Person:Henry Blomefield (1)

The following is from p206 of Norfolk archaeology, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to the ..., Volume 2:

"Henry Blomefield of this parish, Gent., died June the first, [1732] between the hours of five and six in the morn, of the small pox, and was buried at three of the clock in the morn, June ye 2nd, in the south aisle, at the south door. He was a man of strict probity and integrity, of great piety towards God and love to his family, who practised what he declared, and declared what he practised, giving an example of goodness to those that knew him, by whom he died much lamented; but by none more than by me, Francis Blomefield, Priest, Rector of this parish, his eldest son." The will of Henry Blomefield is dated 27 May, 1732. It contains a particular distribution among his children of divers "Christening Spoons," and other plate. He charges his son Francis with a debt of more than 300 pounds which the testator had borrowed and lent him at the time of his taking the degree of B.A., or had paid for the purchase of the turn in Fersfield living, and otherwise laid out for him.