Blickling Hall

Pushing my luck with this one but I suppose it can be related to the English maritime empire of Elizabeth I and James I.

Although much is made of - to my mind - the rather tenuous connection with Ann Boleyn at Blickling (there seems doubt as to whether she was really born there and not at Hever), the current impressive house you see here is the creation of Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (c.1560 to 1625).

He was a judge and politician, admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 10 August 1575, and called to the Bar in 1584. He was Member of Parliament for St Ives, then for Yarmouth in 1597 and 1601, and for Norwich from 1604 to 1611.

He made the transition between the Tudor and Stuart regimes adroitly and was Attorney General for England and Wales between 1606 and 1613, and then to 1625 he was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

As a leading member of James'regime he had the immensely important roles of Lord Chancellor to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and then Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Charles, Prince of Wales (later the ill-fated Charles I).

He spent the rewards of office well as can be seen here.