Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood Part 12

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1620.

Dec. 21st. John Cowldham, J.P., four times a Bailiff, died, aged 84 years.

B. Cowper and Edward Owner, Esqs., free Burgesses, elected to Parliament.

1622.

"Tippling houses" had increased to 40, and were restricted to that number.

1623.

Benjamin Cowper, Esq., re-elected, with G. Hardware, Esq., to serve in Parliament.

1624.

Artillery yard on the site of present Unitarian Chapel.

1625.

Dec. 29th. Poor people were ordered not to marry unless sanctioned in writing by the Chief Alderman and Chief Constable.

Mans.h.i.+p, who wrote the "History of Great Yarmouth," died. He was Town Clerk in 1579.

Sir John Corbet and E. Owner, Esq., elected to Parliament; and in the same year Sir John was re-elected with Thomas Johnson, Esq.

Fish Market, on the site of the present, covered in and paved. Covering removed in 1844.

1626.

Robert Sydney, Earl of Leicester, K.G., High Steward of the Borough.

1626.

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.

1627.

Sir John Wentworth and Miles Corbet, Esq., elected to Parliament.

1628.

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.

1629.

Twelve hundred householders in Yarmouth.

Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, K.G., High Steward of the Borough.

1631.

Fis.h.i.+ng with a trawl prohibited by proclamation.

1 a quarter paid by the town to the Postmaster of Ipswich for carrying letters to and from Yarmouth for London.

1632.

Tobacco allowed only to be retailed in this town by one apothecary, six grocers, two hosiers, one merchant, and a chairmaker.

June 26th. Four Frenchmen executed for murdering Nicholas Harpley.

1633.

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