John Buxton, Norfolk Gentleman and Architect: Letters to His Son, 1719-1729Letters written by John Buxton (1685-1731), son of Robert Buxton (1659-1691) and Elizabeth Gooch (1664-1730), to his son, Robert Buxton (1710-1750). John was born 15 September 1685 in Wenhaston, Suffolk. He married his cousin, Anne Gooch (1691-1741), daughter of Clement Gooch and Sarah Herne. They had twelve children. |
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... century . Death rates rose through the seventeenth century with periodic epidemics , especially in crowded towns . Smallpox became the most common and lethal disease of young children in the early eighteenth century . Isolation was the ...
... century . Death rates rose through the seventeenth century with periodic epidemics , especially in crowded towns . Smallpox became the most common and lethal disease of young children in the early eighteenth century . Isolation was the ...
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... century and in the nineteenth century . It survives today . Burke's and Savills , p . 107 ; Pevsner , Norfolk 2 , pp . 315–6 . A house had been built at Bixley in the sixteenth century by Edward Ward of Postwick . Its early - eighteenth - ...
... century and in the nineteenth century . It survives today . Burke's and Savills , p . 107 ; Pevsner , Norfolk 2 , pp . 315–6 . A house had been built at Bixley in the sixteenth century by Edward Ward of Postwick . Its early - eighteenth - ...
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... century ; Gregories a grand baroque mansion by Thomas Milner , enlarged in the late eighteenth century and burned down in 1813 ; Wilton Park was an old house remodelled in the later eighteenth century and again in 1803-5 . The last ...
... century ; Gregories a grand baroque mansion by Thomas Milner , enlarged in the late eighteenth century and burned down in 1813 ; Wilton Park was an old house remodelled in the later eighteenth century and again in 1803-5 . The last ...
Contents
THE LETTERS | 33 |
A Catalogue of Robert Buxtons Books 1720s | 173 |
B A Calculation of John Buxtons Personal Fortune c 1710 | 180 |
Copyright | |
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