streets of Norwich on the guild day.) Legacy He left money to his sister; his books and manuscripts were left to Edward Rigby, and some of them passed into the possession of William Stark. William Saint, his pupil and biographer, obtained his mathematical books and manuscripts. Fransham's manuscripts filled six quarto volumes. Five of these are described by Saint; they contain a few allegorical drawings. They bear the general title 'Memorabilia Classica: or a Philosophical Harvest of Ancient and Modern Institutions.' In the first volume is (No. 2) the original draft of his 'Oestrum,’ and (No. 5) 'The Code of Aristopia, or Scheme of a perfect Government,’ the best known of his writings. He advocates (p. 175) a decimal system of coinage and measures. The second volume, "A Synopsis of Classical Philosophy", embodies his 'Essay on the Fear of Death,’ expressing a hope of a future and more perfect state of being, a topic on which he had written in his nineteenth year. At the end of the third volume is his "Antiqua Religio", including his hymns to Jupiter, Minerva, Venus, Hercules, and others. The fourth volume includes the draft of his "Anniversary Discourses", and others in the same strain. The fifth volume contains thirty numbers of Robin Snap, some of which were worked up in the published periodical. A sixth volume, "Memorabilia Practica", contains a compendium of all the subjects which he taught. Transcriptions of Fransham's hymns to pagan gods may be found online here. The hymns are believed to be the first explicitly neopagan text in English history. References Attribution 1730 births 1810 deaths Freethought writers People from Norwich English modern pagans Modern pagan writers