1. A.S. Bicknell, Excerpta Biconyllea, A Forgotten Chancellor And A Forgotten Knight: Notes For A History Of The Somersetshire Family Of Biconylle (Taunton, Somerset:Barnicott & Pearce, 1900).

2. Thomas Bicknell, A History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family and Some Collateral Lines of Normandy, Great Britain and America (Providence:T.Bicknell, 1913). This genealogy is scant in citing its sources, but it repeats the same lineage as provided by A.S. Bicknell's work of 1900 and therefore probably relied upon that work or an unknown common source.

3. A.S. Bicknell, pg. 6

4. A.S. Bicknell, pg. 2

5. A.S. Bicknell, pg. 7. And, John Collinson, The History & Antiquities of Somerset (1791), Page regarding Bickenhall parish found in the parish files at the Somerset County Historical Library, Taunton Castle, Taunton, Somerset.

6. A.S. Bicknell and Thomas Bicknell.

7. R.A. Sixsmith, Staple Fitzpaine and the Neroche Forest
(England: H. G. Mounter & Co.,Ltd., 1958)

8. A.S. Bicknell and Thomas Bicknell.

9. Collinson, page regarding Bickenhall parish.

10. Collinson, page on Bickenhall parish.

11. Subsidy Rolls, Somerset Records Society 3, 1889.

12. Transcript on file at Somerset Historical Library, Taunton:

13. Collinson, page on Bickenhall parish.

14. Mildred Campbell, The English Yeoman Under Elizabeth and the Stuarts (London:Merlin Press, 1942), page 17.

15. A.S. Bicknell, Pedigree Chart.

16. A.S. Bicknell, Pedigree Chart

17. History of the County of Somerset, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, Edited by C.R. Elrington, University of London,Institute of Historical Research, (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1978). Volume IV Edited by R.W. Dunning re South Petherton Hundred, Barrington Parish, pages 111-121.

18. Victoria History of the Counties of Somerset, Vol. 1 (1906) Although the Victoria History of the Counties of Somerset, Vol. 4, pg. 114 states it was not expressly mentioned in 1086, but was probably a part of the royal manor of South Petherton.

19. Barrington Parish File, Somerset Historical Library, Taunton Castle, Taunton.

20. Henry VIII (15th year), Tithing for Somerset (E179 169/145)

21. Exchequer KR Subsidy Rolls, Lay Series, Vol. VI, Somerset

22. Henry VIII (30th year). Heads of South Petherton Hundred, Muster Roll (E101 59/22).

23. Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Vol. 4, page 116.

24. Henry VIII (35th year), Tithing for Barrington (E179 170/204)

25. Edward VI (3rd year), Tithe of Barrington (E179 170/237)

26. Edward VI (5th year), Tithing (E179 170/247)

27. Elizabeth I (11th year) Muster Roll, Barrington parish, South Petherton Hundred, Muster for County of Somerset (SP 12/55).

28. Elizabeth I (13th year), Tithing for Barrington (E179 171/284)

29. Elizabeth I (24th year), Tithing for Barrington (DD/SF 3948)

30. Elizabeth I (35th year), Tithing for Barrington (E179 256/4)

31. Elizabeth I (36th yr.), Tithing for Barrington (E179 171/310)

32. Thomas Bicknell, page XVII.

33. Elizabeth I (38th year), Tithing for Barrington, per Thomas Bicknell, page XVII. I was unable to locate this subsidy on the rolls index.

34. Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Vol. 4, page 116 gives cite SRO D/P/barr 13/2/1 which is actually the Poor Rates Book for Barrington Parish, 1625-1702. In the same box however was a 1621 list (SRO DD/HI 459) that contains a reference to "Farmer Bicknell" and his 100 acres.

35. SRO DD/TMP Box 2. 'Extract of Lay Subsidy Roll. 1st payment of the 4th subsidy granted to our late Queen Elizabeth at Court of Parliament 1601. Taxed by Sir George Speke, Knight and Henry Walrond, Esq. by virtue of H.M. Commission Robert Henley of Winsham, Gentleman appointed collector.'

36. PCC Reference, 80 Wood (Probate 11/118). Also, referred to by Thomas Bicknell.

37. Thomas Bicknell, page XIX. Complete transcription in my file.

38. SRO DD/HI 459. Listed incorrectly in Victoria History of Somerset, Vol. 4 as SRO D/P/Barr 13/2/1. A photocopy of this list is in my document file.

39. PCC Reference 27 Savile (Probate 11/139-140).

40. James I (20th year), Tithing of Barrington (E179 171/353).

41. Thomas Bicknell, page XX.

42. Inquisition Post Mortem, Chancery Series II 687/155.

43. SRO D/D/cd 81. I have obtained a microfilm copy which unfortunately was shot at two pages per frame rather than one. As a result the handwriting is quite difficult to read. I have generated two photocopies from the microfilm, but they are proving to be a separate full time project.

44. Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Vol. 4, Page 116.

45. SRO DD/PM. A copy of the transcription is in my document file.

46. Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Vol. 4, Pages 116-117.

47. SRP D/P/barr 13/2/1. This is the cite erroneously given for the land holders' list for 1601.

48. Campbell, pages 82-84.

49. T.G. Crippen, The Story of Non-Conformity in Somerset, as published in the Somerset County Express, 10/25/13 -7/11/14.

All references to this series are from a full transcription on file at the Somerset Historical Library, Taunton.

50. Crippen.

51. T.H. Peake, Somerset Clergy & the Church Courts in the Diocese of Bath & Wells, 1625-1642. Dissertation submitted for the degree of Master of Literature in the University of Bristol July 1978. As of 11/91, Mr. Peake was a retire school teacher living outside of Taunton, Somerset. 0823 331 854.

52. Crippen.

53. Crippen.

54. Crippen.

55. Crippen.

56. Crippen.

57. Crippen.

58. Peake, pages 445-447. From Somerset Assize Orders, 1629-1640, SRS 65, Edited by T.G. Barnes (1959), pages 14-15.

59. Peake, page 426.

60. Peake, page 469.

Also, reference to George Speke and the Bicknell family from Victoria History of the County of Somerset, Vol. 4, page 116.

61. Crippen.

62. Crippen.

63. Crippen, and Peake, pages 471-472.

64. Crippen.

65. Crippen.

66. Crippen.

67. Everett S. Stackpole, Lucien Thompson and Withrop S. Meserve, History of the Township of Durham, New Hampshire, (1913). Reprinted by New Hampshire Publishing Co., Somersworth NH at part of the New Hampshire Historical Editions Series (1973), (herein after "History of Durham"), page 221.

68. History of Durham, pages 221-222.

69. History of Durham, page 222.

70. Peake, pages 358-359.

71. Peake, page 359.

72. Peake, pages 357-358, 388. History of Durham, pages 221-222.

73. Peake, page 388, citing SDNQ XII (1911) page 57.

74. Peake, page 425, citing SRO DD/CA 259.

75. Peake, page 425.

76. Peake, pages 357-359.

77. Peake, page 425.

78. Peake, pages 358-359.

79. Peake, pages 358-359. From SRO D/D/CA 301:60, of which I have a microfiche and hard copy in my document file.

80. Peake, page 359.

81. Kew Public Records Office, Kew Surrey, CO 1/32/9-15.

82. Thomas Bicknell, citing "historian" General Lovell.

83. Thomas Bicknell, and Weymouth Land Grants 279, 281.

84. Lyman V. Rutledge, The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend, (Barre, MA:Barre Publishers, 1965), page 39.

85. History of Durham, page 222.

86. Rutledge, page 39.

87. Peake, pages 358-359.

88. John Scribner Jenness, The Isle of Shoals: An Historic Sketch, (New Hampshire:Peter E. Randall, 1975), page 144.

89. The Isle of Shoals are a granite cluster of nine islands less than ten miles off the New Hampshire coast at the mouth of the Piscatagua River and the inlet leading to Portsmouth. The largest island, Hog Island, accounts for almost half of the 200 acres that comprise the Shoals. In the early colonial period the Shoals prospered as a commercial hub. Commercial sailing vessels arriving along the Maine/New Hampshire coast, in search of such New World commodities as timber and furs, saved valuable time and avoided the dangers of a mainland coast approach by anchoring off the Isle of Shoals where goods could be loaded and unloaded by coastal shuttles. Between 1621 and 1623, a certain David Thompson convinced many fishermen to relocate to the Shoals in that they lay closer to the cod fishing grounds by six to twenty miles than the mainland. Another advantage to the Shoals was that they're relative remoteness provided security from attack by local indigenous peoples and hands on control by the colonial magistrates. At one time the Shoals supported a population of between 200 to 600 people. Appledore Township had a fresh water supply from rainwater collected in the granite fissures of its 70' elevation. The island's top soil, however, was very thin and not agriculturally viable. In the 1680's Appledore Township was abolished. While I have no firm information on the reason, it may be due to a general political shake up in the colonial government after the Glorious Revolution (1688). The Isle of Shoals currently provides the setting for Cornell University's marine biology center. Per telephone conversation with Bob Wheeler of the Isle of Shoals Steamship Company, 315 Market St. Portsmouth, NH. (603) 432-5500. The best source of information is said to be the Isle of Shoals Historical Association. Contact Robert Tuttle 174 Wednesday Hill Road, Lee, NH 03824. Ferry tour season is May through September.

90. Jenness, page 145. The Reverends Brock and Tuck are also said to have ministered on the Shoals. Rev. Tuck was buried there. Mr. Wheeler of the Isle of Shoals Steamship Co. speculated that Rev. Hull would probably have been buried on Star Island (70 acres), but my notes do not indicate as to why he was of that opinion. Mr. Wheeler also stated that decedents of Rev. Hull took the tour recently and left a long statement in the guest registry. Since my visit was out of season (May through Sept), my personal visit to the Shoals will have to wait.

91. Rutledge, page 39.

92. History of Durham, page 222, and Peake, page 263.

93. History of Durham, page 222, and Peake, page 263. Although Rutledge gives the date of 1650 at Rutledge, page 39.

94. Peake, pages 358-359.

95. History of Durham, page 222.