MISCELLANEA. I09 



The next records the baptism of John, the son of John Spate- 

 man, on the i8th of October, 1638. The last entry of the family 

 seems to be "John Spateman, Esq., of Road Nook, was buried 

 in Woollen, and affidavit made Jan. 2, 1707." 



The readers of last year's Journal will recollect that Leonard 

 Wheatcroft was married by one of the Spatemans of Road Nook, 

 a magistrate for the district at the time. 



DENBV. 



The mother of John Flamstead, our great Derbyshire astrono- 

 mer, who was born at Denby in 1646, was one of the Spate- 

 man family — a fact not generally known — but I discovered the 

 marriage entry of his parents when transcribing the Registers of 

 Morley in this county some years ago. It is as follows : — 

 " 1645, Novemb' 24th. Stephen fflamsteed, of Darby, Batchelor, 

 and Mary Spadman, of Denby, spinster, were maryed together." 



This entry fully explains the connection of the astronomer's 

 family with Denby. In his own memoirs, printed by W. Hone, 

 in The Every Day Book, vol. i., col. 1091, Flamstead writes: — 

 "I was borne at Denby, 5 miles from Derby, August 19, 1646 — 

 my father having removed his family thither because the sickness 

 was then in Derby." 



There is a house not far from Denby Church called " Flamstead 

 House," said to be his birthplace ; but, according to the best 

 traditions, the astronomer was born at an old stone mansion at 

 the " Crow Trees " by the bridle road leading from Denby to 

 Smalley, demolished about fifty years ago. This must have been 

 the home of the Spatemans, his mother's family. 



I have been very credibly informed that the astronomer's 

 parents held or owned the house occupied by Mr. John Smith, 

 the eminent clockmaker in the Queen Street, Derby, a structure, 

 ivainscotted at least, as early as the commencement of that century. 

 Of the cruel and unjust treatment Flamstead received from the 

 much-belauded, but unprincipled. Sir Isaac Newton, his own 

 memoirs sufficiently testify. The editor has a deed on vellum 

 dated the 3rd of August, 1665, relating to the sale of a house 



