The Revd James Woodforde, painted by his nephew Samuel Woodforde, RA (Image: Newsquest Archive)

Rood screen paintings in All Saints parish church, Weston Longville, parson Woodforde's parish (Image: Eastern Daily Press)

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The clergyman was a highly competent home-brewer from his early twenties and perhaps earlier, probably having been trained by his father at his own parsonage in Somerset.

In his diaries, he recorded his Norfolk parishioners' appreciation of the strong beer he served to them at his tithe frolics.

But while he was confident making beer, Parson Woodforde -........

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