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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.
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Anonymous, The Chorography of Norfolk (c.1602: unpublished) [35] Francis Blomefield, Topographical History of Norfolk (1739–45) Blomefield used materials from Peter Le Neve and Thomas Martin of Palgrave.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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Between the 10th and the 19th centuries the hundreds of Norfolk and the boroughs of Norwich, King's Lynn, Thetford and Great Yarmouth were the administrative units of the English county of Norfolk. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.
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 ...