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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood + from A.D. 46 to 1884 + + +Author: William Finch-Crisp + + + +Release Date: December 13, 2012 [eBook #41618] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRONOLOGICAL RETROSPECT OF THE +HISTORY YARMOUTH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the third edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>THIRD EDITION—EXTENDED AND +IMPROVED</i>.</p> +<h1>Chronological Retrospect<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OF THE</span><br /> +History of Yarmouth<br /> +and Neighbourhood,<br /> +<span class="smcap">From</span> A.D. 46 TO 1884,</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">CONTAINING +ABOUT</span><br /> +5,000 Important Local Events, &c.;<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND AN</span><br /> +ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MAYORS.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Shield of Yarmouth" +title= +"Shield of Yarmouth" +src="images/p0s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<blockquote><p>“It is to Chronology that History owes its +use and beauty; as being without it a mere chaos, a jumble of +facts confusedly heaped together, and consequently capable of +affording neither pleasure nor instruction.”—<span +class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="gapmediumline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">By WILLIAM FINCH-CRISP,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Author of</i> +“<i>Printer’s Business Guide</i>,” +“<i>Printer’s Book of Reference</i>,”<br /> +“<i>Punctuation Simplified</i>,” “<i>Handbook +to Angling</i>,” <i>&c.</i>, <i>&c.</i></p> +<div class="gapmediumline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Great Yarmouth:<br /> +WILLIAM FINCH-CRISP, No. 20, ALMA PLACE.<br /> +<span class="smcap">London</span>: J. <span +class="smcap">Haddon</span> & Co., 3, <span +class="smcap">Bouverie Street</span>, E.C.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<blockquote><p><a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>’Tis well to wander back at times<br /> + Through Memory’s faded Halls,<br /> +And gaze upon the many Scenes<br /> + That hang upon its Walls.</p> +</blockquote> +<h2><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>PREFACE.</h2> +<p>Few words only are necessary to introduce this Third Edition +to our readers, beyond expressing a hope that the contents will +meet with general approbation, and that much pleasure will be +derived from its perusal, now and for many years to come. +We would ask, as a <span class="GutSmall">SPECIAL FAVOUR</span>, +in order to ensure a wider circulation, that our friends will +recapitulate the comments of the Press, by recommending this +<i>History of Yarmouth</i> as “worthy of a place in every +library.” It is seven years since the Second Edition, +without supplement, was published.</p> +<p>No greater honour could have been conferred upon the Author +than when the Heir Apparent to the Throne of England (His Royal +Highness the <span class="smcap">Prince of Wales</span>, K.G.), +on his visit to Yarmouth in 1882, expressed his pleasure, through +Colonel Teesdale, in the acceptance as <a name="page4"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 4</span>a present, of a copy of this History; +and the placing of this work, with supplement (A.D. 46 to 1879) +in the principal stone of the New Town Hall in 1880 by the then +Mayor (C. C. Aldred, Esq.) was also gratifying.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Edward Birkbeck</span>, <span +class="smcap">Esq.</span>, M.P., writing to us from the House of +Commons, on March 19th, 1884, says:—“I do not think +my name is worthy of having a book dedicated to me, but I shall +nevertheless be proud to have it placed where you +suggest.” The people of Yarmouth will endorse our +sentiments when we say, for his zeal and untiring energy in +promoting many special objects in the “good old +town,” that he is worthy of greater eulogiums than we can +bestow, and therefore tender our best thanks to that gentleman +for his courtesy in allowing this volume to be dedicated to +him—a privilege that was also given us in a first issue, by +his predecessor in the Imperial Parliament, the lamented <span +class="smcap">Colonel Duff</span>. Neither must we forget +to express our obligation to a select list of subscribers to the +work.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Great Yarmouth</span>, <span +class="smcap">April</span>, 1884.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page5"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 5</span><span class="GutSmall">TO</span><br /> +EDWARD BIRKBECK, ESQ.<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">M.P. FOR NORTH NORFOLK,</span><br /> +THIS BOOK<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">(WITH PERMISSION)</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">IS</span><br /> +MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">HIS OBEDIENT AND HUMBLE +SERVANT,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: right">WM. FINCH-CRISP.</p> +<h2><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>LIST OF +MAYORS.</h2> +<p><i>The following dates refer to the time of election</i>, +<i>November</i> 9<i>th</i>, <i>after the year</i> 1836.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Abbon Robert</p> +</td> +<td><p>1749</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Albertson John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1688</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Aldred C. C.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1856, ’65, ’79, ’81, ’82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Artis James</p> +</td> +<td><p>1710</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Artis Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1727</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baker John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1832</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baker Richd.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1754, ’60</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barber Robt. D.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1874</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barker Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1800</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barnard Wm.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1883</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barnby J. Eager</p> +</td> +<td><p>1875</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barnby John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1762</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bernard Chris.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1740*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Barth W.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1824, ’26, ’36*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bateman Dr. G.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1829</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bateman Dr. T.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1819</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bird John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1730</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Borrett Henry</p> +</td> +<td><p>1711*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bracey Andrew</p> +</td> +<td><p>1714</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bradford Thos.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1685</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brightin Chris.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1721</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Browne W., sen.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1744</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Browne William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1709, ’33, ’48, ’56</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Burroughs W. N.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1846</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Butcher William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1753</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cherry James</p> +</td> +<td><p>1853</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cobb Simon</p> +</td> +<td><p>1838</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Colby Dover</p> +</td> +<td><p>1796</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Colby E. H. H.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1878</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cooke Thomas</p> +</td> +<td><p>1732</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cory Robert</p> +</td> +<td><p>1803</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cory Robert, jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1815</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Costerton Chas.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1825</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Coteman Joseph</p> +</td> +<td><p>1704, ’45, ’57, ’59</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Diver Charles</p> +</td> +<td><p>1877</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Eagle Benjamin</p> +</td> +<td><p>1702*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ellys Anthy, jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1705</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ellys Anthy.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1708, ’19</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ellys Thomas</p> +</td> +<td><p>1739</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>England Benj.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1703</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>England George</p> +</td> +<td><p>1715</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fenn Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1686</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ferrier Rich.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1706, ’20</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ferrier R., jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1724</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ferrier Robert</p> +</td> +<td><p>1750</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fielding B.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1787, 1810</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher J.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1767, 1802, ’11</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher Jas.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1774, 1809</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1766, ’78, ’80, ’94, 1806</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher W., jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1786, ’99</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher J. jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1788, ’97</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fisher J. Goate</p> +</td> +<td><p>1820</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Fuller Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1707</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gooch Henry</p> +</td> +<td><p>1772</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gourlay David A.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1849</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Harmer Wm.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1741</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Horsley Thomas</p> +</td> +<td><p>1738</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ireland John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1716</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Jay Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1839</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Johnson William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1841</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Killett Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1746</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon Edmund</p> +</td> +<td><p>1792</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon Sir E.*</p> +</td> +<td><p>1795, ’98, 1812</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon E. K.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1807</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lacon Mortlock</p> +</td> +<td><p>1828</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lancaster Robt.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1768</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>La Grice Thos.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1717</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lombe Henry</p> +</td> +<td><p>1725</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Love Barry</p> +</td> +<td><p>1734</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Love John Goslin</p> +</td> +<td><p>1763</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Manclark Colman</p> +</td> +<td><p>1770</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Marsh S. C.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1843, ’52</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Martin Thomas</p> +</td> +<td><p>1747</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mew Mitchell</p> +</td> +<td><p>1687</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Miles Thomas</p> +</td> +<td><p>1737</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Moyse Richard</p> +</td> +<td><p>1764</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Medowe Sir T.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1684*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Neech John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1743</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nightingale S.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1860, ’68</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norfor John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1765</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pacey William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1722</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Paget Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1817</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palgrave William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1782, 1805, ’14</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer J. D.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1821, ’33</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer Chas. Jno.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1835, ’54, ’55</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer Samuel T.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1840, ’42, ’45</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Palmer W. H.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1844</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pearson John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1723, ’36</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pearson Chas., <span class="GutSmall">R.N.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1850, ’51</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Penrice George</p> +</td> +<td><p>1837</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pitt Thomas</p> +</td> +<td><p>1776</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston I.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1816, ’22</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston E.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1818, ’30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston Jacob</p> +</td> +<td><p>1793, 1801, ’18</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1827, ’31</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston I., jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1834</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston E. H. L.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1870, ’71*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pue Jonathan</p> +</td> +<td><p>1718</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pullyn Philip</p> +</td> +<td><p>1817, ’43</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ramey John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1760, ’73</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ramey Joseph</p> +</td> +<td><p>1778</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Reynolds J.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1781, ’84</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Reynolds F. R.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1804, ’23</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Spooner William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1713</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Spurgeon John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1712</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Steward Robert</p> +</td> +<td><p>1858, ’61, ’62, ’63, ’64</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Steward Thos. B.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1876, ’80</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Symonds N.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1726, ’77</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Taylor Anthy.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1731, ’71</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Taylor Chris.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1752*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Taylor William</p> +</td> +<td><p>1783</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Teasdel Henry</p> +</td> +<td><p>1873</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thompson Geo.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1791</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tolver Samuel</p> +</td> +<td><p>1789</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Turner James</p> +</td> +<td><p>1779</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wakeman Sand.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1765</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wakeman G.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1752, ’58</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wallis John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1761*</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ward G.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1684*, 1728</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ward Robert</p> +</td> +<td><p>1729</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ward James</p> +</td> +<td><p>1751</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Warmington Robert</p> +</td> +<td><p>1790, 1808</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Watson John</p> +</td> +<td><p>1785</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woolverton Chas.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1869, ’71*, ’72</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Worship Francis</p> +</td> +<td><p>1857</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Worship W.</p> +</td> +<td><p>1859, ’67</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Youell E. Pitt</p> +</td> +<td><p>1866</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Note</span>—Those with an *, see Historical +Pages.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">From 1688 to 1700, two Bailiffs +were chosen instead of a Mayor.</p> +<h2><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>Crisp’s History Of Great Yarmouth.</h2> +<h3>A.D. 46.</h3> +<p>The Romans entered this part of Britain when the valleys of +the Yare, Waveney, and Bure, as well as the sand-bank upon which +Yarmouth stands, were covered by the ocean.</p> +<h3>100.</h3> +<p>Burgh Castle, a Roman encampment, supposed to have been +founded.</p> +<h3>495.</h3> +<p>Cerdic, a Saxon Prince, and Qenrick his son, with five ships, +entered the port of Yarmouth and named in Cerdic Shore. +This Cerdic Shore seems to have been a great sand-bank formed +along the shore between two branches or channels of the Yare +called Havens, by which two channels the river entered the sea, +one running near Caister and the other near Gorleston.</p> +<h3>633.</h3> +<p>Between this and the year 640, a Saxon Monastery was founded +at Burgh, by Fursey, an Irish monk.</p> +<h3>870.</h3> +<p>Lodbrog, the Dane, driven by a sudden tempest from Denmark +across the sea, and, entering the Yare, landed at Reedham, where +the Court of Edmund, King of East Anglia, was then kept. +Lodbrog is said to have been received into Court favour, but was +soon afterwards murdered in a wood by the King’s huntsman +(Bern) through jealousy. This led to the imprisonment and +execution of Edmund, and put an end to the Saxon dynasty in East +Anglia, after Hinguar and Hubba, two Danish chieftains, at the +head of 20,000 men, had ravished all East Anglia.</p> +<h3><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>1008.</h3> +<p>First houses and habitations erected in Yarmouth on +Fuller’s Hill, that being then the only dry land in +Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1041–7.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth belonged to the King in the reign of Edward the +Confessor, and had 70 burgesses, besides a number of +soccagers.</p> +<h3>1045.</h3> +<p>Bishop Herbert born; and in 1091 was consecrated Bishop of +Thetford.</p> +<h3>1066.</h3> +<p>Cocklewater, or Grubb’s Haven, stopped up with sand.</p> +<h3>1100.</h3> +<p>St. Bennet’s Church pulled down. It was built in +the time of Edward the Confessor.</p> +<p>Yarmouth governed by a Provost, the first constituted +magistrate, whose public office was in the <i>Congé</i>, +North Quay. Foreigners were only allowed to come to +Yarmouth at the annual free-fair.</p> +<h3>1101.</h3> +<p>Bishop Herbert de Lozinga, the first Bishop of Norwich +[translated from the See of Thetford in the 7th year of William +II. (Rufus), whose Chamberlain he was], founded St. +Nicholas’ Church, and re-built a Chapel on the North +Denes. He was made Lord High Chancellor to Henry I. of +England in 1104, and died August 11th, 1119.</p> +<h3>1119.</h3> +<p>St. Nicholas’ Church consecrated. Enlarged 1123, +1250, and 1338. The last attempt after 10 years’ +labour in trying to build a west aisle, failing, the ruins were +used in the building of a Chapel-of-Ease.</p> +<h3>1199.</h3> +<p>Forty thousand lives lost at sea during the war between King +John and the Barons; a great multitude washed ashore on Yarmouth +beach.</p> +<h3>1204.</h3> +<p>Monastery of Black Friars founded by St. Dominica.</p> +<h3><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>1205.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth had three galleys or vessels of war. Two were +manned with seven score mariners.</p> +<h3>1209.</h3> +<p>First charter granted by King John, and Yarmouth incorporated +as a borough. The document is still preserved (1834).</p> +<h3>1216.</h3> +<p>All vessels in the port with Scottish property on board were +arrested.</p> +<h3>1257.</h3> +<p>Henry III. granted certain franchises. In 1261 he +granted licenses for fortifying the town; and on Sept. 28th, +1262, granted a Charter for enclosing the town with a wall and +moat, so as to resist the power of an invading enemy. (See +1396.)</p> +<h3>1261.</h3> +<p>The Tolhouse Hall, Middlegate Street, erected.</p> +<h3>1272.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth first called <i>Magna</i> (Great) in the reign of +Edward I., to distinguish it from Little Yarmouth, or +Southtown.</p> +<h3>1275.</h3> +<p>The town wall and fosse commenced at the north end of +town.</p> +<h3>1272.</h3> +<p>St. Mary’s Hospital founded. It was a free Grammar +School in 1551, and fitted up as a school for poor children in +1634.</p> +<p>The Carmelites, or Whitefriars, founded at Yarmouth, and took +the north and some other parts of the town under their +charge. (See 1509.)</p> +<h3>1285.</h3> +<p>King Henry’s Tower erected at the north-east corner of +St. Nicholas’ churchyard.</p> +<h3>1286.</h3> +<p>St. Nicholas’ Church and churchyard consecrated by +Bishop Middleton, of Norwich.</p> +<h3><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>1287.</h3> +<p>The sea flowed into St. Nicholas’ Church 4 feet deep, +and the town was inundated.</p> +<h3>1290.</h3> +<p>A beautiful ship built at Yarmouth for King Edward II., and +sent to Norway for the King’s daughter, upon her proposed +marriage with the then Prince. She was heiress of Norway +and Scotland.</p> +<h3>1291.</h3> +<p>No one allowed to draw wine after the Curfew bell had +rung.</p> +<h3>1294.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth first summoned to send four Burgesses annually to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1295.</h3> +<p>Sir J. De Botetourt, a Norfolk Knight, had command of a +Yarmouth fleet of fifty-three vessels. Fresh herrings sold +for 37s. per last.</p> +<h3>1297.</h3> +<p>Simon Blaking, of Martham, fled into St. Nicholas’ +Church, and confessed to having broken open a house at Hemsby and +the prison at Southtown, and to having killed W. F. N. +Blaking. The law in those days was, if a murderer could +reach a church or churchyard before being apprehended, and +confessed his crime to a coroner, justice, &c., he was set at +liberty without taking a trial.</p> +<h3>1299.</h3> +<p>William Fastolf and H. Rose, Esqs., returned to Parliament, +held at Lincoln.</p> +<h3>1300.</h3> +<p>Leather was not only used for various military purposes, but +formed a considerable part of the common dress of the people +before the introduction, and during the infancy, of the woollen +manufacture.</p> +<h3>1305.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth claimed a free Borough by the Burgesses.</p> +<h3><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>1307.</h3> +<p>William Fastolf and H. Rose, Esqs., again returned to +Parliament, held at Nottingham.</p> +<p>Price of pipe (120 gals.) of “red wine,” 20s.</p> +<h3>1308 to 1472.</h3> +<p>During the reigns of Edward II. and III., Richard II., Henry +IV., V., and VI., and Edward IV., upwards of 160 Burgesses were +returned to Parliament, 72 of which were held at Westminster, 6 +at York, 1 at London, Ripon, and New Sarum, and 2 at +Gloucester.</p> +<h3>1314.</h3> +<p>Two Parliaments held, but not represented by the same +Burgesses.</p> +<h3>1330.</h3> +<p>A Castle stood on the site of the King Street Independent +Chapel, but was demolished in 1621.</p> +<h3>1332.</h3> +<p>Great disputes between the Barons of the Cinque Ports and the +Bailiffs of this Borough, concerning the <i>free</i> fair which +the former attempted to remove.</p> +<h3>1333.</h3> +<p>Burgesses exempted from serving on Juries, Inquests, or at +Assizes, within the Borough.</p> +<h3>1337.</h3> +<p>Blackfriars’ Tower completed.</p> +<p>Forty ships of war ordered to Yarmouth roads.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth navy, comprising 20 men-of-war, had orders to +proceed to the port of Dort, to convoy the King’s four +plenipotentiaries to the Court of Hainault from those parts to +England. On their return they took two Flemish ships and +their cargoes. The Bishop of Glasgow, who was on board one, +died of his wounds at Sandwich.</p> +<h3>1338.</h3> +<p>Thomas De Drayton, a Yarmouth man, who had held the office of +bailiff fifteen times, was appointed Admiral of the North +Fleet.</p> +<p>Yarmouth magistrates, &c., fitted out a fleet of +men-of-war, well equipped, at their own cost and charge, to go +against the enemy at sea for the space of a month.</p> +<h3><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>1340.</h3> +<p>John Perebrown, a burgess of Yarmouth, led the King’s +North Sea Fleet in the great battle of Sluys, and did great +service; 230 ships and 30,000 Frenchmen were lost.</p> +<h3>1342.</h3> +<p>Oct. Edward III. embarked on board the Yarmouth squadron +in his unsuccessful expedition to Brittany.</p> +<p>The principal inhabitants fined 1000 marks for committing +trespasses, &c., on the sea coast.</p> +<h3>1346.</h3> +<p>The first Haven cut.</p> +<h3>1347.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth assisted Edward III. at the siege of Calais with 43 +vessels of war and 1,075 mariners, which was 18 ships more than +London sent, and more than any other port, except Fowey.</p> +<h3>1348–9.</h3> +<p>Plague carried off 7,052 persons out of the then population of +10,000.</p> +<h3>1352.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth gave to the St. George’s College of Windsor by +charter, a last of red herrings, to be delivered annually for +ever on St. Andrew’s day, concerning which many disputes +have since arisen.</p> +<h3>1353.</h3> +<p>Passenger boat from Yarmouth to Norwich sunk near Cantley, and +38 persons drowned.</p> +<h3>1354.</h3> +<p>Fastolf, father of the renowned Sir John Fastolf, one of the +bailiffs.</p> +<h3>1365.</h3> +<p>Six Yarmouth vessels captured and burnt in the Bay of +Brittany.</p> +<h3>1368.</h3> +<p>John Lawers hung for not paying the Custom House dues.</p> +<h3>1369.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth first appointed a staple port.</p> +<h3><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>1372.</h3> +<p>August 22nd. Kirkley Road united to the town and port of +Yarmouth by charter of Edward III., but repealed four years +afterwards.</p> +<h3>1378.</h3> +<p>Price of coal, including freight, 5s. 6d. per chaldron.</p> +<h3>1381.</h3> +<p>The memorable rebellion of Wat Taylor. The town attacked +by 20,000 rebel archers or bowmen, who plundered houses and did +much damage, but who were defeated after much bloodshed.</p> +<h3>1382.</h3> +<p>June 20th. Violent shock of an earthquake, and much +damage done.</p> +<p>June. King Richard II. visited Great Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1384.</h3> +<p>Market Place paved, and a Cross and Pillory built.</p> +<h3>1385.</h3> +<p>William Bardolf, Baron Bardolf, died. He had large +estates near Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1386.</h3> +<p>Sir Henry Percy and Fauset Percy sent to Yarmouth with 300 +men-at-arms and 600 archers, to guard the coast, an invasion from +France being apprehended.</p> +<h3>1392.</h3> +<p>A Horse Ferry at Gorleston existed.</p> +<h3>1393.</h3> +<p>The second Haven made, and a third in 1408.</p> +<h3>1395.</h3> +<p>Several small Yarmouth and other ships taken by Danish pirates +in a sharp conflict off the coast. Lost £20,000 in +specie.</p> +<h3>1396.</h3> +<p>After a lapse of 111 years the fortifications of the town were +completed—20 towers, 10 gates, and the wall, 2,280 yards in +extent. (See 1544.)</p> +<h3>1400.</h3> +<p>Coals first imported here from Newcastle. Wood was used +as fuel before this.</p> +<h3><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>1403.</h3> +<p>Henry IV. granted, by the consent of Parliament, that the +shipping, weighing, and packing of wool, hides, and skins, should +be done at Yarmouth, it being a frontier town.</p> +<h3>1408.</h3> +<p>Third Haven cut.</p> +<h3>1427.</h3> +<p>The annual election of four Bailiffs, reduced to two, and so +continued until a Mayor was appointed in their stead.</p> +<p>Yarmouth Bridge, with 8 arches, built, before which a horse, +cart, cattle, and foot ferry-boat existed. This was +replaced by 4 successive drawbridges, i.e., 1553, 1570, 1785, and +1836. (See 1849.)</p> +<h3>1428.</h3> +<p>About 60 pilgrims sailed from Yarmouth in the ship +“Falcon,” for the shrine at Santiago, in Spain; and +in 1434, 20 more left.</p> +<h3>1440.</h3> +<p>The freedom of the Borough purchased for two marks.</p> +<h3>1448.</h3> +<p>Ralph Wadiswyke was made Comptroller of the Customs for taking +Lord Doisemond, a French lieutenant, prisoner.</p> +<h3>1450.</h3> +<p>Caister Castle supposed to have been founded by Sir John +Fastolf, K.G. He was born in 1377, and died in 1459 in his +Hall at Caister, aged 82 years, and was buried in the Abbey +Church of St. Bennet, at Holme, leaving his estate to John +Paston, Esq.</p> +<h3>1459.</h3> +<p>July 24th. Lord Lieutenants of Counties first +appointed.</p> +<h3>1462 to 1586.</h3> +<p>Sacred Dramas and Mysteries performed in St. Nicholas’ +Church.</p> +<h3>1463.</h3> +<p>John Pedle, labourer, of Yarmouth, executed for coining and +uttering 18 groats, made of copper and lead, as good and lawful +money of England.</p> +<h3><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>1465.</h3> +<p>Our Lady’s organ in St. Nicholas’ Church built; +the old and new organs in 1485; great old organs in 1486; and +Jesus’ organ in 1550.</p> +<h3>1466.</h3> +<p>John Paston died in the Fleet Prison, after the seizure of his +estates.</p> +<h3>1467.</h3> +<p>Fourteen persons hanged at one time upon a gallows erected on +the beach.</p> +<h3>1469.</h3> +<p>The Duke of Norfolk, at the head of 3,000 men, laid siege to +Caister Castle, which was surrendered to his Grace. He died +in 1475, and Caister Castle again reverted to the Paston +family.</p> +<h3>1475.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth threatened by the French fleet. 200 armed men +sent from Norwich.</p> +<p>A whale came ashore south of Grubb’s Haven, which was +cut to pieces and carried away in carts.</p> +<h3>1488.</h3> +<p>The Bailiffs feasted Sir John Paston, son of the late John +Paston, on porpoise, then a royal fish.</p> +<h3>1493.</h3> +<p>May 16th. By charter of Henry VII., Burgesses were +empowered to constitute Justices of the Peace.</p> +<h3>1508.</h3> +<p>The fourth Haven made; and the fifth Haven cut in the reign of +Henry VIII., 1529.</p> +<h3>1509.</h3> +<p>House of Carmelites, or White Friars, destroyed by fire; +founded in Edward I.’s time, 1278.</p> +<h3>1511.</h3> +<p>Southtown united with Gorleston.</p> +<h3>1515.</h3> +<p>Queen of France and her husband, Charles Brandon, Duke of +Suffolk, entertained here three days.</p> +<h3>1525.</h3> +<p>Church of the Dominicans burnt down.</p> +<h3><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>1528.</h3> +<p>Great dearth of corn. The extravagant sale price then +was 26s. 8d. per quarter. Several men were hanged for +taking part in a riot arising from the same.</p> +<p>Gorleston began to be built upon. (See 1511.)</p> +<p>The first Yarmouth crane erected by Richard Bishop.</p> +<h3>1529.</h3> +<p>Duke of Suffolk suppressed a riot arising from the dearness of +corn.</p> +<h3>1535.</h3> +<p>Nov. 1st. Tumult in St. Nicholas’ Church; +twenty-four persons, with William Swarton, the chaplain, at their +head, disturbed the congregation while the Rev. D. R. Cotton was +preaching.</p> +<h3>1538.</h3> +<p>The high altar of St. Nicholas’ Church, remarkable for +its richness and beauty, with the saints’ figures and +pictures, broken and destroyed.</p> +<h3>1541.</h3> +<p>Oct. 28th. Four merchant heretics entered St. +Nicholas’ Church, and created a great disturbance during +the service.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. A merchant and shoemaker were fined 2s. each +for bargaining and selling a last of white herring in the +Church.</p> +<p>Sir Humphrey Wingfield returned to Parliament, held at +Westminster.</p> +<p>Ordered that Aldermen should wear scarlet gowns, with fur +tippets and straight hose, at assemblies and festivals.</p> +<h3>1544.</h3> +<p>Height of town wall, 23 feet. On war being declared the +following year with France, a large rampire was thrown up on the +eastern side, and afterwards extended along the north and south +walls. (See 1396.)</p> +<p>Sir H. Wingfield again returned to Parliament.</p> +<h3>1545.</h3> +<p>At Corporate meetings no member allowed to depart without +leave of the Bailiffs; otherwise was fined for disorderly +conduct. Members of the Corporation compelled to wear +scarlet gowns and straight hose, under penalty of fines.</p> +<h3><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>1546.</h3> +<p>Two French ships and 120 prisoners taken by the town.</p> +<p>A house for country butchers built.</p> +<h3>1549.</h3> +<p>The sixth Haven made. It was agreed that the money, +plate, ornaments, robes, vestments, tunicles, albs, ameffes, +belonging to St. Nicholas’ Church, should be disposed of, +together with the bells in the steeple and other property in the +Church, and the proceeds (£1,816 9s. 7d.) devoted to its +construction. The Haven was then commenced, 100 men being +employed daily upon it.</p> +<p>A rebellion in the town. Kett’s adherents advanced +and destroyed all the materials for the Haven, and laid it in +ruins; and the work of the Harbour was stopped till the following +year. The next attempt also proved as unsuccessful. +Another report says—The Norfolk rebellion, under Kett, the +tanner, commenced; but their designs were frustrated by Yarmouth +men, who, setting fire to a stack of hay on the west side of the +Haven, were able to attack the enemy unseen, and defeated them, +many insurgents being killed, 80 taken prisoners, and six pieces +of ordnance secured. They were afterwards defeated by the +Earl of Warwick at head-quarters in Norwich, and lost some 4,500 +men; their leaders, William and Robert Kett, being suspended +alive in chains on a gibbet.</p> +<h3>1550.</h3> +<p>Another great Plague. (See 1349.)</p> +<p>The Castle used as a Borough Gaol. During subsequent +periods of alarm, it was again repaired. The upper part of +it was taken down in 1620, and the following year the whole +fabric was ordered to be dismantled and demolished.</p> +<h3>1551.</h3> +<p>Many of the brasses enclosing the inscriptions on the walls of +St. Nicholas’ Church sent to London to be cast into weights +and measures for the town’s use.</p> +<p>John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>1551.</h3> +<p>A Grammar and Free School in existence in Yarmouth, the +“Parson of Haddiscoe” being appointed for a quarter +of a year on trial. He was succeeded the same year by an +“expert man;” and it was agreed that each of the +four-and-twenties (Aldermen) should pay towards his living 18d., +and each of the eight-and-forties (Common Councilmen) 8d. a-year +over the stipends, upon the well-doing of the schoolmaster. +From 1551 till 1757, twenty-eight gentlemen were appointed to the +Mastership. In 1757 the school appears to have been closed, +for we find the master quitting possession and resigning his +office; and on Feb. 5th, 1773, the chamberlains were directed to +do necessary repairs, and to let the school to Mr. Richard Eaton, +the younger, for £4 a-year. The school was +re-established in 1863.</p> +<h3>1552.</h3> +<p>Sir W. Wodehouse, Knt., and N. Frymage, Esq., returned to +Parliament. Every inhabitant found smoking tobacco or +overcome with drink in any tippling-house was apprehended.</p> +<h3>1553.</h3> +<p>Oct. 1st. Robert Eyre and Simon More were chosen +Burgesses of the Parliament.</p> +<p>Drawbridge erected to connect Southtown with Great Yarmouth, +in place of the one built in 1427, but which was carried away in +1570 by the tide.</p> +<p>Beer sold at 3s. 4d. per thirty-two gallons.</p> +<p>This year and two following, six Aldermen were returned to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1554.</h3> +<p>Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>Fifty vessels wrecked off Yarmouth within 24 hours.</p> +<p>A fire beacon placed on the top of the Castle, as the Haven +was very dangerous.</p> +<h3>1555.</h3> +<p>No brewer allowed to brew in the town unless by the +appointment of the Bailiffs.</p> +<p><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>Another +attempt to form a Haven, a ship being sunk at the mouth to stem +the tide. But this project was abandoned the following +year, and it was stopped up with furze bundles in 1557.</p> +<p>The Hermitage on the west side of the Haven given to the +town.</p> +<h3>1557.</h3> +<p>Dec. 1st. The town inundated. Men rowed up and +down the streets in boats, and several ships were drawn over the +Denes with windlasses.</p> +<h3>1558 to 1567.</h3> +<p>The ground on the south side of Town Hall was, in the time of +Queen Elizabeth, called “The South Foreland,” or +“Furlong’s End.” In 1568 the houses there +standing were given by William Garton to the churchwardens for +the use of the Church. In 1622 they were repaired, and in +1674 rebuilt. John Fastolf, the father of Sir John Fastolf, +of Caister Castle, had a house in the “Foreland,” but +whereabouts cannot now be discovered. These houses were +re-fronted by the present owner in 1866.</p> +<p>Sir T. Wodehouse, Knt., and William Barker, Esq., returned to +Parliament.</p> +<p>The Market Cross repaired.</p> +<h3>1559.</h3> +<p>May 26th. Queen Elizabeth granted a Charter for the +better security, defence, and protection of the town.</p> +<h3>1560.</h3> +<p>Jan. 8th. The present (seventh) Haven commenced. +Joyce Johnson, the eminent Dutch engineer, who superintended the +construction, was paid 4s. a day. This Haven was cut near +the spot of the one made in 1529. Nearly 1,000 persons, +including women and children, were employed about the works, +which were completed on March 4th to the satisfaction of the +inhabitants. In 1566 the water broke through, and made its +old channel towards Newton Cross.</p> +<p>First Jetty erected, having a crane at the end to facilitate +the landing of goods from boats. Re-built in 1767.</p> +<h3><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>1561.</h3> +<p>Three town wells opened.</p> +<h3>1562.</h3> +<p>Thomas Timperley and William Grice, Esqs., were returned to +Parliament; the latter was also returned in 1570 with William +Barker, Esq.; in 1571 with John Bacon, Esq.; and in 1584 and 1585 +with Thomas Damett, Esq.</p> +<p>Three small silver maces, belonging to the Corporation, +made.</p> +<h3>1563.</h3> +<p>Herrings very scarce, and sold for £9 a last.</p> +<h3>1567.</h3> +<p>Piers built on both sides of the Haven’s mouth.</p> +<p>The London Privy Council lent the town of Yarmouth +£1,000 without interest, for repairing the Haven, which was +refunded by instalments of £100 a-year.</p> +<h3>1569.</h3> +<p>Three ships of war compelled to leave by the town guns.</p> +<p>Haven expenses for the year, £1,230 12s. 4d.</p> +<p>The Paston family sold Caister Castle to meet their +embarrassments.</p> +<p>Herrings sold for £8 a last; a tun (4 hogshds.) of wine +was also of the same value.</p> +<p>Part of the town wall fell through being overcharged.</p> +<h3>1570.</h3> +<p>Mr. Vincent Goodwin first preacher appointed at St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Drawbridge carried away by high tide, and another constructed +in 1785, at a cost of £403 15s. 9d., notwithstanding +£225 had been expended the year previous in repairs.</p> +<h3>1571.</h3> +<p>Thatched roofs to houses forbidden, and wood was +substituted.</p> +<h3>1572.</h3> +<p>Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>Brewers ordered to brew with coals instead of wood.</p> +<p>Every ale-house licensed by the Bailiffs.</p> +<h3><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>1573.</h3> +<p>Regulations made to prevent goods lying on the Quay longer +than necessary.</p> +<h3>1574.</h3> +<p>A Bill introduced to Parliament to enroll Yarmouth as a Cinque +Port; but this was not properly carried out. In 1702 the +Government of Yarmouth was settled under Anne in its proper and +present form.</p> +<h3>1575.</h3> +<p>Feb. 10th. Mr. Harbrowne elected to Parliament in place +of John Bacon, Esq., but only served one day, the latter being +re-elected.</p> +<h3>1576.</h3> +<p>Edward Owner born. He represented the town in Parliament +four times, and died August 13th, 1650.</p> +<p>A part of the Hospital, Market Place, converted into a House +of Correction.</p> +<h3>1577.</h3> +<p>Burgh Water Frolic first spoken of, being a grand event, and +patronized by the Mayor and Corporation.</p> +<h3>1578.</h3> +<p>Inhabitants prohibited from washing their clothes near the +public wells.</p> +<p>Lord Burleigh and the Earl of Leicester paid Yarmouth a visit, +and were entertained at the Priory. Queen Elizabeth was +expected, and a silver cup, in the form of a ship, costing +£16, made for presentation to her Majesty, but she reached +no further than Norwich.</p> +<p>Scratby Sand became entirely dry land, and raised its head so +much above high-water mark, that grass, &c., grew on it, and +sea birds built their nests. It was called “Yarmouth +Island,” and was a favourite resort in the summer season +for Yarmouth people.</p> +<h3>1579.</h3> +<p>May to Sept. Great plague; 2,000 persons died, and the +Grammar School shut up for six months. (See 1349 and +1550.)</p> +<h3><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>1580.</h3> +<p>August 2nd. Dinner provided for 43 gentlemen on a +sandbank out at sea, called Scratby Sand. In 1582 it was +swept away by a strong easterly wind and tide, much to the +disappointment of Sir Edward Clare, Knt., who had made a claim to +it. Valuable wreckage was often found there.</p> +<p>2,000 lasts (2,640,000 single fish) of herrings brought in on +one tide.</p> +<h3>1582.</h3> +<p>Large fish, 17 yards long, the jaw 3¼ yards long, body +4½ yards thick, caught at Caister.</p> +<h3>1583.</h3> +<p>No one could be elected a Burgess in Parliament unless he was +an Alderman.</p> +<h3>1585.</h3> +<p>The Privy Council requested the town to provide ships for the +transport of 400 soldiers into the Low Countries. To raise +funds, every Alderman advanced £5, and every Common +Councilman £2 10s., the rest of the money being raised by +assessment.</p> +<h3>1586.</h3> +<p>Pulpit erected at the west-end of St. Nicholas’ Church; +removed in 1635. Another erected in the south-east comer of +the south aisle, which was also removed in 1846.</p> +<p>Number of “tippling houses” in Yarmouth restricted +to 16.</p> +<h3>1588.</h3> +<p>John Stubbs and Roger Drury, Esqs., elected to Parliament.</p> +<p>William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough. In 1578 he visited Yarmouth in company with the +Earl of Leicester.</p> +<p>Preparations to receive the Spanish Armada. The +fortifications put into the best state of defence, a boom thrown +across the Haven at the south gates, and a mound of earth raised +higher than the walls, called the “South Mount,” on +which was placed several pieces of ordnance. Another mound, +the “New Mount,” was afterwards thrown up near St. +George’s Chapel, and <a name="page23"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 23</span>a warlike ship fitted out at the +town’s expense to annoy the enemy at sea, and preparations +made to lodge and provision a garrison of 1,000 men. The +sum of £1,355 4s. 9d. was assessed on the County.</p> +<h3>1589.</h3> +<p>No victualler or innkeeper allowed to retail any +“strange beer” under pain of forfeiture.</p> +<h3>1591.</h3> +<p>An ale-house or tavern could only be kept by a Freeman or the +widow of a Freeman.</p> +<p>Two Yarmouth ships required to carry out 150 soldiers to +Normandy.</p> +<h3>1592.</h3> +<p>T. Damett, Esq., again returned to Parliament with John +Felton, Esq.</p> +<h3>1593.</h3> +<p>The fishing nets used by boat owners valued at +£50,000.</p> +<h3>1596.</h3> +<p>John Felton, Esq., again returned to Parliament with Sir H. +Hobart.</p> +<p>Elizabethan House on the Quay, built by Benjamin Cowper. +It was sold to John Carter, a friend of Oliver Cromwell. +The supporters of Cromwell frequently assembled in this house, +and it is supposed that the death of Charles I. was here +determined on. It was for many years previously to Feb. +26th, 1867, the residence and property of the late Charles J. +Palmer, Esq., F.S.A.</p> +<p>Arthur Wilson born at Yarmouth. He published an account +of the life and reign of James I, written with much freedom, and +displaying a thorough knowledge of Court intrigues; but the +liberties he took in exposing the propensities of that monarch +and his son towards the Catholic cause, brought upon him the +vehement censure of the friends of the Stuart family, who said +that he had written from conjectures rather than from records, +and that his work was more like a pasquinade than an authentic +history. He was for many years an attendant on the Earl of +Essex, and afterwards steward to the Earl of Warwick. He +died in 1652.</p> +<h3><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>1597.</h3> +<p>Seven hundred vessels in the Haven at one time.</p> +<h3>1598.</h3> +<p>The number of Rows was seven score (140).</p> +<p>The south side of the Hospital School used as a House of +Correction.</p> +<p>Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3>1599.</h3> +<p>Rev. Thomas Nash published the “Lenten Stuffe,” +containing a poetical and satirical description of Yarmouth, +&c., and a play in “Praise of a Red +Herring.” He was born at Lowestoft in 1567, and died +in 1600. He was called by Dr. Lodge “the true English +Gifford or Aretino.” His name is mentioned by Michael +Drayton, and also in the play, “<i>Return from +Parnassus</i>.” (<i>Vide</i> page 486, +Pimperley’s “Encyclopædia of Literary and Typ. +Anecdote.”)</p> +<p>One penny per swill by day and 1½d. at night were +charged for carting herrings from the beach.</p> +<h3>1599 to 1660.</h3> +<p>Caister Castle deserted as a residence.</p> +<h3>1600.</h3> +<p>Sir Henry Hobart and T. Damett, Esq., again returned to +Parliament; the latter, with John Wheeler, Esq., also returned on +the accession of James I.</p> +<p>The Dutch Chapel, South Quay, built, and afterwards converted +into a Theatre.</p> +<p>Every Alderman, or his deputy, with a constable, ordered to +visit all ale-houses and taverns twice a week, and make inquiries +respecting the customers.</p> +<h3>1601.</h3> +<p>The washing and rinsing of nets near the public wells +forbidden.</p> +<p>The town required to provide and provision ships for +transporting 600 soldiers to the Low Countries.</p> +<p>Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, K.G., Lord High Admiral of +England, elected High Steward of the Borough.</p> +<h3>1604.</h3> +<p>A third Market Cross erected.</p> +<h3><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>1607.</h3> +<p>The three local rivers frozen over for 40 days.</p> +<h3>1608.</h3> +<p>James I. made Yarmouth a free Borough by charter, by the title +of Bailiff, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Commonalty; which charter in +1683 (Charles II.) was surrendered to the King. (See July +22nd, 1684.)</p> +<h3>1611.</h3> +<p>Drapers, mercers, grocers, and haberdashers prohibited from +having stalls in the market.</p> +<p>Herring Fair held. A great scarcity of herrings this +year—a last of Windsor herrings being sold for £15 +5s.</p> +<h3>1612.</h3> +<p>Great damage done to the Piers by a raging tide.</p> +<p>Aldermen who had held office as Bailiffs, compelled to wear +scarlet gowns with tippets, under pain of a 40s. fine. (See +1541.)</p> +<h3>1613.</h3> +<p>The present Haven completed at a cost of £38,682, and +from this date to 1770 inclusive, £215,644 had been +expended about the Haven and Piers.</p> +<h3>1614.</h3> +<p>Sir Theophilus Finch and G. Hardware, Esq., returned to +Parliament, but the former was succeeded soon after by Sir Henry +Hobart.</p> +<p>One hundred jacobuses (a gold coin struck in the time of James +I.) presented to King James I. by the town, as a mark of loyalty +and affection.</p> +<h3>1615.</h3> +<p>At Corporate meetings no gentleman allowed to make uncomely +and indecent speeches out of time and order, or create a +disturbance when touching upon any public good, or even allowed +to make a remark till the previous speaker had sat down, under +penalty of fine or dismissal.</p> +<h3>1616.</h3> +<p>About 50 Yarmouth fishermen laid up their vessels, having no +licenses for exportation.</p> +<h3><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>1617.</h3> +<p>License granted for the export of 600 lasts of herrings, which +was annually renewed till 1624.</p> +<h3>1618.</h3> +<p>The Cage or Stock-house set up.</p> +<p>An ordinance made that all doors opening outwards into the +Rows should be made to swing inwards, otherwise the constables +would nail them up, and levy a fine of 5s. on the owners.</p> +<h3>1619.</h3> +<p>The last demand made by the Crown for furnishing vessels of +war, until Charles I. resorted to that means of raising a revenue +without the sanction of Parliament.</p> +<h3>1620.</h3> +<p>Dec. 21st. John Cowldham, J.P., four times a Bailiff, +died, aged 84 years.</p> +<p>B. Cowper and Edward Owner, Esqs., free Burgesses, elected to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1622.</h3> +<p>“Tippling houses” had increased to 40, and were +restricted to that number.</p> +<h3>1623.</h3> +<p>Benjamin Cowper, Esq., re-elected, with G. Hardware, Esq., to +serve in Parliament.</p> +<h3>1624.</h3> +<p>Artillery yard on the site of present Unitarian Chapel.</p> +<h3>1625.</h3> +<p>Dec. 29th. Poor people were ordered not to marry unless +sanctioned in writing by the Chief Alderman and Chief +Constable.</p> +<p>Manship, who wrote the “History of Great +Yarmouth,” died. He was Town Clerk in 1579.</p> +<p>Sir John Corbet and E. Owner, Esq., elected to Parliament; and +in the same year Sir John was re-elected with Thomas Johnson, +Esq.</p> +<p>Fish Market, on the site of the present, covered in and +paved. Covering removed in 1844.</p> +<h3>1626.</h3> +<p>Robert Sydney, Earl of Leicester, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>1626.</h3> +<p>Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, died. He was a native of +Yarmouth, and one of the prelates employed by James I. in the new +translation of the Bible.</p> +<h3>1627.</h3> +<p>Sir John Wentworth and Miles Corbet, Esq., elected to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1628.</h3> +<p>The town obtained leave to export 1,000 lasts of herrings, +which continued till 1637, when £50 per annum was demanded +by the Trinity for 10 years, and afterwards for 40 years.</p> +<h3>1629.</h3> +<p>Twelve hundred householders in Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3>1631.</h3> +<p>Fishing with a trawl prohibited by proclamation.</p> +<p>£1 a quarter paid by the town to the Postmaster of +Ipswich for carrying letters to and from Yarmouth for London.</p> +<h3>1632.</h3> +<p>Tobacco allowed only to be retailed in this town by one +apothecary, six grocers, two hosiers, one merchant, and a +chairmaker.</p> +<p>June 26th. Four Frenchmen executed for murdering +Nicholas Harpley.</p> +<h3>1633.</h3> +<p>Aldermen’s wives compelled to wear velvet hats up to +this date, when the ordinance was annulled.</p> +<h3>1637.</h3> +<p>Thirty-four brewing-houses in Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1639.</h3> +<p>Miles Corbet, Esq., re-elected, with Edward Owner, Esq., as +members of Parliament.</p> +<p>The East and West Flegg granted to the family of +Cornwallis.</p> +<h3>1642.</h3> +<p>Oct. 12th. A ship, with 140 armed soldiers on board, +through stress of weather, put into Yarmouth port; she was seized +by the townsmen, and her crew and soldiers imprisoned on behalf +of the Parliament.</p> +<h3><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>1642.</h3> +<p>Sept. Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral, visited +Yarmouth, and was entertained by the Corporation.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd. A rate of £1,200 assessed upon the +inhabitants for the fortifications.</p> +<p>The town collected £136 for the relief of distressed +subjects in Ireland.</p> +<h3>1643.</h3> +<p>Feb. Lord Grey of Werke required Yarmouth to send 80 +dragoons to Cambridge.</p> +<h3>1644.</h3> +<p>The number of “tippling-houses” increased to 80, +besides great inns and taverns; and in 1705 augmented to 120.</p> +<p>Letters between Yarmouth and London only passed once a +week.</p> +<p>Twenty Iceland fishing barques belonging to Yarmouth merchants +taken by pirates, only three escaping.</p> +<h3>1645.</h3> +<p>Additional fortifications made. Breastworks and +platforms built at the seaside, and ordnance mounted on them.</p> +<p>The Earl of Lauderdale visited Yarmouth, and was sumptuously +entertained at the town’s expense.</p> +<h3>1648.</h3> +<p>Sep. 9th. Lord Fairfax marched into Yarmouth, and the +town was converted into a garrison.</p> +<p>Three men-of-war ships sent to convoy the fishers and guard +the coast.</p> +<p>The Burgesses raised 600 foot and 50 horse soldiers, in lieu +of having other forces marched into the town to do garrison +duty.</p> +<h3>1649.</h3> +<p>Four Aldermen and 16 Common Councillors resigned office in the +Corporation; 6 were afterwards reinstated.</p> +<h3>1650.</h3> +<p>The Puritans removed a fine old organ from St. Nicholas’ +Church.</p> +<p>The Presbyterians made a doorway in the north wall of the +Parish Church, and opened the north aisle of the chancel for +public worship.</p> +<h3><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>1651.</h3> +<p>Up to this date prayer was always used before the commencement +of public business.</p> +<h3>1652.</h3> +<p>Admiral Blake sent several ships to Yarmouth, which he had +captured from the Dutch.</p> +<p>Dr. Thomes Soame died. He was the son of a fisherman at +Yarmouth, but related to a wealthy family of the same name at +Burnham. He lived in the reign of Charles I., and having +entered holy orders he became minister of Staines in Middlesex, +and Prebendary of Windsor. During the civil wars he was so +zealously attached to Royalty that he sent all he had to the +King, so that when the rebels came to plunder him he had nothing, +for which he was imprisoned, first in Newgate, and afterwards in +the Fleet Prison, where he died.</p> +<h3>1653.</h3> +<p>June 6th. Yarmouth sent 5 members to the +“Little” Parliament summoned by Cromwell. +Resigned Dec. 12th.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. General Monk granted a warrant to free +Yarmouth fishermen from being pressed into the service of the +State.</p> +<p>Lord Henry, youngest son of Oliver Cromwell, High Steward of +the Borough.</p> +<h3>1653–4.</h3> +<p>Norfolk sent ten members to Parliament.</p> +<h3>1654.</h3> +<p>Dec. 16th. Oliver Cromwell proclaimed in the Market +Place Protector of the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom.</p> +<p>Colonel William Goffe and Thomas Dunne, Esq., were elected +Burgesses to Parliament by 3 Aldermen and 26 Common +Councilmen.</p> +<h3>1656.</h3> +<p>William Burton and C. G. Cock, Esqs., elected to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1659.</h3> +<p>W. Burton and C. G. Cock, Esqs., re-elected to Parliament.</p> +<p><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>Yarmouth people sent to Southwold 30 coombs of wheat and +10 coombs of rye for the sufferers from a fire which consumed the +greater part of that town.</p> +<h3>1660.</h3> +<p>Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>A “Healing Parliament” called, and Sir J. +Palgrave, Bart., and Miles Corbet, Esq., elected.</p> +<h3>1661.</h3> +<p>Sir William D’Oyley, Bart., and Sir W. Coventry, Bart., +Secretary to the Admiralty, returned to Parliament.</p> +<h3>1662.</h3> +<p>Contention and bloodshed through concurrent jurisdiction +ceased, when the Cinque Ports dissolved government with +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Dec. 10th. James Smith was fined £10 for saying of +Sir Thomas Medowe, a Bailiff, “He is a fool, and I have +killed a bull of 80s. that had better brains than Sir Thomas +have.”</p> +<h3>1664.</h3> +<p>Jan. 22nd. Rev. John Brinsley, sen., lecturer in +Yarmouth, died, aged 64.</p> +<p>Two thousand five hundred persons died of plague, including +two ministers of St. Nicholas’ Church. (See 1349, +1550, and 1579.)</p> +<h3>1665.</h3> +<p>June 3rd. Great sea fight off Lowestoft, when the Dutch +Admiral (Opdam) was defeated.</p> +<p>Every person receiving parish relief ordered to wear a pewter +badge on the left arm, which was called “the badge of +poverty.”</p> +<h3>1667.</h3> +<p>John Carter, twice Bailiff, and one of the Elders, died, aged +73.</p> +<p>Town farthings coined by the Overseers “for the use of +the poor.” In 1673 they were cried down, and the town +fined £90 for setting up a local mint. Lord Townshend +petitioned the King on their behalf that he would pardon their +offence.</p> +<h3><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>1668.</h3> +<p>Twenty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty chaldrons of coal +imported.</p> +<h3>1670.</h3> +<p>An Act of Parliament passed appointing Haven Commissioners, +viz., three for Norfolk, three for Suffolk, two for Norwich, and +two for Yarmouth.</p> +<p>April 21st. Mitchell Mew, twice Bailiff, and once Mayor, +died, aged 71 years.</p> +<h3>1671.</h3> +<p>Sep. 27th. Charles II. visited Yarmouth, accompanied by +the Dukes of York, Monmouth, and Buckingham, and publicly +entertained at a cost of £1,000.—The Corporation +presented the King with four golden herrings and a chain, value +£250. The King knighted three gentlemen of the +Council.</p> +<h3>1672.</h3> +<p>May 28th. Duke of York, commander of the English fleet, +defeated the Dutch fleet under De Ruyter, in Sole Bay, or +Southwold Bay. The guns were heard at Yarmouth, and the +sick and wounded afterwards brought here. Yarmouth sent +presents of wine, sheep, lambs, lemons, fowls, and fish to the +Duke of York, previous to the engagement.</p> +<h3>1673.</h3> +<p>April 8th. William Burton, sen., twice Bailiff of the +town, died, aged 65 years.</p> +<p>Son of Sir William Paston created Baron Paston and Viscount +Yarmouth; also created Earl of Yarmouth in 1679. In 1676 he +was shot at and wounded while in his coach. He died in +1682.</p> +<h3>1674.</h3> +<p>Robert Paston, Viscount Yarmouth, chosen High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>The famous “Yarmouth Troll Cart” in use. At +this date they were known by the name of “Yarmouth +Coaches,” being more elegantly made, and let out to +pleasure parties.</p> +<p>Bell factory supposed to have existed.</p> +<p>Haven expenses this year, £2,099 9s. 6d.</p> +<h3><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span>1677.</h3> +<p>Grand celebration in Yarmouth on the marriage of William III., +Prince of Orange, with Princess Mary.</p> +<p>Captain Booth executed in the town for stabbing a seaman.</p> +<p>The ground between the walls and the east side of the town, +from the Market Place, along King Street to the Friars’ +Lane, was sold for £2,265 17s. 6d., to sundry persons to +build upon.</p> +<h3>1678.</h3> +<p>Bonfires, by order of the Corporation, made in the Market +Place and other parts of the town, on the passing of the +“Test Act” by both Houses of Parliament.</p> +<h3>1679.</h3> +<p>Sir W. Coventry, Knt., re-elected to Parliament, with Lord +Huntingdon.</p> +<h3>1680.</h3> +<p>Richard Huntingdon and George England, Esqs., returned to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1681.</h3> +<p>Oct. 21st. Sir William Gooch, Bart., born at +Yarmouth. Early in life he entered the army, and +distinguished himself in the Rebellion of 1715. George I. +made him Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1727; and in 1740 he +was appointed Colonel of an American Regiment, and assisted at +the memorable siege of Carthagena. For his services he was +promoted, being first made Brigadier and then Major-General, in +which capacity, in 1747, he commanded in the expedition to +Quebec. Died at Bath, Dec. 17th, 1751.</p> +<p>The whole body of Freemen claimed a right of electing members +for the town, and accordingly chose Sir James Johnson, Knt., and +George England, Esq. Before this, the Corporation had +usually taken upon themselves this business, sometimes by a +majority of the assembly, and sometimes by an inquest of six +Aldermen and six Common Councilmen.</p> +<p>H.R.H. the Duke of York entertained to a sumptuous dinner in +Yarmouth; afterwards embarked in the frigate +“Gloucester,” but (May 6th) the vessel striking on +the Leman and Ower sand, 12 leagues from Yarmouth, <a +name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>she filled +with water, and the Duke escaped in a shallop, with Colonel +Churchill, Earl of Aberdeen, Duke of Montrose, and a few other +distinguished personages.</p> +<h3>1683.</h3> +<p>William Paston, Earl of Yarmouth, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>Spire of St. Nicholas’ Church, being of wood and lead, +set on fire by lightning. John Grice received from the +Corporation a piece of plate, value £10, for extinguishing +it.</p> +<h3>1684.</h3> +<p>April 26th. First Yarmouth Fair held.</p> +<p>May 7th. John Hall, Esq., died, aged 61 years. He +was a merchant, Alderman by the old and new charters, and twice +Bailiff of the town.</p> +<p>July 22nd. The charter granted by which a Mayor was +substituted for the 2 Bailiffs, 18 Aldermen instead of 36, and 36 +Common Councilmen instead of 18. By Charles II. a High +Steward, a Recorder, a Sub-Steward, 2 Coroners, 2 Chamberlains, +and a Clerk of the Courts were also appointed. Southtown +was added to the liberties of the Borough. (See 1608, 1687, +and 1763.) This charter also empowered them to hold +<i>two</i> fairs yearly. The instrument was brought from +London by the eldest son of the Earl of Yarmouth to Haddiscoe, +and given to George Ward, Esq., the first Mayor elected. +He, accompanied by a large train of carriages, and from 300 to +400 horsemen, proceeded to Haddiscoe to receive it. Great +rejoicing in the town.</p> +<p>Lady Yarmouth, wife of the above Earl, died.</p> +<p>The Corporation Sword of Justice, carried before the Mayor, +adopted.</p> +<p>Sir Thomas Medowe, Mayor, being the second elected the same +year. Bailiffs prior to this year were chosen instead of +Mayor.</p> +<p>Lord Huntingdon and George England, Esq., returned to +Parliament; also in 1686 and 1688.</p> +<p>Town Charters surrendered to Charles II.</p> +<h3><a name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +34</span>1685.</h3> +<p>May 1st. Earl of Yarmouth invited Sir A. Dean and Sir H. +Shiers to view the Haven and Piers. The latter was +presented at the “Three Feathers” Inn with 100 +guineas for his journey. He also visited the town in 1687, +accompanied by Lord Dartmouth, who recommended that a ship be +sunk, or jetty made, northward of the north Pier, to prevent the +sand from coming into the Haven, and that a basin be formed +westward of the “brush,” with a sluice to let out the +water forcibly into the Haven towards the latter ebb.</p> +<h3>1686.</h3> +<p>Lord Huntingdon and George England, Esq., elected by the +Freemen to serve in Parliament. The right of Freemen to +vote was ever acquiesced in by the Corporation.</p> +<h3>1687.</h3> +<p>Aug. 12th. Prince George of Denmark landed at Yarmouth, +and went post to Windsor.</p> +<p>James II. ejected 5 Aldermen and 12 Common Councilmen from the +Corporate Body; and in the following year 3 Aldermen and 4 +Councilmen, and placed others in their stead. This right of +displacing the Corporate body was reserved by the King.</p> +<h3>1688.</h3> +<p>June 24th. Tumult and riotous proceedings took place in +the town through the bigoted conduct of King James II.</p> +<p>Lord Huntingdon and G. England, Esq., again elected, and sent +to the Convention Parliament the same year. Re-elected in +1690 and 1695.</p> +<p>Prince George of Denmark’s regiment of Dragoons sent to +Yarmouth; and in 1696, two companies of Lieut.-General +Bellasis’ Royal Fusiliers were quartered in the town.</p> +<p>The office of Mayor ceased, and the Government of the town +again reverted to two Bailiffs, under King James II.’s +proclamation. This continued till the time of Queen +Anne. (See 1702.)</p> +<p>Haven expenses for the year, £2,323 5s. 4d.</p> +<h3><a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +35</span>1689.</h3> +<p>Feb. 16th. Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary +proclaimed in the Market Place.</p> +<p>George England and Samuel Fuller, Esqs., returned to +Parliament; also in 1695, 1698, and 1700.</p> +<h3>1690.</h3> +<p>May 16th. Edmund Thaxter, Alderman and twice Bailiff, +died, aged 62.</p> +<p>The Maces carried by the Mayor’s officers ordered to be +made. At New Romney are now (1884) two maces used here at +Herring Fair.</p> +<h3>1691.</h3> +<p>Anthony Ellys, Bishop of St. David’s, and author of +several theological works, was born at Yarmouth. Died in +1761.</p> +<h3>1692.</h3> +<p>Oct. 18th. William III. landed at Yarmouth, and received +with great enthusiasm. The Corporation spent £106 in +entertaining him.</p> +<p>All Boroughs were reduced by proclamation to the same state of +government as before the surrender of charters to Charles +II. (See 1702.)</p> +<p>Two hundred vessels and nearly 1,000 lives lost in one night +off this coast.</p> +<h3>1693.</h3> +<p>Sept. 11th. Thomas, second son of Sir George England, +Alderman and twice Bailiff, died, aged 48 years.</p> +<p>Oct. 28th. John Albertson, Esq., Alderman and Bailiff in +1655, died, aged 71 years.</p> +<h3>1694.</h3> +<p>A Bar having formed across the Harbour’s mouth, the +dangerous state of the Haven was made known by the beat of a +drum, and the inhabitants desired to cut and dig a +“gut” or trench through the Bar.</p> +<p>Proposed to break up the streets and lay pipes to supply the +inhabitants with spring water from a large reservoir, collected +from the wells on the Denes. Also in 1810. (See 1835 +and 1855.)</p> +<h3>1697.</h3> +<p>Corporation voted an address to the King upon his safe return, +and peace with the French King.</p> +<h3><a name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +36</span>1701.</h3> +<p>John Nicholson and John Burton, Esqs., returned to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1702.</h3> +<p>June 30th. George England, Esq., eldest son of Sir +George, died, aged 58 years. He was Recorder, and several +times member of Parliament for the Borough. (See 1693 and +1711.)</p> +<p>Fishermen’s Hospital (for 40 persons) erected by the +Corporation.</p> +<p>The Corporation obtained a new charter, granted by Queen Anne, +which again allowed them to choose a Mayor on Sept. 29th, instead +of two Bailiffs. (See 1692.)</p> +<p>Benjamin England and J. Nicholson, Esqs., returned to +Parliament; also in 1705.</p> +<h3>1703.</h3> +<p>July 3rd. Thomas Bradford, Esq., Mayor, died, aged 74 +years.</p> +<p>March 11th. Twenty-fifth and last Charter granted by +Queen Anne, re-appointing certain governors of the town. +(See 1684.) When the Parliamentary and Municipal Reform +Acts were passed (1832 and 1835), the Mayor was again required to +be chosen from the whole body of the Corporation, whether +Aldermen or Town Councillors.</p> +<p>A dreadful Fire broke out at the north end of the town, and +several houses were blown up to prevent its spreading.</p> +<h3>1704.</h3> +<p>April 30th. Thomas Godfrey, twice Bailiff and many years +Town Clerk of this Borough, died, aged 63 years. He was +succeeded by John Carlow, and at his decease in 1710 by Francis +Turner.</p> +<h3>1706.</h3> +<p>The expenses of Yarmouth Haven amounted to £2,710 7s. +5d.</p> +<h3>1707.</h3> +<p>April 27th. Thomas Bendish, Esq., died, aged 61 +years. He was a descendant of the ancient family of Sir +Thomas Bendish, Bart., of Essex, who was ambassador <a +name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>from Charles +II. to the Grand Seigneur. He married Bridget, daughter of +H. Ireton, Esq., of Ireton, for some time Lord Lieutenant of +Ireland.</p> +<h3>1708.</h3> +<p>Hon. Roger Townshend and Richard Ferrier, Esq., returned to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1709.</h3> +<p>A Quaker had his Burgess Letter on taking his solemn +<i>affirmation</i> only.</p> +<h3>1710.</h3> +<p>Nov. 7th. William Browne, Esq., Mayor, died, aged 46 +years.</p> +<p>Richard Ferrier and Benjamin England, Esqs., returned to +Parliament. Poll—F. 278; Eng. 269; Townshend 231; +Ellys 173. Also in 1713.</p> +<h3>1711.</h3> +<p>April 30th. Benjamin England, Esq., third son of Sir +George, died. He was several times Bailiff, Mayor, and +Member of Parliament for the Borough.</p> +<p>Henry Borrett, Esq., was Mayor, but dying before his term of +office was completed, Samuel Wakeman, Esq., was chosen.</p> +<p>Ordered that no license be granted to any person to draw or +retail ale or any other liquor at any house by the sea-side, +except during the fishing seasons.</p> +<h3>1712.</h3> +<p>Oct. 3rd. Twenty persons drowned on Breydon from the +upsetting of a wherry.</p> +<p>An Act obtained for making a causeway over the Denes from +Yarmouth to Caister.</p> +<h3>1713.</h3> +<p>The Charity School erected in the Market Place by a few +benevolent persons; and in 1724 the Corporation built two large +rooms.</p> +<p>First Town Hall built at a cost of £880. (See +April 20th, 1880, and May 31st, 1882.)</p> +<h3>1715.</h3> +<p>Mayors and Justices allowed to wear different gowns to those +of other Corporate members.</p> +<p><a name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 38</span>St. +George’s Episcopal Chapel finished building. The +contractors were Messrs. Price and Son, who built the Town +Hall. The Chapel was consecrated Dec. 8th, 1815. Cost +£3,800.</p> +<p>South Denes laid out as a race-course by John Holdrich and +other innkeepers of Yarmouth; but annual races not held till +1810.</p> +<p>Easter Fair held on Good Friday until this date, when the +Corporation ordered it to take place on the Friday following.</p> +<p>Geo. England, Esq., and the Hon. Horatio Townshend returned to +Parliament.</p> +<h3>1718.</h3> +<p>It was agreed that the two last and every succeeding Mayor +should receive £100 each, in lieu of the fishing +thousand.</p> +<p>The Vicar’s house built by the Corporation.</p> +<h3>1721.</h3> +<p>An Act passed enforcing half the amount of ordinary duties on +the Haven to be expended in improving the Haven, Piers, and +Jetties; one-fourth part to be expended in deepening and +cleansing the three rivers, and repairing the bridge and public +quays at Yarmouth; and the remaining fourth part in cleansing and +deepening Breydon.</p> +<h3>1722.</h3> +<p>Oct. 2nd. William Spooner, Bailiff, and afterwards +Mayor, died, aged 67 years.</p> +<p>Hon. Charles Townshend and Hon. Horatio Walpole returned to +Parliament. The latter created a Baronet in 1756.</p> +<h3>1723.</h3> +<p>Guildhall, near St. Nicholas’ Church, pulled down and +replaced by an unsightly building, where Corporate assemblies +were held till 1835.</p> +<h3>1724.</h3> +<p>The Charity School for 50 boys and 30 girls was built by +subscription. (See, 1713).</p> +<p>Jan. 28th. James Artis, Esq., Bailiff, Mayor, and +Captain of Fusiliers, died, aged 68 years.</p> +<h3><a name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +39</span>1724.</h3> +<p>Corbridge published his “West Prospect of +Yarmouth.” Buck published one in 1741; and +Laing’s Map came out in 1867.</p> +<h3>1726.</h3> +<p>July 14th. Mrs. Bridget Bendish, granddaughter of Oliver +Cromwell, died at Southtown.</p> +<h3>1727.</h3> +<p>Hon. W. Townshend and Hon. Horatio Walpole returned to +Parliament.</p> +<p>The <i>Norwich Mercury</i> of this date says:—“The +persons appointed for choosing a Mayor for the town of Great +Yarmouth (according to custom) were locked up in a room on +Tuesday last at 12 o’clock, and did not determine the +election till 9 o’clock on Thursday morning, when Samuel +Artis, Esq., a gentleman of known loyalty and integrity, was +declared Mayor-Elect for the year ensuing, to the great +disappointment of the Tories.”</p> +<h3>1729.</h3> +<p>The Pillory removed.</p> +<p>£50 raised by the town for the relief of the English +prisoners at Mequinez.</p> +<h3>1730.</h3> +<p>July. A remarkable storm and tempest; hailstones of +prodigious magnitude fell.</p> +<h3>1732</h3> +<p>Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, K.G., High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3>1733.</h3> +<p>Dec. 20th. Organ now at the Parish Church first +opened. The Rev. Thos. Macro, D.D., minister of Yarmouth, +preached the sermon on “The Melody of the +Heart.”—<i>Eph.</i> 5, 19 <i>verse</i>. (See +Jan. 25th, 1869.)</p> +<h3>1734.</h3> +<p>A poor fisherman named Danby obtained a verdict, with +£15 damages, against William Brown, Esq. (the Mayor), +Justice Artis, and Masters (the Bridewell man), for whipping and +false imprisoning the plaintiff.</p> +<p><a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 40</span>The +Mayor’s gold chain and medal appendant having the arms of +the Corporation on one side, and a ship under sail on the +reverse, to be worn by every Mayor for ever. (See +1746.) It was subscribed for. The cost of the chain +alone was £141 18s. 3d.</p> +<p>Organ at St. George’s Chapel built by Jordan.</p> +<p>Hon. Edward Walpole and the Hon. William Townshend returned to +Parliament, but the latter dying in 1737, was succeeded by his +brother, the Hon. Roger Townshend.</p> +<p>Sarah Johnson, a widow, was whipped upon a cart round the +Market Place, for stealing three gold rings and a silver +spoon. In 1763 two sailors were served in like manner, +receiving four lashes under each public-house sign for stealing +merchandise.</p> +<h3>1736.</h3> +<p>Elizabeth Thompson hanged for the murder of a Dutchman in the +Gaol-row.</p> +<h3>1737.</h3> +<p>Jan. 14th. George II. landed a few miles south of +Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1739.</h3> +<p>Sir R. Walpole sent 50 guineas to be expended in coal for the +poor.</p> +<p>Robert Ferrier appointed Town Clerk, and eleven years +afterwards he filled the civic chair.</p> +<h3>1740.</h3> +<p>Chris. Bernard, Esq., elected Mayor, but died before +completing his term of office.</p> +<p>Expenses of Yarmouth Haven were £3,299 15s. 9d.</p> +<p>Amelia Sophia de Walmoden, presumed to have been the mistress +of George II., was created Baroness and Countess of Yarmouth for +life. She died in 1750.</p> +<h3>1741.</h3> +<p>Hon. Roger Townshend and E. Walpole, Esq., returned to +Parliament. Votes—T., 400, W., 391; Howling Luston, +104; Richard Fuller, 97.</p> +<h3>1742.</h3> +<p>John Thacker hanged for killing John Auger with a pistol ball +in a shop near the “Wheel of Fortune.”</p> +<h3><a name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +41</span>1744.</h3> +<p>The inquest, chosen for electing a Mayor, locked up in the +Guildhall for ten days; in 1765, six days; in 1767, three days +and three nights; and in 1814, fifty-four hours.</p> +<p>Samuel Killett, Esq., Alderman, gave the Corporation of +Yarmouth a silver oar, double gilt, the insignia of the Admiralty +Court.</p> +<h3>1745.</h3> +<p>Ancient Order of Foresters first formed.</p> +<p>Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3>1746.</h3> +<p>Nov. 25th. Mayor’s medal appendant sold; its value +applied for adding links to the chain, the two being valued at +£166. (See 1734.)</p> +<h3>1747.</h3> +<p>Hon. E. Walpole and the Hon. Chas. Townshend elected to +Parliament.</p> +<p>The Cage or Stock-house removed.</p> +<h3>1748.</h3> +<p>Nov. 30th. John Dobson Tongue hanged for robbing Mr. +Halsden on the Southtown-road.</p> +<h3>1749.</h3> +<p>Oct. 13th. John Sullivan hanged for robbing Mrs. Meed on +the Denes.</p> +<h3>1750.</h3> +<p>John Barcham, mariner, executed for the murder of Robert +Bullen.</p> +<p>An Act passed appointing a committee of twelve inhabitants of +Yarmouth to inspect the Haven works, and to summon the +Commissioners in cases of need.</p> +<p>Mrs. Cromwell, lineally descended from Oliver Cromwell, died +at Yarmouth, at an advanced age.</p> +<p>A live infant named Sarah Pycraft found in a basket in St. +Nicholas’ Churchyard, and was taken to the Workhouse, where +she died 96 years afterwards.</p> +<h3>1751.</h3> +<p>George Walpole, Earl of Orford, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p><a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 42</span>Dr. +John Butler, minister at St. Nicholas’ Church, and +afterwards Bishop of Oxford and Hereford. He died in +1802.</p> +<p>An Act passed to open the port of Yarmouth for the importation +of wool and woollen yarn from Ireland.</p> +<h3>1752.</h3> +<p>Chris. Taylor, Esq., Mayor, died before completing his term of +office, and was succeeded by Giles Wakeman.</p> +<p>The Gallows-house on the North Denes removed.</p> +<h3>1753.</h3> +<p>Expenses of Yarmouth Haven amounted to £3,360 3s. +9d.</p> +<h3>1754.</h3> +<p>April 18th. Right Hon. C. Townshend and his former +colleague, then Sir E. Walpole, K.B., and Chief Secretary for +Ireland, elected to Parliament. Votes—T., 541; W., +518; R. Fuller, 397; and William Browne, 342.</p> +<p>Mr. Thos. Olivers made an unsuccessful attempt to introduce +Methodism into the town. He and a friend were assailed on +the Sunday with dirt, stones, and missiles of every description +without mercy, and driven out of the town. Mr. Howell +Harris made an attempt in 1760, which was more successful, though +at great risk of his life.</p> +<h3>1756.</h3> +<p>July 23rd. William Burton, M.D., died, aged 53.</p> +<p>Sept. 1st. Naval engagement off Lowestoft between H.M.S. +“Hazard” and a French privateer, “La +Subtille,” carrying 12 guns and 86 men. After six +hours the Frenchman struck off Winterton, and the next day +(Sunday) the prisoners were landed and lodged in gaol. By +undermining the prison wall, fourteen broke out, and only four +were retaken.</p> +<p>C. Townshend, Esq., of Honingham, a cousin to the Hon. +Charles, was elected to Parliament by a majority of 32 votes, on +the latter accepting the office of Treasurer of his +Majesty’s Chamber. Mr. C. Townshend was elected eight +times in thirty-three years.</p> +<h3><a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +43</span>1756.</h3> +<p>An Act for the better recovery of small debts within the +liberties of the Borough obtained.</p> +<h3>1758.</h3> +<p>Oct. 7th. Joseph Ames, F.R.S., died. He was born +at Yarmouth on Jan. 23rd, 1688, and was the author of +“Typographical Antiquities”; being an historical +account of printing in England, with memoirs of our ancient +printers, and a register of the books printed by them, from the +year 1471 to 1600, with an appendix concerning printing in +Scotland and Ireland to the same time. It was dedicated to +Philip, Earl of Hardwick, Lord High Chancellor of England. +He was originally a piano maker, and afterwards a ship chandler +at Wapping, which trade he carried on till his death. He +was a great lover of history. In 1741 was appointed +secretary of the Society of Antiquaries. Mr. Ames printed a +“Catalogue of English Printers from 1471 to 1700,” +“An Index to Lord Pembroke’s Coins,” also +“A Catalogue of English Heads, or an account of about 2,000 +prints,” describing what is peculiar on each; he drew up +the “Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of +Wren.” His collection of coins, curiosities, books, +&c., were sold in 1760. Among the latter was a copy of +Tindall’s New Testament, supposed to be the only one which +escaped the flames, when the Bishop of London (Tonstall) ordered +them to be burnt. <i>Vide</i> “Timperley’s +Encyclopedia of Literary and Typ. Anecdote,” 1842, p. +703.</p> +<h3>1759.</h3> +<p>Yarmouth Sea-baths built. Cost £2,000. A +handsome public room added in 1785.</p> +<p>Terrible affray with the 2nd Dragoons (Scotch Greys) and 6th +Irish Dragoons (Enniskilling), who were quartered in the +town. They attacked each other with swords.</p> +<h3>1761.</h3> +<p>John Willis, Esq., elected Mayor, but died before completing +his term of office.</p> +<p>Hon. Sir Edward Walpole, K.B., and C. Townshend, Esq., +returned to Parliament.</p> +<h3><a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +44</span>1762.</h3> +<p>The number of boys and girls at the Hospital School reduced +from 49 to 41.</p> +<h3>1763.</h3> +<p>Gorleston Parish, with the Hamlet of Southtown, in Mutford and +Lothingland Hundreds (Suffolk) incorporated for the maintenance +of the poor of its 24 parishes. Also by an amended Act in +1833.</p> +<h3>1765.</h3> +<p>Dec. 10th. Rev. Christopher Spendlove, sen., lecturer, +of Yarmouth, died, aged 69 years.</p> +<h3>1766.</h3> +<p>Jan. 8th. Much distress caused through the high price of +food, and a subscription was opened and liberally supported by +the inhabitants—60,138 quartern loaves, weighing 4 lbs. 14 +ozs., at 3d. each, distributed for three months, among the poor +till April 25th.</p> +<h3>1767.</h3> +<p>100 ft. of the Jetty carried away by high tide.</p> +<h3>1768.</h3> +<p>C. Townshend, Esq., returned to Parliament, with the Hon. +Richard Walpole. (Also in 1770, 1774, and 1780.)</p> +<h3>1769.</h3> +<p>Sept. 16th. Elizabeth Martin executed for the murder of +her illegitimate child.</p> +<h3>1770.</h3> +<p>April 18th. The day of John Wilkes’s releasement +from the Tower celebrated at Yarmouth with great +rejoicings. He was an eminent English politician.</p> +<p>Nov. 8th. Rev. John Manclarke, minister of the parish, +died, aged 38 years.</p> +<p>During a gale, thirty vessels and two hundred men lost.</p> +<p>Four of the Town Gates pulled down.</p> +<p>One guinea bounty offered to every able seaman at Yarmouth who +would join the fleet to suppress the war with Spain.</p> +<h3><a name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +45</span>1771.</h3> +<p>“Clappermen” appointed to watch the vessels in the +Harbour, and prevent any fire or light being used on board.</p> +<h3>1772.</h3> +<p>Jan. 11th. Henry Swinden, a diligent antiquary, who for +twenty years collected and digested a large mass of information +respecting his native town, author of “History of Great +Yarmouth,” died, the same year his work was published, and +while the last sheet was in the press, aged 55 years. (See +1776.)</p> +<h3>1774.</h3> +<p>Charles Townshend, Esq., and the Hon. Richard Walpole returned +to Parliament. Votes—T., 310; W., 310; W. Beckford, +218; Sir Charles Saunders, K.B., 216. In 1777, Charles +Townshend, Esq., vacated his seat, but was returned with W. +Beckford, Esq. Votes—T., 502; B., 199.</p> +<p>The overseers’ account for the past year, ending at +Easter, was—Money received, £2,694 16s.; money paid +(including everything, and a new building at £201 10s.) +left a balance in hand of £61 15s. 7d.</p> +<h3>1775.</h3> +<p>The “Nine houses” at Southtown built by John +Eggoty, on the site of public tea-gardens and cream house.</p> +<h3>1776.</h3> +<p>“The History and Antiquities of Yarmouth,” by the +Rev. Charles Parkin, M.A., Rector of Oxburgh, published.</p> +<p>John Ives, F.R.S., F.S.A., died. He was born at Yarmouth +in 1730, and became eminent for his skill in antiquarian +science. He published “Manship’s +History,” wrote the preface, and erected a marble monument +in St. Nicholas’ Church to Manship’s memory.</p> +<h3>1778.</h3> +<p>Dec. 4th. Theatre erected, and opened with the comedy of +the <i>English Merchant</i>. Building cost +£1,500. Renovated in 1828.</p> +<h3><a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +46</span>1779.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. A tremendous storm and flood, and much damage +done to shipping.</p> +<p>First Map of Yarmouth published by Mr. M. J. Armstrong. +It was prepared by Swinden in 1722.</p> +<h3>1780.</h3> +<p>March 6th. A Monthly Book Club established by the Rev. +R. Turner, B.D.</p> +<p>Armed Associations formed at Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1781.</h3> +<p>William Penn, a pirate, hanged in London, and afterwards put +on a gibbet on the North Denes.</p> +<p>Two batteries on the North Denes erected.</p> +<h3>1782.</h3> +<p>A fort erected on Gorleston heights, armed with six +24-pounders and a battery of nine 18-pounders, for the defence of +St. Nicholas’ Gat. An invasion expected.</p> +<p>The Fisheries protected by an armed force.</p> +<p>Parliamentary Reform agitated; and the town was filled with +troops, much to the annoyance of the inhabitants.</p> +<p>An Act passed for the better securing the duties payable on +the importation of coal and cinders.</p> +<p>The Norfolk Rangers first established.</p> +<h3>1783.</h3> +<p>The celebrated John Wesley preached in Yarmouth, and on Oct. +the 22nd opened a chapel. He paid the town several visits, +the last in 1790, not five months before his death in 1791. +Aged 87.</p> +<p>Right Hon. C. Townshend re-elected to Parliament.</p> +<h3>1784.</h3> +<p>First Census taken. Population 12,608.</p> +<p>Two vessels fitted out for the Greenland whale fishery.</p> +<p>Mr. S. Bream, of Yarmouth, advocated the extension of the +North Pier for the removal of the Bar. Mr. J. Nichalls, an +engineer, suggested in a report that the river should be +straightened, and a weir placed across the river near its +junction with Breydon.</p> +<h3><a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +47</span>1784.</h3> +<p>June 22nd. A great part of the outward wall of the east +end of the Parish Church fell down, and destroyed the tombs and +gravestones to some distance.</p> +<p>Mr. Barrett died, aged 100 years.</p> +<p>Oct. The Prince of Wales (afterwards Geo. IV.) invited +by the Corporation to dine at the Town Hall. Not +accepted.</p> +<p>Sir John Jervis, K.B., returned to Parliament with H. Beaufoy, +Esq.</p> +<h3>1785.</h3> +<p>Another town gate pulled down.</p> +<p>The Dutch sent over 87 boats for the herring fishery off our +coast.</p> +<p>Wooden drawbridge across the stream near the Town Hall built, +and existed till 1843.</p> +<h3>1786.</h3> +<p>Second drawbridge connecting Yarmouth with Southtown over the +Yare re-built and opened to the public.</p> +<p>Josiah Curtis appointed town crier, an office which he held +for 32 years.</p> +<h3>1788.</h3> +<p>Martha Stanninot, a peculiar woman known as “Queen +Martha,” who fancied she should be Queen of England, lived +and died in Row 28.</p> +<h3>1789.</h3> +<p>Nov. 1st. Forty vessels driven ashore between Yarmouth +and Southwold; 80 fishing boats wrecked, and 120 bodies washed +ashore between Yarmouth and Cromer.</p> +<p>An appointed day of thanksgiving for the King’s +recovery, and the town illuminated.</p> +<p>Seven hundred lasts of herrings taken by 180 boats.</p> +<h3>1790.</h3> +<p>June 18th. Right Hon. Charles Townshend and Henry +Beaufoy, Esq., returned to Parliament. Votes—T., 632; +B., 455; J. T. Sandys, 182.</p> +<p>A pottery established at Yarmouth.</p> +<h3>1791.</h3> +<p>George Townshend, Marquis Townshend, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 48</span>Feb. +3rd. Part of the Jetty carried away by a destructive high +tide, and the Denes under water. On the Southtown-road the +water was deep enough for boats to ply.</p> +<p>Oct. 27th. Riot on account of the dearness of +provisions, but suppressed by the magistrates.</p> +<h3>1792.</h3> +<p>Feb. 7th. House of Commons petitioned by Yarmouth for +the abolition of slave trade.</p> +<p>May 29th. The “Church and King Club” +established, and first meeting held at the +“Wrestler’s Inn.”</p> +<p>Dec. Meeting held in Yarmouth, pledging themselves to +support the Constitution of King, Lords, and Commons, as +established in 1688.</p> +<h3>1793.</h3> +<p>Feb. 11th. Embargo laid on all vessels at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th. H.M.S. “Savage” brought in the +French privateer, “Custine,” she being the first +prize taken in the war.</p> +<p>Matthew Champion died at the age of 111 years.</p> +<p>The title of Earl of Yarmouth was revived as the secondary +title of the Marquis of Hertford.</p> +<h3>1794.</h3> +<p>July. Subscription entered into and a benefit play +performed at Yarmouth, for the relief of the widows and orphans +of those killed on board the fleet in Lord Howe’s victory +on June 1st.</p> +<h3>1795.</h3> +<p>May 29th. On the death of H. Beaufoy, Esq., Colonel S. +Howe was elected to Parliament with George Anson, Esq. +Votes—H., 483; A., 347.</p> +<p>Sir Edmund Lacon, Knt., Mayor. This hon. gentleman was +knighted for quelling the riot which began in the Market Place, +occasioned by the high price of provisions.</p> +<p>The Distillery, on the site of the Silk Factory purchased by +Government, and Barracks made of wood, erected there for 1,600 +men.</p> +<p><a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 49</span>Jan. +19th. The illustrious fugitive, the Princess of Orange, +with her daughter-in-law, little granddaughter, and the +child’s nurse, accompanied by two gentlemen, embarked on +board a fishing boat. They took up their quarters in the +hold of the vessel, and were covered with the sails as a defence +against the inclement weather. After being safely landed at +Yarmouth, the military were drawn up, and their Royal Highnesses +driven twice round the Market Place, and then entertained by the +Mayor. The Prince unexpectedly came also and took his wife +away. The next day the Duke of York visited Yarmouth for +the purpose of welcoming them, and, though disappointed, was +enthusiastically received by the inhabitants.</p> +<p>Another unfortunate Princess near landing on our shore. +Princess Caroline of Brunswick, accompanied by the English envoy, +Lord Malmesbury, embarked at Cuxhaven on board the +“Jupiter,” 50 guns, and through stress of weather +came within six leagues of the Beach.</p> +<p>A line of packets to Cuxhaven was started from our Port, and +the Dover and Harwich packets removed.</p> +<p>Congratulatory address from the Corporation and inhabitants of +Yarmouth presented to George III. on his escape from the attack +made on his person while proceeding to Parliament House.</p> +<h3>1796.</h3> +<p>June. Lord C. P. T. Townshend and Colonel S. Howe +returned to Parliament. Lord Charles on the day following +his election was found dead in his carriage, shot in the mouth by +a pistol ball. The same year (Oct. 26th), Major-General W. +Loftus and H. Jodrell, Esq., were elected to Parliament. +Votes—L., 599; J., 561; Sir J. Jervis, K.B., 418.</p> +<p>June 25th. First time that a squadron of men-of-war +ships entered Yarmouth Roads. There were 13 British and 3 +Russian, under the command of Admiral Macbride.</p> +<p><a name="page50"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 50</span>Freedom +of the Borough presented to Captain Trollope, for defeating 8 +French ships of war off the coast of Holland.</p> +<p>Aug. 19th. Whilst Thelwall, a political lecturer, was +declaiming in a room at Yarmouth, a party of armed sailors from +the ships in the Roads broke in, and in their attempt to seize +the orator, knocked down every person who opposed them. +Upwards of 40 persons were wounded in the scuffle; the orator +escaped unhurt.</p> +<h3>1797.</h3> +<p>June 1st. Mutiny on board the North Sea Fleet at +Yarmouth, and several sail of the line hoisted the red flag of +defiance.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th. Admiral Duncan assumed the command of the +North Sea Fleet in the Roadstead, <i>vice</i> Admiral +Macbride.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd. Admiral Duncan put into Yarmouth Roads, and +six days afterwards went in search of the Dutch fleet, which was +totally defeated (Oct. 11th) off Camperdown. The British +fleet returned in triumph to Yarmouth Roads, bringing seven sail +of the line as prizes. The wounded men were landed and +conveyed to the Barracks and to Norwich—there being no +Naval Hospital. Yarmouth for several days was thronged with +visitors to see the victorious British fleet and their +prizes. A subscription was raised on behalf of the +wounded.</p> +<p>A high tide nearly demolished the Bath House.</p> +<p>Somerset Militia quartered in the town.</p> +<p>Captain Rysoort, of the “Hercules” (one of Admiral +Duncan’s prizes), died in Yarmouth, and was buried with +military honours.</p> +<p>A boat on the river Breydon upset, and six out of seven youths +drowned.</p> +<p>Freedom of the town presented to Lord Duncan and Sir Richard +Onslow for their victories over the Dutch fleet; also to Earl St. +Vincent for the victory over the Spanish fleet on the 14th of +February.</p> +<p>Mutiny broke out at the Nore, and extended itself to the +vessels in Yarmouth Roads, but was quickly suppressed.</p> +<h3><a name="page51"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +51</span>1798.</h3> +<p>Mar. 2nd. Through financial pressure at the Bank of +England, Yarmouth banks paid in their own notes, and fractional +parts were paid in specie.</p> +<p>Two Volunteer Companies of Yeomanry Cavalry formed at Yarmouth +under Samuel Barker and H. Worship, Esqs.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. Intelligence of Admiral Viscount +Nelson’s ever memorable victory off the mouth of the Nile +received at Yarmouth with great rejoicing.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. The <i>Times</i> says: At half-past twelve the +following men-of-war in Yarmouth Roads got under weigh to cruise +off the Texel:—“Monarch,” 74 guns, Admiral Sir +Richard Onslow, Captain Sutton; “Monmouth,” 64, +Deane; “Belligneux,” 64, England; +“Ardent,” 64, Bertie; “Agamemnon,” 64, +Fancourt. Remaining in the Roads:—“Kent,” +74, Lord Duncan; “Ganges,” 74, Captain +M’Dowall; “America,” 64, Smith; +“Veteran,” 64, Mosse; “Glatton,” 54, +Cobb; with the “Europa” and “Mististoff” +men-of-war.</p> +<h3>1799.</h3> +<p>Sept. 28th. The Duke of York’s army returned from +an unsuccessful campaign, and the Guards and 24 other regiments, +comprising 25,000 troops (infantry and cavalry), were landed at +Yarmouth on their return from Holland.</p> +<p>An embargo laid on all shipping at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Hospital for sick and wounded soldiers erected on the site of +Grout’s Silk Factory. The wounded from Copenhagen +were taken here.</p> +<h3>1800.</h3> +<p>Sept. 25th. Freedom of the Borough voted to Sir A. +Dickson and Mr. Pitt.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th. Admiral Lord Nelson landed here after the +battle of Aboukir, having been absent 2½ years from his +native county, and was presented with an enthusiastic welcome and +the freedom of the town. He stayed at the +“Wrestler’s” Inn, Church Plain, and in a speech +he made there, said, “I am myself a Norfolk man, and I +glory in being so.” When he subsequently visited the +Parish Church, the organ played, “See the <a +name="page52"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 52</span>Conquering +Hero comes.” He was accompanied by Lady and Sir +William Hamilton.</p> +<p>Nov. 20th. The herring fishery off Yarmouth was +unusually productive this year, the catch being so great that one +of Mr. Batley’s boats, after taking on board 14 lasts, was +obliged to throw two lasts overboard.</p> +<h3>1801.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. This day being the first of the 19th century, +and the day on which the union of Great Britain and Ireland took +place, the Durham Militia fired a <i>feu de joie</i> at Yarmouth; +and the ships in the Roadstead gave a royal salute and hoisted +their new colours in honour of the union.</p> +<p>Mar. 7th. The St. “George,” carrying 98 +guns, and bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, arrived in the +Roadstead.</p> +<p>Mar. 12th. The grand fleet of 47 ships of war, with +3,000 mariners, under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker in +the “London,” 98 guns, with Lord Nelson as his +Vice-Admiral, sailed from Yarmouth, and proceeded, after they had +been joined by seven sail of the line in Leith Roads, to +Copenhagen to destroy the Danish navy.</p> +<p>Mar. 16th. The “Invincible,” 74 guns (built +in 1766), Rear-Admiral Totty, on her way to join the grand fleet, +got on the ridge near Hasbro’ Sand, and remained till +daybreak next morning, but had no sooner floated into deep water +than she went down with her captain (J. Lawford), several +officers, and about 300 men. By the exertions of Daniel +Grigson, master of the cod-smack, “Nancy,” the +Admiral, 7 officers, and about 190 of the crew, were saved.</p> +<p>April 14th. Intelligence received at Yarmouth of the +destruction of the Danish navy in Copenhagen by the British +fleet, on April 2nd, after four hours’ fighting. +Great rejoicing in this town and country generally.</p> +<p>July 1st. Owing to Lord Nelson’s ill-health he +again landed at the Jetty from the gun-brig, +“Kite.”</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. The Prince of Orange arrived at Yarmouth from +London, and on the 6th sailed in the packet “Diana,” +for Cuxhaven.</p> +<p><a name="page53"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 53</span>Census +taken. Population of Yarmouth, 14,854; with Gorleston and +Southtown, 16,573.</p> +<p>The batteries erected on the verge of the beach, and mounted +with 32-pounders. The harbour was also defended on each +side by two bastions of a mural construction. They were +dismounted after the general peace, and guns returned to +Woolwich.</p> +<h3>1802.</h3> +<p>Jan. 6th. The Public Library first instituted by a +certain number of subscribers. In 1808 the Corporation +granted the lease of the present building. The Dutch clock +(removed in 1861) was erected on the exterior in 1600, when the +building was used as a Dutch Chapel by the Hollanders; was +afterwards used as an English Chapel, and previous to the Theatre +being built the back premises were converted into a room for +dramatic entertainments. New Reading Room opened Feb. 19th, +1859.</p> +<p>May 5th. The town illuminated on the proclamation of +peace.</p> +<p>May 24th. The Duke of Cambridge sailed from Yarmouth in +the frigate, “Amphion,” for Hanover, of which kingdom +he was appointed Regent. (See June 13th, 1803.)</p> +<p>June 28th. Custom House opened.</p> +<p>July. Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Trowbridge, Bart., and +Thomas Jervis, Esq., returned to Parliament. The boat built +for Sir Thomas to be chaired in, made of oak, 14 ft. long, and 3 +ft. 9 in. wide, is still preserved (1884). On the stern is +“Trowbridge and the Navy,” under which is a naval +crown and trophy. It was built by Mr. James Hurry.</p> +<p>Three hundred persons impressed, but 250 were afterwards +liberated. (See 1805.)</p> +<p>Montgomeryshire and Cheshire Militia left the town.</p> +<h3>1803.</h3> +<p>May 5th. An active press at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>May 16th. Embargo laid on all vessels in the Roads.</p> +<p>June 13th. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge and suite left +Yarmouth for Norwich. They came in the same <a +name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>frigate which +brought Prince William of Gloucester from Cuxhaven, where their +Royal Highnesses were nearly being made prisoners by the advanced +guard of the French army. Had they remained there another +hour they would have shared the fate of the Hanoverian +army. The French General in Holland put an immense number +of fishing boats in requisition for the avowed purpose of +invading England.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th. The Volunteer Regiments in Norfolk and +Norwich resolved to perform permanent duty in Yarmouth in case of +an invasion, and on Nov. the 9th two troops of Norfolk Rangers +(established 1782), headed by the Marquis Townshend, the Lord +Lieutenant, and commanded by Captain Sir M. B. Ffolkes, Bart., +and Capt. Beauchamp, marched to Yarmouth on permanent duty; also +the Norwich and the Fakenham Volunteers.</p> +<p>Nov. 5th. The Lord Lieutenants of the maritime counties +received warrants under his Majesty’s sign-manual, +commanding them, “as there was actual appearance of +invasion,” to give the necessary orders in pursuance of the +late statute, that on the approach of the enemy all waggons and +carts, cattle, and stores of corn, likely to fall into their +hands, be removed or destroyed, and also that all women and +children be likewise removed. The proprietors to be +indemnified.</p> +<p>Nov. 7th. Lieut.-Col. Harvey’s battalion of +Norwich Volunteers arrived here for garrison duty; also the +Norfolk Rangers and Norwich and Fakenham Corps.</p> +<p>Nov. 10th. The Yarmouth Volunteer Infantry received +their colours (presented by the Corporation) from the hands of +the Mayoress.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th. On the Norwich Volunteers’ return to +Norwich, this regiment was succeeded in their fortnight’s +garrison duty by the Yarmouth Volunteer Infantry (550), commanded +by Lieut.-Colonel Gould.</p> +<p>Dec. 15th. The Lynn and Freebridge Yeomanry Cavalry, +with the Artillery and Rifle Corps, marched through Norwich to +Yarmouth, to relieve the Dereham and South Erpingham troops.</p> +<p><a name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 55</span>Dec. +22nd. The Dereham and Swaffham troops of Yeomanry Cavalry +marched through Norwich for Yarmouth, to relieve the Lynn and +Freebridge troops; and the Diss, North Walsham, Wells, and Old +Buckenham Volunteer Companies of Infantry marched into Yarmouth +for a fortnight’s duty.</p> +<p>Dec. 30th. The Hingham and Wymondham troops marched to +Yarmouth, to relieve the Swaffham and Dereham troops.</p> +<p>Tower and spire of St. Nicholas’ Church removed; rebuilt +in 1807 at a cost of £1,890. (See 1806.)</p> +<p>The Militia regiments of the county assembled at Yarmouth and +were embodied.</p> +<h3>1804.</h3> +<p>April 4th. The “Antelope,” (Commodore Sir W. +Sydney Smith,) the brig “Cruizer,” and the cutter +“Prince of Wales,” arrived at Yarmouth, from the +Flushing station, which made an unsuccessful attempt to cut out +an armed brig near the Scaw. They were attacked by an armed +schooner, and obliged to abandon their enterprize, with the loss +of five killed and ten wounded.</p> +<p>April 11th. Rear-Admiral Sir W. Sydney Smith left +Yarmouth for Norwich. The hero of St. Jean d’Acre +proceeded next day on a tour of the country before accompanying +the King of Portugal to Brazil.</p> +<p>May 2nd. The gibbet on which Payne was hung in 1781 +taken down by order of the Corporation.</p> +<p>May 14th. Lynn Volunteers and (May 26th) North Walsham +Light Infantry, came for a fortnight’s training.</p> +<p>The first newspaper, <i>The Yarmouth Herald</i>, printed in +the town by a Mr. Black.</p> +<p>May 23rd. Blickling and Gunton Rifle Corps arrived here +for a fortnight’s garrison duty.</p> +<p>May 25th. A general fast observed. The Shropshire +Militia and the Volunteers at Yarmouth (nearly 25,000 men) +attended divine service.</p> +<p>May 26th. The sloop “Helena,” 20 guns, and +on Sept. 4th the brig “Musquito,” 18 guns, launched +from Mr. J. Preston’s yard.</p> +<p><a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 56</span>Sept. +6th. Sloop of war “Cygnet,” 18 guns, launched +from Mr. Nathaniel Palmer’s yard.</p> +<p>Oct. 28th. Lord Viscount Chedworth, of Ipswich, died +worth £500,000. Thomas Penrice, Esq., surgeon, of +Yarmouth, was left a legacy of £20,000 and also residuary +legatee, by which he came into possession of at least +£300,000.</p> +<p>Nov. 26th. The Corporation and merchants of Yarmouth +voted their thanks to Captain Hancock and his officers for +capturing the notorious Blackman, who commanded a French +privateer of 18 guns, and 98 prisoners were also taken.</p> +<p>Nov. 22nd. The “Romney,” 50 guns, which +sailed from Yarmouth Roadstead on the 18th with bullocks and +vegetables for the blockading fleet off the Texel, under Admiral +Russell, was lost in a dreadful gale of wind on the South Haak +Sand. All the officers and crew saved themselves on rafts, +but were made prisoners by the Dutch. The officers were +afterwards liberated on their parole by the Dutch Admiral +Kikkert.</p> +<p>William Gould, Esq., appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 6th +(Yarmouth) Norfolk Volunteer Infantry.</p> +<p>Night signals established along the coast, and special +constables sworn in at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Yarmouth Volunteer Infantry embodied for 14 days’ +garrison duty.</p> +<p>The Rows first numbered; they formerly bore the names of +houses in or near them, or persons living near them.</p> +<p>The public mind was much excited by a possible French +Invasion, under Napoleon, and many Volunteer and Militia +Regiments of Norfolk and Suffolk did garrison duty here.</p> +<p>The Gorleston Volunteers had a field day, when the +manœuvres were done in a masterly style, under Captain J. +B. Bell. They afterwards dined at the +“Feathers” Inn.</p> +<p>Hay was sold at £4 10s. per ton.</p> +<p>The winter was a very severe one, more intense than in +1740. Coals were 2s. a chaldron.</p> +<p><a name="page57"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 57</span>Capt. +Dickens, of the Shropshire Militia, walked from the +“Angel” Inn, at Yarmouth, to the “Angel” +Inn, at Norwich, and back again (47 miles) in 11½ hours, +for a wager.</p> +<p>A very large sale of 50 prize ships was advertised to take +place at Yarmouth on the 25th. These were principally Dutch +vessels used as privateers and fishing vessels, and the +description of them took about one column of space. No +auctioneer was named, but catalogues were to be had of Mr. A. H. +Steward, of Great Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Mr. Aldred, of Yarmouth, met with a serious loss by being +robbed in Long Lane, Smithfield, of notes, bills, and jewellery, +to the amount of £2,000. He was seized from behind a +chaise by a daring street robber, who eluded the vigilance of the +police.</p> +<h3>1805.</h3> +<p>April 27th. Two gun-brigs, 14 guns each, built in Mr. J. +Preston’s yard, launched.</p> +<p>May 9th. One of the sharpest presses ever remembered in +Yarmouth took place. No fewer than 300 persons of the town +were impressed, of whom only about 50 were ultimately +detained. (See 1802.)</p> +<p>Nov. 7th. Intelligence received of the glorious victory +over the combined fleets of France and Spain, off Cape Trafalgar, +on the 21st of October, though purchased by the +ever-to-be-lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, +who was born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, September 29th, +1758. Congratulatory addresses were voted to his Majesty by +Yarmouth; <i>feu de joie</i> fired by the military and +volunteers.</p> +<p>Several regiments of Volunteers did garrison duty in the town +till relieved by the Shropshire Militia.</p> +<h3>1806.</h3> +<p>April 19th. The frigate, “Boreas,” 28 guns, +launched from Messrs. Stone and Constance’s yard; the +sloop, “Ariel,” 18 guns, from Mr. N. Palmer’s +yard.</p> +<p>June 9th. Vice-Admiral Russell, accompanied by several +officers of the North Sea Fleet who were stationed at Yarmouth, +visited Norwich.</p> +<p><a name="page58"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 58</span>July +26th. French frigate “La Guerrière,” +brought into the Roadstead by the frigate +“Blanche.” The former was captured on the 18th, +after a desperate action of 45 minutes; she had taken eight +Greenlandmen and one Yarmouth vessel, all of which she +destroyed.</p> +<p>Aug. 14th. Frigate “Comus,” launched from +Messrs. Constance and Co.’s yard.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th. Hon. E. Harbord (second son of Lord Suffield) +and Stephen Lushington, Esq., returned to Parliament, but on June +25th, 1808, Dr. Lushington vacated his seat in favour of Giffin +Wilson, Esq.</p> +<p>An Act of Parliament passed for repairing the Parish Church of +Great Yarmouth and rebuilding the tower belonging to it. +(See 1803.)</p> +<p>Southtown Armoury built by Wyatt, at a cost of +£15,000. During the war 10,000 stand of arms were +arranged in it, after the disposition observed in the Tower of +London. After the war the arms were removed to the +Tower.</p> +<p>The gun-brig, “Fancy,” built in Mr. J. +Preston’s yard.</p> +<h3>1807.</h3> +<p>Feb. 17th. Gun-brig “Snipe,” with 30 French +prisoners on board, wrecked on the Beach. Many of them were +drowned, together with part of her crew and some women, in all +upwards of 60. There were several other wrecks, for the +wind blew a hurricane, and a drifting snow rendered the highways +for a time impassable.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. Capt. G. W. Manby, barrack-master at +Yarmouth, first succeeded in projecting a line over a stranded +vessel; and on Feb. 12th, 1808, seven lives were saved from a +vessel 150 yards from the Beach. Parliament rewarded him at +different times with grants amounting to £6,000. He +was born at Hilgay, Norfolk. Captain Manby, at the age of +88 years, had the satisfaction of knowing that he had been +instrumental in saving upwards of 1,000 lives in various parts of +the world by his invention. The two ingenious painters (the +Joys), brothers and sons of a mail-guard, owed much of their fame +to the <a name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +59</span>patronage and assistance afforded them in their youth by +Captain Manby.</p> +<p>May 9th. Hon. E. Harbord and S. Lushington, Esq., +returned to Parliament. Votes—H., 627; L., 604; +William Jacob, 341; A. Upcher, 21.</p> +<p>July 3rd. Mrs. Cooper, relict of the Rev. D. Cooper, of +Yarmouth, died. This lady, with an ardent desire to +inculcate Christian morality, penned several publications, viz., +“Fanny Meadows,” “The Daughter,” +“The School for Wives,” and “Exemplary +Mother.”</p> +<p>July 26th. The fleet, under Lord Gambier and +Vice-Admiral Stanhope (69 pennants in all), sailed from Yarmouth +Roads. Sir W. Sidney Smith sailed in Gambier’s +flag-ship, “Prince of Wales,” 98 guns. Soon +afterwards was fought the second battle of Copenhagen (Sept. +7th). Most of their prizes were brought to +Yarmouth—64 vessels mounting 1,994 guns.</p> +<p>Aug. 14th. E. H. K. Lacon born. He was educated at +Cambridge, and created a baronet in 1820 on the death of his +father.</p> +<p>Sept. 7th. Norwich Volunteer Infantry marched to +Yarmouth for garrison duty.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th. Several transports lost off Yarmouth and +Lowestoft.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. Privateer “Le Décide” +brought into this port by the frigate +“L’Amiable.” She had made no less than 30 +prizes.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. Louis XVIII. (under the title of Count de +Lille) landed at Yarmouth from a Swedish frigate. The Dukes +d’Angouleme and De Berri, and several French noblemen, came +with him. This was the first time since the memorable +battle of Poictiers, in 1356, that a King of France had been in +England.</p> +<p>Dec. A Telegraph erected upon the hill at Thorpe +communicating with Yarmouth. An order from the Admiralty +Office in London was received at Yarmouth in seventeen +minutes.</p> +<p>North Gate removed to widen the roadway. It was flanked +with square towers of curious workmanship.</p> +<p><a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 60</span>One +hundred and forty-four dead bodies washed ashore in this vicinity +after a heavy gale.</p> +<p>A new peal of ten bells put in the tower of St. +Nicholas’ Church, and first rung out on May 2nd, +1808. Cost £1,161 8s. 4d. The spire of the +Church was also rebuilt the same year.</p> +<h3>1808.</h3> +<p>Jan. 10th. Lord Hutchinson and Lord Gower landed here +from the “Bellette” sloop-of-war, from St. +Petersburgh.</p> +<p>March 30th. Silver eel, 6 ft. long and 21 in. in girth, +and weighing 42lbs., caught a mile below Yarmouth bridge in the +harbour.</p> +<p>May 10th. Expedition, consisting of 105 transports, +under Admiral Keats, left the Roadstead for the Baltic and the +protection of Sweden. Sir John Moore commanded the +troops. He sailed in the “Mars,” and +Major-Generals Paget and Murray in the +“Audacious.”</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. First pile of the present Jetty driven, and +finished building and opened to the public Jan. 13th, 1809, at a +cost of £5,000; 450 ft. long, and platform 21 ft. +wide. Extended 60 ft. in 1846 at a cost of about +£900, and again 60 ft. in 1870 at a further cost of +£859 10s. Constructed on the site of one built in +1560.</p> +<p>Charles Townshend, Lord Bayning, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>Shropshire and Cambridgeshire Militia left the town.</p> +<h3>1809.</h3> +<p>Jan. 28th. Owing to a rapid thaw and the inundation of +the meadows the barges proceeding from Norwich to Yarmouth were +obliged to return, because the men were unable to find the +channel of the river.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th. Fiftieth anniversary of George III.’s +reign celebrated in Yarmouth as a jubilee.</p> +<p>One thousand four hundred and sixty-four pounds of fresh +salmon from Scotland landed in one day, and sold in Yarmouth +market owing to the embargo on all shipping.</p> +<p>A very productive herring fishery.</p> +<h3><a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +61</span>1810.</h3> +<p>May 10th. Vice-Admiral Sir J. Saumarez’s fleet +left the Roadstead for the Baltic; also the “Victory” +(100 guns) and seven other sail of the line.</p> +<p>May 20th. The Eight Hon. Charles, Lord Bayning, of +Honingham Hall, a Privy Councillor and High Steward of Yarmouth, +died in London, aged 81 years.</p> +<p>Aug. Yarmouth Annual Races first established by the +Officers of the Berkshire Militia.</p> +<p>Berkshire Militia left the town.</p> +<p>Mrs. Hunter died, aged 102.</p> +<p>By the Paving Act, provision was made against placing +materials on the Quays or other public places for a longer time +than was necessary for removing and housing the same.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. The Beach from Yarmouth to Wells covered with +wrecks and dead bodies after a heavy gale. Another gale and +high tide on the 10th, and many vessels and lives lost.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. Gustavus Adolphus IV., ex-King of Sweden, who +had abdicated his throne, landed on the Beach from the sloop +“Tartar.” He assumed the title of Count +Guttorp, and afterwards proceeded to London.</p> +<h3>1811.</h3> +<p>March 28th. Count Guttorp sailed from Yarmouth on his +return to the Continent.</p> +<p>Vice-Admiral Murray appointed to the Naval command of +Yarmouth. In 1815 Admiral Drake was appointed Port-Admiral +of Yarmouth, the last who held the appointment.</p> +<p>Census taken. Population of Yarmouth, 17,977; with +Gorleston and Southtown, 19,691.</p> +<p>The Royal Hospital or Asylum built by Government at a cost of +£120,000. Foundation-stone laid by Admiral Billy +Douglas in 1809. (See 1815.) The building was erected +by Mr. Peto (father of Sir S. Morton Peto), from designs by H. +Parkington, Esq., for a naval Hospital. The 11 acres of +ground to the east cost the Government £11,000 in 1875.</p> +<h3>1812.</h3> +<p>March 13th. The South Gate sold for £26 to +Jonathan Poppy.</p> +<p><a name="page62"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 62</span>July +27th. General Viscount Cathcart’s embassy to the +Court of Russia left the Roadstead in the frigate +“Aquilon.” Lord Walpole, secretary of Legation +to Lord Cathcart, sailed in the “Calipso” to the +headquarters of the Russian army.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th. Edmund Knowles Lacon and William Loftus, +Esqs., returned to Parliament. Votes—Lacon, 607; +Loftus, 387; G. Wilson, 329.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. Tremendous gale, and eight vessels driven +ashore in the vicinity.</p> +<p>A. Royals died, aged 103.</p> +<h3>1813.</h3> +<p>Feb. A high wind blew down and completely demolished the +Conventual Church at Gorleston, dedicated to St. Nicholas.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. Gorleston steeple (about 100 ft. high), which +stood near the Haven’s mouth as an immemorial sea-mark, was +blown down in a gale.</p> +<p>March 24th. Volunteer Corps of Infantry disbanded, and +deposited their arms in store on the establishment of the local +Militia.</p> +<p>April 15th. Prince of Orange landed at the Jetty.</p> +<p>April 29th. H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland arrived at +Yarmouth, and embarked on board the frigate “Nymphen” +for the Continent.</p> +<p>July 4th. News of Wellington’s victory over the +French at Vittoria in Spain received here with great +rejoicings.</p> +<p>Aug. 10th. First steam barge proceeded from Yarmouth to +Norwich at the rate of five miles per hour.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. Regent Street formed and opened at a cost of +£30,000. Before the opening of this street there was +no roadway between King Street and the Quay, except +Fuller’s Hill and Friar’s Lane, the latter of which +was widened in 1866.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. Great rejoicing at Yarmouth on the splendid +victories gained over the French in Spain and Germany.</p> +<p>The Lancasterian or British School erected; enlarged in +1861.</p> +<p><a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 63</span>William +III. landed at the Jetty.</p> +<p>North Mayo Militia left the town, and the Wexford Militia the +following year.</p> +<p>Sept. 3rd. John Hannah (70) tried at the Yarmouth +Sessions for the murder of Elizabeth, his wife, he being the last +man executed in the town for murder. A bill issued, with +the imprint of Clark, Broad Row, Yarmouth, read as follows: +“Monday Morning, Sept. 6th, at about 11 +o’clock. Everything being ready, the prisoner, +attended by the gaoler and a number of constables, with a great +concourse of spectators, moved from the Gaol at 11.15. They +went at a slow pace, and at the entrance of Regent Street were +joined by the Mayor and other Borough Officers. It was past +12 o’clock when the prisoner arrived at the place of +execution; on his way thither he was perfectly composed, turning +from one side to the other, viewing the populace. After +ascending the scaffold, he spent some time in prayer, and when +the hangman had placed the rope round his neck, he was asked if +he had anything farther to say. He then confessed as +follows: ‘That he was the murderer of his wife by +strangling her with his hands, and not with a rope, as had been +stated; he said they had lived a very uncomfortable life for many +years past, owing to his wife giving her company to other men, +which was the cause of his committing the murder.’ +The instant before being turned off, he particularly requested to +see his daughter, when he was informed it was not possible, as +she was confined in Bedlam; he also desired the gaoler to look +under the step of the cell, and he would there find four +shillings and sixpence. A signal was then given, and the +unhappy man was immediately launched into eternity. The +body, after hanging the usual time, was delivered to the surgeons +for dissection. The gaoler, on his return, found the money +as described in the cell.”</p> +<h3>1814.</h3> +<p>July 6th. Peace proclaimed at Yarmouth; Mayor and +Corporation went in procession, and at night the town was +illuminated.</p> +<p><a name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 64</span>The +Duke of Clarence (afterwards King William IV.), accompanied by +his Duchess (Queen Adelaide), landed at Yarmouth, and stayed one +night at the “Angel Hotel.”</p> +<p>March 11th. Henry Joddrell, Esq., Bayfield Hall, many +years Recorder and Representative of Yarmouth, Chairman of the +Norfolk Quarter Sessions, died in London.</p> +<p>April 21st. Restoration of Louis XVIII. to the throne of +France. The inhabitants of Yarmouth subscribed £1,106 +8s. 6d., for providing a grand dinner to all the inhabitants who +chose to partake of it. Fifty-eight tables were spread in +the open air along the Hall and South Quays, at which 8,028 +persons were seated, and made an excellent dinner of roast beef +and plum-pudding. A man personating Neptune in a car +attended by Tritons and other deities paraded the town, headed by +a band of music. In the evening a large bonfire was made on +the North Denes, in which the effigy of Napoleon was consumed +amidst much rejoicing, and in the presence of nearly 30,000 +persons.</p> +<p>July 14th. First division of West Norfolk Militia landed +at Yarmouth from Edinburgh, and marched to Norwich, and joined +their Colonel, the Earl of Orford.</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. The Hon. John Wodehouse proposed, and T. W. +Coke, Esq., seconded, resolutions recommending that a +subscription should be opened for erecting a monument at Yarmouth +to the memory of the late Lord Nelson. Lord and Lady +Wodehouse, the Hon. Colonel Wodehouse, and Mr. and Miss Coke +headed the list with £700. The Corporation of Norwich +subscribed £200. (See Aug. 15th, 1817.)</p> +<h3>1815.</h3> +<p>Jan. 24th. A sea-eagle shot at Rollesby, which measured +from tip to tip of its wings 7 ft. 6 in.</p> +<p>May 10th. Sharp press for seamen at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>John Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, High Steward of the +Borough. He died in 1831.</p> +<p>Six hundred wounded men from Waterloo lodged in the Naval +Hospital. (See 1811.)</p> +<p><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 65</span>March +29th. The Nelson Monument Committee at Thetford, after +inspecting 44 beautiful plans and designs, selected an Athenian +Doric Column, sent by William Wilkins, Esq., architect, of +London, a native of Norwich, and author of “Magna +Græcia.” Nearly £7,000 was +subscribed.</p> +<h3>1816.</h3> +<p>Feb. 16th. Very high tide, the sea and river meeting +over the South Denes. A similar event had not occurred +since Feb. 3rd, 1791.</p> +<p>Feb. 19th. Corporation petitioned Parliament for a +continuance of the Property Tax.</p> +<p>Feb. 26th. Mr. Incledon, Master Taylor, and Mr. Collyer +appeared at the Theatre Royal, in <i>The Minstrel</i>; <i>or</i>, +<i>a Tour Through England and Ireland</i>. +Prices—4s., 3s., 2s. 6d., and 1s.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. Thomas Penrice, Esq., of Yarmouth, to whom the +late Lord Chedworth, of Ipswich, left the bulk of his immense +property, died at Narford Hall, the seat of A. Fountaine, Esq., +his son-in-law. (See Oct. 28th, 1804.)</p> +<h3>1817.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. £1,000 subscribed at Yarmouth to relieve +and employ the labouring poor; 460 men were employed to form +roads to the Bath House, Jetty, &c.</p> +<p>Feb. 4th. The Corporation voted a loyal address to the +Prince Regent, expressive of their abhorrence of the attack made +upon his Royal person on his return from opening Parliament on +the 28th ult. Presented at the levée by Isaac +Preston, Esq. (Mayor), accompanied by the High Steward and the +Members for the Borough.</p> +<p>Feb. 13th. The new silver coinage of crowns, +half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences exchanged for the old at +the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Between 7,000 and 8,000 lasts of Herrings taken by 193 +boats.</p> +<p>An Act passed to continue two former Acts for widening and +amending the road from Yarmouth Bridge to Gorleston.</p> +<p><a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 66</span>April +4th, Good Friday morning. Explosion on board the Norwich +and Yarmouth steamer—ten persons killed and five +injured—just as she was leaving the Foundry Bridge, +Norwich. She had 22 men, women, and children on +board. £350 raised for relief. These steamboats +were first employed on Aug. 10th, 1813.</p> +<p>June 5th. The celebrated Mr. Betty performed at the +Theatre in the <i>Iron Chest</i>, as “Sir Edward +Mortimer;” and as “Frislam Fickle,” in <i>The +Weather Cock</i>.</p> +<p>June 11th. Mr. Matthews appeared at the Theatre as +“Goldfinch,” in the <i>Road to Ruin</i>; and as +“Somno,” in the <i>Sleep Walker</i>. On 12th, +as “Sir David Dundee,” in <i>Ways and Means</i>, +“Chip,” in <i>A Chip of the Old Block</i>, and +“Buskin,” in <i>Killing no Murder</i>. On the +16th, as “Rover,” in <i>Wild Oats</i>; and in the +<i>Adventures of a Mail Coach</i>.</p> +<p>June 23rd. Munden appeared at the Theatre as “Sir +Abel Handy,” in <i>Speed the Plough</i>, and as +“Crack,” in the <i>Turnpike Gate</i>. On the +25th, as “Old Rapid,” in a <i>Cure for the +Heartache</i>, and as “Dozey,” in <i>Past Ten +o’clock</i>. On the 26th, as “Sir Anthony +Absolute,” in the <i>Rivals</i>, and as “Sam +Dabbs,” in <i>Who’s Who?</i> On the 28th, as +“Bonus,” in <i>Laugh When You Can</i>, as +“Nipperkin,” in the <i>Rival Soldier</i>, and +“Lazarillo,” in <i>Two Strings to Your Bow</i>.</p> +<p>Aug. 15th. First stone of Nelson Monument laid by Col. +Wodehouse. The column is 144 ft. high, ascended by a flight +of 217 steps. The architect was Mr. Wm. Wilkin, R.A., a +Norfolk man. There was a grand civic, military, and masonic +procession from the Town Hall. After the ceremony, the +Mayor, (Isaac Preston, Esq.) gave a dinner to the company; and in +the evening he gave a grand ball to 350 of the +<i>élite</i>, at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>The Rev. Fisher Watson, M.A., elected minister of St. +George’s Chapel, on the death of the Rev. S. L. Cooper in +June. On Aug. 9th, 1821, the Rev. John Homfray, and April +16th, 1833, the Rev. Mark Waters, were appointed at salaries of +£100 per annum.</p> +<p><a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 67</span>Aug. +20th. The great Edward Kean appeared at Theatre Royal in +<i>Richard the Third</i>, when nothing but full prices were +taken—Lower Boxes, 5s.; Green, 4s.; Pit, 3s.; Gallery, +1s.—and part of the Pit taken into the Boxes, and part of +the Gallery railed off for the use of the Pit. Free list +suspended during the engagement. On the 21st, Mr. Kean took +the character of “Sir Giles Overreach,” in <i>New Way +to Pay Old Debts</i>. On the 22nd, in <i>Othello</i>. +On Sept. 5th, “Shylock,” in the <i>Merchant of +Venice</i>. On Sept. 6th (Mr. Kean’s benefit) he +appeared as “Octavia,” in the <i>Mountaineers</i>, +and as “Paul,” in <i>Paul and Virginia</i>.</p> +<p>Nov. 19th. The remains of Princess Charlotte interred at +Windsor. The bells tolled, the shops closed all the day, +and the day solemnly observed.</p> +<p>Dec. 3rd. The Corporation voted addresses of condolence +to the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg on the +death of Princess Charlotte.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st. At the Concert Room, Mr. Matthews, the +celebrated Irish comedian, appeared in the entertainment of the +<i>Union</i>, of the English, Irish, and Scotch characters.</p> +<h3>1818.</h3> +<p>Jan. 19th. £6,000 subscribed for aiding a plan to +extend the navigation of the River Waveney from Bungay to Diss by +the inhabitants of Yarmouth at a meeting at the New Hall.</p> +<p>March 4th. Several ships driven ashore in a heavy gale +from the south-east.</p> +<p>June 1st. Miss Bryne sustained the part of +“Adela,” at the Theatre Royal, in the <i>Haunted +Tower</i>. On the 2nd, in <i>Love in a Village</i> as +“Rosella,” and in <i>No Song No Supper</i> the part +of “Margaretta.” On the 4th, +“Rosina,” in <i>Rosina</i>, and +“Leonora,” in the <i>Padlock</i>. On the 6th, +“Lilla,” in <i>Siege of Belgrade</i>, and +“Virginia,” in <i>Paul and Virginia</i>.</p> +<p>June 8th. Mr. Bartley appeared at the Theatre Royal as +“Sir John Falstaff,” in <i>Henry IV.</i> On the +9th, as “Solas,” in <i>Every One has His Fault</i>, +and “Michael,” in the <i>Adopted Child</i>. On +the 11th, “Sir <a name="page68"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 68</span>John Falstaff,” in the <i>Merry +Wives of Windsor</i>. On the 13th, as “Governor +Heartall,” in the <i>Soldier’s Daughter</i>.</p> +<p>June 19th. Hon. T. W. Anson and C. E. Rumbold, Esq., +returned to Parliament. It was a three days’ poll, +and one of the severest contests ever known in the Borough. +Anson polled 780; Rumbold, 760; E. K. Lacon, Esq., 651; General +Loftus, 612.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd. At the Theatre Royal, Mr. Blanchard, of Covent +Garden, appeared in the <i>Soldier’s Daughter</i>, as +“Governor Heartall,” and “Crack,” in +<i>Turnpike Gate</i>. On the 5th, as “Dr. +Ollapod,” in the <i>Poor Gentleman</i>; and +“Abnego,” in the <i>Jew and Doctor</i>. On the +6th, as “Tobby Allspice,” in <i>The Way to get +Married</i>, and “Caleb Quotem,” in the <i>Wags of +Windsor</i>. On the 8th, “Dr. Panglos,” in the +<i>Heir at Law</i>, and “Davy,” in <i>Bon +Ton</i>.</p> +<p>Sept. 4th. Miss O’Neil appeared at the Theatre as +“Belvidere,” in <i>Venice Preserved</i>. On the +5th, as “Juliet,” in <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>. +On the 7th, as “Mrs. Haller.”</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. Lord Viscount Anson died in London, aged 57; +and the newly-elected Member of Parliament succeeded to the +title.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd. Sir Edmund Lacon, Knt., of Great Yarmouth; +Thomas Hare, Esq., of Stow Hall; and Edward Stracey, Esq., of +Rackheath Hall, created Baronets.</p> +<p>Dec. 2nd. The day of interment of her late Majesty Queen +Charlotte at Windsor, observed with great solemnity. +Addresses of condolence to the Prince Regent on the death of her +late Majesty were voted by the Corporation of Yarmouth on the +7th.</p> +<p>John Bennie, Esq., engineer to the Haven Commissioners, drew +up a report for improving the Bar and Haven. On 4th of +Oct., 1821, he died in London, aged 64.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth Savings Bank established. The deposits in +1843 amounted to £80,246 19s. 7d., belonging to 2,550 +depositors and 67 charities and friendly societies.</p> +<p>Nearly 100 vessels building at one time in our shipyards.</p> +<p><a name="page69"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 69</span>The +gun-brig “Havoc” built in Mr. Stone’s yard.</p> +<p>Borough Gaol enlarged and House of Correction added; it was +strengthened in 1835. The original built 609 years +previously.</p> +<h3>1819.</h3> +<p>Feb. 15th. The Hon. George Anson unanimously elected +Member of Parliament for the Borough (there being no other +candidate), in the room of his brother, Lord Viscount Anson.</p> +<p>April. Velocipedes or Pedestrian Hobby-horses used this +year. A person could walk from eight to ten miles an hour +on them. Like the Kaleidoscope, they proved only “a +nine-days’ wonder,” till 1872, when velocipedes again +came into general use.</p> +<p>June 1st. Mr. Thomas Sutton (as surveyor) died on the +top of the Nelson Monument, while giving directions. Aged +66 years.</p> +<p>June 14th. Mr. Edmund Kean again appeared at the Theatre +as “Brutus,” in <i>Brutus</i>; and on the 15th as +“Mortimer,” in the <i>Iron Chest</i>.</p> +<p>July 18th. Mr. N. B. Palmer presented with a piece of +plate (an épergne), value 100 guineas, for his exertions +in the election and firm support of his principles, which seated +the Hon. G. Anson and C. E. Rumbold, Esq., as Members for the +Borough.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th to 9th. The celebrated Young appeared at the +Theatre in <i>Hamlet</i>, <i>Revenge</i>, <i>Macbeth</i>, <i>King +Lear</i>.</p> +<p>Duty on coals, 6s. 6d. per chaldron.</p> +<p>Paxton’s “Picture of Great Yarmouth” +published, illustrated with engravings of public buildings.</p> +<h3>1820.</h3> +<p>Jan. 29th. Death of George III., in the 82nd year of his +age and 60th of his reign. On Feb. 1st George IV. was +proclaimed at Yarmouth with much ceremony and rejoicing.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th. Parliament dissolved; and on the 10th of +March, after four days’ sharp contest, the Hon. George +Anson and C. E. Rumbold Esq., were returned to Parliament for the +Borough. The Hon. G. Anson polled 754; C. E. Rumbold, Esq., +752; <a name="page70"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +70</span>Lieut.-General John Michell, 612; and J. H. Stracey, +Esq., 612 votes.</p> +<p>March 1st. A number of vessels stranded along the +Beach. A high flood and tremendous storm, the like not +known since Jan. 1st, 1779. On Nov. 4th there was another +great gale.</p> +<p>April 19th. Frigate “Boreas,” 28 guns, +launched from Messrs. Stone and Constance’s yard.</p> +<p>July 19th. Coronation day of George IV. at Westminster +Abbey, which auspicious event was celebrated at Yarmouth by a +public dinner at the Town Hall; bonfires, bullock roasting, +fireworks, and other rejoicings also marked the occasion.</p> +<p>Aug. 15th. A grand Musical Festival at the Town +Hall. The next morning, selections from the <i>Messiah</i> +were performed at St. Nicholas’ Church; on Wednesday at the +Town Hall; and again on the Thursday following the entire first +part of the <i>Creation</i> was executed at the Church, with two +miscellaneous acts selected from the <i>Requiem</i>, <i>Mount of +Olives</i>, <i>Judas Maccabeus</i>, <i>Israel in Egypt</i>, and +other esteemed compositions. The Church presented a very +brilliant appearance, from the number of lamps and candles with +which the orchestra (expressly built for the occasion) and the +other parts of the edifice were dedicated. Among the +eminent professors who aided in the festival was Lindley, the +celebrated violoncello performer; Mr. Eager, and his principal +second Mr. Cooper, conducted the instrumental band, and Mr. Buck +presided at the organ.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. Mrs. Bartley recited <i>Collins’ Ode to +the Passions</i>, at the Theatre Royal.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th. Mrs. Davidson appeared at the Theatre Royal +in the <i>Jealous Wife</i>, as “Mrs. Oakley.” +On the 7th, in <i>The Belle’s Stratagem</i>, as +“Letitia Hardy.” On the 9th, in <i>The School +for Scandal</i>, as “Lady Teazle.” On the 11th, +in <i>Know Your Own Mind</i>, as “Lady Bell.”</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart., died at Yarmouth, +universally regretted, aged 69 years. He was the senior +Alderman of the Borough.</p> +<h3><a name="page71"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +71</span>1821.</h3> +<p>Feb. 28th. An unusual supply of herrings caught off +Yarmouth; and sold in the town twelve for one penny.</p> +<p>March 13th. Petition presented by E. Wodehouse, Esq., to +the House of Commons from the owners and occupiers of land in the +vicinity of Yarmouth, praying for a repeal of the Malt-tax, and a +modified tax on property.</p> +<p>April 10th. A committee appointed and subscription +entered into for forming a fund for rewarding boatmen who might +save persons from shipwreck.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th. Tremendous gale—a great number of +vessels foundered in the Roadstead, and also many came ashore +near Yarmouth. It was just such another gale as was +recorded Nov. 1st, 1789.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd. A fine new East Indiaman, the +“Indian,” 400 tons, totally wrecked off +Yarmouth. The crew of twenty were saved, and a small part +of the stores. The value of ship and cargo estimated at +£10,000.</p> +<p>Dec. 25th. Season unusually mild; the thermometer stood +at 50, and so continued throughout the following winter +months. Many remarkable specimens of early vegetation; and +swallows were seen flying about at Yarmouth. Since the 1st +of Sept. there had been but eighteen days without rain.</p> +<p>There were 1,229 men, women, and children receiving out-door +parish relief; and the income of the parish was +£10,770. The income in 1875 was about £15,000 a +year.</p> +<p>Census taken. Population of Yarmouth, 18,040; with +Gorleston and Southtown, 19,968. Houses inhabited, 3,981; +inhabited by families, 4,318; uninhabited, 157; building, +20—total, 8,476.</p> +<h3>1822.</h3> +<p>Jan. 31st. George IV. arrived, and anchored his vessel +in the Roads.</p> +<p>July 29th. Samuel Tolver, Esq., elected Town +Clerk. He was succeeded by Henry Palmer, Esq., on June 6th, +1848; John Clowes, Esq., on Nov. 26th, 1850; and Chas. Cory, +Esq., on Nov. 9th, 1851. (See June 9th, 1869.)</p> +<p><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 72</span>Oct. +14th. The Revenue cutter “Ranger” lost at +sea.</p> +<p>Oct. 21st and 22nd. Miscellaneous concert, under the +direction of Mr. Sippe, given at the Theatre. Leader, Mr. +Eager. The principals were Mrs. Salmon and the Misses Sapis +and Beale.</p> +<p>Exported from the Port of Yarmouth—flour 105,377 sacks; +barley, malt, oats, beans, pease, rye, and wheat, 298,147 +quarters.</p> +<p>J. Matchett, of Lakenham, published “The Norfolk and +Norwich Remembrancer and Vade Mecum.”</p> +<h3>1823.</h3> +<p>March 3rd. Samuel Hurst, Esq., died at Southtown.</p> +<p>Exported from the Port of Yarmouth—flour 126,768 sacks; +barley, malt, oats, beans, pease, rye, and wheat, 264,546 +quarters.</p> +<p>Grout and Co.’s Silk Crape Factory erected.</p> +<p>Admiralty Sessions for trial of Pirates last held in +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Porpoise found on the Beach—7 ft. long, and weighing 4 +cwt.</p> +<p>Masonic Hall erected in Gaol Paved Row.</p> +<p>James Sayer, son of a Yarmouth block-maker, a celebrated +caricaturist, and author of many satirical poems suitable to the +political topics of the times, died in London.</p> +<h3>1824.</h3> +<p>Exported from the Port of Yarmouth—flour 148,252 sacks; +barley, malt, oats, beans, pease, rye, and wheat, 326,789 +quarters.</p> +<p>Gas Works constructed; enlarged in 1862 and 1864, and new +additional works afterwards erected. About five miles of +the main iron pipe were laid in the streets, and on Dec. 6th the +street lamps, 150 in number, were first lighted.</p> +<p>Five beachmen drowned in rescuing a crew.</p> +<p>Luke Waller died, aged 105 years.</p> +<p>The number of vessels of all classes registered at the Custom +House amounted to 549.</p> +<h3><a name="page73"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +73</span>1825.</h3> +<p>Sept. 3rd. Miss Cranmer appeared at the Theatre Royal in +<i>Don Giovanni</i>; and “Adela,” in the <i>Haunted +Tower</i>.</p> +<p>Sept. 8th. Mr. Chippendale played “Useph,” +in <i>The Siege of Belgrade</i>; and “Chip,” in a +<i>Chip of the Old Block</i>, at the Theatre Royal.</p> +<p>Oct. 11th. The Catholic Chapel, in George Street (the +first built in the town), finished, and consecrated by the Rev. +Joseph Tate.</p> +<p>The mackerel brought to Yarmouth realized £17,000.</p> +<p>River overflowed the Quays and entered the houses and stores, +doing much damage.</p> +<h3>1826.</h3> +<p>M. A. Jefferies threw himself from the bridge.</p> +<p>May 15th. Lord Anson and C. E. Rumbold, Esq., presented +with the freedom of the town, and returned to Parliament June +9th. Votes—R., 649; A., 645; Sir E. K. Lacon, 250; +Lord Suffield, 250.</p> +<p>May 25th. The old Crane on South Quay blown down during +a heavy gale of wind, and a new one erected at a cost of about +£1,400.</p> +<p>Mariners’ Chapel built by George Palmer, Esq., service +having previously been held in a vessel named the +“Ark,” which fell into decay and so became +useless.</p> +<p>“Historical and Topographical Notices of Great Yarmouth +and its Environs,” by John Henry Druery, published. +The work was dedicated to the Right Hon. George William, Lord +Stafford, Baron Stafford and Baronet, of Costessey Park, +Norfolk.</p> +<h3>1827.</h3> +<p>Feb. 6th. Mary Welch died, aged 73 years, leaving 102 +children and grandchildren.</p> +<p>Vaughan and Murphey, two noted resurrectionists, stole several +bodies from St. Nicholas’ churchyard, and caused great +excitement in the town. The railings on the west side were +subsequently erected in consequence.</p> +<h3>1828.</h3> +<p>Mr. David Service, the Yarmouth poet, died.</p> +<h3><a name="page74"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +74</span>1829.</h3> +<p>May 29th. The bells rang out a merry peal on the opening +day of the Suspension Bridge. This structure, on the North +Quay, was made chiefly of iron, and thrown across the river Bure +by Robert Cory, Esq., under the powers of an Act of Parliament +passed in the year 1827. It cost about £4,000.</p> +<h3>1830.</h3> +<p>Feb. 8th. Intense frost; river frozen as far down as the +Public Library.</p> +<p>July 31st. Hon. Colonel G. Anson and C. E. Rumbold, +Esq., returned to Parliament. Votes—A., 946; R., 945; +H. Preston, 751; T. E. Campbell, 754.</p> +<h3>1831.</h3> +<p>Launches: March 8th, schooner “Sea Witch;” March +15th, brig “Ocean,” from Mr. Palmer’s yard; +Aug. 1st, brig “Earl Grey,” from Mr. Teasdel’s +yard.</p> +<p>March 15th. Marriage at Stokesby Church of Samuel +Taylor, only son of Wm. Huke, of Yarmouth, with Charlotte Crowe +Norton, of Stokesby.</p> +<p>May 2nd. Hon. G. Anson and C. E. Rumbold, Esq., again +returned to Parliament.</p> +<p>July 7th. First stone of St. Peter’s Church laid, +and finished building and consecrated Aug. 26th, 1838. Cost +£12,000.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th. Mr. Power, of Covent Garden, appeared at the +Theatre Royal, as “Colonel O’Dillon,” in <i>The +Married Lover</i>.</p> +<p>Census taken. Population of Yarmouth 21,115; with +Gorleston and Southtown, 28,231.</p> +<p>St. Mary’s Church, Southtown, erected. Site +presented by the Earl of Lichfield; cost, raised by subscription, +about £3,000.</p> +<h3>1832.</h3> +<p>April 3rd. The Hon. and Rev. E. Pellew appointed +Chaplain of St. Nicholas’ Church, at £40 per +annum.</p> +<p>April 17th. Mr. Wm. Hazard died, aged 72 years.</p> +<p>May 27th. Messrs. Grout and Co.’s Silk Crape +Factory burnt down. Present one erected in the same +place. A Hospital originally stood here. (See +1828.)</p> +<p><a name="page75"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 75</span>Oct. +11th. Russian Horn Band Concert at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Dec. 11th. The Hon. G. Anson and C. E. Rumbold, Esq., +returned to Parliament, after the passing of the Reform Bill.</p> +<p>Edw. Pellew, Admiral Viscount Exmouth, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>District Visiting Society established, and failed for want of +support; but another attempt was made to re-establish it April +10th, 1861.</p> +<p>Yarmouth Glee Society gave their first concert.</p> +<h3>1832 to 1835.</h3> +<p>By Municipal Reform Act the rest of Gorleston parish added to +Yarmouth Borough.</p> +<h3>1833.</h3> +<p>Launches: Jan. 18th, schooner “Cornelia” from Mr. +Holmes’ yard; May 6th, brig “Hudson” from Mr. +Preston’s yard; July 12th, schooner “Abeona” +from Messrs. Fellows’ yard; July 21st, brig +“Margaret” from Messrs. Fellows’ yard; same +year the barque “Harmony;” Dec. 10th, schooner +“Fairy Queen,” and Dec. 12th, brig +“Pioneer” from Mr. Lubbock’s yard.</p> +<p>Bishop of Norwich inspected the plate at St. Nicholas’ +Church and St. George’s Chapel.</p> +<p>Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<h3>1834.</h3> +<p>Jan. 15th. Divine Service performed in the Chancel of +St. Nicholas’ Church for the first time.</p> +<p>Jan. 24th. Brig “Pioneer,” of Yarmouth, +stranded near the Dungeness Light.</p> +<p>May 12th. Proprietary Grammar School at Southtown +opened. It was demolished in July, 1858, to make room for +the Goods Station of the East Suffolk Railway. The school +cost £1,500.</p> +<p>June 16th. Yarmouth and Southtown Ferry opened.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st. First Annual Marine Regatta held.</p> +<p>The Fort removed.</p> +<p><a name="page76"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +76</span>Launches: May 18th, brig “Alexander,” from +Mr. Preston’s yard; June 21st, schooner +“Racer,” and Sept. 11th, schooner +“Maria,” from Mr. Lubbock’s yard; Sept. 17th, +brig “Vivid,” and Oct. 16th, schooner “Nora +Creina,” from Messrs. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>An inquiry opened at the Tolhouse Hall, before J. H. Hogg and +J. Buckle, Esqs., two of her Majesty’s Commissioners, +respecting the state of the Yarmouth Corporation. After +nineteen days’ inquiry, it was adjourned <i>sine +die</i>. The evidence adduced was published the same year +by Mr. Henry Barrett.</p> +<h3>1835.</h3> +<p>Jan. 7th. Thomas Baling and W. M. Praed, Esqs., returned +to Parliament.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd. Lord Walpole and E. Woodhouse, Esq., returned +to Parliament.</p> +<p>April 7th. The “Baltic,” +“Venus,” and “Wellington” left the +Harbour with 200 emigrants for Canada.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th. Samuel Brock, a Yarmouth beachman, with a +company, went off in the yawl “Increase” to the +rescue of the crew of a Spanish ship, about twelve miles from +land. They reached the vessel, and on returning in a squall +the yawl was capsized, and nine men were drowned. Brock, +the only surviving one, after battling with the waves for seven +hours, was safely taken on board the brig “Betsy,” at +1 a.m. the next morning, and put ashore at Lowestoft. (See +1873.)</p> +<p>Dec. 26th. In pursuance of the Act, 6 William 4th, cap. +76, for the better Regulation of Municipal Corporations in +England and Wales, the first Election of Councillors (under this +Act) took place, when the returns were as follows:—<i>North +Ward</i>—R. Hammond (108 votes), W. N. Burroughs (99), A. +Sewell (94), Chas. G. Doughty (91), Benj. Sherrington (90), E. H. +L. Preston (89). <i>Market</i>—Simon Cobb (135), Wm. +Johnson (134), Wm. Hammond (131), B. Cobb (129), Edw. N. Clowes +(128), Edw. Sewell (124). <i>Regent</i>—John +Brightwen (98), S. T. Palmer (98), S. Charles <a +name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 77</span>Marsh (98), +J. Tomlinson (98), Cufaude Davie (97), Benjamin Dowson +(95). <i>St. George’s</i>—C. Sayers (91), Wm. +Grave (91), G. Penrice (91), Wm. Barber (91), H. V. Worship (90), +T. Lettis (89). <i>Nelson</i>—G. D. Palmer (147), R. +Palmer Kemp (137), G. Garson (127), Matthew Butcher (124), John +Symonds (122), S. Robinson (118). <i>St. +Andrew’s</i>—J. S. Bell (115), T. Hammond (111), J. +W. Dowson (105), Wm. Barth (101), Hezekiah Martin (91), Patrick +Stead (87). At a Meeting of the Council, on the 31st Dec., +1835, the following gentlemen were elected the Aldermen for the +Borough, viz.:—John Brightwen, Benj. Dowson, Captain Wm. +Larke, Richard Sibbs Lonsdale, J. B. Palmer, Joseph Starling, +Robert Teasdel, George Jeffries, Benjamin Fenn, Robert Wall, +Thomas Pitt, Charles Nichols.</p> +<p>The custom of electing Mayors by an inquest abolished. +They were elected previous to this date, Sept. 29th.</p> +<p>Scheme projected for supplying the Town with Fresh Water by +means of a Reservoir on the high lands at Burgh Castle, but +unsupported.</p> +<p>The Hon. and Rev. Edward Pellew, fourth son of Admiral Lord +Viscount Exmouth, appointed to the incumbency of St. +Nicholas’ Church, on the resignation of Mr. Turner.</p> +<p>The two stuffed figures representing John and Betty Goblett, +annually exhibited in front of Tolhouse Hall, prohibited being +placed there.</p> +<p>Capital Jurisdiction abolished.</p> +<h3>1836.</h3> +<p>William Barth, Esq., elected Mayor on Jan. 1st, and again on +Nov. 9th.</p> +<p>Feb. 27th. Brig “Isis” wrecked on the South +Beach. “The History, Gazetteer, and Directory of +Norfolk, including Great Yarmouth,” by Mr. William White, +of Sheffield, published; second edition in 1815.</p> +<p>Thomas William Anson, Earl of Lichfield, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>Great storm, twenty-three vessels stranded on Yarmouth Beach, +and upwards of forty lost on the coast.</p> +<p><a name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 78</span>The +last Market Cross removed.</p> +<p>Rev. R. Pillans, while driving his carriage into the Angel +yard, struck his head against a beam and broke his neck.</p> +<h3>1837.</h3> +<p>Nov. 12th. Captain William Watts died, aged 70 +years.</p> +<p>Dec. 2nd. Brig “Valeria” launched from Mr. +Lubbock’s yard.</p> +<p>First stone of the Wesleyan Chapel laid. The building +cost £4,200.</p> +<p>On Queen Victoria ascending the Throne, C. E. Rumbold, Esq., +was re-seated in Parliament, and the election of W. Wilshere, +Esq., secured as a colleague.</p> +<p>G. D. Palmer, Esq., appointed as a Magistrate.</p> +<h3>1838.</h3> +<p>Aug. 28th. William Wilshere again returned to +Parliament.</p> +<p>The new Workhouse opened. Cost of entire building up to +1860, about £10,000.</p> +<p>Sergeant John Wright died, aged 110 years.</p> +<p>The last of the Town Gates (Pudding) pulled down.</p> +<p>Yarmouth Hospital founded, mainly through the exertions of Mr. +Wm. Steward, and completed in 1839.</p> +<p>Crew of ten hands, drowned from the fishing lugger +“Walter and Ann.”</p> +<h3>1839.</h3> +<p>Feb. 14th. Brig “James,” of Yarmouth, lost +off the coast of Scotland.</p> +<p>March 7th. A tremendous hurricane, and the streets and +rows were strewn with <i>débris</i> from the roofs of +houses, to which much damage was done.</p> +<p>Sept. 25th. Arthur Beevor, Esq. died, aged 82 years.</p> +<p>Launches: June 13th, schooner “Rob Roy,” from Mr. +Lubbock’s yard; Aug. 29th, schooner “George +Lord,” from Mr. Preston’s yard; Oct. 2nd, brig +“Elizabeth,” from Messrs. Fellows’ yard; and +Nov. 11th, schooner “Star,” from Mr. Teasdel’s +yard.</p> +<h3><a name="page79"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +79</span>1840.</h3> +<p>Jan. 10th. The uniform penny postage first came into +operation, and excited a great deal of ridicule, and its speedy +failure predicted. Railways were in their infancy. +Book post established in 1855, and Postal Cards introduced in +1870.</p> +<p>Jan. 30th. William Finch-Crisp, the compiler of this +work, born at Hackney, afterwards lived at Erith, in Kent, for 11 +years (where his father died on March 12th, 1850), and then came +to reside in Great Yarmouth at the end of the year 1854, at which +place he married Mary Ann, second daughter of the late Robert +Boyce Crisp, on June 25th, 1870. His dearly-beloved mother +died in Oxford on Dec. 5th, 1869, and her remains were interred +in Jericho Cemetery, Oxford.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th. A selection of sacred music from +Handel’s oratorios, <i>Judas Maccabæus</i> and the +<i>Messiah</i>, performed at St. Nicholas’ Church by the +Yarmouth Choral Society. Conductor, Mr. Woolman. +Price (by ticket only), 2s. 6d., and for young ladies and +gentlemen under 14 years of age, 1s. 6d.; book of words, +6d. Concert on behalf of Yarmouth Hospital and +Dispensary.</p> +<p>Dec. Mr. James Burman conducted a complete peal of Bob +Major on the Parish Church bells, composed of 5,040 changes, +which were rung in 3 hrs. 25 min. In Jan., 1843, was rung a +true and complete peal of Grandsire caters, containing 4,004 +changes, in 3½ hours (composed by Burman), the only peal +of the kind on record; also, same year, a peal of Treble Bob +Royal, 5,040 changes, in 3 hrs. 35 min. (These records are +now in the belfry.)</p> +<p>The old Post Office in Row 63 removed to the Hall Quay. +The first office was in Row 107, about the year 1695.</p> +<p>John W. Shelly and Wm. Johnson, Esqs., were appointed +Magistrates.</p> +<p>Gorleston National Schools erected.</p> +<p>John Clowes, Esq., presented with the silver medal of the +Lifeboat Association for personal exertions rendered in the Nov. +gale.</p> +<h3><a name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +80</span>1841.</h3> +<p>March 22nd. First stone of the Victoria Buildings +laid.</p> +<p>June 29th. C. E. Rumbold and W. Wilshere, Esqs., +returned to Parliament.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. The <i>Birmingham Gazette</i> of 100 years +ago (1741) says:—“From Yarmouth we hear there are +great complaints this year in relation to their herring fishery; +their men being all pressed into the service, and only boys left +in the town for that employ.”</p> +<p>Nov. 18th. The barque “Iron Duke” came +ashore, and sunk near the Britannia Pier. (See Oct., +1879.)</p> +<p>The Sawyers’ Arms public-house, Fuller’s Hill, +destroyed by fire, and the Albion Tavern subsequently built on +the site.</p> +<p>They were 49 persons in the Children’s Hospital, 223 in +the Workhouse, 6 in the Royal Hospital, 37 in the Borough Gaol, +134 fishermen, &c., in boats and barges, and 173 absent +mariners, according to return.</p> +<p>Launches: March 17th, the brig “Norfolk Lass,” and +May 24th, the barque “Maria Soanes.”</p> +<p>Richard Hammond, J. F. Costerton, E. H. L. Preston, J. C. +Smith, and W. Yetts, Esqs., were appointed as Magistrates.</p> +<p>Sir E. Lacon and Sons endeavoured to sink an Artesian well on +their premises, but an accident to the pipes after boring 600 +feet caused the undertaking to be abandoned. Sand and +shingle were found to the depth of 111 ft., then 49 ft. of dark +sand, below this very fine clay to the depth of 350 ft., then a +layer of flints 5 ft. thick, and below them chalk, which was not +penetrated.</p> +<p>Census taken. Population, 24,529—10,780 males and +18,529 females; Gorleston and Southtown making an addition of +3,779—total, 28,038. Of the inhabitants of Yarmouth, +3,340 were not born in Norfolk, and 13,430 were above 20 years of +age—5,515 males and 7,915 females. Gorleston +comprised 3,201 acres of land, and had 6,223 houses; of the +latter, 5,408 were considered in Yarmouth, 164 were uninhabited, +and 61 building.</p> +<p>Lifeboat Station first established at Caister.</p> +<p>Deaths: John Berney Crome.—August 18th, Giles Borrett, +Esq., M.D.</p> +<h3><a name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +81</span>1842.</h3> +<p>Nov. 21st. First Concert of the Great Yarmouth Amateur +Musical Society given at the Town Hall. Leader of the band, +Mr. A. Suggate.</p> +<p>The present Hospital School erected on the site of the one +built in 1278.</p> +<p>The duties levied on vessels entering the Port and discharging +cargoes from the Roadstead amounted to £10,074 17s.</p> +<p>Police Court, Station House, and detention cells added to the +Town Hall. (See Sept. 30th, 1879.)</p> +<p>Corn Exchange, Regent Street, attached to the Commercial +Club-house, opened by a Company, to whom they both +belonged. The former pulled down in Jan., 1871, and a new +Post Office built.</p> +<h3>1843.</h3> +<p>Aug. 3rd. Children’s Hospital School opened after +its re-erection.</p> +<p>Oct. 15th. Sarah Martin, the prison visitor, died; and +in 1858 a memorial window to her memory was put in St. +Nicholas’ Church. She was born in 1791, at Caister, +and left an orphan at an early age.</p> +<p>The Round Tower near the Hospital built; ascended by a flight +of 42 stairs. It was built by the merchants and shipowners, +as an observatory tower, at a cost of £150.</p> +<h3>1844.</h3> +<p>May 1st. Railway between Norwich and Yarmouth opened, +and the event was marked with great festivity and +rejoicing. Messrs. Grissell and Peto contracted for the +work at £10,000 per mile. Previous to this, steam +packets plied twice a day on the Yare, between Norwich and +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Oct. Fish Market erected and opened on the site of the +old one, but removed to widen the road.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th. Mrs. Harriet Chandler murdered in her grocery +shop in Howard Street by Samuel Yarham, who was tried at Norwich +on Mar. 27th, 1845, and executed there on April 11th. The +prosecution cost £542. (See Jan. 30th, 1882.)</p> +<p>Dec. 13th. Paget’s Brewery, North Quay, pulled +down.</p> +<p><a name="page82"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 82</span>Rev. +Henry Mackenzie, incumbent of Bermondsey, appointed to the +incumbency of St. Nicholas’ Church, but resigned in July, +1848, having the vicarage of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, +Westminster, conferred upon him. On the 15th of February, +1870, the Town Council voted an address of congratulation on his +being appointed Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham. This was +the first appointment of a Suffragan Bishop in England for 200 +years.</p> +<p>The Naval Hospital converted into a Lunatic Asylum. The +building was re-modelled in 1868, and 37 new wards added, by Mr. +G. Tyrrell. 80 inmates were received the same year (Sept.) +from Haslar, making a total of 169. (See 1811.)</p> +<p>The Mackerel exported realised this year £14,500.</p> +<p>Gorleston Museum, containing many works of art, curiosities, +antiquities, &c., established.</p> +<p>Her Majesty Queen Victoria passed through the Roadstead, on +her way from Scotland, within a short distance of the +shore. The Beach was lined with spectators, and several +pleasure boats went off close to the Royal yacht to testify their +loyalty.</p> +<h3>1845.</h3> +<p>Jan. 20th. Schooner “John,” of Jersey, +stranded on the South Beach.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th. The yawl “Phœnix” and seven +lives lost. Meeting convened on the 29th to relieve the +widows and orphans left destitute.</p> +<p>April 16th. First stone of Unitarian Chapel, Middlegate +Street, laid. Opened October 13th. Built on the site +of the Old Meeting House.</p> +<p>May 2nd. Fall of the Suspension Bridge. 400 +persons precipitated into the water, out of which number 79 were +drowned. An immense crowd were attracted to the bridge and +its precincts by a fête on the River Bure. The bill +announcing the entertainment for the evening was headed, +“Is it to be a benefit or not?” and underneath it a +clown pointing to the above words. Then follows an address +by Mr. Nelson as “a candidate for public favour,” who +announces that <a name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +83</span>“Friday night will be a grand banquet +night,” and adds, “The following extraordinary +fête will most positively be achieved, Mr. Nelson, the +celebrated clown and modern Yorick, will sail on the River Bure, +starting from Yarmouth Bridge to Vauxhall Gardens, at 5 +o’clock on the above day in a common washing tub, drawn by +four real geese, elegantly harnessed and +caparisoned.” The tub was 18 inches deep. The +annexed verses were on either side of a wood cut of the +clown:—</p> +<blockquote><p>Dear public, you and I of late<br /> +Have dealt so much in fun;<br /> +I’ll give you now a monstrous great<br /> +Quadruplicated pun—<br /> +Like a grate full of coals I’ll burn<br /> +A great full house to see;<br /> +And if I am not grateful too<br /> +A great fool I must be.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The following artistes were to appear at the Circus (a wooden +structure on the Theatre Plain)—Master Barlow, the four +sons of Siberia, Mr. Alfred Cooke, Signor Germani, Mr. Charles +Adams, Mr. George Cooke, Madame Culine, and Mr. W. Cooke.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th. Mr. Henry Teasdel’s warehouses +destroyed by fire.</p> +<p>Gorleston Wesleyan Chapel re-built.</p> +<p>Yarmouth exported 327,000 quarters of corn; and in 1855, +258,000 quarters.</p> +<h3>1846.</h3> +<p>Sept. 2nd. Burgh Castle sold to Sir J. Boileau, Bart., +of Ketteringham.</p> +<p>W. H. Palmer, W. Thurtell, J. Fenn, B. Jay, and W. H. Bessey, +Esqs., were appointed Magistrates.</p> +<p>Lord Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of the County, died at +Kimberley.</p> +<h3>1847.</h3> +<p>County Court first held at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Steamer “Enterprise” seized for smuggling tobacco, +and the engineer fined £100.</p> +<p>The Sea Wall in front of Britannia Terrace erected by C. Cory, +Esq. Cost £2,000.</p> +<p><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 84</span>June +17th. The schooner “Ann and Jane” launched from +Mr. King’s yard.</p> +<p>July 29th. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Lennox and O. +Coope, Esq., returned to Parliament.</p> +<p>Aug. 31st. Jewish Synagogue, in Row 42, built and +consecrated. It was built on the site of a former one.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th. Cart-load of hay burned on the Hall Quay.</p> +<p>Deaths: June 6th, Capt. H. Barrett, ballast-master.—Dec. +24th, Admiral Sir George Parker, K.C.B.</p> +<h3>1848.</h3> +<p>April 8th. The brig “Agenoria” wrecked on +the North Beach.</p> +<p>May 17th. Address of Loyalty presented to her Majesty by +the Mayor.</p> +<p>June 30th. A Bill brought into Parliament depriving the +Freemen of Yarmouth of their votes. The number on the +Register was 1,106. Only such householders as were on the +Register allowed to vote at the ensuing election, when J. +Saunders and C. E. Rumbold, Esqs., were returned to +Parliament.</p> +<p>Aug. St. Nicholas’ Church re-opened after +restoration.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd. Richardson’s Rock Band Concert at the +Town Hall.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. Mr. Norman’s warehouse, in Blind Middle +Street, burnt down.</p> +<p>Lord Fairfax, with a large retinue, arrived in the town.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th. Murder at Stanfield Hall of Mr. Isaac Jermy +and his son, by James Blomefield Rush, who also wounded with +pistol shots the son’s wife and a domestic. The +victim’s family resided in Yarmouth. (See Dec. 27th, +1879.)</p> +<p>Deaths: Feb. 26th, at Southampton, Rev. H. G. Maul, formerly +curate of St. Nicholas’ Church.—Sept. 1st, Rev. +Alexander Creak.—Nov. 20th, James Gidney, Esq., at +Southtown.—Dec. 9th, John Lacon, Esq., at +Hopton.—Dec. 27th, James Norton Sherrington, Esq.</p> +<h3>1849.</h3> +<p>Feb. 12th. Stone coffin, containing a perfect skeleton +wrapped in hempen sackcloth, discovered in the north wall of St. +Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p><a name="page85"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 85</span>The +Fishing boat “William Tell,” of Yarmouth (and crew), +lost off North Foreland.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th. Mr. John Driscoll buried in the Roman +Catholic Cemetery; this was the first interment there.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th. General Thanksgiving Day for Deliverance from +Cholera.</p> +<p>The remains of Bishop Stanley landed at the Crane Quay.</p> +<p>The new Bridge crossing the River Yare, and connecting +Southtown with Yarmouth, commenced. Cost £50,000, +including the site. 2,600 tons of stone and about 300 tons +of iron were used in the construction, the two leaves of iron +weighing about 45 tons each. (See 1427 and 1854.)</p> +<h3>1850.</h3> +<p>Jan. 28th. Parliamentary and Financial Reform Meeting +held at the Corn Hall.</p> +<p>Mar. 31st. Mr. Waters’ Mill burned down.</p> +<p>Sept. 5th. Primitive Methodist Chapel opened. The +Schoolroom adjoining was opened Oct. 29th, 1855, and cost about +£450. (See Aug. 3rd, 1874, and June 22nd, 1875.)</p> +<p>Sept. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church +completed. Cost £10,000.</p> +<p>St. Peter’s National Schools erected.</p> +<p>Mr. Archard, with the assistance of Mr. C. C. Wilkinson (a +resident of Yarmouth in 1880, and a relative of Mr. J. W. Argyle, +of this town), brought out the invention for perforating postage +stamps. They were before this date cut up with +scissors. The former gentleman received a Government grant +of £4,000 as inventor, and the latter £150 for +constructing the machine. (See March 14th, 1881.)</p> +<p>Deaths: March 21st, William Glenister, Esq., +architect.—March 24th, Rev. G. S. Barlow, rector of +Burgh.—June 7th, Capt. Larke, R.N.—July 11th, J. +Pritchard, Esq., surgeon.</p> +<h3>1851.</h3> +<p>Feb. 22nd. Sailors’ Riot for advance of +wages. 11th Hussars sent from Norwich to suppress it. +18 persons taken prisoners.</p> +<p><a name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 86</span>The +Duke of Northumberland awarded Mr. James Beeching 100 guineas for +the Best Model of a Lifeboat. There were 280 competitors +for the prize.</p> +<p>Census taken. The returns were as +follows:—Population of Yarmouth, 11,867 males, 15,014 +females, total, 26,881—321 males included being at +sea. Gorleston, 1,195 males, and 1,391 females. +Southtown, 572 males, and 840 females. The number of houses +in Yarmouth was 6,328; and in Gorleston and Southtown, 948 +houses—6,886 being inhabited.</p> +<p>Deaths: March 18th, Cufaude Davie, Esq., J.P., aged +56.—Oct. 23rd, Rev. J. Watson, D.D.—Lady Arabella +Parker.</p> +<h3>1852.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. A procession of sailors through the town.</p> +<p>Jan. 3rd. Mr. Ransom’s mill burned down.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th. Douglas’ Travelling Theatre arrived +here, and left on the 29th.</p> +<p>Jan. 18th. The brig “James and Margaret,” of +Newcastle, whilst passing through the Roadstead, was discovered +to be on fire, and she was run on shore opposite the Victoria +Hotel. The fire was got under, and she was towed into the +Harbour by the tug “Robert Owen.” After being +temporarily repaired was sent home.</p> +<p>Feb. 5th. Mr. Bales’ Ball at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th. Seventh Anniversary and Conversazione of +Young Men’s Institute at Town Hall; Sir E. H. K. Lacon in +the chair. A splendid collection of British and Foreign +Goods, Pictures, and Curiosities were exhibited.</p> +<p>Feb. 20th. Mr. Ellis Mickleburgh, aged 80, accidentally +killed by Mr. Roll’s van on the Lowestoft Road.</p> +<p>Feb. Gersham Davie, master of the Charity School, +died.</p> +<p>Mar. 22nd. Jacobs, the Wizard, at the Theatre.</p> +<p>Mar. 22nd. Mr. Eccleston’s draper’s shop, +Broad Row, was destroyed by fire at 11 p.m.</p> +<p>April 11th. A fire broke out in a Malt House, in Row 70, +Howard Street. No material damage.</p> +<p><a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 87</span>April +19th. Miss Fanny Kemble gave a Reading at the Town +Hall. Subject: <i>As you Like it</i>. On Sept. 8th, +another Reading from the <i>Play of Measure for Measure</i>.</p> +<p>May 17th. Grand Masquerade and Fancy Dress Ball at the +Theatre Royal</p> +<p>May 30th. Public Anti-Mormon Meeting on the Chapel Denes +for the purpose of exposing Mormonism. A Meeting also at +Masonic Hall on Aug. 30th.</p> +<p>June 25th. Musical Reunion Conversazione at the Bath +House Reading Room.</p> +<p>June 29th and 30th. Mr. Gill’s Midsummer Flower +Show at his Nursery, Regent Road. Admission, 6d. to the +Gardens.</p> +<p>July 8th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and C. E. Rumbold, +Esq., elected to Parliament for the Borough. They were +opposed by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier and W. T. McCullagh, +Esq. Returns next day—L., 617; R., 547; M’C., +523; N., 488. The proclamation was read on 2nd; hustings +erected on north-front of Town Hall on the 5th; booths erected on +6th; and nomination on 7th.</p> +<p>July 13th and 14th. Yarmouth Roads Regatta.</p> +<p>Aug. 12th. Flower Show at Vauxhall Gardens postponed +owing to bad weather, till next day.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. Robbery at the shop of Mr. Mouse, George +Street.</p> +<p>Aug. 27th. Mr. W. Cook’s equestrian troupe entered +the town, and their marquee erected on the Chapel Denes.</p> +<p>Sept. 17th. Grand Balloon Ascent at 5.30 p.m., at the +Vauxhall Gardens by Lieut. Chambers, R.N., amid the cheers of a +vast multitude of people. It was postponed from the +previous day owing to the wet weather. (See July 27th, +1868.)</p> +<p>Dr. Alfred Impey died at Cove Hall, Suffolk, aged 38.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. The Lord Bishop of Norwich and the Rev. W. +Hook, vicar of Leeds, and Chaplain to the Queen, preached at the +Parish Church on behalf of the New Priory Schools. Between +the services a cold collation was provided by Mr. Brown, of the +“Angel” Hotel.</p> +<p><a name="page88"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 88</span>Oct. +7th. Priory National Schools opened and the restoration of +the Old Hall celebrated. Built from a design by J. +Flakewell, Esq. Cost, 1,850. Library and Museum built +in 1868.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th. Funeral of the Duke of Wellington took +place. By request all shops in the town were closed.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th. Fire on the premises of Mr. J. W. Darnell, +baker, Howard Street.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th and 30th. Two Concerts at the Town Hall by Mr. +H. Phillips and his daughter.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th. Mrs. Swan gave a Reading from the Play of +<i>Henry VIII.</i> at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>R. Steward, T. Brightwen, B. Fenn, J. G. Plummer, J. Cherry, +and C. C. Aldred, Esqs., were appointed Magistrates.</p> +<p>Caister Castle sold by auction to John Gurney, Esq., of +Hoveton Hall. Norfolk.</p> +<p>Southtown Gas Works erected; enlarged in 1859. (See +March 23rd, 1876.)</p> +<p>Local Board of Health established, succeeding the Board of +Paving Commissioners.</p> +<h3>1853.</h3> +<p>June 28th. On Tuesday afternoon the ceremony of driving +the first pile of the Wellington Pier took place. The beach +and terrace were decorated with flags, &c. The pile +driven had a brass plate inlaid, bearing the following +inscription:—“This, the first pile of the Wellington +Pier, was driven on the 28th of June, 1853, by S. C. Marsh, Esq., +Mayor of this Borough. David Waddington, Esq., M.P., +chairman of the Company; Mr. Peter Asheroft, Engineer; and C. J. +Palmer, Secretary.” The procession from the Hall +comprised a body of police, then a band, followed by the Mayor +and Corporation, the Minister of the Parish, and the Town Clerk, +the Ancient Order of Oddfellows bringing up the rear. The +procession entered the Pier, marched to the far end, and there +several blows by the “monkey” were given to one of +the piles; speeches made, colours hoisted, guns fired, +&c. When they retired the public were admitted <a +name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 89</span>free. +The pier was decorated with flags and laurels. +Cosgrove’s brass band was in attendance. Grand dinner +at Victoria hotel at 8 p.m., and a ball at the Town Hall. +The pier, which cost £7,000, was opened to the public on +Oct. 31st, and the day being fine, the town was <i>en +fête</i>. The structure was not finished till +1854.</p> +<p>July 28th. Re-opening of the Particular Baptist Chapel, +after extensive alterations.</p> +<p>Aug. 27th. Mortlock Lacon, Esq., died at his residence, +Hall Quay, aged 66, and was buried at South Walsham.</p> +<p>Aug. Coast visited by a very heavy gale, and on Jan. 4th +of the following year, so boisterous was the wind that most of +the shops in the Market had to be closed, except the doors. +The market on Wednesday was suspended. The snow was of +great depth.</p> +<p>About 90 boats employed in the mackerel fishery, each carrying +ten men, and 65 trawling smacks, belonging to the Port of +Yarmouth. Sale of fish realised nearly £27,000.</p> +<p>A herring 17½ in. long by 7½ in. in girth, and +weighing 18 ozs., caught near Yarmouth.—In Nov., 1870, a +mackerel caught weighing 2 lbs. 11 ozs., length 19 in., and girth +10¼ in.</p> +<p>The herring fishery during this year was very +successful. About 100 sail of boats comprised the fleet of +herring craft. Seven boats belonging to Mr. Letts and Mr. +Skuckford brought in 650 lasts. The prices realised ranged +from £4 10s. to £24 per last. The following +ships left for different parts of the Mediterranean: Isis, 2,282 +barrels; Fanny Palmer, 1,750; Acis, 1,488; Race Horse, 2,385; +Stamboul, 1,811; Clarissa, 400; Tyro, 2,342; Fegossa, 1,728; +Princess Royal, 1,480; Queen of the East, 1,925; Secret, 2,085; +Earl Leicester, 2,800; Isma, 2,930.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th to Dec. 18th. The quantity of herrings sent +by rail from Yarmouth:—To London, 202,844 packages, +weighing 7,559 tons; to Norwich, 3,873 packages, or 387 tons; to +Eastern Counties Railways, 18,298 packages, or 914 tons; Eastern +Union, 5,252, or 200 <a name="page90"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 90</span>tons; to stations beyond Peterborough +on Midland, London and North-Western, and Great Northern, 51,782 +packages, or 2,589 tons; herrings in bulk to Manchester, +Birmingham, Worcester, &c., 500 tons—total, 281,850 +packages, or 12,189 tons in weight.</p> +<p>Sept. Mr. Peter Coble, Mayor’s officer, died.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st. The Icehouse, situate near the Vauxhall +Railway Station, was partly destroyed by fire. The roof +being thatched, it burnt very fiercely, so that engines were not +of much avail, and the fire continued burning all night, and up +to Sunday evening of New Year’s Day. It is now (1884) +occupied as a coal store.</p> +<h3>1854.</h3> +<p>July 19th. First stone of the Independent Chapel, King +Street, laid. Building opened in June, 1855; cost +£3,700, including site.</p> +<p>One hundred and eighty-four licensed public-houses and 50 +beer-shops in the town.</p> +<p>George John Milles, Lord Sondes, High Steward of the +Borough.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th. The Southtown Bridge opened to the +public. (See 1849.)</p> +<p>Nov. 18th. Messrs. Gurneys and Co.’s Bank erected +and opened.</p> +<h3>1855.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. The town and neighbourhood visited with one of +the highest tides witnessed for many years. The wind blew +hard from N.W., and the moon was at the full. Some parts of +Southtown were inundated, as also the North Quay, reaching to the +Laughing Image Corner. It reached the north and south +terraces on the beach, and a large boat floated near the Holkham +Steps.</p> +<p>July 28th. First number of the <i>Yarmouth Free +Press</i> published; enlarged January 19th, 1856; and name +altered to <i>Yarmouth Independent</i>, June 27th, 1857. +(See August 14th, 1881.)</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. Collision between the Dover and Calais mail +steamer “Vivid” and the schooner “Henry,” +of Yarmouth, by which the latter was run down in Dover Roads.</p> +<p><a name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 91</span>Aug. +12th. Wesleyan Reform Chapel at Caister opened.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. Affray with Militiamen. Several +influential gentlemen sustained severe injuries.</p> +<p>Aug. Laing’s Map of Yarmouth published. It +took fifteen months to complete, and cost £600. (See +March, 1856.)</p> +<p>Sept. 5th. Brig “Venilia” launched from Mr. +Rust’s yard.</p> +<p>Sept. 25th. Address voted by the Town Council to the +Queen, on the fall of Sebastopol.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. National Thanksgiving Day for the successful +issue of the Crimean war.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd. Three French gun boats came into the +harbour.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th. Russian schooner “Sampo” captured +by H.M.S. “Tartar,” and brought into our harbour.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th. Loss of the steamer “Isle of +Thanet,” off Yarmouth, and three lives.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., entertained the +East Norfolk Militia at Hopton.</p> +<p>Oct. The New Cemetery walled-in, and consecrated by +Bishop Spencer, July 16th, 1856. (See Sept. 7th, 1876.)</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. Two war-ships, “Phœnix” and +“Mæander,” anchored in the Roadstead.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th. Miss Fanny Kemble read Shakespeare’s +<i>Julius Cæsar</i> at the Corn Hall.</p> +<p>Dec. 17th to 20th. Heavy gales; fifteen vessels driven +ashore on the Beach.</p> +<p>Yarmouth Water Works Company completed laying the water-pipes +throughout the town, and opened the works at Ormesby.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 25th, Rev. Lithgoe, minister of the Roman +Catholic Church.—April 24th, Charles Day, Esq.</p> +<p>The Rev. C. Smyth, formerly a curate of St. Nicholas’ +Church, ascended to the summit of Monte Rosa and Monte Blanc.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth mackerel fishery realised a sum of £20,000, +and 14,045 tons of fish of all kinds were sent from this town by +rail. 20,248 barrels of herrings shipped at Yarmouth for +foreign ports.</p> +<p><a name="page92"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 92</span>The +Dene Well, Albion Road, covered up, and the ancient mode of +drawing water replaced by a pump, which was ordered to be removed +in Nov., 1876, on account of the impurity of the water.</p> +<p>Yarmouth Elocution Society established.</p> +<h3>1856.</h3> +<p>Jan. 30th. The Norfolk Artillery Militia left by rail +for the camp at Colchester.</p> +<p>Mar. 19th. Sarah Hunnibell attempted to set fire to the +Gaol.</p> +<p>Mar. J. Laing, Esq., appointed Town Surveyor of +Hastings, a similar office to which he had held for several years +in Yarmouth, and was succeeded by A. W. Morant, Esq. (See +Aug., 1875, and July, 28th, 1881.)</p> +<p>April 16th. Steam tug “Robert Owen” sunk at +the Haven’s mouth.</p> +<p>May 29th. Peace celebration at the conclusion of the +Russian War.</p> +<p>May. The Rev. J. H. H. McSwinney, minister of St. +Peter’s Church, presented with a silver salver before his +departure for Cronstadt. Appointed minister of St. +John’s on his return in 1884.</p> +<p>July 13th. Wesleyan Free Church, Regent Road, +opened.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th. First general meeting of the directors of +the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway held at the Star Hotel.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th. Brigantine “Lizzie Lee” launched +from Mr. J. Powell’s yard.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. “Parallax” lectured at the Corn +Hall, and caused great excitement by his public discussions.</p> +<p>Nov. 25th. Very high tide and heavy gale.</p> +<p>Dec. Rev. W. D. Wade appointed to the incumbency of St. +Mary’s Church, Southtown.</p> +<p>Commander Kisbie, R.N., awarded by the National Lifeboat +Institution a medal for saving 90 lives.</p> +<p>Thirty thousand two hundred and twenty-seven barrels of +herrings shipped at Yarmouth for foreign parts.</p> +<p>Marine Parade commenced. (See Mar. 7th, 1876.)</p> +<p><a name="page93"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 93</span>Deaths: +Aug. 10th, Henry Humphrey, in the 100th year of his +age.—Aug. 21st, Captain Charles Pearson, aged 72.</p> +<h3>1857.</h3> +<p>Jan. 8th. “Volunteer” steam-tug on fire in +the harbour.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. Inauguration Dinner of the Eastern Star +Provident Association Friendly Society held at the Corn +Hall. The society started with near 900 members in 12 +branches established in Norfolk and Suffolk.</p> +<p>Jan. Rorqual whale, 45 feet in length, and weighing +about 20 tons, caught at Winterton, and exhibited on +Wrestler’s Plain.</p> +<p>Feb. 6th. Mr. J. B. Beales appointed Inspector of +Weights and Measures, succeeded by Mr. E. D. Louttid, who +resigned the office in Jan., 1871; and on Feb. 27th, 1871, Mr. F. +W. Robinson was appointed. (See 1874.)</p> +<p>Feb. 20th. Man-of-war ship “Blenheim,” 74 +guns, anchored in the Roadstead.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th. The schooner “Branch” launched +from Mr. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>Mar. 1st. The iron screw-collier “Isby” run +ashore south of Caister.</p> +<p>Mar. 28th. E. Watkin and W. Torrens McCullagh, Esqs., +returned to Parliament for the Borough, by a majority of +158. Parliament dissolved on Mar. 21st. Grand +procession of the United Seamen’s Association.</p> +<p>Mar. Mr. George Tewsley appointed Superintendent of the +Borough Police. (See 1872, 1877, and 1878.)</p> +<p>April. A fine sturgeon, a Royal fish, caught off +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>A mammoth tusk picked up at sea, which measured 4 ft. on the +bend and 21 in. in girth.</p> +<p>May 15th. Thackeray, the novelist, lectured in Yarmouth: +Subject—Georges III. and IV.</p> +<p>May 16th. Emily Major, dressed in male attire, attempted +to escape from Gaol.</p> +<p>May 27th. Two Russian trophies received at +Yarmouth. The Mayor applied to Lord Panmure for them in +June, 1856.</p> +<p><a name="page94"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 94</span>June +7th. Corner-stone of St. John’s Church laid. +This building, which cost £2,000, was opened Feb. 7th, +1858. In 1859 the southern aisle was added as a memorial to +the late Miss Maurice, and opened by Bishop Hills before his +departure for British Columbia.</p> +<p>June 8th. The Bill authorising the construction of the +Britannia Pier read a third time and passed. This Pier was +opened by a public company, July 13th, 1858, which has since +dissolved.</p> +<p>Aug. 28th. Meeting of the British Archæological +Association at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. The House of Commons decided the election to +Parliament of W. T. McCullagh and E. Watkins, Esqs., as +invalid. A. W. Young and J. Mellor, Esqs., were returned to +Parliament in their place; the next day a monster meeting, +between 10,000 and 12,000 people being present, was held on the +Quay. E. Watkin, Esq., was drawn by men, by means of a rope +attached to his carriage, from the Railway Station round the +town.</p> +<p>Sept. 15th. Two Prize Fights took place on the banks of +the Yare, between Batson and Slack, and Stamp and Turner.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th. Meeting at the Town Hall on the Indian +Mutinies; £233 17s. subscribed in the room for the +sufferers.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th. Organ at St. Peter’s Church +opened. It was built by Messrs. Bishop and Starr, at a cost +of £400.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. Day of National Fasting and Humiliation.</p> +<p>Oct. 14th. Dinner given to Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., at +the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Oct. 22nd. Loss of the s.s. “Ontario” and 24 +of her crew, on the Barber Sand. A dreadful gale and great +destruction to the shipping.</p> +<p>Oct. Government Schools of Art and Navigation +established, mainly through the exertions of the Rev. J. B. +Bampton.—Exhibition of Paintings, &c., held at these +schools in 1860. These schools occupy part of a Mansion +formerly the residence of the Paget family.</p> +<p><a name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 95</span>Oct. +29th. Demonstration of the Liberal party at the Town +Hall.</p> +<p>Nov. 12th. A warm Vestry Meeting (the second) at the +Town Hall for making a Church Rate of 1½d. in the £, +to include St. Peter’s. The report of the Church +property in the town was made by a committee appointed at the +first meeting, and it was resolved that no rate should be +made. The Church party demanded a poll, which lasted till +the following afternoon, but they lost it by 121 majority. +The Church party finding they were defeated, the Parish Church +and St. George’s Chapel Clocks were stopped till Dec. 22nd, +when they were set going after nearly six weeks’ rest.</p> +<p>Nov. 17th. T. P. Burroughs, Esq., passed his examination +for admission as a Solicitor.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. The steamship “Rapid,” of Leith, +sunk on the Cross Sands, and in 1858 divers were employed to +raise some of her stores, consisting of wine, drapery goods, +hearthrugs, smoked meats, tins of herrings, &c., which were +sold at St. George’s Hall, Corn Hall, and on Hall Quay.</p> +<h3>1858.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Fire in Jane Place, destroyed the roofing of +three houses, and entirely demolished the whole of a net +chamber. It originated in Mr. Moore’s workshop.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th. Testimonial, consisting of a splendid tea and +coffee service, with an oval 24-inch waiter, weighing 203 ozs., +presented to B. Fenn, Esq., by the Fishermen’s Provident +Society.</p> +<p>Jan. 18th. The Aztec Lilliputians, the reputed Gods of +the Pagan Temple of Iximaya, exhibited at the Corn Hall, Regent +Street.</p> +<p>Feb. 11th. An Address voted by the Town Council to her +Majesty on the marriage of H.R.H. the Princess Royal to H.R.H. +Prince Frederick William of Prussia.</p> +<p>Feb. The Lord Chancellor appointed six (out of 15 +candidates) new Magistrates for the Borough, viz., P. Pullyn, D. +A. Gourlay, F. Palmer, W. T. Clarke, J. Barker, and J. Owles, +Esqs.</p> +<p><a name="page96"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 96</span>Feb. +11th. The Town Battery ordered to be removed. The +materials were sold for £84 12s.</p> +<p>Mar. 8th. The Fermanagh Light Infantry Militia (845 rank +and file), commanded by Lord Enniskillen and the Hon. S. +Crichton, arrived in Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Mar. 14th. The “Frederica,” 420 tons +register and 600 tons burthen, launched from Mr. T. +Branford’s yard. Between 8,000 and 4,000 persons +witnessed the sight.</p> +<p>April 15th. Collision between the s.s. +“Ernestide” and the Prussian ship +“Thomas” off Yarmouth. The former +foundered.</p> +<p>April 22nd. St. John’s Church consecrated, and in +the same month the stone pulpit and the communion plate at this +church were bought out of the proceeds of sale of the book, +“Story of Samuel Brock.” The Church was opened +Feb. 7th; enlarged in 1859, 1866, and 1868.</p> +<p>May 4th. Riot at Southtown between the Fermanagh Militia +and some coalheavers.</p> +<p>May 19th. The brig “Nil Desperandum,” 800 +tons register and over 500 tons burthen, launched from Mr. J. +Rust’s yard. Thousands of persons witnessed the +sight.</p> +<p>May 26th. The Corn Exchange, Regent Street, sold to R. +Steward, Esq., for £1,540; and in 1870 was purchased by +Government for the New Post and Telegraph Offices, &c.</p> +<p>June 10th. Sir E. N. Buxton, M.P., died at Cromer, aged +46 years.</p> +<p>June 15th. Congratulatory address voted by the Town +Council to J. Paget, Esq., on his appointment as +Surgeon-Extraordinary to her Majesty the Queen.</p> +<p>June 20th. Dawson Turner, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S., +&c., died at Brompton, aged 83 years, and his will was sworn +under £70,000 personality. He was born Oct., 1775, at +Yarmouth, where his father was a banker. He was educated at +the Grammar School at North Walsham, and entered Pembroke +College, Cambridge, in 1793. At his father’s decease +he became a partner in the firm of Messrs. Gurneys <a +name="page97"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 97</span>and Co., and +managed the Yarmouth bank. He married the daughter of the +late William Palgrave, Esq., of Coltishall. His library +comprised 40,000 volumes.</p> +<p>June 29th. County Election between Cooke and Stracey, +for the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Buxton. The +former returned by a large majority. Each party had a booth +in the Yarmouth Market Place.</p> +<p>July 4th. Rev. William Tritton, of Cambridge, preached +his first sermon at the Independent Chapel, King Street.</p> +<p>July 13th. Britannia Pier opened. +<i>Déjeûner</i> given in the afternoon on the Pier +to the shareholders and their friends, 150 in number. The +structure cost about £6,000.</p> +<p>July 16th. Grand Procession of the Freemasons to and +from St. Nicholas’ Church to the Town Hall, where about 125 +gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner.</p> +<p>July 20th. Nottingham Order of Oddfellows opened a new +Court in Middlegate Street, and next day was publicly +commemorated by a procession through the town, headed by +Hulley’s Saxhorn Band.</p> +<p>July. Fifty-seven invalids, mostly Indian sufferers, +arrived at the military Hospital on the South Denes from +Chatham.</p> +<p>Aug. 26th. The Norfolk Hotel sold by auction to Messrs. +Hills and Underwood for £2,160.</p> +<p>Aug. 30th. G. Wells Holt, Esq., Magistrates’ +Clerk, tendered his resignation to the Magistrates. He ably +filled the office for over 22 years. His son William +succeeded to the office, to whom a dinner was given at the +“Crown and Anchor” on Oct. 4th. (See Dec. 4th, +1884.)</p> +<p>Sept. 2nd. Riot in Charlotte Street and Broad Row with +the Fermanagh Militia. Tradesmen obliged to close their +shops.</p> +<p>Sept. 4th. Royal yacht “Grille,” belonging +to the King of Prussia, arrived in the Harbour.</p> +<p>Sept. 8th. Two Prussian frigates, “Thetis” +and “Gefion,” under the command of the High Admiral +Prince Adalbert, arrived in the Roadstead.</p> +<p><a name="page98"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 98</span>Sept. +23rd. The Louth Rifles, under the command of Sir John +Robinson, and comprising 500 men and 24 officers, arrived in +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. First Evening Service held at St. +George’s Chapel after the gas had been laid on.</p> +<p>Oct. 6th. An elegant Church Service, bound in turkey +morocco, presented to the Rev. Robert Boyle, LL.D., by the +inhabitants of Gorleston, as a farewell token of their +esteem.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th. The s.s. “Hunwick” sunk off the +Jetty. Ship and cargo valued at £8,500. The +crew saved.</p> +<p>Nov. The Rev. G. Hills, B.D. resigned the incumbency of +St. Nicholas’ Church, on his appointment to the Bishopric +of British Columbia. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was +conferred by diploma at a convocation at Durham on the 30th.</p> +<p>Nov. Mr. G. Dowey appointed Station Master, and resigned +in 1884.</p> +<p>Dec. 13th. The Rev. W. D. Wade, B.A., incumbent of St. +Mary’s Church, Southtown, presented with a purse of 60 +guineas.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd. S. C. Burton, Esq., solicitor, sworn as a +Commissioner to Administer Oaths in the High Court of Chancery of +England.</p> +<p>Dec. Rev. H. R. Nevill, incumbent of St. Mark’s +Church, Lakenham, near Norwich, appointed to the incumbency of +Yarmouth; and the Rev. G. I. Pellew, curate of St. +Nicholas’ Church, appointed to fill the vacancy at +Lakenham.</p> +<p>Dec. Mr. J. M. Petts, late chief officer at the Coast +Guard Station at Gillingham, Chatham, promoted by the Admiralty +to be chief officer of the Yarmouth Coastguard. In March, +1866, he was presented with a gold watch and guard (value +£65) and a silver cup (value £85), subscribed for by +121 gentlemen of the town, and presented at the Town Hall by the +Mayor (C. C. Aldred, Esq.), in recognition of many acts of +bravery in saving shipwrecked crews. He resigned the office +on Oct. 1st, 1870. From Oct. 5th, 1859, to Feb. 14th, 1870, +no less than 40 vessels were wrecked on the beach and off the +coast, from which <a name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +99</span>Mr. Petts, in conjunction with those under his command, +was instrumental in rescuing 295 lives. Joined the service +June 22nd, 1827.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 17th, Rev. J. Pike, the much-esteemed minister of +the Independent Chapel, Gorleston, died directly after leaving +the pulpit, where he officiated in the service.—Mar. 4th, +Sir Eton S. Travers, aged 69 years.—Mar. 15th, Mr. S. V. +Moore, a respected member of the Town Council.</p> +<h3>1858–9.</h3> +<p>The winter was remarkably fine, neither wind, rain, nor snow +interrupting fine weather till 31st March, when snow fell, and a +severe frost followed.</p> +<h3>1859.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Sailors’ Home established. Its +completion on Feb. 2nd was celebrated by a tea given to a large +party of beachmen and their wives at the Norfolk Hotel. The +Home cost about £2,000.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th. Mr. James Buddrell, master of the fishing +vessel “Hosannah,” presented with a first-class +silver medal and diploma from the Emperor of the French for +saving the lives of 11 men, the crew of the French brig “La +Prospère,” off Hasbro’.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th. The Queen constituted the Colonies of British +Columbia and Vancouver’s Island to be a Bishop’s See, +and appointed the Rev. George Hills, D.D., to be ordained and +consecrated Bishop of it. This ceremony was performed at +Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops +of Norwich and Oxford, on Feb. 24th. In Jan. Dr. Hills was +presented with a handsome communion service by the members of his +congregation, and on the 26th of May was presented at the Town +Hall with a testimonial, value £400, as a token of +esteem. He reached his new diocese in March, 1860.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th. The Rev. H. Hitcham died, aged 40 years.</p> +<p>Jan. 19th. The sloop “Eliza” launched from +Mr. J. Rust’s yard.</p> +<p>Feb. 10th. An Address voted by the Town Council to her +Majesty on the birth of a grandson, heir to the Throne of +Prussia.</p> +<p><a name="page100"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 100</span>Feb. +17th. Cuthbert Collingwood Hall, Esq., of Beach House, on +the Marine Parade, died at his seat, Collingwood Court, near +Windsor. Mr. Hall was one of the earliest advocates of our +Marine Parade, and gave £50 towards its construction. +He married the granddaughter and co-heiress of the celebrated +Admiral Cuthbert Lord Collingwood, who commanded at Trafalgar +after Lord Nelson received his death wound.</p> +<p>Feb. 20th. The “reading-in” ceremony and +first sermon preached by the Rev. H. R. Nevill at St. +Nicholas’ Church. The text chosen was 1 Cor. ii. 1, +2.</p> +<p>Feb. Portrait of Lord Sondes, High Steward of the +Borough, placed in the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Mar. 17th. St. Patrick’s Day was ushered in at +break of day by the band of the Louth Rifles playing through our +streets the Irish air dedicated to the patron saint.</p> +<p>Mar. 21st. East Suffolk Railway Bill read a third time +in the House of Commons and passed. The line was opened at +Southtown on the 1st of June.</p> +<p>April 5th. E. W. Watkin and A. W. Young, Esqs., +addressed a large meeting of between 2,000 and 3,000 persons on +the Hall Quay; and again on the 15th.</p> +<p>April 13th to 16th. Charles Stratton, commonly known as +“General Tom Thumb,” with a company, gave an +entertainment at the Theatre.</p> +<p>April 19th. The “Athelstan” launched from +Messrs. Fellows’ yard. This fine vessel was commanded +by Captain John Braccy, of Yarmouth. (See Aug. 18th, +1882.)</p> +<p>April 29th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Sir Henry J. +Stracey, Bart., returned to Parliament.—Votes—L., +693; S., 653; Watkin, 568; Young, 537. This was the first +time of polling in wards. No hustings. Nomination +from the “Crown and Anchor” balcony.</p> +<p>May 12th. Cardinal Wiseman, accompanied by Lord Stafford +and a party of friends, paid a visit to Yarmouth.</p> +<p>May 26th. The house of Mr. Bradnum, at Gorleston, struck +by lightning, the fluid knocking a chimneypot through the roof, +smashing the windows and frames, and doing other damage.</p> +<p><a name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 101</span>May +27th. First meeting, called by the Mayor at the Town Hall, +respecting the enrolment of Rifle Volunteers at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>June 7th. Miss Ann Turner, daughter of the late Dawson +Turner, Esq., presented the Town Council with 17 rolls, &c., +relative to the History of Yarmouth.</p> +<p>July 11th. Eighty invalids, mostly Indian sufferers, +arrived at the Military Hospital on the South Denes from +Chatham.</p> +<p>July. The schooner “Alma” brought to +Yarmouth nine 68 and one 54-pounder guns from Woolwich for the +North and South Batteries. There were six guns mounted on +each battery, namely, three 82, two 68, and one long 24-pounders, +some of them weighing as much as five tons.</p> +<p>July. B. Dowson and F. Worship, Esqs., appointed +Deputy-Lieutenants of the County.</p> +<p>Aug. 12th. The fine vessel “Himalaya,” 375 +feet in length, with her saloon of 100 ft., brought a portion of +the Donegal Militia to Yarmouth, who were landed by the steam-tug +“Robert Owen” at the Barrack Wharf; and on the 14th +the vessel left, having previously embarked the Louth Rifles for +Preston.</p> +<p>Sep. 1st. Appointment of officers for the Rifle +Volunteers, and the services of the men accepted by +Government.</p> +<p>Sept. 7th. Rev. W. Griffiths, M.A., minister of the +Congregational body, ordained at King Street Chapel.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th. Fire at Mr. S. Ives’ premises, in +Howard Street; estimated damage, £150. Another fire +originated at the same place on June 5th, 1867, doing damage to +the amount of £600.</p> +<p>Sep. 26th. C. P. Molly, Esq., of Liverpool, contributed +a Mural Drinking Fountain for the Borough. R. Steward, +Esq., contributed one in Nov., which is now placed in front of +the Sailors’ Home.</p> +<p>Sept. 28th. Services of the Artillery Volunteer Corps +accepted by Government, and the appointment of officers +confirmed.</p> +<p>Sept. Water supplied by the Yarmouth Water Works Company +to the inhabitants of Southtown.</p> +<p><a name="page102"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 102</span>Oct. +8th. Riot in King Street with four of the Donegal Militia, +one of whom when in custody at the Police Station attempted to +set fire to his cell, and a <i>melée</i> took place before +it could be extinguished.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th. Violent gale, 14 lives lost off this coast, +and 80 shipwrecked seamen lodged at the Sailors’ +Home. A sloop driven through the Britannia Pier and severed +it in two.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th. First stone of St. Andrew’s Church +laid. Contract for building was £1,050 10s. In +March, 1864, a schoolroom was built adjoining the church, which +cost £500 more.</p> +<p>Dec. 16th. The <i>Norfolk Standard</i>, published by Mr. +J. Cooper, was discontinued. The same publisher printed the +<i>Yarmouth Weekly News</i> and the <i>Yarmouth Standard</i> +previously.</p> +<p>Dec. 20th. Rev. F. W. Johnson, who was appointed in +Jan., 1858, minister of St. John’s Church, died in +London. By will he bequeathed £3,000 to endow the +Beach and Harbour Mission.</p> +<p>Dec. 27th. Jacob Astley, Baron Hastings, and a baronet +of England, died at his town residence, aged 62 years. He +was born on Nov. 13th, 1797, and was the eldest son of Sir Jacob +Henry Astley. The late lord married, on Mar. 22nd, 1819, +Georgiana Caroline, youngest daughter of Sir Henry W. Dashwood, +Bart., and sister of the late Marchioness of Ely. (See Dec. +24th, 1875.)</p> +<p>Francis Worship, E. P. Youell, and J. Clark, Esqs., appointed +as Magistrates.</p> +<p>Bastard shark caught off Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Thirty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine barrels of +herrings shipped at Yarmouth for foreign ports.</p> +<p>Vice-Admiral Lovell, K.H., who had served under Nelson at +Trafalgar, died, aged 72.</p> +<p>New Lifeboat-house erected by the National Association at a +cost of £400.</p> +<h3>1860.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd. Three cases of wine, eight of spirits, and +five of oil, and a cask of vinegar, landed here, having been +picked up by the smack “Chance.”</p> +<p><a name="page103"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 103</span>Jan. +4th. Schooner “Hero,” of and for Yarmouth, went +ashore on Palling Beach and became a total wreck. Sold for +£9.</p> +<p>Jan. 20th. The people in Southtown alarmed by the report +of a “Spring-heel’d Jack” in the locality for +some days previous. The supposed fiend, who assaulted one +of the employés on the East Suffolk railway, and left him +insensible on the ground, was said to be a man clad in a white +tight-skin dress, and goat’s horns fixed to his head.</p> +<p>Jan. F. Palmer, Esq., appointed hon. surgeon to the +Rifle Volunteer Corps.</p> +<p>Feb. 2nd. The fishing lugger “Paymaster,” +belonging to Mr. B. Fenn, sailed from Yarmouth to Portsmouth, a +distance of 240 miles, in 23 hours.</p> +<p>Feb. 14th. A detachment of the Donegal Militia (162) +left Yarmouth for Deptford.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th. The premises of Messrs. Bullimore, West, and +Todd, coachbuilders, carpenters, &c., destroyed by fire.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th and 18th. Officers of the Donegal Militia +performed at the Theatre on behalf of the Hospital. <i>Used +Up</i> and the <i>Irish Attorney</i> were represented.</p> +<p>Feb. 17th. The fishing smack “John Bull” +driven on Yarmouth beach in a gale. The crew of five were +taken out of the rigging by a lifeboat crew, and all saved except +one boy. George Milligan, at the risk of his own life, +bravely rescued a helpless man who was lashed to the +rigging. In March, he and Capt. T. Davies, R.N., inspecting +commander of the Yarmouth Coastguards, received silver medals for +their bravery on this occasion, and the lifeboat crew +£24.</p> +<p>Feb. 24th. Enquiry opened in the House of Commons upon +the petition against the return of Sir E. Lacon and Sir H. +Stracey, Barts., as M.P.’s for the Borough. After +seven days’ investigation, the Chairman of the Committee +announced them as duly elected.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th. A tremendous hurricane, which for about +half-an-hour in the afternoon raged with the greatest fury, the +pressure per square foot being 30 lbs. The like not known +before for many years. In 1839 it reached only 28 lbs.</p> +<p><a name="page104"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +104</span>Feb. A beautiful silver épergne, of +Eastern design, representing a giraffe feeding under a palm tree, +presented to the Rev. J. B. Bampton on his leaving Yarmouth for +Dover, by the supporters and students of the Yarmouth Government +School of Art and Navigation, as a token of esteem.</p> +<p>March 7th. At a Levée at St. James’ Palace, +Captains S. C. Marsh and W. J. Foreman; Lieut. A. W. Morant and +Dr. Stephenson, of the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers; and +Capt. J. H. Orde, Lieut. E. P. Youell, Ensign J. Tomlinson, and +Hon. Assistant Surgeon F. Palmer, 2nd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, +were introduced to her Majesty by the Earl of Leicester, Lord +Lieutenant of the County.</p> +<p>March 13th. A new fishing smack, “Harriett +Todd” launched. Mr. Todd lost the smack +“Viper,” and had three others damaged in the gale of +the 20th Nov., 1861.</p> +<p>March. The brave crew of the Gorleston Lifeboat +“Ranger” awarded the sum of £233 by the owner +of the brig “Martin Luther,” for assisting his vessel +into Harbour during the hurricanes of Feb. 28th.</p> +<p>March. Petition sent to the House of Commons for total +abolition of Church rates; also a petition to suppress Bribery by +a condign punishment upon all guilty of the practice. The +latter was signed by 230 electors, and presented to the House on +the 24th instant, by J. Mellor, Esq., M.P.</p> +<p>March. Loss of the Yarmouth fishing smack +“Emerald,” and seven hands, about twenty miles east +of the Leman and Owen Sands.</p> +<p>April 6th. Artillery and Rifle Volunteers’ first +demonstration on the South Denes.</p> +<p>April 10th. Conservative Banquet at the Theatre. +The entire pit was boarded over on a level with the stage, where +the tables were arranged; and a military band played in the +gallery. A marquee was erected on the plain as a reception +room.</p> +<p>April 23rd. First stone of the Gorleston Methodist New +Connexion Chapel laid. Building cost £250. It +was opened July 22nd.</p> +<p><a name="page105"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 105</span>May +17th. The barque “Caroline” launched, after +being repaired at an outlay of £5,000, from Mr. +Powell’s yard. The band of the Donegal Militia played +“Rule, Britannia” as she glided off the incline.</p> +<p>May 28th. Fearful gale and loss of life at sea; eight +vessels—brigs, schooners, and a barge—lost on Scroby +and in the Cockle Gat, with their crews; also 14 fishing vessels +and 156 men and boys, lost off Yarmouth. The appeal to the +town and nation on behalf of 50 widows and 160 orphans left +destitute resulted in the handsome sum of £10,000. +Her Majesty and Prince Consort headed the list with £100 +each. In a former gale the north-east pinnacle of St. +Peter’s Church fell over the nave and crashed through the +roof into the organ gallery, the organ narrowly escaping. +Damage estimated at £250.</p> +<p>June 5th. G. S. Harcourt, Esq., resigned the +Secretaryship of the Sailors’ Home owing to ill-health.</p> +<p>June 30th. The Channel Fleet of 13 vessels, under the +command of Sir C. Freemantle, anchored in the Roads, and +comprised the “Royal Albert,” 121 guns; +“Donegal,” 101; “Edgar,” 91; +“Aboukir,” 91; “Conqueror,” 101; +“Trafalgar,” 91; “Centurion,” 91; +“Algiers,” 91; “Mars,” 80; +“Mersey,” 40; “Diadem,” 32; also the +“Greyhound” corvette, and “Locust.”</p> +<p>July 9th. Procession through the town of the Foresters +and Members of the Eastern Star Provident Association to the +Victoria Gardens, where a gala was given.</p> +<p>July 18th. Sir Samuel Morton Peto presented with a +superb china dessert service, and an elaborately-worked plateau +épergne candelabrum and other plate, value about +£2,000, by 300 subscribers, as a token of regard and +obligation to him in making the East Suffolk Railway.</p> +<p>July 24th. Prince of Wales’ Own Donegal Militia, +under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Lord Claude E. Hamilton, left +Yarmouth for Ireland, after staying twelve months.</p> +<p><a name="page106"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 106</span>Aug. +8th. The Norfolk Militia Artillery arrived at the Southtown +Barracks, and were disbanded on the 20th. This regiment was +embodied in April, 1859, and in May left for Sheerness, and +thence for Woolwich.</p> +<p>Sept. 3rd. First prize competition meeting of the Rifle +Volunteers held.</p> +<p>Sept. W. Strike, Esq., Collector of Customs, promoted to +the Collectorship at Waterford; he was succeeded by W. C. +Maclean, Esq., Comptroller at Portsmouth.</p> +<p>Oct. 15th. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, the celebrated +Tragedians, appeared at the Theatre Royal in <i>The Wife’s +Secret</i>.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. A short sun-fish caught on the North +Beach. It was 4 ft. in length, and weighed about 11 +stone. A fine specimen was also caught off Yarmouth in +1821.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. Frightful boiler explosion on board the +steamer “Tonning,” off Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Nov. 7th. Race by two herring traders—the brig +“Susan Bailey,” of Ipswich, and schooner “The +Belle,” of Brixton—from Yarmouth to Leghorn. +The latter arrived at her destination after a run of nearly 17 +days, the “Susan Bailey” being two days behind +her.</p> +<p>Nov. 10th. The brig “Eleanor,” 300 tons +register, launched in full rig from Messrs. Beeching’s +yard.</p> +<p>Dec. 28th. Melancholy occurrence at the Theatre, caused +by the sudden death of Tom Algar, the clown, during the Christmas +Pantomime. On Jan. 4th Mr. Owen, the manager, gave a +benefit to the widow and orphans.</p> +<p>Dec. 29th (Saturday). The town, in consequence of a hard +frost, had the gas cut off from 5 p.m. till 9, and then only +partially.</p> +<p>Dec. The Rev. Henry Ralph Nevill, M.A., nominated to the +Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church in Norwich, vacated by +the death of the Rev. W. M. Hanson.</p> +<p>Fish Depôt, near the Jetty, erected.</p> +<p>The sum collected in Market Tolls this year was £220 +12s., about the average for the last 22 years.</p> +<p><a name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +107</span>Parliamentary returns show that the number of houses in +Yarmouth compounded for by landlords was 1,098, of the annual +gross-rent of £6; and 229 at £7.</p> +<p>About 1,300 Voters on the Register this year.</p> +<h3>1861.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Yarmouth specially appointed as one of the 32 +Ports into which wine in casks was allowed to be imported, but +the “testing” not permitted unless by special +grant.</p> +<p>Jan. 6th to 11th. Colder weather than had been +experienced in Yarmouth within living memory.</p> +<p>Jan. 15th. Meeting at the Town Hall for the relief of +the poor in the town; £330 subscribed in the room.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st. “Iconoclast” lectured at the +Theatre to a crowded house. Subject, “What Must a Man +Do to be Saved?” Admission, 6d. and 2d.</p> +<p>April 8th. Census taken. The returns were as +follows: Population of Yarmouth, 13,207 males; 16,881 +females—30,088. Gorleston and Southtown, 2,029 males; +2,456 females—4,485. Houses inhabited in Yarmouth, +6,861; uninhabited, 239; building, 73; inhabited in Gorleston and +Southtown, 975.</p> +<p>April 13th. A detachment of the Royal Artillery, +comprising 403 men, officers included, with 15 women and 19 +children, arrived at the Armoury from Woolwich.</p> +<p>April 24th. The barque “Harmony,” 300 tons +register, or about 450 burthen, launched from Mr. H. +Fellows’ yard, after which a religious service was held on +board. She was built for carrying Missionaries to Labrador, +and was the second built by Mr. Fellows for the Moravian Mission, +the one built in 1833 being of the same name.</p> +<p>May 20th and 21st. Riot in the town between the Royal +Artillery and the E. N. Militia. About 100 men, armed with +sabres, broke out of the Armoury, and rushed down the road +towards the bridge like wild men, where several hundred civilians +had congregated, but who fled before the soldiers, spreading +terror in the neighbourhood. Tradesmen had to close their +shops.</p> +<p><a name="page108"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 108</span>May +24th. Gable-end of a three-storey house, built on the site +of the Convent of Blackfriars, in Friar’s Lane, fell out +from top to bottom.</p> +<p>May 29th. The Rev. James Tann, 14 years Pastor of the +Particular Baptists of this town, died.</p> +<p>June 18th. Stormy meeting at the Town Hall respecting +the election of a Vestry Clerk. The four following days a +poll was taken, which resulted in the return of Mr. S. B. Cory by +a majority of 233 votes. Cory, 856; Mr. C. H. Chamberlin, +623. Mr. Cory died in Oct. 1876. (See Aug. 16th, +1861, and Nov. 1876.)</p> +<p>June 23rd. Rev. H. Squire, Unitarian Minister of this +town, terminated 30 years’ Ministry. On Aug. 5th he +was presented with a silver inkstand, value £30, by the +members of the congregation. He died in London, Aug. 1869, +aged 62.</p> +<p>June 30th. Comet first seen in Yarmouth. Its +brightness and length of tail rivalled Donati’s, which +appeared in 1858.</p> +<p>June. Mons. A. A. Desfougerais appointed as French +Maritime Consul and Agent in Yarmouth, by the French +Government.</p> +<p>June. Mr. F. Danby Palmer passed legal examination in +honours, he being the first local candidate who obtained that +distinction.</p> +<p>June. Lieutenant E. Leeds, R.A., instructor to the +Artillery Volunteers, presented by the officers and men of the +corps with a gold watch and chain, as a memento of their +esteem.</p> +<p>July 6th. Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., Deputy-Keeper of +her Majesty’s Records, died, aged 72 years. He +married the daughter of the late Dawson Turner, Esq., of +Yarmouth, and was Knighted in 1832 for his services and attention +to Constitutional and Parliamentary literature.</p> +<p>July. Mr. George Tyrrell, builder, of Southtown, +received the Government contract for altering and re-constructing +the Redoubt at Harwich. In May, 1862, he also obtained the +Government contract for the erection of a Fort at Bembridge Town, +Isle of Wight, at an outlay of about £40,000.</p> +<p><a name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 109</span>Aug. +16th. Purse of £70 presented to Mr. S. B. Cory, the +newly-appointed Vestry Clerk. (See June 18th.)</p> +<p>Aug. Turkish Baths on Regent Road established, but were +not in existence many months.</p> +<p>Aug. Mr. J. S. Cobb passed his examination at the Royal +College of Surgeons, and obtained his diploma as a dental +surgeon.</p> +<p>Sept. 1st. Mr. F. W. Rolfe played his opening service at +St. Peter’s Church, and received his appointment as +organist. In Nov., 1870, he was presented with a purse of +£11 by the members of the St. Peter’s Musical +Association. He died in 1884.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th. Yarmouth and other Norfolk Volunteers +reviewed at the Earl of Leicester’s Park at Holkham.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. Alarming Fire at Mr. J. Self’s fish +storehouse and drying-rooms, in Row 145. Estimated damage, +£400. And on Nov. 25th, Mr. T. W. Downing’s +fish-stores; damage, £200.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd and 3rd. Heavy gale and great loss of life and +property; 19 shipwrecked seamen received at the Home; the +previous ten days, 44.</p> +<p>Nov. 21st. New Lifeboat sent to Yarmouth by the National +Institution.</p> +<p>Nov. 26th. A site on the South Denes, for erecting an +Iron Mission Church and Schools, granted by the Town Council to +the Rev. H. R. Nevill. The Church was opened for Service on +March 4th, 1862. Cost, £500. (See May 26th, +1869.)</p> +<p>Nov. 28th. Artillery Volunteers’ First +Distribution of Prizes and Presentation of eight Saluting Flags, +which cost £14, the gift of fifty lady subscribers, took +place at the Corn Hall.</p> +<p>Nov. The fishing-lugger “Triumph,” of +Yarmouth, lost in a gale in the North Sea, and 11 hands, +principally belonging to Sherringham. Mr. J. W. De Caux, +assisted by the Mayor (R. Steward, Esq.), collected +£52 13s. for the widows and orphans.</p> +<p>Nov. The Rev. Hezekiah Martin, B.A., Curate of Caister +Church, presented by the parishioners with a silver salver as a +tribute of esteem.</p> +<p><a name="page110"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 110</span>Dec. +14th. H.R.H. the Prince Consort died, aged 42. During +the ensuing week all outward manifestations of sorrow were paid +in Yarmouth to the deceased Prince—shops were partly +closed, flags raised half-mast, mourning uniform worn by +volunteers, &c. On the 23rd the Town Council adopted a +vote of condolence to her Majesty.</p> +<p>Dec. The Rev. F. C. Skey, late Curate of St. +Nicholas’ Church, appointed Minor Canon in Bristol +Cathedral. A gold pencil case was presented to him (Dec. +19th) by the scholars and teachers of St. Peter’s +School.</p> +<p>St. John’s School erected.</p> +<p>St. Andrew’s Institute established in Charlotte Street, +but removed to the North Quay in 1865.</p> +<p>Deaths: Oct. 21st, Mr. David Hogarth, who ably filled the +position of Postmaster of Yarmouth for upwards of twenty years, +aged 68.—Nov. 1st, John Goate Fisher, Esq., aged +82.—Nov. 4th, Mr. T. W Chevalier, Head Master of the School +of Design, aged 30.</p> +<h3>1862.</h3> +<p>March 1st. 1862 changes of grandsire triples, composed +and conducted by Mr. William Lee, were rung on eight bells in the +Parish Church Steeple.</p> +<p>April 9th. Suffolk Militia Artillery, commanded by +Colonel Adair (460 men), arrived at Southtown.</p> +<p>May 5th. Corner stone of the Bethel laid, and the Chapel +opened Aug. 15th. Cost about £300.</p> +<p>May 23rd. The Priory Musical Class presented Mr. +Musgrave with a silver inkstand.</p> +<p>May 27th. A portion of the Channel Fleet anchored in the +Roadstead. It comprised the “Revenge,” 91 guns; +“Trafalgar,” 90; “Emerald,” 51; +“Chanticleer,” 17; and the gunboat +“Porpoise.” They waited the arrival of the +“St. George,” the vessel in which H.R.H. Prince +Alfred sailed.</p> +<p>May. C. J. Palmer, Esq., presented the Corporation with +a scarlet gown and a black gown, originally worn by the +Mayors. The former to be worn on extraordinary and the +latter on ordinary occasions.</p> +<p><a name="page111"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 111</span>June +1st. The man-of-war ship “St. George,” 90 guns, +with. 900 men on board, joined the Channel Fleet in the +Roadstead. On the following morning (Monday) a royal salute +of 21 guns was fired from the North Battery, and a gay display of +colours hoisted by every ship in the Harbour, in honour of Prince +Alfred. The same afternoon the Sailor Prince, accompanied +by Major Cowell, the Rev. W. Lake Onslow, and the Hon. Manners +Sutton, landed on the Beach, and proceeded to the South Denes, +where a cricket match was played by 11 Officers of the Fleet +against 11 Gentlemen of Great Yarmouth.</p> +<p>June 19th. Review of the Eastern Counties’ +Volunteers at Yarmouth. No less than 30,000 spectators from +all quarters of the country assembled on the South Denes to +witness the review, which was of the grandest description. +A dinner was afterwards given to the Volunteers (3,500) and about +250 other guests, on the St. George’s Denes, which passed +off admirably. Purveyor, Mr. J. Franklin, Crown and +Anchor. The cost to the town was about £530.</p> +<p>July 9th. Blondin, the Niagara rope-walker, appeared at +the Victoria Gardens.</p> +<p>July 16th. Caister lifeboat, while lying on Caister +Beach, was struck by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm.</p> +<p>July. H. R. Harmer, Esq., solicitor, appointed a +Commissioner to Administer Oaths in Admiralty.</p> +<p>Aug. 19th. Sir E. Lacon assumed the command of the +Artillery Volunteer Corps on the resignation of Major S. C. +Marsh.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th. Grand fête of Norfolk Volunteers at +Crown Point, Norwich.</p> +<p>Oct. 8th. The celebrated Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached at +the Wesleyan Chapel.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th. Fearful gale. About 1,000 vessels +sheltered in the Roadstead. Five others were reported to +have gone down on the Sands with their crews.</p> +<p>Nov. 21st. Public meeting at the Town Hall, for raising +a fund to relieve the distressed Lancashire operatives. +£160 was subscribed in the room.</p> +<p><a name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +112</span>Nov. The Trustees of the Municipal Charities +received the sanction of the Charity Commissioners to erect a +Grammar School at Yarmouth, which was built and opened July 29th, +1863.</p> +<p>Dec. 20th. High tide. On the Southtown Road the +water was a foot deep, and many parts of the town were +inundated. The tide was higher than that recorded in +1816. Mr. T. W. Downing lost the smack “Gem” in +the gale.</p> +<p>Dec. 22nd. The brig “Lotus” launched from J. +W. Rust’s yard. Dimensions—length, 103 ft.; +breadth, 24 ft.; depth, 24 ft.; burthen, 258 tons.</p> +<p>Deaths: Feb. 27th, the Rev. Thomas C. Clowes, formerly +Incumbent of St. Mary’s Church, and Head Master of the +Preparatory Grammar School, Southtown, at Ashbocking Vicarage, +aged 61.—March 20th, Mr. Henry Danby Palmer, third son of +George Danby Palmer, Esq., aged 47.—Nov. 12th, Nathaniel B. +Palmer, Esq., aged 37.</p> +<h3>1863.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Assembly Rooms opened by a company. On +Feb. 13th, 1870, the Billiard Rooms were destroyed by fire; +damage, £700.</p> +<p>Jan. 20th. Smack “Baron Campbell,” belonging +to Mr. Yaxley, foundered in a heavy gale. The crew, after +battling with the fury of the waves for 13 hours, and being +nearly exhausted at the pumps, were gallantly rescued by the crew +of the smack “Greyhound.”</p> +<p>March 10th. Marriage of Prince Albert Edward with +Princess Alexandra of Denmark, at Windsor. The display of +enthusiasm at Yarmouth somewhat resembled the Volunteer Review of +June 19th, 1862, with this difference—the town in the +evening was brilliantly illuminated, and a display of fireworks +took place in the Market Place. Nearly 600 Volunteers were +entertained by Sir E. Lacon to a sumptuous repast at his stores +on the North Quay. 4,669 school children were regaled with +a tea at the town’s expense, which, with all other +expenses, incurred an outlay of £259. The +subscriptions amounted to £322.</p> +<p><a name="page113"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +113</span>March. 19th. The Yarmouth Gas Bill Clauses to +incorporate the Company, and make further provisions for lighting +the town, were agreed to by a Committee of the House of +Commons. The bill was read a third time, and passed March +23rd.</p> +<p>March. The Rev. John Beazor ordained as Deacon by the +Bishop of Tasmania.</p> +<p>April 18th. A fine otter captured on the Hall Quay.</p> +<p>April. The Royal Marriage Celebration Committee +presented R. Steward, Esq., and Capt. W. J. Foreman with a silver +medal as a souvenir of the eventful occasion, and in recognition +of their valuable services.</p> +<p>May 12th. Sardinian barque “Mississippi,” +with 1,000 tons of cargo, sprang a leak and was beached, but got +off again by the Gorleston boatmen for £300, when (on the +16th) she stranded on the Bar. In June she was dry-docked +in the yard of Messrs. Fellows and Sons.</p> +<p>May 26th. Charles Marsh, a nigger acrobat, went up the +Nelson Monument, got outside, and after clambering up the +caryatides to the figure of Britannia, performed some of his +gambols, but accidentally missing his footing, fell headlong from +the trident to the ground, a distance of 140 ft., and was +killed.</p> +<p>May 31st. First service for the ordaining of priests and +deacons held at St. Nicholas’ Church by the Bishop of +Norwich. Five ordained as deacons and four as priests.</p> +<p>June 17th. The Norfolk Agricultural Society held their +Annual Show of Stock and Implements for the first time at +Yarmouth. The prizes offered were £558 in money, +£53 in silver medals, and £37 in four silver +cups.</p> +<p>June 24th. Bishop Hills returned to England upon a visit +from British Columbia, and preached at St. Nicholas’ +Church, Aug. 16th.</p> +<p>June 25th. Mr. N. Clowes, Secretary to the Young +Men’s Association, was presented with +“Routledge’s Edition of the Poets” (19 vols.), +as a mark of esteem.</p> +<p><a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 114</span>June +25th. The Yarmouth Gas Bill read a third time and passed, +and received the Royal assent June 29th.</p> +<p>June. David Falcke, James Scott, and William Briggs, +Esqs., were approved as Magistrates by the Lord Chancellor.</p> +<p>July 1st. The barque “Egbert,” 400 tons +burthen, launched from Messrs. Fellows and Sons’ yard.</p> +<p>July 6th. Two men accidentally killed by the falling of +a hatchway belonging to the wherry “Rigby,” while at +Burgh Water Frolic with a freight of 90 or 100 pleasure-seekers, +many of whom were precipitated into the water.</p> +<p>July 14th. The Channel Squadron, under the command of +Admiral Dacres, visited Yarmouth Roads. It comprised the +“Edgar,” 71 guns; “Black Prince,” 41; +“Warrior,” 40; “Liverpool,” 39; +“Royal Oak,” 35; “Emerald,” 35; +“Resistance,” 16; “Defence,” 16; and the +corvette “Trinculo.” Totals—293 guns, +6,800 horse-power, and 4,799 men.</p> +<p>Aug. 26th. Memorial stone of the new Baptist Chapel, St. +George’s Park, laid. Contract for building, +£1,500.</p> +<p>Sept. 15th. Review on Mousehold Heath of the Norfolk +Volunteers, on which occasion Corporal J. Wilshak, of Yarmouth, +was presented with the Champion’s Prize (£20 and +bronze medal) from the hands of Lady Suffield.</p> +<p>Sept. 18th. Messrs. Churchwardens Steward and Aldred +presented with a silver tea service each, by members of the +congregation of St. Nicholas’ Church, in testimony of their +esteem. (See Nov. 23rd, 1879.)</p> +<p>Sept. 26th. First number of <i>Yarmouth Chronicle</i> +published by Messrs. Steer and Godfrey.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd. The cutter “Samuel and William” +(60 tons), belonging to Messrs. Smith and Sons, launched, this +being the first built at Runham, near the Suspension +Bridge. She was built by Messrs. Winter and Pigg. The +father of the latter built the yacht, “Red Rover,” +the property of S. Nightingale, Esq.</p> +<p>Oct. Mr. C. C. Newcombe, appointed Postmaster.</p> +<p><a name="page115"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +115</span>Oct. A pedestrian named Elson, of Nottingham, +walked for several days from Yarmouth to Lowestoft and back three +times each day—a distance of sixty miles a-day.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. The Board of Health decided to borrow +£3,000 for extending the Parade south, on the suggestion of +C. J. Palmer, Esq.</p> +<p>Nov. 9th. R. Steward, Esq., elected as Mayor. On +March 10th, 1864, Mr. Steward was presented with a testimonial, +value £200, subscribed for by the town. It comprised +an elegant tea and coffee service, a silver salver, and a cake +basket.</p> +<p>Nov. 16th. The Royal Sea Fisheries Commissioners held an +enquiry at the Sailors’ Home.</p> +<p>Nov. 20th. Destructive fire at the farm of Mr. J. +Hammond, at Gorleston.</p> +<p>Nov. 21st. Mr. Robert Hales, the Norfolk Giant, died in +Yarmouth, aged 43 years. He was born at West Somerton, May +2nd, 1820. In the prime of life his height was 7ft. 6in., +and he weighed 33 stone. He measured round the chest 64in., +waist 62in., thigh 36in., calf of leg 21in., across the shoulders +36in. His father was 6ft. 6in., and mother 6ft. in +height. His brothers averaged 6ft. 5in., and sisters 6ft. +3in.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th. Rear-Admiral Sir J. H. Plumridge, K.C.B., +died at Hopton. He was distinguished for many gallant +services in Egypt, Denmark, Genoa, and Bomarsund. He was +Knighted in 1855.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th. Mr. H. Panks presented with a silver watch +and chain, and a book, as a mark of esteem and appreciation of +his efficient services as organist, by the congregation of St. +John’s Mission Room.</p> +<p>Nov. The Rev. W. T. Harrison presented with a handsome +pocket communion service.</p> +<p>Nov. The lifeboat “Friend of all Nations” +launched from Mr. Critton’s yard. Cost nearly +£400.</p> +<p>Dec. 3rd. Furious gale (more disastrous than recorded +May 28th, 1860), attended with loss of 17 smacks, 2 schooners, +and 1 brig, belonging to Yarmouth, and all their crews; also +seven other vessels lost off the coast. The total number of +lives lost was 145 men <a name="page116"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 116</span>and boys, leaving 73 widows and 110 +orphan children. Her Majesty’s gunboat +“Ruby,” one of the vessels despatched from the Humber +to search for the missing smacks, was lost on Texel Beach. +On the 21st, the Government sent from Sheerness the steamer +“Medusa” (800 tons) to search the North Sea for +missing smacks, but she returned unsuccessful. On the 28th +a meeting was convened at the Town Hall by the Mayor, for +relieving the sufferers, £222 being subscribed in the room, +which, with other subscriptions, amounted to nearly £2,000, +her Majesty heading the list with £100.</p> +<p>The Yarmouth College, South Quay, established; and Sutherland +House School in 1875.</p> +<p>Dec. 8th. Case of arbitration at the Town Hall between +the Corporation and the Gas Company as to the value of 10,000 +square yards of land for building the new Gas Works. The +Corporation demanded £7,646, but the arbitrator (Mr. +Rodwell, Q.C.) awarded £4,106 15s.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th. The schooner “Spray” on fire, and +was run ashore near the Wellington Pier. She was laden with +deals, coal, and coke; valued at about £700.</p> +<p>Dec. 16th. Owing to the death of Major S. C. Marsh on +Aug. 30th, the Artillery Volunteers presented his family with a +solid silver working model of a field piece, with a miniature +officer at the trail end, the whole standing on a chased silver +plateau and an ebony stand, as a memento of Mr. Marsh’s +connection with the Corps.</p> +<p>Dec. 17th. Conversazione at the Public Library, many +objects of interest exhibited.</p> +<p>Great Yarmouth Building Society established.</p> +<p>Deaths: Mar. 25th, William Yetts, Esq., J.P., aged +67.—April 6th, John S. Coxon, Esq., who held the office of +Postmaster for one year, aged 32. April 29th, Joseph G. +Plummer, Esq., J.P., aged 58.—May 8th, William T. Clarke, +Esq., J.P., aged 49.—May 19th, Mr. William Green, many +years Overseer of the Parish, aged 74.—Sept. 18th, Rosamond +Matilda, widow of the late Dawson Turner, Esq., at Kirkley, +Lowestoft, aged 52.—Sept. 25th, John Youell, Esq., <a +name="page117"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 117</span>A.L.S., +aged 89.—Oct. 7th, Ambrose Reeve Palmer, Esq., of Haddiscoe +Hall, aged 51.—Nov. 4th, Edmund Reeve Palmer, Esq., for +many years Registrar of Yarmouth County Court, aged +63.—Nov. 30th, Capt. B. Love, E.N.M., aged 71.</p> +<h3>1864.</h3> +<p>Jan. 28th. Rev. John Walker, M.A., instituted to the +Rectory of Bradwell; and the Rev. John James licensed to the +Curacy of Southtown.</p> +<p>Jan. Rev. T. K. Richmond, six years Curate of St. +Nicholas’ Church, elected Chaplain of St. George’s +Hospital, London. On the 17th of March this gentleman was +presented with a gold lever watch, value £27, and a purse +of £10, by a number of parishioners; and a silver communion +service by the Clergy.</p> +<p>Feb. 10th. The Danish corvette “Neils Juel,” +450 men and 47 guns, and a powerful ironclad gunboat captured a +Prussian ship outside the sands, and after putting a prize crew +on board, took her to Copenhagen.</p> +<p>Feb. 27th. D. Tomkins, Esq., elected a member of the +College of Preceptors.</p> +<p>March 1st. The brig “William and Richard” +foundered off the Monument. Seven men belonging to the +Admiralty cutter “Dolphin,” seven beachmen, and five +from the screw-collier “Ryhope,” were immersed in the +water, four being drowned.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Petition presented to the House of Commons by +Edward Howes, Esq., M.P., from the Haven Commissioners of +Yarmouth, in opposition to the East Norfolk Railway Bill.</p> +<p>Launches: March 31st, the first barge, “The +Garson;” April 26th, barge “Whitwell;” July +5th, the barque-rigged vessel “Oriental;” Aug. 20th, +schooner “Shepherdess.”</p> +<p>March. The Rev. Arthur P. Holme, M.A., licensed by the +Bishop of Norwich to the Incumbency of St. Andrew’s +Church.</p> +<p>March. James Morris Hill, Esq., late Major Military +Train, approved of by her Majesty to fill the Adjutancy of the +1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers.</p> +<p><a name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 118</span>April +28th. John Dawson, Esq., admitted a member of the Royal +College of Surgeons.</p> +<p>July 20th. The East of England Joint Stock Bank +(established in Dec., 1835) suspended payment, with liabilities +amounting to £576,963 7s. 5d., and assets +£453,256.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st. Mr. S. Allies appointed Borough Gaoler.</p> +<p>Aug. Rev. A. B. Crosse resigned the Incumbency of St. +John’s Church. On Dec. 30th this gentleman was +presented with a handsome clock, value £30, and a purse of +60 guineas, previous to his leaving for Kessingland.</p> +<p>Aug. 15th. Three fishermen out of seven belonging to +Cromer lost off the Haven’s mouth, out of the crab-boat +“Garibaldi.”</p> +<p>Sept. 9th. Review of the members of the Norfolk Rifle +Volunteer Association on the South Denes, in the presence of +9,000 people. Four battalions were reviewed, viz.—1st +Norfolk A. V., 178; 1st Norfolk Rifles, 356; 2nd Norfolk, 218; +and 2nd Norfolk Administrative Battalion, 294; Norwich Light +Horse, 68—numbering in all, officers and men, 1,106.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th. The three-decked steamer +“Ontario,” 4,000 tons burthen, 350 h.p., and laden +with 2,000 tons of coal and iron, struck on Hasbro’ +Sands. All efforts to get her off having failed, she was +abandoned by her crew of 80, inclusive of officers, and on the +21st she foundered. 70 of the crew, rescued by the tug +“Pioneer,” were afterwards forwarded to their +respective homes by the Shipwrecked Mariners’ +Society. The “Ontario” was built this year at +Jarrow, Durham. Her registered tonnage was 2,083, length +370 feet, and depth 48 feet, and her estimated value +£120,000—£90,000 covered by insurance.</p> +<p>Oct. 21st. Festival service to commemorate the partial +restoration of St. Nicholas’ Church, which was thrown open +for the first time for 200 years—the time of Cromwell, +1649.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th. The Rev. G. Firth, five years and four months +pastor of the Independent Chapel, Gorleston, presented with an +electro-plated tea service, as a mark <a name="page119"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 119</span>of esteem, by his friends, previous +to his leaving Gorleston.</p> +<p>Nov. 24th and following nights, very heavy gales. Six +vessels out of several hundreds then lying in the Roadstead were +driven ashore, and 10 lives lost off the coast. The barque +“Sea Serpent” came ashore 20 yards off the Wellington +Pier. Through the exertions of Capt. Bevon and Mr. J. M. +Petts, ten men were brought ashore in the cradle of Manby’s +apparatus. The s.s. “William Hull,” laden with +600 tons of coal, foundered in St. Nicholas’ Gat, and her +crew of 16 hands all perished, except one. At Gorleston 23 +sailors were saved by the beachmen and Manby’s +apparatus.</p> +<p>Dec. 7th. A crew of 13 hands gallantly rescued by the +Yarmouth lifeboat from the Austrian brig “Zornizza,” +which foundered on Scroby Sands. The National Lifeboat +Institution sent the beachmen £25, and they also received +an acknowledgment of thanks from the Austrian Government.</p> +<p>Dec. 15th. The Haven Bill adopted by the Town +Council.</p> +<p>St. Nicholas’ Churchyard contained 3,847 +gravestones.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 17th, Wm. Briggs, Esq., J.P., aged 63.—May +7th, Lieut.-Colonel C. S. Naylor, at Bognor, aged 75.—May +21st, John Brightwen, Esq., partner in Gurney’s banking +firm, died at Thorpe, near Norwich, aged 81.—July 23rd, +George W. Steward, Esq., M.B., M.A., second son of the Rev. G. W. +Steward, Incumbent of Caister, aged 28.—Oct. 19th, the Rev. +Mark Waters, Incumbent of St. George’s Chapel, aged +57.—Nov. 10th, Capt. Barry Haines, R.N.—Nov. 11th, +Rev. E. B. Frere, M.A., aged 82.</p> +<h3>1865.</h3> +<p>Jan. 8th. Hopton Church destroyed by fire. On +Sept. 27th, 1866, the new Church was consecrated by the Bishop of +Norwich.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th. Mr. Robert Warner Durrell, organist of the +Independent Chapel, Gorleston, presented with a splendid +timepiece by the choir as a memento of their esteem; and on Jan. +11th, 1870, an easy chair.</p> +<p><a name="page120"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +120</span>Jan. Sergt. Berry promoted to the rank of +Inspector; and on Dec. 15th, 1870, the town presented him with a +gold watch, value £20, and a purse of £140 in money, +in recognition of his valuable services.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st. Royal Hotel Company proposed to be formed in +Yarmouth at a cost of £25,000, in 2,500 shares at £10 +each. On Jan. 23rd, 1868, 1,182 shares had been taken by 48 +shareholders, and the claims against the Company were +£7,379 10s., including a mortgage of £3,000 on the +Royal Hotel, which led to serious litigation.</p> +<p>Feb. 27th. The Haven and Port Bill passed its second +reading in the House of Commons by a majority of 112.</p> +<p>March 8th. Mr. A. W. Morant appointed to the Town +Surveyorship of Norwich. His office in Yarmouth was filled +by Mr. H. H. Baker, on May 13th.</p> +<p>March 31st. Mr. J. R. Jones, who had been Head Master of +the Government School of Navigation since its establishment on +Oct. 1st, 1857, resigned his appointment, having accepted the +post of Head Master of the Board of Trade Navigation School at +Aberdeen.</p> +<p>June 13th. Lieut. H. R. Harmer presented with a silver +salver by the Yarmouth Rifle Volunteers, as a mark of esteem on +his retiring from the corps.</p> +<p>July 12th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and J. Goodson, +Esq., returned to Parliament for the Borough. +Votes—L., 828; G., 784; A. Brogden, Esq., 634; P. +Vanderbyl, Esq., 589. J. C. Marshman, Esq., retired from +the contest in favour of the latter.</p> +<p>Oct. 12th. Henrich Erenschiusen, a Dutch sailor, +committed a shocking tragedy on a fellow-shipmate by stabbing him +through the heart, at the City of London Tavern, Charlotte +Street. Sentenced to twenty years’ penal +servitude.</p> +<p>Oct. 25th. The lifeboat “James Pearce” +launched from Messrs. Mills and Blake’s ship-yard.</p> +<p>Dec. The Gospel Hall erected by Mr. T. C. Foreman, +subsequently proprietor of the <i>Free Lance</i> Newspaper.</p> +<p><a name="page121"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +121</span>Deaths: Jan. 8th, Benjamin Dowson, Esq., aged +77.—Jan. 14th, John Barker, Esq.—July 21st, Mr. +Matthew Hastings Swann, aged 58. In 1835 this gentleman +penned and published a “Guide to +Yarmouth.”—Nov. 21st, B. Fenn, Esq., aged 73.</p> +<h3>1866.</h3> +<p>Jan. 13th. The lifeboat “Rescuer” upset at +Gorleston Pier, and twelve of her crew drowned. The names +of the rescued were E. Woods, Wm. Austin, Geo. Palmer, and Robt. +Warner. Eight widows and over thirty orphan children were +left unprovided for.</p> +<p>Jan. 27th. Exhibition of curiosities, &c., at the +Town Hall, closed after five weeks.</p> +<p>Feb. St. George’s Denes laid out as a park and +promenade, at a cost of £449 to the town. June 21st, +1807, an épergne of frosted silver and a silver salver +were presented to Mr. Edward Stagg, by 200 subscribers, for the +promoting and laying out of these grounds. A portion of it +was laid out in 1884 as a lawn tennis ground.</p> +<p>Apr. 23rd. Foundation stone of the Gorleston Wesleyan +Chapel laid.</p> +<p>May 7th. First Yarmouth Annual Spring Meeting held.</p> +<p>July 10th. H.M.S. “Dauntless,” 36 guns, and +carrying 280 men; July 14th, H.M.S. “Trafalgar;” and +on the 15th, H.M.S. “Irresistible,” anchored in the +Roadstead.</p> +<p>July 19th. General holiday. Volunteer Review day; +1,300 Volunteers practised on the South Denes.</p> +<p>July 20th. Fishwharf and Tramway Bill passed in the +House of Lords.</p> +<p>July 31st. The lifeboat “Leicester,” +presented by Mrs. Hodges, launched at Gorleston. Cost, +£600.</p> +<p>Aug. 16th. Royal Commission of Inquiry into the state of +bribery at Parliamentary elections opened before Wyndham Slade, +Lucius Henry Fitzgerald, and George Russell, Esqs., +barristers-at-law, at the Town Hall. The inquiry lasted 34 +days, and over 700 witnesses were examined. (See Feb. 15th, +1867.)</p> +<p><a name="page122"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 122</span>Dec. +3rd. The town, through an accident at the Gas Works, put in +total darkness. Loss of gas estimated at about 100,000 +cubic feet, value £1,000.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th. Loss of the fishing-lugger “William and +Mary,” belonging to Mr. Utting, and nine lives, off +Pakefield.</p> +<p>Dec. 30th. Meeting at the Town Hall on behalf of the +sufferers from a colliery explosion in Yorkshire and +Staffordshire.</p> +<p>“Chapters on the East Anglian Coast,” in two +vols., 800 pages, published. <i>The London Quarterly +Review</i> of April, 1807, says, “We have seldom met with a +more elaborate, exhaustive, beautiful, and ably-written +guide-book and local history.” It was penned by Mr. +John Greaves Nall, who died in June, 1876.</p> +<p>Messrs. Lacons, Youell, and Co.’s Bank re-erected.</p> +<p>Top of Recent Road, near Town Wall House, widened by the +Corporation.</p> +<p>A wooden circus building, on Mr. De Canx’s garden, +converted into the Regent Hall, and used as a Theatre, +&c. It has since been demolished.</p> +<p>Deaths: Feb. 2nd, Mr. W. P. Windham, at Norwich.—Feb. +9th, John Bessey Hilton, Esq., aged 44.—Feb. 18th, Isaac +Preston, sen., Esq., aged 92.—Sept. 4th, David Falcke, +Esq., J.P., at Paris.—Dec. 18th, Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, +sen., brewer, aged 78.</p> +<h3>1867.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Oddfellows’ Hall opened in +Gorleston.</p> +<p>Jan. 5th. Eighteen hands lost from the brigs +“Sarah” and “The Ark,” in collision in +the South Ham, 500 yards off Gorleston Pier.</p> +<p>Jan. 8th. Mr. F. W. Maryson presented with a silver +star, at the Steam Packet Tavern, by the Nottingham Order of +Oddfellows.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th. Heavy gale. Six vessels lost, and 48 +shipwrecked mariners afterwards taken to the Sailors’ +Home.</p> +<p>Jan. Fish Wharf scheme proposed, and on April 20th the +wharf was commenced by “turning the sod.” The +Fish Wharf and Tramway Bill cost £2,481. (See Feb. +16th, 1869.)</p> +<p><a name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 123</span>Jan. +16th. Loss of the “Eclipse,” at Dieppe, and +three lives.</p> +<p>Feb. 15th. The report of the Royal Commissioners laid +before the House of Commons; March 15th, Petition presented by +Sir Edmund H. K. Lacon, Bart., against the Disfranchisement of +the Borough; May 30th, the Borough disfranchised; June 7th, +another Petition presented to the House of Commons against the +Disfranchisement; and one to the House of Lords, July 29th, but +all proved unavailing.</p> +<p>Feb. 22nd. Mr. C. Rumbold appointed as a Relieving +Officer.</p> +<p>Feb. 26th. The Elizabethan house of C. J. Palmer, Esq., +sold by auction for £1,150, and the fixtures for £64 +14s. 6d.</p> +<p>March 21st. Mr. S. Durrell resigned the Overseership of +Gorleston Parish.</p> +<p>April 2nd. First meeting of the Port and Haven +Commissioners under the new Act of Parliament. H. N. +Burroughes, Esq., resigned the chairmanship.</p> +<p>April 4th. Foundation stone of the Gourlay Wesleyan Day +Schools laid. The founder, D. A. Gourlay, Esq., J.P., gave +£1,000 towards the building.</p> +<p>April 20th. A party of gentlemen, comprising Messrs. +Spence, Fenner, Everard, R. Veale, Moore, Silvers, Douglas, +Neave, and Harrison, had their boat upset on Ormesby Broad, 100 +yards from the shore, and narrowly escaped drowning.</p> +<p>April 21st. Heavy gale, and loss of the smacks +“Swan” and “Talisman” and twelve +hands.</p> +<p>May 8th. Service of plate presented at the Duke’s +Head Hotel to W. Heath, Esq., of Ludham Hall.</p> +<p>May 16th. Foundation-stone of the new Primitive +Methodist Chapel, Queen’s Road, laid. Chapel opened +Sept. 26th. Building cost £1,000.</p> +<p>May 20th. Reform meeting. Mr. Edmond Beales, the +great Reformer, addressed from 2,000 to 3,000 people from the +balcony of the Steam Packet Tavern.</p> +<p>June 1st. A halibut, weighing 161 lbs., 6 ft. in length, +and 30 inches across, captured by a smack; and in March, 1868, +two were caught off the coast—one weighing 198 lbs., and +the other 140 lbs.</p> +<p><a name="page124"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 124</span>June +24th. Resolved by the Town Council to have new fire engines +and a fire escape for the Borough; their capabilities were tested +on Sept. 9th. On Aug. 20th an engine was provided for +Gorleston.</p> +<p>June. Sergeant John Quince presented with a gold-mounted +meerschaum pipe by the officers of the Artillery Militia.</p> +<p>July 6th. First London daily passenger boat to +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>July. E. H. L. Preston, Esq., received from the Belgian +Government the Decoration of Knight of the Order of Leopold, in +recognition of 28 years’ service as Consul.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. Roman Catholic Mortuary Chapel opened by the +Bishop of Demerara. Foundation stone laid on Aug. 15th, +1866, by Lady Stafford.</p> +<p>Sept. 10th. “Routledge’s Magazine for +Boys’” lifeboat for Caister launched. Built by +Messrs. Beeching at a cost of £300.</p> +<p>Sept. Mr. G. B. Kennett, managing clerk to Mr. W. Holt, +appointed clerk to the Norwich Magistrates.</p> +<p>Sept. Permanent Fund established. The surplus of +£500 remaining from the relief fund of Dec., 1863, was +added to this institution, and in Jan., 1868, the Princess of +Wales sent a cheque for £25 to this Fund.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd. The dead body of an infant found wrapped up in +a bundle in Mr. Knight’s yard; Jane Jarron was examined on +11th, and committed for trial at the Assizes on the charge of +murder on the 18th. Acquitted Dec. 5th.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th. Mr. James Sharman, keeper of the Nelson +Monument, died, aged 82 years. He was a Trafalgar veteran, +and one who assisted Lord Nelson in his dying moments.</p> +<p>Nov. 10th. The Rifle Volunteer Drill Hall opened by the +Mayor, Captain E. P. Youell. Cost £1,200.</p> +<p>Dec. 2nd. High tide; the Southtown Road and various +parts of the town near the river were inundated, through the +banks of Breydon being broken. On the following day there +was a heavy gale, when the Gorleston lifeboat +“Rescuer” was again capsized <a +name="page125"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 125</span>(see Jan. +13th, 1866) through collision with the fishing lugger +“James and Ellen,” and 23 were drowned, including 11 +of the crew of the “George Kendall,” for whose widows +and orphans a special donation of £234 was received. +The number of men lost off the coast was 85, leaving 33 widows +and 71 children destitute.</p> +<p>Launches: April 16th, fishing boat “Express,” from +Messrs. Hastings Brothers’ yard; May 20th, smack +“Spring Flower,” from Messrs. King and Baker’s +yard; July 4th, smack “Pathfinder,” from Messrs. J. +and H. Beeching’s yard; July 8th, smack +“Hermit,” from Mr. A. J. Palmer’s yard; Aug. +13th, smack “Mermaid,” from Mr. Rust’s yard; +Aug. 20th, model pleasure boat “Nonpareil,” from +Messrs. Aldred and Morl’s yard; Sept. 10th, smack +“Olga,” from Messrs. Fellows’ yard; Oct. 24th, +smack “Silver Cloud,” from Messrs. Critten and +Clarke’s yard; Oct. 31st, Mr. Lawrie’s small steamtug +“Enterprise,” she being the first iron vessel built +at this Port.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th. The Haven Commissioners resolved to borrow +£27,188 15s. for Haven improvements.</p> +<p>Dec. 26th. An original local Christmas pantomime, +entitled <i>Neptune’s Decree</i>, &c., was produced at +the Theatre Royal, written by “Felix,” a local +author.</p> +<p>Deaths: March 2nd, W. H. Bessey, Esq., J.P.—Dec. 25th, +W. Mayes Bond, Esq., aged 66.—Dec. 31st, Mr. J. Norman, +aged 80.</p> +<h3>1868.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd. The schooner “Roberts” driven on +the North Sand near the mouth of the Harbour, 300 yards from the +shore, and her crew bravely rescued out of her shrouds by Mr. J. +M. Petts and four beachmen.—The brig “Carl +Frederick” was lost the same morning on Hasbro’ Sand, +with seven of her crew, two boys only being saved.</p> +<p>Jan. 9th. F. Diver, Esq., of Yarmouth, commander of the +R.M.S. “Roman,” presented with a handsome watch, +subscribed for by the passengers of the ship for having completed +a voyage from this country to Table Bay in thirty days.</p> +<p><a name="page126"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 126</span>Jan. +23rd. At midnight a destructive fire took place in a shop +in the Market Row, and three precious lives (a lady named Mrs. +Pigg, and two children) were sacrificed, and property destroyed +and damaged to the amount of £3,000.</p> +<p>Feb. 8th. The fishing lugger “Flying Fish” +fouled the sunken wreck of the barque “Lord Clyde,” +and foundered in the Roadstead.</p> +<p>March 6th. The cigar steamship “Walter S. +Winans,” of Havre, arrived in the Harbour. +Dimensions—length, 112 ft.; deck, 66 ft. in length; width +amidships, 5 ft.; 24 tons register.</p> +<p>April 29th. The brig “Ewerette” foundered +opposite the Monument.</p> +<p>April 29th. The Rev. W. T. Harrison, minister of St. +John’s Church, presented with a chaste silver tea and +coffee pot, cream jug, and sugar basin, value £50, by 300 +of the members of his congregation, previous to leaving for +Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk. He was succeeded by Rev. R. J. +Dundas.</p> +<p>May 11th. The Regent Hall, a wooden structure on Regent +Road, opened, after being converted from a circus to a +music-hall. It was pulled down in 1874. (See +1866.)</p> +<p>May 23rd. Mr. William Jones died. In the early +part of his life he served as a seaman in the navy, and was +present at several engagements under Sir Charles Napier.</p> +<p>June. Robert Cory, Esq., passed his examination and +admitted an Attorney of the Court of Queen’s Bench and +other Courts, and as a Solicitor in Chancery.</p> +<p>June 10th. Mr. Robert Clifton, master mariner, died at +Southtown, aged 85. In early life and during the French war +he was seized by the press-gang while ashore at Newcastle, and +carried on board a man-of-war, where he served several years till +being landed an invalid.</p> +<p>July 13th to 22nd. Chang, the Chinese Giant, aged 22, +and nearly 9 ft. in height, said to be the largest man in the +world, with his wife King-Foo, exhibited at the old Corn +Hall.</p> +<p><a name="page127"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 127</span>July +18th. C. Woolverton, E. R. Aldred, R. D. Barber, and C. E. +Bartram, Esqs., sworn in as Magistrates for the Borough.</p> +<p>July 22nd. Horticultural and Floral Fête held at +the Assembly Rooms.</p> +<p>July 27th. Balloon ascent by Professor Simmons from the +Victoria Gardens. This was the first aërial ascent in +Yarmouth since Sept. 17th, 1852.</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Young, the well-known +actor and actress, presented with a testimonial—an address +beautifully written on vellum, a port-monnaie, and a sum of +money—at the Corn Hall, in recognition of their talented +aid in an amateur entertainment given at the Regent Hall, on June +23rd, on behalf of the Yarmouth Hospital.</p> +<p>Aug. 18th. The corner-stone of the Methodist New +Connexion Sunday School at Burgh laid by J. A. Horner, Esq., of +Burgh Grange.</p> +<p>Aug. James Cherry, Esq., appointed Revising Barrister +for Leicester and Rutland.</p> +<p>Sept. 23rd. The B battery C brigade of Royal Horse +Artillery, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Bishop, arrived at +the Armoury.</p> +<p>Oct. 24th. Heavy gale and loss of three vessels. +Upwards of sixty French fishing boats (1,200 to 1,400 men) sought +refuge in the Harbour. The s.s. “Ganges,” 1,600 +tons, struck on Hasbro’ Sands the previous day.</p> +<p>Oct. The Board of Health Act adopted in Gorleston, and +on March 8th, 1869, 12 members, out of 27 nominated, were chosen +for constituting the Board.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. First number of the <i>Yarmouth Gazette and +North Norfolk Constitutionalist</i> published by Mr. C. W. +Godfrey. This journal subsequently became the sole property +of Mr. E. W. Shortman.</p> +<p>Nov. 19th. The Scotch fishing-boat +“Excellent” on fire in the Harbour, and was scuttled +to extinguish it. Estimated loss, £200.</p> +<p>Nov. 22nd. During a gale the schooner +“Seagull” broke the massive piles of the Britannia +Pier, and <a name="page128"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +128</span>smashed 100 ft. away. (See July 13th, +1858.) In Oct. 1859, a sloop was driven through, and did +damage to the Pier amounting to £800 or £900. +The Pier has since been shortened 50 ft.</p> +<p>Nov. 26th. The Hon. F. Walpole and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, +Bart., elected M.P.’s for North Norfolk. +Votes—W., 2,630; L., 2,563; Edmund R. Wodehouse, Esq., +2,235; Robert T. Gurdon, Esq., 2,078; including Yarmouth votes, +viz., W., 913; L., 971; Wodehouse, 514; G., 476. On Sept. +15th, 1869, a Banquet was given at the Drill Hall, at which 800 +or 900 persons were present, and a testimonial, value £600, +was presented to Sir Edmund in honour of the successful issue of +the petition. The testimonial was a magnificent piece of +plate, weighing nearly 900 ozs., and consisted of a massive +centre piece and plateau of silver; the base was flanked by three +elaborate buttresses supporting brackets, with fluted columns, +around which were grouped the figures of Agriculture, Commerce, +and Art, the capital being encrusted with a frieze of +lions’ heads and festoons of laurels, a figure of Fame +crowning the summit. The Hon. F. Walpole died on April 1st, +1876; and on April 21st Colonel James Duff was elected M.P. for +North Norfolk by a majority of 110.</p> +<p>Dec. 7th. The south aisle of St. Nicholas’ Church +closed for restoration. In 1864 Mr. Seddon, architect, +estimated that the restoration of the entire church would cost +about £23,000.</p> +<p>Dec. 9th. A Grand Concert, under the patronage of the +Mayor (S. Nightingale, Esq.) and the Mayoress; Right Hon. Lord +Sondes, Right Hon. Lord and Lady Suffield, Sir E. Lacon, Bart., +M.P., and the Deputy-Mayor and Mrs. Worship, was given at the +Regent Hall. Distinguished artistes—Mdlles. Titiens +and Sinico, Signors Bulterini and Campi, and Mr. Santley. +Mr. Wehli, solo pianoforte; and Signor Bevignani acted as +conductor.</p> +<p>Dec. 10th. The s.s. “City of Hamburg,” +plying between this port and London, stranded close to the North +Pier, and thereby sustained considerable damage.</p> +<p><a name="page129"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +129</span>Engine-house and reservoir erected on the north side of +the Jetty for supplying the Bath House with water. (See +1759.)</p> +<p>An octagonal tower and observatory, 75 ft. high, erected on +South Quay by the Trinity Corporation.</p> +<p>Launches: Aug. 17th, the carrier cutter +“Chieftain,” from Messrs. Smith and Son’s yard; +Sept. 23rd, the brig “Sultana,” 310 tons, from +Messrs. Fellows and Son’s yard.</p> +<p>Deaths: Feb. 24th, Mr. Chas. C. Newcombe, postmaster, aged +49.—May 25th, Edward Norris Clowes, Esq., Solicitor, New +Buckenham, aged 61.—June 2nd, Mr. W. Shuckford, 15 years +Governor of the Workhouse, aged 62.—June 7th, Thomas Bunn, +Esq., Corn Merchant, and an Alderman, at Southtown, aged +87.—Sept. 18th, Captain Robert Bensley Davie, Commander of +the Cape mail steamer “Saxon,” at Southampton, aged +37.—Sept. 18th, John Palgrave, Esq., son of the late +William Palgrave, Esq., Collector of Custom Dues at Yarmouth, and +afterwards at Dublin, aged 55.—Nov. 2nd, John D’Ade, +Esq., at Southtown, aged 86.—Dec. 5th, Mr. W. C. Nutman, +many years Relieving-officer, aged 45.—Dec. 27th, Richd. +Ferrier, Esq., Brewer, aged 73.</p> +<h3>1869.</h3> +<p>Jan. 25th. The Chancellor (E. Howes, Esq., M.P.) decided +the long-pending question of removing St. Nicholas’ Church +organ from the west end of the south aisle to the North transept, +in the affirmative. This grand old organ, built by Jordan, +Bridge, and Bayfield, in 1733; repaired by England +(Jordan’s grandson) in 1812, and by Gray in 1840; was +removed to the north transept in Feb., 1869.</p> +<p>Jan. Gaol Street Congregational Chapel (built in 1773) +closed, and pulled down for the purpose of building the +Middlegate Church.</p> +<p>Feb. 9th. The North-end Church Mission Room +opened. Cost about £100. Mr. W. Wright was the +architect.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th. The Fish Wharf, 2,251 ft. in length, shed 750 +ft., completed. Total cost, £20,627. The sum +borrowed and advanced by the Corporation for the <a +name="page130"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 130</span>works was +£20,502 6s.; total amount of annual outgoings estimated at +£1,587 17s. Offices and premises let at £565 +16s.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd. While the s.s. “Buccleuch,” was +on the point of leaving the wharf in Yarmouth Harbour for Hull, +with 20 passengers on board, her boiler burst, and several +persons were scalded and otherwise slightly injured, the Captain +(W. Wright) being seriously hurt. The steamer was much +damaged, and her fittings amidships blown to a considerable +distance.</p> +<p>March 1st. The full-rigged ship “Hannah +Pattersen,” laden with 1,500 tons of coal, came ashore +abreast of the Workhouse, where she became a total wreck. +Insured for £2,000.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Ten tenders opened for re-building the south +aisle of St. Nicholas’ Church, and Mr. Williams, of +Cardiff, was selected, his estimate for the work being +£4,755, out of which sum £480 was deducted for old +materials.</p> +<p>March 9th. Mr. C. L. Chipperfield presented by Major +Foreman with a handsome timepiece, in acknowledgment of his +valuable services as Secretary of the Yarmouth Building +Society.</p> +<p>March 10th. The smack “Silver Cloud” run +into by the steamer “Earl of Durham,” off Winterton, +and foundered with loss of all hands.</p> +<p>April 3rd. Schooner “Hickman,” 98 tons, +struck by lightning.</p> +<p>April 15th. The Great Yarmouth Water Works Bill, for +further extending its powers in a drainage scheme, passed in the +House of Lords.</p> +<p>April 20th. The King of Prussia, through the Ambassador +at the Court of St. James’, awarded Capt. Balls, of the +schooner “George,” of Yarmouth, a gratuity of +£10 for rescuing the crew of the Prussian schooner +“Christine.”</p> +<p>April 22nd. New organ opened at Belton Church by Mr. F. +W. Rolfe, organist of St. Peter’s, Yarmouth.</p> +<p>April 28th. Duke’s Head Hotel sold to Mr. J. Davy +for £1,525.</p> +<p><a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 131</span>April +29th. The iron s.s. “Lady Flora,” 1,000 tons +burthen, 250 feet in length, ran ashore on Caister beach, and +after unremitting efforts on the part of Mr. T. B. Carr, of Hull, +Mr. Beeching, of Yarmouth, and a numerous gang of men, who bodily +raised her massive weight on to blocks, she was again +successfully launched on July 8th in the presence of several +hundred spectators. In Dec. this steamer was totally lost +in the Baltic.</p> +<p>May 19th. The Gorleston Company of the Yarmouth Rifle +Corps first met for recruit drill. First competition prize +match, Oct. 14th.</p> +<p>May 26th. First stone of the St. James’ Church +laid by the Very Rev. Dr. Goulburn, Dean of Norwich.</p> +<p>June 4th. Violent explosion of gas at Mr. +Gambling’s office at Southtown, doing damage in and around +the premises to the extent of £200 or £300.</p> +<p>June 9th. Charles Cory, Esq., 18 years Town Clerk of the +Borough, died at Lugano, Switzerland, aged 54 years. It was +decided on June 28th to place a memorial window to his memory in +St. Nicholas’ Church. His father and grandfather both +held the office of Chief Magistrate of the Borough; the former +died in 1840.</p> +<p>June 24th. Charles Diver, Esq., appointed as Town Clerk +at a salary of £200, and £50 extra as Clerk to the +Local Board of Health. (See Nov. 30th, 1875, and Dec. 5th, +1883.)</p> +<p>Aug. 24th. Comer stone of the residence of the Head +Master of the Grammar School laid next the site for the intended +new Grammar School.</p> +<p>Aug. The Hon. and Rev. Edward Pellew, M.A. (about eight +years Incumbent of St. Nicholas’ Church, and which he +resigned in 1844 in favour of the Ven. H. Mackenzie, M.A.), died +at Crowe Hill, Nottinghamshire, aged 69.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th. Two gentlemen started on a voyage by the +rivers and streams, a distance of about 130 miles—from +Hitchin to Yarmouth, <i>via</i> Norwich and Reedham—in the +canoes “Wanderer” and “Ruby,” which +adventurous journey was completed in six days.</p> +<p><a name="page132"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 132</span>Sept, +9th. The French iron steamer “Fulton,” worth +about £5,000, and cargo £650, through collision with +the brig “Thomas Gales,” opposite the Monument, +foundered, but her crew were saved. Insured for +£3,200.</p> +<p>Sept. 15th. Mr. T. Todd’s smack “Ann” +foundered.</p> +<p>Sept. 20th. Mr. H. Stonex presented by the Yarmouth +Musical Society with a gold-mounted ivory baton and an inlaid +walnut music-stool as a token of their appreciation of him as +their conductor.</p> +<p>Sept. 23rd. Mr. William James Palmer admitted a +licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.</p> +<p>Sept. Commander T. S. Gooch, R.N., son of Admiral Gooch +of Yarmouth, appointed to the command of H.M.S. +“Beacon,” on the coast of Africa.</p> +<p>Oct. 5th. Mr. Thomas H. Colley, on resigning the office +of House Surgeon at the Yarmouth Hospital, after 14 years’ +service, was presented at the Town Hall with a gold watch and +chain, value about £40, and a purse of 250 guineas, by 500 +subscribers, for his zeal and kindness in the discharge of his +duties.</p> +<p>Oct. 19th. Terrific gale. More than 70 smacks put +in disabled, and some seven lost their crews (41 men), besides 14 +other men washed overboard; 13 widows and 25 children left +destitute.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th. The Italian barque “Oceana +Antonio,” 529 tons, ran ashore south of the Wellington +Pier.</p> +<p>Dec. 20th. Gas explosion at Messrs. Bracey and +Son’s counting-house, whereby two persons were injured.</p> +<p>Launches: Feb. 1st, the schooner “Maria,” from Mr. +Rust’s yard after extensive repairs.—Oct. 11th, the +smack “Alice,” 40 tons register, from Mr. +Rust’s yard.—Nov. 12th, the self-righting lifeboat +“Penny Readings,” 33 feet long, cost £500, +launched at Lynn, the boat having been built in +Yarmouth.—Nov. 25th, the smack “Cambria,” from +Messrs. Smith’s yard.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 11th, Arthur Steward, Esq., aged 68.—March +4th, William Jex, Esq., Master of the Hopton Hunt, aged +68.—April 14th, William Hill Winmill, Esq., of Gorleston, +aged 35.—Aug. 10th, Edward Trafford, Esq., of +Wroxham.—Dec. 8th, Mr. Stephen Hardingham, aged 74.</p> +<h3><a name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +133</span>1870.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd. New organ at Roman Catholic Church opened.</p> +<p>Feb. 14th. The schooner “St. Cyran” came +ashore south of the Britannia Pier, and the crew rescued by the +rocket apparatus; the Austrian brig “Giovanning” came +ashore in the South Ham; the steamer “Sea Queen,” 677 +tons burthen or 903 dead weight, laden with 1,100 tons of coal, +wrecked off Yarmouth, and her crew of 24 hands perished; and the +barque “Victoria” wrecked on Gorleston Beach, 500 +yards from the shore, and out of a crew of 16 but fire were +rescued.</p> +<p>Feb. 15th. The schooner “Favourite” came +ashore between the Jetty and Wellington Pier, and the crew, +except one boy, saved; and on the same morning, the crew of the +lifeboat “Friend of All Nations” courageously +proceeded out of the harbour to a vessel in the South Ham, and +the perilous venture of the crew was hailed with lusty cheers +from a crowd assembled on the Gorleston Pier. In these +gales the smack “Chance It” was burnt to the +water’s edge off Yarmouth, and the crew gallantly rescued +by the smack “William and Ann,” of this port.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd. The organ at St. Nicholas’ Church, +after being repaired by Messrs. Hill, of London, at a cost of +£820, was opened by a grand choral service. Before +removal it contained 2,133 pipes, which number has been increased +to 2,873, viz., great organ 1,311, swell 908, choir organ 504, +pedal organ 150; 45 stops and 7 couplers.</p> +<p>Feb. Rev. A. P. Holme appointed by the Bishop of Chester +to the Rectory of Tattenhall, Cheshire; and on Mar. 1st the rev. +gentleman was presented with a silver inkstand, value £25, +marble timepiece £5, and an electro-plated cruet stand.</p> +<p>March 5th. Collision in the Roadstead between the s.s. +“Chester,” value £8,000, and s.s. +“Thames,” the former being run ashore north of the +Britannia Pier.</p> +<p>March 20th. Fire on board the iron s.s. +“Emily.”</p> +<p>April 27th. The first portion of St. James’ +Church, which cost about £1,000, was opened by the Bishop +<a name="page134"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 134</span>of +Columbia. The entire building, when finished, will cost +£8,000 or £10,000.</p> +<p>April 28th. The south aisle of St. Nicholas’ +Church, after being rebuilt, opened with a full choral service, +the Lord Bishops of Rochester and Norwich officiating in the +service. This service was the grandest since Aug., 1848, +when Dr. Stanley and Dr. Wilberforce preached at the opening +services, after the old galleries, pews, &c., had been swept +away. The Church covers an area of 23,085 square feet; is +228 ft. long and 110 ft. wide, transept 148 ft.; and will +accommodate 5,500 worshippers.</p> +<p>April. Captains Spencer Smyth, R.N., and C. Dent +promoted to the rank of Rear-Admirals. The former served in +several naval engagements from March, 1803 (when he entered as +Midshipman on board the “Dreadnought,” 98 guns), to +Oct. 22nd, 1827, the date he was promoted to the rank of +Commander; and from 19th of March, 1833, to Oct., 1835, he filled +the position of Assistant-Commander of the Coastguard at +Yarmouth; and promoted to Captain on the reserve list F.G., July +28th, 1851, for meritorious services. (See Aug. 3rd.) +Admiral Dent also served in several similar engagements since the +year 1810.</p> +<p>May 18th. Gaol Street altered to its original name, +Middlegate Street.</p> +<p>May. Baptist Chapel in Row 14 sold to Sir E. H. K. +Lacon, and converted into a beer store. In excavating, an +immense leaden coffin was discovered, besides the human bones of +persons long since departed this life, which were +re-interred. On Aug. 25th the cornerstone of the new Chapel +on Wellesley Road was laid. (See April 7th, 1871.)</p> +<p>May 30th. Lord Mahon, eldest son of Earl Stanhope, +returned as Member of Parliament for East Suffolk, including +Gorleston. Votes—Mahon, 3,456; Colonel Sir Shafto +Adair, Bart., 3,285; including Gorleston votes, M., 245; A., +183.</p> +<p>June 6th. Mr. E. Cattermoul, librarian, presented with a +watch, value £25, and a cheque for £31 10s., by the +subscribers to the Public library.</p> +<p><a name="page135"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 135</span>July +12th. Middlegate Congregational Church rebuilt and +opened. This building alone cost £4,000, the +architect being Mr. J. T. Bottle, of Yarmouth.</p> +<p>July 18th. John Bately, Esq., of Southtown, was admitted +a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London, having +passed on Sept. 24th, 1864, the examination in Arts at +Apothecaries’ Hall; on May 6th, 1868, admitted a member of +the Royal College of Surgeons; and on July 2nd of the same year, +a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London. On +October 1st, 1868, this gentleman, at the opening of the Medical +Session of Queen’s College, Birmingham, by Lord Littleton, +received from the hands of the Bishop of Worcester the Council +Prize of the Sydenham College—the highest honour the +College could confer.</p> +<p>July 27th. Mr. M. E. Sturge, the newly-appointed +bandmaster of the East Norfolk Militia, presented with a +richly-chased ebony and gold baton by the members of the band, as +a mark of their respect and esteem.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd. Police-constable Shreeve gallantly rescued a +lady, who had fallen overboard while in the act of landing from +the London passenger steamer “Albion,” from +drowning.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd. Mr. W. S. Stanford appointed Harbour Master in +the place of Rear-Admiral S. Smyth.</p> +<p>Aug. 7th. H.M.S. “Penelope” put into +Yarmouth, but left on the 12th. This ironclad vessel, under +the command of Lieut. Mogel, is a double screw corvette, 600 +horse-power, 3,096 tons, carries ten guns, and a crew of 400 all +told.</p> +<p>Aug. 8th. Edward Youell, Esq., died at Yarmouth, aged 89 +years. This much respected gentleman was a partner for 42 +years in the banking firm, of Lacons, Youell, and Co., from which +he retired in 1863, having been in the house nearly 70 years.</p> +<p>Aug. 8th. A fishing trawler driven into the new works of +the Jetty (see Aug. 20th, 1808), carrying away one of the piles, +and knocking down the pile-driving machine, which fell on her +deck and completely crushed it.</p> +<p><a name="page136"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +136</span>Aug. Mr. William James Palmer, L.S.A., admitted a +Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.</p> +<p>Aug. 18th. Mr. J. S. Dominy, previous to leaving for +York, resigned the position of Head Master of the Government +School of Art in favour of Mr. J. F. Ryan.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. Mr. John Harrington gallantly rescued two men +from drowning on Yarmouth Beach; and during the present year he +was instrumental in saving the lives of two others, for which he +was awarded a testimonial on vellum by the Royal Humane +Society.</p> +<p>Aug. 23rd. Great Yarmouth Annual Marine Regatta took +place. The first Annual Roads Regatta was held Aug. 1st, +1834.</p> +<p>Sept. 1st. Meeting convened by the Mayor at the Town +Hall on behalf of the sick and wounded in the Franco-German war; +£297 6s. 7d. collected in the town, out of which sum +£291 16s. was forwarded, when the list closed in Jan., +1871, to the National Society.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd. S. J. F. Stafford, Esq., surgeon, presented +with an elegant crystal-and-gold claret jug, and on Dec. 29th +with a silver salver by the Nottingham Order of Oddfellows, as a +token of their esteem.</p> +<p>Sept. Miss Emma Pearson, daughter of the late Capt. +Pearson, of Yarmouth, sacrificed the comforts of her home to +undergo suffering and privation in a foreign country as head +nurse amidst the carnage of battle fields, and too much cannot be +said in praise of her conduct. On being invited by Count +Bernstoff to the Prussian Embassy, she received many merited +thanks for her kindness and attention to the German +wounded. (See Aug., 1872.)</p> +<p>Oct. 14th. Heavy gale, in which the “Ex,” of +Yarmouth, foundered; and on the 16th, the lugger +“Proverb,” of Gorleston, and six other vessels.</p> +<p>Oct. 24th and 25th. The most beautiful display of the +Aurora Borealis witnessed since 1707.</p> +<p>Nov. 18th. The s.s. “M. E. Clarke” totally +lost on Hasbro’ Sands, and her crew of 16 hands landed at +Cromer.</p> +<p><a name="page137"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 137</span>Nov. +26th. The s.s. “Dolphin,” with cattle for +London, towed into Yarmouth Roadstead. To save the vessel, +150 bullocks and 250 sheep were thrown overboard.</p> +<p>Dec. 13th. The catch of herrings this season up to this +date was 18,394 lasts, which realised no less a sum than +£180,000. One boat brought in 142 lasts, another 132 +lasts, and others were almost equally successful. Last +year’s catch was about 13,221 lasts; and in 1868, 15,476 +lasts. 12 vessels left with 28,390 barrels of bloaters for +exportation.</p> +<p>During the summer season, the town was visited by upwards of +78,000 people, viz., 63,000 by rail, and 15,000 by the passenger +steamers “Albion” and “Seine.”</p> +<p>A mackerel, 19 in. long, 10½ in. in girth, and weighing +2 lbs. 11 ozs., brought ashore.</p> +<p>One hundred and fifty-six fully-licensed public-houses, 16 +hotels, and 88 beer-houses, including Gorleston—making a +total of 260.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 9th, Thomas Brightwen, Esq., J.P., senior local +partner in the banking firm of Messrs. Gurneys, Birkbeck, and +Co., aged 57.—Feb. 24th, D. Stewart, Esq., aged +79.—Feb., Mr. Henry Jay, shipowner, and formerly a Member +of the Corporation.—April 4th, the Rev. John Meffin, 50 +years minister of the Countess of Huntingdon Connexion, aged +93.—May 25th, John Branch, Esq., aged 74.—May 31st, +Mr. George Alexander, artist, aged 64.—June 1st, at +Yarmouth, Alex. John, son of the late Samuel Grimmer, Esq., of +Haddiscoe Hall, aged 61.—July 21st, Mr. Samuel Cubitt +Richmond, merchant, a Member of the Town Council.—Oct. 6th, +at Portsmouth, Col. Edwin Wodehouse, C.B., R.A., Aide-de-camp to +the Queen, eldest son of the late Admiral the Hon. Philip +Wodehouse, aged 53.—Oct. 17th, Mr. Edward Stagg, a Member +of the Town Council, aged 57 (see Feb., 1866).—Nov. 14th, +C. E. Bartram, Esq., J.P., and Town Councillor, aged +72.—Nov. 30th, Henry Holt Barber, Esq., a Member of the +Town Council, aged 38.—Dec. 19th, Mr. Henry Fellows, +shipbuilder, at Southtown, aged 69.</p> +<p><a name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 138</span>The +cost of lighting the town (330) lamps with gas this year was +£1,178 12s.</p> +<p>Launches: Feb. 14th, the smack “Valentine;” June +20th, the brigantine “Ethel,” 100 feet long, and 200 +tons register, belonging to W. J. Foreman, Esq., launched, after +being repaired, from Mr. Rust’s yard; Aug. 29th, the new +trawling smack “Bonny Boys;” Oct. 1st, the fishing +lugger “Guiding Star;” Nov. 17th, the lifeboat +“Bolton,” built by Messrs. Beeching, of Yarmouth, +publicly inaugurated at Kessingland; Nov. 19th, trawling smack +“Statesman;” Dec. 14th, smack +“Galatea.”</p> +<h3>1871.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd. A male otter caught in one of the Broads near +Yarmouth. It weighed 30 lbs., and was four feet long, the +tail alone measuring 21 inches.</p> +<p>Jan. 9th. Lady King, late of Telegraph House, died at +Maddingley Hall, Cambridge.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. Race for £100 on the ice covering the +Southtown marshes, between Mr. Barnes’ pony (ridden by the +owner) and an excellent skater named Woodhouse. The +rough-shod pony won by several yards.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. Public subscriptions for aiding the wounded +in the Franco-German war amounted to £297 6s. 7d. +Jan. 27th. Forty-five screw steamers passed up through the +Roadstead within three hours.</p> +<p>Jan. 18,709 lasts of herrings caught during the last +voyage, or 5,353 lasts more than the previous year’s +catch.</p> +<p>The rateable value of the Borough as per last poor rate, +£96,556 10s., and the number of ratepayers 9,750.</p> +<p>Seventy-five schools provided accommodation for 5,370 pupils, +viz., Yarmouth, 65 schools, 4,587 children; Gorleston and +Southtown, 10 schools, 781 children.</p> +<p>The total receipts of the Board of Health for the past year +were £6,819 8s. 8d., and the expenditure £6,698 +19s.</p> +<p>Feb. 4th. Robert Steward, Esq., J.P., died at Cambridge, +aged 57. This gentleman was five times Mayor of the +Borough, and was also a Member of the Town Council for upwards of +20 years.</p> +<p><a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 139</span>Feb. +7th. Fire in Broad Row at the shop of Mr. J. H. Lay. +About £100 worth of damage done.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. Mantby Hall destroyed by fire.</p> +<p>Feb. Two whitings caught by the smack “Dutch +Trader”—one measured 26 inches and the other 24 +inches.—The number of fishing boats belonging to Yarmouth, +according to a Parliamentary return, amounted to 900, of the +aggregate tonnage of 14,788, giving employment to 4,051 men and +530 boys.</p> +<p>March. Lieut. Fyson appointed Captain of the 2nd Company +of Rifle Volunteers on the retirement of Capt. Tomlinson.</p> +<p>C. C. Aldred, Esq., appointed a Justice of the Peace for East +Suffolk in place of the late R. Steward, Esq.</p> +<p>March 3rd. Police-constable George Shreeve met with a +fatal accident by falling from the fire escape at the Police +Station. (See Aug. 3rd, 1870.)</p> +<p>March 29th. Mr. A. D. Stone purchased the barque +“Frederica,” with stores, &c., for +£1,425.</p> +<p>April 3rd. Census taken. Population of Yarmouth, +33,880; Gorleston and Southtown, 6,645; exclusive of about 700 +absentees at sea. Number of houses: Yarmouth, 8,098; +Gorleston, 1,534. Population of surrounding villages: +Belton, 582; Bradwell, 387; Burgh Castle, 409; Fritton, 221; +Hopton, 309; Ashby, 95; Blundeston, 716; Corton, 530; Flixton, +52; Gunton, 73; Herringfleet, 230; Lound, 422; Oulton, 860; +Somerleyton, 592; Flegg Hundreds, 9,381.</p> +<p>April 7th. The new Tabernacle on Wellesley Road opened +for Divine worship. It cost £2,496. (See May, +1870.)</p> +<p>April 19th. Mr. H. Fenner’s smack +“Sebastopol” destroyed by fire whilst at sea.</p> +<p>April 19th. Edmund Girling, Esq., formerly in Messrs. +Gurneys and Co.’s bank, died in London, aged 75. He +was a talented artist.</p> +<p>April 22nd. The screw steamer “Kestrel,” +with emigrants for America (about 150), run down by the screw +collier “Frankland,” near Cromer. All hands +saved.</p> +<p><a name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 140</span>April +24th. The smack “Otter,” launched.</p> +<p>April. A beautifully-stained window placed in St. +Nicholas’ Church to the memory of the late John Goate +Fisher, Esq., Mayor of the Borough in 1820.</p> +<p>The number of wherries registered as belonging to the river +Bure was 103, of 1,846 tons burthen.</p> +<p>May 4th. Mr. J. R. Baumgartner passed his examination at +Apothecaries’ Hall.</p> +<p>May 6th. Richard Hammond, Esq., J.P., died at Yarmouth, +aged 78. This much-respected gentleman was the oldest +Magistrate of the Borough, having been called to the Bench in +1841; he was also a Port and Haven Commissioner. On the +Bench he once remarked that our smacksmen “earned their +money like horses, but spent it like asses.”</p> +<p>Under the general poor rate and compounds in Yarmouth, there +were 5,136 tenements, of the total value of £81,222 +10s.</p> +<p>May 31st. David A. Gourlay, Esq., J.P., died at +Yarmouth, aged 88 years. He was elected Mayor of the +Borough in 1849, and was for many years a respected member of the +Town Council. (See April 4th, 1867.)</p> +<p>June 6th. Salmon Palmer, J. W. de Caux, and Garson +Blake, Esqs., nominated by the Town Council as new Magistrates +for the Borough.</p> +<p>June 10th. Nearly 50 porpoises observed disporting +themselves in the Roadstead.</p> +<p>June 13th to 24th. The D. Battery B. Brigade of Royal +Horse Artillery encamped on the North Denes, under the command of +Captain Strangways. 120 rank and file, having 116 horses, +and 6 9-pound rifle-loading guns, &c.</p> +<p>June 21st. Messrs. F. S. Smyth and R. G. Bately +acquitted themselves satisfactorily in their preliminary +examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons, London.</p> +<p>June. Major W. J. Foreman, 1st Norfolk Artillery +Volunteers, passed his examination and received a certificate of +efficiency at the School of Instruction formed at Woolwich, under +Lieut.-Colonel Woolsey, R.A.</p> +<p><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +141</span>June. Messrs. J. T. Waters, F. Burton, and F. W. +Dendy passed final examination at the London Incorporated Law +Society.</p> +<p>July 9th. Fire on the fishing premises of Messrs. Bland +Brothers, Queen’s Road. A public subscription was +made on their behalf.</p> +<p>July 13th. Boat accident in the Roadstead, by which a +man and two boys, out of a crew of five, were drowned, the youths +being members of a Norwich Church Choir.</p> +<p>July 15th. The 1st Suffolk and (on the 18th) 1st Norfolk +Rifle Volunteers encamped for a week on the North Denes. +The former mustered in all about 600 men.</p> +<p>July 26th. H.M.S. “Repulse,” 12 guns, +3,749 tons burthen, 800 h.p., commanded by Capt. Rollins, came +into the Roads to embark 50 coastguardsmen.</p> +<p>July 30th. A terrific thunder peal, the like not having +been heard for many years. The electric fluid did a +considerable amount of damage to the residence of Mr. Hinchman +Hammond.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st. The new smack “Zephyr,” on Aug. +3rd the fishing boat “Henry and Edmund,” and on Aug. +7th the dandy smack “Coral” launched. Since +August last year 30 smacks and fishing boats had been launched at +the various shipyards in Yarmouth and Gorleston.</p> +<p>Aug. 7th. Miss E. Pearson, accompanied by Miss L. E. +MacLaughlin, paid a visit to the Sailors’ Home, having just +returned from the Franco-German War. In October these two +ladies had conferred upon them the bronze cross and diploma of +the Society de Secours aux Blessés of France, in +recognition of their services on the battle fields of Metz, +Sedan, and Orleans. (See Sept., 1870, Aug., 1872, and Aug. +8th, 1876.)</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. Fatal accident to Mr. Henry Worlledge, third +son of the County Court Judge, while bathing at Folkestone.</p> +<p>Aug. 14th. E. P. Youell, Esq., who had for 11 years +previous been Captain of the 2nd Company Rifle Volunteers, was +presented by the members of his <a name="page142"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 142</span>company at the Drill Hall with a +handsome silver salver, value £13, as a mark of esteem.</p> +<p>Aug. 15th. Mrs. Levina Onslow died at Yarmouth, aged 75 +years. This lady was the widow of the late Capt. John James +Onslow, R.N., post-captain in H.M.’s Royal Navy, and last +commanding H.M.S. “Daphne,” as senior officer in New +Zealand in 1845; and mother of the late Rev. W. Lake Onslow, +M.A., R.N., formerly chaplain on board the “St. +George” with the Duke of Edinburgh, and subsequently +domestic chaplain to the Prince and Princess of Wales at +Sandringham. (See June 1st, 1862.) The Rev. Onslow +was educated as a boy at the old Grammar School, under the Rev. +T. C. Clowes, M.A., of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and his +grandfather, as Admiral, commanded the squadron in the Roads +after the Camperdown action.</p> +<p>Aug. 15th. A congratulatory address voted by the Town +Council to Sir James Paget, on her Majesty conferring upon him a +baronetcy. Sir James is the son of the late Samuel Paget, +Esq., a long resident in this town. The same honour was +conferred by George IV. in 1821 on Astley Cooper, Esq., son of +Dr. Cooper, minister of St. Nicholas’ Church. (See +June 15th, 1858.)</p> +<p>Aug. 15th. Brigantine “Edward,” belonging to +Mr. W. J. Foreman, launched, after extensive repairs, from Mr. +Rust’s yard. The same morning, a new lugger, +belonging to Mr. G. Palmer, was launched from the same +shipbuilder’s yard.</p> +<p>Aug. 17th. Tenders opened for laying a common sewer +through Gorleston and Southtown, viz., 350 feet run of from 2 to +3½ feet brick sewer, and about 5,500 feet run of pipe +sewer, from 9 to 15 inches in diameter. A tender of +£1,725 was accepted by the Gorleston Board of Health. +(See June 25th, 1872.)</p> +<p>Aug. 23rd. The sale of Mr. J. Tomlinson’s business +premises, Howard Street, realised £11,390.</p> +<p>Aug. 25th. Fire at Mr. C. Garwood’s fish-house in +Charlotte Street; very little damage done.</p> +<p><a name="page143"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 143</span>Aug. +28th. H.M.’s paddle-frigate “Terrible,” +1,850 tons burthen, 800 horse power, 19 guns, commanded by Capt. +Travenen, passed through the Roadstead.</p> +<p>Aug. 31st. The Yarmouth Horticultural Society’s +first show, held in St. George’s Park, which was entirely +enclosed with boarding, was a grand horticultural and floral +fête, and patronised by most of the élite of the +town. The East Norfolk Militia and Artillery Militia bands +played at intervals during the day.</p> +<p>Aug. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales accepted the hon. +colonelcy of the Norfolk Artillery Militia, rendered vacant by +the death of Lord Hastings.</p> +<p>Sept. Mons. A. A. Desfougerais, Vice-Consul to the +French Government, after 11 years’ residence in Yarmouth, +obtained an appointment in the Foreign Office in Paris. On +Sept. 22nd this gentleman was presented with a claret jug and +cup, value £40, as testimony of respect.</p> +<p>Sept. 11th. The dandy smack “Fern,” 54 feet +long, 7 ft. 2 in. deep, and 32 4-100ths tonnage, launched from +Mr. R. Rust’s yard.</p> +<p>Sept. 17th. Organ at St. George’s Chapel re-opened +after being restored.</p> +<p>Sept. 17th. The Rev. C. Voysey, B.A., late Vicar of +Heaulaugh, preached at the Unitarian Chapel.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd. The smack “Maria and Isabella,” +belonging to Mr. Seago, of this port, ran into by the barque +“Rock City,” near the Dogger Bank, where she +foundered, and four of her crew were drowned.</p> +<p>Sept. 25th. The captain of the passenger steamer +“Albion,” plying between Yarmouth and London, fined +£6 11s. for having on board 448 passengers, or 111 more +than the vessel was chartered to carry.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. The new General Post Office, Regent Street, +opened.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th and 30th. The brig “New Fair +Trader,” and the fishing lugger “Black-eye’d +Susan,” of this port, received much damage.</p> +<p>Oct. Number of persons by excursion trains during the +summer was—Vauxhall Station, 47,176; Southtown, 35,383; +total, 82,559. Last season, V., 32,103: S., 26,009; total, +58,112.</p> +<p><a name="page144"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 144</span>Oct. +4th. The schooner “John Watson,” belonging to +Messrs. Watling, of this port, collided with the barque +“Thomas Knox,” in the Roadstead, and the former +sunk. Crew saved.</p> +<p>Oct. 5th. Mr. William Mallam Vores admitted a licentiate +of the Society of Apothecaries.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th. The screw steamer “Annie +Bronghton,” 120 h.p., 782 tons register, 230 feet long, 32 +ft. beam, drawing 19 ft. of water, and valued at £22,000, +while on a voyage from Newcastle to Alexandria with 1,650 tons of +coal, got on Hasbro’ Sands, but was assisted off after four +days’ hard exertions. The salvage claims amounted to +£1,300.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th. Fire at Mr. A. Tabraham’s jewellery +shop on St. Peter’s Road. Considerable damage +done.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th. A royal sturgeon caught off Yarmouth. +It was 7 ft. 10 in. long, and weighed 28 stone.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th. The new Corn Hall, Howard Street, opened by a +public dinner, to which nearly 200 gentlemen sat down, including +Viscount Mahon, M.P., Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., the Hon. +F. Walpole, M.P., C. S. Read, Esq., M.P., E. Corrance, Esq., +M.P., and the Mayor (E. H. L. Preston, Esq.) H. S. Grimmer, +Esq., occupied the chair.</p> +<p>Oct. 24th. George S. Harcourt, Esq., of Ankerwych, +formerly M.P. for Bucks, died at St. George’s Square, +Belgravia, aged 64 years. This gentleman established the +Yarmouth Sailors’ Home.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. A silver tea-kettle, value £25, +presented as a testimonial to the Rev. R. J. Dundas, prior to his +leaving the town for Albury, near Guildford.</p> +<p>Oct. 30th. The Rev. W. Boycott, rector and patron of +Burgh St. Peter, died at Ormesby, aged 73 years.</p> +<p>Nov. Mr. Ziba Rayson passed his third and final +examination at the Law Society’s Hall, London.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. Fire at the drapery shop of Mr. E. Bostock, +King Street, and damage done to the amount of £350. +(See 1884.)</p> +<p>Nov. The smack “Evangeline,” built for Mr. +Olley of this town, launched from Mr. Fellows’ +shipyard.</p> +<p><a name="page145"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 145</span>Nov. +14th. The iron screw steamer “Benjamin +Whitworth,” 639 tons register, 99 h.p. (Capt. John +Smith), got upon the Cross Sands and encountered a terrifically +heavy sea; but after great perseverance she was floated off on +the following day. The steam tug “Reliance,” +value £2,500, belonging to the Standard Company, while +assisting the “Whitworth,” struck against a piece of +sunken wreck, and so rendered leaky. She was run on to +Caister beach, where she became a total wreck. (See Dec. +4th, 1875.)</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. A fleet of some 1,200 sailing vessels passed +through the Roadstead.</p> +<p>Nov. 25th. The fishing lugger “Sailor’s +Friend,” value, with nets, &c., about £850, the +property of Mr. C. Rumbold, was run into by the French screw +steamer “Union Bayonnaise,” which caused the lugger +to founder. Crew all saved.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th to Dec. 2nd. Heavy gale. Lifeboat crews +performed several daring acts of bravery, and although about 25 +hands were unfortunately lost near Yarmouth, no less than 23 +shipwrecked men were rescued and taken to the Sailors’ +Home.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. Smack “George and Elizabeth” ran +ashore north of the North Pier, where she went to pieces, her +crew being rescued by the rocket apparatus.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. Rev. A. T. Shelley, Congregational minister at +Aylesbury, and formerly of this town, died at Aylesbury, Bucks, +aged 45.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th. Intense frost. Every street and road one +mass of ice, and so smooth and slippery as to render walking +upright impossible. Several accidents occurred to people +and horses.</p> +<p>Dec. 9th. The smack “Friendship,” value +£400, lost in the North Sea.</p> +<p>Dec. 10th. The new steamer “South Tyne” +stranded on North Scroby Sand. She was got off the next +morning after 100 tons of coal had been thrown overboard. +Salvage services amounted to £1,000.</p> +<p>Dec. 11th. The market tolls, &c., were let by public +competition by Mr. S. Aldred for £890 per annum. (See +Aug. 21st, 1876.)</p> +<p><a name="page146"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 146</span>Dec. +15th. The smack “Dagmar” on fire in the +harbour. Much damaged.</p> +<p>Dec. 19th. The smack “Emma,” valued at +£300, totally destroyed by fire while in the North +Sea. Crew rescued.</p> +<p>Dec. 19th. The screw collier “Magdeburg” +struck on Scroby Sand, but was got off by the steam tug +“Reliance” for £200.</p> +<p>Dec. In the 2nd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers in 1871 there +were in the five companies 11 officers, 22 sergeants, and 460 +men, 87 of whom were marksmen.</p> +<p>The 600 fishing craft belonging to this port pay annually for +towage about £4,000.</p> +<p>A new Primitive Methodist Chapel opened at Bradwell.</p> +<p>Mr. J. T. Clarke, solicitor, appointed a Commissioner to +administer oaths in the High Court of Admiralty in England.</p> +<p>Two hundred and forty millions of herring landed at the Fish +Wharf during the whole of the present season.</p> +<p>The number of shipwrecked men received during the year at the +Sailors’ Home was 228.</p> +<p>A whiting measuring 26 inches caught on the coast.</p> +<h3>1872.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st, The barque “Sing Tai” (Rising Sun), 500 +tons, launched from Messrs. Beeching’s shipyard.</p> +<p>Jan. 1st. The brigantine “Sybil,” belonging +to Mr. H. H. Gambling, while entering the harbour got on the +North Sand, and was wrecked. Value, £400.</p> +<p>Jan. 3rd. Rear-Admiral Charles Calmady Dent, of +Yarmouth, died. (See April 4th.)</p> +<p>Jan. 5th. Sir Francis Crossley, Bart., M.P., of +Somerleyton Hall, died at Belle Vue, Halifax, aged 54 years.</p> +<p>Jan. 10th. First prosecution for Sunday trading +instituted, the magistrates fining two delinquents—Messrs. +Duffell—5s. each and costs. This continued weekly for +over five years.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th. Restoration of Gorleston Church mooted. +On May 15th Mr. Hubbard’s (East Dereham) contract of +£2,642 accepted. (See June 12th, 1873.)</p> +<p><a name="page147"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 147</span>Jan. +16th. Loyal addresses voted by the Council to the Queen on +the recovery of the Prince of Wales from a severe illness; also +congratulatory addresses to the Prince and Princess.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th. Gallant lifeboat service by the Caister +beachmen during a heavy gale, in the preservation of the barque +“Jessie,” and the whole of her crew.</p> +<p>Jan. 25th. The Gorleston Board of Health resolved to +borrow £1,000, in addition to the £3,500 previously +borrowed for the Southtown drainage. (See Aug. 17th, +1871.)</p> +<p>Jan. 28th. John Lomas Cufaude, Esq., solicitor, died, +aged 61 years. The deceased was Clerk of the Peace, Clerk +to the Board of Guardians, and Superintendent Registrar of this +Borough.</p> +<p>Jan. 29th. Caleb Burrell Rose, Esq., F.G.S., died, aged +81 years.</p> +<p>Jan. 29th. Supt. G. Tewsley presented with a +richly-chased silver cup, at the Bear Hotel, by the sergeants and +constables of the Borough Police, as a memento of their +esteem.</p> +<p>Feb. 2nd. F. Danby Palmer, Esq., elected Supt. +Registrar, and on the 9th Clerk to the Board of Guardians.</p> +<p>Feb. 2nd. Further experiments in the Roadstead with +Harvey’s sea torpedoes, under the inspection of gentlemen +representing the American Government.</p> +<p>Feb. 9th, 10th, and 18th. Action in the Court of +Chancery—I. and C. A. Preston <i>versus</i> the Mayor, +Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough—to recover +£20,000, lent by various mortgagees on the general district +rates. Bill dismissed with costs. An appeal was made +against the judgment in the same Court on June 19th, with a like +result.</p> +<p>Feb. 13th. Isaac Preston, jun., Esq., elected Clerk of +the Peace by the Town Council; and on March 5th, Visiting +Justices’ Clerk.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd. Brigantine “Isabella Walker” +collided with the steam tug “Andrew Woodhouse,” the +latter sustaining damage to the amount of £50.</p> +<p>Feb. 27th. General Thanksgiving Day for the recovery +from sickness of the Prince of Wales observed in Yarmouth.</p> +<p><a name="page148"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +148</span>Feb. £4,680 required for the restoration of +Gorleston Church. (See Jan. 12th, 1872, and April 28th, +1876.)</p> +<p>March 1st. Mr. G. M. Burton elected Vaccination +Officer.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Smack “Queen of the Fleet” +launched from Messrs. Smith and Son’s shipyard.</p> +<p>March 14th. J. Cherry, Esq., of the Norfolk Circuit, +took the oaths and handed in his formal appointment as Clerk of +the Peace for Suffolk, conferred by the Lord Lieutenant of the +County (Lord Stradbroke), vacated by the late Mr. Borton, who +held the office 30 years prior to his death.</p> +<p>March 22nd. Henry Negus Burroughes, Esq., died at +Burlingham Hall, aged 82 years. This gentleman was elected +M.P. for East Norfolk in Aug., 1837; July, 1841; Aug., 1847; and +July, 1852, with the late Edmund Wodehouse, Esq., as a colleague, +on the last two occasions without opposition. In 1855, +however, Mr. Wodehouse, accepting the Chiltern Hundreds, Sir +Henry J. Stracey was returned in the place of that hon. +gentleman, but at the dissolution in March, 1857, they neither of +them went to the poll. Mr. Burroughes was a Port and Haven +Commissioner for over 45 years. The Rev. Randall +Burroughes, who married a sister of Lord Suffield, succeeded to +the possession of his fine landed property.</p> +<p>March 30th. Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., died at +Coltishall. He was born at Yarmouth in Oct., 1792. In +1827 was called to the bar by the Inner Temple, and in 1886 +appointed Judge of the Guildhall Court of Norwich and Recorder of +Great Yarmouth.</p> +<p>March. The loop-line between Somerleyton and St. +Olave’s on the Great Eastern Railway opened.</p> +<p>April 4th. Marriage of Lieut. Charles Francis Hastings +Dent, commanding H.M.S. “Orwell,” eldest son of the +late Admiral Dent and Lady Selina (daughter of the 11th Earl of +Huntingdon), with Miss Jane Collins, of Bury, was celebrated at +St. Mary’s Church. (See Jan. 3rd.)</p> +<p>April 19th. Corner-stone of the new schools in +connection with St. James’ Mission laid.</p> +<p><a name="page149"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 149</span>April +24th. Simms Reeve, Esq., took the declaration at the +Tolhouse Hall on acceptance of the office of Recorder of +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>May 2nd. The fine new lugger “Sir Roger +Tichborne” launched from Messrs. Smith’s shipyard at +Runham.</p> +<p>May 13th. The smack “Renown,” belonging to +Messrs. Smith and Son, fouled the South Pier, and afterwards sunk +with her cargo of fish in the harbour.</p> +<p>May 13th. The Dutch man-of-war brig +“Tornate,” used as a training ship, and having on +board 110 boys and 10 men and officers, was towed into our +harbour.</p> +<p>May 20th. A young shark, about six feet long, caught off +Yarmouth, and landed on the beach.</p> +<p>May 20th. Serious accident to J. W. de Caux, Esq., J.P., +by falling from a cart on the Marine Parade.</p> +<p>May. A salmon weighing 12½ lbs., and two salmon +trout, one 15 lbs. in weight, and the other 2 ft. 4 in. long, +taken near Caister.</p> +<p>May 29th. James Scott, Esq., J.P., a shipowner of this +port, died, aged 69 years. (See June, 1863.)</p> +<p>June 6th. First visit to Yarmouth of H.R.H. the Prince +of Wales, attended by the Earl of Leicester, Major-General +Probyn, C.B., and Col. Teesdale. This never-to-be-forgotten +visit of the Heir Apparent to the Throne was the grandest event +in respect to the general superb decorations and illuminations, +together with the rapturous enthusiasm and open generosity of the +populace, ever recorded in the annals of local history. +Some 3,500 excursionists from Norwich, as well as numbers from +neighbouring districts, flocked into the town on the two first +days. The Prince and suite, who were entertained here by +James Cuddon, Esq., J.P., at Shadingfield Lodge, left the Borough +on the 8th by the East Suffolk line, <i>en route</i> for +London.</p> +<p>June 6th. The new Grammar School opened by H.R.H. the +Prince of Wales, K.G.</p> +<p>June 6th. Primitive Methodist Conference opened at +Yarmouth, and lasted for a week. Number of members in 1872, +161,464.</p> +<p><a name="page150"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 150</span>June +13th. Two Companies of 33rd Regiment of Foot (Duke of +Wellington’s) and the staff of the Essex Rifle Militia, 152 +rank and file, arrived at the Southtown barracks, where they +stayed for a month.</p> +<p>June 15th. At Cambridge, the degree of Doctor of +Divinity conferred on the Rev. J. J. Raven, head master of the +Yarmouth Grammar School.</p> +<p>June 15th. Mr. Edward Fyson, a member of the Town +Council, and a Captain in the 2nd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, died, +aged 37 years.</p> +<p>July 9th. William Sheppard, Esq., died, aged 76.</p> +<p>July 11th. Heavy tempest. Mr. Burton +Steward’s house struck by lightning, and the interior of +more than one room was damaged by the electric fluid.</p> +<p>July 16th. The Royal Humane Society presented Mr. Thomas +Joyce with the usual honorary testimonial on parchment for saving +the life of a lad named F. J. Martin, while in a very precarious +state in the sea. This was the second testimonial Mr. Joyce +had received for his bravery.</p> +<p>July. Cuddon-Fletcher, Esq., of Somerton (son of James +Cuddon, Esq., late of Shadingfield Lodge), created a Justice of +the Peace for Norfolk.</p> +<p>Aug. The decoration of the Order of Sanitat Kreuz +Militar of Hesse Darmstadt, conferred on Miss E. Pearson (of +Yarmouth) and Miss L. E. MacLaughlin, for their attention as +nurses to the wounded soldiers in the Franco-German war. +(See Sept., 1870, and Aug. 7th, 1871.)</p> +<p>Aug. 8th. The new organ in St. Mary’s Church, +Southtown, opened with a full choral service. This +fine-toned instrument was built by Mr. W. C. Mack, of Yarmouth, +at a cost of £250. (See Sept. 9th, 1875.)</p> +<p>Aug. 9th. Mr. R. Collins resigned the appointment of +Town Hall keeper, which he had held for 20 years, and was +succeeded on Aug. 13th by Mr. George Harvey. (See Oct. +20th, 1874.)</p> +<p>Aug. 10th. By an Act of Parliament this day in force +different independent sanitary bodies were placed under one +authority, including the Yarmouth and Gorleston Local +Boards. Yarmouth Town Council <a name="page151"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 151</span>then became the sanitary authority +for the whole district, at the same time taking possession of the +property in Gorleston and Southtown, assessed at +£15,700.</p> +<p>Aug. 13th. H. Fellows, F. Dendy, and S. W. Spelman, +Esqs., appointed as Magistrates for the Borough.</p> +<p>Aug. 13th. Mr. C. H. Chamberlin’s resignation as +Borough Coroner accepted by the Town Council. Mr. William +Holt was at the same meeting appointed his successor. (See +Dec. 5th, 1883.)</p> +<p>Aug. 18th. John Hillam Mills, Esq., banister, died at +Lowestoft. The deceased gentleman acted as Deputy-Recorder +of Yarmouth during the many years’ protracted illness of +the late Mr. N. Palmer. (See March 30th, 1872.)</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. Edward Harbord Lushington Preston, Esq., +died. He was Mayor of the Borough at the time, and held +several offices of responsibility. Born on Nov. 4th, +1806. The remains of deceased were intended in the family +vault in St. Nicholas’ Churchyard, near the Cemetery.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. The new smack “Star,” built for +Mr. Fleming Hewitt, launched from the shipyard of Mr. J. H. +Fellows.</p> +<p>Aug. 27th. Charles Woolverton, Esq., elected Mayor to +the 1st of November, in the place of the late E. H. L. Preston, +Esq.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. Part of the fleet of H.M.’s ironclads, +under the command of Rear-Admiral G. G. Randolph, C.B., anchored +in the Roadstead. The fleet comprised the +“Achilles,” 26 guns; “Hector,” 18; +“Penelope,” 11; “Audacious,” 11; +“Vanguard,” 14; “Black Prince,” 28; +“Resistance,” 16; “Favourite,” 10; +“Valiant,” 18; and the dispatch boat +“Imogen.” In the whole squadron there were some +4,500 men, including about 1,500 coastguardsmen. The +Admiral’s ship (“Achilles”) carried 750 men, +had 40 furnaces, and when steaming at full speed consumed at the +rate of 250 tons of coal a day.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. The lugger “Bee” (formerly +“Prima Donna”), belonging to Mr. T. Tyrrell, of this +port, foundered about 60 miles abreast of Winterton.</p> +<p><a name="page152"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 152</span>Oct. +3rd. Destructive fire at the shop of Messrs. Leach +Brothers, oilmen, &c., Market Place, which resulted in the +almost entire destruction of the shop and stock-in-trade. +Estimated loss, £1,000; property saved, value about +£400.</p> +<p>Oct. 11th. Heavy gale. Loss of the schooner +“Lucy,” belonging to Mr. R. Barber, of this port, on +Whitby beach.</p> +<p>Oct. 14th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., laid the +first plate of the Gorleston tramway, which ceremony was +celebrated by a banquet at the Town Hall in the evening.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th. Mr. J. Suffling’s smack +“Humility” driven ashore in a gale north of Britannia +Pier.</p> +<p>Oct. 17th. Terrible accident on the Great Eastern +Railway near Kelvedon—18 people wounded and one killed, +among the former being William Worship, Esq., of Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. The schooner “Blyliam” foundered +in the North Sea. Mr. Walter Haylett, master of the smack +“Eclipse,” was subsequently awarded a silver medal +and certificate of honour by the King of the Netherlands for +rescuing the crew.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th and five following days. The sale of Mr. J. +Owles’ collection of pottery and porcelain, at the Corn +Hall, realised £4,738.</p> +<p>Oct. Mr. A. J. Rivett passed the minor examination of +the Pharmaceutical Society.</p> +<p>Oct. The widow of Sir William J. Hooker died. This +lady was the daughter of the late Mr. Dawson Turner, F.R.S., of +Yarmouth, and mother of Dr. Hooker. She was married to Sir +William in 1815.</p> +<p>Oct. The Rev. John Beazor, late of Yarmouth, appointed +to the Rectory of Portland by the Bishop of Oxford. This +rev. gentleman had for six years previously held the sole charge +of Minster Lovell. (See March, 1863.)</p> +<p>Nov. to March, 1873. Pinder’s Royal Circus at +Regent Hall.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. The lugger “Good Advice,” +belonging to Mr. John Hart, of Gorleston, run down by a brig.</p> +<p><a name="page153"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 153</span>Nov. +11th to 17th. Heavy gains, the smacks +“Coronella” and “Thomas and Edward” lost, +and all hands (on the 12th), and Gorleston Pier was also damaged +to the extent of £3,339.</p> +<p>Nov. 13th. Mr. A. E. Cowl, third son of Mr. Henry Cowl, +passed his final examination prior to his admission as an +attorney, at the Institute of the Incorporated Law Society, +London.</p> +<p>Nov. 13th. Sudden death of Mr. S. C. Cooke, of Horstead, +at the Thorpe Railway Station, aged 71. The deceased was a +member of the Port and Haven Commission.</p> +<p>Nov. 26th. Captain John Garnham, R.N., died, aged +83. The deceased was 42 years a Magistrate for Suffolk, and +was for some years a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and taken +prisoner by the French in 1814, after which he returned to +England.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th. The smack “Challenger,” reputed +to be the largest built in Yarmouth, was launched from Messrs. +Smith and Son’s yard.</p> +<p>Nov. Mr. F. J. Dowsett passed his final examination for +an attorney at the Incorporated Law Society’s Hall, +Chancery Lane.</p> +<p>Dec. 8th and for several days, a succession of gales. +About 15 vessels in all foundered, and 100 shipwrecked mariners +were received at the Sailors’ Home.</p> +<p>Dec. The Militia Depôt at Yarmouth offered to the +Government at £12,500.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st 14,451 lasts of herrings delivered at the Fishwharf, +as compared with 19,639 lasts for the corresponding period of +1871.</p> +<h3>1873.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd. Three men lost in the North Sea out of the +smack “Peep o’ Day,” belonging to Mr. Jex.</p> +<p>Jan. 6th. Boiler explosion on board the s.s. +“Druid,” seven miles off Yarmouth, resulting in the +death of two men and serious injury to three others.</p> +<p>Jan. 8th. Great Yarmouth Licensed Victuallers’ +Association established through the exertions of Mr. R. S. +Steele.</p> +<p><a name="page154"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 154</span>Jan. +10th. The new building annexed to the Priory Schools for +the accommodation of some 200 children, opened by the Mayor.</p> +<p>Jan. 20th. Dr. Lushington, judge, philanthropist, and +politician, and late M.P. for Yarmouth, died at his seat near +Ockham, aged 91 years.</p> +<p>Jan. 20th. Charles H. Chamberlin, Esq., Registrar of the +Yarmouth County Court and Borough Coroner, died, aged 51 +years.</p> +<p>Jan. 22nd. Mr. Blyth, of this port, and second mate of +the “Northfleet,” lost in that ill-fated vessel, with +over 300 passengers.</p> +<p>Jan. 27th. A halibut, 4 ft. 6 in. in length and weighing +about five stone, caught near Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Jan. Henry John Walker, Esq., solicitor of Brompton, +appointed to the Registrarship of the Yarmouth County +Court. In March, 1875, resigned for a Registrarship in +Southampton, and in Dec., 1876, District Registrar of High Court +of Justice at Manchester.</p> +<p>Jan. A very handsome silver waiter presented to Alderman +W. Laws by the teachers of St. Nicholas’ Sunday School, in +token of their respect.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st. Mr. Holmes’s new smack “Serjeant +Ballantine” launched from Mr. Mack’s shipyard.</p> +<p>Feb. 7th. Great Yarmouth and Eastern Counties’ +Aquarium Company registered, with a capital of £50,000 in +shares of £2 each. (See June 18th.)</p> +<p>Feb. 26th. The Rev. J. Partridge, formerly head master +of the Yarmouth Preparatory Grammar School, Southtown, died at +Thornbury, near Bristol, aged 46 years.</p> +<p>March 17th. Mr. George T. Watson, Superintendent of +Sailors’ Home, presented with a handsome gold ring by the +members of the Beachmen’s and Fishermen’s Friendly +Society, as a memento of respect.</p> +<p>March 24th. The steam tug “Minnet” stranded +on the North Sand at the mouth of the harbour.</p> +<p>March. The Rectory of Buckenham, Kent, conferred upon +the Rev. William Cator, B.A., curate of St. Nicholas’ +Church.</p> +<p><a name="page155"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 155</span>March +25th. The new brick-built reservoir at Gorleston, belonging +to the Great Yarmouth Water Works Company, opened. It is +115 feet square inside; height from floor to roof, 16 ft., and +holds 800,000 gallons of water, being, when full, 1½ feet +from the top.</p> +<p>March. The Rev. Dr. Raven was presented with a handsome +silver-plated coffee pot, teapot, cream jug, and sugar basin, by +the pupils of the Yarmouth Grammar School as a mark of their +esteem.</p> +<p>April 11th. Loss of the fishing smack +“Vesper,” off the Holland coast; on 19th, in the +North Sea, the dandy “Morgan;” and on 27th, the smack +“Proctor.” Crews all saved.</p> +<p>April 13th (Easter Day). The new peal of bells at +Gorleston Parish Church first rung out. These six bells +were cast by Messrs. Mears and Hainbank, of Whitechapel, and +presented to Gorleston by Miss C. Roberts, of Hersham, +Esher. The tenor bell, weighing 10 cwt., is in the key of +G, and has a chiming apparatus.</p> +<p>April 14th. John Owles, Esq., died at Great Yarmouth, +aged 65 years. (See Feb., 1858, and Oct. 29th, 1872.)</p> +<p>April 17th. H. E. Buxton, Esq., and Captain John +Gilbertson elected Churchwardens of the Parish Church. +Stormy vestry meeting.</p> +<p>April 18th. The Rev. R. Shelley, Unitarian minister of +Yarmouth, died at Newbury, Berks, aged 39 years.</p> +<p>April 24th. The Rev. H. R. Nevill, M.A., vicar of +Yarmouth, formally installed a Canon of Norwich Cathedral. +(See Jan. 25th, 1874.)</p> +<p>April 29th. The schooner “Margaret” sunk in +the harbour whilst crossing the bar. She subsequently broke +up, and the wreck and stores were sold for £40.</p> +<p>April. Bat.-Sergt.-Major E. Cooke, 1st N.A.V., presented +with a massive electro-plated cup by T. Dawson, Esq.</p> +<p>May 1st and 2nd. Sir John Coode, E.C., visited Yarmouth +to inspect and report upon the South Pier and Haven works, and on +the 30th forwarded his report <a name="page156"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 156</span>to the Port and Haven +Commissioners. The estimated cost of improvements was put +down by Sir John at £12,880.</p> +<p>May 3rd. Mr. James Mitchell died, in the 100th year of +his age.</p> +<p>May 11th. Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq., J.P. for the +Borough, and also for the County of Norfolk, died at Coltishall, +aged 70 years.</p> +<p>May 12th. The Rev. J. W. Colvin, M.A., minister of St. +Andrew’s Church, presented with a pair of handsome oak +study candlesticks and a plated-chased biscuit caddy, by the +Sunday School teachers, and members of the choir and Bible +classes, as a memento of their kindly feeling towards him.</p> +<p>May 25th. Loss of the smack “Active” and +three of her crew in the North Sea, by being run down by the +steamer “Iris.” Value of smack, +£1,000.</p> +<p>May 29th. John Fisher Costerton, Esq., J.P., of this +Borough, died at Yarmouth, aged 88 years. (See 1841.)</p> +<p>May 30th. About 50 members of the Hon. Artillery Company +came from Finsbury, London, to this town by rail, and marched +from Yarmouth to Brundall—a distance of 14 miles—on +the following morning, <i>en route</i> for Norwich.</p> +<p>June 7th. Three of the crew of the smack +“Pioneer,” and one of the +“Ethelwolf’s,” lost at sea whilst ferrying fish +to the London carrying steamers.</p> +<p>June 12th. Rear-Admiral Spencer Smyth promoted to +retired Vice-Admiral in her Majesty’s fleet. (See +April, 1870.)</p> +<p>June 12th. Gorleston Parish Church opened by the Lord +Bishop of Norwich, after its restoration.</p> +<p>June 18th. A resolution passed at a meeting of the +Directors in London to dissolve the first Aquarium Company, the +shares allotted being inadequate to carry out the project as +designed. (See Feb. 7th.)</p> +<p>June 24th. The new smack “Daniel” launched +from Mr. J. H. Fellows’ shipyard.</p> +<p>June. New Wesleyan school at Gorleston completed.</p> +<p><a name="page157"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +157</span>June. Six guns, weighing five tons each, and +carrying shot and shell weighing 50, 71, and 78 lbs. +respectively, landed at Yarmouth from Woolwich for the North and +South batteries, in place of the old 68-pounders.</p> +<p>July 2nd. A young live seal, 2½ feet long, +brought ashore by the crew of the smack “Flying +Fish,”‘ who had captured it in the North Sea.</p> +<p>July 2nd. The Rev. W. Sumpter Beevor, senior curate of +St. Nicholas’ Church, had the degree of M.A. conferred by +the Trinity College, Dublin.</p> +<p>July. Mr. Arthur Vores passed his preliminary +examination for the Fellowship of the College of Surgeons.</p> +<p>Aug. 16th. Mr. H. Jay elected to the office of Fishwharf +Master, on the resignation of Mr. W. Capon.</p> +<p>Aug. A fine new fishing smack, “The Shah,” +launched, also the “Falcon” and the +“Albion.”</p> +<p>Aug. 26th. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales consented to +become a patron of the Yarmouth Marine Regatta, and forwarded a +cheque of £26 5s. through Sir Wm. Knollys for a competition +prize.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th. The King of the Belgians’ +superbly-fitted yacht, “Prince Baudoin,” put into +Yarmouth harbour for coal previous to conveying his Majesty +across the Channel from Dover to Ostend on the 16th.</p> +<p>Sept. 15th. The new smack “Mercy” launched +from Messrs. Mack’s yard.</p> +<p>Sept. 25th. The will of Mrs. Jemima Bacon Ciocci, +formerly the wife of Raffaelle Ciocci, late of Yarmouth, proved +under £25,000.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. A new steam tug, the “Star,” the +property of the Star Steam Tug Company, launched from Messrs. +Beeching’s shipyard. Length, 88 feet; width, 16 ft. 7 +in.; depth, 9 ft. 9 in.; builders’ measurement, 113 tons; +gross register, 88 tons, and cost over £2,000. Her +lever engine of 45 h.p. was saved from the +“Minnet.” (See March 24th.)</p> +<p>Sept. Shadingfield Lodge, the Royal residence during the +Prince of Wales’ stay in Yarmouth, in June, 1872, purchased +by S. Nightingale, Esq., for £3,000.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. Destructive fire at the farm of Mr. T. W. +Daniel, at Caister; damage over £1,000.</p> +<p><a name="page158"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 158</span>Oct. +1st. Loss of the s.s. “Whittington,” of +Newcastle, with 400 tons of coal, on the Middle Cross Sand.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. Three men lost belonging to the smack +“Ellen,” whilst ferrying 29 packages of fish to the +London carrying steamer, near the Dogger Bank.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. R. Morgan, Esq., C.E., visited Yarmouth on +behalf of the Local Government Board, and took evidence upon the +matter of the Market Gates’ Improvement, for which a loan +of £2,500 was required for 30 years. Sanction to the +loan given.</p> +<p>Oct. 8th. The lugger “Young Charles” run +down by the s.s. “Osborne,” off Smith’s Knowl +(14 miles off Lowestoft), and the whole of her crew, 10 hands, +unfortunately lost.</p> +<p>Oct. 10th. Demonstration of Freemasons at Yarmouth, on +the opening of the Provincial Grand Lodge at the Hospital School +by the Hon. F. Walpole, M.P., Deputy Provincial Grand Master of +Norfolk.</p> +<p>Oct. 11th. The reputed fastest schooner yacht afloat, +the “Livonia,” 128 tons burthen, and a crew of 16 +hands, put into Yarmouth harbour.</p> +<p>Oct. 11th. Dr. James Borrett, late of Yarmouth, died at +Clifton, near Bristol. His remains were interred in +Castleton Churchyard.</p> +<p>Oct. 15th. The high lights on the N.E. corner of the +Sailors’ Home, at an altitude of 60 ft. above high water, +and the lower light on the Britannia Pier, at an elevation of 20 +ft., used for the first time.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. The new smack “Livonia,” +belonging to Messrs. Smith and Son, launched from their +shipyard.</p> +<p>Oct. 24th. Inspector Berry resigned from the borough +police force, having been unanimously chosen Chief Constable of +Police for Gravesend out of 40 candidates for the appointment, at +a stipend of £200 per annum. He entered on his new +duties on Nov. 1st. (See Jan., 1865.)</p> +<p>Oct. 30th. A testimonial, comprising a gilt-framed +document and a sealskin purse, containing £20, presented to +Police-sergeant Brown by Captain Matthews, on behalf of 64 +subscribers, as a mark of respect from the inhabitants of +Gorleston.</p> +<p><a name="page159"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +159</span>Oct. Mr. W. M. Vores resigned the office of +house-surgeon to the Yarmouth Hospital.</p> +<p>Oct. A memorial window, admirable in design and +execution, placed in the Parish Church by the eminent surgeon, +Sir James Paget, a native of Yarmouth, and brother of Professor +Paget, in memory of his father and mother. Samuel Paget +died in 1857, aged 83; Sarah Elizabeth Paget in 1848, aged +65. Twelve of their children rest within and near the +church. (See June 15th, 1858.)</p> +<p>Oct. Henry E. Buxton, W. P. Brown, G. B. Palmer, J. H. +Orde, A. D. Stone, and E. H. H. Combe, Esqs., appointed as +Magistrates for the Borough by the Lord Chancellor of +England. (See Jan., 1874.)</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. A Local Government Board Inquiry opened by +Inspector H. B. Farnall, Esq., at the Tolhouse Hall, and resulted +in the ejection of three Liberal Guardians from the Board in +Feb., 1874. This inquiry cost the town £187.</p> +<p>Nov. 10th. Disgraceful riot in Middlegate Street and at +the Fishwharf with Sherringham fishermen. (See Jan. 12th, +1874.)</p> +<p>Nov. 18th. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., died at Fontmell +Lodge, Bournemouth, aged 73 years. The deceased represented +this Borough in Parliament in 1835.</p> +<p>Nov. 20th. Mr. R. S. Steele presented with a handsome +tea and coffee service by the members of the Perseverance Lodge +of Nottingham Order of Oddfellows, in recognition of his valuable +services.</p> +<p>Nov. 27th. The Rev. J. W. Colvin, minister of St. +Andrew’s, presented with a water-colour drawing by Mr. W. +Platt; and on the following evening, by his congregation, a +marble timepiece, set of bronze chimney ornaments and +candlesticks, and a pair of salts, as souvenirs of their esteem, +previous to his leaving Yarmouth. (See May 12th.)</p> +<p>Nov. 30th. Fire at the warehouse of Mr. J. Green, King +Street, and damage done to the amount of about £15.</p> +<p><a name="page160"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 160</span>Dec. +10th. A gold Albert chain presented by the Yarmouth Bathing +and Swimming Association to Mr. John Page, secretary, in +acknowledgment of his kindness to the members.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th. Samuel Brock, better known as “Brock +the swimmer,” died at Yarmouth, aged 70 years. (See +Oct. 6th, 1835.)</p> +<p>Dec. 17th. Fire at the premises of Mr. W. Lawrie, +manufacturer of vegetable black, ink, &c., and damage done to +the extent of about £150.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st. 18,806 lasts of herring delivered at the +Fishwharf, and sold at the average price of £11 10s., 4,000 +lasts (equal to £46,000) in excess of the previous +year’s catch.</p> +<p>Dec. The Rev. Dr. Gott appointed by the Queen to the +Vicarage of Leeds.</p> +<p>Dec. The cutters “Brilliant,” +“Diamond,” and “British Lion,” the +property of Mr. I. Shuckford, sold to the Steam-Cutter Carrying +Company, for £2,000.</p> +<p>The rateable value of the parish in 1873 was £84,600, of +which sum £68,200 was apportioned to Yarmouth and the +remaining £16,400 to Gorleston and Southtown, including +Cobholm Island; and the Corporation was indebted to the extent of +£29,522 for town improvements (including Regent Street and +the Marine Parade). £14,000 out of the above was an +old Paving Bond debt contracted in 1810 and 1851, which was being +paid off at £100 a year.</p> +<p>Godfrey’s “Finger Post Guide to Yarmouth and its +Norfolk and Suffolk Environs, embracing every object of Interest +to Visitors,” (an illustrated work from the pen of W. F. +Crisp) published.</p> +<h3>1874.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Rev. D. W. Seppings, M.A., late minister of +St. Andrew’s, Yarmouth, died, aged 37, at Bramley, Leeds, +where he was for seven years the senior curate.</p> +<p>Jan. The Vicarage of Great Yarmouth vacated by the Rev. +H. R. Nevill, and offered to the Rev. George Venables, S.C.L., +four years the Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Leicester. +(See Jan. 23rd, 25th, and Feb. 22nd.)</p> +<p><a name="page161"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 161</span>Jan. +1st. The screw smack “Pioneer,” built for the +Steam Carrying Company, launched from Messrs. Fellows’ +shipyard at Southtown. Dimensions—length of keel, 83 +ft. 6 in.; 20 ft. beam; depth of hold, 10 ft., and capable of +carrying 1,200 packages of fish. She made her first trial +trip on the 24th, at a speed of six or seven knots an hour.</p> +<p>Jan. 1st. Richard Ferrier, Esq., brewer, died at +Broughton, Chester, aged 51.</p> +<p>Jan. 3rd. William Maclean, Esq., for several years +Secretary of H.M. Customs, died at Camberwell, Surrey, aged +78.</p> +<p>Jan. 5th. A. D. Stone, E. H. Combe, W. P. Brown, and G. +B. Palmer, Esqs., sworn in as Magistrates before the +Recorder. J. H. Orde and H. E. Buxton, Esqs., subsequently +took the oaths of office.</p> +<p>Jan. 9th. The smack “William,” of this port, +value £300, lost in a gale, and her crew saved by the smack +“Rachel.”</p> +<p>Jan. 10th. Police-constable Layton bravely rescued a man +and woman from the river opposite Queen Street. Another +male and female fell over the quay-head on Jan. 15th, when +Police-constable Green rendered good service.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th. Rev. J. B. Woolnough, the new minister of St. +Andrew’s, preached his first sermon at this Church after +his appointment.</p> +<p>Jan. Captain Gilbertson, Adjutant of N.A.M., appointed a +Gentleman-at-Arms at Windsor Castle. He died on June 18th, +1870.</p> +<p>Jan. 12th. Six Sherringham fishermen convicted at a +special Session, for creating, with others, a riot in the +town.</p> +<p>Jan. H. Teasdel (Mayor) and E. H. H. Combe, Esqs., +appointed trustees of the Southtown Road.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. First meeting of Scientific Society at the +Public Library.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. John Godwin Johnson, Esq., late a member of +the Yarmouth Port and Haven Commission for Norwich, died, aged +76. The deceased gentleman was Mayor of Norwich in +1855.</p> +<p><a name="page162"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 162</span>Jan. +18th. Mr. Frederick Diver, commander, Union Steam Shipping +Company, died at Woolston, Southampton, aged 34. (See Jan. +9th, 1868.)</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd. A general holiday and day of rejoicing in +celebration of the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to +the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia; 200 gentlemen dining together +at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd. Rev. Henry R. Nevill presented with a massive +antique oak cabinet by the school teachers; and a handsome +escritoire by the scholars of St. Andrew’s and Priory +schools, as <i>souvenirs</i>.</p> +<p>Jan. 25th. Rev. H. R. Nevill preached his farewell +sermon at the Parish Church. (See Dec., 1858.)</p> +<p>Jan. 25th. The Yarmouth sloop “Harriet” +rundown by the steamer “Tanjore” off Chapman +Head. Crew saved.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th. The first Aquarium Company liquidated, and +the list of contributories settled.</p> +<p>Jan. 27th. James Curtis, one of the crew of the small +river steamer “Alpha,” accidentally drowned on +Breydon.</p> +<p>Jan. 27th. General Election. The Members for North +Norfolk (Sir E. Lacon and the Hon. F. Walpole) issued an address +to their constituency prior to the general election, but at the +nomination at Aylsham on Jan. 31st there was no opposition to +their return. (See Feb. 10th.)</p> +<p>Feb. 3rd. Rev. J. H. Rawdon, on leaving Yarmouth was +presented, at the North-end Mission, with a biscuit basket and a +chased-silver inkstand, as a mark of appreciation of his +labours.</p> +<p>Feb. 4th. Messrs. H. Brand, J. Rivett, and W. T. Fisher, +after an enquiry under Mr. H. B. Farnall, were unseated as +guardians, in favour of Messrs. W. Laws, W. J. Foreman, and J. T. +Bracey.</p> +<p>Feb. 6th. Mrs. H. Teasdel, the Mayoress, died at +Southtown, aged 68.</p> +<p>Feb. 6th. Charles John, son of the late Charles John +Moore, of Caister, killed by being thrown from his trap on +Caister turnpike, aged 26.</p> +<p><a name="page163"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 163</span>Feb. +7th. The barque “Krona,” of Landskrona, with +2,364 quarters of oats, struck on Hasbro’ Sand and remained +fast till the 9th.</p> +<p>Feb. 10th. Election of Members of Parliament for East +Suffolk took place. Colonel Tomline (L) opposed Lord Mahon +(C) and Lord Rendlesham (C); and the result of poll made known +next day was:—Rendlesham, 4,136; Mahon, 3,896; Tomline, +3,014. Gorleston and Southtown polled 511, out of about 700 +voters. (See May 30th, 1870, and Feb. 22nd, 1876.) +The South Norfolk Election also took place on Feb. 10th.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th. The new smack “Reindeer” launched +from Mr. Mack’s yard at Southtown.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. Mr. R. W. Durrell, organist, presented with a +handsome electro-plated sugar basin and a bottle by the members +of the Gorleston Congregational Chapel choir as a memento of +esteem.</p> +<p>Feb. 22nd. Rev. G. Venables, S.C.L., Vicar of Yarmouth, +read himself in and preached his first sermons at the Parish +Church, from (morning) 2 Tim. i. 13; (evening) Psalm xlviii. 12; +before crowded congregations.</p> +<p>Feb. 24th. Rev. W. S. Beevor, assistant minister at St. +Peter’s Church, presented, by 157 subscribers, with a +silver inkstand, and a silver penholder with gold pen, by the +Sunday School teachers and friends.</p> +<p>Feb. 25th. Meeting to dispose of the balance of the May +Gale Fund. (See May 28th, 1860.) Statement of +accounts: Subscriptions, £10,410 4s. 7d.; accumulated +interest, £1,573 8s. 2d.; total, £11,983 15s. +9d. Paid in relief, £10,923 15s. 11d.; printing, +&c., £779 6s. 9d. A mitigated balance of +£50 or £60 was distributed among the remaining 44 +widows and 22 children.</p> +<p>Feb. Two stained-glass windows placed in the south wall +of Gorleston Church in memory of Mr. and Mrs. John Sayers Bell +and Miss Jane Whaites, by their relatives.</p> +<p>March 2nd. James Crow, Esq., of Gorleston, died, aged +78.</p> +<p><a name="page164"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 164</span>March +6th. The result of the arbitration relative to the purchase +by the Corporation of property for the Market Gates’ +improvement received by the Town Clerk. The umpire’s +award was £1,576.</p> +<p>March 10th. Excitable public meeting at the Town Hall to +consider the abolition or retention of the annual Easter +Fair. The latter chosen by a large majority.</p> +<p>March 10th. A fine otter caught two miles from Yarmouth, +and subsequently made great havoc in the residence of Mr. S. J. +F. Stafford, prior to that gentleman sending it to the Zoological +Society, London.</p> +<p>March 18th. Mrs. Page, sister of the late Hales, the +Norfolk giant, died in Yarmouth Workhouse. Deceased was 6 +ft. 3 in. in height.</p> +<p>March 19th. The smack “Niobe,” and all +hands, lost in the North Sea.</p> +<p>March 27th. The Rev. S. N. Vowler appointed chaplain of +the Workhouse.</p> +<p>April 9th. Mr. Wm. Brogden, of Scarborough, appointed +police detective and inspector by the Town Council, in place of +Inspector Berry, resigned. Mr. Brogden entered on his +duties in May, and was subsequently made chief constable. +(See May 5th, 1881.)</p> +<p>April 14th. Seven smacks, late the property of Mr. +Yaxley, sold by auction, and realised £1,597. On Dec. +29th, 1873, seven of Mr. W. Shuckford’s smacks realised +£4,525 at an auction.</p> +<p>April 20th. The roof of Mr. Combe’s new malting +premises at Southtown fell in, and resulted in killing two +workmen and wounding three others.</p> +<p>April 21st. Another new steamtug, “Star,” +launched from Mr. J. Beeching’s yard. +Dimensions—length over all, 104 ft.; beam, 18 ft. 4 in.; +depth, 9 ft. 6 in. Propelled by two engines, each 25 +nominal horse power.</p> +<p>April 22nd. Thomas H. Palmer, Esq., of Norwich, eldest +son of the late Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., who was formerly Recorder +of Yarmouth, died, aged 58 years.</p> +<p><a name="page165"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 165</span>April +28th. Mr. B. M. Spanton, scripture reader, presented by 230 +members and friends of the Market Mission with an eight-day +timepiece, a purse of 9 guineas, and a morocco-bound book, for +his zealous labours.</p> +<p>April 29th. The East Anglian Tramway Company summoned +before the Magistrates and fined £5 for not keeping the +Southtown Road in repair.</p> +<p>April 29th. Four smacks—the “Edgar,” +“Ceres,” “Blue Jacket,” and +“Mispah”—lost on the Dutch coast near +Terschelling.</p> +<p>April 30th. John Thornhill Harrison, Esq., C.E., after +an inquiry, this day decided that a provisional order would be +issued by the Local Government Board for merging the district +late under the jurisdiction of the Gorleston and Southtown Local +Board into the Rural Sanitary District of the Mutford and +Lothingland Incorporation.</p> +<p>May 4th. A lad named Everett Albert Parker thrown into a +ditch at Flegg Burgh by four schoolboys and drowned.</p> +<p>May 8th. Mr. Samuel Linay, of Norwich (formerly a clerk +in the office of the late John Lomas Cufaude, Esq., of Yarmouth, +Clerk of the Peace), admitted an attorney and solicitor of the +Court of Chancery, and subsequently catered into partnership with +Wm. Sadd, Esq., of Norwich (to whom he served his +articles)—firm, Sadd and Linay. The same year Mr. +Linay was also appointed a Commissioner for taking oaths in the +Superior Courts.</p> +<p>May 14th. Mr. F. W. Robinson resigned the office of +Inspector of Weights and Measures (see Feb., 1857), and Mr. R. J. +Buddery was appointed to the situation.</p> +<p>May 21st. Insubordination in the Gaol, and conspiracy to +kill a warder.</p> +<p>May 27th. Mrs. Cator, wife of the Rev. Wm. Cator, and +daughter of Lady Elizabeth Orde, died at Beckenham, Kent.</p> +<p>May 31st. The Mayor’s new robe first worn in +public. It was purchased by the Corporation, and is made of +flowered scarlet silk.</p> +<p><a name="page166"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 166</span>May +31st. Rev. Jas. Smith, B.A., eldest son of J. C. Smith, +Esq., M.D., died, aged 57.</p> +<p>May. Mr. C. F. Laws passed his final examination for an +attorney.</p> +<p>June 10th. The brigantine “Good Design,” of +this port, lost off the Spurn. Crew saved.</p> +<p>June 11th. The Great Yarmouth Provisional Order Port and +Haven Bill confirmed in the House of Commons.</p> +<p>June 11th. A deputation from Yarmouth waited upon the +President of the Local Government Board (the Right Hon. +Sclater-Booth) in London, respecting the “trickery” +resorted to in the Election of Guardians, and urged a remedy.</p> +<p>June 13th. The brig “Eleanor,” of Yarmouth, +collided with the barque “Belle Vue,” and was +dismasted.</p> +<p>June 24th. Mr. J. E. Bales entertained at the Rose to a +luncheon by his friends on the attainment of his 80th +birthday. (See March 27th, 1876.)</p> +<p>June 25th. The “Refuge,” a model floating +battery 40 ft. long, and in the form of two oblongs crossed like +a star, with a sliding keel, water-tight compartments, &c., +left the Roadstead for Shields.</p> +<p>June 30th. A massive and elaborately-chased silver +salver and a sum of money presented by the parishioners to +Archdeacon Nevill, in token of esteem. (See Jan. 23rd and +25th.)</p> +<p>June. Messrs. P. Chamberlin and J. S. Clowes, jun., +passed examinations for attorneys. The latter died in +1884.</p> +<p>July 2nd. Mr. Shadrake, master of the Gorleston National +Schools, presented with a gold watch and chain and a purse of 20 +guineas, as a memento of esteem.</p> +<p>July 16th. Mr. Edward Morgan saved the life of George +Daudy while bathing, and the 26th of Oct. received the Humane +Society’s award on vellum for his courageous conduct.</p> +<p>July 22nd. A comet visible at Yarmouth for several days +previous to this date. Its reputed distance from the earth +was 27,000,000 miles.</p> +<p><a name="page167"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 167</span>July +27th. The Rev. J. Upjohn, M.A., of Queen’s College, +Cambridge, for many years vicar of Gorleston, died in London.</p> +<p>July 30th. Rents first demanded by the Corporation for +stalls on the beach, and subsequently for music-stands, chairs, +&c.</p> +<p>July 31st. The smack “Elizabeth and Mary” +launched from Messrs. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd. A new Primitive Methodist Temple, Priory +Plain, to accommodate 1,100 persons—on the site of a Chanel +built in 1850—decided upon at a public meeting and luncheon +held this day. (See June 22nd, 1875.)</p> +<p>Aug. 10th to 24th. Local Government Board Inquiry, +relative to the election of Guardians in St. George’s and +Regent Wards in the previous April, was opened at the Tolhouse +Hall, before George Taylor, Esq. Mr. J. H. Norman was +subsequently unseated in favour of Mr. I. Preston, jun. (Regent), +and Mr. W. J. Foreman gained the seat for St. George’s.</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, accompanied by +two or three officers of the 7th Hussars, paid an unexpected +visit to Yarmouth; and again on Aug. 28th, and proceeded to +Lowestoft on the following day. He was entertained here by +the Hon. Courtenay Boyle, in apartments at No. 3, Kimberley +Terrace.</p> +<p>Aug. 23rd. Mr. Saml. Durrell, many years assistant +overseer of Gorleston and Southtown, died, aged 82.</p> +<p>Aug. 27th. The Royal Assembly Rooms sold by auction to +Mr. Henry W. Ulph for £2,050, and since then to the +officers of the P.W.O. Royal Artillery. (See Jan. +1st, 1863.)</p> +<p>Sept. 4th. The dead body of a newly-born babe found on +the river-side ridge of the Bridge, but how it came there was +never traced out.</p> +<p>Sept. 10th. The never-to-be-forgotten appalling Thorpe +railway accident, in which the Yarmouth night mail collided with +the Norwich down train, and resulted in the death of 27 persons, +besides wounding 50 others.</p> +<p><a name="page168"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 168</span>Sept. +16th. Sergt.-Major Hanlon, E.N.M., (on his retiring from +the service after 22 years,) presented with a chaste silver +tea-service and silver inkstand by Sir E. Lacon, Bart., M.P., and +the officers and non-commissioned officers of his regiment, at +the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Sept. 19th. The new three-masted schooner +“Eunice” launched from Messrs. Fellows and +Son’s yard. Dimensions—156 ft. over all; beam, +24 ft.; depth of hold, 13 ft.; registered tonnage, 260 tons.</p> +<p>Sept. 20th. The war ships “Northumberland,” +“Sultan,” and “Monarch” anchored in the +Roads, but left again on the 23rd.</p> +<p>Sept. 23rd. Lieut. F. A. Newington, R.M.L.I., of H.M.S. +“Sultan,” after leaving a ball at the Town Hall, +jumped into the river and rescued from drowning two women who had +fallen overboard while in the act of landing from the steamtug +“Victoria,” at 3.30 a.m. A public subscription +amounting to £47 5s. 6d. was afterwards got up, and Mr. +Newington was presented with a breach-loading gun, value +£34, and an illuminated testimonial, for his bravery; on +Nov. 17th he was also presented with a sword by the officers of +his ship.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. First annual meeting of the Young Men’s +Christian Association held at the Town Hall.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. Sir Thos. W. B. Proctor Beauchamp, Bart., died +at Langley Park, aged 59.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th. The Rev. T. Allnut, after eight years’ +ministration in Gorleston, preached his farewell sermons at St. +Andrew’s Church, in that Parish. On May 14th, 1875, +was instituted to the Rectory and Parish Church of Stibbard, +Norfolk.</p> +<p>Oct. 19th. The smack “Alert,” of this port, +run into by the full-rigged ship “Edith,” in the +North Sea, and foundered. Two hands were drowned.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th. Mr. W. J. Lincoln appointed Town Hall keeper +in place of Mr. G. Harvey, resigned.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th. The settlement of the Rev. Arthur Peaton, as +Unitarian Minister at the Old Meeting, Middlegate Street, in the +place of the late Rev. R. Shelley, decided by a public +meeting.</p> +<p><a name="page169"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +169</span>Oct. H. R. Harmer, Esq., captured, on Hoveton +Broad, a pike 8 ft. 1 in. in length, and weighing 15 lbs. +It was presented to the Mayor.</p> +<p>Oct. The Misses Pearson and MacLaughlin received the War +Medal granted by the Emperor of Germany. (See Sept., +1870.)</p> +<p>Nov. 7th. The Lowestoft, Yarmouth, and Southtown Tramway +Company wound up by order of the Master of the Rolls.</p> +<p>Nov. 9th. C. C. Aldred, Esq., elected an Alderman, in +the place of W. Laws, Esq., resigned.</p> +<p>Nov. 11th. Mr. William Webb passed his final examination +before the Incorporated Law Society as an attorney and +solicitor.</p> +<p>Nov. 12th. N. G. Barthropp, Esq., died, aged 60.</p> +<p>Nov. 16th. Mr. R. S. Steele presented with a handsome +marble timepiece and a purse of three guineas by the Forester +Brotherhood (Court Crown and Anchor), in appreciation of services +as secretary.</p> +<p>Nov. 27th. The tenders of Mr. Davey (£276) and +Messrs. Warner and Loup, of Ipswich (£688), for +constructing a hot-water apparatus at the Workhouse, were +accepted by the Guardians.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th. The fishing boat “William and +Charles” lost off Winterton.</p> +<p>Dec. 11th. The smack “Rosa” came ashore in a +gale near the Britannia Pier, where she became a total +wreck. The crew were saved.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th. James Morris Hill, Adjutant 1st +Administrative Brigade N.A.V., and late Major Military Train, +died at Southtown, aged 51, and was interred with military +honours in Gorleston churchyard. Deceased served in the +Kaffir war in 1845, and received subsequently several marks of +honour for his services abroad.</p> +<p>Dec. 17th. Mr. Edward Smyth, eldest son of the late E. +H. L. Preston, Esq., died at Seaford, aged 37.</p> +<p>Dec. 17th. The Right Hon. Lord George John Sondes (4th +baron), Lord High Steward of the Borough for 20 years, and also +Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the County, died at Elmham Hall, +Norfolk, aged 80, and his remains interred in Elmham +Churchyard.</p> +<p><a name="page170"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 170</span>Dec. +21st. 17,724 lasts of herrings landed dining the season at +the Fishwharf.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd. The dandy cutter “Ben Nevis” +foundered in Hollosley Bay. Crew saved.</p> +<p>Dec. The smack “Ace of Trumps” launched from +Messrs. Hastings’ yard.</p> +<p>Dec. About 12 acres of Corporation land on the South +Denes accepted by the Government at £100 per acre, for +making Yarmouth a Military Depôt Centre, but was never +established. (See Nov., 1875.)</p> +<p>Dec. The removal of the Parish Church organ to the north +and south aisles of the chancel, estimated to cost +£1,000.</p> +<p>The returns of the weight of fish carried from Yarmouth by the +Great Eastern Railway this year were 27,517 tons, as against +20,399 tons in 1860; 27,222 in 1861; 28,346 in 1862; 31,947 in +1863; 34,432 in 1864; 22,764 in 1869; 26,894 in 1870; 31,898 in +1871; 27,400 in 1872; and 27,864 in 1878. The railway books +containing the returns from 1865 to 1868 were destroyed by +fire.</p> +<h3>1875.</h3> +<p>Jan. 4th. The closing of the Gaol and sending all +prisoners to Norwich, by order of the Home Secretary, +reported.</p> +<p>Jan. 5th. Mr. R. W. Durrell, organist, presented with a +silver watch by the Gorleston Congregationalists, in recognition +of his services; and on the 27th, Mr. and Mrs. Durrell were +presented with an electro-plated cream jug and a pair of sugar +tongs, as the remaining articles required to complete a +previously-subscribed service.</p> +<p>Jan. 7th and 8th. Two consecutive explosions of oxygen +gas, used in the pantomime of <i>Ali Baba</i>, took place at the +Theatre Royal, but little damage was done to the building.</p> +<p>Jan. 8th. Board of Trade Inquiry at the Police Court +into the circumstances attending the stranding and abandonment of +the oak-built brigantine “Effort” on the 23rd of Dec. +last. The vessel (160 tons register) <a +name="page171"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 171</span>was built +at Yarmouth in 1830, and had at the time of her abandonment on +the Cross Sand 120 tons of coal on board.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th. Jas. Cobb, Esq., solicitor, died, aged +84.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. Mr. Joseph Fleming Neave, a late member of +the Town Council, died at the age of 59.</p> +<p>Jan. 18th. The new St. Andrew’s Hall at Gorleston +opened by the then Mayor (R. D. Barber, Esq.) at a public +entertainment. This hall, built by a company, and situate +in Now Street, is 60 ft. long by 40 ft. wide. It was sold +to Mr. Bellamy in 1884.</p> +<p>Jan. 19th. The schooner “Shamrock,” of this +port, struck on Scroby Sand, and subsequently foundered. +Value of the vessel and cargo, £500.</p> +<p>Jan. 19th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., elected by +the Corporation to the office of High Steward in the place of the +late Lord Sondes. A counter proposal that the Marquis of +Salisbury, D.C.L., Secretary of State for India, be appointed, +was negatived by 22 to 4.</p> +<p>Feb. 1st. Stormy meeting at Town Hall on the question of +the School Board formation, and subsequently many other public +meetings in various parts of the borough.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th. First election of a School Board for +Yarmouth, and though 26 gentlemen were nominated, but 24 went to +the poll, the greatest excitement being manifested as to the +returns, which were published the next morning, as +follows:—S. J. F. Stafford, 3,975; G. Baker, 3,149; D. +Tomkins, 2,672; Rev. A. Peaton, 2,615; C. H. S. Geake, 2,411; J. +Bracey, 2,131; T. P. Burroughs, 2,060; R. E. Dowson, 2,041; J. W. +de Caux, 1,884; E. P. Youell, 1,858; and J. H. Orde, 1,827. +The total number of persons polled was 9,901, and the votes given +39,295. The above gentlemen were elected for three +years. (See May 28th.) On Mr. Burroughs resigning in +1876, Mr. H. E. Buxton took his seat.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd. Four of Messrs. Watling and Son’s +vessels sold by auction, and realised the following +prices:—“Mary,” £890; “Isis,” +£390; “Kate,” £385; and “John +Wrey,” £340.</p> +<p><a name="page172"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 172</span>Feb. +24th. The schooner “Jessie Brown,” of this +port, stranded on Scroby, but her cargo of 1,425 bags of flour +(16 st. each) kept the vessel afloat.</p> +<p>Feb. F. D. Palmer, Esq., elected a Vice-President of the +Legal Practitioners’ Society, London.</p> +<p>March 1st. First meeting of the School Board held at the +Tolhouse Hall. Mr. J. H. Orde elected chairman, and Mr. D. +Tomkins vice-chairman for three years.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Messrs. Massey and Norton obtained consent to +a lease from Michaelmas, 1876, for 999 years, of a piece of +ground north of the Britannia Pier—430 ft. by 100 +ft.—for the purpose of making an Aquarium, &c., at an +estimated cost of £60,000, which was confirmed by the +Council on the 9th.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Action at the Police Court—Board of +Trade <i>v.</i> Mr. Garson Blake—to recover costs for +surveying the “True Blue,” £24 18s. +Judgment for the Crown with costs.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Mr. Francis Sutton, of Norwich, appointed by +the Council as a public analyst for the borough.</p> +<p>March 9th. Heavy gale and serious loss of life and +property. The schooner “Elizabeth” and all +hands lost near the Barber Sand.</p> +<p>March 19th. The brig “Tweedside” and the +iron brig “Robert Anderson” collided in St. +Nicholas’ Gat, causing the former to founder. Crew +saved.</p> +<p>March 25th. The Yarmouth and Gorleston Tramway opened to +the public by the Mayor, and a luncheon afterwards given at the +Star Hotel, in celebration of the event.</p> +<p>March 25th. Number of wherries registered with the +Norfolk Port and Haven Commissioners during the past year was +112, of the total burthen of 1,963 tons, being an increase of 93 +tons on the year.</p> +<p>March 25th. From this date to June 14th, the total +number of passengers conveyed by the tram cars to and from +Gorleston was 95,912.</p> +<p>March 27th. The brig “Thirteen,” of +Sunderland, struck on the Cross Sand in a heavy sea, and both +vessel and cargo, value £1,100 and £350 respectively, +foundered. The crew were gallantly rescued by the Caister +lifeboatmen.</p> +<p><a name="page173"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +173</span>March. The Rev. E. M. Sanderson, M.A., senior +curate of the Parish, presented by the Lord Chancellor to the +living of Weston St. Mary, near Spalding, worth £300 a +year.</p> +<p>April 1st. The “Ernestine,” a full-rigged +Dutch East-Indiaman, of 1,296 tons, with a crew of 27 hands, and +having 2,000 tons of coal on board, struck on Hasbro’ +Sands, but was got off by the aid of five tugs and another steam +vessel the next day, after 800 tons of coal had been thrown +overboard. Value of ship and cargo, £7,162. On +June 24th the Admiralty Court awarded £1,800., i.e., +£1,000 to beachmen and £800 to steamers.</p> +<p>April 2nd. Mr. C. H. Wiltshire selected Clerk to the +School Board, out of ten candidates nominated.</p> +<p>April 5th. Last meeting held in the old Primitive +Methodist Chapel, Priory Plain. (See Sept., 1850.)</p> +<p>April 8th. Bradwell Church (St. Nicholas’) +re-opened after £750 had been expended in restoring the +fabric and interior fittings. This church, dating from the +14th century, consists of nave, north and south aisles, chancel, +south porch, and round tower at west end.</p> +<p>April 9th. Mr. William Laws, after serving as a Guardian +of the Poor for 25 years, retired from the Board, at the age of +three score and ten.</p> +<p>May 1st. The smack “Harkaway” lost on the +Barber Sand. Value £600.</p> +<p>May 7th. A paper balloon sent up at the Crystal Palace +at Sydenham, fell at Belton same evening.</p> +<p>May 18th. Contracts for enclosing additional ground to +New Cemetery, amounting to £3,086—viz., brickwork, +£2,230, stone-work, £286, palisading, &c., +£520—accepted by the Corporation, the work to be +completed by 29th Sept. (See June 9th, 1875, and Sept. 7th, +1876.)</p> +<p>May 18th. The whaling ship “Labrador,” from +the Arctic Seas, anchored in the Roadstead.</p> +<p>May 20th. Mr. G. W. Bond, of Pulham, Norfolk, was +elected House Surgeon at the Great Yarmouth Hospital; <i>vice</i> +Dr. Murrell, resigned.</p> +<p><a name="page174"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 174</span>May +20th. The foundation stone of the new Baptist Tabernacle on +the Lowestoft Road, at Gorleston, laid by J. Edwards, Esq., of +London. The building, of ornamental brick, cost about +£600, and will accommodate 800 persons.</p> +<p>May 28th. The Returning Officer’s account for the +newly-appointed School Board was £220 11s. 7d., but the +Educational Department finally decided (Sept.) that £178 +9s. 2d. was sufficient.</p> +<p>May. Petition forwarded to the Commissioners of +Charities for England and Wales against the appointment of new +Charity Trustees for this town, but on June 7th there was an +excitable meeting at the Town Hall, called “for the purpose +of considering the present position of the Children’s +Hospital and other local charities, and the nomination of new +trustees in conjunction with the existing five trustees—Sir +E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., and C. C. Aldred, B. Jay, W. +Johnson, and J. Palmer, Esqs.” July 28th, the +Commissioners “concurred in the annual publication of local +charity accounts,” and thought 15 trustees +sufficient. In July, 1876, the Charity Commissioners +appointed them as follows: The Vicar (for the time being), and W. +Worship, R. S. Watling, T. B. Steward, H. E. Buxton, R. H. I. +Palgrave, J. Bracey, C. H. Wiltshire, W. J. Foreman, and T. P. +Burroughs, Esqs.</p> +<p>June 8th and 9th. Frank Buckland, Esq., Inspector of +Salmon Fisheries, held an inquiry at the Town Hall, as to +“the state of the crab, lobster, and other sea fisheries +along this coast, with a view of preserving them for the +future.” On Nov. 16th, 1863, Commissioners Caird, +M.P., Lefevre, M.P., and Dr. Huxley held an inquiry here on the +same subject, but saw no reason for legislative measures.</p> +<p>June 9th. The memorial stone of the new Cemetery laid by +the Mayor. (See May 18th.)</p> +<p>June. The total cost of pauperism last year +was—out-relief, £2,855, in-maintenance, +£2,131—total, £4,986. For the previous +year, £5,272. East and West Fleggs for first-named +period, £855.</p> +<p><a name="page175"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 175</span>June +14th. Mr. Edward Owen (37), a native of Shrewsbury, +schoolmaster and local preacher, in travelling from Yarmouth to +Gorleston, accidentally fell while in the act of jumping from a +tram-car in which he was riding, and the injuries received +resulted fatally. Deceased had resided in Gorleston for six +years. A public subscription of £100 was raised for +his widow and four children.</p> +<p>June 15th. Two new smacks—“Albatross” +and “Terrier”—launched from Messrs. +Beechings’ shipyard.</p> +<p>June 22nd. The four chief stones of the Temple, Priory +Plain, laid by Messrs. J. Riches, F. Salmon, J. W. Neave, and A. +J. N. Chamberlin. A tea for 1,000 persons was served in the +Drill Hall, and a public meeting held in the King Street +Congregational Chapel. (See Aug. 3rd, 1874.)</p> +<p>June 22nd. The principal stone of the Walrond +Smack-Boys’ Home laid by Vice-Admiral Sir John Walter +Tarleton, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty’s Naval +Reserve. The promoter (Rev. A. T. Walrond) died on Oct. +2nd, 1873, but the family raised £1,000 toward the building +fund. (See Feb. 15th, 1876.)</p> +<p>June 23rd. The marriage between the Rev. E. M. +Sanderson, M.A., and Miss Eveline Mary Venables (only daughter of +the Vicar of this parish) solemnized with much festivity.</p> +<p>June 24th. The Yarmouth Gaol, after this date, to be +used only as a lock-up for prisoners on remand, by order of the +Home Secretary.</p> +<p>June 28th. Colour-Sergeant Chipperfield presented, at +the New Royal Standard Tavern, with a marble timepiece by the +officers and men of the D Company of Rifle Volunteers, as a +memento of their esteem on his retirement and promotion to the +office of Paymaster-Sergeant, after 15 years’ service.</p> +<p>June 29th. Mr. Hitchman Hammond, a late member of the +Town Council, died, aged 46 years.</p> +<p>June 30th. Smack “William and Ann” launched +from the yard of Messrs. S. K. Smith and Sons.</p> +<p><a name="page176"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 176</span>June +30th. The opening of St. Andrew’s Church, Gorleston, +after its complete restoration, was commemorated by a full choral +service and sermons by the Rev. George Venables, S.C.L., and the +Rev. — Gibson, of Lound. The new pulpit was the gift +of E. W. Bell, Esq.</p> +<p>June. Mr. E. W. Worlledge, solicitor (second son of John +Worlledge, Esq., County Court Judge of this district, and +Chancellor of the Diocese), appointed joint Registrar of Yarmouth +County Court.</p> +<p>June. Dr. Macleod, of Yarmouth Naval Hospital, promoted +to the rank of Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; and +Sub-Lieut. F. C. N. Knox to Lieut. in 2nd or East Norfolk +Regiment.</p> +<p>July 6th. Full choral service held at the Parish Church +at the re-opening of the fine old organ, after being removed, +thoroughly repaired, and additional stops added by Messrs. Bishop +and Son, of London. (See 1733, Jan. 25th, 1869, and Feb. +23rd, 1870.) The organ is now divided into two parts, and +placed in the Chancel 60 ft. apart. They contain 280 motor, +and the same number of pneumatic tubes for conveying the wind to +the manuals, supplied by two low and one high pressure +bellows. The number of stops is 48, and of sounding pipes +about 3,100, viz., Great Organ CC to G, 56 notes 17 stops; Swell +Organ CC to G, 17 stops; Choir Organ CC to G, 10 stops; north +Pedal Organ CCC to F, 30 notes; south Pedal CCC to F, 30 notes; 7 +couplers and 10 composition pedals.</p> +<p>July 13th. Mr. A. J. B. Howes’ tender of +£385 accepted by the Corporation for erecting the Fish +Wharf master’s house; the same contractor on Aug. 17th was +appointed to alter the Refreshment Depôt at the Fish Wharf, +at the cost of £145.</p> +<p>July 17th. A horse belonging to Mr. H. H. Gambling +backed into the river near the Bridge, and was drowned.</p> +<p>July. The Norfolk Militia Artillery received the honour +of being called “The Prince of Wales’ Own Regiment of +Norfolk Artillery Militia,” H.R.H. the Prince of Wales +being the Hon. Colonel.</p> +<p><a name="page177"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 177</span>July +19th. Richard Mann, Esq., died at Ditchingham, Suffolk, +aged 72. Deceased was a County Magistrate and a member of +the Port and Haven Commission for Suffolk. Mr. James Peto, +of Lowestoft, was elected in Oct. a Commissioner in place of the +above-named gentleman.</p> +<p>July 22nd. Public meeting at the Town Hall on the +question of establishing an Aquarium at Yarmouth and for +obtaining local co-operation in the project. A committee of +17 gentlemen was appointed. It was subsequently published +that the capital required was £100,000, to be raised in +shares of £5 each. The cost of the whole building +would be £75,000, leaving £25,000 not called +up. The Aquarium and Skating Rink would cost about +£23,000, and a public hall to hold 3,000 people—194 +ft. by 60 ft.—£30,000. (See March 2nd, Oct. +9th, and Nov. 3rd.)</p> +<p>July 24th. The French gunboat “Cuvier” with +four guns and crew of 75 hands, put into Yarmouth Roadstead.</p> +<p>July 28th. Rev. T. W. Harrison, late of Yarmouth, +instituted to the vicarage of Christ Church, Luton, Beds, by the +Lord Bishop of the Diocese.</p> +<p>July 30th. A hoax, resembling somewhat the evergreen +Cromer hoax of Sept. 2nd, 1868, apparently perpetrated. On +the first occasion, large bills were previously posted over the +town, representing that on this eventful day “a fine +commodious steamer,” with every comfort and convenience, +named the “Isis,” from London, would take +excursionists on a day’s pleasure to Cromer and back, at +the reasonable charge of 2s. 6d. a head. Tickets to be +procured before Wednesday, the 2nd. About £14 +worth—<i>i.e.</i> 112—were disposed of, and the money +handed over to the “enterprising swindler.” +Intending passengers waited long and patiently on the Jetty and +Beach on the morning in question, but the steamer never came to +view, and our townspeople retired home the wiser for their bought +experience. On a later occasion, however, a steamer +<i>did</i> go to Cromer, but left some 40 or 50 of her passengers +to get home as best they could overland, owing to a heavy sea +running.</p> +<p><a name="page178"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +178</span>July. Dr. Hubert Airy visited Yarmouth, by order +of the Local Government Board, to enquire into the cause of +zymotic diseases then prevalent. He issued his report with +numerous suggestions in Nov.</p> +<p>Aug. 2nd. The barque “Ponda Chief,” named +after a Kaffir tribe in Africa, one of the finest vessels ever +built in Yarmouth, and the longest by some six or eight ft., +launched from Messrs. Fellows’ ship-yard. +Dimensions—140 ft. long, 28 ft. beam, 14 ft. 6 in. deep, +and 416 tons register. A luncheon was afterwards given at +the Crown and Anchor.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd. (Regatta day.) The armour-plated +corvette “Favorite,” of 2,094 tons and 400-horse +power, got on Scroby Sand, but came off with the flood tide.</p> +<p>Aug. 10th. The War Department applied for additional +ground, 2a. 3r. 0p., for the Military Centre Depôt, on the +South Denes, at £100 per acre, but it was decided by the +Council (Aug. 17th) not to dispose of the land for less than +£500 for the two acres.</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. The new carrier-cutter “Flower of the +Fleet” launched from Messrs. S. K. Smith and Son’s +yard.</p> +<p>Aug. 17th. The Council were apprised by a letter from +the Lord Chancellor’s Secretary, that Henry Teasdel, John +Bracey, Robert Veale, and Robert Henry Inglis Palgrave, Esqs., +had been appointed Justices of the Peace for the Borough.</p> +<p>Aug. 31st. An extraordinary race horse named Skardo +jumped over the iron railings in <i>front</i> of the Town Hall, +dashed into an iron gate, which was carried away, then crossing +the garden to the south side in its mad career, knocked down the +two entrance-gates; also several feet of iron railings across the +road, but the force of the blow against the wall of Messrs. +Fenner and Suffling’s office overpowered the animal. +It has since won several races, and the fame of Skardo +(<i>alias</i> Iron Duke) will be handed down to posterity among +the wonders of the past.</p> +<p>Aug. 31st. Collision in the Tyne between the steamer +“Glanabanta,” of Newcastle, and the schooner +“Second Adventure,” of Lynn, the latter being sunk +and the crew drowned. (See Jan. 23rd, 1876.)</p> +<p><a name="page179"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 179</span>Aug. +31st. Messrs. G. T. Clough and J. Bonnick accomplished, on +bicycles, the journey from London to Yarmouth, 122 miles, in +17½ hours, or 12¼ hours exclusive of the 5¼ +hours they stopped for refreshments. They left Bow at 4 +a.m., and arrived here at 9.30 p.m. The same two gentlemen +on Sept. 3rd completed 120 miles homeward in 11h. 55m., exclusive +of 4h. 25m. stoppage.</p> +<p>Sept. 3rd. The cost for purchasing property and widening +the Market Gates, up to this date, was £1,446 4s.; +£1,400 being borrowed at 4 per cent. on mortgage of the +General District Rates.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th. The new smack “Huntsman” launched +from Mr. H. Critten’s yard. Length, 55 ft. over all; +depth of hold, 7 ft. 4 in.; beam, 16 ft. 8 in.</p> +<p>Sept. 9th. The new organ in St. George’s Park +(Baptist) Chapel opened. The instrument, built by Mr. W. C. +Mack, contains 318 pipes, and one row of manuals, 54 notes, from +CC to F, and 1½ octave of German pedals, from CCC to +F. Five stops are in general swell. The cost, +including alterations in fixing, was £200. (See Aug. +8th, 1872.)</p> +<p>Sept. 20th. Revs. W. J. Blake and H. J. Bode, B.A., were +licensed as curates for Yarmouth, the Revs. R. V. Barker and E. +R. Adams being about to be removed. (See Oct. 29th.)</p> +<p>Sept. 26th. One boat brought in 1,600 mackerel caught +off the coast, which sold at 2d. each.</p> +<p>Sept. 28th. The deliveries of herrings up to this date +far below those of last year and less than in 1873.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. The body of a male child discovered in a +rain-water cistern, after five or six months, on the premises of +D. Meadows, Esq., surgeon, King Street, which was subsequently +proved to have been illegitimate, and concealed by a +maid-servant.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. The Rev. Samuel Hurst, of Southtown, died very +suddenly at Corton, near Lowestoft, aged 80. The deceased +gentleman was much esteemed for his liberality to local +charities.</p> +<p>Oct. 9th. A dead porpoise, weighing 70lbs., found on +Breydon, and sold for 1s. to a smacksman.</p> +<p><a name="page180"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 180</span>Oct. +9th. The foundation-stone of the Aquarium laid by Lord +Suffield, the ceremony being attended by the Mayor and other +members of the Corporation, and a large concourse of +spectators. The band of the P.W.O. Norfolk Militia +Artillery played at intervals. A luncheon was afterwards +spread at the Town Hall, to which about 100 gentlemen sat down, +including the Mayor (R. D. Barber, Esq.) and Deputy-Mayor; Lord +Suffield, Hon. F. Walpole, M.P., Colonel Duff, and the officials +of the Aquarium Society. (See Sept. 5th, 1876.)</p> +<p>Oct. 10th. The smack “Notre Dame,” of this +port, lost in a gale about 10 miles S. W. of the Newark +lightship. Crew saved.</p> +<p>Oct. 10th. The smack “Vixen” lost three +hands whilst ferrying fish to a steamer.</p> +<p>Oct. 14th. The Baptist Tabernacle at Gorleston +opened. It is of white brick, and of the Italian +order. The interior measures 57 ft by 31 ft. (See May +20th.)</p> +<p>Oct. 17th and 23rd. Very heavy gales. The barque +“Young England,” of Middlesbro’, struck on the +Cockle Sand and foundered (on the 20th), and 12 out of a crew of +17 were unfortunately drowned.</p> +<p>Oct. 21st. The trawler “Surf” launched from +Messrs. Beeching’s yard. Dimensions—Length, 66 +ft.; beam, 18½ ft.; depth of hold, 8½ ft.</p> +<p>Oct. 22nd. Captain William Bugg, of the schooner +“Eliza Jane,” and his wife, walked over the quay-head +near the Gorleston Ferry, in the dark, and were drowned, and a +third person had a narrow escape.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. The brigantine “Saucy Jack,” +belonging to Mr. G. Blake, of this port, run ashore opposite the +Coastguard Station, and became a total wreck. The vessel +was built in 1841, and valued at £500. Wreckage sold +for £38.</p> +<p>Oct. A handsome specimen of the Maigre (<i>Sciæna +aquila</i>) caught off Yarmouth. The fish was 4 ft. 9 in. +long, and weighed 75 lbs. It is a Mediterranean fish, and +seldom caught on the English coast.</p> +<p><a name="page181"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 181</span>Oct. +27th. Public meeting in the Town Hall to consider the +projected Railway from Yarmouth to Stalham, at a cost of +£70,000, the land alone being calculated to cost +£13,000. The total length of the light line to be 22 +miles, and pass through and near to 37 parishes. On Nov. +9th the Council accorded their approval of the whole scheme.</p> +<p>Oct. 27th. Captain William Swann Stanford, five years +pier-master of this port, and eight years previously +harbour-master, died suddenly at Gorleston.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th. Sale of six smacks by auction, late the +property of Mr. R. Galleway, realised £3,105.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th. The Rev. E. R. Adams presented with a case of +four elegant silver salt stands, by the congregation of St. +Andrew’s; and on Nov. 1st was presented with a pair of +silver fish carvers in morocco leather case, by the Sunday School +Teachers.</p> +<p>Oct. 29th. Charles Diver, Esq., tendered his resignation +as Town Clerk of the Borough. (See Nov. 30th and Dec. +16th.)</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. Gallant lifeboat services rendered by the +Caister beachmen. The brigantine “Harmston” +lost on the Middle Cross Sand, but the crew of seven, who were in +the rigging for several hours during a very heavy sea, were +ultimately hauled through the surf to the lifeboat and +saved. Up to 1874 the Caister boatmen, about 40 in number, +had launched their boats on 122 occasions, and had rescued 541 +lives. A public subscription was opened in Nov. through the +exertions of the Misses Morton. (See Dec. 25th.)</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. At a general meeting of the Shareholders of +the Yarmouth Aquarium Society (Limited), held in London, Lord +Suffield, K.C.B., Colonel Edward Money, and T. A. Masey, I. +Strutt, and J. H. Orde, Esqs., were appointed the Executive +Committee of Directors. It was stated at this meeting that +the contractors, Messrs. Chas. Aldin and Sons, offered to take +shares to the amount of £20,000, and that the contemplated +outlay up to the date of opening would be about +£35,000. In July the subscriptions amounted to +£21,865.</p> +<p><a name="page182"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 182</span>Nov. +7th. Thirty-five large sound codfish captured in the +Roadstead with hook and line by two men.</p> +<p>Nov. 9th. First school under the School Board opened at +the Oddfellows’ Hall, Gorleston; on Nov. 26th the Yarmouth +Temporary Grammar School was hired; and in Jan., 1877, the new +Cobholm Island and Gorleston Schools were opened.</p> +<p>Nov. 11th. A conveyance made out to Her Majesty’s +principal Secretary of State for the War Department of land and +hereditaments situate on the South Denes for the purpose of a +Military Depôt Centre, and release of certain rights. +Purchase money, £1,635, was sealed by the Committee. +(See Dec., 1874.)</p> +<p>Nov. 11th. Heavy rainfall; no less than 120 tons per +acre fell in 24 hours.</p> +<p>Nov. 13th. Frederic Graham Lacon, late of the 17th +Regiment of Foot, of Tharston, Norfolk, only son of John Edmund +Lacon, Esq., died at Madeira, aged 26 years.</p> +<p>Nov. 13th. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P.’s, +brougham overturned near the Workhouse, the horse having become +frightened and bolted, and although the coachman was much hurt, +the baronet escaped with only a severe shaking.</p> +<p>Nov. 14th. Floods and much destruction of property +throughout the country. There were 18 feet of water on the +bar at our harbour, <i>i.e.</i>, 9 feet more than the usual +flood. The schooner “Elizabeth and Susan,” of +this port, was lost off the Humber, and much damage done to +fishing craft and shipping generally.</p> +<p>Nov. 17th. Mr. H. Stonex, organist of the Parish Church, +presented, in the Record Room of the Town Hall, with a purse of +£81, subscribed by the parishioners of the town as a token +of respect.</p> +<p>Nov. 19th and 20th. Very heavy gale and serious loss of +life and property. The schooner “Wild Wave” (95 +tons), of Sunderland, laden with 600,000 bottles, run on to +Caister beach (after fouling with the Cockle lightship) and two +hands—master and boy—were washed off the rigging and +drowned.</p> +<p><a name="page183"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 183</span>Not. +21st. A daring Scotchman, named Watson, again climbed +through the caryatides outside the Nelson Monument of the roof, +and after embracing the figure of Britannia, &c., descended +by the lightning conductor wire outside, 144 feet, to the +amazement of several spectators. (See 1863.)</p> +<p>Nov. 23rd. Mr. Edward Cattermole resigned the office of +librarian at the Public Library, which he had held 15 +years. (See Dec. 9th.)</p> +<p>Nov. 26th. The Rev. A. J. Spencer presented by the +congregation of St. James’ with a silver pocket Communion +service and some volumes of books, as tokens of regard.</p> +<p>Nov. 27th. A tar tank, containing about 50,000 gallons, +on the works of Mr. Davy, Cobholm Island, burst, and the tar ran +about in huge streams.</p> +<p>Nov. 30th. A Committee of the Town Council accepted Mr. +Charles Diver’s resignation as Town Clerk of the Borough, +the term to expire on Jan. 3rd, 1876. (See Dec. 16th.)</p> +<p>Nov. 30th. The smack “Chosen” ran ashore +near the North Pier.</p> +<p>Nov. The Rev. R. V. Barker, M.A., presented previous to +his leaving Yarmouth for a sojourn through the Holy Land, with a +silver salver, silver tobacco jar, gold pencil case, and a box of +mathematical instruments, by the congregation, Bible Class, and +teachers and scholars of St. John’s Church.</p> +<p>Nov. The original manuscript of “Manship’s +History of Yarmouth” found by the Rev. A. Peaton, at an old +book shop in Bury St. Edmunds.</p> +<p>Nov. The “Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,” +in three vols., by Charles John Palmer, Esq., F.S.A., printed and +published by Mr. George Nall. It is an illustrated work of +1,282 quarto pages.</p> +<p>Nov. Mr. W. Saville Kent, F.L.S., F.Z.S., appointed +Naturalist and Manager of the Aquarium.</p> +<p>Dec. 2nd. The schooner “Tantivy” of this +port went ashore on Kessingland beach during a dense +snowstorm.</p> +<p><a name="page184"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 184</span>Dec. +2nd. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution voted a silver +medal and its thanks on vellum to Philip George, coxswain of the +Caister Lifeboats; and to S. Bishop, chief boatman of H.M. +Coastguard, at Caister, for their bravery in saving three of the +crew of the “Wild Wave.” The Institution voted +£10 for the others who rendered assistance. (See Dec. +25th.)</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. Another tug, named “Reliance,” +struck the sunken wreck of the steamer “Gladstone,” +off Hasbro’, and was run on to Eccles beach, where she +became a wreck. Valued at £3,500; but insured for +only £2,000. Crew saved. The hull was +subsequently sold for £140. (See Nov. 14th, +1871.)</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. The schooner “X. L.,” of Goole, +lost on Winterton beach; also two hands.</p> +<p>Dec. 5th. The billyboy “Three Anns” driven +among the breakers off Gorleston, and the crew rescued by the +lifeboat “Ranger.”</p> +<p>Dec. 6th. The Corporation resolved to erect a Contagious +Disease Hospital next the Workhouse, at a cost of £500, and +£200 for an enclosing wall, 200 ft. square by 7 ft. +high. A contract of £1,050 was afterwards +accepted.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th. Captain R. J. C. Day, harbour master of +Ipswich, appointed as Pier Master by the Port and Haven +Commission at a salary of £150 and residence.</p> +<p>Dec. 9th. Mr. C. Hall appointed librarian of the Public +Library. (See Nov. 23rd.)</p> +<p>Dec. 16th. Mr. T. M. Baker appointed by the Town Council +as Town Clerk, at a salary of £450 a year.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st. The returns of herrings landed at the +Fishwharf during the season from Aug. 23rd to above date were +11,850 lasts and 2,600 fish. (18,200 to the last.)</p> +<p>Dec. 24th. Lord Hastings died at Calicut, Bombay, aged +20 years.</p> +<p>Dec. 25th. The sum of £197 2s. subscribed as a +testimonial for the Caister Company of beachmen, for their +bravery at the wreck of the “Wild Wave,” on Nov. +19th, and many former acts of daring in rescuing <a +name="page185"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 185</span>shipwrecked +crews. On Jan. 4th the money was distributed, each of the +40 men receiving four guineas tied up in blue satin bags. +(See Nov. 3rd.)</p> +<p>Dec. 26th. Edward Reynolds Aldred, Esq., J.P., died at +Southtown, aged 68 years.</p> +<p>Dec. 29th. The new smack “Gem,” belonging to +Mr. W. H. Stanley, of Southtown, launched from Messrs. J. and F. +Mack’s yard.</p> +<p>Dec. 30th. Singular freak of a horse ridden by Mr. F. +Danby Palmer. The animal having thrown his rider, bolted +towards the sea, into which it dashed, and swam out with +considerable energy for nearly a mile and a half, towards Scroby, +when it was captured by some boatmen, and brought safely to shore +again.</p> +<h3>1876.</h3> +<p>Jan. 3rd. Quarter Sessions. No prisoners for +trial, a maiden session not having occurred for more than 20 +years, the Mayor presented the Recorder with a pair of white kid +gloves.—R. H. I. Palgrave, Esq., qualified as a magistrate +for the Borough.</p> +<p>Jan. 4th. Arthur George Thompson (22), incautiously +walked on an overhanging cornice at the top of the new Temple, +Priory Plain, from which he fell 45 feet to the ground and was +killed. The falling <i>débris</i> so injured Thomas +Kirk as to result fatally.</p> +<p>Jan. 6th. Five of Mr. Malden’s smacks sold for +£2,775.</p> +<p>Jan. 6th. Juvenile Fancy Dress Ball at Town Hall.</p> +<p>Jan. 10th. A woman (73), named Hannah Ives, was brutally +murdered with a spade by an insane woman, named Swatman, at +Belton.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. Fire in the Card-room of the Town Hall, under +the hearthstone, and damage done to the extent of £15 or +£16.</p> +<p>Jan. 19th. The smack “Charley,” belonging to +Mr. Alfred Fisher, launched from Mr. Fellows’ yard.</p> +<p>Jan. 20th. Marriage of Reginald Thorsby Gwyn, Esq., +Captain of the 4th King’s Own Royals, and Adjutant of the +4th Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, with Miss Mary Joanna Farr, +youngest daughter of Isaac Preston, Esq.</p> +<p><a name="page186"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 186</span>Jan. +23rd. Collision in the Roadstead, about 1 p.m., between the +s.s. “Glanabanta” (Capt. Ablitt, of Yarmouth) and the +s.s. “Transit.” The latter, with a crew of 21 +all told, of Dieppe (described in the <i>Veritas</i> to be 548 +tons gross, 373 tons net [French], engines 90 h.p., and built at +Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1871), was laden with 120 tons of coal and +a general cargo of 290 tons, comprising machinery, silk, cotton, +and light manufactures, valued between £30,000 and +£40,000. The “Transit” was run on to the +beach, opposite Trafalgar Road, where her hull still (1884) +remains. The “Glanabanta” claimed £5,000 +damages; but in a cross action the “Transit” claimed +heavier damages, as the loss was computed to be +£50,000. In the High Court of Admiralty, Sir R. +Phillimore ruled that the “Transit” was alone to +blame for the collision; but on an appeal in the High Court of +Justice, Lord Justice Baggallay reversed the decision. The +salvors were awarded £2,000.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd. The Rev. Mangan, D.D., LL.D., late Dean of +Limerick, after being appointed evening lecturer at St. +Peter’s Church, preached his first sermon.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th. The cabin of the brigantine “William +Crow,” whilst in harbour, caught fire, and damage was done +to the extent of about £200.</p> +<p>Feb. 3rd. First “Spelling Bee” entertainment +held in Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Feb. 15th. The Walrond Smack-Beys’ Home opened by +Earl Nelson. (See June 22nd, 1875.) This Gothic +building cost with fittings about £2,000, and will +accommodate about 40 boys.</p> +<p>Feb. 21st. Mr. William Laws, as superintendent of St. +Nicholas’ Sunday School since 1844, presented with several +testimonials previous to his leaving for Beccles.</p> +<p>Feb. 22nd. East Suffolk Election. Lord Mahon +having been elevated to the House of Peers on the death of his +father, his seat in Parliament for East Suffolk became vacant, +and Lieut.-Colonel St. John Barne (C.) and Charles Easton, Esq. +(L.), contested for the seat. Poll—Colonel Barne, +3,659; Mr. Easton, 2,708—majority, 951. Colonel +Barne’s election cost £4,140, and Mr. Easton’s +£2,312.</p> +<p><a name="page187"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 187</span>Feb. +23rd. Fire at Mr. John Harris’ pipe manufactory, +Priory Plain. Damage about £150.</p> +<p>Feb. 23rd and 24th. Sir Randal Roberts, Bart., appeared +at the Theatre Royal, and impersonated “Charles +Devereux” in the comedietta <i>Under a Veil</i>, written by +himself; and on the 25th and 26th he appeared as +“Lieutenant Ringston, R.N.,” in <i>Naval +Engagements</i>, with the Maitland Blue Beard Burlesque +Company.</p> +<p>The Marine Drive widened 60 feet, between Britannia and +Wellington Piers, a distance of 3,000 feet; cost, +£2,500. (See April 22nd.)</p> +<p>A new gasometer (No. 3), capable of holding 63,000 cubic feet +of gas, and its tank 406,350 gallons of water, was erected at the +Southtown Gas Works, which, with other modern improvements, cost +£5,000.</p> +<p>April 1st. The Hon. Frederick Walpole, of Rainthorpe +Hall, Flordon, M.P. for North Norfolk, died in London. +Deceased was third surviving son of the third Earl of Orford, and +was born in 1822.</p> +<p>April 14th. Loss of the “Cygnet” and all +hands.</p> +<p>April 18th. The full-rigged ship “Humboldt,” +with 349 emigrants on board, ran on to Winterton Beach.</p> +<p>April 20th. The Rev. G. Merriman, M.A., presented with a +gold watch, silver tea service, and a silver claret jug, by the +St. James’ congregation.</p> +<p>April 21st. Lieutenant-Colonel James Duff elected a +Member of Parliament for North Norfolk, in place of the Hon. F. +Walpole, deceased. (See April 1st, 1876, and Nov. 26th, +1868.) Poll—Colonel Duff (C.), 2,302; Sir Thomas +Fowell Buxton, Bart. (L.), 2,192; majority, 110. Out of the +6,231 voters on register, only 4,494 voted. Number on +register in the Borough (including Runham), 1,980; number voted +in Yarmouth, 1,380.</p> +<p>April 22nd. R. Morgan, Esq., C.E., Government Board +Inspector, visited Yarmouth respecting the borrowing of +£3,300 by the Corporation, for widening the Drive, +&c.</p> +<p>April 23rd. Lady Elizabeth Susan Orde died at +Hopton. She was eldest daughter of Henry Charles, sixth +Duke of Beaufort, and born June 23rd, 1798.</p> +<p><a name="page188"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 188</span>April +28th. E. P. Youell, Esq., presented by the parishioners of +Gorleston with a massive silver four-glass épergne, value +£80, for his zealous exertions in connection with the +restoration of Gorleston Church. (See Aug. 14th, 1871.)</p> +<p>May 9th. The Yarmouth brig “Tradesman” lost +on the Normandy coast.</p> +<p>June 2nd. Meeting at the Town Hall resolved to have a +four-dial clock in St. Peter’s Tower, which was placed +there the same year.</p> +<p>June 8th. The Gt. Yarmouth Bowling Green opened.</p> +<p>June 13th. Vice-Admiral Thomas Lewis Gooch, youngest son +of the late Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Bart., died at Yarmouth, +aged 69 years.</p> +<p>June 22nd. Capt. Wm. Holt, 16 years connected with the +2nd N.R.V., presented, on his retirement, with four +elegantly-chased silver dessert spoons by the members of D. +Company. (See Dec. 4th, 1883.)</p> +<p>July 8th. Heavy thunderstorm. The electric fluid +struck the chimney and entered a cottage in the factory yard, +disarranging and breaking the furniture and ornaments in the +room; it also did damage to other property in the town, including +some amount of destruction of property belonging to Mr. H. +Harding, St. Nicholas’ Road, who had a large chimney +knocked down and many squares of glass broken.</p> +<p>July 10th. Fire in Church Street, Gorleston. Six +cottages burnt down, and three others partly destroyed. +Nearly 40 men, women, and children rendered homeless for a +time.</p> +<p>July 27th. The Yarmouth Temple dedicated for Divine +worship before its completion. Interior dimensions, 72 feet +by 52 feet; height, 35 feet. Cost £4,000; +accommodates 1,100.</p> +<p>July. St. Peter’s Road footway laid with +concrete.</p> +<p>Aug. 8th. Miss E. Pearson, of Yarmouth, and Miss +MacLaughlin, left London for Servia, <i>via</i> Vienna, their +services as nurses to the sick and wounded in the Eastern war +having been accepted by Archbishop Michael, at Belgrade. +They were greeted by a torchlight procession on their +arrival. (See Aug. 7th, 1871.)</p> +<p><a name="page189"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 189</span>Aug. +21st. The stallage, rents, and tolls in the Market and Fair +let by auction for five years from Jan. 1st, 1877, to Messrs. +Bower, of Leeds, for £925 per annum. (See Dec. 11th, +1871.) Some 13 years ago, the same lessees gave but +£625 per annum.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. A cyclone of great violence swept over some +parts of this district, and carried trees, stacks, &c., away +in its narrow track.</p> +<p>Aug. The Registrar-General’s returns show that the +mortality of Yarmouth was 15 per 1,000—nine other places +only out of 46 being lower.</p> +<p>Sept. 5th. The Yarmouth Aquarium opened to the public +with much ceremony, and a <i>recherché</i> luncheon was +spread in the corridor.</p> +<p>Sept. 7th. Another new cemetery (No. 3) consecrated by +the Bishop of Norwich. It comprises about ten acres. +(See Oct. 18th, 1855.)</p> +<p>Sept. 7th and 8th. East of England Great Horse +Fête held on Southtown Marshes.</p> +<p>Sept. 8th. Meeting at Town Hall protesting against the +Turkish atrocities.</p> +<p>Sept. 11th. Mr. W. J. Lincoln presented with a handsome +timepiece by the members of the Foresters’ Court +“Star of the East” (2728). He had been 18 years +secretary.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th. At 6.30 p.m., an extraordinary meteor, +resembling a brilliant ball of fire and shooting stars, +illuminated the heavens for several seconds.</p> +<p>Sept. 27th. Commander Horatio Nelson, R.N., son of the +late Thomas Atkinson, master of the flag-ship +“Victory” at Trafalgar, and godson of the late +Admiral Lord Nelson, died at Yarmouth, aged 78.</p> +<p>Oct. 13th. H. E. Buxton, Esq., elected a member of the +School Board in place of T. P. Burroughs, Esq., resigned.</p> +<p>Oct. At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, the Revs. R. J. +Tacon (Rollesby), and T. J. Blofeld (Ormesby), and G. M. Beck, +Esq. (Ormesby), qualified as County Magistrates.</p> +<p>Oct. 16th. Testimonials of £15 sterling—a +richly-mounted walking stick, and a pipe—presented to +pay-master-Sergt. <a name="page190"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +190</span>Grier, on his leaving the E. N. Militia, after 22 +years.</p> +<p>Oct. 19th. The screw gunboat “Cherub,” 60 +h.p., and two guns, anchored in the Roadstead. Also the +screw iron troopship “Assistance,” 1,300 h.p., and +two guns, 2,037 tons burthen; and two Tyne gunboats, each having +a 35-pounder.</p> +<p>Oct. 22nd. Heavy gale. Loss of the lugger +“Cynthia,” and all hands.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. First burial in the new Cemetery—Samuel +Mannall, many years in the Trinity service, aged 47.</p> +<p>Oct. 28th. A live stag found swimming at sea, over three +miles from land. The crew of the smack +“Gleaner” picked the animal up, and brought it safely +to the Royal Hotel stables.</p> +<p>Nov. 5th. Mr. J. W. Parsley, smack owner, late of +Greenwich, died at Gorleston, aged 46.</p> +<p>Nov. 8th. Schooner “Essex” driven ashore, +and wrecked south of Gorleston Pier. On the 11th the brig +“Vulcan” shared the same fate in the South Ham.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th. Mr. T. Elliot, of Ormesby, presented at the +Aquarium with a testimonial—a handsome épergne or +candelabrum, with a group of stags at the base—in +acknowledgment of public services rendered to numerous +charities.</p> +<p>Nov. 15th. Great Conservative Banquet held at the Drill +Hall. About 600 guests present, including the members for +North Norfolk, and Colonel Barne, M.P.</p> +<p>Nov. 17th. H. R. Harmer, Esq., appointed as Vestry Clerk +without a poll, in place of the late Mr. S. Barnard Cory.</p> +<p>Nov. 23rd. Mr. W. Stockton, Master of the School of +Navigation, presented with a travelling bag, completely fitted +up, a silver pencil case, and set of gold studs, by his old +pupils and friends, as a token of esteem.</p> +<p>Nov. The new steam tug “Comet,” built for +the Yarmouth Star Steam Tug Company, arrived at this port.</p> +<p>Nov. Mr. Henry Spelman Palmer attained the degree of +B.A. at the London University.</p> +<p><a name="page191"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +191</span>Nov. A patent wedge or railway key invented by +Mr. James Gillings.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th. Mr. John Woodger, died, aged 63 years. +Deceased was a member of the Yarmouth Corporation and Board of +Guardians.</p> +<p>Nov. Mr. Thomas Small resigned the Consular Agency after +24 years, and the French Government presented him with a gold +medal (in case) in recognition of valuable services.</p> +<p>Dec. 3rd. The Austrian barque “Olympo” +stranded on Yarmouth beach. The smack +“Steadfast” was lost on the following day, with two +hands.</p> +<p>Dec. 6th. Mr. William Rudd presented with a handsome +timepiece, silver inkstand and penholder, and two bronze +candelabra, by the Sunday School teachers and congregation of St. +Andrew’s.</p> +<p>Dec. 7th. Baptist Schoolrooms, Crown Road, built and +opened. Cost, £950. The corner-stone was laid +July 20th.</p> +<p>Dec. 8th. A black marble timepiece, inlaid with +malachite, presented to Mr. J. Johnson (foreman to Messrs. +Aldin), by the Directors of the Aquarium, for his skill and +assiduity in conducting these prodigious works.</p> +<p>Dec. 12th. The smack “Gnat,” of this port, +after a collision, foundered at the Silver Pits, value +£1,000.</p> +<p>Dec. 13th. Sir Charles R. Turner, fifth son of the late +Rev. Richard Turner of this town, died in London, aged 87.</p> +<p>Dec. 21st. The number of lasts of herrings for the +present season landed at the Fishwharf was 18,836. The +aggregate earnings of 20 boats amounted to £24,217, +<i>i.e.</i>, £1,210 per boat, and the gross expenses +amounted to about £4,907. The previous year the +aggregate of 20 boats was £18,787, <i>i.e.</i>, £981 +per boat, and the expenses reached £4,582.</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd. The barque “Ingleborough,” of +Hull, lost on the Barber Sand. Value, £2,000; cargo, +£900. On the 27th the “Countess of +Zetland,” damaged by the floating wreck of the above, was +ran ashore opposite the Aquarium, where she became a total +wreck.</p> +<p><a name="page192"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 192</span>Dec. +28th. James Wright, master of the smack “Olive +Branch,” awarded a silver medal by the King of Sweden and +Norway for his bravery in saving the crew of a Norwegian +brig.</p> +<p>Dec. 30th. H.M. paddle-steamer “Valorous,” +and four iron twin-screw gunboats, of 360 tons each, arrived in +the Roadstead.</p> +<p>Deaths: March 27th, Mr. J. Barney Beales, sheriff’s +officer, aged 82.—Aug. 22nd, the Hon. Mrs. Harbord Harbord, +daughter of Sir H. J. Stracey.—Oct. 21st, Mr. S. B. Cory, +vestry clerk, aged 80.—Nov. 18th, H. E. B. Giles, +solicitor, aged 65.</p> +<p>Launches: Jan. 30th, smack “Flash.”—May, +smack “Ruby.”—July, yacht “Harry,” +belonging to Mr. H. A. Morris.—July, fishing boat +“Arab Steed.”—Aug. 19th, fishing dandy +“Challenge.”—Oct. 4th, smacks +“Sunbeam” and “Puss.”—Nov. 27th, +schooner “Arthur.”—Dec. 11th, trawling smack +“Carlisle.”</p> +<h3>1877.</h3> +<p>Jan. A portion of the North Denes levelled, preparatory +to laying the rails of the North Norfolk Railway. (See Oct. +27th, 1875.)</p> +<p>Jan. 9th. Charles Diver, Esq., elected Justices’ +Clerk for the East and West Fleggs, in place of the late Mr. S. +B. Cory, deceased.</p> +<p>Jan. 9th. Fifteen fishing craft belonging to Messrs. +Smith and Son, sold at the “Star” for £13,320; +and on Feb. 5th ten of the late Mr. J. W. Parsley’s +realised £5,615.</p> +<p>Jan. 16th. P.c. Edwards presented with a handsome +timepiece and purse of £4 14s., by the salesmen, buyers, +and boatowners, for his attention and courtesy to them at the +Fishwharf.</p> +<p>Jan. 19th. The Stradbroke Road Board Schools, Gorleston, +opened. Cost, with fittings, £3,000; accommodate 500 +children. (See Nov. 9th, 1875.)</p> +<p>Jan. 30th. Very heavy gale and boisterous high tide, +parts of the town being inundated. 18 Yarmouth smacks and +over 100 hands were lost. The Yarmouth “Mark +Lane” lifeboatmen bravely rescued the crew <a +name="page193"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 193</span>(12) of the +barque “Constantia,” wrecked on Scroby. +Fifty-five widows, 108 children, and 17 aged parents were left +destitute in this locality. The local relief fund reached +£2,540, and in London £6,800. The first grant +voted for Yarmouth and district was £2,745.</p> +<p>Jan. 30th. Calico fancy dress ball at St. Andrew’s +Hall, Gorleston.</p> +<p>Feb. 5th. Charles John Palmer, Esq., presented with a +gold watch, a silver flower-basket, and a purse of 100 guineas, +as a complimentary testimonial for his local literary researches +&c.; 235 persons subscribed £233 9s. 6d. (See +1830.)</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. New oak pulpit in the parish church erected +and used for the first time by the Vicar, the Rev. George +Venables, S.C.L.</p> +<p>Feb. The Secretary of State for War decided on the +formation of an Administrative Battalion, to consist of the 2nd +Norfolk (Yarmouth), 4th Suffolk (Bungay), 14th Suffolk (Beccles), +and 17th Suffolk (Lowestoft), under the title of the 1st +Administrative Battalion Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, with +headquarters at Yarmouth.</p> +<p>Feb. 19th. Sir James Paget, Bart., F.R.S., D.C.L., +LL.D., appointed one of the Serjeant-Surgeons in Ordinary to the +Queen, in the room of Sir William Fergusson, Bart., +deceased. He is the son of the late Mr. Samuel Paget, of +this town, and was born in 1814.</p> +<p>Feb. 21st. John Clowes, Esq., solicitor, died, aged 67 +years. This gentleman formerly filled the office of Town +Clerk of the Borough; he was also a member of the Council and +Board of Guardians for many years, besides being Lord of the +Manor of Caister. (See 1822 and 1840.)</p> +<p>Feb. The body of a male child, about five months old, +sent from Liverpool Station to the Vauxhall terminus in a small +black bag; but no clue was ever found to the supposed murderess +or the gentleman to whom it was consigned.</p> +<p><a name="page194"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +194</span>March. J. H. Orde, Esq., resigned after 18 +years’ service in the 2nd Norfolk Rifle Volunteer +Corps. On June 21st he was presented with a valuable gold +repeater watch by the Corps, at the Drill Hall, as a memento of +esteem.</p> +<p>March 5th. Major General Francis Montague Maxwell +Ommanney, B.A., died at Yarmouth, aged 50 years.</p> +<p>March 6th. Benjamin Daniels, a farmer of Scratby (five +miles from the birthplace of Hales), and the last of the East +Anglian giants, died and buried at Ormesby St. Margaret, aged 45 +years. Height, 6 ft. 6 in.; weight, 24 stone; width across +the shoulders, 20 in.; and possessed great strength.</p> +<p>March 25th. Income of the Haven Commissioners for the +past year, £11,927 12s. 11d.; an increase of £782 +11s. 5d. on the previous year. The imports in 1877 included +87,729 tons of coal, 288,032 qrs. of corn, and tonnage dues +176,475 tons, &c.; on fish and fishing vessels, +£2,110. Number of wherries trading on the Bure, 108, +of 1,934 tons burthen, and the income from this source, +£455 16s. 3d.</p> +<p>March 28th. First Military Assault-at-Arms at the Drill +Hall by the Non-commissioned officers and men of the 1st Royal +Dragoons from Norwich; and a second on April 17th, 1879, by the +1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers.</p> +<p>March 31st. The Registrar-General reported 300 births, +135 marriages, and 179 deaths, 66 of the latter being persons of +60 years old and upwards, in the Borough during the past three +months.</p> +<p>April 16th. The schooner “Jane” (121 tons), +of Colchester, lost, with six hands, in a heavy gale, on the +Cross Sands; and on the 19th the Norwegian barque +“Suez” was beached south of the Wellington pier, with +the loss of one of her crew.</p> +<p>April 22nd. The Great Yarmouth Church of England, +“Mission” opened, and lasted a week.</p> +<p>May 3rd and 5th. The Corporation <i>versus</i> J. W. de +Caux. Arbitration proceedings taken respecting the +ownership of the Town wall, on the site of “Town Wall +House,” Theatre Plain, and subsequently decided in favour +of defendant.</p> +<p><a name="page195"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 195</span>May +4th. The National Lifeboat Institution reported the gallant +services rendered by the Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat crews in +saving 22 men from shipwreck during recent gales.</p> +<p>May 8th and 9th. A locomotive engine, intended for the +North Norfolk Railway, drawn on rails through Regent Street and +Market Place <i>en route</i> to the Beach Station. It was +named the “Ormesby,” and weighed about 18 tons; on +the 9th and 10th July a second engine, the “Stalham,” +was dragged by horses along Regent Street, Regent Road, and +Nelson Road North. On Sept. 13th, a third engine, the +“North Walsham,” and a fourth, the +“Martham,” on March 28th, 1879. The carriages +also had to be conveyed in like manner. (See Aug. 7th.)</p> +<p>May 17th. Rev. S. Hooke presented with a handsome +timepiece by the congregation of St. Peter’s Church.</p> +<p>May 24th. Sergeant-Major Britton, Colour-Sergts. J. +Norton and J. Wall, Sergt. J. Steel, Corporal W. Page, and +Privates T. Freebury and R. Hayes, belonging to the 9th Regiment, +each presented at Southtown Armoury with a medal for long service +and good conduct.</p> +<p>May 25th. The smack “Dauntless” lost on Haak +Sand.</p> +<p>May 27th. Rev. Edward Venables, B.A., son of the Vicar +of Yarmouth, ordained by the Bishop of Chichester, and was +appointed to a curacy at Hastings.</p> +<p>June 8th. The Royal Hotel partly rebuilt and +re-modelled.</p> +<p>June 16th. Five gentlemen belonging to the Britannia +Amateur Rowing Club rowed from Wroxham to Norwich, <i>via</i> +Yarmouth (63 miles), in 10 hrs. 40 min.</p> +<p>June 17th. Three Gorleston young men—Edwin Darby, +Augustus Hawes, and Arthur Thrower—accidentally drowned in +the river Wensum.</p> +<p>June 24th. On the death of his father, Viscount +Canterbury, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Henry Charles, fourth Viscount (who +married in 1872 Amyée Rachel, the only daughter of the +late Hon. F. Walpole, M.P.), succeeded to the title.</p> +<p><a name="page196"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 196</span>July +2nd. The Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Bill passed the +House of Lords, and Royal assent given by Commission on July +19th.</p> +<p>July. The billyboy “Breeze,” of this port, +collided with H.M.S. “Wye,” off Carlton, and +foundered.</p> +<p>July 9th. The inhabitants and the Board of Trade awarded +Thomas Love and William Mann, of the smack “Fawn” two +medals and two watches for their bravery in rescuing five hands +from the smack “Bessie,” of London, during the gale +of Jan. 30th.</p> +<p>July 10th. Mr. I. S. Cooper’s tender of £325 +10s. for each of the two brick mortuary chapels in the new +Cemetery accepted by the Corporation.</p> +<p>July 11th. The Royal Assembly Rooms purchased by Mr. W. +Butcher for £1,975. (See 1851, and April, 1869.)</p> +<p>July 21st to 27th. Encampment of the 3rd and 4th Norfolk +Rifles (about 920 rank and file), under command of Lieut.-Col. +Duff, M.P., and Lieut.-Col. R. T. Gurdon, on the North +Denes. On the brigade day about 2,000 volunteers, divided +into 30 companies, were manœuvred, and it was estimated +that some 20,000 civilians were present.</p> +<p>July 24th. Mr. Charles John Stokes (22), a member of the +Lynn Volunteers, mysteriously drowned in the river Yare. On +the 28th the body was picked up, and subsequently buried at Lynn; +but by order of the Secretary of State it was (Aug. 31st) +exhumed, and a <i>post-mortem</i> examination made, but no marks +of violence were discovered.</p> +<p>July 25th. The two principal stones of the nave of St. +James’ Church laid by the Mayor (T. B. Steward, Esq.) and +Mayoress. Cost of the nave was given at £3,150.</p> +<p>July 27th. Capt. Stokes, of the smack +“Falcon,” awarded a gold watch by the Emperor of +Germany for rescuing the crew of the wrecked ship +“Elise,” in Nov., 1876.</p> +<p>Aug. 7th. The North Norfolk Railway having been +inspected the previous day by Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., was +opened to the public as far as <a name="page197"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 197</span>completed, namely, Yarmouth, +Caister, and Ormesby (5½ miles). The line was +constructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Jarvis, of London. May +16th opened to Hemsby, and on July 15th, 1878, from this village +to Martham. (See May 8th and July.)</p> +<p>Aug. 9th. St. George’s Board Schools, St. +Peter’s Plain, opened, Mr. J. T. Bottle being the +architect. This Gothic building comprises girls’ +school, 64 ft. by 20 ft., and accommodates 200 children; +infants’ room, 60 ft. by 23 ft., for 300 girls; and another +room, 24 ft. by 20 ft.; also lobbies, offices, and an open and +covered playground. Cost, £2,370.</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. Collision between the steam tugs +“United Service” and “Express” at the +Harbour’s mouth. Estimated damage to the latter, +£200.</p> +<p>Aug. 21st. Mr. Charles Panchen, of this town, rescued +from drowning a gentleman visitor whilst bathing from the South +Beach, and in Nov. was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s +bronze medal for his gallantry.</p> +<p>Aug. 21st. Miss Clementine Stirling-Graham died at +Duntrune, aged 95. On the death of this lady, John Edmund +Lacon, Esq., of this town, succeeded to her estates in +Forfarshire, and to all papers and relics of the great Viscount +Dundee.</p> +<p>Aug. 26th. Batt. Sergt.-Major Quince, (P.W.O.) Royal +Artillery, rescued another gentleman in imminent danger of +drowning, and in Jan., 1878, presented with the bronze medal of +the Royal Humane Society for his bravery, and by order of H.R.H. +the Duke of Cambridge it was presented by Lord Suffield on May +29th at a full parade, and permission given him to wear it on his +breast.</p> +<p>Aug. Captain Balls, of the schooner +“Benjamin,” belonging to W. J. Foreman, Esq., awarded +a silver medal and certificate by the King of the Netherlands for +gallant services in saving the crew of the +“Fortuna.” (See April, 1869.)</p> +<p>Aug. 30th. Miss Emma Maria Pearson lectured at the Town +Hall on “Servia during the War.”</p> +<p><a name="page198"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +198</span>Sept. Rateable value of the Borough, after +deducting allowances and losses, £73,400; Gorleston, +Southtown, and Cobholm Island, £19,000.</p> +<p>Sept. A new organ, built by Mr. W. C. Mack, of Yarmouth, +presented to the Queen’s Road Primitive Methodist Chapel by +G. Baker, Esq. It is 8 ft. 6 in. wide and 17 ft. +high. One manual from CC to G, 55 notes, and l½ +octaves, German pedals, &c., and contains 398 pipes. +Opened Sept. 9th.</p> +<p>Sept. 5th. The smack “Joseph and Ann,” +belonging to Mr. G. Grief, of this port, run down by a steamer on +Cromer Knowl, and three of her crew drowned.</p> +<p>Sept. 9th. The Rev. S. Hooke preached his first sermon +at St. Peter’s Church after appointment as curate.</p> +<p>Sept. Mr. Ambrose Hulley presented with a silver-mounted +piccolo, in morocco case, with silver plate, at the Aquarium, in +appreciation of his talent as a musician.</p> +<p>Sept. 12th. Meeting at the Town Hall to raise +subscriptions for alleviating the distress caused by the famine +in India. Total collected here, £516 6s. 2d.</p> +<p>Sept. 13th. First annual regatta and fête of the +Yarmouth Rowing Club on the river Bure.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. Mr. Edward Garrett presented at the Royal +Hotel with an elegant silver tea and coffee service, and a +massive silver salver, as a mark of esteem on his retiring from +the post of Master of the Norfolk and Suffolk Harriers, which he +had held 12 years.</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. The Temporary Grammar School opened as a Board +School.</p> +<p>Oct. 4th. The phenomenon of a water spout, in the form +of three immense pillars of vapour, and afterwards a spiral +column, passed over Gorleston, but did not discharge itself.</p> +<p>Oct. Additions made to the Parish Church organ, viz., a +“third rank” to the “mixture,” and an +orchestral hautbois, the latter with the cremona being enclosed +in a new small “swell case.” The organ now +contains 3,188 pipes in actual use.</p> +<p><a name="page199"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 199</span>Oct. +8th. High tide and heavy gale. Much damage done to +shipping in the Roadstead and at sea.</p> +<p>Nov. The School Board spent during the past year +£7,600; and the expenditure for building alone since the +establishment of the Board was just under £7,700.</p> +<p>Nov. 1st. Great excitement at Gorleston over the +Municipal contest between Messrs. S. S. Bately, F. Dendy, and H. +Denton. Result of poll:—Bately, 420; Dendy, 360; +Denton, 221.</p> +<p>Nov. 3rd. Riot in the town between Scotch and Yarmouth +fishermen.</p> +<p>Nov. 9th. Messrs. A. D. Stone, Wm. Worship, and P. Case +elected as Aldermen in the places of Messrs. R. Purdy, G. S. +Shingles, and W. D. Palmer, resigned.</p> +<p>Nov. 11th. Heavy gale, disastrous casualties among the +shipping and loss of life, the “Allerton Packet” and +“Beatrix” being stranded on the North Beach. In +another gale on Nov. 24th the hull of the latter was carried +against the Britannia Pier, breaking the piles, and damaging them +to the extent of £300.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th. Mr. J. F. Ryan, master of the School of Art, +presented at the Town Hall with an elaborately-chased silver +salver, and a purse of 20 guineas, by the past and present +students for his efficient teaching.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th. Mr. George Tewsley, after 21 years’ +service as Superintendent of the Borough Police, resigned on a +superannuation fee. He had been 17 years previously in the +Metropolitan Force. On March 18th, 1878, the Police Force +presented Mr. Tewsley with a handsome marble clock, as a memento +of esteem, prior to his removing to Diss.</p> +<p>Dec. 2nd. The fishing lugger “Ceres” on fire +near the Fishwharf. Damage about £100.</p> +<p>Dec. 8th. H. R. Harmer, Esq., captured in the Norfolk +Broads a pike 41½ in. long, 19 in. in girth, and weighing +20 lbs.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st. 188 shipwrecked seamen received at the +Sailors’ Home in the year, and 4,660 since the opening of +the institution.</p> +<p>Dec. 277 English and foreign vessels, and 605 coasters +arrived in port in the year. During the year, 87 put <a +name="page200"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 200</span>in +wind-bound and 37 with loss of anchors; 21 were totally lost off +this coast, two with all hands; 36 assisted in by lifeboat crews, +and 36 casualties occurred in the river.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st. For the past 21 weeks 61,928 passengers had +been carried by the North Norfolk Railway, representing in +receipts £1,267 15s., with goods, £1,460.</p> +<p>Dec. During the past year 1,571 births occurred, and 913 +deaths—increase of population, 658.</p> +<p>Marriages: April 10th, William Towler, eldest son of J. P. +Hall, Esq., to Miss Ellen E. Bunn.—June 14th, F. Burton, +Esq., solicitor, to Miss M. I. Meadows.—June 19th, Rev. A. +Hume, M.A., to Miss E. T. Waters.—July 5th, H. J. N. +Stratton, Esq., to Miss E. M. Youell, of Gorleston.—July +20th, T. B. U. Lacon, Esq., to Florence Dunbar Banks.—Aug. +18th, J. S. Clowes, Esq., solicitor, to Miss Isabella M. +Clowes.—Oct. 23rd, T. P. Burroughs, Esq., to Miss S. +Fulcher.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 6th, Francis Worship, Esq., J.P., aged +75.—Feb. 8th, Major R. B. Nesbitt.—Feb. 21st, John +Clowes, Esq., aged 67.—March 9th, Mr. William Shipley, +M.R.C.V.S.—March 2lst, Henry Hammond, Esq., at Southtown, +aged 70.—April 15th, John Fenn, Esq., J.P., aged +81.—May 16th, Captain C. Small, Vice-Consul, aged 60. +July 18th, Mr. James Beeching, shipbuilder, aged 65.—July +23rd, Captain William S. Scroggs, aged 60.—July 26th, Mr. +H. Pestell, aged 77.—Sept. 8th, Isaac Strutt, Esq., aged +38.—Oct. 19th, R. F. Veale, Esq., J.P., aged 46. Nov. +2nd, W. Thurtell, Esq., J.P., aged 82.—Nov. 3rd, Mr. R. W. +Durrell, of Gorleston, aged 44.</p> +<p>Launches: June 12th, smack “Emma +Eliza.”—July 19th, trawling smack +“Chatterbox.”—Aug. 14th, fishing lugger +“Seamew.”—Aug. 28th, fishing boat +“Norfolk.”—Sept. 1st, cutter +“Flare.”</p> +<h3>1878.</h3> +<p>Jan. The Rev. A. J. Worlledge, M.A., appointed by the +Bishop of Lincoln to an honorary canonry of Lincoln Cathedral, at +the early age of 29 years.</p> +<p><a name="page201"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 201</span>Jan. +15th. Two fires broke out in fishhouses and premises +belonging to Mr. R. T. Seago, Row 137, and Mr. Wisker, Row +138.</p> +<p>Jan. 16th. John Van Hutton died, aged 102, being born on +March 10th, 1776, and his remains buried in the New Cemetery.</p> +<p>Jan. 31st. First triennial election of the School Board, +who held office till Feb. 16th. The following 11 gentlemen +chosen without going to a poll:—Messrs. J. H. Orde, H. E. +Buxton, J. W. de Caux, (Rev.) A. Peaton, G. Baker, D. Tomkins, R. +E. Dowson, S. J. F. Stafford, T. Saul, J. T. Waters, and (Rev.) +J. F. Splaine, eight being re-elected. On Nov. 29th Mr. F. +Dendy elected in the place of Mr. Stafford.</p> +<p>Feb. 8th. The Rev. E. Whitehead, M.A., incumbent of +Southtown, presented with a chased silver salver by the +parishioners of Denham, Suffolk.</p> +<p>Feb. 26th. William E. Pretyman, Esq., grandson of the +late Bishop of Lincoln, died at Yarmouth. This gentleman, +up to the time of his decease, spent the greater part of his time +in fishing like an ordinary smacksman, for which pursuit he owned +a smack—the “Lincoln”—fitted up in a +superior style.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th. Mr. J. Ogden, Inspector of Police at Hanley, +appointed, out of 50 candidates, Superintendent of the Yarmouth +Constabulary in the place of Mr. Tewsley.</p> +<p>Mar. Rev. G. Merriman, Vicar of Martham, appointed +domestic chaplain to the Marquis of Ailesbury.</p> +<p>March 7th. Mr. Walter Teasdel gallantly rescued a boy +named Coen (12) from drowning in the river, and in April the +Royal Humane Society acknowledged his bravery.</p> +<p>March 7th. High and boisterous tide, the lower parts of +the town being inundated, and a wherry, belonging to Mr. Goff, +and the smack “Two Brothers” sunk in the harbour.</p> +<p>March. Loss of the smack “Fawn” and all +hands.</p> +<p>March 22nd. The claims of the shareholders in the +Yarmouth and Eastern Counties’ Aquarium Company, after five +years, finally wound-up, 15s. out of each £ <a +name="page202"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 202</span>invested +being refunded by the hon. liquidator, C. C. Aldred, Esq., who +was presented with a magnificent silver salver by the +shareholders. The amount invested was £3,431.</p> +<p>March 24th. The training-ship “Eurydice” +wrecked off Dunnose, Isle of Wight, and over 360 lives +lost. This vessel anchored in Yarmouth Roadstead in +1877.</p> +<p>March 25th. The annual income this year of the Port and +Haven Commissioners was £12,478 10s. 3d., and for 1879, +£12,110 15s. 1d.</p> +<p>March 28th. Loss of the smacks “Henry,” +“Dairy Maid,” and “Deerhound;” also the +barque “Theresa” and brig “Vladimir” in a +gale.</p> +<p>April 1st. Major Hector Tullock, R.E., held an enquiry +at Runham-Vauxhall respecting the borrowing of £1,000 for +carrying out the water and drainage scheme; also on Feb. 11th, +1879.</p> +<p>April. Memorial window placed in the chancel-part of the +Parish Church in memory of William Palgrave, Esq. (who died +in 1838), and Elizabeth, his wife, by their surviving +children.</p> +<p>April. Intelligence received at Yarmouth of the loss of +the barque “Ponda Chief” off Natal. (See Aug. +2nd, 1875.)</p> +<p>April 17th. Public meeting at the Town Hall to oppose +the Town Council in the proposed building of a new Town Hall, but +on Jan. 16th, 1879, the loan of £30,000 was sanctioned by +the Treasury.</p> +<p>April 20th. The Army and East Norfolk Militia Reserves +called up, and subsequently the former sent to Colchester and the +latter to Ireland.</p> +<p>April 23rd and 24th. Frank Buckland and Spencer Walpole, +Esqs., two of her Majesty’s Commissioners, held an enquiry +at the Sailors’ Home respecting the destruction of small +soles and other trawl fish, by order of the Secretary of the Home +Department.</p> +<p>April. A handsome and costly monument, rather above 20 +feet in height, erected in the Cemetery. It bears the +following inscription:—“Erected by his bereaved and +sorrowing mother, in fond remembrance of Charles S. T. Mills, +Esq. (the dearly beloved and <a name="page203"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 203</span>only son of Charles and Maria +Mills), who died at Great Yarmouth on the 19th December, 1875, +aged 29 years. Gone before.” This monument is +of solid Aberdeen polished grey granite, surmounted by a +beautiful marble upright figure representing “Truth,” +the latter being the work of an Italian sculptor. The tomb +is surrounded at the base by floral wrought-iron railings, fixed +in 1879. (See Sept., 1883.)</p> +<p>April. The congregation of St. Andrew’s presented +the Rev. E. G. H. Murrell with a silver salver and two silver +napkin-rings, as a wedding present.</p> +<p>May 1st. The new nave of St. James’ Church built +and opened at a cost of £3,250. Interior length, 103 +ft.; width, 33 ft.; height, 53 ft.; exterior height, 70 ft. +Accommodates about 700 worshippers. This nave forms only a +third of the proposed entire building.</p> +<p>May 2nd. Mrs. T. Burton Steward, wife of the Captain of +the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers, presented with a handsome +silver-plated épergne, subscribed for by the officers and +men of the corps.</p> +<p>May 3rd. Mr. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent to the +<i>Daily News</i>, lectured at the Aquarium on the leading +episodes, from personal experience, of the Battle of the Shipka +Pass, crossing the Danube, and the Battle of Plevna. Mr. +Forbes’ first visit to Yarmouth was in 1872, during the +stay of the Prince of Wales.</p> +<p>May 6th. H.M. steam-yacht “Hawk” and +schooner “Mermaid” anchored in the Roadstead.</p> +<p>May 7th. Rev. F. C. Villiers presented with a handsome +épergne by the North-end Mission congregation in this +town.</p> +<p>May. Sir Francis Goldsmid, Bart., Q.C., F.R.G.S., died +from an accident. In 1854 he was a candidate with Mr. +Rumbold for the representation of the Borough.</p> +<p>May 9th. Quay House sold by auction for +£1,720.</p> +<p>May 12th. Fire at Messrs. H. and E. Brand’s +outfitting premises, South Denes Road.</p> +<p>May 23rd. Fire in a tar store at Gorleston belonging to +Mr. J. Fleming Hewett; damage £80.</p> +<p><a name="page204"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 204</span>May +26th. Mr. H. S. Baumgartner, of Gorleston, passed the +preliminary examination of the Apothecaries’ Hall.</p> +<p>May 29th. The Venerable Archdeacon Perowne made his +first visitation since being appointed to the place of Archbishop +Hopper, deceased.</p> +<p>June 20th. Mr. Edward T. Ayers, author of several legal +works, passed the intermediate examination under the +Solicitors’ Act, 1877, held by the Incorporated Law +Society; and on the same date Mr. W. H. Cowl successfully passed +a similar examination.</p> +<p>June 24th. The Wellington Pier Company let by public +tender their pier to Mr. S. Boughton, for three years, the +average receipts for the previous three years being £481 +5s. per annum.</p> +<p>June 28th. The Rev. George Venables appointed one of her +Majesty’s Commissioners to enquire into the law and the +existing practice as to the sale, exchange, and resignation of +Ecclesiastical Benefices, and to recommend remedies for abuses if +any found to exist.</p> +<p>June. A large dredger for the Haven, named the +“FitzRoy,” costing £5,495, ordered by the Port +and Haven Commissioners, which arrived here April 6th, 1879.</p> +<p>June 28th. Major Dods, E.N.M., presented with an +elaborate silver épergne, with a greyhound at the base, as +a testimonial, by the gentlemen forming the Norfolk and Suffolk +Coursing Meeting, in token of respect, after 15 years their hon. +sec.</p> +<p>June. Mr. Leggett’s contract of £855 for +building the north transept, aisle, and porch of St. John’s +Church accepted. Entire cost, £1,050.</p> +<p>July 4th. The Council elected Mr. William Hurry Palmer +as an Alderman; and on Aug. 26th Mr. Charles Diver to fill the +vacancy in the Haven Commission caused by the death of Mr. J. W. +Bunn.</p> +<p>July 9th. Winterton Church re-opened after being partly +restored at a cost of £3,000.</p> +<p>July 11th. Mr. Charles Jennings, son of C. H. Wiltshire, +Esq., passed the preliminary examination of the Incorporated Law +Society.</p> +<p><a name="page205"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +205</span>July. Forty-one designs for a new Town Hall for +the Borough open to public inspection at the old Town Hall, three +prizes having been offered by the Corporation for the three +best.</p> +<p>July 13th. The smack “Admiral” sunk off +Southwold, and on the same day one of Messrs. Hewitt’s +steam-cutters collided with the steamboat “Naiad” off +Gravesend.</p> +<p>July 26th. Encampment on the South Denes during the past +week of the 3rd and 4th Norfolk Rifles, there being over 200 +tents erected for their accommodation. (See July 21st, +1877.)</p> +<p>July 31st. Rev. G. Venables, Vicar of Yarmouth, +appointed by the Bishop of Norwich Rural Dean of Flegg.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st. Serious fire broke out on the premises of Mr. +H. Teasdel, ship-chandler, Southtown. On Sept. 24th, 1845, +Mr. Teasdel’s warehouses were destroyed by the same +element.</p> +<p>Aug. 12th. Alarming thunderstorm, accompanied with vivid +flashes of lightning, heavy hail and rainfall, and a +hurricane. The electric fluid did considerable damage to +several houses in the town and neighbourhood, and in more than +one dwelling played sad havoc with the furniture, &c.—a +house in Row 63 coming off worst. A part of one of St. +Mary’s Church (Southtown) pinnacles was dislocated.</p> +<p>Aug. 22nd. Loss of the “Norfolk Lass” (140 +tons), of this port, and five hands, including Capt. A. W. Vince +and his son, aged 12, on Corton Sand. She was built by +Messrs. Fellows in 1841.</p> +<p>Aug. An old wreck found under-water near the entrance of +the Harbour, supposed to have been sunk two centuries before to +prevent the old fort from being undermined by the current. +In 1555 a vessel was sunk here, but whether the same, is +doubtful. It was 77 ft. long by 27 ft. wide.</p> +<p>Aug. 28th. A horse and cart belonging to Mr. Norton fell +over the Quay-head opposite Town Hall and the animal drowned.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. Eight houses in St. George’s Terrace +sold by public auction for £4,400.</p> +<p><a name="page206"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 206</span>Sept. +3rd. A member of Mr. B. Fielding’s Concert Party lost +his wife and two children among the 600 drowned in the ill-fated +steamship “Princess Alice,” which collided with s.s. +“Bywell Castle” off Barking.</p> +<p>Sept. 19th. Fishing boat “Stately” wrecked +on Yarmouth Beach.</p> +<p>Sept. 25th. New Post office at Gorleston opened.</p> +<p>Sept. 26th. Vice-Admiral Spencer Smyth, of this town, +promoted from the rank of Vice-Admiral to that of Admiral on the +retired list. (See April, 1870, and June 12th, 1873.) +He died on April 3rd, 1879, aged 87 years, and his remains were +subsequently interred in Gorleston Churchyard.</p> +<p>Sept. 28th. The body of a newly-born female babe found +by two smack-boys on the beach wrapped in a white cotton bundle, +and a reward of £50 was offered by Government for the +apprehension of any person concerned in the murder.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. A fine sturgeon, 5 ft. long, and weighing +about 90 lbs., captured in the Roadstead; also a young porpoise +and (in Dec.) a live seal, all of which were taken to the +Aquarium.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. One thousand five hundred and twenty-six +police cases summarily dealt with by the Magistrates during the +past year.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. The Port and Haven Commissioners’ +receipts from dues for the past half-year amounted to +£6,883 18s.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th to Oct. 1st. The celebrated actress, Mrs. +Rousby, appeared at the Theatre Royal as “Princess +Elizabeth” in ’<i>Twixt Axe and Grown</i>. Mrs. +Rousby died in April, 1879.</p> +<p>Oct. The high flint wall enclosing St. Mary’s +Catholic Church, Regent Road, pulled down, and a low wall, +surmounted with a light handsome palisading, put in its +place. In 1879 the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Caister Road, +was enclosed with a stone wall mounted by an iron railing.</p> +<p>Oct. 10th. Three men belonging to the “Sea +Gull,” owned by Messrs. Hewitt and Co., drowned at sea +whilst ferrying fish.</p> +<p><a name="page207"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 207</span>Oct. +13th. The Lord Bishop of British Columbia (Dr. George +Hills) again preached in St. Nicholas’ Church.</p> +<p>Oct. 15th. The Right Rev. Bishop Mackenzie, Sub-Dean of +Lincoln and Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham, died at +Lincoln. (See 1844 and Aug., 1869.)</p> +<p>Oct. 21st. Messrs. Grout and Co. presented at the Paris +Exhibition with a gold medal for superiority in the manufacture +of pure silk crape.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. The fishing lugger “Eustace” +foundered at sea.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. Inspector George Tewsley, chief-clerk in the +Leeds Police Force, and son of our late Superintendent of Police, +promoted to Lieutenant in the Edinburgh Constabulary, at a salary +of £170 a-year. On Jan. 1st, 1879, the Leeds Force +presented him with an illuminated address.</p> +<p>Oct. 24th. The Gorleston Storm Company’s +lifeboatmen gallantly rescued the crew of the brig +“Fuschia,” which foundered on Scroby Sands.</p> +<p>Oct. E. P. Youell, Esq., appointed by the Lord +Lieutenant a Magistrate for the County of Suffolk.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. Mr. J. Green, of Gorleston, sprang into the +river at the Brush and rescued a child named Warner from +drowning. In March, 1879, he was awarded the Royal Humane +Society’s bronze medal and clasp for his gallantry.</p> +<p>Nov. 4th. A wooden building constructed on the North +Nelson Road, which Messrs. W. and G. Pinder used as a circus up +to March 22nd, 1879. Messrs. Pinder first made their +acquaintance with Yarmouth during the existence of the Regent +Hall.</p> +<p>Nov. 5th. 80th birthdays of Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. +Marshall, twin sisters, of this town, the only two surviving +“children” of the late Robert Blake, fish merchant, +out of a family of 22.</p> +<p>Nov. 8th. A terrific gale and serious damage to fishing +craft (about 70) and shipping generally, with loss of life, +including three hands belonging to the smack “Olive +Leaf.”</p> +<p><a name="page208"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 208</span>Nov. +16th. Destructive floods throughout the +County—Norwich on this date being the greater sufferer; +part of the Great Eastern Railway was submerged, as well as the +Hundreds in the Northern and Eastern Divisions.</p> +<p>Nov. 27th. The Town Council appointed as Burial Board +for the parish of Gorleston, and in 1879 the new Cemetery at +Gorleston was formed.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th. The news of the death of her Majesty’s +second daughter Princess Alice observed in the town with the +usual outward manifestations of sorrow.</p> +<p>Dec. Smack “Ingomar” lost through a +collision.</p> +<p>Dec. 18th. Robert David Barber, Esq., J.P., T.C., and +Actuary of the Yarmouth Savings Bank, died, aged 72 years. +Mr. Barber was Mayor of the Borough in 1874. He was +succeeded in the Council by Mr. Fredk. Carpenter on Jan. 16th, +1879; W. Barnard, Esq., as a Magistrate on March 7th, 1879; and +Mr. Alfred Teasdel in the banking firm.</p> +<p>Dec. 20th. The s.s. “C. S. Butler,” with 900 +tons of coal, of London, wrecked on Hasbro’ Sand, but her +crew of 17 saved by the “Tyro.”</p> +<p>Dec. 23rd. Lieut.-Colonel James Duff, M.P. for North +Norfolk, died in London, aged 47 years. His remains were +interred in the quiet churchyard at Westwick, Westwick +Park. As a Statesman, an officer in the army, a Freemason, +or a private gentleman, Col. Duff’s general manner, his +courtesy, and his hospitality endeared him to the hearts of all +classes and sects who had the honour of his acquaintance.</p> +<p>Dec. 26th. Three Yarmouth gentlemen skated a distance of +23 miles over the rivers Thirne and Bure.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st. During the past half-year the Y. and N. N. +Railway had carried 89,762 passengers, and taken £2,607 +14s. 5d. The gross receipts amounted to £3,503 16s., +and the expenditure was £1,629 8s.</p> +<p>Dec. 31st. The number of herrings landed at the +Fishwharf during the season amounted to 10,150 lasts; and in the +previous year 19,405 lasts, by about 650 fishing boats.</p> +<p>Dec. One hundred and eighty-four public-houses and 121 +beer-houses in Yarmouth.</p> +<p><a name="page209"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +209</span>Dec. Three hundred and thirty-seven English and +foreign vessels arrived in port during the year. Number of +coasters 973. 24 vessels were totally lost off this coast +in 1878, one with all hands, and 67 assisted in by lifeboat +crews.</p> +<p>The receipts for this year’s Roads Regatta were +£203 7s. 8d. The expenditure left a balance of +£11 2s.</p> +<p>Marriages: Jan. 10th, A. E. Cowl, Esq., to Miss Emma E. +Gambling; Feb. 16th, E. B. K. Lacon, Esq., to Florence A. Foster; +Feb. 27th, J. S. Cobb, L.D.S., R.C.S., to Caroline S. Simpson; +March 5th, Mr. Jas. Rivett to Miss A. Pike; April 30th, Rev. E. +G. H. Murrell to Miss Agnes E. Aldred; May 7th, Rev. R. J. Tacon, +J.P., of Rollesby, to Caroline B. Pitt; June 11th, Rev. H. J. +Bode to Miss G. H. Murrell; Aug. 8th, Mr. F. W. Dendy to Miss J. +Baumgartner.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan., Capt. Cox, late County Court Bailiff; Jan. 18th, +Mrs. Geo. Danby Palmer, aged 91; Jan. 26th, Mr. H. W. Weller, +seven years manager of Southtown Gas Works, aged 47; March 17th, +Mr. T. G. Ridgway Knight; May 31st, Rev. G. W. Steward, of +Caister, aged 73; June 1st, Mr. Frank Noverre, aged 71; June 4th, +Mr. J. T. Savage, aged 52; June 2nd, Garson Blake, Esq., J.P., +aged 63; June 3rd, Capt. John Porter Laws, aged 71; June 11th, +Capt. T. Davis, R.N.; June 24th, Mr. Alderman J. W. Bunn, aged +49; Dec. 18th, R. D. Barber, Esq., J.P., aged 72; Dec. 30th, Rev. +J. Randerson, aged 72; Dec. 31st, Mr. T. W. Attwood, aged 60.</p> +<p>Launches: Jan. 2nd, dandy smack “Charlie”; Jan. +11th, smack “Rover”; Feb. 7th, smack +“Daylight”; May 16th, dandy cutter +“Susie”; June 5th, dandy cutter “Moggy”; +June 17th, smack “Oak”; Aug. smacks +“Myrtle,” “Prompt” and “Violet +May”; Aug. 29th, trawling smack “Cyprus”; Sept. +“Hilda”; Sept. 18th, “Progress”; same +month “William Henry” and “Ettie.”</p> +<h3>1878–9.</h3> +<p>The winter was one of the longest and severest known for many +years past, lasting over seven months. The Southtown slabs +and marshes were for several weeks covered with ice.</p> +<h3><a name="page210"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +210</span>1879.</h3> +<p>Jan. 1st. Rateable yearly value of property in Yarmouth +was £92,603. Number of paupers relieved this +day—indoor, 307; outdoor, 852. Expenditure for year +ending Michaelmas, 1878, in-maintenance, £3,778; +out-relief, £4,413. Salaries, rations, and +superannuation of officers, £1,824; maintenance of lunatics +in asylums, £1,273; other expenses, £1,401; total +relief to the poor, £12,689.</p> +<p>Jan. Mr. J. T. Bottle, architect of this town, wrote and +published a poetical play entitled, <i>Brian Boru</i>, of which +the Spectator says:—“There is so much that is pure, +and stately, and dramatic in the tragedy, that we cannot but hope +much for the author.”</p> +<p>Jan. 18th. Weston, the American pedestrian, started from +the Royal Exchange on a walk of 2,000 miles in 1,000 hours. +After completing 1,782½ miles he lectured at the Yarmouth +Theatre. On Feb. 28th, Weston had walked 1,977½ +miles, being 22½ miles in arrear.</p> +<p>Jan. 21st. Edward Birkbeck, Esq., of Horstead Hall, +Norwich, elected M.P. for North Norfolk, in place of the late +Col. Duff, by a majority of 490 over Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, +Bart., of Warlies, Waltham Abbey, Essex. The declaration of +the poll at Aylsham next day was—Birkbeck (C.), 2,742; +Buxton, 2,252. About 1,600 voters polled in Yarmouth, and +the remainder in the Division. The constituency comprised +6,474 electors, but 1,480 abstained from voting. It was a +sharply-contested battle, and cost, according to official +returns, Mr. Birkbeck, £3,496; and Sir Thomas Fowell +Buxton, £3,189 14s. 8d.</p> +<p>Feb. 9th. Mr. F. Hewitt’s smack “Henry and +Polly” foundered on the Shipwash Sand, and on Feb. 10th, +the “William” on Scroby.</p> +<p>Feb. 12th. St. John’s Church re-opened.</p> +<p>Feb. The smack “Himalaya” launched.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. Captain Wilson presented with a handsome +silver flower-stand by the Mayor, on behalf of the Gorleston +Company of the 2nd Norfolk Rifles, as a testimonial.</p> +<p><a name="page211"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 211</span>March +6th. In the skating contest of 12 hours, at the Norwich +Rink, 33 rounds to the mile, for the Championship of the Eastern +Counties, 16 entered, but only eight started, the son of Mr. E. +Candler, now of “Angel” Hotel, Yarmouth, taking first +prize—a gold medal, in a beautiful case, bearing the +following inscription:—“Twelve hours’ skating +contest, champion of Eastern Counties, won by E. F. +Candler. Distance skated in twelve hours, 77 miles 7 +laps.”</p> +<p>March 7th. T. B. Steward, Wm. Barnard, W. Harrison, +Walter Brown, W. H. Bessey, R. E. Dowson, J. A. Norman, J. P. +Baumgartner, and R. Bryant, Esqs., appointed Magistrates for the +Borough.</p> +<p>March 25th. Receipts of the School Board for past +half-year, £1,765; expenditure, £1,521. The +rate was then 1d. on the £ per quarter.</p> +<p>March. The steamer “Luxor” (under the +command of Captain Fill, son of the late Mr. S. Fill, of +Yarmouth), on fire at Gravesend; and Chief-Constable Berry (late +of Yarmouth), with Captain John Lake and the Fire Brigade, +subdued the conflagration after 26 hours’ hard work.</p> +<p>March 24th. Gallant services rendered by the Caister +beachmen in rescuing the captain and crew of the Norwegian brig +“Cito” on Hasbro’ during a heavy gale and sea, +after 14 hours’ exposure.</p> +<p>March. Rev. A. Aldred, curate of Horncastle, son of C. +C. Aldred, Esq., presented by the Lord Chancellor to the living +of Worlingham, near Beccles.</p> +<p>April 3rd. Mr. W. Sexton, Lay Vicar of Westminster Abbey +(formerly of Yarmouth), appointed Professor of Music and Singing +at the Westminster Endowed Schools (600 boys). Was also +chosen choir-master of St. Peter’s, Eaton Square, on March +the 25th.</p> +<p>April 3rd. First Yarmouth Bicycle Club opened with 16 +members.</p> +<p>April 7th. The “Falcon,” of this port, +stranded on Fedra Rocks; and on the 9th the Italian barque +“Guiseppina N.” wrecked on Yarmouth Beach—value +£4,900.</p> +<p><a name="page212"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 212</span>April +18th. Mr. T. Saul elected a member of the Town Council for +St. Andrew’s Ward by a majority of 100 shove Mr. B. H. +Press. Vacancy caused by death of Mr. T. W. Gooda, whose +property was sold on May 15th, and realised £3,814 14s. +6d.</p> +<p>April 24th. The Vicar of Yarmouth presented with a +life-size portrait of himself in gilt frame by a number of +parishioners as a token of respect, on his 57th birthday. +It was painted in oil by Mr. Baldry (Herbert Leslie).</p> +<p>Messrs. Hunter and English’s charge for constructing the +new dredger (FitzRoy) was £5,647. On trial it raised +360 tons of loamy clay in 3½ hours, and since then 800 +tons were dredged up in six hours. The consumption of coal +was one ton for every 750 tons of soil raised. The old +dredger was sold by auction in June, 1880, for £125.</p> +<p>April. Rev. S. Hooke, minister of St. Peter’s, +presented by the members of his Bible Class with a small +Communion service. On July 14th this gentleman, on the +death of the Rev. R. F. Palmer, was instituted to the living at +Clopton, worth about £600 or £700 a year. Mr. +Hooke preached his farewell sermon on Aug. 31st, and on the +following evening was presented at the Rifle Drill Hall with a +silver tea and coffee service, silver salts, fish carver and +fork, by his congregation and friends.</p> +<p>May. New Barracks on the South Denes built.</p> +<p>May 10th. The body of a dead female child found in Row +43. It was wrapped up in rags, and weighed 8 lbs. +Supposed to have been murdered.</p> +<p>May 28th. Mr. L Preston, jun.’s, yacht +“Maud” sold by auction for £120. She is +now the property of Mr. Stanley.</p> +<p>June. Sir John Hawkshaw made a report on the causes of +the late disastrous floods in the valley of the Wensum and at +Norwich.</p> +<p>June 10th. Mr. Wm. Howes Hunt died, aged 72. He +was born on Oct. 10th, 1806, and was originally apprenticed to a +bookbinder, and served his time to it; but that not proving +lucrative, he afterwards <a name="page213"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 213</span>turned his attention to the drapery +business—first as an assistant, then as manager, and +afterwards as a partner in this town with Mr. C. Miller. +His leisure time was spent in painting, and he became an artist +of considerable ability, his works being much valued.</p> +<p>June. The so-called “Captain Alwyns,” of the +yacht “Cynthia,” visited Yarmouth, and will be long +remembered by some of our tradesmen who were duped by him, +especially Mr. Sutton, of the “Victoria” Hotel, and +Mrs. Sewell, grocer, with whom he dealt heavily. He was +subsequently captured at Keswick, in Cumberland, and committed +for trial.</p> +<p>June 17th. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales came to Yarmouth, +<i>via</i> Norwich, this being his second visit, and the town was +<i>en fête</i>. The principal streets were gaily +decorated with bunting, and there was a grand display of +fireworks from the Wellington Pier the same evening. He +stayed at Shaddingfield Lodge till the 19th, during which time he +inspected his own Artillery Regiment, the Volunteers, and the +Duke of Edinburgh’s Band. He also visited the Theatre +Royal (where the Gaiety Company had made arrangements for his +delectation), and Somerleyton Hall, the seat of Lady and Sir +Savile Crossley.</p> +<p>June 18th. Sir John Coode furnished a lengthy report for +improving the South Pier and Haven Works, and the Commissioners +decided to spend £3,650. The Spur Breakwater, of +cement concrete, was estimated to cost £10,600. Sir +John’s first report was dated April, 1873.</p> +<p>June 23rd. Sergt.-Major Britton, who had served nearly +23 years in the army, viz., 18 months in the 17th Hussars and +Military Train respectively, and 21 years in the 9th Regiment, +from which he now retires upon pension, was presented with a +diamond-set gold scarf-pin in case, by his brother +Non-commissioned Officers of the 31st Brigade Depôt, and a +meerschaum pipe by Canteen Steward Welby. He was in the +Crimea for 15 months, and served at the siege of Sebastopol.</p> +<p><a name="page214"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 214</span>June +25th. Dr. J. J. Raven presented with a testimonial by the +scholars of the Grammar School on the anniversary of his +birthday, as a mark of respect to him as their Head Master.</p> +<p>June 29th. Fatal boiler explosion on board the s.s. +“Black Swan,” while in the Cockle Gat, and three men +killed, and one other severely scalded, so much so that he died +in the Yarmouth Hospital on July 13th. The ill-fated +steamer was brought into this port, and an inquest held at the +above Institute.</p> +<p>June 30th. Caister churchyard closed for burials, and a +new Cemetery opened.</p> +<p>June 30th. The smack “Wild Duck” lost at +sea; and on July 3rd the “Tantivy” shared the same +fate. Crews saved.</p> +<p>July 8th. A vote of condolence proposed by the Yarmouth +Town Council to the Empress Eugénie, the Ex-Empress of +France, expressive of the town’s sympathy with her on the +loss of her son (the Prince Imperial) in the Zulu War.</p> +<p>July 14th. The great tenor, Sims Reeves, accompanied by +Miss Brooke and Signor Foli, gave a Concert at the Aquarium, +under the direction of Mr. W. Pyatt. <i>Formosa</i> was +performed the same evening at the Theatre Royal on the opening +night of Mr. A. Terry Hurst’s season.</p> +<p>July 15th. A plague comprising millions of tiny spiders +visited our shores, and exemplified their natural industry. +A similar plague on April 24th, 1880. On Sept. 1st, 1880, +there was a plague of myriads of flies on the beach.</p> +<p>July 18th. Fire at Mr. Smith’s fish office and +premises in Row 123.</p> +<p>July 23rd. A handsome silver épergne, with +glasses for flowers and fruit, and surmounted by a richly-chased +cradle, bearing the Yarmouth Arms and Corporation Insignia, +presented to the Mayor at the Town Hall. On the base of the +épergne is inscribed:—“Presented to E. H. H. +Combe, Esq., by the Justices and Town Council of the Borough of +Great Yarmouth, in commemoration of the birth of a daughter +during <a name="page215"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +215</span>his mayoralty, 1878–9.” The health of +the daughter was drunk in the “loving cup” after the +ceremony.</p> +<p>July 24th. Boat capsized on Breydon, and the four men in +it rescued by a wherryman, named James Paston. The wherry, +however, sunk before they were got ashore, and Paston and his +wife, together with the four men had a narrow escape, but were +all brought to land safely in another boat which went to their +rescue.</p> +<p>July 29th. One hundred and ninety-three building sites +north of the Workhouse, and 18 to west of New Cemetery, belonging +to the Corporation, offered by auction, but only a few found +purchasers.</p> +<p>Aug. The new Police Station at Gorleston built.</p> +<p>Aug. 3rd. A terrible thunderstorm, accompanied by rain +and lightning of a most dangerous character, at early morning, +and lasted for several hours. There were also a gale and +high tide. The lightning destroyed much property, Mr. +Pycraft, of Exmouth Road, being among the greater sufferers, his +residence being wrecked by the electric fluid; and in Gorleston +several houses suffered from the same cause. Many parts of +the district were flooded with water, as the rainfall was 2.43 +inches, equal to 245.414 tons, or 54,972.796 gallons per acre; +and on the square mile, 157,065.139 tons, or 35,182,592.919 +gallons. Mr. W. H. Willis says:—“A dam, 2,000 +feet long and 50 ft. wide, would require the sides and ends to be +about 111 ft. 9 in. high to hold a fall of 2.43 +inches.”</p> +<p>Aug. 8th. A smacksman attempted to murder a woman, named +Alice Sutton, in George Street, by stabbing her several times +with a knife.</p> +<p>Aug. 11th. A young man, named Harvey, saved three +gentlemen whilst bathing from the beach. These made 11 he +has saved from a watery grave.</p> +<p>Aug. 11th to 20th. The British Archæological +Society held their 26th Annual Congress at Yarmouth, under the +presidency of Lord Waveney, D.L., F.R.S., the Mayor being +chairman of the local committee. The opening dinner was +held in the Nelson Room, at <a name="page216"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 216</span>the Star Hotel, and meetings every +evening were convened at the Town Hall. Every place of +interest in the town and neighbourhood were visited in the ten +days.</p> +<p>Aug. 13th. The barque “Zurich” foundered on +Hasbro’. Crew saved.</p> +<p>Aug. 25th. Eighty children baptized at St. Peter’s +Church.</p> +<p>Aug. 27th. Tenders opened for erecting the new Municipal +Buildings. Thirteen were sent in, viz.:—Messrs. +Durrant and Evans, £31,300; T. Howes, £28,572; B. +Springall, £28,208; Hubbard and Co., £27,995; Cornish +and Gaymer, £27,740; I. S. Cooper, £27,650; Bardwell +and Bros., £27,600; E. Howes and Cooper, £27,590; P. +H. Dawes, £27,417; G. E. Howes, £26,900; Jones and +Co., £26,533; H. Everett and Son, £26,000; and Lacey +and Co. (Norwich), £26,200, the latter being +accepted. For building the new Police Station, residence +for chief constable, &c., in Middlegate Street, Mr. +Bray’s tender of £1,447 was accepted.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. R. F. Kemp saved a man from drowning near the +beach, his bravery being afterwards recognised by the Royal +Humane Society.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. The opening of the Yare-side Iron Works at +Southtown celebrated by a dinner to the work people of Messrs. +Alexander and Wright.</p> +<p>Sept. 6th. A rate collector charged with embezzling +£362 18s. 9½d., and afterwards imprisoned for 15 +months. Another collector absconded in Nov., and was +arrested by Inspector Dann at Liverpool, on the 21st.</p> +<p>Sep. 14th. A pike, 43 in. long and 20 in. in girth, +weighing 27 lbs., caught at Cantley.</p> +<p>Sept. 24th and 25th. The seventh annual East of England +Horse Show held at Southtown. This was the second time +Yarmouth had been chosen.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. Tom Massingham, of Newcastle, better known +as “Steeple Jack,” removed the weather-cock off St. +Nicholas’ spire for regilding. This wind-indicator is +141 years old, stands 2 ft. 8 in, in height, <a +name="page217"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 217</span>and is 4 +ft. long. It had not been gilded for 39 years before. +The act was a daring one, as the steeple is 168 feet high. +The steeple is covered with tinned sheet copper.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. Mr. S. Aldred sold by auction the old Town +Hall, Police Station, &c., to be pulled down by purchasers, +which realised a total of £535. The fixtures were +sold previously. The Corporation “reserved to +themselves” the foundation or memorial stone, <i>with its +contents</i>, but this was “conspicuous by its +absence.”</p> +<p>Oct. 1st. The Yarmouth ringers rang 1,008 grandsire +trebles on the Parish Church bells, to celebrate the 84th +birthday of Thomas Gooch, he himself taking the treble. +Gooch was born at Richmond in 1795, and died at Yarmouth in +1883. His late father was steward to George III.</p> +<p>Oct. The hull of the “Iron Duke,” wrecked on +the beach on Nov. 18th, 1841, discovered under the sand opposite +the Aquarium, in a direct line with the third bay from the south +end.</p> +<p>Oct. 4th. Fire on Mr. Robert George’s premises at +Southtown. Damage, £1,150.</p> +<p>Oct. 9th. Gorleston Cemetery consecrated by the Lord +Bishop of Norwich.</p> +<p>Oct. 19th. The Bishop of British Columbia preached at +the Parish Church. (See Nov., 1858.) It is reported +that he has now (1884) resigned the Bishopric.</p> +<p>Nov. 2nd. Loss of the smack “Florence and +Johanna,” and five hands, the vessel being run down on the +fishing grounds. Six other hands were drowned this day in a +gale.</p> +<p>Nov. 1st. The <i>Graphic</i> published a sketch of the +original Peggotty’s Hut in Yarmouth, which was then about +to be demolished.</p> +<p>The poor rate for the year was 3s. 4d.; in 1869 it was 5s. +2d.; in 1873, 4s. 4d.; and in 1877, 3s. 6d.</p> +<p>Nov. 5th. The “Jetty Mills,” St. +George’s Road, purchased by Mr. F. Carpenter for +£1,170, and pulled down.</p> +<p><a name="page218"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 218</span>Nov. +23rd. Mr. Charles Samuel Dale Steward, Parish Churchwarden +from 1848 till 1873, died, aged 77 years. A memorial window +is placed in the Parish Church to his and the late Mr. +Churchwarden Aldred’s memory. Subscriptions for this +amounted to £151 12s. 6d.</p> +<p>Nov. 28th. Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Warren, a +mail-coach driver, died in Row 21, at the advanced age of 104 +years and 8 months.</p> +<p>Nov. 29th. Fire at Mr. W. S. Wigg’s, jeweller, +Regent Street.</p> +<p>Dec. 11th. Rev. Joseph Tongue, Primitive Methodist +Minister, received his B.A. degree at Cambridge University.</p> +<p>Dec. 27th. Miss Jermy, daughter of the late Recorder of +Norwich, died, and was interred in the vault at Wymondham +Churchyard, with the bodies of Isaac Jenny and his son, who were +murdered by Rush. (See Nov. 6th, 1848.)</p> +<p>One hundred and five vessels imported timber here in the year; +112 in 1878; and 104 in 1877.</p> +<p>Marriages: Feb. 20th, Mr. J. Percival Smith, son of J. C. +Smith, Esq., to Miss Eliza Jane Branch.—Aug. 20th, Rev. A. +Aldred, rector of Worlingham, to Miss M. O. Clowes.—Sept. +2nd, H. Harvey-George, Esq., to Jessie, second daughter of Robert +Hewett, Esq.</p> +<p>Deaths: Feb. 27th, Lieut.-Col. FitzRoy, J.P.—March 22nd, +T. W. Gooda, Esq., T.C., aged 72.—April 6th, Sir Thomas B. +Beevor, Bart., aged 81.—April 23rd, William Wright, Esq., +architect and builder, aged 69.—May 5th, Captain J. +Emerson, harbour master, aged 62.—May 26th, Philip Pullen, +Esq., J.P., aged 87.—June 10th, Mr. W. H. Hunt, aged +72.—June 25th, Mr. James Burman, bell ringer and late +parish clerk, aged 64.—July 20th, Mary, mother of Mr. J. H. +Harrison, aged 87.</p> +<p>Launches: April 24th, smacks “Magpie” and +“Greyhound.”—May 27th, Mr. Morgan’s yacht +“Gnat.”—Sept. 8th, smack +“Leonard.”—Sept. 16th, fishing boat +“Promise.”</p> +<h3><a name="page219"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +219</span>1880.</h3> +<p>Jan. The Bure Preservation Society established.</p> +<p>Jan. 3rd. Schooner “Kate,” of Yarmouth, +wrecked.</p> +<p>Jan. 13th. Fire at Mr. Pond’s shop, King Street; +and on Jan. 30th a fire on the fishing premises of Mr. Joseph +Ellis, Middle Market Road.</p> +<p>Feb. 21st. Major James Henry Orde, 2nd N.R.V., of Hopton +Hall, Suffolk, son of the late General and Lady Elizabeth Orde, +died, aged 49.</p> +<p>March 18th. A sad accident happened in the Market +Place. Mr. Johnson’s horses, in a mourning coach, ran +away, and overtaking a walking funeral (Mrs. Thompson’s), +came in contact with the bearers, one of whom was knocked over +and the coffin thrown to the ground. Damage was also done +to some of the shops in the Butchery by the runaways.</p> +<p>March 20th. Fire on board the smack “Young +Harry” whilst at sea, and several fishermen injured.</p> +<p>April 7th. The Parliamentary Election for East Suffolk, +which includes Gorleston and Southtown, took place, and resulted +as follows:—Lord Rendlesham (C.), 4,239 votes; Colonel F. +S. N. Barne (C.), 3,620; Mr. R. L. Everett (L.), 3,502. The +two first-named were re-elected. This election cost the two +Conservative candidates £1,921 6s. each, and Mr. Everett, +£1,230 13s. 2d.</p> +<p>April. The first dissolution of Parliament since March +5th, 1874. Although Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and E. +Birkbeck, Esq., were returned to Parliament for North Norfolk +without opposition, their expenses were £325 16s. 5d., +including £87 for agency.</p> +<p>April 8th. Mr. T. P. George presented with a massive +marble timepiece by the teachers of St. Nicholas’ Sunday +School.</p> +<p>April 20th. The principal corner-stone (3 tons in +weight), of the new Town Hall and Municipal Buildings was laid by +the Mayor (C. C. Aldred, Esq.), in the presence of the +Corporation and a large number of ladies and gentlemen. The +Mayor was presented with a richly-chased silver trowel +appropriately inscribed. In the cavity of the stone was +deposited in two stone bottles, “Crisp’s +Chronological History of <a name="page220"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 220</span>Yarmouth” (<span +class="GutSmall">A.D.</span> 46 to 1879 inclusive); <i>Times</i>, +April 20th; <i>Yarmouth Independent and Gazette</i>, April 17th; +<i>Builder</i>, Feb. 22nd, 1879; <i>Building News</i>, Sept. +27th, 1878; a sequence of coin, from a sovereign to a farthing +(exclusive of a crown and fourpenny-piece); photograph of Old +Town Hall; Council’s Committee Book and statement of date +of laying the principal stone, with the names of the Building +Committee. (See May 31st, 1882.)</p> +<p>April 27th. Mr. William Smith, 20 years sick steward of +the Good Samaritan Lodge (M.U.O.O.), presented with a silver +watch and gold Albert chain and appendages by the brotherhood as +a memento of esteem; and on June 15th Bro. R. Ladbroke, eight +years treasurer to the Marquis of Lorne Lodge, presented with a +marble timepiece.</p> +<p>May. R. Martins and S. Nightingale, jun., Esqs., +appointed Borough Magistrates by the Lord Chancellor.</p> +<p>May 4th. Marriage of Mr. W. Teasdel with Alice, second +daughter of J. E. Barnby, Esq.; June 3rd, F. J. Irwin with Kate, +third daughter of Mr. Barnby; and on Oct. 12th Mr. Edgar Barnby +with Edith Mary, third daughter of the late J. W. Bunn, Esq.</p> +<p>May 8th. The Mayor (C. C. Aldred, Esq.) and Dr. Mayo +thrown out of a dog cart on Regent Road, caused by a runaway +horse.</p> +<p>May 19th to 21st. Visit to Yarmouth of the Duke of +Edinburgh, as Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Reserve, and +considerable <i>éclat</i> was given to the occasion. +The Duke also paid a flying visit to this town by the North +Norfolk Railway on Nov. 24th.</p> +<p>May 22nd. St. Nicholas’ Church broken into by +thieves.</p> +<p>May 25th. St. Nicholas’ change bell ringers rang, +in 1 hr. 20 min., on the eight large Parish Church bells (the +tenor 31 cwt.), 1,880 changes of Bob major, composed and +conducted by William Lee.</p> +<p>May 26th. A Royal sturgeon, six feet long and weighing +eleven stone, brought in by the cutter “British +Lion.”</p> +<p><a name="page221"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +221</span>June. The Steward memorial drinking fountain +removed to the Marine Parade.</p> +<p>June 15th. Mr. S. Sparrow, 14 years hon. treasurer to +Court Star of West (A.I.O.F.), presented by the brotherhood with +a silver watch, suitably inscribed.</p> +<p>June 17th. Opening of the new Congregational School Room +and Lecture Hall, South Howard Street. Cost, with fittings, +£3,000.</p> +<p>June 29th. A handsome brass-bound family Bible presented +to Bro. Spanton, 10 years auditor to the St. Nicholas’ +Lodge (N.O.O.), as a memento of esteem.</p> +<p>June 31st. J. Worlledge, Esq., resigned his position as +County Court Judge. On Nov. 6th he was presented with an +illuminated address, with 153 signatures. He died on July +19th, 1881. T. B. Bristowe, Esq., Q.C., was appointed Judge +on July 28th.</p> +<p>July 1st. Captain Giles, A Company, 2nd N.R.V., +presented with a testimonial in commemoration of his marriage by +his brother officers and privates.</p> +<p>July 16th. The new Drill Hall, for the 1st Norfolk +Artillery Volunteers, opened. The hall is 73 ft. by 40 ft., +with orderly and committee rooms attached, each 17 by 13 ft.</p> +<p>July 20th. The first Gorleston Marine Regatta held in +the South Ham and Roadstead.</p> +<p>July. On the retirement of Mr. S. Swarbrick from the +office of General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway, Mr. +William Birt, many years Goods Manager, succeeded to the +post. Mr. Swarbrick was presented with a service of silver +plate, value 250 guineas, by the heads of the department.</p> +<p>Aug. 14th. The <i>Yarmouth Independent</i> permanently +enlarged. (See July 28th, 1855.)</p> +<p>Aug. 20th. Fire at Messrs. R. and A. Brown’s +fishing premises, Friar’s Lane.</p> +<p>Sept. Mr. E. Hawkins resigned the management of the +Southtown Tramway, and was succeeded by Mr. George Wright.</p> +<p>Sept. 3rd. The mail steamer “Grantully +Castle” passed outside the sands on a voyage from Leith to +Gravesend, having on board the Hon. William E. <a +name="page222"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 222</span>Gladstone +and family. About 50 Yarmouth gentlemen went out in the tug +“Meteor” to present him with an address of +congratulation upon his convalescence.</p> +<p>Sept. Part of the original MSS. of +“Swinden’s History of Yarmouth” and +“Manship’s History” purchased by T. P. +Burroughs, Esq., F.S.A. (See 1772).</p> +<p>Sept. 18th. The old wooden Grand Stand on the South +Denes totally destroyed by fire.</p> +<p>Oct. 2nd. The three-masted schooner +“Curlew,” with her captain and four of the crew, lost +off Yarmouth, the result of a collision.</p> +<p>Oct. 4th. Heavy gale and loss of the lugger +“Ebenezer” on the South Beach. About £400 +worth of damage done to South Pier. On the 29th there was +another gale, and many men injured and drowned at sea as well as +great destruction of fishing property. The Yarmouth +schooners “John Snell” and “Isis” +lost. The smacks “Expert,” “Luna,” +“Mystery,” “Harry,” and +“Defiance” each lost six hands. The Swedish +barque “Systers,” which came into port after the gale +in a wretched state of dilapidation, was the best criterion of +what she had encountered. The “Systers” was +valued at £927 14s. 1d., and salvors were awarded +£384. She was sold in London on Feb. 1st, for +£295.</p> +<p>Oct. 7th. The wine and spirit stores and building site +of Messrs. S. Grimmer and Co., at the south-east corner of Regent +Street, sold by auction, and realized £5,300, but was +afterwards re-sold to Mr. Bayfield by private contract.</p> +<p>Oct. 15th. The resident Inspector at the Vauxhall +Station (Mr. Reeve) run over by a train and killed.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th. The Rev. R. Nicholson, founder of the +Boys’ and Girls’ Homes, presented with a public +subscription (£61) prior to leaving the town.</p> +<p>Oct. 18th. A petty juryman fined £5 for refusing +to appear at the Quarter Sessions when summoned.</p> +<p>Oct. 24th. Great communion at the Parish Church, and +1,102 persons partook of the Sacrament this day.</p> +<p><a name="page223"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 223</span>Oct. +30th. A lad named Charles Meffin (15) fell from the inner +scaffolding at the new Town Hall (26 ft.), and died from injuries +received.</p> +<p>Oct. Cornelius Harley Christmas, a native of this town, +whose property was sworn under £60,000, willed +£15,800 to the poor of Great Yarmouth <i>for ever</i>, the +yearly interest of which was upwards of £770, which sum was +to be divided and spent every year, the week before Christmas, in +coal, bread, and money. The £770 was reduced by other +expenses to £696, viz., £199 for bread, £398 +for coal, and £99 in money, to be distributed in wards, +namely, North and South Wards each £100 coal, £50 +bread, and £24 in money; Market, Regent, and St. +George’s each £66 coal, £33 bread, and +£17 in money. Not more than 2 cwt. of coal, 1s. in +bread, and 1s. to 2s. in money, to be given to one house. +But “if difficulties arose through litigation, the property +to be realised, and the money to be distributed among the poor of +Yarmouth, not more than £20 to occupier of each +house.” This year nearly 8,000 cwts. of coal, 16,000 +loaves, and more than £100 in money was distributed among +6,000 families, but Mr. Christmas’ death occurring +afterwards (see Feb. 4th, 1881) the gift was passed into +Chancery, and the poor will have to wait its resuscitation before +they get further aid. Other charities were to be +benefited. (See Feb. 4th, 1881).</p> +<p>Nov. 4th. Several uproarious meetings of the Board of +Guardians commenced, relative to the election of a registrar of +births and deaths for the South District.</p> +<p>Nov. 8th. First burial in Yarmouth under the New Burial +Law; and on Dec. 27th, the first Nonconformist was buried in the +churchyard without the rite of the Church of England.</p> +<p>Nov. 6th. Mr. B. Press elected as an Alderman in place +of Mr. P. Case, resigned.</p> +<p>Nov. The beautifully-carved pulpit (designed by the +Vicar) in the Parish Church finished. It cost £579 +14s., and was 3½ years in making.</p> +<p>Nov. 25th. Mr. Waters presented with a marble timepiece +by the senior members of St. James’ choir.</p> +<p><a name="page224"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 224</span>Dec. +23rd. That “a cat has nine lives” was partly +verified by the fact that a feline was accidentally nailed under +the floor at 47, South Quay, for three weeks without food, and +was taken out alive.</p> +<p>Dec. 25th. The dead body of a woman named Harriet +Parsons (60), of Norwich, found on Yarmouth Beach. Her +husband left her for 27 years, and she, believing him dead, in +the interval married again; and her first husband’s return +home is supposed to have caused her to commit suicide.</p> +<p>Dec. 26th. Mr. H. T. Stonex ordained by the Bishop of +Bath and Wells, and licensed to a curacy at Taunton.</p> +<p>Launches: Jan., smack “Nellie”; Jan. 28th, smack +“Silver Dart”; May 3rd, smacks “Busy Bee” +and “Edith Mary”; May 10th, smack +“Greenheys”; Sept. 27th, smack “Francis”; +Nov. 6th, fish carrier “Bessie”; Nov. 22nd, cutter +“Phœnix.”</p> +<p>Marriages: March 31st, Rev. G. Merriman, of Martham, to Miss +E. S. Steward; May 20th, Mr. G. W. Giles to Miss A. E. L. Blake; +June 8th, R. E. Pinhey, Esq., to Emily Gertrude, eldest daughter +of F. Palmer, Esq., J.P.; Oct. 21st, Mr. E. H. Morgan to Miss E. +K. Press, of Southtown.</p> +<p>Deaths: Feb. 5th, Mr. Marcus John Grimmer, aged 63; Feb. 23rd, +Mr. Thos. Todd, boatowner, aged 52; March 11th, Mr. Walter J. +Lincoln, Town Hall keeper, aged 48; March 13th, Mr. Geo. +Hastings, boat builder; May 28th, Wm. Danby Palmer, Esq., of +Southtown, aged 46, June, Daniel Gurney, Esq., at North Runcton, +aged 89; July 1st, Arthur G. W. Neale, B.A., aged 23; Aug. +27th. Hezekiah Martin, Esq., aged 86; Sept. 22nd, Mr. Wm. +Hewke, many years head master at the Hospital School, aged 68; +Oct. 19th, John Wilton Shelly, J.P., aged 70; Oct. 21st, Dr. J. +Baily, aged 74; Dec., Frank Buckland, Esq., H.M’s. +Inspector of Fisheries, aged 54.</p> +<h3>1881.</h3> +<p>Jan. 6th. Mr. W. H. Willis, boat owner of Gorleston, +presented with a handsome timepiece by the Pilot Lodge +(M.U.O.O.), of which he was hon. sec.</p> +<p><a name="page225"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +225</span>Jan. The Local Government Board consented to lend +the Corporation £2,000 for wood and concrete pavements, the +money spent in wood to be refunded in 15 years, and that for +concreting in 20 years.</p> +<p>Jan. New Coastguard House on Gorleston Pier erected.</p> +<p>Jan. 7th. Mr. Robert Warner’s sail and net stores +at Gorleston destroyed by fire; damage about £3,500; and on +Jan. 26th a large fire at Mr. C. Seiver’s net chamber, at +Gorleston. March 28th, one occurred at Mr. T. +Gallant’s, “William the IV.” public house, +Gorleston.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th. The North End Mission Room opened.</p> +<p>Jan. 11th. A large gallery in the north-west aisle of +St. Nicholas’ Church removed.</p> +<p>Jan. 17th. Mr. C. H. Wiltshire elected an Alderman in +the place of the late Mr. R. S. Watling.</p> +<p>Jan. 18th. One of the worst gales experienced in the +present generation, when six out of a crew of nine brave beachmen +and a volunteer lost their lives by the upsetting of the surf +lifeboat “Abraham Thomas” whilst trying to rescue the +mate of the schooner “Guiding Star” (Thomas Jones), +whose vessel was stranded on the South Beach, opposite the +Asylum. Jones was also lost out of the lifeboat. +Highway traffic and the Great Eastern Railway was blocked for 24 +hours. About 50 lives were lost off this coast. +Besides the “Guiding Star,” the schooners +“Rhoda,” and “Sarah Jane,” the French +ketch “Manne du Ciel,” and the brig “Battle of +Corunna” were driven ashore, and from the last-named, in +the South Ham, seven hands, including a woman, were +drowned. The names of the men in the lifeboat who were +drowned were J. Ditcham (30), H. Masterson (15), J. Sherwood +(44), Robert Symonds (37), Charles Henry Beckett (21), and +William Green (whose body was not recovered), leaving 4 widows +and 22 children. On the day of the interment (24th) +thousands of people filled the Parish Church, and lined the route +to the New Cemetery. At the funeral service the organ +played the “Dead March” in <i>Samson</i>, and the +Mayoress (Mrs. T. B. Steward) placed a beautiful floral wreath <a +name="page226"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 226</span>upon each +of the coffins before they entered the church. The funeral +<i>cortège</i> comprised five separate hearses, and +thirteen mourning coaches with the relatives. The +subscriptions raised for the relief of the widows and orphans +reached over £3,000. The four survivors among the +lifeboat men were W. Haylett, coxswain, W. Davey, R. Brown, and +W. P. Smith.</p> +<p>Jan. Mr. W. G. Poll, of Yarmouth, and Mr. A. E. +Richmond, of Southtown, passed their preliminary examinations of +the Pharmaceutical Society.</p> +<p>Feb. 4th. Mr. C. H. Christmas died at Yarmouth, aged 86 +years. (See Oct., 1880.)</p> +<p>Feb. Mr. W. H. Cowl, solicitor, awarded the special +prizes of the “Timphron Martin” and “John +Atkinson” gold medals for 1880.</p> +<p>Feb. 11th. The stoker on board the steam tug +“Victoria,” Robert Jackman (46), accidentally killed +after towing the Norwegian steamer “Norma” (652 tons +register) on to Gorleston beach the day before, where she became +a total wreck.</p> +<p>Feb. 11th. School Board Election. The following +candidates were returned:—Messrs. Palgrave, Peaton, Moxon, +Johnson, Dowson, Waters, Worlledge, Leach (Mrs.), Bately, Splain, +and Tomkins. (See Feb., 1875.)</p> +<p>Feb. 12th. Marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, with +W. Ashmead Bartlett, Esq., in London.</p> +<p>March. A fine shark, 7 ft. long, brought to the +Fishwharf.</p> +<p>March 5th. Total loss of the Yarmouth schooner +“Princess Royal” and all hands.</p> +<p>March 14th. Charles Crawshaw Wilkinson, inventor of the +perforated stamp sheets, died at Yarmouth, aged 79 years. +(See 1850.)</p> +<p>April. Lieut.-Col. Sir E. Lacon resigned his commission +in the 2nd East Norfolk Militia, but retains the rank of hon. +colonel.</p> +<p>April 18th to May 7th. The first National Fisheries +Exhibition at Norwich, and many contributions were sent from +Yarmouth.</p> +<p><a name="page227"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +227</span>April. The census of Yarmouth and Gorleston taken +by 22 enumerators. Population of the Borough, 44,782, +including 8,903 in Gorleston and Southtown, viz., 24,447 females +and 20,335 males (many men at sea not included). Number of +houses and buildings, 10,098. The increase on the past ten +years was 7,009.</p> +<p>April 19th. The intelligence of the death this day of +Earl Beaconsfield, in his 76th year, was received here with +manifestations of sorrow. The very first flag hoisted on +the New Town Hall, was half-mast, and that in respect to the +memory of the deceased. This day is now known as +“Primrose Day,” when the primrose is extensively used +as a button-hole throughout the nation.</p> +<p>April 19th. The Rev. Bowyer Vaux, M.A., presented with a +massive chased silver tea tray, together with an address on +vellum, by the congregation of St. Peter’s Church, as a +token of esteem, he having been minister there for 35 years.</p> +<p>April 28th. Opening of the New Organ at the +Temple. It was built by Mr. W. C. Mack, of this town.</p> +<p>May 1st. Boat accident on Breydon, when William +Hawkins. John McPhee, and Louis Feekins lost their lives by +being drowned.</p> +<p>May 5th. Inspector Brogden elected Chief Constable for +the Borough on the resignation of Mr. Joseph Ogden.</p> +<p>May 7th. Col.-Sergt. Fenton, E.N.M., presented with a +silver cup by his late Captain, Major Lacon, for efficient +services.</p> +<p>May 11th. The new Northgate Board Schools, in Ramp Row, +opened. The site is 195 ft. by 150 ft., and the buildings, +of red brick, set in dark mortar joints, are of a Gothic +character. They cost, with fittings, legal expenses, +&c., £5,660, and will accommodate 610 children.</p> +<p>May. On the removal of Mr. J. W. Keogh, collector of +Customs at this port, Mr. J. Robertson was promoted to +Yarmouth.</p> +<p><a name="page228"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 228</span>June +8th. The magnificent three-mast steam yacht +“Northumbria,” 456 tons, belonging to Lord Lonsdale, +came into harbour, and was inspected by the Prince of +Wales. Her crew comprised 25 hands.</p> +<p>June 9th to 11th. The third visit to Yarmouth of H.R.H. +the Prince of Wales, who was joined here by H.R.H. the Duke of +Cambridge, K.G., and other distinguished visitors. (See +June 6th, 1882.)</p> +<p>June 10th. The Rev. E. C. Kemp, M.A., Incumbent of St. +George’s Chapel, died at Yarmouth, aged 87. Dr. J. J. +Raven, head master of the Grammar School, succeeded him as +minister.</p> +<p>June 18th. W. Brewer’s Spanish bitch had a litter +of 11 pups, and the previous Nov. she had 12, making 28 in 8 +months.</p> +<p>June 18th. E. A. Ducket and F. H. S. Raven took their +B.A. degrees at Cambridge.</p> +<p>June. The Lord Chancellor of England appointed Francis +Roxburgh, Esq., Q.C., to be the Judge of the County Courts of the +district, in place of S. B. Bristowe, Esq., Q.C., +transferred.</p> +<p>June 18th. The smack “Excellent” lost on the +Dutch coast.</p> +<p>June 27th. Isaac Hill, T. Saul, L. Blake, and A. Palmer, +Esqs., took the oath as Borough Magistrates.</p> +<p>July. Mr. C. J. Wiltshire, son of C. H. Wiltshire, Esq., +passed the intermediate examination of the Law Society.</p> +<p>July 9th. Review of nearly 60,000 Volunteers in Windsor +Park by the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. +Eleven officers and 309 men of the Yarmouth Corps attended. +The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Sir Garnet +Wolseley, and others rode down the lines.</p> +<p>July 12th. New Grand Stand, South Denes, first +opened. (See Sept. 18th, 1880.)</p> +<p>July 14th. The wife of Mr. A. E. Blagg, Market Row, +unfortunately knocked down and killed by a railway truck while +passing over the level crossing on the Southtown Road.</p> +<p><a name="page229"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 229</span>July +19th. John Worlledge, Esq., late County Court Judge, died +at Brooklyn, Ipswich, aged 72 years. (See June 31st, +1880.)</p> +<p>July 19th. The Duke of Argyle and Admiral Hamilton +landed here from the Trinity yacht “Galatea.”</p> +<p>July 23rd. Another fire at Mr. R. Kemp’s premises +at Gorleston, and damage estimated at £2,000; also on Dec. +8th (the sixth) on fishing premises.</p> +<p>July. The new valuation lists completed, and the town +re-assessed, much to the dissatisfaction of many +ratepayers. Oct. 3rd. Messrs. Lacons’ brewery +assessed at £2,100 gross, on an estimated rental of +£1,400. The brewery occupies la. 0r. 25p. On an +appeal before the Recorder in June, 1882, these sums were +reduced.</p> +<p>July. Mr. A. E. Gunton passed his preliminary +examination in Pharmacy.</p> +<p>July 28th. Mr. Thos. Womack Branford, boat builder and +inventor of a plan for speedily launching a boat from a +ship’s deck, died at Burgh, aged 72 years.</p> +<p>July 28th. Mr. A. W. Morant died at Leeds, aged 53 +years. (See March, 1856.)</p> +<p>Aug. 22nd. The Market tolls let by auction for five +years to Mr. Percy, of London, at £970 per annum. +They had let hitherto for £925 a year.</p> +<p>Sept. 17th. A viper, 25 inches long, killed at Caister, +and found to have a common rat in its stomach.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd. Captain Brown, 2nd N.R.V., presented with a +handsome marble and bronze clock and a pair of bronzes to match, +as a memento of esteem on his retirement from the corps.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd. Rev. C. M. Hardy, B.A., ordained the +minister of the Park Baptist Chapel in place of Rev. W. +Vincent.</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. Mr. W. P. Creak, T.C., presented with a +silver épergne by the teachers and officers of the Free +Church Sunday School.</p> +<p>Oct. 9th. St. Nicholas’ Church again broken into, +and the contents of the collection boxes rifled. (See May +22nd, 1880.)</p> +<p><a name="page230"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 230</span>Oct. +14th. Heavy gale, great destruction of property, and about +120 men and boys lost at sea. Nov. 26th we were visited +with another gale.</p> +<p>Oct. The Town Council discussed the advisability of +raising £30,000 by shares for carrying out a new dock +scheme.</p> +<p>Oct. 31st. The Royal Aquarium put up to public auction, +but withdrawn. It was subsequently purchased for +£5,000 by Messrs. F. Carpenter, William Barnard, S. Gunton, +and O. Diver. (See July 2nd, 1883.)</p> +<p>Nov. 11th. The s.s. “Fairy,” plying between +this port and the Tyne, sunk off Flamborough Head, the result of +a collision.</p> +<p>Nov. A challenge trophy provided for the 1st +N.A.V. It is an excellent model, value 50 guineas, +representing a 64-pounder M.L.R. gun on a temporary sleigh. +(See Challenge cup, 1883.)</p> +<p>Nov. A mackerel, 20 in. long, 10½ in. girth, and +weighing 2¾ lbs., and another 17 inches long, brought in +from sea.</p> +<p>Dec. 10th. Fire on board the fishing boat +“Eureka” at the Fish Wharf, causing the death of one +of the crew.</p> +<p>Dec. The wife of Police-constable Allcock gave birth to +triplets.</p> +<p>Dec. 29th. Edward Killington, formerly of this town, +died in London, and bequeathed £1,000 to St. John’s +Church, £500 to Sailors’ Home, £300 to Yarmouth +Hospital, and £100 to National Lifeboat Institution.</p> +<p>The Great Eastern Railway conveyed in 1881 more fish inland +than any other line, viz., 60,314 tons, and this town, among the +ports it serves, provided the largest supply. By rail from +Yarmouth, 32,696 tons; in 1879, 28,263; and in 1880, +31,238. In 1881, Lowestoft sent 23,019 tons.</p> +<p>Launches: Jan. 4th, smack “Serapis;” March 14th, +the fishing boats “Young Florence” and the +“William;” Aug. 2nd, the cutter +“Gorleston;” Sept. 5th, smack +“Success.”</p> +<p><a name="page231"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +231</span>Marriages: July 13th, James Hurry, son of the late +Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., to Miss Ellen Boardman, of +Stratford.—July 19th, Rev. D. W. Evans to Miss Alice Graham +Lacon.—Oct. 4th, Edward P., son of P. E. Back, Esq., to +Miss Ellen R. Shales.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 5th, R. S. Watling, Esq., J.P., aged +70.—March 16th, Herr A. S. Dorla, bandmaster of the +P.W.O. Artillery Militia, aged 61.—April 15th, +Charles Venables, brother of the Vicar of Yarmouth, at Taplow, +aged 61.—April 17th, Eliza, wife of K. Harvey, Esq., and +daughter of the late Sir Edward K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., at Bath, +aged 75.—April 19th, Judith, wife of James Hurry Palmer, +Esq., aged 62.—Oct. 10th, Harriet, widow of the late Graham +Lacon, Esq.—Nov. 12th, Mr. H. Hunt, watchmaker, Broad Row, +aged 87.</p> +<h3>1882.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd. Mr. Henry H. Baker, town surveyor for nearly +20 years, died, aged 52 years. He succeeded Mr. Morant on +his resignation in Nov., 1864. On Feb. 14th, Mr. J. W. +Cockrill was appointed town surveyor.</p> +<p>Jan. 9th. First annual tea given to 600 aged poor people +at the Drill Hall, inaugurated by Mr. T. C. Foreman.</p> +<p>Jan. 30th. James Hall, better known as +“Jigger” Hall, died in the workhouse. He was +one put upon his trial with Mapes and Royal for the murder of +Mrs. Chandler, and acquitted. Hall was the last survivor of +the accused. (See Nov. 18th, 1844.)</p> +<p>Jan. 31st. Silver wedding day of Mr. C. Woolverton +celebrated by a dinner to his workpeople.</p> +<p>Feb. 18th. Rev. G. Venables, S.C.L., vicar of Yarmouth, +was collated and instituted by the Bishop of Norwich to the +office or place of an Honorary Canon in the Cathedral Church at +Norwich, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. F. Patteson.</p> +<p>Feb. 28th. Loss of the steamer “Livadia” +(1,447 tons) on the Middle Cross Sands, and 24 of her crew +drowned, the boatman (Thomas Sewell, brother of the captain of +the local tug “United Service”) being the only +survivor, who was bravely rescued by the <a +name="page232"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 232</span>Gorleston +Volunteer Lifeboat “Revenge.” A subscription +was made for the 14 lifeboatmen by Mrs. Bowler, who gave them +each one guinea, and the National Institution awarded +£20. On March 12th, a lifeboat, marked +“Livadia,” was picked up in the North Sea with three +dead bodies in it.</p> +<p>March 2nd. Hannah Sarah, relict of the late T. +Brightwen, Esq., died at Fritton, aged 73 years. +Deceased’s personal estate was sworn under +£50,000. She bequeathed £6,000 to the perpetual +endowments of St. Andrew’s and St. James’ Churches; +£500 to the Yarmouth Hospital, and numerous legacies to +friends and dependants.</p> +<p>March. A leather bag, containing cheques and documents, +value £6,000, dredged up at sea by the smack +“Nelson,” of this port. The bag was lost out of +the steamer “Annie Arbib,” which foundered in the +North Sea in Nov., 1881.</p> +<p>March 6th. A “scene” in the Police Court +over the appeals against the Poor-rate. Six magistrates +left the Bench, and a “warm discussion” ensued.</p> +<p>March. E. W. Worlledge, Esq., appointed by the Lord +Chancellor to be a Commissioner to administer oaths in the +Supreme Court of Judicature.</p> +<p>March. Mr. F. E. Bowler presented with a handsome +timepiece and an illuminated address by the assistants in Messrs. +Chamberlins and Co.’s establishment, as a token of esteem +on his 50th birthday.</p> +<p>March 31st. The Rev. A. R. Abbott, B.A., instituted to +the vicarage and parish church of Gorleston and Southtown, on his +own petition.</p> +<p>April 3rd. Fire in Mr. S. Randell’s stock room, +Market Row. Damage about £30.</p> +<p>April 29th. Heavy gale, which played sad havoc among the +fishing craft, those entirely lost with all hands including the +“Jester,” “Phœnix,” and +“Olive Leaf.”</p> +<p>April. Mr. A. Linder, of this town, chosen pier-master +at Skegness, out of 76 candidates. On May 5th he was +presented with a purse of £18 13s., as a mark of respect by +the patrons of the Wellington Pier.</p> +<p><a name="page233"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 233</span>May +9th. The Town Council moved addresses of congratulation to +the Duke and Duchess of Albany on their marriage on April 27th; +and congratulation to the Queen.</p> +<p>May 18th. The Wellington Pier sold by auction to Mr. +Chappell for £890, but through some discrepancy in the +transfer the bid was withdrawn.</p> +<p>May 18th. Launch at Southtown of a new iron paddle boat, +100 ft. long, breadth 14 ft. 2 in., depth 7 ft., and owned by Mr. +R. J. Blyth. It was built by Mr. H. E. Wright, Yare-side +Iron Works, and Miss Wright christened it +“Jumbo.”</p> +<p>May 30th. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales paid a fourth visit +to this town, and left on June 2nd.</p> +<p>May 31st. Opening of the New Town Hall and Municipal +Buildings by the Prince of Wales, the ceremony being on a very +grand scale. Three hundred and fifty guests were invited to +the <i>déjeuner</i>, including the Mayor of Yarmouth and +the Lord Mayor of London, Lords Aylesford, Suffield, Rendlesham, +and Carpington; Sir H. Clifford, Sir E. Lacon, Sir H. +Bedingfield, Sir R. J. Buxton, Sir T. Boileau, Sir T. Beevor, +Admiral Sir H. Keppel, Colonel Teesdale, E. Birkbeck, Esq., +&c. In the evening there a grand display of fireworks +on the Britannia Pier. The Hall was designed by J. B. +Pearce, Esq., and the contractors Messrs. J. W. Lacey, of +Norwich. The total cost was £35,764, as +follows:—Building contract, £26,200; extras on +building, new works, and fittings, £4,442 11s. 1d.; +architect’s commission, £1,705 10s. 9d.; Clerk of +Works, £417 5s.; Norman and Son, furniture and fittings, +£1,177 7s. 9d.; Mr. Finch, ditto, £592 1s. 5d.; +Chamberlins and Co., linoleum, £351 9s.; Aldred and Son, +clock, £361 15s.; Mr. Keable, blinds, £26 15s. 3d.; +Ellis and Son, mats, £22 15s. 10d.; decorations, opening +ceremony, £28; premiums on designs for Town Hall, +£70; foundation stone and the laying, £46 5s. 1d.; +expenses of opening ceremony, £38 9s. 4d.; travelling +expenses to inspect other Town Halls, £29 5s. 4d.; +solicitor to H.M.’s Treasury, £17 6s. 10d.; +miscellaneous charges and expenses, £239 14s. 6d. +(See April 20th, 1880.)</p> +<p><a name="page234"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 234</span>May +31st. John Mooring, captain of the maintop of H.M.S. +“Thunderer,” at the Battle of Trafalgar, died at the +Yarmouth Naval Hospital, aged 102 years.</p> +<p>May. The Union Railway, from the Beach Station to the +North Quay, completed.</p> +<p>May. Surgeon-Major C. C. Aldred resigned after 29 years +his commission in the 2nd Brigade (E.D.) Royal Artillery. +On April 24th, 1883, Mr. Aldred was presented with a pair of +silver cups, on which was inscribed:—“Presented to +Surgeon-Major Aldred, on his retirement from the regiment, by +H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., and the officers who have +served and are serving in the P.W.O. Norfolk Artillery +Militia.” (See June 28th, 1884.)</p> +<p>May. Capt. Combe, promoted to the rank of Major in the +2nd Norfolk Rifle Corps.</p> +<p>May. Count Bismarck, son of Prince Bismarck, visited +Yarmouth.</p> +<p>June 7th. Thos. George Wooden (15) died through being +crashed by the buffer of a railway carriage at the Southtown +Station.</p> +<p>July 17th. Mr. S. J. B. Batchelder, hon. sec. of Court +Star of West (A.O.F.), presented with a marble clock and an +illuminated list of subscribers for several years good +service.</p> +<p>July 25th. Mr. J. T. Waters, ten years choir master of +St. James’ Church, presented with a handsome silver keyless +chronometer.</p> +<p>July 27th. Sham fight between 2,000 men belonging to the +Royal Naval Reserves, 1st Norfolk Artillery, and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, +and 4th Norfolk Rifles on the North Denes, in the presence of +2,000 or 3,000 people.</p> +<p>Aug. 18th. John Bracey, Esq., J.P., T.C., whilst out +celebrating his 52nd birthday, with his family, at Fritton, died +suddenly. On Dec. 13th, the mother of the above, and wife +of J. T. Bracey, Esq., died, aged 68. (See April 19th, +1859.)</p> +<p>Sept. 5th. The Army and Navy Tavern, Blackfriars’ +Road, sold by auction for £2,100, and £68 +fixtures.</p> +<p><a name="page235"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 235</span>Sept. +5th. Commander Parker, R.N., presented with a handsome +silver and polished oak salad bowl as a mark of esteem by the +Caister Life-Saving Volunteer Corps; and on Sept. 23rd, the +Gorleston L.S.V.C. gave him a marble timepiece and bronze +ornaments; and Commander Parker presented the chief officer with +a beautiful clock, and chief boatman Bridgeland with a book, +“The World of Wit and Humour.”</p> +<p>Sept. 29th. £11,247 8s. 8d. had been expended on +the Gorleston Spur Breakwater. £6,000 more required +to complete the work.</p> +<p>Sept. 30th. This being the eve of the 88th birthday of +the veteran ringer, Thomas Gooch, a merry peal was rung on the +Parish Church bells. (See Aug. 27th, 1883.)</p> +<p>Sept. The council decided to allow the Tolhouse Hall to +be retained by the Archæological Society, as a monument of +antiquity, and the trustees subsequently accepted Mr. R. +Davy’s contract (£485) for its restoration.</p> +<p>Oct. 3rd. St. John’s Church organ, after being +enlarged and renovated by Mr. W. C. Mack, was opened. It +has two manuals CC to F 54 notes, and pedal CCC to F 30 notes; 18 +stops and 726 pipes, viz.:—Great organ, 408 pipes, swell, +288, and pedal, 30. The anchor lashed to a cross on the +front panel of the case was designed by Mr. Chas. Harrison (a +local artist of wide-spread popularity), and carved by Mr. +Homes.</p> +<p>Oct. 10th and 11th. Board of Trade Fisheries Enquiry at +the Town Hall, by Messrs. C. M. Norwood, M.P., E. Birkbeck, M.P., +E. Heneage, M.P., Alderman Leak (Mayor of Hull), and T. Gray, +sec. of the Marine Department.</p> +<p>Oct. 11th. St. George’s Chapel re-opened after +extensive renovation, inside and out, at a total cost of +£1,700.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th. Mr. G. R. Ceiley rewarded by the Humane +Society for bravely saving the lives of James Simonds at +Yarmouth, and four persons at Lowestoft.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. Cabmen’s shelter placed on the Hall +Quay.</p> +<p><a name="page236"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 236</span>Oct. +24th. Heavy gale. Loss of the lugger “Edward +and Ellen,” smack “Nancy,” the Yarmouth +brigantine “Let me Alone,” and ketch +“Hannah.”</p> +<p>Oct. 26th. The wife of Capt. Bunn presented with an +elegant silver épergne, as a wedding present, by the A +Company Rifle Volunteers, out of respect to their captain.</p> +<p>Oct. 28th. Gale of great severity, and another on Nov. +14th, when the brig “Kettland” came ashore on the +South Beach, and great bravery was displayed by the Gorleston +lifeboat, and also Mr. Lloyd, Inspector of Naval Reserve, in +rescuing the crew. Commander Poynder presented Lloyd with +two medals. Fifty fishermen were lost during the late +gales, together with the fishing dandies “Sceptre,” +“Silver Streak,” “Children’s +Friend,” “Ich Dien,” &c., leaving 14 widows +and 44 orphans.</p> +<p>In Yarmouth there are 621 fishing boats, 333 being smacks and +the remainder luggers; their value is £372,000, and their +nets and gear, £100,000 more. Their owners number +498, and crews 5,160. Scotch boats 800, and 120 smacks from +Gorleston. Value of fish caught by trawlers of this port, +£325,000. Number of herrings caught in five years, +71,458 lasts, which at an average of £10 a last gives a +total of £714,580. The Corporation had up to date +spent £34,916 in building the fishwharf, offices, &c., +which latter let for £1,438 a year. Trawl fish caught +in 1877, 11,863 packages; 1878, 39,508; 1879, 31,072; 1880, +28,400; 1881, 24,003. The dues were as follows:—In +1877, £1,574 on herring, and £59 on trawl fish; 1878, +£846 herring, £164 trawl; 1879, £978 herring, +£129 trawl; 1880, £1,163 herring, £118 trawl, +1881, £1,393 herring, and £100 trawl.</p> +<p>Nov. 11th. Mrs. Harriet Vade, wife of R. H. V. Walpole, +of Yarmouth, and Suffolk Hall, Cheltenham, died.</p> +<p>Nov. £3,349 14s. 4d. spent about the erection and +fittings of new nave of St. James’ Church.</p> +<p>Nov. 20th. The steamtug “Andrew Woodhouse” +sold for £90.</p> +<p><a name="page237"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 237</span>Nov. +21st. J. C. Smith, Esq., elected Alderman of the Borough in +place of the late Wm. Worship, Esq. Seventeen voted for Mr. +Smith, and 11 for Mr. E. Worlledge.</p> +<p>Oct. 20th. The Swedish man-of-war frigate +“Vanadis,” in the Roadstead; and on 26th, German +war-ship “Leipzic,” 16 guns and 483 men.</p> +<p>Oct. 23rd. Fires at Mrs. Rigg’s wool shop, St. +Peter’s Row, E; Nov. 16th at Mr. Jas. Ayers’ +fishing premises, S. Market Road; Nov. 23rd, at Mr. H. +Fenner’s, steam tannery works, S. Denes Road; Nov. 24th at +Mr. Wigg’s jewellery shop, Regent Street; Dec. 10th, the +net chamber of Mr. Hellenburgh, Ordnance Road; and at Mr. G. B. +Palmer’s, Market Place.</p> +<p>Nov. 9th. Mr. F. Arnold presented with an elaborate +salad bowl and pair of silver ladles on the opening of the Park +Young Men’s Institute.</p> +<p>Nov. Rev. E. Venables appointed to the church and +district of St. John’s the Evangelist, Drury Lane, +London.</p> +<p>Nov. 12th. Wm. Worship, Esq., solicitor, died at +Ormesby, aged 70 years. £1,000 was subsequently +subscribed by the town for the founding of a scholarship at the +Yarmouth Grammar School to perpetuate his memory.</p> +<p>The fishing smack “John Cooper” sunk by a steamer, +and one man drowned.</p> +<p>1,028 lbs. 13 ozs. of tobacco (value £284 8s. 9d.) +smuggled into Yarmouth during the year.</p> +<p>This year 99,422 coins were collected for various objects in +the Parish Church, viz., 36,816 half-pence, 36,817 pennies, +10,756 threepenny pieces, 300 fourpenny pieces, 9,872 sixpences, +4,061 shillings, 412 florins, 289 half-crowns, <i>nil</i> crowns, +68 half-sovereigns, 28 sovereigns, and three notes. Total +amount, £1,038 14s. 7d.</p> +<p>One thousand eight hundred and fifty plaints entered in the +County Court for sums amounting to £10,639. In 1881, +2,591 plaints for £12,967.</p> +<p><a name="page238"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +238</span>Launches: March 7th, a steam launch launched from the +Yare-side Iron Works; March 30th, smack “Morning +Star”; July 4th, fishing boat “Muscotte.”</p> +<p>Marriages: Feb. 28th, Alexander Mitchell, Esq., M.D., to Ellen +Eugénie Ramsdale, of E. Dereham; April 10th, Mr. W. H. +Kempton, of London, to Miss H. M. Gamble; Mr. E. S. Brown to Miss +A. M. Ulph, in London; April 6th, Mr. T. Ambrose Palmer to Miss +E. J. Sheewan; June 8th, Mr. F. H. Smith, of Bradwell, to Miss +Grace Dendy, of Gorleston.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan., Henry B. Thompson, serjeant-at-mace and bellman, +aged 65; March 25th, Caroline Louisa Bartlett, widow of Capt. H. +J. Lacon, R.N., at Ipswich; March 31st, Mr. W. A. Hardingham, 45 +years in the service of Messrs. Grout and Co., aged 59; May 4th, +Mr. R. Dumbleton, ex-Town Councillor, aged 63; May 18th, Mr. W. +R. P. Dick, senior cashier at Messrs. Lacon’s Bank, aged +50; Aug. 12th, Mr. John Clowes, grocer, aged 73; Sept. 24th, +Chas. John Palmer, Esq., F.S.A., aged 78; Dec. 17th, Wm. Johnson, +Esq., J.P., at Caister, aged 82.</p> +<h3>1883.</h3> +<p>Jan. 2nd. Frederick Redgrave (8), of Row 122, fell under +the wheels of a railway truck on South Quay, and both his legs +had to be amputated. £52 9s. 9d. was collected for his +benefit.</p> +<p>Jan. Mr. Fisher’s smack “Reindeer” +lost.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd. Schooners “Jim Crow” and +“Try,” of this port, stranded and became total +wrecks.</p> +<p>Jan. 24th. Mr. James Brown, Beach Station Master, +presented by the staff employed on the railway, with a +silver-mounted inkstand and pencil case, on his birthday.</p> +<p>Jan. 24th. Very low tide, the water being 3 ft. 10 in. +below zero, and 6 ft. 2 in. on the bar.</p> +<p>Jan. 25th. St. Paul’s Mission Church opened.</p> +<p>Feb. Mr. R. S. C. Keymer appointed organist of Gorleston +Church.</p> +<p>Feb. A pike, weighing 20 lbs., caught at Horsey +Mere.</p> +<p>Feb. Mr. F. W. Rolfe, organist, presented with a +handsome timepiece by the choir of St. Peter’s Church.</p> +<p><a name="page239"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 239</span>March +1st. The upper and lower ferries let by auction for five +years to Mr. A. Green, at the annual rent of £780, viz., +lower, £410; upper (with cottage), £370.</p> +<p>March 6th. Heavy gale and high tide, the drive being +inundated, and some of the boats “moored” at the lamp +posts. Part of the Jetty was torn up, and “Uncle +Tom’s Cabin,” under the Britannia Pier, made a +complete wreck. The water was 21 or 22 ft. on the bar, and +there was a flood tide in the harbour for 21 hours. Several +trawlers were lost, including the “Musquito,” +“Sea Flower,” “Clarence,” +“Reaper,” and “Muscotte,” and 36 lives, +leaving 15 widows and 16 children. £132 19s. 8d. was +contributed by the Mansion House Fund. Mr. W. P. +Brown’s brig “Mary” was lost on the following +day with her crew.</p> +<p>March 11th. Major John Gillespie, 31st Brigade +Depôt, died, and on 15th was buried with grand military +honours in the Cemetery. About 500 of the military and 50 +officers were present. Three military bands (including 9th +from Colchester, 54), played at intervals, and thousands of +civilians lined the streets.</p> +<p>March 12th. New Railway line from Yarmouth to Acle +opened for traffic.</p> +<p>March 22nd. The iron gates leading to the Parish Church +knocked down by a horse.</p> +<p>March 24th. The three-masted schooner +“Orienten” (6,500 deals), stranded south of +Wellington Pier.</p> +<p>April 5th. The property of the Earl of Lichfield at +Southtown (26 lots, including the “Nine Houses”) +sold, by auction for £10,699.</p> +<p>April. Mr. George Dowey, station master (G.E.R.), +resigned his position after 25 years’ service, and on Oct. +25th was presented with £100 by 150 subscribers.</p> +<p>April 26th. Lord Suffield presented Bat.-Sergt. Major +Quince with a clasp from the Royal Humane Society, and Mr. G. +Ceiley with a bronze medal for their bravery in saving lives.</p> +<p>April 28th. James Sutton (64), gate-keeper at a level +crossing on the Eastern and Midlands Railway near Hemsby, knocked +down by a goods train and killed, while in the act of opening the +gates at 9.20 p.m.</p> +<p><a name="page240"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +240</span>April. The Great Yarmouth Yacht Club +established.</p> +<p>May 3rd. An elegant liqueur stand with three glasses +presented to Mr. H. Pechey, at the Aquarium, by the Winter +Assembly Class.</p> +<p>May 5th. Smack “Falcon,” on the North Sand, +and crew bravely rescued by the Gorleston National lifeboat +crew.</p> +<p>May 12th. The International Fisheries Exhibition in +London opened by the Prince of Wales, E. Birkbeck, Esq., M.P., as +president, taking especial interest in the show. Many +exhibits were contributed by local gentlemen. Exhibition +closed Oct. 31st, 2,703,051 persons, exclusive of 20,000 on the +opening day, having visited it during the season.</p> +<p>May 18th. Mr. E. W. Worlledge elected as Alderman in +place of the late Mr. J. T. Bracey.</p> +<p>May 19th. A handsome timepiece presented by Major Dods +and officers and men of the Gorleston Coastguard to Chief-boatman +Bridgeland.</p> +<p>May 20th. Rev. E. A. Ducket, B.A., ordained at Wells +Cathedral, and licensed to a Curacy at Tiverton-on-Avon.</p> +<p>May. Regent Street paved with blocks of wood, and +afterwards a part of King Street.</p> +<p>May 31st. Sergt.-Major Williams, 18 years drill sergeant +in 2nd N.R.V., presented with an illuminated address and +£35 on his retirement.</p> +<p>May 31st. About 30 yards of palisading and wall on the +west side of the churchyard fell down.</p> +<p>June 2nd. Gas explosion in Apsley Terrace. The +windows, doors, &c., were completely shattered, and Mr. +Rushmer, who entered the drawing room with a lighted candle, was +severely injured.</p> +<p>June 5th. Mr. James Ling, relieving officer of +Gorleston, appointed registrar of births and deaths in place of +the late Dr. Arnott.</p> +<p>June 6th. Mr. Robert Lane, 15 years lessee of the +ferries, presented with a ten-guinea silver cup and an +illuminated address by his respected patrons.</p> +<p>June 8th. Singing platform on the beach let for +£210; and in 1884 for £150 to Mr. Chappell.</p> +<p><a name="page241"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +241</span>June. First prize meeting of the Yarmouth Golf +Club.</p> +<p>June. The old Borough Gaol sold for £170 12s.</p> +<p>July 2nd. The Royal Aquarium opened by the Mayor, after +its being nearly rebuilt and beautifully decorated at a cost of +about £10,000. The event was celebrated by a luncheon +and concert given by Madame Alice Barth’s Opera +Company. The grand hall is 115 ft. by 60 ft., and 44 ft. +high; and the minor hall 80 ft. by 38 ft., and 23 ft. high. +The south front is faced with buff terra-cotta, the style +Italian, freely treated. Messrs. Bottle and Olley were the +architects, and Messrs. Cork and Beach and Mr. B. Springall, +building contractors. (See Oct. 31st, 1881.) The same +builders contracted for the new Board School, Church Road, +Gorleston, on July 17th, at £4,348.</p> +<p>July 4th. C. C. Aldred, Esq., sworn as a Magistrate for +the County of Norfolk. (See June 28th, 1884.)</p> +<p>July. Corporal S. J. Batchelder, 2nd N.R.V., won the +champion medal of Norfolk at Norwich.</p> +<p>July. Invalid shelter on South Parade ordered by the +Council. Cost £60.</p> +<p>July 9th. Retired Commander Francis Harris, R.N., a +Trafalgar veteran, died at Southtown, and buried at +Gorleston. He was born May 17th, 1795, and was 11 years old +when the great battle was fought. He entered the Navy as +First-class Volunteer on board the +“Téméraire;” was at the battle of +Trafalgar with his father, at the defence of Cadiz until Feb., +1811; removed to the “Unité;” assisted at the +capture in 1811 of the French store ship +“Dromédaire,” 800 tons; in the following May, +in the same frigate, in company with the “Pemone” and +“Scout,” at the destruction of the +“Giraffe” and “Nourrice.” He +participated in many boat affairs in the Adriatic; and in the +same ship shared in a partial action, fought, 13th Feb., 1814, +with the Toulon fleet, under Sir E. Pellew. He was advanced +to the rank of Lieutenant in 1815, and made Commander in +1860. The <i>Graphic</i>, March 1st, 1879, published the +portraits of the then seven survivors, including Commander Harris +and Admiral Spencer Smyth, of this town.</p> +<p><a name="page242"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 242</span>July +13th. Sydney Stalley (20) drowned on Oulton Broad.</p> +<p>July 17th. Columbia Fish Market, London (built some ten +years ago by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, at a cost of +£300,000), re-opened, to which large quantities of fish are +consigned from Yarmouth.</p> +<p>July 22nd. On Sunday a man (name unknown) hung himself +on one of the trees on Trafalgar Road, near the Grammar +School.</p> +<p>Aug. 1st. The “Duke’s Head” and Corn +Hall let by auction for seven years to Mr. Seaman at an annual +rent of £460.</p> +<p>Aug. 23rd. Mr. A. E. Welch saved a gentleman from +drowning, and received a testimonial from the Royal Humane +Society; and in Sept. Rev. G. Wilson and J. W. Duffield were +similarly recognised for their bravery.</p> +<p>Aug. 29th. Messrs. Ferrier and Co.’s brewery, +Middlegate Street, with plant, machinery, residence, &c., +also 21 public-houses and beerhouses, sold in one lot for +£15,750 (exclusive of £669 for rolling stock).</p> +<p>Sept. 2nd. Very heavy gale.</p> +<p>Sept. An elegant obelisk, 24 ft. high, erected in the +churchyard at the north-east corner of the Parish Church. +It is made of polished red Aberdeen granite, resting on die and +steps of the same beautiful stone, while under these is a massive +grey granite platform, a single block, 9½ ft. square, +surrounded with posts of like material, and rails of shining gun +metal. It is erected by Mrs. Mills, of Nelson Road, to the +memory of George J. Mills (died Nov. 6th, 1827, aged 37), and +other members of her family. (See April, 1878.)</p> +<p>Sept. 17th. Steamer “Isis” stranded on +Hasbro’.</p> +<p>Sept. 22nd. Rev. Henry Stebbings, D.D., F.R.S., died in +London. He was born at Yarmouth in 1799, took his degree of +B.A. at Cambridge in 1828, and ordained by Bishop Bathurst. +He was the first editor of the <i>Athenæum</i>, and wrote +the “Lives of the Italian Poets.”</p> +<p>Oct. 5th. Batt.-Sergt. Major Quince presented with a +handsome timepiece by the pupils in his swimming class, in +recognition of his kindness to them.</p> +<p><a name="page243"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 243</span>Oct. +22nd. Destructive fire on the premises of Messrs. Robert +Yaxley and John Beckett, and total demolition of the intended +Salvation Army barracks. It broke out about 6 p.m., and the +group of buildings, comprising fish and tan houses, stable, net +stores, &c., were soon one mass of ruins. On Nov. 1st +£100 worth of damage by fire was done to Messrs. S. K. +Smith and Son’s fishing premises, on St. Peter’s +Road.</p> +<p>Nov. Remarkable sunsets, the western horizon night after +night being resplendent, the sky changing from pale orange to +blood red.</p> +<p>Nov. 19th. Smack “Puss” lost in the North +Sea, through collision; and on Dec. 28th the fishing boat +“Raven” collided with the “Daylight,” and +sunk.</p> +<p>Nov. 27th. Mad pranks of a bull belonging to Mr. +Southgate. It entered Mr. Harrison’s grocer’s +shop in the Market, injuring one of the assistants and damaging +the goods. Afterwards running down Regent Street and along +the Hall Quay, it found its way to the Broad Row, where it +smashed windows and did other injury, till being secured by a +rope round a lamp-post, it was killed, and the carcase removed on +a cart. The inhabitants were much terrified, and tradesmen +quickly closed their shops.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. William Holt, Esq., Magistrates’ Clerk +and Borough Coroner, died, aged 57 years.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. Mr. C. A. Goodwin passed a very successful +examination as second mate at the London Local Marine Board.</p> +<p>Dec. 4th. Gale and heavy thunderstorm.</p> +<p>Dec. 5th. Mr. Charles Diver resigned his seat in the +Council for Regent Ward, and paid the £25 fine; and Mr. +Walter Brown was elected to the seat on 24th, by 224 votes, or 52 +more than Mr. F. Burton. On Dec. 11th Mr. Diver was +appointed Borough Coroner, and Dec. 13th as Magistrates’ +Clerk. (See June 24th, 1869, and Jan. 8th, 1884.)</p> +<p>Dec. 8th. John Reeve (38), of Hopton, fell off a load of +hay in Gorleston, and died from injuries received.</p> +<p><a name="page244"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 244</span>Dec. +9th. William Jackson, porter on the Eastern and Midlands +Railway, at Yarmouth, was run over by a railway carriage, and one +of his legs was subsequently amputated at the Hospital.</p> +<p>Dec. 11th and 12th. Another destructive gale and very +high tide, the wind blowing “great guns.” Loss +of Messrs. Bessey and Palmer’s “Francis” and +three hands; the carrier steamer “Marie,” owned by +the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and all hands (12); also Mr. M. +Barber’s brigantine “Susannah,” with a crew of +four or five hands; and five smacks. About 60 lives were +lost in all.</p> +<p>Dec. The season’s catch of herrings was 19,232 +lasts.</p> +<p>Dec. Sir Francis Roxburgh, Q.C., appointed Mr. John +Etheridge Chief Clerk to the Registrar of the County Court.</p> +<p>Dec. 14th. The derelict barque “Ulah” +beached opposite the Nelson Monument. Crew lost.</p> +<p>Dec. W. N. Burroughs, Esq., gave a donation of +£500 to the Yarmouth Hospital, and £500 to the +Fishermen’s Hospital as a birthday present. Mr. +Burroughs died on April 12th, 1884. (See June 11th, +1884.)</p> +<p>Dec. 22nd. Chief Constable W. Brogden presented with a +handsome gold keyless hunter watch by the Mayor, on behalf of the +Race Committee, for his vigilant attention to duty.</p> +<p>Winners of the Ladies’ Challenge Cups in the Yarmouth +Volunteer Corps:—<i>2nd Norfolk Rifles</i>. As will +be seen by the following list, Sergeant Buddery took the cup in +1883, after 24 years.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Pts.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1860.</p> +</td> +<td><p>J. H. Bly</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1861.</p> +</td> +<td><p>H. Fenner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1862.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Col.-Sgt. Chipperfield</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1863.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bugle-Major Fenner</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1864.</p> +</td> +<td><p>G. W. N. Borrett</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1865.</p> +</td> +<td><p>H. E. Pestell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">30</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1866.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Capt. E. P. Youell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1867.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Corp. A. Gunton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">43</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1868.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Corpl. Wilshak</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">47</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1869.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sergt. G. S. Pearson</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1870.</p> +</td> +<td><p>A. J. Harpour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1871.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Corp. Wilshak</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">50</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1872.</p> +</td> +<td><p>A. J. Harpour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">43</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1873.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Ar.-Sgt.-Wales</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">47</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1874.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Wm. Hunt</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">44</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1875.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Corp. Goddard</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1876.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Wm. Hunt</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">80</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1877.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Corp. Goddard</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">78</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1878.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Corp. J. W. Cross</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1879.</p> +</td> +<td><p>W. Barrett</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">82</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1880.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sergt. Goddard</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">88</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1881.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sergt. Buddery</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">90</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1882.</p> +</td> +<td><p>„ „</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">80</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1883.</p> +</td> +<td><p>„ „</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">65</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page245"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +245</span><i>1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers</i>: The cup was +first shot for in 1869, and after 13 years became the sole +property of Battery-Sergt.-Major R. B. Smith, as will be seen by +the annexed list of winners:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>1869.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lieut. H. H. Baker.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1870.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sergt. G. H. Self.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1871.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">„</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1872.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Qr.-Master W. C. Mack.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1873.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gunner Woodhouse.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1874.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sergt. G. H. Sell.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1875.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Qr.-Master Sergt. Mack.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1876.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Qr.-Master Sgt. Mack.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1877.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bt.-Sgt. Major Self.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1878.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">„ ,, „</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1879.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sergt. R. B. Smith.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1880.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bat.-Sergt.-Major R. B. Smith.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1881.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,, ,, ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Launches: Feb. 24th, fishing boat “Nell,” from +Messrs. Castle’s yard; March 12th, smack +“Sylvia;” March 19th, smack “Little Tom;” +May 23rd, Messrs. Morgan’s yachts “Midge,” and +June 6th, “Red White;” June 28th, steam tug +“Yare,” from Messrs. Beeching’s yard; July 9th, +smack “E. Birkbeck,” from Mr. Critton’s yard; +July 30th, dandy trawlers “Boy Ben” and “New +Spray;” Nov. 3rd, lifeboat “Covent Garden,” +from Messrs. Beeching’s yard.</p> +<p>Marriages: Jan. 25th, Mr. G. D. Gowing, Norwich, to Miss E. S. +Gambling, Southtown.—May 5th, Mr. E. B. Sewell to +Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Caleb Fenn, of +Gorleston.—July 24th, Rev. E. A. Ducket, B.A., to Miss +Maria H. Denny.—June 19th, G. A. Ward, Esq., to Katherine +Scott, fourth daughter of E. P. Youell, Esq.—July 20th, +Arthur H., second son of R. B. B. Norman, Esq., surgeon, to Edith +L. Stevens, of Norwich.—Aug. 9th, Mr. Wm. E. Bovill to +Persis, daughter of J. P. Baumgartner, Esq.—Sept. 20th, Mr. +C. R. St. Aubyn, of Gorleston, to Miss Annie Adelaide +Arnott.—Oct. 22nd, Charles A. S. Ling, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., of +Gorleston, to Miss Ada A. Cooper.—Nov. 6th, Rev. R. V. +Barker, M.A., to Miss Palgrave.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 2nd, Rev. J. Mangan, D.D., aged 46.—Jan. +30th, Mrs. Garwood B. Palmer, of Gorleston, aged 63.—Mr. T. +E. Gray, ironmonger, aged 74.—May 1st. Alderman J. T. +Bracey, aged 82.—May 26th, Charles D. Arnott, Esq., M.D., +at Gorleston, aged 62.—June 16th, Mr. G. S. F. Skoulding, +T.C., <a name="page246"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +246</span>chemist.—June 25th, Mr. George Farrow, aged +81.—July 25th, Elizabeth Tolver, wife of the Rev. A. Hume, +and daughter of the late Rev. Mark Waters. July 27th, Mr. +George Reginald Harmer, aged 28.—Aug. 3rd, Mr. Robert B. +Moxon, aged 20.—Aug. 4th, Mary, relict of the late Samuel +C. Marsh, aged 68.—Aug. 10th, Elizabeth Boyce Crisp, aged +27.—Aug. 27th, the veteran bellringer, Thomas Gooch, aged +88.—Nov. 3rd, Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, ex-Town Councillor, at +Gorleston, aged 47.—Dec. 24th, F. H. S. Raven, B.A., son of +Dr. Raven, aged 23.</p> +<h3>1884.</h3> +<p>Jan. 8th. J. T. Waters, Esq., elected Borough Coroner in +place of C. Diver, Esq., resigned.</p> +<p>Jan. 15th. St. Andrew’s Hall, Gorleston, sold, +including fittings and dwelling-house adjoining, for +£430.</p> +<p>Jan. 23rd. Heavy gale; and another on 26th, accompanied +with a heavy thunderstorm.</p> +<p>Jan. 26th. At midnight Mr. E. Bostock’s +draper’s shop, King Street, burnt down, and stock-in-trade +completely demolished; the Rose Tavern adjoining (occupied by Mr. +W. Overed) was also partly destroyed by fire; at the same time +part of Mr. Watts’ dyeing premises in Middlegate Street +were in flames.</p> +<p>Jan. Mr. Keymer, organist of Gorleston Church, presented +with a handsome five-o’clock tea service by the choir.</p> +<p>The past winter, and during several previous, were among the +mildest on record, snow and frost being scarcely seen.</p> +<p>Feb. 4th. School Board Election.</p> +<p>Feb. 15th. Boiler explosion at Mr. Nall’s steam +printing works, Row 63. Messrs. George Emmerson and John +Hughes were severely scalded, and much damage was done to the +building and machinery.</p> +<p>Feb. 16th. Fire at Mr. G. Archard’s, King +Street.</p> +<p>March. The Rev. A. J. Spencer, M.A., prior to leaving +the ministry at St. John’s Church for Hickley. +Leicestershire, was presented with several costly presents by his +congregation, church helpers, &c.</p> +<p><a name="page247"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +247</span>March. A clerical impostor, named John Lindsay, +scripture reader connected with St. Peter’s Church, brought +to bay, and subsequently imprisoned for solemnizing matrimony +without a license.</p> +<p>March. Mr. C. W. Moss, F.C.O., appointed organist of St. +Peter’s Church.</p> +<p>April 1st. Mr. Wm. Albrow, 14 years hon. sec. of the +Market Ward Conservative Association, presented with a handsome +ormolu clock under glass shade, by the members.</p> +<p>April 2nd. A young cow visited the shop of Mr. Baird, +Regent Street, but being no judge of leather left without giving +an order. Prior to this, Mr. F. Norris’ shop was +visited by some sheep.</p> +<p>April 6th. Fire at the Belvedere Tavern, Caister +Road.</p> +<p>April 7th. C. S. Orde, D. Tomkins, and F. Arnold, Esqs., +sworn in as Borough Magistrates before the Recorder.</p> +<p>April 17th. Fire at Mr. W. Wilkins’ net chamber +and residence, Southtown.</p> +<p>April 22nd. Destructive earthquake in East Anglia, but +the shock was only slightly felt at Yarmouth, and no damage +done.</p> +<p>May 15th. Quarter-Master Cooke, 1st N.A.V., presented +with a silver tankard and a four-o’clock tea service, by +the past and present officers of the corps and other friends, on +his retirement; also an illuminated address.</p> +<p>May 15th. Wm. Smith attempted to murder his wife at +Gorleston, and sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment on July +25th.</p> +<p>May 21st to 23rd. An Ohio Englyshe Fayre at the Town +Hall.</p> +<p>May 28th. The south transept of the Parish Church opened +after restoration. (See Dec. 3rd.)</p> +<p>June 11th. The will of the late Mr. W. N. Burroughs +proved, his personal estate amounting to over +£11,000. (See Dec., 1883.)</p> +<p>June 28th. Chas. Cory Aldred, Esq., Deputy-Mayor, and +five times Chief Magistrate of the Borough, died. He was +born March 21st, 1811, and for 40 years was a very prominent +member of society. To perpetuate his memory, his portrait, +in robes, painted by Mr. J. B. Burgess, A.R.A., of Finchley Road, +St. John’s Wood, and subscribed for by the town, is to be +hung in the Town Hall.</p> +<p>June. The Guardians issued bills in all the Wards with +the names of defaulting ratepayers upon them, which led to much +ridicule, and a public indignation meeting was called on June +25th.</p> +<p>July 5th. Fire at Mr. Sharman’s, Regent +Street.</p> +<p>Launches: Jan. 7th, the trawler “Ethel May;” Jan. +29th, smack “Sir Francis Burdett.”</p> +<p><a name="page248"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +248</span>Marriages: March 19th, Mr. W. Richardson, M.B., C.M., +to Miss Helen S. Blake.—April 16th, Mr. R. P. Chamberlin, +of Wroxham, to Miss Clara M. Wiltshire.</p> +<p>Deaths: Jan. 3rd, John Clarke, Esq., J.P., at Felbrigg; Jan. +9th, Quarter-Master Stembridge, P.W.O. Royal Artillery, aged 47; +Jan. 3rd, Mr. Geo. M. Pulford, aged 80; Feb. 15th, Mr. H. H. +Gambling, aged 60; Feb. 22nd, Mr. F. W. Rolfe, organist of St. +Peter’s Church, aged 43; April 12th, W. N. Burroughs, Esq., +aged 85; April 14th, Emma, widow of the late Robert Boyce Crisp, +aged 68; April 16th, Arthur Palmer, Esq., J.P., aged 63; April +26th, J. S. Clowes, Esq., T.C., aged 35.</p> +<p>August. The following is a list of persons who died in +this Borough of 90 years and upwards:—1793, Matthew +Champion, aged 111; 1854, Eleanor Warren, 102; 1855, Thomas +Burgess, 94; 1860, Ann Mann, 96; 1861, Thornton Fisher, 91; 1865, +Susannah Clark, 97; 1866, Edmund Clarke 95; 1868, Sarah Crockett, +99; 1869, John T. Buston, 90; 1870, John Meffin, 93; 1873, James +Mitchell 99, Mary Ablitt, 95, Susan Baldwin 90, Rebecca +Willemite, 90; 1874, Ann Kippon, 97; 1875, Catherine Pullyn 90; +Mary Thomas 93, Mary Hall, 91; 1876, Sophia Ranall 90, Mary Ann +Blyth, 90; 1877, John Smith 90, Barker Crisp 94, Elizabeth +Bristow 91, Martha Bryanton, 91; 1878, Mrs. George Danby Palmer +91, Wm. Plummer 96, Sarah Kelf 92, John Van Hutton 102, Hannah +Fountain 91, Susannah Newman 91, Ann Pidgeon 94, Sarah Porter, +94; 1879, Sarah Haw 91, Jane Haw 93, April 6th, Ann Parker 95; +Elizabeth Fenn, 90, Elizabeth Farrow 92, Mary Francis 93, +Elizabeth Warren 104 and 8 months; 1880, Margaret Henry, 96; +1881, Samuel Yarham 94, M. A. Crickmay 90, Ralph Newby, 93; 1882, +Sarah Parker 91, John Mooring 102, Susannah Dye, 94; 1883, +Elizabeth Wright 94, Wm. Tyrrell 92, Mary Hogg 91, Maria Manship +96, Lydia Bulley 90, Mary Errington, 92; 1884, Feb. 9th, James +Kemp 90, Elizabeth Roberts 97, Sarah Gates 91, Elizabeth James +90, and Wm. 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