See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS See also:

• FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD (1705-1752)

BLOMEFIELD (1705-1752)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English topographer of the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Fersfield, Norfolk, on the 23rd of See also:

• JULY

July 1705 . On leaving See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge in 1727 he was ordained, becoming in 1729 See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of Hargham, Norfolk, and immediately afterwards rector of Fersfield, his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• FAMILY

family living . In 1733 he mooted the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of a See also:

• HISTORY

history of Norfolk, for which he had begun See also:

• COLLECTING

collecting material at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fifteen, and shortly afterwards, while, collecting further See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information for his See also:

• BOOK

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

volume of the History of Norfolk was completed . It was printed at the author's own See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press, bought specially for the purpose . The second volume was ready in 1745 . There is little doubt that in compiling his book See also:

• BLOMEFIELD, FRANCIS (1705-1752)

Blomefield had frequent recourse to the existing See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical collections of Le Neve, Kirkpatrick and See also:

• TANNER, HENRY OSSAWA (1859- )
• TANNER, THOMAS (1674-1735)

Tanner, his own See also:

• WORK

work being to a large extent one of expansion and addition . To Le Neve in particular a large See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share of the See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit is due . When See also:

• HALF

half-way through his third volume, Blomefield, who had come up to See also:

• LONDON

London in connexion with a See also:

• SPECIAL

special piece of See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research, caught smallpox, of which he died on the 16th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1752 . The See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his work was published posthumously, and the whole eleven volumes were republished in London between 1805 and 1810 .