Blount, THOMAS (1618-79), was called to the bar, but lived and died a country gentleman on Orleton, his estate in Herefordshire. A zealous Catholic, he was author of some sixteen works, the best known being Ancient Tenures of Land and Jocular Customs of some Manors (1679; new ed. 1815).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 239
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