Munnings S

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S Munnings 23.4.1793 Godwin writes to.

Godwin had been visiting his friend Leonard Munnings who was jailed probably for debt and died soon after on 11.5.1793. His father Leonard grocer of Bildeston Suffolk had married Alice Scott widow of the same parish there 4.3.1741 and was buried there 17.5.1779 in his 56th year, 'formerly an eminent shopkeeper of Stowmarket', his will Norwich 1779. Mrs Leonard Munnings was buried at Bildeston 25.3.1806, but she could have been the mother or the widow of Godwin's friend, (if he was married).. Shadrach Munnings maltster of Stowmarket was in a 1784 directory and had married Mary Munnings at Stowmarket on 10.6.1771. Leonard Munnings had been a Captain in the East Regiment of the Suffolk militia from 1778 to 1781, was committed to the Kings Bench prison 31.10.1780 and discharged 19.12.1780, and was buried St Mary Newington 14.5.1793. Godwin saw Mrs Munnings in Suffolk on 27.9.1803 & 11.9.1805