The Will of Sir Gerrard Fleetwood

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Crawley, Southampton, England
Surname/tag: fleetwood

The Will of Sir Gerrard Fleetwood of Crawley, Southampton, England.^[1][2]

• Written: 27 November 1657
• Revised: 6 December 1657
• Proved: 26 February 1658

Contents 1 Summary 2 The Will of Sir Gerrard Fleetwood 3 Sources 4 Acknowledgements

Summary

Beneficiaries of the Will

Dame Anne Fleetwood (4th and current wife & Relict of Gerrard)

Children:

• daughter Elizabeth Kekewich. Elizabeth Fleetwood was married to George Kekewich, after her first husband Thomas Dowse died
• daughter (?) Gifford

[Note: His son Dutton Fleetwood was not mentioned probably because he had already died.]

Nephews

• Lord Lieutenant General George Fleetwood. Son of Gerrard's brother, Sir Miles Fleetwood (–1641) and Anne Luke.
• Sir William Fleetwood. Son of Gerrard's brother, Miles Fleetwood

Daughter-in-law

• --- ---

Grandchildren:

• Thomas Dowse, son of his daughter Elizabeth and first husband Thomas Dowse
• Richard Gifford
• Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood, son of his son Dutton Fleetwood and wife Anne Salisbury

Sons of late Sir William Fleetwood

• [Sir] Miles Fleetwood [MP]
• Charles Fleetwood

Offspring of Sir William Fleetwood

• Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood

Other

• George --- Esquire
• Captain Thomas Byrd
• Priest of Crawley

Executors

• Sir William Fleetwood, his nephew (son of his brother Sir Miles Fleetwood)
• Dame Anne Fleetwood, his wife and Relict of Gerrard --- ---

Witnesses

• Margaret --- ---
• Gerrard Whitton
• Francis Whitta--

The Will of Sir Gerrard Fleetwood

• Spelling, punctuation, and line breaks are as per the original.
• Paragraph breaks (where added, like at the start of a new bequest) and bold text for names are my own for ease of reading.
• ligatures and abbreviations are expanded and additions noted in [square brackets]
• ff is rendered as F

Transcription
November the 26th, [16]57

In the name of God Amen, I Gerrard
Fleetwood of Crawley in the Countie of Southampton knight, being weake in bodie but of
perfect memorie doe make my last will and testament the day and yeare before written

Imprimis [Firstly] I bequeath my soule to God that gave it And my Bodie to the earth
from which it came in first and — hope of a glorious resurrection to eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Item I give to the priest of Crawley foure shillings.

Item I give unto my Nephew the Lord George Fleetwood an hundred pounds a year out of
the lands in — which is now in —- to my daughter in law, And the — —
that — unto my Nephew Sir William Fleetwood, to be disposed of as followeth. — to
Sir William Fleetwood during his life, And after his decease to his Eldest Sonnes Miles
Fleetwood and Charles Fleetwood Sonnes of the late Sir William Fleetwood And each of them
and thereunto for forever a hundred pounds a yeare, And the remainder to be left to Sir William
Fleetwood’s offspring if Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood shall depart this life without issued males.

Item
I give unto my wife five hundred pounds to be paid by Sir William Fleetwood out of
this estate within the first two (?) yeares after the six hundred and fiftie pounds Go (?) —
and paid unto my wife which I give unto her for the which there is a Debt — the
Lord Lieutenant generall Fleetwood and George — Esquire and my Trustee for the
— of the same.

Item I give unto my wife my — Crawley during her life, if
the said Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood shall depart this life without issued males if — —
so long continued which are granted unto me in my Lease.

Item I give unto my first
grandchildren Thomas Douse and Richard Gifford all that my estate in Southam after
the mortgage is paid to be equally divided between them, if the said Gerrard Dutton
Fleetwood shall depart this life without issued males.

Item I give to my daughter
’Elizabeth Kekewich twentie shillings.

Item I give to my daughter Gifford
twentie shillings.

Item my will is that Captaine Thomas Byrd nor —
Talmidge shall have any thing to doe with my grandchild Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood
on his personal estate during his minoritie.

Item my will is that my wife shall have
half in all my estate with my —. All these things performed my debts and —

[Page 2] being first paid and discharged. I give to Sir William Fleetwood and my wife’all
my personal estate, whome I make my Executors of this my last will and testament
Ger. Fleetwood. Sealed and — in the presence of Margaret — —,
Gerrard Whitton, Francis Whitta—-.

This Will was proved at London the six and twentieth day of
February in the year of our Lord God according to the computation of the
Church of England one thousand six hundred fifty seven, before the Judge for
probate of wills and granting adminstration faithfully authorized by the oath
of Sir William Fleetwood and Dame Anne Fleetwood the Relict of the
said Deceased — —- therein named. To whom administration
of all and singular the said — goods, chattels and debts now granted
and committed, They bring first in out of law — with and truly to
administer.

Revised: this sixth (?) day of December 1658 y—: original
will of y—: said Sir Gerrard Fleetwood — —
to and for y—: — of my — Sir William
Fleetwood and Jane Ann Fleetwood —
therein named y—: same having first — provided
by within — and confirmed by — —-
of this —.
Witness — Browne: — — —

Examined and compared
with — original
By — —: Browne:
John Whyte

Sources

1. ↑ Sir Gerrard Fleetwood: Will of Sir Gerrard Fleetwood of Crawley, Hampshire, PROB 11/284/2, 26 February 1658, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England (accessed 11 September 2022). Will
2. ↑ Ancestry: Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 284
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #765334 (accessed 11 September 2022)
   Will of Gerrard Fleetwood, granted probate on 26 Feb 1658. Died about 1657 in Crawley, Southampton, England.

Acknowledgements

Doug Warren created this free-space page for the Will of Sir Gerrard Fleetwood that he transcribed from the copy downloaded from the National Archives.