MR. J. E. HARTING OX HAWKING IN NORFOLK. 
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27 Novr. 15G3 John Repps, Walpole iu Marshland 
to [Bassinqboubn Gawdy.] 
p. 5 Sends a crane with two mallards, which is all the fowl they can 
no. 26 get, it is so scarce. Has spoken for knot, which will cost 5s the 
dozen. These fowl are commonly taken at Terrington where has been such 
great loss of sheep, owing to the last storm breaking their banks, that 
fowlers have no leisure to lay for fowl. 
So much for the manuscripts of the family of Gawdy, 1509 — 
1G75. As to the correspondence and documents relating to the 
family of Oliver Lo Neve, of Witchingham, Norfolk, — 1G75 — 
1743 — the name is an old one in the county and in the opinion 
of Mr. Rye probably shows descent from a ‘neif ’ or female or nativa 
villein. The family was not, however, of any great importance in 
the county till a comparatively recent period, for the name does 
not appear among the Inquisitions post mortem till the reign of 
Ilenry VIII., and then without tho Le which was readopted by 
the Heralds. 
For an account of the family, the reader may be referred to 
Mr. Rye’s preface to the Calendar of family papers. It will 
sullico for our present purpose to stat9 that Oliver Le Neve, whose 
brother Peter was the celebrated Norfolk herald and genealogist, 
was born about 1G61 — 62, matriculated at Oxford in January 
1679 — 80, and at the ago of twenty-eight or so was living 
at Mannington Hall. He married Anne, the daughter of 
Sir John Gawdy, thus cementing the friendship of the two 
families. In 1698 he got into a sad scrape. An altercation with 
Sir Henry Ilobart led to a challenge and a duel upon Cawston 
Heath, when Ilobart was killed, and Le Neve had to fly the 
country for some time. His first wife having died, he married for 
his second wife in July, 1707, Elizabeth Sheffield, daughter of 
Robert Sheffield, of Kensington (whose name is still perpetuated 
in ‘Sheffield Terrace’), and settled down at Witchingham. The 
letters received by him, and now printed, were addressed to him 
for the most part at Witchingham or in London, where he 
occasionally sojourned at Mr. Thomas Rose’s, a sword cutler, at 
“The Two Golden Eagles ” in Ludgate Street. His life was that 
of a typical country gentleman of his time. He seems to have 
been devoted to hunting and horseracing, not averse to the 
pleasures of the table, and a great gardener and planter. 
