I have many questions, but this one dictates all of the olthers:

Does anyone here have an idea of how much trust should be placed in Blomefield's History of Norfolk?

I am currently tracing the de Bokenham/de Snetterton family who held the Manor of Old Hall in Snetterton, Shropham, Norfolk.

I first looked in Maudsley's Notes and extracts concerning the Bukenhams or Bokenhams of Norfolk, which is as the name say: a compilation of extracts copied from other sources. He paraphrases or directly quotes large sections of Blomefield, but upon reading Blomefield's text their are many discrepancies - and I've only checked up to page 6 of Maudsley's book so far.

So now I feel that Blomefield must be trustworthy - he actually looked at these old records I think.

Does anyone know if this is so?

If I trust him, then in two paragraphs I have the bones of my family history for 500 odd years. If I don't, well pretty much every other writer I can find has followed him and I don't know where to begin. I am having a hard time finding even a reference to where the records he looked at are now kept, or where he found them originally.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated,

Lewis