FLEETWOOD 



3196 



FLEGEL 



Fleet Street. 



Left, bouses on the N. side between Chancery Lane and Temple Bar, as they appeared in 1799; right, the 

 street, as widened, looking E. towards Ludgate Hill and S. Paul's 



printing office in Fleet Street, and 

 here Gorboduc, the first English 

 tragedy, was printed and published. 

 Punch offices were at the N.W. 

 corner of St. Bride's Avenue ; they 

 are now in Bouverie Street. At 

 No. 32 John Murray the first pub- 

 lished Byron's Childe Harold, and 

 John Murray the second, the early 

 numbers of The Quarterly Review. 

 On the site of Samuel Richardson's 

 house in Salisbury Court is the office 

 of Lloyd' s News. Michael Drayton 

 and Cowley lived in Fleet Street ; 

 Samuel Johnson in Bolt Court, 

 Johnson's Court and Gough Square ; 

 Defoe stood in the pillory within 

 Temple Bar in 1703. Our view of 

 the N. side between Chancery Lane 

 and Temple Bar is from a print 

 by W. Capon. The timbered 

 house with overhanging storeys 

 and gabled roof was built in 

 Henry VIII's time and destroyed 

 in 1799. Izaak Walton lived in 

 the house adjoining. The modern 

 view is from H. Simonis's The 

 Street of Ink, 1917. The legend 

 of Sweeny Todd, the demon bar- 

 ber, originated in a tale published 

 in 1840. London's first pillar-box 

 was put up at Ludgate Circus in 

 1855. See London. 



Bibliography. The Highway of 

 Letters, T. Archer, 1893 ; Annals of 

 Fleet Street, E. B. Chancellor, 1912 ; 

 Fleet Street in Seven Centuries, W. 

 G. Bell, 1912 ; A Londoner's Lon- 

 don, W. Whitten, 1913. 



Fleetwood. Urban dist., sea- 

 port, and watering-place of Lanca- 

 shire, England. It stands at the 



< , mouth of the 



Wyre, 9 m. N. 

 of Blackpool, on 

 the L. & N.W. 

 and L. & Y. J.R., 

 of which it is a 

 terminus. It 

 owes its name 

 and prosperity 

 to Sir P. H. 

 Fleetwood, who 



Fleetwood arms 



built quays and rlys., and planned 

 the town in 1836. IV has regular 

 steamer service with the Isle of 



Man and Ireland, and carries on a 

 brisk coasting trade. The fisheries 

 are extensive and much salt is pro- 

 duced for export. Fleetwood has a 

 safe and commodious harbour ; the 

 Wyre Dock covers an area of about 

 10 acres, and has a large .grain 

 elevator. The council owns the 

 electricity works, markets, free 

 library, and recreation grounds, 



commander-in-chief in Ireland 

 from 1652 to 1655, being also lord 

 deputy until replaced by Henry 

 Cromwell. Fleetwood was one of 

 Cromwell's ten major-generals, and 

 sat in his House of Lords. During 

 Richard Cromwell's rule he was 

 also influential. Fleetwood was 

 commander-in-chief when Monk 

 entered London, but at this time 



and a fine esplanade has been con- he hesitated, and was lost. He 



structed. There is also a town hall. 



Market day, Fri. Pop. 19,448. 

 Fleetwood, CHARLES (d. 1692). 



English soldier. A younger son of 



Sir Miles Fleetwood, of Northamp- 

 tonshire, h e 

 was trained 

 for the law. 

 He joined the 

 Parliamentary 



army at 

 outbreak 



the 

 of 



commanded a 



Charles Fleetwood, regiment. In 

 English soldier 1646 he en _ 



After Walker tered the 



House of Commons as M.P. for 

 Marlborough. He went with Crom- 

 well into Scotland in command 

 of the horse, and was present 

 both at Dunbar and Worcester, 

 being at the time of the latter battle 

 in command of the troops in Eng- 

 land. Fleetwood was then made 



did not, as he thought of doing, 

 go over to Charles, while the 

 Parliament, again restored, took 

 from him his command. Although 

 he had taken no part in 

 the trial of Charles I, he was 

 exempted from a complete pardon 

 at the Restoration. He died Oct. 4, 

 1692. In religion a Baptist, Fleet- 

 wood was a zealot, without any of 

 the graces of some of the Puritans. 

 He married, in 1652, Cromwell's 

 the Civil War daughter Bridget, the widow of 

 and afterwards Ireton, but their relations with the 

 Protector were not uniformly 

 cordial, although it is believed by 

 some that the latter at one time 

 intended Fleetwood to succeed him. 

 Flegel, EDUABD ROBEKT (1855- 

 86). German traveller. Born at 

 Vilna, Oct. 1, 1855, he was ap- 

 pointed to a commercial post at 

 Lagos, W. Africa, in 1875, and in 



1879 surveyed the Benue river. In 



1880 he ascended the Niger to 

 Gomba and in 1882 discovered 



the source of the 

 Benue. Return- 

 ing to Europe, he 

 gained the inter- 

 est of high Ger- 

 man officials, 

 and, backed by 

 Bismarck, made 

 another expedi- 

 tion to secure the 

 Benue-Niger dis- 

 trict for German 

 trade. In this, 

 however, , he was 

 forestalled by the 

 British Niger Co. 

 He died on the 

 coast at Brass, 

 Sept. 11, 1886. 



Fleetwood, Lancashire. The quay and harbour 



By courlety of L. & N.W. Rly. 



