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Chronological Retrospect OF THE History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, FROM A.D. 46 TO 1884,
CONTAINING ABOUT 5,000 Important Local Events, &c.; AND AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MAYORS.
"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."--LOCKE.
Great Yarmouth: WILLIAM FINCH-CRISP, No. 20, ALMA PLACE. LONDON: J. HADDON & Co., 3, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C.
'Tis well to wander back at times Through Memory's faded Halls, And gaze upon the many Scenes That hang upon its Walls.
PREFACE
No greater honour could have been conferred upon the Author than when the Heir Apparent to the Throne of England , on his visit to Yarmouth in 1882, expressed his pleasure, through Colonel Teesdale, in the acceptance as a present, of a copy of this History; and the placing of this work, with supplement in the principal stone of the New Town Hall in 1880 by the then Mayor was also gratifying.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, ESQ., 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 COLONEL DUFF. Neither must we forget to express our obligation to a select list of subscribers to the work.
GREAT YARMOUTH, APRIL, 1884.
TO EDWARD BIRKBECK, ESQ. M.P. FOR NORTH NORFOLK, THIS BOOK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS OBEDIENT AND HUMBLE SERVANT,
WM. FINCH-CRISP.
LIST OF MAYORS.
From 1688 to 1700, two Bailiffs were chosen instead of a Mayor.
Crisp's History Of Great Yarmouth.
A.D. 46.
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.
Burgh Castle, a Roman encampment, supposed to have been founded.
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.
Between this and the year 640, a Saxon Monastery was founded at Burgh, by Fursey, an Irish monk.
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 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.
First houses and habitations erected in Yarmouth on Fuller's Hill, that being then the only dry land in Yarmouth.
Yarmouth belonged to the King in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and had 70 burgesses, besides a number of soccagers.
Bishop Herbert born; and in 1091 was consecrated Bishop of Thetford.
Cocklewater, or Grubb's Haven, stopped up with sand.
St. Bennet's Church pulled down. It was built in the time of Edward the Confessor.
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.
Forty thousand lives lost at sea during the war between King John and the Barons; a great multitude washed ashore on Yarmouth beach.
Monastery of Black Friars founded by St. Dominica.
Yarmouth had three galleys or vessels of war. Two were manned with seven score mariners.
First charter granted by King John, and Yarmouth incorporated as a borough. The document is still preserved .
All vessels in the port with Scottish property on board were arrested.
The Tolhouse Hall, Middlegate Street, erected.
The town wall and fosse commenced at the north end of town.
St. Mary's Hospital founded. It was a free Grammar School in 1551, and fitted up as a school for poor children in 1634.
The Carmelites, or Whitefriars, founded at Yarmouth, and took the north and some other parts of the town under their charge.
King Henry's Tower erected at the north-east corner of St. Nicholas' churchyard.
St. Nicholas' Church and churchyard consecrated by Bishop Middleton, of Norwich.
The sea flowed into St. Nicholas' Church 4 feet deep, and the town was inundated.
No one allowed to draw wine after the Curfew bell had rung.
Yarmouth first summoned to send four Burgesses annually to Parliament.
Sir J. De Botetourt, a Norfolk Knight, had command of a Yarmouth fleet of fifty-three vessels. Fresh herrings sold for 37s. per last.
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.
William Fastolf and H. Rose, Esqs., returned to Parliament, held at Lincoln.
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.
Yarmouth claimed a free Borough by the Burgesses.
William Fastolf and H. Rose, Esqs., again returned to Parliament, held at Nottingham.
Price of pipe of "red wine," 20s.
Two Parliaments held, but not represented by the same Burgesses.
A Castle stood on the site of the King Street Independent Chapel, but was demolished in 1621.
Burgesses exempted from serving on Juries, Inquests, or at Assizes, within the Borough.
Blackfriars' Tower completed.
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