Mary Miller is a retired scientific secretary with a long term interest in archaeology and local
history. She has published a number of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk village chronicals based on
18th and 19th century newspapers.
Terry Miller has retired from a career as a plant cytogeneticist. As an amateur archaeologist with
the Great Chesterford Archaeology Group he was responsible for the excavation of the RomanoBritish
temple precinct at Great Chesterford, Essex.
As only limited details of a few members of the Southwell family of Woodrising, Norfolk,
England, have been published. This study attempts to redress this situation by bringing together
details of the wider family and its rise and fall during the 16th and 17th centuries. Although the
family base was in the small Mid-Norfolk village ofWoodrising it played a significant role in
both the adrninistartion and society of Tudor England
