1581 PHILIP FREAKE

1581   PHILIP FREAKE, (Butcher).

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The Freake family originally came from Wymeswold, co. Leic., and settled here early in the sixteenth century. The above alderman appears to have been a son of Humphrey Freake of Leic. 1547. He was born about 1530, admitted free of the borough 1552, was a coroner in 1570; married and left issue. He purchased land from Henry earl of Huntingdon, later known as "Freakes' ground," which property was eventually acquired by the corporation.

According to the Hall Book of the period AId. Freake was buried 19 February 1587,8. His remains were interred at St. Nicholas,' where the register, an imperfect transcript, records the date in error as 16 May 1586. His will, now partly illegible, was proved at Leic. in 1588.