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⁹ SG, DO/R51, transcribed by P. J. Rives Harding.

¹⁰ Erected in memory of their parents in 1654 by Ralph and William Freke as transcribed in John Hutchins, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd edn., rev. William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, 4 vols. (Westminster, 1861–70), iv. 99.

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³¹ NRO, 19375 103X2. On the outside of the document, apparently in Freke's hand, is the notation, ‘Deede of Dowre to the Lady Ann Richerson wch she Injoyed 27 Years’.

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³⁵ Referred to the treasury on 4 June 1693 (CSPD, 1693, 169–70).Google Scholar

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⁴⁷ Mary Carbery noted some of the apparent changes during a visit in the first years of the twentieth century. Nicolaas Velzeboer, whose family owned the immediate property until he sold the uninhabited house ‘in approximately 1985’, has indicated in correspondence that the dwelling long known as the Manor House, and currently part of the Manor Farm owned by Stephen Fry, had been faced in yellow brick ‘at some stage … as the home of a wealthy person’. Reverend Stuart Robert Nairn, The Rectory, Narborough, has also kindly provided the further information about the church.

⁴⁸ A Survey of the Estate of Sir John Freke Bart, in the County of Cork by Thomas Sherrard, 1787. Reverend C. L. Peters generously made available the survey, which is in his safekeeping at The Deanery, Rosscarbery.

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⁵⁷ Reverend George Edward Kent is lord of the manor in the 1845 and 1854 editions of White's Norfolk directory. Educated at Corpus Christi and ordained in 1820, George Kent would become affiliated in 1848 with All Saints, St John's Wood, London (Venn, J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses. Part II: From 1752 to 1900, 6 vols. [Cambridge, 1940–1954], iv. 25).Google Scholar