FLEETWOOD, William (c.1525-94), of the Middle Temple, London Great Missenden, Bucks.

Autumn reader, M. Temple 1564, Lent 1568.

Common pleader, London 10 Mar. 1558; serjeant-at-law, duchy of Lancaster 28 Jan. 1559, steward and bailiff, the Savoy ?1559 – d., apprentice-at-law and counsel 29 May 1560, steward, manor of Penwortham, Lancs. 1567 – d., Mildenhall, Suff. 1571 – 80, feodary, Beds. and Bucks. 1577 – 82, dep. chief steward, south parts 1586, master of the Savoy 1592 – d.; commr. eccles. causes 1559 – d.; steward, Wigan church by 1559, Newton, Lancs. by 1559, Rushock, Worcs. 1564, Farnham Royal and St. Helens, Berks. c. 1576, Bernwood forest, Bucks. 1577; j.p. Durham 1561 – d., Bucks. 1569 – d., London, Mdx. and Surr. 1571 – d., Lancs. 1577 – d.; recorder, London 1571 – 92, Preston by 1584; serjeant-at-law 1580; member, Antiq. Soc. c. 1591; Queen’s serjeant 1592; escheator, Durham temp. Eliz. DKR, xxxvii(1), 79; CPR, 1560–3, p. 445; 1563–6, p. 29; 1569–72, pp. 223, 277, 440–2; 1572–5, pp. 551–2; Somerville, Duchy, i. 433, 452, 456, 505, 592, 602, 614–15; C. M. Clode, Merchant Taylors’ Co. ii. 272–3; City of London RO, Guildhall, rep. 14, f. 14; 17, f. 144; G. T. O. Bridgeman, Wigan (Chetham Soc. n.s. xv), 134; Lansd. 24(80), f. 196; 52(50), f. 133; H. W. Woolrych, Serjeants-at-law, i. 136, 149, 158; J. Evans, Hist. Antiq. Soc. 12.