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b. c. 1566, Age calculated from date of admiss. to the M. Temple. 1st. s. of William Fleetwood† of Great Missenden and Bacon House, Foster Lane, London, and Marian, da. of John Barley of Kingsey, Bucks. Lancs. and Cheshire Fun. Certs. ed. T.W. King and F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. lxxv), 28; Oxford DNB sub. Fleetwood, William; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. lviii), 55. educ. M. Temple 1584; travelled abroad (Neths.) 1592; Poems of Sir John Davies ed. R. Krueger, pp. xxviii-xxix. MA Oxf. 1605. Al. Ox. m. Anne (bur. 13 Mar. 1622), da. Ralph Barton† of Smithhills Hall, Lancs., 7s. (4 d.v.p.) 7da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1594. Vis. Bucks. (Harl. lviii), 55; Soc. Gen. Great Missenden par. reg.; Lancs. and Cheshire Fun. Certs. 28. Kntd. 9 June 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 110. d. 13 Dec. 1630. WARD 7/80/169. sig. Will[ia]m Fletewoode.
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J.p. Bucks. 1603–22, C231/1, f. 150v; 231/4, f. 138. by 1625–9, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 4; Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 64. Berks. by c.1604-at least c. 1611, Mdx. by c.1604-at least 1608, C66/1620; 66/1898; SP14/33, f. 42. Evesham, Worcs. 1605; G. May, Descriptive Hist. Town of Evesham, 468–9. commr. inquiry, lands of Thomas 15th Lord Grey of Wilton, Bucks. 1603, sewers, Oxon. and Berks. 1604, Bucks., Herts., Mdx. 1609 – 25, Herts. 1617, inquiry, lands of the Gunpowder plotters, Bucks. 1606, C181/1, ff. 78, 85, 130v; 181/2, ff. 90, 297v; 181/3, f. 184. charitable uses, Berks. 1607 – 12, 1617, 1626 – 27, Bucks. 1621, 1629–30, C93/3/13; 93/5/4; 93/7/1; 93/8/15; 93/10/22; 93/11/13; 93/12/6. subsidy, Bucks. 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, 1626; SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1, 23; E115/92/91. steward, Haddenham, Bucks. 1612; E315/310, f. 66. commr. oyer and terminer, Hertford, Herts. 1620; C181/3, f. 14v. sheriff, Bucks. 1622–3; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 9. commr. Forced Loan, Bucks. 1627; C193/12/2, f. 3v. commr. swans, Eng. except the West Country 1629. C181/3, f. 269.

Surveyor gen., duchy of Cornw. 1610–12. T. Birch, Life of Prince Henry (1760), p. 218; LC2/4/6, f. 34.

Member, Virg. Co. by 1610. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 466.

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FLEETWOOD, Sir William II (c.1566-1630), of Great Missenden, Bucks.
Main residence: Great Missenden, Bucks.
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Commons 1604-1629
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FLEETWOOD, Sir William II (c.1566-1630)

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