Seventeenth Generation

61. On 6 August 1542 Baron Lewis FORTESCUE of Fallapit²² was a Baron of the Exchequer. He signed a will on 26 January 1543/4. He died in 1545. Lewis had his estate probated on 23 October 1545 in P.C.C (Pynnyng 38). Lewis, according to the text, was the 3rd son; it possibly means the 3rd legitimate son in view of the suggestion that one of the older Nicholas brothers was possibly a bastard.

Lewis studied law and was appointed Reader of the Middle Temple in Autumn 1536. On 6th August 1542 he was made 4th Baron of the Exchequer under Henry VIII. He acquired Fallapit through his wife. It Was renamed Castle Hill and seat of the Earl Fortescue.

Elizabeth FORTESCUE of Fallapit (private).

Baron Lewis FORTESCUE of Fallapit and Elizabeth FORTESCUE of Fallapit had the following children:

+98	i.	John FORTESCUE.
+99	ii.	Joane FORTESCUE of Fallapit.
100	iii.	Peter FORTESCUE of Fallapit (private).
101	iv.	Bennett FORTESCUE of Fallapit (private).
102	v.	Philip FORTESCUE of Fallapit (private).
+103	vi.	Nicholas FORTESCUE of Mawgan, Cornwall.
+104	vii.	Thomas FORTESCUE.
+105	viii.	Elizabeth FORTESCUE.
106	ix.	Anne FORTESCUE (private).
+107	x.	Agnes FORTESCUE.
108	xi.	Mary FORTESCUE (private).