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The most successful attorney in King's Lynn in the eighteenth century. The son of a farmer at Fransham, he set up his practice on completion of his articles in 1733, became a freeman of King's Lynn by the end of the year, was elevated to the council on the same day, and married into a local gentry family in the following year. His outstanding abilities soon brought him a large clientele. While still in his twenties he was acting for the second viscount Townshend and Sir John Turner of Warham, and was deputy clerk of the peace. By mid-career he was acting as 'man of business' to many of the landed families of north-west Norfolk, not only as an attorney but often as land agent and steward of their manors - being described as 'the greatest and cleverest court keeper in England' in 1768. He became comptroller of customs at King's Lynn in 1754, and clerk of the peace in 1760.
Throughout his life he purchased property, eventually accumulating estates at Stradsett, Crimplesham and Fincham, Gayton Thorpe and East Walton, Grimston, and Gaywood, Mintlyn and Bawsey. Although he had manor houses at Stradsett and Gaywood, he continued to live at King's Lynn, where he was mayor in 1745, 1764, 1777, and 1786. He had three daughters - Pleasance and Hester who married Thomas Bagge and Samuel Browne, both prominent Lynn merchants, and Sarah, the only one to survive him, who married Anthony Hamond of Westacre. He died worth approximately £100,000 in land and investments.
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BL/CS 1 Clients' Papers and Correspondence
BL/CS 1/1 George Clay's Bankruptcy
BL/CS 1/2 Davy of Ingoldisthorpe
BL/CS 1/3 Emerson of Burnham Thorpe
BL/CS 1/4 Captain Richard Gardiner and Elizabeth Tayler
BL/CS 1/5 Elizabeth Goodwyn's Trust
BL/CS 1/6 Sir Thomas Hare of Stow Bardolph
BL/CS 1/7 Margaret Hawley of King's Lynn
BL/CS 1/8 Robert Knopwood of Threxton
BL/CS 1/9 Revd Thomas and Elizabeth Lowe
BL/CS 1/10 William Mason of Necton
BL/CS 1/11 William Paston of Appleton
BL/CS 1/12 Sir Charles Peyton of Grimston
BL/CS 1/13 Joseph Phillips of Bridgnorth
BL/CS 1/14 Townshend of Honingham
BL/CS 1/15 Townshend of Raynham
BL/CS 1/16 Trinity Hall Cambridge
BL/CS 1/17 Sir John Turner of Warham
BL/CS 1/18 Walpole of Houghton
BL/CS 1/19 Walpole of Wolterton
BL/CS 1/20 Williams and Lloyd (Leheup Trust)
BL/CS 1/21 George Wright of Ashwicken and Leziate
BL/CS 1/22 Cyrill Wyche of Hockwold
BL/CS 2 Correspondence and Papers as Comptroller of Customs
BL/CS 3 Correspondence and Papers as Alderman and Mayor of King's Lynn
BL/CS 4 Miscellaneous Correspondence and Papers
BL/CS 5 Legal practice and Clerk of the Peace
BL/CS 5/1 Law Notebooks
BL/CS 5/2 Accounts and Miscellanea
BL/CS 5/3 Apprenticeship Indentures
BL/CS 5/4 Cases and Opinions
BL/CS 5/5 Sale Particulars
BL/CS 5/6 Clerk of the Peace
BL/CS 5/7 Appointments
BL/CS 6 Estate Papers
BL/CS 6/1 Stradsett
BL/CS 6/2 Gaywood and Mintlyn
BL/CS 6/3 Grimston
BL/CS 6/4 East Walton
BL/CS 6/5 Gayton Thorpe
BL/CS 6/6 Estate and Financial Correspondence
BL/CS 6/7 Accounts, Bills and Receipts
BL/CS 7 Title Deeds
BL/CS 7/1-13 Stradsett, Fincham and Crimplesham
BL/CS 7/14-19 Gaywood and Mintlyn
BL/CS 7/20-27 Grimston
BL/CS 8 Personal
BL/CS 8/1 Accounts
BL/CS 8/2 Family
BL/CS 8/3 Personal Miscellanea
BL/CS 8/4 Other Branches of Case family
BL/CS 8/5 Hepburn and Harvey
BL/CS 8/6 Younge and Burslem
BL/CS 8/7 Browne
BL/CS 9 Politics
BL/CS 10 Miscellanea
BL/CS 11 Bradfer-Lawrence Notes and Transcripts
BL/CS 11/1 Notes
BL/CS 11/2 Calendars and Transcripts