A note in the parish registers of Kirstead 1663-1812 [PD300/2]: Elizabeth BLAND taken up at Kirstead with seven children was whipped by order of Robert SUCKLING Esqr one of his Ma[jes]ties Justices of the peace, on Saturday the 7th of Feb 1684, & sent home by pas... to Stepney by London, wch she affirmed to be the place of her birth