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II. Remembrances, 1671–1713
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Some few remembrances of my misfortunes which have atended me since I were maryed (in my unhappy life), which was 14 of November 1671
1671, November 14 Thursday, the i4 of November and Childermas or Cross Day and dreadfully rainey, I was in London pryvatly marryed to Mr Percy Freke by Docter Johnson, my Lord Russells chaplin, in Coven Garden Church in London. My husband was the only son liveing of Captaine Aurthur Frek and grandson to Mr William Freke, the only brother of Sir Thomas Frek of Dorshetshire, who was my grandfather, and his son Mr Ralph Freke [was] my own deer father. And my deer mother was Sir Thomas Cullpepers daughter of Hollingburne in Kentt. Her name was Cicelia Cullpeper, who dyed in or about 1649 and left me, the eldest of five daughters, aboutt six or seven years of age and lyes buryed in the chancell att Hollingburne - where lyes six more brothers and sisters of myne which dyed young and my deer sister, the wife of Sir George Choutt, who lived his widow 12 years and dyed of the small pox, as did her only daughter, and are both inter'd in the chancell in Hollingburne. And affter aboutt 6 or seven years being engaged to my deer cosin Mr Percy Frek and all my three surviveing sisters maryed, viz., Cicelia maryed to Sir Georg Choutt in Kentt, Frances marryed to Sir George Norton att Abbots Leigh neer Bristoll, and Judith, my youngest sister, marryed Collonell Roberti Austen of Tenlerden in Kentt, I, the eldest, Elizabetth, as above, was maryed 14 of November 1671 to Mr Percy Frek withoutt my deer fathers consentt or knowledg in a most dreadfull raynie day (a presager of all my sorrows and misfortunes to mee).
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1 Cross Day, or the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is celebrated on 14 September, not 14 November, and is not traditionally associated with Childermas or Innocents Day. See above, p. 37 n I.
2 The Hollingbourne parish register indicates Cicely died on 6 January 1650/1; her monument, which adds that she was forty-one years of age at her death, names the five surviving daughters. The burial of the youngest, Philippa, is not recorded in the register, nor are many of the earlier deaths of the other siblings. See Introduction, p. 5 and n. 8.
3 William Owtram; 26 June 1673 in the register: above, p. 37 n. 2.
4 Wentworth Dillon, fourth earl of Roscommon: above, p. 38 n. 3.
5 Henry Coventry: above, p. 38 n. 4.
6 See above, p. 38 n. 5.
7 Josiah Child: above, p. 38 n. 6.
8 John Forth, a London alderman from Cripplegate (1668–76), and his brother Dannet, an alderman from Cheapside (1669–76), were master brewers with commissions to farm Irish revenues. They were also among the original stockholders in the Royal African Company (Beaven, Alfred B., The Aldermen of the City of London, 2 vols. [London, 1908–1913], i. 134Google Scholar; ii. 190, 102; Woodhead, J. R., The Rulers of London, 1660–1689 [London, 1965], 71–2).Google Scholar
9 Richard Cooper's manor of Ditcham and Sunworth: above, p. 39 n. 7.
10 Ellen Baldwin; Grace was baptized on 10 August (above, p. 39 n. 8).
11 Frances Freke: above, p. 40 n. 9.
12 George Choute: above, p. 40 n. 10.
13 Cicely was buried on 12 March (above, p. 40 n. 11). Frances: above, p. 40 n. 9.
14 Hollingbourne monument: above, p. 41 n. 12.
15 ‘1712’ in the manuscript.
16 Mary or Frances Thynne: above, p. 41 n. 14.
17 The midwife Mrs Mills is not listed in the Wiltshire Articles of Subscription, nor can she be identified with the Anne Milles in the Highworth parish register.
18 His name does not appear in the Wiltshire Articles of Subscription.
19 Thrush: above, p. 41 n. 16.
20 Bristol Fair is not listed on contemporary maps; the Bristol archivist, J. S. Williams, does not ‘know of any name existing in the past’.
21 Rostellan, the estate of William O'Brien, second earl of Inchiquin: above, p. 42 n. 19.
22 Hackle-bone: hip bone.
23 Anne or Jane Deverell: above, p. 42 n. 18.
24 Percy, age twelve; Ralph, age nine; and John Redman/Redmond, age six.
25 The miscellaneous documents (below, p. 320) note that Austen sold the property back to his father-in-law on 30 June 1675.
26 Atturned: see attornment (above, p. 44 n. 23); Thomas, second Lord Culpeper and Heneage Finch: above, p. 44 nn. 22 and 25.
27 According to Stephen Ellison, Deputy Clerk of the Records, no parliamentary records of the decree exist; nor has the lord chancellor's reversal been documented.
28 The child of George Savile, first marquess of Halifax (1633–1695), and his second wife, Gertrude Pierrepont, whom he married in 1672. Lord Halifax would become lord privy seal and speaker of the House of Lords as well as the author of The Character of a Trimmer (HC, iii. 396–8).Google Scholar
29 Charles II, France, and Holland: above, p. 45 n. 28.
30 Cockerne Pill on the River Avon: above, p. 46 n. 29.
31 Ilfracombe: above, p. 46 n. 29.
32 Lundy Island: above, p. 46 n. 30.
33 Barnstaple: above, p. 46 n. 31; since the Frekes left without official permission, the officer would probably not have been John Jefferys, a captain in the royal navy not listed among the fleet duringjuly to November 1677 (Commissioned Sea Officers, 243Google Scholar; PRO, ADM 8/1).
34 Reports from Falmouth and Deal stress the danger the Algerian men of war posed. The Mary of Cork and the Elizabeth from Falmouth were stopped in August 1677; the Constance from Weymouth was boarded in October (CSPD, 1677–8, 324–5, 395).Google Scholar
35 Alexander Gulpeper represented Lord Culpeper (above, p. 46 n. 32).
36 Great Island: above, p. 47 n. 34.
37 Mary Bernard: above, p. 47 n. 35.
38 Richard, second earl of Barrymore: above, p. 48 n. 36.
39 Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire; Isaac Turner(?): above, p. 49 n. 38.
40 Aftermath of the Rye House Plot; Richard Covett: above, p. 50 n. 39.
41 See above, p. 51 n. 43.
42 Before his death in 1681 Thomas Hungerford held considerable land in the Rosscarbery area; his heir Richard, who married a daughter of Emanuel Moore, gained further property on Inchedowney Island near Clonakilty; John, another son, came into the holdings at Cahirmore (A Census of Ireland, Circa 1659, ed. Séamus Pender [Dublin, 1939], 209; Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, ed. Brady, W. Maziere, 3 vols. [Dublin, 1863–1864], i xl–xliGoogle Scholar; Ffolliott, , 39, 41).Google Scholar
43 Hannington monument and register: above, p. 51 n. 41.
44 East or northeast of the castle towards Ardfield or Clonakilty: above, p. 51 n. 44.
45 Owen MacCarty or Macartie: above, p. 52 n. 45.
46 Long sea and John Clements(?): above, p. 52 n. 46; Goodwin Sands: above, p. 52 n. 47.
47 Brownlow Street: above, p. 52 n. 48.
48 William O'Brien, second earl of Inchiquin: above, p. 42 n. 19.
49 Francis or Arthur Bernard and the Gookins: above, p. 52 n. 49.
50 Heronden estate at Tenterden: above, p. 53 n. 50.
51 Louise de Kéroualle and Charles Lennox: above, p. 53 n. 51.
52 James Scott, first duke of Monmouth: above, p. 54 n. 52; Richard Clark, her servant.
53 See above, p. 54 n. 54.
54 Epsom: above, p. 54 n. 56.
55 Standisti Hartstonge: above, p. 55 n. 57.
56 Mary Mammoni and Mary Sowell: above, p. 56 n. 58. Edward Cheney's daughter Elizabeth was buried in West Bilney on 19 May 1687; the register does not include his wife's name.
57 Edward Butler(?): above, p. 56 n. 59. Henry Capel, Baron Capell of Tewkesbury (1638–1696), would later be a lord justice of Ireland, becoming in 1695 lord deputy. Although his earlier influence on the Irish affairs involving Freke is unknown, he had family links with Ireland: his brother Arthur, first earl of Essex, and his brother-in-law Henry Hyde, second earl of Clarendon, had served as lord lieutenant of Ireland (HC, ii. 6–11).Google Scholar
58 Clark was buried in Bilney on 5 April 1688.
59 The entry should be for the year 1690, when he was buried on 20 May (above, p. 58 and n. 65). The antecedent of ‘they’ is ambiguous. The death of Percy Freke's sister Agnes Crosby has not been dated; her son Percy, however, died a month after Percy Freke's brother-in-law Francis Bernard, who lost his life defending Castle Mahon on 15 April 1690 (Bennett, , 289Google Scholar; Ffolliott, , 35, 36).Google Scholar
60 William landed in Devon on 5 November (above, p. 57 n. 61); James did not join his wife and son in France until two weeks after they had fled (above, p. 57 n. 63).
61 See above, p. 57 and n. 64.
62 The defenders left Rathbarry Castle in October 1642; see Introduction, p. 7 and n. 19 and above, p. 58 n. 66.
63 Had: hat; see her history of the Irish war, above, pp. 145–7.
64 Henry Cruckland was buried in Bilney on 9 November 1693.
65 Mundeford Spelman and John Dochin: above, p. 59 n. 71. Richard Clark was dead by the time of the trial, which W locates in King's Lynn.
66 James Wallbut: above, p. 59 n. 72.
67 See above, p. 60 n. 73.
68 Du Veil and De Veille: above, p. 60 n. 74.
69 William or Benjamin Poole(?): above, p. 60 n. 75.
70 Dr and not Mr in W, but unidentified (above, p. 61 n. 76).
71 Percy Freke represented Clonakilty (above, p. 61 n. 77).
72 Old Head, Kinsale: above, p. 62 n. 78.
73 Freke was high sheriff of Cork; the other chief justice was Richard Pyne (above, p. 62 n. 79).
74 Ealce, not Ailce, in W: Alice, the daughter of Henry Moore, third earl of Drogheda (above, p 62 n. 80).
75 Elizabeth Powerscourt: above, p. 63 n. 81.
76 Alice Moore married Sir Gustavus Hume (above, p. 63 n. 82).
77 Catherine Pyne, mistress of Waterpark: above, p. 63 n. 83.
78 Isaac Townshend(?): above, p. 64 n. 85.
79 Robert Freke: above, p. 64 n. 86; Petronell or Anne Fownes: above, p. 64 n. 87.
80 Goodwin Sands shipwreck: above, p. 65 n. 88.
81 Maudlin and Sittingbourne: above, p. 65 n. 89.
82 Soho: above, p. 65 n. 91. ‘August’ in the manuscript.
83 Usquebaugh, an aqua vitae: above, p. 66 n. 92.
84 Robert, Judith, Elizabeth, and Thomas Austen: above, p. 66 n. 93.
85 An unidentified Lynn attorney: above, p. 67 n. 95.
86 Red Lion Street: above, p. 67 n. 96.
87 Grace and Richard Gethin: above, p. 67 n. 97.
88 George Choute and Robert Austen: above, p. 68 n. 99; the Shepherds: above, p. 68 n. 100.
89 Tunbridge Wells: above, p. 68 n. 101.
90 Malignant fever: above, p. 69 n. 102.
91 Cicely was the seventh sibling buried in Hollingbourne; Grace's monuments are in the chancel of All Saints Church and the South Choir Aisle of Westminster (above, p. 69 n. 103).
92 Anne Richardson died in Honingham on 31 January 1697/8.
93 Minehead: a Bristol Channel port in Somerset, not Devon.
94 A couch.
95 Damask: silk or linen fabric with a figured or patterned weave; glass: mirror; coffoy: caffoy, caffa, an imported fabric or silk cloth comparable to damask.
96 John and Elizabeth Meade: above, p. 72 n. 110.
97 Plumbtree Street: above, p. 72 n. 111.
98 Richard and Ann Broadrepp: above, p. 70 n. 106.
99 Anthony Carter, who was buried on 26 September 1713 in Pentney, where he and his wife Ellen had buried at least two children.
100 Freke also says Percy was born on 28 April (above, p. 73 n. 112); Castle Mahon was the Bernard residence (above, p. 64 n. 84).
101 Judith Austen's older daughter; Freke's maid: above, p. 73, n. 113.
102 Phthisic, a chronic cough, asthma, or lung disease.
103 ‘London’ in the manuscript.
104 ‘A very pleasant regular and spacious’ street on the river side of the Strand between Arundel and Surrey Streets (Hatton, , i. 59Google Scholar) ‘esteemed the best both for Buildings, and Pleasantness of a Prospect into the Thames (Strype, ii. bk. 4, 118), Norfolk Street no longer exists. John was born in Rathbarry (above, p. 74 n. 116). Richard Ferryman: above, p. 82 n. 131.
105 By the beginning of the eighteenth century the spas of Bath were increasingly popular (above, p. 110 n. 202).
106 William did not die on Innocents Day (above, p. 75 n. 117).
107 Ballintubber, near Kinsale.
108 He rented the White House (above, p. 75 n. 119).
109 Stock transactions: above, p. 71 n. 109; government debentures: above, p. 75 n. 120.
110 Elizabeth, the younger daughter of Robert and Judith Austen.
111 The estates of Justin MacCarthy forfeited to Henry, Viscount Sidney (above, p. 77 n. 123).
112 Margaret Fish: above, p. 76 n. 122.
113 John and Charles Turner: above, p. 77 n. 126; Derrylone: above, p. 77 n. 125.
114 The Post-Man (1134) states that bank stock on Tuesday, 1 June, was 131. The stock, which opened the year at 126½, ranged from 129¼ to 132¾ during the month of June.
115 Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), lord protector of England, died on 3 September 1658; the storm, which occurred on 30 August, was later dated by some to coincide with his death (Evelyn, , iii. 219–20 and 220 n. 2).Google Scholar
116 The storm on the night of 26 November 1703, ‘the like not known in the memory of man’ (Luttrell, , v. 363–4Google Scholar), lasted about four hours and did extensive damage in London and especially the coastal areas of southern England (London Gazette [3971], Daily Courant [405], and Post-Man [1213]). Daniel Defoe's account, The Storm (London, 1704)Google Scholar, says that seven ships with a value of £3,000 and twenty men were lost at King's Lynn, another ship was missing, and the damage to buildings in the town was £1,000 (174–5). Paul Richards assesses the loss at six ships and thirty sailors in King's Lynn, 76.Google Scholar
117 very great Through-fare both for Foot and Horse, and is well inhabited, having good built Houses, especially the Western Side' (Strype, ii. bk. 6, 68).
118 Probably Michael Skerry, who married Lydia Betts in Narford on 16 October 1699. The Pentney register bills record the baptisms of four of their children and the burials of two.
119 Freke retains the dating and tense of the passage from W adapted here.
120 HMS Shoreham: above, p. 79 n. 128.
121 Near Clonakilty: above, p. 77 n. 125.
122 Mullson or Molson: above, p. 82 n. 130.
123 Charles Rich: above, p. 83 n. 133.
124 Robert Barker, Thomas Short, and John Goodwyn: above, p. 84 n. 134.
125 Henry Cozens: above, p. 85 n. 138; Tobias Sheldrake: above, p. 85 n. 136.
126 Family of Nathaniel Life: above, p. 85 n. 139.
127 Thomas Ibbot: above, p. 85 n. 140.
128 Henry Towers: above, p. 86 n. 141.
129 John Redman or Redmond was born on 14 April (above, p. 86 n. 142).
130 Thomas England received a Cambridge MA in 1705, the year before he was ordained a priest and signed the Articles of Subscription (Venn, , ii. 104Google Scholar; NRO, DN/Sub 4/2).
131 Verdigris, formed from the exposure of copper to acetic acid or moist air, became the basis of ‘fretting’ or caustic tinctures and ointments used ‘with much discretion’ to treat ulcers and postules (Blount, Thomas, Glossographia [London, 1670], 678Google Scholar; Culpeper, Nicholas, Pharmacopoeia Landinensis [London, 1683], 105).Google Scholar
132 Doctors' Commons on Knightrider Street was the site of the prerogative court of Canterbury where Freke would have gone to prove the will.
133 This and the next two entries are misdated in the manuscript 1705.
134 Charles Nowyes, lord of Ashwood Manor, and copyhold: above, p. 89 n. 147.
135 W, fols. 67r–v: above, pp. 89–90.
136 John Meade: above, p. 91 n. 150.
137 Possibly Richard Pyne's trustee.
138 Holyhead: above, p. 92 n. 151.
139 Joseph Jervois: above, p. 92 n. 152.
140 William Adams: above, p. 93 n. 153.
141 Swaffham sessions; ignoramus: above, p. 96 n. 162.
142 john Dawson, the Manor Farm tenant: above, p. 100 n. 176.
143 Thomas Seife: above, p. 96 n. 165. Sir John Trevor was master of the rolls (above, p. 144 n. 258); W, however, refers to Lord Chief Justice Trevors, who is Thomas Trevor (above, p. 97 n. 166)
144 Charles Turner's wife Mary died on 28 December 1708; he died on 11 December 1711 (Carthew, iii. 129).
145 Henry Towers was buried at North Runcton on 27 May 1709.
146 The manuscript date in the margin includes the year 1707, an apparent misdating.
147 Elizabeth Gyles: above, p. 95 n. 159.
148 Charles Buck: above, p. 103 n. 187.
149 Mr Barnish is the referee in W (above, p. 99 and n. 175); James Hoste: above, p. 100 n. 178; the Crown: above, p. 99 n. 175.
150 Distrain/distress: above, p. 104 n. 188.
151 See above, p. 99 n. 173.
152 John Berney: above, p. 108 n. 196.
153 High Barnet or Chipping Barnet: above, p. 108 n. 197; shoulder-shot: archaic term for a shoulder strained or dislocated.
154 W does not describe Berners as a nearby neighbour; Hatton Berners' will lists no property in the immediate area (PRO, PROB 11/537/269).
155 George Hadley: above, p. 109 n. 199.
156 Katherine Harlackenden: above, p. 93 n. 155.
157 The earlier remembrances note she was bound ‘in a bond of forty pound to the queen to prosecute’. The sum, however, could be related to the ‘parliamentary reward’ of forty pounds given private citizens by 1692 and 1706 statutes for the prosecution and conviction of those accused of various crimes, including theft (Radzinowicz, Leon, A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration, 3 vols. [London, 1948–1957]Google Scholar, it. 57–9; Elizabeth Wells, Bodleian Law Library).
158 Among the inns located on Holywell Hill, the Bull Inn was described by a late seventeenth-century visitor to St Albans as ‘the greatest that I have seen in England’ (History of Hertfordshire, ed. Page, ii. 474).Google Scholar
159 George Norton's brother-in-law Richard Pyne: above, p. 110 n. 204.
160 From Bristol to Malmsbury, through Purton and Highworth to Faringdon, and via Oxford or Abingdon to London; rather than through Marshfield to Chippenham, Marlborough, and Reading (Ogilby, John, The Traveller's Guide [London, 1699], 14–15, 20–4Google Scholar). Ormond Street: above, p. 109 n. 201.
161 Silver flagon: above, p. 110 n. 205.
162 Donative and peculiar: above, p. 113 n. 209; p. 115 n. 216.
163 Letter, W, fols. 74v–y. above, pp. 111–12; glebe: above, p. 115 n. 216.
164 Thomas Tanner: above, p. 117 n. 222. Gehazi, the servant of Elisha who pushes the Shunammite mother away from his master (2 Kings 4:27), is cursed with leprosy when in his greed he deceives Naaman, compromising the trust of Elisha for money and garments (5:20–27). Proctors were trained in Roman and canon law (above, p. 123 n. 228).
165 Arthur Peirse/Pierce: above, p. 119 n. 225.
166 Robert Edgworth: above, p. 128 n. 232. Joyce, who was baptized on 23 December 1698, and Thomas, who was baptized on 18 May 1695.
167 Betts and Wallbut children: above, p. 117 n. 219, p. 59 n. 72; the sisters Mary and Ann Freke are unidentified (above, p. 116 n. 220).
168 Elizabeth, the daughter of Cicely Freke's sister Judith and her husband, James Hamilton (above, p. 128 n. 233).
169 Langley marriage: above, p. 164 n. 319. Robert Ferryman transferred the 7 March 1708/9 bond secured by the East Winch property to Charles Cotton in trust for John Cotton of Cutler's Hall, London (NRO, 12336 30C4).
170 Besides the gazettes (above, p. 154 n. 295), the address appears in Swynfen, John, The Objections of the Non-subscribing London Clergy, against the Address from the Bishop of London (London, 1710)Google Scholar, sigs. A2r–v, and Boyer, Abel, The History Of the Reign of Queen Anne … Year the Ninth (London, 1711), 180–2.Google Scholar
171 Wye, ten miles southwest of Canterbury, was the site of a school established in 1447 by the archbishop of Canterbury John Kempe ‘for the celebrating of divine service, and for the education of youth in this parish’. In the early eighteenth century Lady Joanna Thornhill founded a grammar school for the parish poor (Hasted, , vii. 355Google Scholar; Philipot, , Villare Cantianum, 374).Google Scholar
172 The Holy Bible, illustrated by John Ogilby and printed by John Field, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1660).
173 Four Lees are in A Collection of the Names of the Merchants Living in and about the City of London (London, 1677)Google Scholar, sig. E8v, none by profession and only by address; nor do any appear in the lists of goldsmiths ‘that keep Runing Cashes’.
174 Possibly a mistake for Freke's Middle Temple relative, though the Freke genealogy indicates a John Freke was born in Bristol on 15 July 1647, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Freke and the husband of Sarah Wickham, whom he married in 1672.
175 Robert Austen.
176 William Blyth, listed in the 1690 Lynn poll tax as a beer brewer residing with his wife in Chequer Ward (NRO, KL/C47/12–15), is taxed for property in Kettlewell and Paradice Wards as well as Jewes Lane in the 1693 land tax (KL/C47/8). A Francis and Elizabeth Worrell baptized several children in Swaffham, where she died in 1711.
177 Austen left her younger son only five pounds ‘haveing approved himselfe the whole Course of his Life, the worst the most undutifull and unnatrall in all his words and actions to mee' (PRO, PROB 11/560/201).
178 ‘My neece Austen’ is described in W as Judith Austen's daughter-in-law (above, p. 95); she was Jane Austen, the wife of Robert and daughter of William Strode (CB, iii. 78–9Google Scholar). Presumably the occasion is the birth of their son Robert, baptized in Tenterden on 11 April 1708. Mrs Giels was Judith Austen's cousin Elizabeth Gyles or one of her daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, to whom Austen bequeathed belongings.
179 Moire or moyre, possibly mere or meare: marsh, bog, or swampy ground; also a boundary.
180 Conventicle: an assembly or meeting place especially of Protestant Nonconformists gathered for worship. The Cambridgeshire village of Wisbech was not noted as a centre of dissent.
181 Richard Warner: above, p. 157 n. 300.
182 Great tempest: above, p. 156 n. 299.
183 The Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's older brother Joseph I died on 17 April (Ns); see above, p. 158 n. 302.
184 Louis de France: above, p. 158 n. 303.
185 Essex Street fire: above, p. 159 n. 304.
186 Tax arrears: above, p. 159 n. 305, which correctly cites the figures.
187 William Johnson had baptized a daughter Sarah in Pentney on 10 November 1700 and may be related to Thomas Johnson (above, p. 101).
188 Arthur Bernard: above, p. 160 n. 306.
189 Apparently a Berners of Wiggenhall St Mary. Brig is an older form of bridge (EDD); P. Mason of the Norfolk Family History Society has no doubt about ‘Laire being a Norfolk corruption of Nar’. One possible crossing might be Sechey Bridge. St German's Bridge near the Berners was over the River Great Ouse.
190 Silver cup and cover: above, p. 160 n. 308. A miscellaneous document notes that the chalice and Book of Common Prayer ‘cost me allmost eightt pounds’ (B, fol. 33v).
191 Nicholas Gibbs(?): above, p. 161 n. 309; Richard Taff: above, p. 105 n. 192.
192 Whitpit Brack lease: above, p. 163 n. 319.
193 General session of sewers: above, p. 162 n. 313 and p. 163 n. 314.
194 William Pearson/Peirson: above, p. 163 n. 315.
195 Barnes of St Marys in W (above, p. 163), but Hatton Berners was a commissioner of sewers (above, p. 163 n. 316). The area in question was at the western side of the estate, near what was then called the Wormegay Fen. See also below, p. 314 n. 46.
196 Diana Thomson and Thomas Davy were married in Bilney on 29 January 1701/2; Henry Cross married Frances Johnson in Pentney on 20 August 1704.
197 Julian Branthwait: above, p. 164 n. 318; institution and induction: above, p. 114 n. 210.
198 Mary Ramm: above, p. 194 n. 493.
199 Harlackenden and lotteries: above, p. 189 n. 476.
200 North Street: above, p. 188 n. 474; on Ormond Street near St George the Martyr (above, p. 189 n. 475).
201 Steven Western: above, p. 188 n. 478.
202 The news from the Belgian city of Tournay or Tournai is quoted in the Evening Post (353); John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough: above, p. 147 n. 272.
203 The 1 November 1711 resolution (CJI, iii. 931Google Scholar) appeared in the 15–17 November issue of the Post-Man (2070).
204 The procession of effigies included ‘a Pope, the Pretender, and the Devil between them’. A detachment of fool guards sent to Drury Lane at two in the morning seized the figures (Norwich Gazette [v. 268]; Protestant Post-Boy [34]). Elizabeth I was born on 7 September 1533; her accession was on 17 November 1558.
205 Release: renunciation of a claim or right of action (Jowitt, ii. 1,531, 1,532).
206 In the other version his wife brings the money; see above, p. 190 and n. 479.
207 Henry Cross rented the White House in 1708; Daniel Wallis, a vintner, was made a freeman of Lynn in 1709–10 (Freemen of Lynn, 217).Google Scholar
208 John Whiting: above, p. 190 n. 481.
209 Tower of London lions: above, p. 190 n. 482.
210 Georg August: above, p. 191 n. 483.
211 The Norwich Gazette (vi. 277) states that on Thursday, 17 January, the House of Commons voted Robert Walpole ‘to the Tower, and Expelled him for being Guilty of a High Breach of Trust and Notorious Corruption’. Walpole was charged with using his position as secretary at war to gain a ‘Sum of Five hundred Guineas’ and a ‘Note for Five hundred Pounds more’ from forage contracts supplying troops in Scotland (CJ, xvii. 30Google Scholar). The imprisoned Walpole was reelected from King's Lynn; the House of Commons, however, declared the election void (CJ, xvii. 128–30Google Scholar). Walpole remained in the Tower until 8 July 1712 and would not return to parliament until the next year (Plumb, J. H., Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman, 2 vols. [London, 1956], i. 178–84).Google Scholar
212 General Naturalization Act: above, p. 191 n. 484.
213 Royal deaths: above, p. 192 n. 485. William Wyndham: above, p. 192 n. 485.
214 Charles Buck became vicar of Bacton on 5 October 1711 (above, p. 192 n. 486).
215 See above, p. 192 n. 488.
216 Thomas Palmer was buried on 17 March 1711/2; his widow was Mary Palmer.
217 Probably Mary Penniton of East Walton. Francis Penniton and Mary Carman were married on 19 May 1684 in East Walton, where several of their children were baptized and at least one buried.
218 See above, p. 193 n. 489.
219 Susannah Langley: above, p. 193 n. 490.
220 Catherine Whiting was buried in East Winch on 23 April 1712.
221 William Richardson: above, p. 114 n. 212. High House Manor, along with Westacre Abby, came into the Yallop family through the marriage of Charles Yallop and Helen/Ellen Barkham. He was the son of Sir Robert Yallop and Dorothy, the daughter of Charles Spelman (Blomefield, , ix. 162–3Google Scholar; Clarke, and Campling, , eds., Visitation of Norfolk, 5 [1934], 250).Google Scholar
222 Louisa Maria Stuart: above, p. 194 n. 491.
223 The British-Mercury (326) carried on 22 April the news from Falmouth ‘that the three Transports which exchang'd Prisoners from France, report, that all the English that were Prisoners there, are now cleared’.
224 Freke apparently misidentifies Catherine, wife of the sixth earl of Thanet (above, p. 194 n. 492). The Norwich Gazette (vi. 289) states that on 14 April ‘Peter Gott, Esq; Member of Parliament for Lewes, in West Sussex, was found dead in his Bed, having taken a Dose of Liquid Laudanum, and as a finishing Stroak tyed the Tail of his Shirt about his Neck’. Gott represented Sussex from 1708 to 1710 and Lewes, in West Sussex, from 1710 to 1712 (Holmes, Geoffrey, British Politics in the Age of Anne [New York, 1967], 222, 492 n. 12).Google Scholar
225 Mary Ramm and Goody Kneeve: above, p. 194 nn. 493 and 494.
226 John Pell's name appears among the officials who signed the 1704 Pentney land tax as well as among those officiating at the 1708 Swaffham general quarter sessions (NRO, C/S2/6). He was apparently not educated at university or at the Middle Temple, Gray's Inn, or Lincoln's Inn.
227 Mary, the wife of James Mann, whose daughter Sarah was baptized in Pentney on June 1718.
228 Persivall Hoogan, apothecary, was made a freeman of King's Lynn in 1708–9 (Freemen of Lynn, 216).Google Scholar
229 John Hill and Abigail Hill, Lady Masham: above, p. 195 n. 496.
230 No report has been located among the few July and August issues that exist.
231 Queen's proclamation: above, p. 195 n. 498.
232 Probably Captain John Paul rather than the ship Poole (above, p. 195 n. 499).
233 Mary Ramm is earlier identified as her cook-maid; W states Knopwood died (above, p. 196 and n. 500).
234 Frederick I: above, p. 197 n. 501.
235 See above, p. 197 n. 502 and Henry Sacheverell, p. 198 n. 504.
236 Richard Pyne died in December 1709 (above, p. 197 n. 503).
237 Anne, Catherine, and Elizabeth, none specifically named in his will (above, p. 197 n. 502).
238 Lady Brodrick was probably Alice, the wife of Sir John Brodrick and mother of Alan Brodrick, Lord Midleton (c. 1656–1728), who succeeded Richard Pyne as chief justice of king's bench (CP, viii. 701–2Google Scholar). A Richard Pyne was convicted and then pardoned of manslaughter in 1671 (Morris, , ‘The Pynes of Co. Cork’, 704).Google Scholar
239 On 5 May 1713 a proclamation of peace between England and France was announced with ‘great Solemnity’, the gazettes observe, and greeted with ‘great Rejoicing’ (Flying-Post [3371], Evening Post [583]).
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