A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1867. 11 Outwell was probably the birthplace of Robert Wells or Steward (d. 1557), the last Prior and first Dean of … Cambs. (1900). White, Dir. Norf. (1883), s.v. Upwell. 'Wells in Norfolk' ( D.N.B.). His father Nicholas was of …