petitioned the crown to be allowed to buy it at a valuation, and paid the money. Flowerdew, however, stripped it of its lead and carried off a quantity of freestone, whereupon the exasperated parishioners dismantled it. His lands were dispersed on his death, and he left no issue. According, however, to another account, he had a daughter, who married Thomas Skelton. Family Edward Flowerdew was fourth son of John Flowerdew of Hethersett, Norfolk, by Catherine, daughter of William Sheres of Ashwellthorpe. Edward Flowerdew had a brother, William Flowerdew, who married Frances Appleyard, the half-sister of Amy Robsart, first wife of Robert Dudley. Through William and Frances's son, Anthony Flowerdew of Hethersett in Norfolk who married Martha Stanley of Scottow in Norfolk, Edward Flowerdew is the great-uncle of Temperance Flowerdew, Stanley Flowerdew and Mary Flowerdew, who married Dionysis Rossingham and had Ensign Edmund Rossingham, one of the representatives from the Flowerdew Hundred sent to the first General Assembly in Jamestown in 1619. References History of Parliament online - FLOWERDEW, Edward (c.1534-86) of Hethersett and Stanfield Hall, Norf. Year of birth missing 1586 deaths People from Hethersett Alumni of the University of Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple English MPs 1572–1583 Serjeants-at-law (England) 16th-century English judges