FLEETWOOD, John (d.1590), of Colwich, Staffs. and Penwortham, Lancs.

Family and Education

1st s. of William Fleetwood of Heskin, Lancs. by Eleanor or Helen, da. of Robert or Richard Standish; bro. of Thomas. m. (1) Catherine, da. of John Christmas of Colchester, Essex, s.p.; (2) Jane, da. of Sir Thomas Langton of Newton, Lancs., 9 ch. inc. at least 2s.J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), i. 370-1; Harl. 6159.

Offices Held

Clerk of Chancery 1535 – 70; usher of change of money in the Tower c. 1538; clerk of the peace and of the Crown, Cheshire 1538; j.p. Staffs. 1547 – 53, from c. 1573, Lancs. from 1561, ?rem. 1587; sheriff, Staffs. 1548 – 49, 1568 – 69, Lancs. 1577 – 78, 1586–7.LP Hen. VIII, viii. 240; xii(2), p. 81; xiii(1), p. 487; xiii(2), p. 496.

Parlimentarian

FLEETWOOD, John (d.1590), of Colwich, Staffs. and Penwortham, Lancs.

Main residences: Colwich, Staffs.; Penwortham, Lancs.

Author

W.J.J.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

FLEETWOOD, John (-d.1590)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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