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Surname	Woodruffe	Alternative Surname
First Name	Francis	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism	c1657	Flourished
Year of Death
Biographical Details	The son of William Woodruffe, a yeoman, he was apprenticed to John Woodruffe on 16 January 1672. In the account-book of Sir Charles Kemeys (in Gunnis’s possession in 1966) is a payment to Francis Woodruff for a chimneypiece for an unnamed house (2). Woodruffe signed an architectural monument to Edward Cotton, described by Pevsner as having two black columns, an open scrolling pediment and no figures (1). Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 442-3; Webb 1999, 36 Archival References: Masons’ Co, Court Book, 1677-94, fol 38r