left Fransham living on potatoes. For nearly three years, from about 1780, he dined every Sunday with counsellor Cooper, a relative of the clergyman, who introduced him to Samuel Parr. From about 1784 to about 1794 he lodged with Thomas Robinson, schoolmaster at St. Peter's Hungate. He left Robinson to lodge with Jay, a baker in St. Clement's. In 1805 he was asked for assistance by a distant relative, Mrs. Smith; he took her as his housekeeper, hiring a room and a garret in St. George's Colegate. When she left him in 1806 he seems to have resided for about three years with his sister, who had become a widow; leaving her, he made his last move to a garret in Elm Hill. In 1807 or 1808 he made the acquaintance of Michael Stark (d. 1831), a Norwich dyer, and became tutor to his sons, of whom the youngest was James Stark the artist. In January 1810 he took to his bed and was carefully nursed, but declined medical help. He died on 1 February 1810, and was buried on 4 February in the churchyard of St. George of Colegate. Works Fransham was called a pagan and a polytheist chiefly on the strength of his hymns to the ancient gods. He annotated a copy of Thomas Chubb's posthumous works, apparently for republication as a vehicle of his own ideas. In his manuscript Metaphysicorum Elementa (begun 1748, and written with Spinoza as his model) he defines God as "ens non-dependens, quod etiam causa est omnium cæterorum existentium." He published: "An Essay on the Oestrum or Enthusiasm of Orpheus", Norwich, 1760, (an anonymous tract on the happiness to be derived from a noble enthusiasm). "Two Anniversary Discourses: in the first of which the Old Man is exploded, in the second the New Man is recognised", London, 1768, (anonymous satires, reviewed in Monthly Review, 1769, xl. 83, and identified as Fransham's on the evidence of his manuscripts). "Robin Snap, British Patriotic Carrier", 1769–70, (a penny satirical print, published in Norwich; 26 numbers, the first on Saturday, 4 November 1769, then regularly on Tuesdays from 14 November 1769 to 30 January 1770, and again 13 February–24 April, also 15 May and 29 May 1770; all, with minor exceptions, written by Fransham; his own copy has a printed title-page,"'The Dispensation of Robin Snap", &c.; "snap" is the local term for the dragon carried about the