The Fleming-Waterton connection

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Dear John Ravilious and others,
Surtees Society`s Publication
volume 30 pp 229-230 has the following will
CLXXXI Testamentum Roberti Flemmyng
Armigeri

In Dei nomine Amen vicesimo die mensis Aprillis A
D MCCCCLVIII Ego Robertus Flemmyng sepliend in Abbathia Sancti Oswaldi
Item meam palis Item in cera viii d , in pan
viii d Pro Pulsacione vi d Ricardi garetae servienti xx s Conver Item
vii marcas ad inveniendum Un
Residium Magistro Roberto Flem. dominae Beatrici
Waterton et facio i.
This Robert Fleming , armiger was living as a suppliant at the Abbey
of Saint Oswald. His largest bequest appears to have been 7 marks, though I am
unsure as to what. .the 2nd largest bequest of 20 shillings is to his
garret servant Richard, the residue to Master Robert Fleming, Dean of Lincoln and
Lady Beatrice Waterton. The Registers of the Parish Church of Methley by
George Denison Lumb in 1903 page 134 under Rectors of Methley opines that Robert
Fleming Rector of Methley from 1443-1451 and Dean of Lincoln 1451-until his
death in 1483 was possibly the son of Sir Robert Flemyng, knt. of Wath and
Woodhall and that He was the person who died before the above will was probated on
the 18th of July 1459. I think it likely that Robert Flemyng of Wath and
Woodhall was the father of the above testator and that the Dean of Lincoln was
Cecily (Fleming) Waterton`s nephew rather than her brother. Beatrice de Clifford
was the widow of the third Robert de Waterton, being the son of Robert who
married Joan Everingham and grandson of Robert Waterton and her
daughter-in-law Joan`s younger contemporary Cecily Fleming who died about 1422. There is in
addition a document I had a tantalizing glimpse of at Google.com/books In a
book called Miscellany by the Thoresby Society page 83 is discussed An
Agreement among Robert Waterton Esq, Richard Flemming, clerk and Sir Thomas
Flemming, knt. of Wath-upon-Dearn dated 5 December 1407 by which the advowson of the
Church of Wath was granted to Robert Waterton by Sir Thomas Fleming of Wath
(Yorkshire Archaelogical Journal p 375 in a article titled Burgh and Waterton)
Sincerely,
James W Cummings
Dixmont, Maine USA



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