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