Jan., 1725 (administration).
John Fleetwood, Surrey, Dec., 1725 (250 Romney).
George Fleetwood, Southampton, Oct., 1728 (289 Brook).
James Fleetwood, London, March, 1808 (130 Collingwood).
In connexion with the Fleetwooda of Stoke Newington it would be interesting to know the parentage of the following Mr. Fleetwood, the notification of whose death appears in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1764, p. 450 :
" Mr. Fleetwood, set. 86, at Newington, Surrey, 8th Sept., 1764."
H. E. RUDKIN.
JACOB, THE WONDER-WORKING
FRENCH ZOUAVE.
APROPOS of the recent series of articles by Harold Ashton in The Daily Mail describinj his interviews with palmists, crystal-gazers fortune-tellers, and others of that tribe, anc the prosecution and subsequent conviction of some of them, it may be recalled that there appeared in The Illustrated Times Sept. 7, 1867, a woodcut engraving of " The Wonder - Working French Zouave Jacob,' with the following interesting account o him :
" The last excitement in Paris is a non-com missioned officer of Zouaves named Jacob, Jew, who is said to have performed the mos astonishing cures by the simple potency of hi word ; and can tell what is the matter wit! every patient at a glance. According to popular rumour, he has cured the heir of the Bonapartes of scrofula, has cured Marshal Foley of hemi plegia, has cured the Count of Chateauveillard or some such name, of long-standing paralysis has cured this chiffonier, and that fishwife, am the other Auvergnat porter of most diseases known to man. So profound was the belief in his powers among the lower classes that thi street hi which he operated was blocked up, an< the authorities have ordered the exhibition to end. Jacob, who was a trumpeter in the corps, has been sent back to regimental duty, and, as a punishment for his attempt at imposture, has been condemned to extra drill at Versailles, A correspondent, who was present at one of his
