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BLOMEFIELD, FRANCIS (1705-1752)

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BLOMEFIELD, See also:FRANCIS (1705-1752) , See also:English topographer of the See also:county of See also:Norfolk, was See also:born at Fersfield, Norfolk, on the 23rd of See also:July 1705. On leaving See also:Cambridge in 1727 he was ordained, becoming in 1729 See also:rector of Hargham, Norfolk, and immediately afterwards rector of Fersfield, his See also:father's See also:family living. In 1733 he mooted the See also:idea of a See also:history of Norfolk, for which he had begun See also:collecting material at the See also:age of fifteen, and shortly afterwards, while, collecting further See also:information for his See also:book, discovered some of the. famous Fasten Letters. By 1736 he was ready to put some of the results of his researches into type. At the end of 1739 the first See also:volume of the History of Norfolk was completed. It was printed at the author's own See also:press, bought specially for the purpose. The second volume was ready in 1745. There is little doubt that in compiling his book Blomefield had frequent recourse to the existing See also:historical collections of Le Neve, Kirkpatrick and See also:Tanner, his own See also:work being to a large extent one of expansion and addition. To Le Neve in particular a large See also:share of the See also:credit is due. When See also:half-way through his third volume, Blomefield, who had come up to See also:London in connexion with a See also:special piece of See also:research, caught smallpox, of which he died on the 16th of See also:January 1752. The See also:remainder of his work was published posthumously, and the whole eleven volumes were republished in London between 1805 and 1810.

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