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The likeness of Blomefield depicted in the form of the astronomer John Flamsteed, whom he was said to resemble, 1805 [note 1]. Rev. Francis Blomefield (23 July 1705 – 16 January 1752), FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.
Volume 9 of An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Containing a Description of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, with the Foundations of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Chantries, and Other Religious Buildings (2 ed.). W. Miller.
An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. (on the Internet Archive): volume 1 volume 2 volume 5 volume 7 volume 8 volume 9 volume 10 volume 11. The Introduction and volumes 1–6 are available as texts on Wikisource. Chambers, John (1829). A general history of the county of Norfolk; Cooke, George Alexander (1820).
Anonymous, The Chorography of Norfolk (c.1602: unpublished) [35] Francis Blomefield, Topographical History of Norfolk (1739–45) Blomefield used materials from Peter Le Neve and Thomas Martin of Palgrave. [36] Charles Parkin worked to complete the history. [37]
Jone, a daughter, baptised in January 1563/4 at home by the midwife, [13] buried on 22 January 1563/4 at St. George Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [ 14 ] The couple's monument survives, and is located in the same chapel as the monuments of Robert Suckling , also a Norwich politician, and his son Sir John Suckling , who was knighted in ...
The historic main house, Old Crostwight Hall, was considered as a project by the Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust but was instead rebuilt by a developer. [22] The house has sometimes been called 'Crostwick Hall', for instance in Parkin's Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (1810), where it is called "an agreeable old ...
In the reign of King James I it was held by the Rich family and in 1614 Sir Robert Rich (1559–1619) (afterwards Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick) presented [24] as lord; His son Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1587–1658) "of Buckenham Tofts" [25] served as "Lieutenant of Norfolk", evidenced by Ewing (1837) by the fact that ...
William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1835 edition) says of Thurning: [14] THURNING, or Thirning, is a parish of dispersed houses, 6 miles (9.7 km) S. of Holt, and 4½ miles N. of Reepham, with 140 inhabitants and about 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) of land. W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq., is lord of the manor, (fine arbitrary.)