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OF A MARKET TOWN,

AS AFFORDED BY A

LIST OF THE INTERMENTS

■WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE

PARISH. CHUBCH OF ST, NICHOLAS.

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COLLECTED CHIEFLY FROM MONUMENTS AND GRAVE- STONES STILL REMAINING, JUNE, 1845,

DAWSON y.URNER, ESQ., M.A

F. R. S., §c., §•«., ^c. Vice-President of the Norfolk and Norwich ArchtEological Society.

YARMOUTH:

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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY CHARLES BARBER, QUAY. M.DCCC.XLVIII.

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TO THE

REV. HENRY MACKENZIE, A.M.,

MINISTER OF GREAT YARMOUTH,

WHOSE CHURCH HAS SUPPLIED THE FOLLOWING MEMORANDA

OF THE DEAD,

AND WHOSE PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE

AFFORD ALIKE INSTRUCTION AND COMFORT TO THE SURVIVORS,

THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED

WITH EVERT FEELING OP RESPECT, ESTEEM, AND REGARD,

BY

HIS FRIEND AND PARISHIONER,

€1^0 etsitav.

PEEFACE.

It is hoped, and indeed believed, that it were hardly possible for a book to offer itself to the public with less of pretension — perhaps, it may also be said, with less of claim to their notice — than one which professes simply to record the dates of the births and deaths of a few of the inhabitants of a market-town, with here and there the addition of an incidental anecdote. Such, however, and no more, are literally the professions of the following pages; and the reader is thus fairly warned of what alone he has to expect from the perusal. On the other hand, while the editor flatters himself that by so frank an avowal he shall disarm the hand of criticism, should any one care to raise it against him, he will not deny that he indulges the hope, that the collection he has formed will have an interest with those for whom it was designed — his fellow townsmen. To them he commits it as a legacy, at the close of a long life, passed among them, a life, during which, he gratefully acknowledges, he has received unvaried kindness ; and he offers it with confidence, that some will find in it acceptable notices of de- ceased friends and relatives ; that with others it will awaken pleasant recollections of what they may have heard in their

VI PREFACE.

youth, touching those who formerly occupied the same station in the town, or possibly the same houses, as themselves ; while a third class may derive amusement from tracing in it the ramifi- cations of family connections, and may so arrive at a knowledge of men and things they little anticipated. With all these it will be no disparagement to its value, that the names it records are not in the number of those, exalted to " the steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar." It is not because a man has died "unsung," that he has therefore died "unwept" or " unhonored." The feelings of humanity, as associated with love for his ancestors or even with pride in them, strike a root as deep in the bosom of a peasant as of a king. The pensioned veteran, who, proud of his share in the battles of the Peninsula and Belgium, for many a year " shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won," lives in the recol- lection of his posterity scarcely less a hero, than he whose valor and prudence really won the day. So likewise with those who sleep in St. Nicholas' Church : they w^ere the heroes of a family, if not of a town ; or possibly of a town, if not of a nation ; of Yarmouth, if not of England ; of a quinquennium, if not of a century ; and they will probably not therefore be the less estimated in the eyes of their fellow- creatures, or, it may humbly be hoped, of their Maker.

But enough on the score of the gratification to be derived from this volume. In a second, far more limited point of view, it is submitted that similar publications are desirable. They have been found to be useful. A favorite writer of the present day has delivered the following verdict in their favor. "They have," he says, " a permanent value beyond their local interest : every thing which affords genea- logical information is important; and such a book may

FREFACB. y[[

hereafter complete a link in a pedigree, establish a title to an estate, or revive a dormant peerage." To take the lower view,— for "parvumparva decent" — the proving of the descent of property by the descent of blood is a matter of almost every-day occurrence ; and here the testimony of the tomb- stone is admitted to be of the greatest weight. Neither is this testimony impeached, in that the eulogies blazoned in the epitaph are but too often at variance with veracity. The truth of the fact in the one case is by no means impugned by the inaccuracy of the statement in the other. The latter, too, is not without an excuse. It most frequently springs from affection : it has its root in feelings which are honorable to human nature, which, it is to be hoped, are part and parcel of it ; for, as with all other earthly blessings, so with relatives and friends and associates, we feel their full value only when deprived of them, Tt may be that they are then estimated unduly; but hard and unenviable must be the heart of him who would not wish the merits of the deceased to be engraved on brass, and their failings traced in the dust, with which their bodies are commingled. Religion may command, and Morality may enjoin, but Humanity will reluct- antly consent, that they should both together equally, as far as memory is concerned, be consigned to "theu- drear abode,"

" Where they alike in trembling hope repose, " The bosom of their father and their God."

There yet remains another point of view, in which a record like the present may be regarded with favor. It may tend to the elucidation of history. But in this respect very little, as has already been hinted, can be looked for from these pages. The observation is to be received only as a general

VUl PREFACE.

one. It is in the cathedrals of the land and the great churches of great towns, that names of historical interest are likely to occur. And, as with churches, so with books : the most copious and important will ever have the highest value. Few men will rise without gratification and instruction, few young men without surprise, from even a hasty glimpse into AVeever's Funeral or Gough's Sepulchral Monuments. They will hai'dly have failed to have met with illustrations of the character or actions of those of whom they have heard and read. The same, but in an inferior degree, may be said of Le Neve's Monument a Anglicana : nay, the mere " hie jacet^' of a hero or a sage has its interest. Who that has visited the building has not gazed with a certain reverence upon the ample stone, charged with the touching inscription, " Ossa Caroli Ma(/ni," or has not seen with admiration the many kneeling around it, not one violating it by his tread ? Thus likewise, in every topographical work, the epitaph stands prominent. But in all these there is selection; and selectioQ has a sure prestige. In all, too, the inscriptions are given entire ; while in the present series there is no legend, no choice. The bare names, with the length of life and year of death, and possibly some very trifling addition, " of small and great makes all the history ;" and every individual of whom any memorial is traceable is enumerated indiscri- minately. Here, as in mother earth, if it may be allowed to say so without irreverence, the high and the low, " the rich and the poor meet together, even as the Lord is the maker of them all."

In thus comprizing the whole, without respect of per- sons, the editor has acted advisedly. To have omitted any one^ however obscure, might have defeated his object, — the

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gratification of the living by the preservation of the memory of the dead. And, truly, such attempts to preserve are greatly needed ; for not only does " the wild waste of all- devouring years" crumble the tomb and deface the inscription, but man himself, thoughtlessly if not intentionally, idly if not wickedly, accelerates the obliteration. Many are the stones in St. Nicholas' Church that have been turned upside down, from the paltry consideration to save the expense of new ones; and it is asserted upon credible authority, that the pathway from the church-yard gate to the South Transept door has, within the memory of man, been paved with others torn fro^ii the interior of the building. Most just on this point is the observation of Camden, that "epitaphs should be peculiarly respected ; for in them love is shewn to the deceased, memory is continued to posterity, friends are comforted, and the reader is put in mind of human frailty.'* He goes on to say, " the frequent visiting of the tombs of the dead (but without all touch of superstition), with the often reading, serious perusal, and diUgent meditation of wise an I religious inscriptions, is a great motive to bring us to repent- ance."

To have printed the epitaphs at length, the editor docs indeed feel would have been desirable ; and he reluctantly abandoned the design, in submission to obstacles that he considered insuperable. He can therefore only hope that it will be admitted, in conformity with the old adage, that "half a loaf is better than no bread ;" and that, as he could not do what he would, he has acted aright in doing what he could. It is a satisfaction to himself to know, and he hopes it may be so to others to be told, that transcripts of the whole of them, as well those in the church, as in the church-yard and

X PREFACB.

public cemetery, are in his library, where, he trusts he needs njt say, they are open to any one who may desire to consult them. Already, whilo engaged on this work, more than one application has been made to him for the purpose. The same information, he is aware, might be obtained through the Parish-Registers ; but time and trouble would be re- quired. The e})itaph, too, is often more explanatory : it enters into details, which the nature of the book forbids. Speaking, however, correctly, they have, both of them, their respective merit; and, taken conjointly, their value is far more than doubled. Whoever would so conduct the inquiry, would find himself enabled to complete pedigrees, elucidate family history, and probably throw light upon the annals of the town. Much additional matter might also be procured by reference to the Wills preserved in the different county offices. The field is ample; and time and zeal are only needed for the investigation.

It has been stated in the title-page, that the materials for tlie following pages have been supplied by what still remain in the church. But this remark is not to be taken without limit- ation. Use has also been made of those epitaphs, which, now destroyed, are recorded by Blomefield and Swinden ; and three or four have been added from Le Neve, and a greater number from a Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, a portion of Gough's topographical bequest. A transcript of this last has been most kindly sent to the Editor by his excellent friend, Mr. J. W. Burgon, Fellow of Oriel College. It is entitled " An Account of the Epitaphs in the Church and Yard of North Yar- mouth in Norfolk, taken by Mr. L. Lawlur, August the 25th and 2(ith, 1 737'" But it likewise contains many from Norwich. In Yarmouth it unfortunately does not discriminate between

PREPACB. XI

those within and without the walls; and this might be consider- ed an objection to quoting from it in a work professedly restricted to the former. Whatever the force of the objection, the inscriptions being destroyed and separation no longer possible, it did not seem advisable to yield to it. The exclusion of what was interesting would have been matter of regret: the introduction of what might not rightly find place, could not possibly do harm. To the editor it would have been far more satisfactory to have embraced all the tombs in the church-yard ; for in them lie several of the principal families of the town. But it was felt necessary to draw a line; and perhaps it may be well that " ample verge and room enough" is so left for whoever may afterwards care to take the wider range. The foundation is laid ; and the task of raising the superstructure will be comparatively easy.

A not unfitting accompaniment to the above-quoted passage from Camden, is given by Weever, in the PrefJace to his Funereal Monuments. He there alleges, as his leading incentive to the publication, a desire " to check the unsufter- able injury, offered as well to the living as to the dead, by breaking down and almost utterly ruinating monuments with their epitaphs, and by erasing, tearing away, and pilfering brazen inscriptions, by which inhumane deformidable act, the honorable memory of many virtuous and noble persons deceased is extinguished, and the true understanding of divers families is so darkened as that the course of their inheritance is thereby partly interrupted." These, and similar consider- ations, induced him to take various journeys in order to discover and collect what remained; and in the course of them the Diocese of Norwich attracted his particular attention. Among the towns he visited in it was Yarmouth, where he

Xll PREFACE.

begins with the sad record, that " all the funeral monuments in the church are utterly defaced ; neither inscription nor epitaph now remaining, unless that the following may pass current for one —

" Elyn Benaker mercy doth crave : " God on her soul mercy mote have."

At the same time he does not fail, in speaking of the church and monasteries, to particularize many persons of distinction interred there. William de UfFord, and Michael and Michael dela Pole, Earls of Suffolk, are among the num- ber; as are Richard, Earl of Clare ; Joan of Acris, Countess of Gloucester; Sir John de Monte Acuto; Sir Thomas Hengrave; Sir Robert and Sir Henry Bacon ; Sir John Laune and his wife ; Dame Eleanor, wife of Sir Thomas Gerbrigge ; Dame Maude, wife of Sir Robert Huntington; Dame Sibyll Mor- timer, wife of Sir Ralph Pigott; many members of the Fastolf family ; and William Woderow and Margaret his wife, founders of the Monastery of Augustine Friars.

The fact is thus established that Yarmouth was in its early days the residence of men of note; and farther testimony is given by the lists of its Bailiffs and Burgesses, the latter then commonly chosen from among its townsmen. During the Common-wealth and the immediately subsequent reigns, Gooch, England, Bendish, Carter, Burton, Fuller, Hardware, Johnson, Medowe, Owner, Bridge, Brinsley, and Ferrier, are the prominent families ; and of these also not one, save of the last, is left. Descending yet lower, to the close of the last century, the Life of Sir Astley Cooper and the Letters of Lord Chedworth speak in commendatory terms of Yarmouth society ; particularly in an intellectual point of view. Not only the peer just-mentioned, no common man, but Dr.

PREFACE. Xiii

Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, and Dr. Parr, then Hving at Norwich, spent a portion of the year there ; and Dr. Aikin and John Ives were residents ; and Mr. Canning, attracted by the vicinity of his uncle, Mr. Leigh, was a frequent visitant. Much too that is interesting on the subject is recorded in Chambers' History of Norfolk, a book which has never been duly appreciated, but of which it may with truth be said, that, without deep research or profound remarks, it embodies more varied and amusing and useful information, than is often met with in similar works.

The publications immediately relating to Yarmouth, are Nash's Lenten Stiiffe, containing the Description and first Procreation and Increase of the Town, luith a new Play never played, before, of the praise of the Red Herring ; Manship's Booke of its Foundacion and Antiquitie, lately edited by Mr. Charles Palmer ; Swinden's History and Antiquities ; Parkin's History, a reprint of a portion of the last volume of Blomefield's History of Norfolk, published by him; Vreston's, Picture; Drueiy's Historical Notices; Paget's Natural History of the Town and Neighbourhood; Wat- mough's History of Methodism in Yarmouth ; and C. J. Palmer's Illustrations of Domestic Architecture in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, as shewn in his own mansion. The last-named, a book of great beauty, has a farther value, as an additional proof of the comparative import- ance of the town at that period ; of which date there remain other houses, not equally perfect, but containing interesting portions. Such are the Star Tavern, said, not very probably, to have been once occupied by President Bradshaw; and such Sir Edmund Lacon's Bank, and the Duke's Head, and the Greenland Fishery, and the late residence of the Rev.

XIV PREFACE.

H. N. Burrows, all likewise upon the Quay. To these no reference is made in the following pages ; but the present occupants are pointed ovit of all those engraved in Corbridge's Map, published in 1727- Not that any of them are now to be recognised by his figures ; for wonderfully short is the time required for strange changes in these and similar matters. The long alienation between Yarmouth and Rotter- dam, occasioned oiiginally by the French Revolution, went far to sweep away the porches attached to the doors, those comfortable summer-evening lounges, in Avhich the father dreamed over his pipe or paper, while his family sat round him, chatting with and of the passers by. Together with the porches disappeared likewise the flat-topped limes, with the Dutch clinkers and the posts and chains in front, the mirrors, justly denominated '' espions" that projected from the open windows, the merchant-marks, and, in great measure, the hooks on the walls for the suspension of tapestry "on high days and holy days." But this has not been all : alterations have been made of a far more substantial character : fashion and variation in property are continually at work. Indeed there is not a single house in the whole length of the Quay, that has not experienced more or less of their influence during the last seventy-two years, the life-time of the editor. It might hence be considered idle to speak of the tenants of two hundred years ago ; but men love to know where their forefathers resided : they love to know who occupied their own dwelling-places before them ; and therefore the in- formation is given.

The editor believes that nothing farther remains to him, save the most pleasing part of his task, the acknowledgment of obligations to his friends, and the duty of apprizing his

PREFACE. XV

readers, that the word, "infant," of frequent recurrence among the interments, simply denotes a death beneath the age of one year; that the names of the few persons buried since 1 845 will be found with the lists of omissions and errata ; and that the Appendix, of a higher character than the rest of the volume, owes its existence to his much-respected fellow-townsman, Mr. T. W. King, very recently (June, 1848) raised, in a manner the most gratifying, to the honorable office of York Herald. Great and valuable assistance has been likewise rendered to the work by Mr. Joseph Davey, whose industry and acuteness in investigating the Archaeology of the town, have already been partially made known in the columns of the Yarmouth Herald. His manuscript-index to Swinden would here have been invaluable, had it but fortu- nately been compiled in time to have been used as it ought. Neither must the kindness of Mr. Manning Fellovts, no less qualified than ready always to give aid, be passed without remark. To him it is hoped that the town may look for a new and improved edition, now generally called for, of Ives' account of the neighbouring Garianonum ; as to Mr. Davey, for the pubUcation of the " Yarmouth Church-Book," styled by Mr. Reed, in his Congregationalism in Norwich, an "invaluable document." But who will print the younger Manship's History of Yarmouth, too long suffered to remain in manuscript ; and who will supply the great desideratum, a full and complete History of the town, brought down to the present day, — a work some years ago, projected, promised, and actually begun, by the late Rev. Richard Turner and Mr. Cory?

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS ^nvicXs in Saint piiciiolass^ <2^fvuttii,

GREAT YARMOUTH ; ESSfff) ttft KQt, & V^t irate 0f t^c mtati) af eatit.

An asterisk prefixed to a name denotes that the armorial bearings of the individual are upon the stone or monument.

Where names are indented, it denotes that they are recorded upon tin- same stone as the preceding name.

AREB.

DIET

Adkin, Thomas, Esq. *

77

179

Adkin, Dinah, his wife

53

177

With two Infant Children

*-t

**;;•

On the same stone with Dinah Clifton, mother of Mrs. Adkin.

Albertson, Rachel, ivife of Wm. Albertson

40

167

•He built and resided in the house opposite the bridpre, which since his death hag be n.<ied as Messrs. Gurneys' Bank. At the time of the publication of Corbridgt's map, in 17. Mr. Joshua Smyth lived Diea-.

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS nURIED

AGED.

DIED.

Albertson, John, Esq. =* . .

71

169.3

Albertson, Katharine

63

.1663

Albertson, Rachel

68

1695

Oil the hame stone with Nicliolas Spilman, lit-r first husband.

Allen, Maria

**

167*

Allen, ***, wife of Richd. Allen

59

1723

Allen, Martha, daughter of Rev. John Allen ^

11

1652

Allen, Samuel

**

1664

Allen, Thomas

**

1665

Ambler, Priscilla, ivife of William Ambler

29

1736

Ambler, William, their son

**

****

Andrews, John, Esq.

**

****

Andrews, Sarah

**

^^^fCSfC

Andrews, John, Esq., their son *

72

1747

Arder, ***

61

1672

Armstrong, Clara T., daughter of Rev. W. H. G.

Armstrong . . . , •

inf.

1837

Arnold, John

**

1662

• Mr. Albertson was bailiff ill 16.').5. Tliice years subsequently his name appears among the fi-w ineiuliers of the Corporation wlio si^'ned the address to Richard Cromwell ; but, as mitjht be expected, it does not occur in the list of the new Corporation appointed at the Restoration, nor du I find any mention of him subsequently. He was admitted a member of Mr. Bridge's Churcli January 21st, 1().5^, and was appointed Ruling Elder, in conjunction with Isaac Preston, November 13th, IGa.'i. He had a son named John, and other children.

^ Mr. Allen was Minister of the Town, and in that capacity incurred the displeasure of Bishop Wren, on which he fled to Holland in 1637, with Jeremiah Burroughs, William Bridge, John Ward, Edmund Calamy, and eighteen others of the Clergy of the diocese. Upon tlie Restoration, in 1660, he resumed his char;;e, but was again silenced in 1662, and is stated by bloinefield to have died of the plague two years subsequently.

• His residence was in the present Custom House.

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

Artis, Samuel, Esq. ^ • . .

Artis, Rebecca, his wife . . Artis, Mary, their daughter Artis, Ann, their daughter

Artis, James, Esq.

Artis, Mary, his wife . . . .

Artis Elizabeth, their daughter . .

Artis, Samuel

On the same stone with Ann Jennys, his daughter.

Artis, Thomas

Artis, Sarah, his ivife, first married to Richard Downing.

On the same stone as Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Fuller, her parents.

Ashley, Joanna

Atwood, Elizabeth, wife of Gilbert Atwood Atwood, Ann, wife of Robert Atwood, daughter of John and Ann Burton

*Atwood, Robert, Esq.,^ her husband . . Atwood, John, Esq. Atwood, Joanna, his wife , .

Atwood, Robert, their son Atwood, John Gibbs

67

1748

**

1736

inf.

1709

12

I7I8

68

1724

**

1715

**

1720

65

1711

80

1734

69

1722^

**

1741

38

1693

23

1700

75

173s

40

1738

37

1736

inf.

1724

inf.

1730

I

• Of the two gentlemen of this name here commemorated, the one resided in the house now (1847) used as a Roman Catholic Chapel, in George Street ; the other, in that upon the Quay, occupied by Mr. Brightwen, which then belonged to Richard Ferrier, Esq., of Hemsby, and had three statues of haymakers on the top, and a row of trees in front. It has since that time been twice rebuilt ; first, about eighty years ago, by Mr. Cotton, one of the largest merchants the town ever knew ; and latterly by its present proprietor and occupant.

'' A son of this Mr. Atwood, of the name of John, resided at Saxlingham, Norfolk. Anne, his daughter and heiress, was the first wife of Sir Thomas Goorh, the third baronet, and was the grandmother of the present Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch. The following note it

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS liURIED

Avers, Elizabeth

On the same stone as Maria Alien.

})uas, Joan

On the same stone witli Mar)' Master, her Sister.

Backler, Robert

Backler, Mary, daughter of the above and Marij his w'lje

On the same stone as James Hawes.

K adder, Mary, wife of the above Robert Backler

liaker, Robert, Apothecary

Baker, "William"]

-r, 1 - \his sons Baker, Robert J

l;aker, Joseph

Baker, Elizabeth, his wife Baker, Joseph, their son . . Baker, Ann, his wife

]>aker, Henry

Baker, ^largery, his wife

On thesame stone as Richard Harmer.

IVildwin, John Baldwin, Joseph

On the same stone as Gabriel Milleson.

r^aley, Walter

AGED.

I 49 34

70

inf.

76

74 80 64

88

33 76

DIED. 1739

1784 1790

1767

1793 1725

1692 1696

1732 1746 1754 1790

1680 1662

16** 1758

fctracted from Betham's Baronetage, vol. iii, p. 239 — " John Atwood was the son of Robert Atv.Dod, Esq., by Anne, his wile, daughter of John Burton, of Yarmouth, Esq., by Anne, his v.- r ■, daughter of General Desborow, and Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Everard, ol" Much Waltham, in Essex, baronet, and Joan, his wife, daughter of Sir James Barrington, ;•. i.l Joan, his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, of Hinchenbrooke, in Huntingdonshire, hu:i ^if Thomas Barrington, of Barrington Hall, in Essex, by Winifred Pole, his wife, daughter a A coheiress of Henry Pole Montague, lineally descended, by heirs female, from George, Itukc of Clarence, youogest brother of Edward IV."

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

Barber, A. . .

Barber, John . .

Barber, Mary Ann, his wife

Barber, Hannah, wife of James Barber

Barber, William

Barber, Elizabeth, his wife

Barber, Amelia

Barber, John

Barber, Mary Ann

Barber, William

Barker, Edmund

Barker, John, his son

Barker, Thomas Barlow, Thomas Barnard, Elizabeth, widow of Chris. Barnard^ Esq.

On the same stone as Richard Brightin.

Barnby, John, Esq. . .

Barnby, Elizabeth, his wife

Barnby, Elizabeth, ividow of Joseph Barnby

On the same stone as Joseph Neech, her father.

Barnby, Joseph Neech

Barrett, Eliza

BaiTett, Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth Barrett

Barrey, Margaret, wife of Capt. A. Barrey, r. n.

Baseley, Maria Burkett

AGED.

DIED.

**

1804

57

1774

68

1775

40

1768

69

1829

68

1834

11

1797

12

1800

inf.

1797

13

1800

**

1650

**

1650

**

****

32

1729

63

1757

QQ

1774

67

1786

70

1796

37

1785

**

16**

3

1728

35

1777

11

1790

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS UUKIKD

AGED.

DIED.

*Bathurst Richard, son of Edward and Martha

Bathurst, of Gowdhurst . .

58

1707

Bayspoole, Robert . .

62

1709

Bayspoole, Ann, his first wife . .

59

1699

Bayspoole, Ann, his second wife

52

1724

Bayspoole, Rev. Robert, her son

31

1734

Beale, Mary, wife of Thomas Beale . .

89

1724

Bell, John ->! y xp;- I ^ ,, ^ , children of Elisha Bell, Joseph y „ _, „ ., 1, T.1. 1 ,1 Emma Bell. Bell, Elizabeth J

and

3

3

19

1710 1713 1734

»Bell, Capt. John

. ,

44

1795

Bell, Susanna, his ivife

37

1791

On the same stone with Jacob Master, her Fatlier.

Bell, Robert, their son

. .

12

1796

On the same stone with Sarah Jenner.

*Bendish, Thomas, of Gray's Inn *

61

1707

» The arms upon his tomb-.stone are those of Bendish impaling Ireton ; the former the same as on that of F. Bendysh, of Flitcham, in Norfolk, who died in 16+7, aged 63 ; and as are borne by the family at Steeple Bumstead, Essex. With those his epitaph expressly states his connection ; the words being, he was " descended from the very ancient family of Sir Thomas Bendish, of Kssex, baronet, who was Embassador from King Charles to the Grand Seignior." Judging from Burke's Extinct Baroriolngc. the probability is, that he sprang from Thomas Bendish, from whom Sir Thomas, the first baronet, was sixth in lineal descent, and who, by his second wife, Alice, daughter of Sir Walter Clopton, of lladleigh, had John, "founder of the Norfolk and Suffolk brandies of the family of Bendish." Blomelield, in his history of the county, notices different members of the Norfolk branch ; at Flitcham, as above mentioned, and at Great Witchingham and Belaugh, in which last parish they bought the manor of the Corbets, about lfi.60. But I have no means of tracing their connection with the Yarmouth Bendishes; and all I know of these is contained in the following extract from the records of the Congregational Church here, very obligingly communicated by Mr. Joseph Davey — Thomas Bendish, the elder, was admitted a member, April 18th, 1644, and on the 16th of July, 164.T, was appointed, with others, to exercise their gifts at the weekly meetings. By his wife, Rachael, he appears to have had four children; Thomas, baptized October 7th, 164.'5; Mary, July 20th, 1647, who died in her infancy ; Mary, March 19th, 1649-50, who was, March 2.5th, 1679, admitted a member nf Mr. Sheldrake's Church, at the Old Meeting, in Gaol Street, where she id designated Mnid ; and Rachael, June 24th, 16.tI. — Thomas, the younger,

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

AGED.

DIED.

Bendish, Bridget,^ his wife, daughter of

General Ireton

76

1726

Bendish, Bridget, their daughter

64

1736

*Bendish, Henry, of Tempsford'^

49

1753

Bendy, Martha, wife of Simon Bendy . .

23

1759

On the same stone with Jolm Morris, lier },'rand father.

married Bridget Ireton. Of him and of liis wife is no farther mention made in these records, save the following, " Charles, son of Thomas and Krid,i,'et Bendi.sh, baptized April I6th, 1678 ; John, son of ditto, January 12tli, 168dl-5." It would seem that shortly after this he removed from Yarmouth to Gray's Inn, which will probably account for the disappearance of his name from the books ; and, as he was not a member of the church, but only of the congregation, his removal would not be recorded.

"Many are the accounts that are to be found of this extraordinary lady in different publications. Among others, Bogue's History of Dissenters, (vol. 4, p. 21,) enters into par- ticulars of her life and character at considerable length. For the present purpose it will be sufficient to quote the following comparatively short, but strikingly graphic sketch, given by Granger, in his Biographical History of England : — " Bridget Bendish, grand-daughter of Oliver Cromwell, resembled him more than any of his descendants, in the cast of her coun- tenance and character. She, on some occasions, appeared with all the dignity of a princess ; and at other times, had as much the appearance of a low drudge of business, being as laborious as she was intelligent in the management of her salt-works. After she had harrassed herself with toil, she was as careless liow, or where she slept, or what she eat or drank, as Charles XII was in the course of his campaigns. Her presence of mind on no occasion forsook her; nor was she ever known to betray the least .symptom of fear. Sometimes, after a day of drudgery, she would go to the assembly at Yarmouth, where the greatness of her manner, and the superiority of her understanding, never failed to attract respect. She was never known to break her promise ; nor in her common conversation, to pay much regard to truth, as it would have been rashness to have affirmed anything as a fact because she said it. Her charity appeared to be a virtue of the heart, as well as the hand. She exercised it in all places, and on every occasion ; but in the exertion of it frequently left her debts unpaid. Her piety was strongly tinctured with enthusiasm. She, on emergent occasions, would retire to her closet, where, by fasting, meditation, and prayer, she would work up her spirit to a degree of rapture, and then inflexibly determine her conduct by some text of scripture that would occur to her, which she regarded as a divine revelation. She would frequently fawn, dissemble, and pre- varicate, and that for low, if not sinister ends and purposes ; and was, indeed, the jest and admiration, not only of her friends, but even of her servants, who justly regarded her as one of the best mistresses in the world. She had the highest veneration for the memory of lier grandfatlier, wliom she reverenced as a consummate hero, and glorified saint." — Her residence In Southtown, at a short distance through the Turnpike gate from Yarmouth, was inhabited by the Berners, her collateral descendants, till about sixty years ago, when, on their quitting it, it was reduced from a handsome mansion to a small farm-house; and lately was altogether taken down when they sold the whole of the Bendish property, including the Saltworks so often mentioned in connection witli her. — I have heard Mr. Knbert Woolmer, who died at Great Yarmouth, 1807, aged 96, say that he has asked her if she ever was at court, and been answered, " never, since I was waited upon on the knee." Thus, have I known a person, who knew another that was at the court of Oliver Cromwell — Is not this bridging t\me ? ^ The arms on his stone, Bendish quartering Ireton, show him t'> be of the same family as

the preceding.

T.TST OF IXDlVint'AI.S RT'RIKD

Bentlng, Robert »

Bernard, Robert ' . .

Bernard, Mary, his wife

Bernard, Leonard, Esq., their son . .

Bernard, Sarah, his wife

Bei'nard, Benjamin "ysons of Leonard

Bernard, Christopher, Esq, ^ } ^- Sarah Bernard

Beynon, Mary, imfe of Rev. Matthew Beynon

On tlie same stone with Mary Steward, her mother.

Bird, Judith

Bird, John, son of John and Judith Bird Bird, Judith, his loife, daughter of Gilbert and Elizabeth Ativood

On the same stone with Elizabeth Atwood, her mother.

Birt, Frances

On the same stone with John Bell.

Boardman, Benjamin

Boardman, Sarah, his ivife

Boardman, Emma, ']daughtersofRichd. &^

Boardman, Emma, J Emma Boardman

Boddy, Rose . .

On the same stone with Sarah Leake, her sister.

Bonell, Mary . .

On the same stone as Roger and Elizabeth Thompson, her parents.

Boog, Captain William

On the same stone with John Moore, his son-in-law.

47

1796

G8

1699

47

1684

4«

1712

63

1729

32

1736

41

1740

45

56

34

**

1810

60

1703

**

1699

20

1698

78

1724

54

1767

58

1776

inf.

1785

inf.

1790

1759

1766

1795

• The last Collector of the Salt-Duties in Yarmouth. ^ He was Mayor elect, and died the very day he should have been sworn

into office.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

Boog, Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of — Payne, of Lynn

Borrett, Frances, wife of Henry Barrett, daughter of Thomas and Frances Gooch . .

On the same stone with Ann Gooch.

Bowgin, William ^

Bracey, A.

Bracej, Mary

Bracey, William, Esq., Woollen Draper Bracey, Margaret, his wife

Bracey, Andrew ^ . .

Bracey, William

Bracey, Elizabeth, his wife

On the same stone with Christopher Taylor, Esq.

Bracey, James

Bracey, Mary, his wife . .

On the same stone with A. and Mary Bracey.

Bracey, John . .

Bracey, Ann, his wife

Bracey, Maria, their daughter , .

On the same stone with John Taylor.

Bracey, Susan Matilda ^daughters of John and Bracey, Ann Paget/ Ann Bracey.

61

28

16

1792

1704

1776

32

1712

70

1748

6.3

1720

68

1731

79

1731

70

1792

77

I8O7

42

I8I7

36

1811

63

1835

42

1825

24

1832

1

I8O7

1

1816

»He was killed by falling through the roof of the North aisle, while playing at marbles, (I have been told in the time of divine service, ) and was buried on the spot where he fell.

^ It was in his Mayoralty, 1714, that the Town Hall, commonly called the New Hall, was built; and that an Act of Parliament was obtained for building St. George's Chapel, which was accordingly begun the same year, and finished the following one. (See Rev. Barry Love, infra.)

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LIST OF IXDTVTDUALS BURIED

Bracey, John Taylor

Bracey, Eliza, /lis wife

Bracey, Caroline, their daughter

Bradford, Mary, ivife of John Bradford

On the same stone with Josepli Bridgewell, lier father.

*Bradford, Thomas, Esq. . .

Brame, John

Brazer ***

Bridge, Margaret,'' wife, first of John Arnold, Esq., and then of Rev. William Bridge

Bridgewell, Joseph

Bridgewell, Ann, his wife Bridgewell, Mary

Brightin, Richard

Brightin, Mary, his wife . .

Brightin, Richard

Brightin, Elizabeth, his wife

Ar.ZD.

**

35

inf.

G5

73

28

79 29 79

**

78

71

54

DIED.

1835 1836

1804

1703 1789 1701

1/78 1729 1783

1690 1717

1734 1727

» In her epitaph she is styled, " late wife of the reverend and famous Wm. Bridge ;" and famous he certainly was; for he attracted the notice of Laud, who, in a letter to Charles I, sail! of him, " he has left two livings and a lectureship, and has (led to Holland ;" on which the King wrote against his name, " we are well rid of him." He wa.s, in 1631, Lecturer at Col- chester ; and in 1633, at St. George's, Tomhland, Norwich, where he also was rector of St. Peter's, Hnnjrate, but, in 1637, was suspended hy Bishop Wren, for non-conformity, and excommunicated. He then fled to Holland, and remained there till 1642, when he returned and settled in Yarnioutli, and was api)oinfed Town Preacher; frequently attending in West- minster, as a member of the Assembly of Divines. In 1662 he was ejected by the Act of ITnifonnity, and removed to Stepney, and died there, 1670, aged 70 years. His portrait, the same from which the print was engraved, is still preserved in what is now the Unitarian (was then the Congregationalist) Meeting House, Yarmouth. His works, published in 1640, in 3 vols., 4to, have lately been reprinted in the same number of volumes, 8vo. Much very interesting matter connected with him, will be found in the Rev. Andrew Reed's Congrega- tionalism in Norwich Two Hundred Years Ago, 8vo., Norwich, 1842.

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

11

AGED.

DIED.

Brinsley, Rev. John,* Lecturer at Yarmouth

64

1664

Brinsley, John, jun.

21

1655

Brinsley, Edward

19

1658

Brinsley ***

69

1676

Brinsley, J. . .

53

1700

Brinsley, S.

**

1727

Brinsley, S. . .

'i^'i'

1773

Brocker, Josias

**

1660

Brocker, Joan, his wife, daughter of Rev.

Robert and Elizabeth Sayer . .

25

1659

Brooks, Elizabeth

68

1784

On the same stone with H. W. Marshall.

»Mr. Brinsley was a native of Asliby de-la-Zouch, and educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he was admitted at the early age of thirteen. His father was a (.'lergymau of the same name ; his mother, sister to the learned and pious Dr. Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, whom he accompanied to the Synod of Dort, as his amanuensis. In 1625 he was appointed by the Corporation of Yarmouth, their minister; but the Dean and Cliapter of Norwich, claiming the right of nomination, disputed the appointment ; and he was summoned before the High Court of Commission, at Lambeth, and was, in 1627, suspended from his cure by an order of Archbishop Laud. He continued, however, to preach in the town, in ■what was then the Dutch Church; was subsequently the Theatre; and is now commonly called the Town-House. The Corporation meanwhile persevered in their struggle with the Bishop and the Court in his behalf; till, in 1632, the King in council forbade his officiating at Yarmouth altogether, and even committed to prison four individuals, among them tlie ■well known Regicide, Miles Corbet, then Recorder of the town, for abetting him. Brinsley, after this, exercised his pastoral duties in Lothingland, in 1642, and tlirough the interest of Sir John Wentworth, of Somerieyton Hall, was appointed to tlie cure of that parish. Two years subsequently he was again chosen one of the town-preachers, and is said to have occu- pied the Chancel of the church with the Presbyterians ; while Bridge, with the Congregatiou- alists, was in possession of the North aisle; and the South aisle, with the Nave, was left to the regular minister. Service in all these was performed simultaneously; the Corporation having divided the building for the purpose on the death of the King, at an expense of £900. The number of works left by Brinsley, all of them of the character to be expected from the complexion of the day, is considerable. Among them Swinden particularly mentions, A Bridle for the Times, tending to still the murmuring, settle the wavering, stay the wandering, and strengthen the fainting. Mr. Brinsley had a son, Robert, who was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, and took his degree of a.m. in 1660, but was ejected from the University, and subsequently graduated in physic at Leyden. He then practised at Yarmouth, where he was elected co-chamberlain with Robert Bernard, in 1661, and in 1692 was appomted water- bailiff.

12

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Brown, William Coach

Brown, Thomas

Brown, Elizabeth, his ivife

Brown, Margaret, wife of Robert Brown Brown, Bridget | ^^^.^ daughters Brown, Margaret j

On the same stone with F. G. Keelman, Mrs. Brown's father.

Browne, William, husband of Elizabeth

Browne, Henry, Surgeon . .

Browne, Elizabeth, his wife Browne, Henry, their son Browne, William, Esq.^ . . Browne, Elizabeth, his wife

Brown, William, Esq.

Brown, William

Brown, Mary, his wife Brown, Hannah, their daughter

On the same stone with Mary Willcock.

Brown, Anne, relict of Henry Brown . .

Brown, Sarah wife of William Brown, and daughter of Joseph Cotman, Esq.

75

1726

47

1735

58

1734

27

1722

7

1722

3

1722

70

1697

46

1707

59

1720

65

1755

81

1769

70

1764

46

1710

53

1722

60

1742

73

1780

77

43

1771

1776

»Mr. Browne, a man of much property and influence in Yannouth, was Mayor in 1718 and 1756. lie was a merchant and brewer, \a.m\ built tlie oliice lonf? in the possession of Mr. Paget, and now (May, 1847) on the point of ■bein<; taken down to make room for tlie railway station. At the general election of 1754, he stood candidate in conjunction with Mr. Ricliard Fuller, but was defeated by the Townshend family, whom he almost immediately afterwards joined ; and by them his son-in-law, Mr. Ramey, was made Receiver General of the County. He had two daughters : one of them, the wife of Mr. Ramey, just mentioned, was mother of the Countess of Home : the other married Mr. William Fisher, (see infra) wiio succeeded Mr. Browne as Receiver General, and had siiflicient interest to get the appointment afterwards to his son of the same name, who witii his father and grandfather, secured the representation of the town to the Townshends, almost uninterruptedly, for above forty years, till they were unseated by Anson and Rumbold, in 1618.

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth. 13

AGED.

DI£0.

Browiij John,^ husband of Elizabeth Brown, and

son of Hannah Mooi"

68

1800

On the same stone with Hannah Sayer.

Brunolf, Hall Thore, son of the Bishop of Skalholt

24

1666

Bullard, Walter

*H;

1653

On the same stone as Tabitha Tillyard.

Bullfinch, Richard

71

1781

Bullfinch, Mary, his ivife

53

1774

Bullfinch, Mary Crabtree, their daughter

40

1781

Bullfinch, Robert Cubitt

1

={:***

Bullock, Sarah

67

1725

Bullock, John, her son

36

1728

Burrough, Rachel, wife of Owen Burrough . .

83

1694

On the same stone with Edward Owner.

Burton, William ^

65

1673

Burton, John, his son

57

1703

Burton, Ann, ivife of the preceding

6S

1729

Burton, Samuel, their son

19

1710

*Burton, William, m.d. . .

53

1756

*Burton, William, Esq., son of William and

Martha, and husband of Sarah,

daughter of Sir George and Lady

England

22

1659

^There is also a monument to his memory, erected by his nephew, John Browne, Chand- ler, bearing an extinguisher, and this motto, " Death extinguishes all."

•> This, I apprehend, was the gentleman, who succeeded Col. William Goffe, the Regicide, as representative of the town in Parliament in 1G56, and again was elected to the like office in 1C53 ; as was his son, John, who is interred under the same stone, in 1701. But was it the former of these that in 1057 formed one of the seventy English Members who passed the vote that the crown should be offered to Cromwell ? The parliamentary honors of neitlior appear upon their tomb-stone ; probably because those of the father were of the times ol the Republic, and it became desirable after the Restoration that all recollections of the kind should be effaced.

14

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Burton, Elizabeth, wife of IVilliain Burton . .

Burton, John, Water Builijf

Burton, Mary, hh iv'ifny sister of Robert Ferrier, Esq.

On the same stone with Robert Ferrier.

Burton, Edne, iv'ife of Robert Ferrier Burton

On the same stone witli Jolin Barber, her father.

"1 (laiKjMers of Thomas \ Burton S^ Elizabeth

Burton, Harriet,

Burton, Charlotte, f his wife, daughter of J tVm. &^' Mary Fisher

On the same stone with Charles Fisher.

*Burton, Thomas, Esq.,'* brother of the 2 preceding

Bush, John, husband of Susanna Bush

Bush, John, John, Susan, and Rose, their children

Butcher, William . . Butcher, Mary

Butcher, Jane, their daughter . .

Butcher, Sarah, their daughter

Buttolph, Thomas, Esq.

*Calthorpe, Samuel . .

Cantua, John, Pietro

34 ' 1682

80 1789

i 70 1785

47 1793

1111 ^'1^^'t^

inf* ^^^^

68 57

1841

1728

82

1779

67

1769

14

1731

18

1745

**

1614

47

1743

29

1795

•The arms on his hatrhmcnt are those of Burton, of Tolethnrp, impalin;; Watson, of Walpott, his wife liaving been the daughter of Thomas Watson, Esq., of Yarmouth.

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

15

Carr, John * . .

AGED.

34

DIKD.

1840

Carter, John, Esq.'' . .

72

1GG7

Carter, John, jun. 1

Carter, Nathaniel J^"* *^'^*

72 87

1700 1722

Carter, Mary, his wife, daughter of General Ireton

**

**>!<*

On the same stone with Mary Hamby, formerly wife of John Carter, jun.

» There is likewise a tablet to his memory on the pillar by the chancel door, plated there by his sister Eleanor, wife of Arthur Walford, of Westcroft House, Hammersmith.

i>Mr. Carter, while bailifT, in 1(542, took a decided part with the Parliament, and was con- spicuous among those who came forward with voluntary loans of money and plate, (the latter to be coined into money,) "for the payment of soldiers, and providence of horses, arms, and

ammunition." His contribution on that occasion amounted to £25 , "in plate, and

forty-eight pieces of eight." Two j-ears afterwards, the Earl of Manchester, the Parliamentary General, appointed him, conjointly witli Tliomas Johnson, '• Commander in Chief of the Militia of Yarmouth," with authority " to execute martial law upon all offenders and delin- quents." His name is subsequently found in the list of signatures to the declaration of tlie Corporation in 1648, " to stand for the King and Parliament according to the national cove- nant:" and again in 16.')1, when he was a second time bailiff, as promoting an object of considerable local importance. A remarkable print of him at the age of 31, with a skeleton holding an arrow by his side, engraved by Edwards, is published in the valuable series of Norfolk Portraits. He was the possessor of the singularly interesting mansion, now the property of Mr. Charles John Palmer, who has illustrated its architectural details and histoiy, in his splendid work on the Domestic Architecture of the Elizabethan JEra. Mr. Carter's monumental stone, formerly in the chancel, is now removed ; but both Blometield and Swinden have recorded the inscription, ending with the following lines, not unworthy to be preserved in connection with such a man —

" His court, his fight, his race,

"Thus finished, fought, and run,

" Death brings him to the place " From whence is no return.

" Never did seaman harbour spie,

" Nor pilgrim see his home draw nigh ;

*' Nor captive hear of his return,

" Nor servant his indenture burn ,

" Nor banished prince retrieve his crown,

" Nor tired man at night lie down;

" With greater joy than he exprest,

" At sight of his approaching rest."

' Both the brothers dying childless, with him ended the family, of which it is said in his epitaph: " it has been venerable in this town for ages ; and, tho' now extinct, the memory of its good deeds shall never be extinguished." His wife was the youngest daughter of General Ireton, and, consequently, sister to Mrs. liendish ; but, her mother having, after Iveton's death, married the Lord Deputy Fleetwood, she was, in the marriage license, styled the Honorable Mary Fleetwood, and is so designated on her tomb.

16

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Chicheley, John William ]soiiff of Hi/. Richd. Sf Chicheley, Frederick] Elizabeth Chicheley

Church, Henry ^ . .

Church, Mary, daughter of Henry ^ Ann Church

Clarke, Rose, wife of William Clarke , . Clarke, John, their eldest son

Clarke, Thomas, Collector of the Customs, at Yarmouth . . Clarke, Mary, his wife . . Clarke, Mary, their daughter . .

Clarke, Ede

On the same stone as Thomason Ilagon, her sister.

Clarke Elizabeth,'' wife of Capt. Henry Clarke, and daughter of William and Elizabeth Clarke

Clarke, John, of North Shields . .

Clarke, Capt. William, son of William Clarke, of Brancaster

Clements, John, of Ratcliff Highway

Clifton, Elizabeth, wife of Gabriel Clifton

On the same stone with Elizabeth Ives.

\ Aor.n.

inf. 1

59 66

68 50

28

80

1778

1782 1676 1765

1677

170s

1692 1696

1734

38

1788

41

1751

44

1776

56

1816

23

I7O8

» In his epitaph, preserved by Le Neve, but no longer to be seen In the church, he is styled Senator. I do not, however, find his name among the members of Parliament of the time.

•■She was the grandmother of the Rev. William Jacobson, the present Public Orator at Oxford, some of whose family lie in the church-yard.

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

17

Clifton, Elizabeth ] DaiKjlders of John and

Clifton, Thomazinj Elizabeth Clifton

Clifton, Dinah, wife of James Clifton

Clifton, James ) ,, . . ^ , ,.,, their miant clnlar Clifton, Dinah j

en

Clifton, William, Esq.

Clifton, Elizabeth, Ids wife, daughter of

John Collin Clifton, William . .

Clifton, Mary, ivife, first of Samuel Fenn, then of Josiah Clifton . .

On the same stone as Henry Pairick.

*Clifton, Sarah, wife of Thomas Clifton Clifton, William ^

Clifton, Sarah >their infant children. Clifton, Sarah J Clifton, Abel, their son Clifton, Mary, their daughter Clifton, Jane, second wife of Thomas Clifton

Clifton, Francis, son of Francis and Eliza Clifton

Clifton, Abel . .

Clifton, Mary, his wife . .

Cobb, Edmund

Cobb, Ann, his wife

On the same stone as Prisca Watts.

Colby, Samuel

Colby, Mary, his wife Colby, John 1 ^^.^ Colby, James J

sons

On the same stone as Elizabeth nov.ning. C

GED.

DiF.n.

4

1709

8

1709

25

1727

*=!--

****

**

****

GO

32

70

1720 1704

1767 1729

29

1732

**

^'^'1^'T*

**

****

*;i=

>!:***

4

****

24

1749

61

1758

6

1751

&&

1765

52

1765

89

1794

86

1794

52

1702

69

1715

46

1730

59

1747

1«

LIST OK INPIVIK'AI.S lU'inF.D

Colby, Uirlmrd 1 ^^^.^^^/^^^^.^. ^^j- ^,^^, j,,,rnlmg

Colby, Sanmcl I

On the same stone with Pank-l Dover, llieir jiaiiilfalliPr.

Colby, Hover"

Colbv. .Samuel

Cull)y, Elizabeth

On tlie srtine stone wiili .Inlin Powson.

Collett. Phillis Preston," (laughter of Fraucis RicldeU Reynohh, and wife of Rer. Wnu Colletf, of Thetford

Collin, John, Esq.

Collin Elizabeth, ///.* irife

On the same stone witli Klzabetli, wife of Win. Clifton, licr dangliter.

Colnian, *-*, ividow of Dr. CoJman . .

Colman, Hannah, ivifc of Sanmc/ Cu/man, of IVroxham

On the same stone witli John and Hannati Pliipps, her parents.

Cooper, Robert, hiu^band of Margaret Cooper

Cooper, John ''

Cooper, Eliza

AGED. DIED.

46

1727

76 1751

72 60

20 41

86

86

80

63 73

17">7 1779

1771

IR8I

1690

1707 1722

1637

1684 1715

• A gentleman of the same name, probably his grandson, who died 182fi. was the pro- prietor of two very remarkable pietures, liy Rembrandt, which during his life, hung in his h'liise at Yarmotith, but are now in the possession of his son, Rev. Samuel Colby, of Kllingham, Norfolk. Tliey are whole-length portraits of Mr. Elison, mini.ster of the Eufjlish Church, at .\msterdam, and of his wife. Their date is 1634. They descended to Mr. Colby from Mr. Dover, who married Mr. Elison's daughter. Such is their estimated value, that I was rommissioncd about ISdfi, by the late Mr. Phillips, of Hond StrLCt, to olTcr Mr. Colby jB'iSOO for them ; and I have lately had a letter from one of our mo.st eminent picture-dealers, inquiring if his son would be now likely to accept a similar ofler.

••She is also commemorated upon the mural monument raised to .Jacob Preston Reynolds and others of the family.

' Of the history of the individual here commemorated T am not aware that anything is known, farther than that he was BaMiffin I»i.i7, the year when the Oray Friars' Monastery

IX ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

19

Cooper, John, her Jtusband

Cooper, Thomas, his brother

Cooper, John, soit of John ii^ Eliza Cooper

Cooper, Mary, ivt/e of the preceding . .

Cooper, John ) ^, . , ., .

* (hefr children

Cooper, Mary J

Cooper, Dorcas, ui/'e of Henry Cooper

Cooper, Susannah, daughter of Henry and Susannah Cooper

Cooper, John

Cooper Mary, his first wife, daughter of

James and Mary Hannot . . Cooper, Margaret, Ids second wife

*Cooper, Rev. Samuel, d. d.,^ Minister of Yarmouth . .

AGED,

59

52

90

49 56

1/10

1725 1753

1790

1781

17«7

^2> ! 1724

6 ■ 17.:5-^ 44 I72G

22 60

1701 1724

1800

\

■was sold, and the New Broad Row made on a portion of tlie site, (Swinden, p. 47.3,) and tliat he resided in a very large house, on the Uiiay, whicli occupied tlie ^.ite now filled by tlic New- castle Tavern and two small shops to the Soutli oi' it, and was taken down about sixty ytrars ago. He must have been a man o;' some celebrity, so high-sounding is his epitaph . —

"Audi, viator,

Sive sis extraneus, sive incola,

non leve pretium morfe.

Ipsa mater. a Vatem fere terruit,

at tandem composnit.

Non l-'ortunae hisenius casiim,

sed Providential cultum, tit decet,

cedinms.

Hie parvo jacet in looo

Joannes Coopekus, Senior,

Domi forisque satis notus

propter Notiora et

Potiora."

The Yarmouth Cooper family of this date, were the ancestors of Capt. Thomas Cooper,

of North Walsham, of sporting notoriety, the friend of George Lord Orford.

Dr. Coiperwasa native of Norwich, and at the free school there received the first rudiments of his educat.on, which he completed at Magdaitn Colltge, Cambiidr;e. He

20

LIST OK INDIVIIIUALS BrUIlil)

AGED

DIEIJ.

♦Cooper, Maria Susanna,' his iri/e

69

1807

Cooper, II. M. A.

**

lyyi

Cooper, C. 11. C. . .

**

1806

Copeniun, Ann, wifi of Thomas Copcman

**

16G7

Cupcnian, Benjamin

*:|c

1668

iiiarrieil, early ii» liff, tlie dauttliter of^rr. James Bransby, of Shottislism, with whom, and at tlie adjoiiiiiiKparish of Brooke, he resided, till he removed in 1781 to Yannoutli; having been presented to the peipetual curacy throujrh the instrumentality of Dr. I.loyd, Dean of Noiw.ch. A br.ef account of him will be found in the fust part of the seventieth volume of the Gentleman's Magazine, and in the Life of Sir Astley Cooper, his son. The former work contains (p. 177) a list of tlie Doctor's various publications, all religious or political, and all prompted by the best of motives, but ui\fortunately not of the number of those, destined, '• like Patriarch Wits, to survive a thousand years." Even now the Doctor's name is scarcely knov.n, except in connection with that of his son just mentioned, a most obliging, proii:pt, powerful man, who can never fail to live in the annals of medicine. Sir Astley'sprufessioiial k; udies commenced during his residence at Yarmouth, in the surgery of my uncle, Mr. FrahCiS Turner. But liis stay there was very short. Anotlier of Dr. Cooper's sons, Mr. Branslii Cooper, fiie eldest, wa.s twelve years the representative of the City of Glocester in Parliament. The jiedigrec of the family was registered at the College of Arms, when Sir Astley Cooper was cre- ated a baronet.

• To the excellence of this lady the strongest testimonyhas been invariably borne by .ill who knew her; and lately theirtestimony has been stamped by apublicconlirmatiou in the latter work quoted in the preceding note. It is tlieresaid, (vol. l,p. 11) "she was one of the most exemplary of human beings, and as remarkable for the feminine sweetness of her characler in early lil'e, as she was afterwards distinguished for her cultivated talents, piety, and christian-like forbearance. In every stage of her existence she adapted herself with wonderful versatility to the peculiar duties she was called upon to perform, and excited universal admiration, love, and respect. She was elegant in her form, with a cast of countenance that at once bespoke the sweetness of her disposition. So little did self occupy her thoughts, that she seemed as if she lived solely for the benefit of others. Pveligion formed the basis of all her actions, however trivial ; and ill her person was remarkably exhibited the close aliinity between cultivated talents and virtuous affections." To the truth of this eulogium I can conlidently subscribe; and not so much from my own knowledge, as from that of my wife, who, in her early days, was distin- guished by her peculiar affection. Our eldest daughter. Lady Hooker, was her godchild, and bears her name. Mrs. Cooper was the author of several works ; the lirst, small, and designed for the instruction of her children, and to shew the advantages of a christian education. The more important ones of her later life were. Letters between Emilia and Harriet ; Fanny Meadows; The Wife, or Caroline Herbert ; The Exemplary Mother ; and A Letter in Verse, supposed to hare been addressed by June Shore to her friend. All these were reprinted after her death, by her son, Mr. Bransby Cooper; but even the reprints are no longer to be pro- cured. I may still farther mention in connection with Mrs. Cooper, what will now be considered trilling, but would hanily have been regarded so fifty years ago,— that so strikingly did her hand-writing coincide with that of the author of the Letters of Junius, that I have laid the two together and compared them carefully in company with Dr. Girdlestone, who pub- iUlicd upon Junius, and we could with dilliculty believe that they were not by the same person. Had Dr. Cooper then been a man of a dilTerent calibre of mind, and of different conoocti.ms and situation in life, a cUie might thus have been supposed to have been found towards iinravclliiig one of the great political mysteries of the last t'eneration.

IX ST. NICHOLAS CIIUIICII;, GT. YAllMOUTII.

21

AGr.D.

niFD.

Cory, ***

*=tJ

1692

*Coryj ]lobert, jun., Esq.*

6 4

1840

Cory, Ann, his wife, dav(jJtter of Isaac

Preston

6.3

1840

Cory, Isaac Preston, tJicir son . .

40

1842

Cosh, William, Esq.^

63

1681

Costerton, Esther

3

1728

On the same stone with Robert Watson, her grandfather.

» Mr. Cory was a native of Yarmouth, and a solicitor there, and filled the office of Mayor in 1815, tlie year after the Festival upon tlie ret\irn of peace, of whirh he published a N^ar- rative. He was a Fellow of the Society of .\ntiquaries, and much attached to their pursuus, in the coarse of his cultivation of which he made lar.^e collections for illustrating the history of his tiative town. Accordingly, about 1820, he issued Proposals/or publisliing by suliscription, in two 'juarfu volumes, the History and Antiquities of Great Varmouth ; but either tlie plan did not meet with the support that was looked for, or other motives operated ; for no part of the work was printed. Kis library, at once valuable for tlie number and selection of the articles, was sold by auction shortly after his death. The .Yarmouth Suspension Bridg>', of fatal memory, was built by Mr. Cory, in 1829, at his own expanse, on which occasion a hand- some medal was struck, bearing, on one side, a view of the bridge, with " Roberto Cory, R. lilio, concives M. Jem. mdcccxxix ;" on the other, within a wreath of laurel, " Ob Pontem fluviii Garieni D. S. P. impositum." His son, Mr. Isaac Preston Cory, buried under tlie same stone, distinguished himself by learned and valuable publications.

i" Mr. Cosh was Bailiff, together with Mr. Samuel Fuller, in 1679. From a copy of his ■\Vill, made four months before his death, and very kindly communicated to me by Mr. James Copenian, of Loddon, it appears that he was a brewer, and was p:issessed of large property, particularly in houses, the whole of wiiich he left to his nephews, John Nicholls and William Cosh, thf latter the son of his brother, Roger. At the same time he gave " Elizabeth, his deare and loveinge wife, for and in full reconipence and satisfaction of ail her dower and all other dernandes whatsoever," a life-interest in four new-built tenements, in the occupation of John Spendlove and others ; with the singular addition, that his nephew, Nicholls, to whom he bequeaths his dwelling-house, should permit and suffer her " to have solely to her owne proper use, the kitchen of the said dwelling-house, and the chamber over the same, and the garrett over the said chamber ; and also to have, jointly with him the sayd John Nicholls, the use and beneiitt of the washouse and washouse-chamber, pumpe, and yeards belonginge to the sayd dwelling-house, for and dureinge the terrae of her naturall life, withoute payinge any thinge therefore." By a subsequent clause he further gives her the use of the furniture in the above-mentioned kitchen-cliamber, and of the plate in his dwelling-house, the laiter conjointly with his executors ; and, accordingly, in a detd also sent me by Mr. Co]ieniaii, she covenants that her executors, administrators, or assigns shall, within ten days next after her death, return " two pair of sheets, two piUow-beares, six silver spoons, one silver pliite, oiie silver porringer, one silver two-eared cuii, and two silver sweetmeat sp ons," the receipt of which she by the same deed duly acknowledges. — Such testamentary dispositions in favor of the dear and loving wife of a man of opulence, must surely be admitted to be strangely ii.di- cative of the fee-lings either of thetiines or the individual.

22

LIST OF INDIVIUIALS ULUIKD

Costei-ton, Samuel'

C'ostcrloii, Eli/.abcth, his wife . . Costerton, Bciij uuin, ///'-//• son Costerton, Maria, his wi/t, daughter of

John Fishi'7', Esq. Costerton, Maria, thtir dauyhter

Costerton, Cliarlotte, her sisier

Costerton, Harriet, irifeoj Chas. Costerton, Esq.

Costerton, Frances ~1 chi/drea of John

Costerton, Jannet V Fisher 6> Maria

Costerton, John Fisher J Costerton.

Cotman, John, onhj son of Joseph Cotman . . Cotman, EUzabeth, his wife, afterwards

married to John Smith . . Cotman, John, their son . . Cotman, INIary, his wife

Cotman, Roger

Cotman. Judith, his wife Cotman, Judith, their daughter, died at Rotterdam

On the same stone with John Urwin.

Cotman, Joseph, Esq.

Cotman, Margaret, Jiis wife Cotman, Sarah,*" third wife of Joseph Cotman ■. .

AGI.B., DIED.

J56| 1777

I 75 izyy

64 1«13

i

75 1826

14 I 17B8

I 36 ! 1821

40 ' 1836

3 j 1836 inf. I 1835 inf. 1836

39 ! 1717

I

72 1751 (iG j 1772 50 i 1753

65

1719

68 i 1735 26 1724 73 1724

78 I 1729

44 1751

•The pcdijrree of this family has been recorded in the College of Arms.

>■ From the age of this lady, and the date of her death, it is not to he doubted that she wM not the wife of Joseph Cotman, Esq., commemorated upon the same stone, who died in P24, hnl of liim, tlie first on the followinR stone, who was mo>t prob.ibly— hut I spe.ik only *f probabilities- the son of the former.

IX ST. XIOHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

23

Cotman, Joseph, Esq.'^

Cotman, Mary, his first wife . . Cotman, Amata, his second unfe Cotman, Joseoli, her son Cotman, Joseph, her second son

*Courtenay, Capt. Francis, r.n.,^ of the Powder- ham Castle Family

Cowldham, John, Esq.," son of Allen Coivld- ham, Esq.

Coyte, Harriet and R. Maria, '^ died infants

AGED.

DIKD.

56

1762

19

1727

26

1731

inf.

1730

inf.

1731

84

1672

1620 1773

» In the third Mayoralty of this gentlemen, in 1759. the first sea-baths at Yarmouth were built, at an expense of near £2000. He had been previously Mayor in 1745 and 1757.

>■ Blomefield and Swinden, the latter copying the former, as he often does even in his errors, represent this (gentleman to have died 20th November, 1673, which my friend, Mr. King, Rouge-Dragon, states to be proved to be erroneous by the records of the Heralds' College; and I have altered tlie date accordingly upon his authority; the stone no lorger exist'ng. He writes me, as follows : " Francis Courtenay, of Woolby, in the County of Devon, was the tliird son of Francis Courtenay. of Powderham Cast'e. Esq., (ancestor of the ennobled hou.'^e of Courtenay, Viscounts Courtenay,) and was baptized there \it\\ .Tuly. 1633. He was a Captain in the Royal Navy, and was wounded in the action at Sole Bay, 28th May, 1672. and died in consequence at North Yarmouth, the sixteenth day following. His will bears date 1st April, 1672 ; and a codicil 1st May 1672, proved in the Prerogative Court 19th Feb- ruary, 1672-3. He married Rebecca, daughter of .John Webbe, of Exeter, a Major in the army, at Woolborough, 8th .fanuary, 1657-8, and bv hcrhai tliree daughters, who became his coheirs ; Francis, his son, having died an infant, in 1666. His brother, Sir William Courtenay, (presumed to have been created a baronet in 1644, but of which creation no letters patent appear to have been found,) was the great-grandfather of William, first Viscount Courtenay, so created in 1710."

"Mr. Cowldham, a^ stated in his epitaph, was four times Bailiff— in 1578, 1587, 1596, and 1607. The first of the.-ie years was one of much excitement; Queen Elizabeth being then expected in the to.vn, and great preparations made for her entertainment. A silver cup, in the form of a ship, value £16, was ordered as a present to Her Majesty. She came, however, no farther than Norwich ; but the Lords of her retinue proceeded to Yarmoulli, and were elegantly entertained in the priory, at the Town's expense. Dying childless, he was the 1,-ist of the family. His father, who was Bailiff in 1559, ten years after the suppression of Kelt's Rebellion, died in 1582, and lies buried in Lowestoft Church ; his epitaph stating,

'■ Of age he was thre skore and tene :

He lyved well in the sight of all men."

■> Daughters of William Beeston Coyte, M. D., then a resident at Yarmouth, hut after- wards of Ipswich, where he published a list of the plants cultivated in his garden, under the title of Horfiis HfttnmntK Gipporicensis.

2i

LIST OK INUlVinr.VLS liUIUED

Crabt roe, Mary

I'lultr llu- s.i.iie stotie witli RicliarJ RulKinch, her father.

Creed, Elizabeth, ilauyhter of Win. i^ Martha Creed -

AGFP

40

Cr')tnc, John Barney •''

Crowe, Ebtnezer, husband of Sarah Crowe

Crowe, Jiulith, lo'ife of Benjamin Crowe

Cruehfield, Thomas, husband of Mary Cruchfield

Cubitt, Thomasin, daughter of Titus and Tho- masin Cubilt Cubitt, John, her brother . .

*Cufaude, Matthew

Cufaude, Susanna, his wife

On the .same stune with Williain Davie.

CuUyer, Augu.stine Curtis, Robert

Curtis, Ehzabeth, his wife

Curtis, Robert )

,, their sons

Curtis, Ednmnd)

Gushing, John

On ilie same stone witli M;iry Herring.

Custius, John . .

Custins, Rebecca

Cutting, Joseph

Cutting, Sara, his wife . .

48 28 49 .39

65 93

62

62

40

3

inf.

67

56 71

1781

1724

1842 1732 1/16 16G9

1654 1655

1796 1816

1725

17.56

1721 1710 1710

1711

1722 1723

1704 1713

-Eldest son of John Crome, of Norwich, well and honorably known as the Hobl.enia ; himself also a drawing-master, and far from a despicable landscape- ek|iecially in iiiuunlight pieces.

Norfolk painter,

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH. 25

Cuttinge, Nicholas, Esq.^ . .

AGED.

62

DIED.

1669

Cuttinge, Robert, his son

69

1711

Cuttinge, Joseph, son of Robert Cuttinge

59

1748

Cuttinge, Lydia, wife of Nicholas Cuttinge . . Cuttinge, Lydia

53 21

1666 1653

Cuttinge, Anne

22

1666

Cuttinge, Rose

Cuttinge, Dorothy, ivi/e of Leonard

Cuttinge Cuttinge, William, their son

34

23 3

1676

1727 1725

Dade, Sarah, wife of Thomas Dade, of Bradwell ; daughter of Rev. Francis Turner

On the same stone as Edward Owner.''

74

1823

Dale, Sarah, wife of George Dale

Dale, Rebeccah, first wife of Richd. Dale

Dale, Mary, second wife of ditto

Dale, George, son of R. ^ Rebeccah Dale

65 32

37 21

1756 1730

1767

1764

"He was, as recorded on his tomb-stone, thrice Bailiff of Yarmouth; in 1630, 164.'), and. 1660. His father and his son, both of the same name, held the like office in 1619 and 1667. Thus situated, and living in tumultuous times, his name frequently appears, as was to be expected, and a.s that of his father had done before him, in the annals of tlie town. In 1634, he was one of the assessors for collecting £940 — under tlie name of ship-money; the ostensible plea being " to provide a ship of war, of the burthen of 800 tons, with double equipage, wages, and victuals, for the King's service;" and the rigor with which this obnoxious measure was enforced may be estimated by the words of the warrant, which declares — " all those whom we shall find rebellious and contrary in the premisses, we shall commit to prison, there to remain until His Majesty shall be pleased to cause further order to be taken for their freedom and deliverance." He had previously borne a leading part in the struggles alre.idy mentioned concerning Mr. Brinsley, on whose behalf he, conjointly with his brother-bailiff, John Stevenson, in 1631, addressed letters to the Bishop of Norwich and Earl of Dorset. (See History of Yarmouth, p.p. 539, 742, 847, 848, et seq.)

>> This may be adduced as a contradiction of what is stated in the Preface, that some connection may commonly be traced between different names engraved on the same stone ; for, certainly, neither my aunt, Jlrs. Dade, nor any of my family, as far as I know, were at all related to or connected with the Owners.

D

26

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BUniED

Dal 1 wall, Rev. John, drotrncd at sea

AGl'B.

27

DIED.

1730

Darby, Joanna. 7ni/(' of Daniel Darby . .

52

1710

Darby, Susannah, their daughter

20

1703

Darke, Absalom

60

1792

Darke, Amelia,^ his ivife . .

58

1791

Dasset, John,'' husband of Dyonisia

67

1637

*Dasset, Hannah

26

1631

Davall, Cuthbert

15

1690

Davey, Rachael, ivife of Capt. Mathew Davey

69

1783

Davie, William, husband of Ann

62

1828

Davie, William,"] ^. . , ., ,

\ their children

Davie, Harriet, J

inf 4

1799 1814

Davies, Rev. John'^

29

1827

•The warm expressions of eulof!;y in the epitaph of this lady, itself an elegant compo- sition, may naturally lead to an inquiry who she was. It records, inter alia, that " to an excellent understanding she added the pleasing manners of a gentlewoman, with the charity of a Christian. Her situation introduced her to the great : an inteicourse she cultivated, not from vanity, but that she might thro' tliem promote the favorite object of her life, administer comfort to the destitute." It concludes l)y >aying, what 1 believe was quite true, that " she was beloved by the poor, esteemed hy her fiiends, and respected by all who had the pleasure of knowing her," .\fter this, it may cause some surprise to be told that she was the landlady of the Angel Inn ! T!ie epitaph was written by probably the most able pen ever known in Yarmouth, that of James Sayers, Esq., (see infra) ; and he also wrote upon her the following epigram, still better known in its day —

" At the Angel at Yarmouth, a singular Inn,

"There's the shadow without, and the substance within;

" This paradox proving, in punning's despite,

"That an Angel, the' dark, is an angel of light."

*■ Mr. Passet took a prominent part in the disputes, in the early part of the reign of Charles I, occa-sioned hy an attempt made in the corporation to choose a Mayor instead of two BailifTs. He even proceeded so far as to petition the King on the subject, in consequence of which, a writ of Quo Warranto was issued, and "the town was torn to pieces by the violence of the two parties." Hlitort/ of Yarmouth, 482, et seq.

' He was oirate to iny uncle, Rev. Richard Turner, by whom he was deservedly held in th* greatest esteem and regard, and who placed the mural monument and sepulchral stone

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH^ GT. YARMOUTH.

27

Davy, Thomas

AGIO.

59

DltD. 1740

Davy, Mary, his wife

58

1746

Davy, William, husband of Elizabeth Davy . .

68

1793

Davy, Ann

6

1789

On the same stone as William Bowgin.

Dawson, John,'' Collector of the Customs

56

1679

Dickson, Sir Archibald,'' Admiral of the Blue

64

1803

Dickson, Elizabeth, Lady, his wife

53

1799

Ditcham, William, husband of Rachael Ditcham

61

1763

Ditcham, Francis, their so7i

24

1775

Ditcham, Martha, ivife of William Ditcham

37

1747

Ditcham, John

86

1796

Ditcham, Mary, his wife . ,

81

1797

Ditcham, Samuel

84

1800

Dobson, John

74

1703

On the same stone as George Ward.

Dove, Mary . .

88

1768

to his memory, closing th« inscription with,

" He was, when living, universally beloved :

" He was, when dead, universally lamented."

Mr. Davies issued proposals to print an edition of the New Testament, with the pronouns,

whether personal or possessive, relating to God the Father in capitals, and those to God the

Son in italics ; but the Archbishop of Canterbury dissuaded him from persevering, and

he relinquished the design.

" A native of Loughborough, to which to^vn he bequeathed £100, and the same sum to the Corporation of Yarmouth, for the payment of £5 yearly, for teacliing poor children arithmetic and the mathematics. He resided in the house in Jail-Street which is now occu- pied by Mr. Richard Branford, but which continued in the possession of his descendants, till the family became extinct by the death of Mr. James Dawson, my father's uncle, in 1792. Their tombs still remain in the church-yard.

''He was Commander in Chief of the North-sea Fleet, after tlie resignation of Lord Duncan. His pedigree and «rrn.'- are recorded in the Heralds' CoMe^;*.

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LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Dover, Daniel

Dover, Ann, his wife Dover, Daniql, their son . .

Downing, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Downing

Downing, Sarah, daughter of Richard ^ Sarah Doirnin/j

On tlie same stone ai> Sarah Artis, lier mollier.

Dowson, John

Dowson, Sarah, his wife . .

Oil tlie same stone as John Morris, her father.

Drake, Priscilla, ivife of John Drake Drake, John, their son Drake, Mary, his wife

Draper, "William, husband of Mary Draper

Draper, John . .

Draper, Sarah, his wife . .

Duck, Sarah, ivife of Robert Duck

Oil tlie same stone with Henry Pairick, lier uncle.

Ducker, Mary, ivife of John Ducker, r.n.

Dudgeon, John, son of Thomas ^ Mary Dudgeon Dudgeon, Richard, tiieir son, husband of Elizabeth Dudgeon Dunlop, John, of Port Glasgow

Dunn, Ann, ivife of Henry Dunn

Dunn, Anne Atwood, ivife of Christopher

Dunn. . Dunn, Christopher, son of the above

On the i-anic sloiie us Ann Wliiley.

83 67 75

34

64

37

28

48 63 80

70

72 76

64 56

39

68

**

69 13

IN ST. NICHOLAS* CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

29

Dunn, John . .

Dunn, Margaret, his wife

Edgar, Sophia Margareta, wife of Rear Admiral Edgar

Ellys, Anthony, Esq.^

Ellys, John . .

Ellys, Thomas

Ellys, Mary, his wife

Also eighteen of their children.

Ellys, Sarah, wife of Thomas Ellys

Emms, Thomas,^ merchant

Emms, Preserved, his wife

Emms, Preserved, their daughter

AGED.

85 75

47 75 35

*8

67

63 61

17

DIED

1788 1791

1807 1709

1702

1761

1743

1788

1721

1722

1712

"*Le Neve, amonost his pedigrees of Knights, tempore Car. II, gives a pedigree of Anthony Ellys, of Great Yarmouth, merchant, living 1705, (the father of him here mentioned.) He says he was the son of John Ellys, of Frostenden, in Suffolk, and grandson of — Ellys, of Somer ey, in S,vif(o\yi,nn ordinary man, and had no pretence tn arms. John Ellys, 1 f Frostenden, had two otliersons, Sir John Ellys, m.d.. Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Vice-chancellor of the University, called the Divel of Keys, and knighted 16th April, 1705, on the Queen and Prince's visit to the University; and Thomas Elys, a merchant of Yarmouth, who married Katharine, daughter of John Fuller, of Yarmouth. Anthony Ell.vs married Margaret Walton, and by her had, 1, Anthcny El'ys, of Yarmouth, who married a daughter of Ferrer, (Ferrier?) of Yarmouth. 2, John Ellys, Fellow of Caius College, unmarried 1705. 3, Thomas Ellys, a merchant in Jamaica, 1705; and three daughters." T. W. K.

I am informed by Mr. Davey, that the elder Anthony Ellys was admitted a member of Mr. Bridge's Church, May 2Sth, IGSl ; that h's son, Anthony, and daughter. Mary, were baptized there the following month ; and that the latter was Mayor in 1705 and 1719. his father having been Bailiff in 1699, and Mayor in 1708. Mr. Davey adds, that the younger Antliony Ellys, in his mayoralty of 1720, informed the assembly that his son of the same name had accepted the office of Chapel Minister. He held it, however, only to December, 1721, having obtained through the Lord Chancellor preferment in London, where he was promoted 10 a prebend in Gloucest^- Cathedral, and finally to the Bishopric of St. Davids, in 1752. Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary contains an interesting Life of him.

^ Corbridge, on his map, figures the residences of two gentlemen of the name of Emms ; but both of them were Robert Emms, and lioth lived in Ja.l Street : the one liouse was that lately occupied by Mr. William John Hurry ; the other, that at the South-western corner of tlie street, long the residence of the Shelly family.

50 LIST OK INDIVIDUALS BURIED

♦England, Sir George*

England, Sarah, his wife

♦England, George, Esq., their eldest son}'

♦England, Thomas, Esq., their second son

England, Ann, his wife, daughter of Thoiuas Bulwer, of Buxton

\\ itli live sons and three daughters.

♦England, Benjamin, their third son"^

AOED,

61 66

58 47

32

1677 1677

1702

1693

' Sir George England was one of the three members of the Corporation knighted upon the occasion of King Charles the Si;cond's visit to Yarmouth, in 1G71. The other two were Mr. Robert Ualdock. the Recorder, and Mr. James Johnson. Swinden, inaccurately, ip.97\, note,) names Sir Thomas Medowe, instead of Sir Robert Raldock ; but the former had received that honor eleven years previously, August liith, 1660. Respecting Sir James Jolinson, SL-e in/ra, under his tombstone. Sir Robert Baldock was of Tacohieston, Norfolk, where lie built and resided in the Hall. He was King's Serjeant, and, being an active man during the reign of James II, w.is one of His Majcsty'.s Counsel at the trial of trie Seven Bishops, in 1688, and for his zeal in tlie cause was made a Justice of the King's Bench the same year. The name of Sir Georee England scarcely appears in the Yarmouth annals, save £s having held the office of Bailiff in 1657 and 1607. The dignity of knighthood he most probably owed to his having been foreman of the committee appointed to make provision for the King's reception. At the same time, the higher honors attained by his sons make it clear that he nmst have been a man of inllui nee. Another George England, very likely his father. is mentioned by Swinden, (p.p. 5C6, 57G, 579,) as having been of the Corporation, and having Bided with the parliament in the times of Charles I and the Commonwealth.

^ Mr. George England, after the death of his father, represented Yarmouth in the six Parliaments of 1679, 16SI, 1690, 1095, 1698, and 1700; as also in the Convention of 1688. He was likewise Recorder of the town. By his will, he ordered that "the space between the altar and the rails in the chancel, should, by his executors, be paved with maible." The inscription upon his monument is simple and uni)retending, merely stating that he was " a true friend to his native place, and lo the l.berly of his country;" while that upon his father's, who was scarcely known beyond the walls of Yarmouth, designates him as, " Garienis honor et glor!a," a man, "Qui sic Deo, Ecclcsiae, Patriae, amicis vixit, ut nihil de eo nisi mortem dolendimi arhitreniur" A third George England, the son of his next brother, Thomas England, and not buried in the church, was returned member of Parliament for the Borough, in 1710 and 1713.

• He represented Yarmouth in the Parliaments of 1702 and 1705. Like both his brothers and his nepliew, and indeed the greater part of the Representatives of that time, he was an alHerman of the town. To him, however, the remark dues not hold good, which would be applicable to his predecessors, that " it was natural they should be so, seeing that ihe choice lay, before 1681, in six Aldermen and six Common Councilmen, nominated by the Corporation from amonR themselves." Yet, surely, a borough cannot do equally well in so important an occasion, as to select an individual resident among them, connected with them, and alive to and acquainted with tlipir interests, and most probably identified with them. Of such we have in our ,-iay« ha 1 but a ^in^le example, the lat • Sir E. K. Laron.

IX ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

31

England, Prisca, his wife . .

AGED.

DIED.

1703

*EngIand, Joseph, their fourth son, husband of

Clara Vander Lane

25

1674

England, Joseph, his son

**

1674

England, Samuel, their ninth son

1

1658

England, William, tJieir tenth son

1

1659

England, James, their eleventh son

1

1664

England, Joseph

**

1658

Engle, Richard

75

1690

Engle, *** his ivife

**

1702

Engle, Benjamin, their great-grandson

inf.

1703

Engle, Elizabeth, ivife of Benjamin Engle * . .

45

1706

Engle, John V, .

° . . \ their sons Engle, BenjammJ

** **

1707 1712

Errington, Susan, wife of Michael Errington

11

1733

Errington, Sarah, daughter of Michael

and Sarah Errington

23

I7I6

Errington, Ann, ivife of George Errington . .

39

1727

Also three of their children

Errington, Benjamin

62

1748

Errington, Elizabeth, his wife

79

1766

Errington, Benjamin, their son. .

13

1730

On the same stone as Robert Partridge.

Eules, Susannah

52

1750

On the same stone wifh Lucy Howard, her sister.

» Mr. En^le was the first Jl.iyor of Yarmouth under the charter of Queen Anne, in 1702, by which he was expressly nominated. He liad previously been one of the Bailiffs, in 1&93.

32

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

AGEI). DIED.

Evans, Thomas . . ...

Evans, Jane, his wife

Farry, Ann, wife of Capt. John Farry

On the same stone as Benjamin Sayers, her father.

Felstead, Beatrice, ivife of Thomas Felstead, daiif/hter of John Knapp Felstead, Thomas . . Felstead, Elizabeth, his wife

Felstead, Katharine, wife of Thomas Felstead, davphter of Robert Davey Felstead, Thomas, their son Felstead, Hester

Fenn, Samnel, Esq.

Fenn, John, his son

Fenn, Samuel . ,

On tlie same stone as Henry Parrick.

Ferrier, Robert, Sen.

Ferrier, Mary, his wife

Ferrier, Robert, their son. Merchant in

Yarmouth . . Ferrier, Elizabeth, his loife, second

daughter of Sir Geo. England . . Ferrier, Richard, Sen., son of Robert

and Mary Ferrier. . Ferrier, Judith, his wife Ferrier, Ellen, ivife of R. Ferrier, Esq.,

daughter of Robert Longe of

Rymerstone

7G 68

46

31

81

36

78

54 35

51

72

65

77

60 61

42

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth.

33

Ferrier, Richard, Esq.^ her husband^ son of

AOED.

DIED.

Richard and Judith Ferrier . .

56

1728

Ferrier, Richard, their only son. .

4.3

1739

Ferrier, Benjamin, son to Robert and Elizabeth

Ferrier

71

1753

Ferrier, George, his brother

1

1664

On the same stone as Sir George England, his grandfather.

Ferrier, EHzabeth, wife of Robert Ferrier

32

1744

Fiddes, Thomas

76

1833

Fish, Mary-

40

1724

Fish, Elizabeth, wife of Simon Fish . .

29

1743

Fish, Ann, her sister, wife of Nathl. Fish

60

1777

With ten of their children. On the same stone as Robert

Curtis, their father.

Fisher, Wilham, Esq.''

86

1811

Fisher, Mary, his wife, daughter of

William Browne. . .

70

1799

» He represented Yarmouth in the three successive Parliaments of 1708, 1710, and 1713, in the course of the 'ast of which he was made a coasting-waiter in the port of London, a sinecure place, and was the same year appointed Major of tlie Yarmouth Fusileers. His epitaph styles him tiie " decus et desiderium" of the town, and proceeds to say, " exundantem Ingenii fontem, morum suavitatem, et quae generosum ornant et cohonestant dicaut famili- ares ; eximiam rei politicEe peritiam, regni comitia ; labo es indefessos, et prae cseteris delicias, solum natale. ftuse suscepit niunia, et varia cert^, gnavit^r explevit, affabrd expolivit." As well his own house, as that of his father, is figured in Corbridge's map. The former 1 have not been able to identify : the latter is the same as is now occupied by John Pieston, Esq., the author of the Picture of Yarmouth. It had then four rows of trees in front, extending in a straight line to the river. The Ferrier family, who had for two hundred years supplied Mayors to Norwich and Bailiffs to Yarmouth, were by Major Ferrier connected with the Riddells, the Englands, and the Gurneys, of West Barsham.

^See Note, p. 12.

k

34

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

tlieir daughters

Fisher, \nx\,wife of William., son of the preced- ing, and daughter of BenJ. Gibbs "

Witli her lie tlin-c of tliuir cliildreii. who died infants.

Fisher, Charles

Fisher, John . .

Fisher, Ann, Ids wife, daughter of

Broivne Fisher, Sophia^ Fisher, Mary Fisher, Emily, their grand-daughter Fisher, Elizabeth, spinster

Fisher, John, Esq.

Fisher, Martha, his loife, daughter of John Goate, of Sherringham . . Fisher, Charles Richard, their grandson, son of John Goate Fisher and Charlotte his wife, daughter of the Rev. Richard Turner

Flatman, Bridget, wife ofThos. Flatman, of Nor- wich, ^ daughter of James Watts

Fontenelle, Elizabeth, wife of Saml. Fontenelle

Forster, Pexall

Fraser, Marion, drowned in coming ashore, on her way from Scotland

Fuller, Lydia . .

31

2 56

86 51 12 11

71

83

70

inf.

77

83 29

• Roth the Rrownes and the Gibbs were Pramlinghatn families ; and many of them lie buried in the churcli there (See Loder's History of Framlingham, p.p. 307,8.) Mr. Ben- jamin Gibbs, here mentioned, lived in Yarmouth ; he built and resided in the house now in the occupation of J. J. Bedingfield, Esq. ; and there he unfortunately put an end to his life, January the ISth, 1787.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOU

1314528

TH.

35

Fuller

, John* husband of Rachel Fuller

AGED.

DIED.

1673

Fuller

, Sarah, theii' daughter

6

1683

Fuller

, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Fuller

51

1673

Fuller, Mary, ivi/e of Saml. Fuller, .Tun.

32

1690

*Fulle

r, Samuel, Esq.''

74

1721

Fuller, Rose, his wife, daughter of Rich.

Huntington, Esq. . .

**

****

Fuller, Samuel, Jun., their son. .

**

****

Fuller, Arm, his ivife, daughter of Thos.

Godfrey

**

****

Fuller, Richard, l.l.d., son of Samuel

and Rose Fuller . .

*-!:

Jji>jC>]> J|C

Fuller, Elizabeth, their daughter

**

****

»"A. D. 1703, Mr. John Fuller and Rachel, his wife, p-ave £130 to build a Gallery, (called tlie Fishermen's Gallery,) in the middle aisle of the church. It was built in 170.5; and two pillars of the church were taken down, to allow more commodious light to it." Swinden's History of Yarmouth, p. 873.

^ Mr. Fuller was BailifF of Yarmouth in 1(179 and 1698, and was on four occasions elected its Representative; — first, in the Convention of 1688, and then in the Parliaments of 1690, 169d, and 1700. His father-in-law, Mr. Huntington, also twice attained to the same honor. But I have not chanced to meet in the Parliamentary History either with these or with any other members for the town, chosen from among its inhabitants, as distinguishing themselves in the debates. The record of the Fuller family, preserved on the large handsome monument, ag.ninst the North wall of the chancel, immediately upon entering from the nave, is at once very satisfactory and very much the contrary. It is singularly deficient as touching the ages and the dates of the death of those it commemorates : on the other hand, it enters into parti- culars not often met with. The following is a copy : —

M.S.

SAMl'ELIS FVLLER armigeri

Qui hujus burgi bis ballivus, dein

Prjetor, et ad memorabilem ilium anno 16S8 Conventum

multaque inrie Parliamcnta

missus hinc burgensis,

Egregia ubique Justiciac, prndentia?, pietntis

monumenta reliquit.

Ex RO.A. RICARDI HUNTINGTON arniig. filia,

Hie juxta posita, Samuelem, Elizam. .Toannem, Mariain, Ricardnm, Kosam susccpit liberos :

36

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

* Fuller, Elizabeth,^ wife of Samuel Fuller, daughter of John £f Sarah Foiole

Fuller, Richard ^

60

1742

1770

In quibus Samuel ejusdem burpi aldermannus,

Ricardus L.L.D. in foro adraiiallii advocatus generalis,

Et Elizabetha, parentum ad latera requiescunt.

Obiit 19 Mail 1 721. Annum agens 75mum.

Underneath.

Parentibus optimis

Johannes filius natu secundus,

Regia; majestati nuper ad Etruscos consul

Et in priino Georgii secundi Parliamento senator,

Et Rosa filia unira supeistes

Marmor hoc ma'rentes posuerunt.

MDCCXXVIII.

Considering the distinction to which the father and two, at least, of the sons attained, it is

ri lancholy to be forced to add that no collateral information is to be gathered regarding the

f.i:Tiily. The reflection is a serious, indeed an awful one, how quickly not individuals only,

V.U races pass awav ; " their place forgotten, and their name no more." To go no farther

bick than the few previous pages of this book, it will be found, that, in the short period they

t.ubrace, the families of Bendish, Browne, Burton, Carter, Cooper, Cowldham, Cuttinge,

ICngland, and Fuller, have either disappeared from the face of the earth, or from the town j

t.: have so sunk from their former station as to be no longer objects of notice. And yet within

i!'.e last two himdred years they were the magnates of Yarmouth ; and some of them with so

V. nmerous a progeny, that it would have seemed absurd to doubt that they would have abided

;■- id maintained their prosperity forages; but — "Man and for ever! — fool, what wouldest

I'lou have?"

•She was grand-daughter to Sir George England, by Sarah, his eldest daughter, first ::-.arried to William Burton, then to John Fowle, and finally to Edmund Thaxter; where see i.cr recorded. The arms upon her stone are those of Fowle, as upon her mother's.

•> With Mr. Richard Fuller ended the Yarmouth family of the name. He, dying child- \sg, left the manor of Fritton in Suffolk, and the estate there, in which he resided, and ^.hich had in 1701 been conveyed to the Fullers by Sir Richard Allin, alias Anguish, to my I.randfather, Rev. Francis Turner, liis cousin. (See Suckling's Antiquities of Suffolk, i, p. 354.) iiis spacious town-house on the Quay, figured by Corbridge, was after his death the residence c.r Mr. Baker, father of the late Rev. Thomas Baker, the Lecturer, and then of Mr. John f .yers, subsequently to which it was tenanted by Mrs. Holden, and, while in her occupation, \' as burned down. The site is now occupied by the houses of Dr. Hateman and Mr. Shelly, 0;i three several occasions, in 1741, 1754, and 175G, Mr. Fuller contested, but unsuccessfully, ! le representation of the town with the Townshend family. In the first he had Mr. Hewling ' ison, of Gunton Hall, for his colleague : in the next, Mr. William Browne, of Yarmouth, [ :e p.\2, note) : in the last he stood alone, and was left in a minority of only thirty-two ^ "tcs. Some particulars connected with the second of these struggles have already been :. cntioned, (sec p. 12, supra, note.) Very angry letters, sadly disclosing the details and the :;'i.'ret springs of Yarmouth feuds and squabbles, were written and printed by Mr. Fuller and >.';•. Ramey on the occasion. It was to Mr. Luson, above mentioned, that Lowestoft owed til" eRtablishment of her china-manufr.ctory, long a source of considerable profit aud celebrity.

• Gillingwater's Hislori/ of Lowestoft, p. 112.)

IN ST. NICHOLAS* CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

37

Gallant, Robert, m.d.

AOED.

54

DIED.

1546

Gallant, Helen, his wife

62

1756

Garwood, M ary, ivife of Thos. Fryer Garwood

64

1831

Garwood, Thomas Bly

39

1841

Gayford, John, Esq.

69

1703

Gay ford, Esther, his ivife

43

1677

Gayford, Mary, widow of Thos. Gayford

87

1749

Gilling. Robert

56

1729

Gilling, Abigail, his wife

75

1752

Gilling, Parish

17

17I8

Gilling, John

20

1730

On the same stone as Benjamiu Steadman, Jun.

Girling, Edward

59

1772

Girling, Mary

"86

1799

Glasford, Jane, wife of Captain Glasford, r.n.

46

1795

Goddard, Elizabeth , .

**

1642

Goddard, Rachel, mother of Stephen Godfrey

Goddard

68

1810

On the same stone with Elizabeth Godfrey, her mother.

Godfrey, Thomas, Esq.^

63

1704

Godfrey, Elizabeth, his wife, daughter

of Major Thomas Wilde^

73

1721

Godfrey, Elizabeth, their daughter

81

1752

»His epitaph contains the following notices of himself and his family. He was tirice (1683 and 1G88J Bailiff, and many years Town-Clerk of Yarmouth, and haJ the following daughters —

"Elizabeth, born May 18, 1()71, died May 7, 1752, unmarried

Judith, born January 16, 1672, relict of Samuel Wakeman, Esq., died June 15, 17'16. Manila, born September 2C, 1C7G, relict of Francis Turner, died July 13, 1729. Anne, youngest daughter, widow of Samuel Fuller, jun., and who, reserved, alas, to pay the last melancholy offices to so many near and dear relations, with the utmost gratitude and affection inscribes this memorial to her parents and Sisters, 1752."

'>Tlie Wildes resided at Lowestoft, and were a family of old staviding and great respect- ability in the town. Gillingwatcr makes frequent mention of them in his History of

38

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Godfrey, Stephen, wine-cooper

Godfrey, Isabel, his wife . .

Godfrey, John, their son, husband of Martha Godfrey

Godfrey, Timothy, brother to the pre- ceding

Godfrey, Elizabeth, his wife

Godfrey, Stephen. .

Godfrey, Martha, his wife

*Gooch, Thomas, Esq.'' . .

Gooch, Joan, his wife, daughter of Thos. Atkin,

Esq., Alderman of London Gooch, A.nn, wife of Leonard Gooch, ofEarsham,

eldest son of the preceding Gooch, Frances, wife of T. Gooch, Jnn.

Esq., daughter of Thomas Lone,

of Worlingham

AOtD.

58 85

30

DiF.n.

I72y 1753

1730

50

1755

80

1789

77

1809

61

1798

79

1678

51

1669

22

1660

43 1696

Lowestoft; particularly in reference to the law-suit between Lowestoft and Yarnioutli, and to the charities of the place, and to tiie interments in tlie church. From the last of these he quotes several epitaphs, and among them the following, of the father of Mrs. Thomas Godfrey ;

" Here lyeth buried the body of Major

Tnr)MAs Wilde, son of .tons Wilde

of this town deceased : whoe was

slayn by the Dutch, in the defence

of his king and contry, the 5th of

February, 1665; after he had

accomplished the age of 57 years." Near him lies bis father, with a singularly quaint, not uninteresting inscription. In his early days Major Wilde was, apparently, a resident in Varmouth, where Swinden static (p. 573) that he was in 1648 appointed Lieutenant of the Horse raised for the defence of the town, at the time when it was threatened with an attack by the fleet which joined ilic Duke of York at the Hague, and when Fairfax made the unpalatable proposal of placing a garrison in it.

• Mr. Gooch was the grandson of Mr. Robert Gooch, of Bungay, the earliest of the family on record, and was father of Sir Wil)i,-\m the lirst Baronet. His ejiitaph rccortls that be was an Alderiuan and thrice Bailiff of Varmouth. Pedigrees of this family were registered at the last Visitation of Norfolk, and have also been, down to a late period, in the Heralds' College.

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth.

39

Gooch, Sir William, bart.*

Goodwin, John

Goodwin, Dinah, his wife

Goose, Anne . .

Gough, Anne, ivife of Charles Gough, of London

Gould, Osborne William

Gower, Robert, Esq.^

On the same stone as Nathaniel Symonds.

Gowing, John

Gowing, Alice, his wife

Grant, John

Grant, Ann, his wife

On the same stone as Christopher Spendlove, to whom Mrs. Grant was first married, as she was secondly to William Manthorpe.

Grant, Elizabeth, wife of John Grant

Gray, Abigail, daughter of Andrew and Abigail Gray

55

19

AGED.

70

DIED.

1751

70

1763

74

1764

60

1712

66

1724

inf

1799

64

1650

86

1795

55

1772

84

1756

53

1730

1722 1732

' Sir William Gooch was born in Yarmouth, and returned there to die, after a life spent principally in camps. He was created a Baronet in 1746. The following particulars respect- ing him are selected from his epitaph. He went early into the army, and served under the Duke of Marlborough during all Queen Anne's wars, after which he married Miss Rebecca Staunton, of Hampton, Middlesex. He also assisted in subduing the rebellion in Scotland, in 1715, and in 1727 was made Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, "and of him 'twas justly (and what could be better) said, that he was the only Govei-nor abroad against whom in- habitant or merchant never once complained." In 1740 lie went, in command of an American regiment, to the siege of Carthagena, where his wounds and the climate so impaired his health, that lie was obliged to retire, and returned to England with the rank of Brigadier and Major-general.

••It was while Mr. Gower was Bailiff in 1642, that the Corporation of Yarmouth purchased their Irish estate. He and his brother-bailiff, Mr. John Carter, headed the subscription; the former with £12; the latter with £,\5. The same year, upon the declaration of the Lords and Commons, forbidding the publication of divers proclamations and papers in the form of proclamations in His Jlajesty's name, the town declared in favor of the Parliament ; and, a subscription being entered into, to resist force by force, if necessary, his name appear? at having contributed nine pieces of plate, weighing 75 ounces, value £20. Swinden, p. 127.

40

LIST OK IXniVIDUALS BURIED

Green, Bruce, unfe of Thomas Green, Esq.

Green, Mary, wife of Elmind Green, ^ daugh- ter of Thomas Manthorpe, Esq.

Greenaker, Joseph, son of Peter and Elizabeth Greenaker

Grimstone, Thomas

Hacket, Eliza

On the same stone as Thomas Ridge, her grandfather.

Hagon, Robert

Hagon, Thomasine, his wife • . .

Hale, John, merchant Hale, Catharine, his wife

*Hall, John, Esq.^

Hall, Ann, his ivife

Hall, Ann, their daughter, being the thirteenth child they had buried

Hall, Eleanora, daughter of Henry Hall, Esq., of Harpsden Court, Oxon., and of Eleanor, his wife, daughter - of Andrews Warner, Esq., of Bard- mondisfield Hall, Suffolk

Hall, Eliza, sister to the wife of the Rev. Thomas Macro, d.d.

AGED.

70

86

64 inf.

83 69

39 41

61 69

15

G^

•The epitaph upon Mr. Hall i^ remarkable at once for the quaintness of its conception and its latinity, and is one of the very few in tlic church that are so. I do not, however, here transcribe it, secinR it is published by both BlomefitUl and Swinden, and still remains perfect. Of Mr. Hall liimself I (ind nothing more recorded then that he was Bailiff in 1663 and 1673. Probably he was a member of that family, now extinct, from whom one of the pratent honors of the town, Mr. Baron Alderson, derives his second baptismal name.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH. 41

Hamby, Mary, widow of William Hambtj,

of

AGED.

DIED,

Ipswich, formerly wife

of John

Carter

**

't^T^T^'l^

Hancock, T. B.

inf.

1803

Hanley, Samuel

• •

69

1701

Hannot, Rev. James ^

..

50

1704

Hannot, Mary, his wife

36

1696

Hannot, James, their son

65

1754

^Hardware, George, Esq.^. .

,

65

1635

Hardware, Margaret, his wife

••

61

1638

^For the following note regarding Mr. Hannot, I am altogether indebted to Mr. Joseph Davey — " He was admitted a member of the Independent Church, at the Old Meeting, in Gaol Street, October 29th, 1679, during the pastorate of Mr. Sheldrake, who was ejected from the rectory of Reepham in 1662, and became the first pastor of the congregation. Hannot appears to have had considerable preaching talent ; for the King, James H, having issued a declaration in favour of dissenters, dated the 4th April, 16S7, we find him on the 10th preaching twice, and doubtless with great acceptance, as on the 20th of the same month he was invited to become pastor. This he, for the present, declined, and on the Cth of June accompanied Mr. John Albertson to London, to endeavour to obtain a minister, and to present an address to the King. On the 18th January, 16S7-8, he was again requested to take the pastoral office, but a second time declined /or thepresent. On the 26th April he accepted the call of the church ; and Mr. King was appointed his assistant. On the 1 1th June he was ordained by the Rev. M. Fynch, of Norwich ; the Rev. Mr. Say, of Guestwick, and Mr. John Albertson, (an elder of the church,) assisting in the ceremony by the imposition of hands. In March,

1689, in consequence of ill health, he begged the church to choose a teacher ; and in July,

1690, Mr. Samuel Wright was appointed to assist him. On the 29th November, 1692, he gave the church notice, that, 'for the want of health and strength, he should lay down his office at Lady-day next.' In April, 1700, he was invited by the church at Stepney, (where Bridge laboured after his ejection from Yarmouth,) but declined. On the 14th of May, 1704, he was taken very ill in the Meeting, was bled in the vestry, and afterwards conveyed home in a cart. He continued to linger till the 7th of June, when he died, about six in the evening, and was buried on the 10th." His daughter, Mary, married John Ives, Esq, of Yarmouth, and was the mother of the Suifolk Herald Extraordinary of the same name.

'^ Mr. Hardware represented Yarmouth in the Parliaments of 1614 and 1623, and was Bailiff in the years 1C12 and 1021. According to Swinden, he appears to have been a man who was always at the head in all matters of trouble and intrigue. His name will be found in almost every page of that section of the History of Yarmouth which relates to the " Attempt made in the Corporation to elect a Mayor instead of two Bailiffs ;" and the part he took was so obnoxious, that in ir)29 " he was disfranchised for diverse matters done by him contrary to his oath, against the public good of the town, and tending to the seizure of all the rights, privileges, customs, liberties, and charters of the town, prosecuting the same with violence &c." But the following year he was restored by the express command of the King.

42

LIST OF INniVTDUALS BUUIED

Hurley, Thomas, hitsband of Elizabeth llarley

Iliirlcy, Cornelius

llarley, Ann, Ids wife Harley, Richard, their son

Harlcy, Thomas

Harley, Cornelius Girling"

Harman, John

Harman, Mary, his wife . .

Harman, Mary

On tlie same stone with Elizabeth, wife of William Norfor, her sister.

Harmer, Dorothy, wife of Richard Harmer . .

Harmer, FiWzuheih, wife of Joseph Harmer, and daughter of Francis Cooper

Harmer, William, husband of Rose Harmer Harmer, Persis, their daughter

Harper, John . .

Harper, Elizabeth, his wife

Harrington, Elizabeth, wife of Captain Thomas Harrington

GO

48 fil

5S

7r)

59 59

23

**

19

69

44

47

68

73

17.}6

1748 1766 1791

1782

1 843

1712 1721

1781 1644

1645

1730 1730

170s

1707

"In the Gen^/eman's JI/ff/r"*ine for January, 1841, will be found a bright and interesting biopraphical notice of Mr. Harley, who died on the 30th of tlie prccedinp; November. He w<is a man of strong mind, much respected and valued by his friends, and well read on most subjects ; particularly chemistry, geography, and history, which, considering that hehadbecn nearly blind from an early age, rendered him the more remarkable, and perhaps occasioned his being ranked more highly than he otherwise would have been. Dr. Robert Gooch, author of several much esteemed medical publications, and William Taylor, of Norwich, the intimate friend of Southey, held him in high esteem. But, inasmuch as he was in no resjiect a public character, it can hardly be allowable here to speak of him at length. One only point deserves to be mentioned, that for lif'ty years he kept an accurate weather-gauge from his own obser- vation, the publication of which by his friejul, Mr. Cufaude Davie, to whom he bi'ciiieathed it, would be a very desirable aUditiuu to our kuowledgo in this iuiport.uit brunch of Natural Philosopliy.

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth. 43

Harris, John, husband of Elizabeth Harris

Harvey, William

Haw, William. .

Hawes, Edward

Hawes, James. .

Hawes, Mary Ann

Hawley, Seth, Alderman and once Mayor of King's Lynn

Hay, Jean Welch Maxwell

On the same stone as Edmund Preston, Junr.

Herbert, Ann, wife of Thomas Herbert

On the same stone as Michael Pulteney.

Herring, Mary, wife of William Herring. . . .

Hodskinson, Randall

Hodskinson, Hannah Hodskinson, Sarah Master

Holdrich, Rachel, widow

On the same stone as Joseph and Sarah Cutting, her parents.

Holland, Hugh

Holland, Margaret, his wife

Holmes, Sarah, wife of John Holmes

On the same stone as Judith Crowe.

Hook, Daniel

Hooke, William Hooke, Frances, his ivife

On the iame stouc as Mary Wallis.

Gl

27 76 60

37 76

67 14

62

29

82 84 33

90

60

84

49

78

57

7i

DIED.

1735

1672

1723

1724

1739 1779

1676 1835

1788

1679

1830

1843

1827

1767 1792

1820 1726

1842

i7r)8 1772

44

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

*IIorslcy, Thomas, Esq.

Horslcy, Martha, his wife Horsley, Samuel, Esq., theii' son

AGED.

78 53

DIED. 1749

1749

Hoste, Theophila EKzabcth, wife of the Rev. James Hoste ■' . .

On the same monument as the Rev. Richard Turner, her father.

38

1826

Howard, Lucy

52

1748

Howes, Capt. Thomas

Howes, Hannah, his wife. .

On the same stone as the Rev. Christopher Spendlove.

73

72

1788 1788

Huntington, Rose, widow of Rich. Huntington}'

57

1678

Hurnard, WilHam, husband of Eliz. Hurnard

On the same stone with Margery Steadman.

51

1730

Hurry, Ann, wife of William Hurry «=

On tlie same stone as James Watts.

38

1779

Hurry, Sarah . .

79

1805

"Mr. Hoste was son of Rev. Dixon Hoste, and brother of Sir William Hoste, r.n., and of Lieut. Col. Sir George Charles Hoste, C. B. and K. F. M., the former the friend and com- panion of Nelson. His sister niarrii:d Henry Negus Burroughes, Esq., m.p. for East Norfolk.

i" Mr. Huntington was member for Yarmouth, in conjunction with Sir William Coventry, in the Parliament of 1678 ; and in that of the following year with Mr. George England. His name appears in Swinden, p. SHG, Src, as having been principally instrumental in procuring the passing of the " Act for repairing the Haven and Piers," then falling into utter decay.

"The Hurrys afford another most striking instance of a family at once numerous and possessing great local influence, and yet becoming entirely extinct in the short space of about fifty years. The four brothers, Thomas, Samuel, William, and George, were, in my younger days, all fathers of familii^s, and all men of considerable property and of extensive connection in business, and of such weight in the town that they disputed the power of returning the parliamentary Representatives with the Corporation, and defeated them in the memorable contest of 17St. Now, the very name no longer exists in Yarmouth ! But the honor of the family has been eminently perpetuated by Sir E. H. Alderson, grandson of Mr. Samuel Hurry, ■who wasBrowne's Medallist in 1807, and Chancellor's Medallist and Senior Wrangler in 180!)^ and is at present one of the Judges of the Court of Exchequer. For particulars respecting the Alderson f.imily, "all distinguished for their ability and industry, und eminent ill their several professions," see GiUingwaler's Ilislun/ nf Loivvsluft, pp. SlUi, 'M'>7.

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCHj GT. YARMOUTH.

45

Hurry, Johiij her husband

Hurry, Jane, their grand-daughter Hurry, Elizabeth, their grand-daughter, daughter of William and Eliza- beth Hurry . . Hurry, William John, their grandson. .

Hurry, George

Hurry, Caroline, his wife. .

Hurst, Capt. Thomas

Hurst, Thomas, son of Thomas and Martha Hurst

Hurst, Mary, wife of Thomas Hurst

^Husband, Catherine, wife of Jno. Husband, ^ daughter of John Calthorp, Esq. Husband, Christopher

Jackson, Robert

Jackson, Mary, his wife

Jackson, Mary, their daughter . .

Jary, Erasmus

Jay, Edward Hook, son of Simon ^ Mart/ Jay

On the same stone as Daniel Hook, his grandfather.

Jenner, Sarah, daughter of Robert and Sarah Jenner

Jennys, Ann, wife of Samuel Jennys. Jan., and daughter of Samuel Artis .

'\ their daughters Jennys, Ann, J

23 3

GED.

57

DIED.

1782

2

****

22

1828

78

1843

56

1797

67

1811

68

1766

20

1742

52

1801

**

1673

**

1684

83

1754

67

1742

19

1728

25

1766

inf.

1841

1715

1709 1710

4fi

LIST OF INniVintTALS BURIED

Ingram, Elizabeth, wife of John Ingram

AGED.

44

ptnn.

1092

On the sanif stoiio as Henry Moulton. lier father.

Johnson, Thomas, eldest son of James John-

son, Esq.^ . .

**

****

Johnson, Thomas, son of Thos. Johnson, Jim.

and Margaret his wife, ij- grand-

son of Thomas Johnson, Esq.

inf.

1645

Johnson, P. . .

3

1722

Johnson, Edward

**

1768

Johnson, Rachel, his wife

77

1770

Jolly, Benjamm

Gl

1762

Jolly, Judith, his wife

44

1744

On the same stone as William Cosh, Esq.

Ives, ***

**

1G59

" So exceedingly injured is the inscription upon this stone, that I dare not be sure that what I have given is correct. If it is so, it is probable that this James Johnson, Esq. is the same, who, by order of the Corporation, had the lionor of receiving His Majesty, Charles the Second, at his house, in 1071, and was knighted upon that occasion, together with Sir Robert Baldock and Sir George England, as has already been mentioned in speaking of the latter, (supra p. 30.) In the Parliament of 1681, Sir James Jolinson represented Yarmouth, having for his colleague George England, Esq., son of Sir George. Which was the house that was distinguished by the Royal Presence, there are, unfortunately, now no means of deciding; Corbridge, our only authority in these matters, not including it among those in his map. Respecting His Majesty's visit to Yarmouth, as I have already printed all the particulars I could collect, and have distributed them freely among the members of tlie Norfolk Archaeo- logical Society, so that they are actually in the hands of most whom they would interest, I will here confine myself to the following extract from the London Gazette of Thursday, 28th September, to Monday, October 2nd, 1671, which, with the pedigree annexed, the latter transcribed from Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights in the Harleian Manuscripts, 5801 and 5802, was communicated to me by Mr. King, Rouge-Dragon, to whose valuable assistance I am so much indebted. " Whitehall, Octol>er 1. From the Court we are told that His Majesty, accompanied by His Royal Highness, and attended by His Grace the Duke of Bucks, His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, and several other persons of principal quality, arrived at Yarmouth on Wednesday last, about five in the Evening, where His Majesty was received with all posiblc e.vpressions of joy ; above twelve hundred pieces of Ordnance having been said to be dis'harged from the Ships and the Town. His Majesty was infinitely pleased with the town and port, which having visited the next morning and received a very noble treat from the Town, he departe<l for Norwich." —

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth.

47

Ives, Margaret

Ives, Thomas,^ her son . . Ives, Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of John Cooper

Junk, Benjamin Hobart''

Keelman, John Gilbert, Corn-merchant Kcelman, Christian, his wife

AGED.

48

36

74 fi2

DIED. 1711

1711

1691

1815

17I6 1710

JOHNSON PEDIGREE.

James Johnson, Bailiff and Aldermaii= of Yarmouth

TuoMAs JoHNSOn, Aldemiaii and four- times Bailiff of Yarmouth 1

Thomas Johnson, of Yarmouth had a=Margaret, daughter of Thomas Thomp- confirmation from Sir Edwardi son, Bailiff of Yarmouth.

Walker, dated 10 December, 16fio|

Thos. Johnson, of Yarmouth

James Johnson, —Dorothy, daughter of — Scotlow, of Norwich, Alderman.

of Yarmouth knighted, liv- ed well, spent much and died poor

Jas. Johnson, Esq. Thomas."

=> This Thomas Ives was great-grandfather of John Ives, Suffolk Herald Extraordinary, author of the Remarks upon the Garianomtm of the Romans, to the second edition of which work is prefixed a short sketch of his life. Another is given by Noble, in his Histury of the College of Anns. p. 445 ; and still more respecting him will be found in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes and Ilhislrafions. He died of a deep decline in January, 1 776, at the age of twenty- four, childless ; and with him ended the family, which, originating at Saham, Norfolk, had settled in Yarmouth in 1740, and were there opulent merchants. Mr. Ives, in addition to his Oarianonum, published Sigilla antiqua Norfolciensia, and Select Papers chiefly relating to English Antiquities. He likewise issued proposals for printing a Topographical History of the Lothingland Hundred in the County of Suffolk; considering which, and the zeal with which he followed the study of antiquities in general, and also taking into account his early age, and the wealth of his father, to whom he was an only son, it was not unreasonable that the highest expectations should have been formed of what might have been looked for from him had his life been spared. He was born and spent all his days at Yarmouth, but was buried in the neighbouring village of Belton. It were unreasonable to omit, even in these few lines, that he was also the friend and patron of " honest Tom Martin," autlior of the History of Thet- ford; and of Swinden, to whose History of Yarmouth he not only gave material help, but actually wrote the Preface, and corrected the last sheet, which did not issue from the liands of the printer till after the death of the author.

1= Captain Junck was Adjutant of the East Norfolk Militia; and the mural tablet hero commemorative of him, " was erected by his brotlier-uliicers from esteem for his character."

48

LTST OF IXPIVIDTTALS BURIED

Kcnip

H;**

Kemp, Charles James. .

On the same stone as Francis Ridaell IlcynoUls. his pranrtfather.

Kc'tt, William

Kett, Elizabeth his wife, daiujhtcr of Tliomus and JSIary Davey

King, Michael, husband of Ann King Kinp;, Michael, their son

Willi tlicm two SOBS and live daughters, who died infants.

*Kittridge, John, Surgeon

Knights, Margaret, daughter of Tliomas and Margaret Knights Knights, Thomas . .

Knights, Pacey, wife of Nathaniel Knights . .

Lancaster, Robert

On the same stoae as John Barnhy.

Lane, Elizabeth, mother of Rosamond Watson

Lane, Meddow

Langley, Martha, wife of John Langleij

Larke, Mary, wife of Lieut. Win. Larke, r.n.

Lay con, Elizabeth, widow of Jno. Lay con, Esq. *Laycon, John,^ their son

On the same stone with Robert Ward, her father.

Ar.F.P.

77

33

55 20

29

** 1G76

40 50

82 64

38

73 53

•Mr. John Laycon (or, as he always spelt his name in my time, Lacon) was brother to the first Haronet of the family. Sir Edmund Lacon, who was knighted in 17H2 for his conduct, as Mayor, in suppressing the riots in Yarmouth at that time, and was created a baronet, in ISIS. His son. Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, represented the town in the Parliament of 1S12, in conjunction with General Loftus. Mr. John Lacon died unmarried.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

49

Layton, Thomas, husband of Elizabeth Layton

AGED.

77

DIED.

1714

*Leake, Sarah, widoiv of John Leake ^ . .

47

1743

Le Giys, Charles, merchant

, ^

64

1764

Le Grys, Ann, his loife

49

1754

Linder, Walker William

86

1830

On the same stone as Mary, wife of Nathaniel Symonds,

Jun.

Linder, Mary, his wife

84

1839

On the same stone as Thomas Whitton.

Little, Capt. John, r.n.

..

84

1801

Lone, Thomas

73

1696

Lone, Matilda, his wife . .

, ,

77

1691

On the same stone as Ann, wife of Leo Gooch.

Love, John Gostling, Esq., husband of Mary

Love. .

46

1747

Love, Mary, their daughter

3

1747

On the same stone as Elizabeth Hall.

Love, Rev. Seymour, Fellow of All Souls'

Coll.

Oxford

44

1793

^ Mr. John Leake was son of William, brother of Sir Andrew Leake, and was con- sequently, as stated in the epitaph, nephew of the Admiral. This branch of the family were natives of Lowestoft, where they resided j and much respecting them will be found in Gilling- water's History of that town, p.p. 2S8, 30C, 393, 397, and 400, in the last of which is recorded the death of Sir Andrew, while commanding the Grafton, of seventy guns, in the Malaga fight, August 11th, 1705. His valor and conduct in the attack upon Vigo had, three years previously, won him the honor of knighthood. Very interesting particulars connected with the death of Sir Andrew, are given by Gillingwater, to the merits of whose work I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of bearing testimony. Another family of the name of Leuke, containing likewise an admiral knighted in the same reign, Sir John, and boasting three individuals who held the offices of Garter King at Arms and Chester Herald, was derived on the mother's side from Yarmouth; Elizabeth, the wife of Capt. Stephen Martin Leake, r.jj., the first individual in the pedigree, having been the daughter of Capt. Richard Hill, of our town, an eminent seaman in the service of the Duke of York, afterwards James II. Mr. King, to whom I owe the infonnaton, has not been able to trace the connection between the two families,

G

50

LIST OK IXDIVIDUALS UURIED

Love, Rev. Barry •''

Love, Ann, his wife, formcrlij loife of George Ward, Esq.

Lovedav, Thomas . .

Loveday, Priscilla, his imfe

On the same stone as Sanivicl Artis.

Lovcll, Thomas, Esq.

Lovell, Ann, wj/e of Charles Lovcll

On tlic same stone as the Rev. James Ilannot, her father.

Luson, William,'' merchant

Luson, Elizabeth, his wife Luson, John, ^ Luson, Elizabeth

Luson, William, Luson, Benjamin,

' their children

AGED.

CO

niF.n. 1722

G8

1721

40

172(3

53

1737

CA

1099

21

i7or>

72

1733

74

1745

1

1707

7

1708

18

1714

17

1719

» Mr. Love was minister of Yarmouth from IfiUl to 1722. He preached the sermon at the consecration of St. Georire's Chapel, December 8th, 1715, and by the order of the Bishop, and desire of the Yarmouth Corporation, published it, with the fonn of consecration used on tliat occasion annexed. The whole appears to have been conducted with great solemnity; Mr. George England, Mayor, and Mr. John Jerniy, Under-steward, with all the Corporation, attending in their robes, and no fewer than thirty of the Clergy being present.

Fi oni the following list of Chapel Ministers, extracted from Druery's Histori/ nf Yarmouth, it will be seen that Mr. Love, notwithstanding the prominent part here assigned him, was never of the number: —

1716 Rev.-Welhamlj,i^^^jji,^;^j^^^_ Rev. Anderson J

1720 Rev. Antliony Elly,-;, d.d.

1721 Rev. John Prattant

1722 Rev. — Piteairn

1724 Rev. Thomas Missenden

1730 Rev. — Mingay

17.11 Rev. — Bayspoole

1733 Rev. Edward White

1711 Rev. Francis Turner

1790 Rev. John Love

17U1 Rev. Cliarles Dade

1802 Rev. S. L. Cooper

ISIG Rev. Fi.sher Watson ,

1S17 Rev. John Forster

1821 Rev. John Homfray

'> Mr. William Luson resided in the house upon the Quay now in the occupation of Sir Eaton Travers. It passed after his death into the possession of Mr. John Spurgeon, the

nice

Anderson

vice

Ellys

vice

Prattant

vice

Welham

vice

Piteairn

vice

Missenden

vice

Bayspoole

I'lce

Mingay

vice

Turner

vice

White

vice

Dade

vice

Love

vice

Cooper

vice

Watson

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH. 51

Luson, Robert, son of the jireceding William

AGED

niED.

and Elizabeth Luson

65

1769

Luson, Hephzibah, his wife . .

29

1739

Luson, Elizabeth, ""

inf.

1730

Luson, William,

inf.

1731

Luson, Elizabeth,

inf.

1735

Luson, Robert,

■ their children

1

1735

Luson, Hephzibah,

2

1735

Luson, William,

4

1739

Luson, Maria,

30

^2r*5j>jjc

*Lyng, Rev. William ^ . .

70

1719

Lyng, Mary his second wife, daughter of

Michael Dalton, Esq., ofFulbu7'n

78

1729

Lyng, Rev. Benjamin, their only son, rector of

Saint Lawrence, South Walsham

47

1742

Lyng, Ann, his second wife, fourth

daughter of Richd. Ferrier, Esq.

56

1763

Town-Clerk, and then into that of Mr. William Steward, from whom it descended to his son-in-law, the present proprietor. Mr. Luson was the father of Mr. Hewling Luson, of Gunton Hall, (see p. 36 note) and of Mr. Robert Luson, with whose son, Mr. Samuel Luson, the family became extinct in the male line. Mr. Robert Luson had also three daughters, Hephzibah, married to Nathaniel Rix, Esq., of Blundeston Hall ; Elizabeth, to Cammant Money, Esq.; and Maria, the eldest, to George Nicholls, Esq., of Connington, Cam- bridgeshire, cousin to the Rev. Norton Nicholls, of Blundeston, a man of the most refined taste and elegant acquirements, the friend of Gray and Mathias, which latter has im- mortalized him in his sumptuous edition of the works of the poet. A volume of Mr. Gray's original letters to Mr. Nicholls, cherished by him while he lived with almost holy reverence, and at his death bequeathed to Mr. Mathias, by whom they were given to me, is at this time among the chief treasures of my library, which likewise contains a nearly unbroken series of the correspondence of Mr. Nicholls, from the time of his going to Eton till within a few years of his death.

*Mr. Lyng was rector of Fulburn, Cambridgeshire, and succeeded the Rev. Barry Love, as Lecturer of Yarmouth in 1092. He printed in 1703, at the request of the Court of Mayor- alty, Norwich, a " Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church, concerning the Causes, Mischiefs, and Cures, of National Divisions"; and in 171G, another, "on the Usefulness, Antiquity, and Dedication of Churches," being the first preache<l in St. George's Chapel, Yarmouth, on the Sunday immediately after its dedication. The site at the North-cast corner of the Market, now occupied by a sadler's shop and a public-house, was, according to Corbridge's map, then filled by a respectable residence for the Lecturer.

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Mack, Thomas

AGF.n.

50

DiF.n.

1750

Macro, Rev. Thomas, d.d.''

Macro, Mary, his wife Macro, Thomas, their only son

59 32 22

1743 1724

1746

Manby, Thcodosia,'' widow of John Manbij

On the same stone as Samuel Calthorpe, her hrotlier.

84

1777

• Dr. Macro succeeded Mr. Love as minister of Yarmouth, and, as stated on his tomh, held the cure above twenty-one years (1722-1744). According to Chambers' History of the County of Norfolk, I, p. 309, he "published a volume of Sermons." I have seen only a single one, that which he preached December 20th, 1733, on the opening of the Organ, which has been praised as inferior to none, save that at Haarlem, and was accounted of old one of tlie three wonders of tlie town ; the other two being the Quay, "the longest and handsomest of any in Europe, that of Seville in Spain only excepted," and "the extraordinary performances at Mr. Barney's liouse on the quay, who has furnished a parlour with drawings of Mrs. Ramey's execution with a hot poker." These last have been scattered many years. — In the discourse just alluded to — I quote from my friend, Mr. Preston's Picture of Yarmouth — the text was taken from Eph. v., 19, "singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" and the following remarks occured, " since this organ, for its excellence and comprehensiveness has been adopted into the service of Christian worship, let the hand that plays know its bounds, and make it minister to the use of true devotion. And let not the harmony of its sound be frisking, airy, or ludicrous ; but let it be always accommodated to the pure and lieavenly matter, and to the sublhne and majestic style of those divine psalms and hymns whicli are appointed to be sung to it."

•'This lady is the only one of the name buried in the church 5 but in the church-yard, on the North side, close togetlier, are monuments to

Edward Manby

Mary Manby, his wife ...

(And two of their children.)

Mart Manby, wife of John Manby, daughter of Robert Moore, of Burgh St. Mar- garet's, Yeoman (With her lie'buried 7 of her children.) Benjamin Manby

Mary Manby, his wife, daughter of John and Elizabeth Blomfield, of Saint Michael's, Suffolk

aged.

48

died. 1G96

69

1725

26

1712

Isabel Manby, wife of James Manby ... 30 1726

T have been induced here to record tliese names, in the hope of its being found possible to connect tlie Yarmouth family of Manby with that of Capt. George William Manby, of Denver, Norfolk, who has resided in the town above forty years, and who first here conceived and matured the idea of saving the lives of sailors from ships driven on a lee shore, by means of a rope projected from a mortar. Tlie pl.an he h.is since carried to perfection, and has re- ceived fjoron from a gr.ateful country, and lias liad tlie higher satisfaction of seeing it brought into general use along our coasts ; and of knowing that it has already been the means of rescuing more than a tliousand of his fellow creatures from an otherwise certain death.— Of tuch a citizeu any town may be proud.

IN ST. NICHOLAS"^ CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

53

Manclarke, Rev. John, minister of Yarmouth

Manning, Thomas

Manning, Sarah, his wife, daughter of Willliam and Mary Coulston, of Swanion Abbots

With them lie three sons and two daughters.

Mansel, Christopher, .

Mantell, John Christian, organist at Yarmouth

Manthorpe, *** ivife of Thomas Manthorpe

On the same stone as Mary Hamby.

Marsh, Stephen

Marshall, Henry William . .

Martin, Thomas, Esq.

Martin, Elizabeth, his wife

With them lie five of their children.

Martin, Thomas, Jun.

Martin, Elizabeth, his wife

On the same stone as Elizabeth Boog, Mrs. Martin's mother.

Martyn, Hezekiah, gardener Martyn, Ann, his wife Martyn, Elizabeth, his sister Martyn, Mary, wife of Hezekiah Mar- tyn, his son . .

Mash, Ann

Mash, Robert Abbon, husband of Eliz. Mash

Mash, Robert Abbon, their son

AGED.

38 64

33

1770

1727 1704

5

1779

54

1761

59

1651

63

1799

**

****

89

1792

**

****

40

1801

28

1794

64

1726

68

1731

62

1728

40

1736

72

1768

46

1803

**

1790

5 1

LIST OK INDIVinUALS UURIED

Mason, Mary, wife of David Mason

On the same stoiic as James and Diuali Clifton, her parents.

Master, John

Master, Sarah, his wife

With them lie Mark ami Peter, their children.

Master, Elizabeth, their youngest daughter . .

Master, Ann, wife of Mark Master Master, Ann, their daughter

On tlie same stone as John 'Ward.

Master, Peter

Master, Joan, his wife

Master, Jacob

Master, Mary, his wife

Master, Mary, their eldest daughter

Master, Elizabeth, ivife of Jacob Master Master, Jacob, their son . .

On the same stone as John, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Upsher,

of London. With them lie two other sons, Peter and

Jacob, who died infants.

Master, Ehzabeth, their daughter

Master, Sarah, eldest daughter of John ^ Sarah Master Master, John Master, Anna, his wife

Master, Sarah, tJieir daughter

On the same stone as Joseph Cutting.

Mayse, Thomas »

AOKD. DIED.

30 1757

52

52

21

1725 1727

1733

55

1770

1

1746

57

1767

82

1782

46

1763

40

1758

21

1764

54

1792

27

1799

23

70

82

53

1793

1772 1786 1797

1805 1655

»The name upon the stone, which is much injured, seems to be Mayse, as here written, but may possibly be Moyse ; the latter being a well-known Yarmouth family, and one that existed in the town to within the last twenty or thirty years.

I

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

55

Meeke, John, Esq. . .

AGED

76

DITD.

1807

Meeke, Mary, his wife

83

1815

On the same stone as John Kittredge, Mr?. Meeke's fomier husband.

Meeke, Sarah, ivife of John Meeke

41

1773

On tlio same stone as Thomas Morris.

Mew, Mitchell, Esq.^

71

16**

Mew, Deborah, his ivife

**

1681

Mew, John, their eldest son

**

H;^;J;;K

Mew, Robert, their third son

16

1677

Mew, Sarah, their daughter

33

1709

With them lie also their children, Marpraret, Jonathan, William,

Joseph, Benjamin, Margaret, Thomas, and Elizabeth.

Miles, Margaret . . ;

86

^***

On the same stone as Thomas Wakeman.

Miller, William

60

1656

Miller, Brigget

*4

1652

Miller, William

53

1772

Miller, Richard,

73

1780

Miller, Barbara, his wife

72

1785

Miller, Richard

74

1810

Miller, Mary, his wife

48

1793

Miller, Maria

3

1782

Miller, Maria

inf.

1785

Miller, Barbara, sister of the above-

named Richard Miller . .

78

1812

^The age and the date of the death of Mr. Mew are now both effaced from his tombstone. I have copied Swindon, p. 8G7, as regards the former ; but in the latter, he must be inaccurate; for lie makes him die in lfi70, wliereas he discharged the office of Uailiffin 1(J70 and KJSI, and that of Mayor in 1GS7, in which last year Prince George of Denmark landed at Yarmouth. His name likewise appears upon the Committee, ordered by tlie Corporation to collect the bills and state the expenses attendant upon the visit of Charles II to Yarmoutli, in 1G71, and to report them to the Assembly,

56

LIST OF IXDIVIDUALS nURTED

MilUn-, AVllliam, son of Richard S^ Mary Miller

Milles, Susannna

Milles, Susanna, her dauf/hter

On the same stone as the Rev. Christopher Spendlove.

Millcs, Margaret, ivife of Thomas Milles

Milles, Mary, wife of Thomas Milles, £f daugh- ter of Richard Ferrier, Esq., and Ellen his ivife Milles, Susanna, their daughter

Milles, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Judith Milles. ...

Millison, John

Millison, Capt. Gabriel, r.n.

Millison, Susanna, his wife Millison, Capt James, their son. . Millison, Susanna, his wife

Millison, Elizabeth

Millison, Mary

Missenden, Elizabetli, ivife of Rev. Thomas Mis- senden. Lecturer at Yarmouth ^

AOF.n.

20

** 44

33

nip.n.

1807

1713 1735

1728

39

1742

1

173s

1

1746

65

1700

68

1709

68

I7I6

59

1726

58

1729

46

1703

30

1727

55

1751

» The Lecturer, a minister no longer in existence in Yarmouth, was appointed hy the Corporation, with a salao' of £120 a year. His duty was to assist the Parish Minister, by preachiiiji a sermon every Sunday afternoon and Wednesday morning, and by delivering annually twelve lectures on the Church Catechism. The following list of Lecturers is given by Mr. Druery, in his Historical and Topographiciil Notices of Great Yarmouth, p. 3G3.

1660 Rev. John Brinsley, at the Restoration

1C62 Rev. Christopher Spendlove, father of the minister of the town

1665 Rev. — Meen

1690 Rev. Barry Love '•■---

I6i»2 Rev. William I-yng

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH. 5/

Money, Mary, wife of Timothy Money

On the same stone as Henry Browne.

Money, Timothy, her husband . .

Money, Anna Maria, their daughter

Money, Cammant, of Snmerleytnn Money, Elizabeth, his wife Money, Anna Maria, their daughter . .

On the same stone as Robert Luson, father of Mrs. Money.

Moor, John . .

Moor, Hannah, his wife . .

On the same stone as Hannah, wife of John Sayer,

Mo( )re, Thomas ^ . .

Moore, Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of

John Ramey, Esq. Moore, Samuel, their son. .

Moore, John, husband of Margaret Moore, afterwards wife of J. B. Storey

On the same stone as William Boog, her father.

Morgan, Eli Williams, grocer

Morgan, Charlotte, his wife

AGED.

41

60 73

80

3m

57 92

75

38 10

35

72 78

DIED. 1755

1772 I8I7

1828 1785 1837

1765 1786

1724

1698

1707

1802

1835 1840

1719 Rev. — Anderson

1731 Rev. Thomas Missenden (died 1774)

1779 Rev. Richard Turner (after a vacancy of five years)

1800 Rev. Thomas Baker

» Through Mr. Moore, who was Collector of the Customs at this port, Yarmouth is at once connected with Dr. John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely, wiio was his brother, and with Dr. Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph, whose marriage with the daughter of that prelate rendered him our Collector's nephew. Dr. Tanner, a name best known in tlie present times by his labors as an Historian and an Antiquary before he attained to the Mitre, was for thirty years the Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich ; and during that period he maintained a steady correspondence with his Uncle ; and many 1 if the letters, after liaving passe '. tlivo' the hands of Blomeficld and of "honest Tom Martin," are now in mine. It is almost un- necessary to add, that the observations and opinions of such a man cannot but be interest- ing,— Another Bishop of Ely, Dr. Nicholas Felton, was born at Yaniiouth.

H

58

LIST OF IXniVinTTALS nURIED

Morris, John ^

Morris. Sarah, his wife Morris, Thomas, their son Morris, Mary, their (tant/hfer . . Morris, John, their gratulsun

Morris, John ''

Morris, Ann, liis wife

Morse, Thomas

Morse, Mary, Ms wife

On the same stone as Joliii Niclinlls, Mrs. Morse's first husband.

AOEn. niF.n.

58 I 1729 73 I 1745 34 1735 22 1727 24 17'>9

72 \ 1778

68 I 1774 G3 ' 172*

42 ; 1705

'In the present instance I have deviated from tlic line of accuracy prescribed to myself, by representing the whole of this branch of the Morris family as lying in a single grave, instead of two. I could not otherwise have shewn their connection equally dearly; and this I thought most important. Jolni, with his daughter Mary, and with two ntiier daughters, Mrs. Dowson and Mrs. Bendy, is recorded on one stone; his wife, his son, and Mrs. Meeke, on another.

'■ The mural monument to the memory of this gentleman and lady in tlie North aisle, derives peculiar interest from the concluding words of tlK- epitaph, whicli state that it " is erected, as a just tribute of filial piety and gratitude, by tlicir affectionate grandson, F. Sayers.'' Tlie individual who thus modestly designates himself, is the same Dr. Frank Sayers, whose works were pulilished in two volumes, the one filled with poetry, chiefly connected with Northern Mythology, the otlier with Dis'jiiisiliniui Literary and Metaphysical. His friend, Mr. William Taylor, the editor, a name generally known by the highly interesting volumes lately pu'blishcd by Mr. J. W. Robbords of his Biography, has prefixed to the Works a very enteftaininu biographical memoir, in which he has inserted two letters addressed to Dr. Sayetsby Walter Scott and tlie Rev. W. L. Bowles. Both were written on the receipt of the volume of his poems ; and it is a great pleasure to me, who knew Dr. Sayers well, and always admired in him the honorable and kind-hearted man, the gentleman, the scholar, and the christiaii, to find him so " laiidatum a laudatis." Scott says, " I have long been an admirer of your Runic rhymes : we owe much to those who have united the patience of the antiquary and the genius of the poet in their researches into former times ; and in this honored list your nane has long held a distinguished rank." Instill stronger language Bowles writes, "Of course I am no stranger to tin- name of Sayers, nor to the Northern Dnimaiic S/cetche.i, which I have read with increased pleasure. To the first poem, the Descent of Frea, no words can do justice. The wildness of the circumstances and characters, the novelty and sublimity of the imagery, the rich and appropriate diction, and the unity and simplicity of the conduct, in my opinion, place it far above anvtliing in Ciray." — Dr. Sayers, tliougli born in Yarmouth, resided Jiere but a short time : the greater i)art of liis life was spent in Norwich, where he died. The house occupied by his grandfather, Mr. Morris, " a stately old-fashioned mansion, surround, lug three sides of a glocnny court," was situated in Friars' J.ane, and also formed the south- eastern corner of Jail street. It was taken down about sixty years agoj and a garden now fills its site.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

59

Morse, Francis, tlieir eldest son

AGED

61

DIED. 1755

Morse, Elizabeth, his first ivife

34

1735

Morse, Anne, his second wife . .

85

1795

^. ' , ' y their daunhters Morse, Mary, J '^

3

2

1745

1748

Moulton, Henry

46

1652

Moulton, Breuse, his wife

**

1645

Moulton, Samuel, their grandson

52

1720

Moulton, Elizabeth, his wife . .

75

1746

Moulton, Thomas

70

1711

Ncave, Elizabeth,

40

1685

Neave, John, Esq., Alderman, her husband . .

Q6

1714

Neave, William, their son

22

1684

Neech, Joseph, Esq.

56

1750

Neech, Susannah, his wife

62

1767

New, Elizabeth

74

1793

Newman, Robert

81

1710

Newman, Mary, his ivife . .

83

^^^^<

Nicholason, Rose Cuttmg, ivife to *-!■* Nichol-

ason . . . »

**

****

Nicholls, John,

38

1686

NichoUs, Mary, his wife, afterwards married

to Thomas Morse ^

42

1705

Nichols, Susanna

36

1723

On the same stone as Mavy, wife of Joseph Partridge, lier Mother.

' See Mary Morse, p. .5S, supra.

60

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Nichols, William, her husband . .

Nichols, James, 1 , .

\their sons Nichols, Thomas,]

On the same stone as Elizabetli, first wife of Joseph Partridge.

Nickhols, Daniel

Nickhols, Jedidah . .

Norfor, John

Norfor, Dinah, his wife

Norfor, Elizabeth," wife of Wm. Norfor

Norfor, Robert • .

Norton, John

Norton, Jane, his wife

Nye, Rachel

On the same stone as Robert Gower, Esii., her {,'randfather.

Oatcs, Samuel, Officer in the Royal Navy Oates, Mary, Ids ivife Gates, Amelia, their tjrand-dawjhter

Official, Mrs., wife of John Official

Oliver, Richard

Oliver, Mary, his wife Oliver, Joseph

Onley, John, Esq.^' . .

Onley, Judith, his ivife, daughter of Samuel and Judith Wakeinan

ACED

64

4

inf.

80 64

63

67 25

32

32

28

23

72 72 inf.

64

47

54

DIED.

1756 1726

1842 1832

1779 1781 1781

1793

1801 1800

1682

1721 1721 1734

1705

1672 82 i 1698 74 1727

1740

85 1789

» Her husbanrt was a ropemaker : tliey were the parents of Mrs. Gent, the wife of Mr. Thomas Gent, aittlior of a volume of Poems, and for many years a resident in Yarmouth ; but sul>sequently in London, wliere he was engaged in writing for various newspapers and periodical works, and wliere he died.

'■ With Mr. Onlcy the Yarmouth branch of the family ended. He left a son and a daughter. Tlie fornier, Charles Onley, removed to Stisted, Essex, and died a bachelor.

IN ST. NICHOLAS^ CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH. 61

Osborne, Mary

Owner, Edward, Esq.^

Owner, Elizabeth, his wife

AGED. DIED.

85

74 94

1821

1650 1672

The latter married Robert Harvey, Esq., a merchant and banker at Norwich, by whom she had three sons and two daughters. The second son, bearing the baptismal name of Charles, inherited his maternal uncle's large prop'^rty, and with it took the name of Saville Onley . He sat in Parliament for Norwich and Carlow ; and, after having filled many public offices at once honorably and usefully, died August 31st, 1843. The connection between his family and Yarmouth has latterly been renewed by the marriage of his second daughter with Mr- Charles R. Turner, son of the Rev. Richard Turner, late minister of the town, and himself a Master of the Court of Queen's Bench

»The name of Edward Owner frequently appears in the annals of Yarmouth, but chiefly iu the year 1G34, when he and Mr. Leonard Holmes filled the office of Bailiff. The long- existing disputes between the Cinque Ports and Yarmouth on the subject of the Free-fair had been arranged by the award published in the ISth of Elizabeth, fifty-eight years previously ; and all seemed to be proceeding quietly, when this gentleman not only "refused the Port Bailiffs their usual seat with those of the town, but otherwise insulted, aflTronted. disgraced, and provoked them, uncivilly keeping them without the bar, by holding his hand on the end of it, and setting his foot across the entrance." This conduct occasioned them to petition the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, then Earl Marshal, who, at the same time that he accommodated the diflTerence, recommended " a more courteous carriage and friendly demeanor in future." — In the same year, as already noticed, (see supra, p. 25, note,) the maritime counties of England were subjected to the obnoxious, and arbitrary tax, entitled ship-money, which was among the principal causes that brought the head of the King to the scaflfold. Yarmouth, Lynn, and Wisbech were called upon to furnish a vessel among them, or to pay the sum of £G735. — Unitedly they pleaded their inability ; and each also individually urged its own pleas. Those on behalf of Yarmouth, as recorded by Swinden, p. 531, so mark the state of the town at that period, that it can hardly be out of place here to repeat them.

" Imprimis, the said town consisteth of many thousands of poor fishermen, where, tho'' there be good quantities of fish, yet the value thereof remains not there, but is dispersed throughout the whole kingdom. And the inhabitants are very much indebted, for the setting forth of their adventures, unto such as supply them with provisions for their voyages oi» fisher-fare; and they are neither now, nor ever heretofore have been, able to make satisfaction, until they receive their returns from sea, and have made sale of the same.

Item, the yearly maintenance of the haven and piers is at least ... £1000 Item, the yearly charge of our fortifications of the walls, with

powder and shot ... ... ... ... 200

Item, the repairing of our bridge and keys ... ... ... 200

Item, the yearly composition of cod, ling, and herring, for His

Majesty's household ... ... ... ... 300

Item, our fee-farm per annum, with the fees and charges ... 40

Item, the yearly cl'arge of our poor ... ... ... 600

Item, the town is at this present indebted in the sum of £3000 at

least, and all upon interest, amounting per annum at least to 210

The total annual charge £2550

" Towards the disbursements whereof, which are inevitable, there are not anj lands belonging to the town, but only the mere blessing of Almighty God from the sea.. I y the industry of the inhabitants in the poor trade of fisher-fare. — Besides the aforesaid charge, the inhabitants liave sustained many great losses by shipwrecks j by the Duukirkcrs taking of their ships f

62

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Pacy, ^^'illiam ^

Piicy, Elizabeth, his wife. . Pacy, Mary Pacy, John . . Pacy, Ruth

*Page, Philip

Paget, Sarah EHzabcth, tvifc of Sa/niicl Payet, Esq., b^ daughter of Thos. Tolver Paget, Samuel, Paget, Samuel, Paget, Thomas, Paget, Henry Thomas, Paget, Elizabeth Sarah, Paget, Arthur Coytc, Paget, Charles John, Paget, Maria Ann, Paget, Caroline Ann, Paget, Edward Stephen,.

. ihei?' children

()4 55

72 2 4

36

65 inf.

5 inf.

3

1 25 32

3 inf.

1

DIED. 1727

1721

1772

1711

1711

1G84

1S43 1801 I8O7 1803 I8O7 1808 1833 1844 181G 1820 1821

interruption of trade ; stay of shipping in France ; and I)y tlie late visitation, two years and a lialf among them ; all whicli, witliin the space of eight years, amounteth unto, by reasonable and indifferent computation, £25,000."

To close this long note respecting Mr. Owner, it must be added that he represented Yarmouth in the Parliaments of 1(520, 1G25, 1(528, and 1640. In the second of these he had for his colleague Sir John Corbet ; in the last two, Mr. Miles Corbet, Sir John's younger brother, the Recorder of the town and noted regicide. He was likewise one of the elders of the church-house, erected in the North aisle of St. Nicholas' C'uirch, where lie was buried; and his name is recorded among the benefactors to the Children's Hospital, as having given in his life-time £1500, a very much larger sum tlian any one else ; recorded too as having C(nne forward most liberally in 1642, when money and plate was brought in for the ■ defence of the town on its declaring for the Parliament. — The circumstance of Mrs. Dade's name being placed upon Mr. Owner's stone, (see note, p. 25, supra,) originated, I iind, in a strong desire on her part to be buried near her father; and Mr. Owner's grave, the adjoining one, was consequently opened, and it being found that his coffin had rotted away and his bones were scattered, her body was deposited in it.

"The Pacy family, connections of my own, were of Lowc.'^toft, and were eminent disscntcis: Mr. Samuel Pacy, the father of William, here mentioned, wa.--, conjointly with

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

G3

Pake, Mary, ivife of Robe

rt Pake

AGED.

38

niED. 1707

*Pake, Samuel, m.d.*

34

1743

Pake, Mary, daughter of the above Saml.

Pake, and of Elizabeth his wife

6

1714

Palling, Eliza, wife of William Palling, and

daughter of Robert Scroutten

50

1742

Palling, William, their son

9

1734

Palling, John,

**

*>;<**

Palling, Sarah,

*>!<

**>!<*

Palling, Robert,

■ their children

*>!<

****

Palling, William,

**

****

Palling, Elizabeth, _

**

****

Palmer, George

Q>(^

1736

Palmer, Naomi, his wife, daughter of

Mrs. M. C...

39

17O6

Sir Robert Rich, of Rose Hall, and Thomas Neale, Esq., of Bramfield, trustee in 1695 for the first Meeting-House built there. He had, thirty-six years previously, earned himself most unenviable fame, by prosecuting a couple of unfortunate women for bewitching two of his daughters, in consequence of which the miserable wretclies were tried at Bury, found guilty, and executed. A long account of the trial, with a portion of the multifarious evidence, and much curious matter connected with the proceedings, is given in Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft, p. 369; and, strange to tell, the same belief in witchcraft seems still to linger there, as must be inferred by the following extract from a local Journal of January 29th, 1S34. But, happily, however the days of folly and superstition may remain, those of fire and fagot are passed by : — " The Mayor of the Borough of Yarmouth last Thursday received a letter from Lowestoft, the writer of which complains that he is bewitclied by a woman living in one of the rcws near St. George's Chapel; that he can get no rest night or day, sitting, standing, or walking; and that even at church he can find no comfort. He therefore implores the Mayor to have his tormentor examined."

»The following professional character of Dr. Pake is given at the close of his epitaph. AVhat is to be thought of it? Ought the name of a man who deserved such encomium ever to perish 1

" Quem alma medendi Arte cum peritum

Turn felicem, gravissimi modi) aegrotantes,

Jam sani, gratil mente recolunt multi. — ■

Ne nimio plures sanando triumpliaret.

Mors invida oc>us ipsum rapuit;

Gaieni puta et Hippocratis aeniulum reformidans."

64

LIST OF fNniVintTALS lUTRIEn

Palmer, Richard,

Palmer, Margaret, Palmer, Ann,

children of Robert Palmer, i^' Ann his wife, dduf/hter of Charles Le Grys.

Parish, R.>l)ert

Parker, Thomas, ship-mright

Parrick, Heniy

Parrick, Rachel his wife . .

Parson, Francis

Parson, Ellen, his wife Parson, Francis, their son Parson, Abigail, his wife . .

Parson, William, husband of Rebecca Ptirs"n, and st>n of the above Francis and Ellen Parson,

On the same stone as Ellen Woorts, his grandmother.

Partridge, Robert, merchant

Partridge, Susannah, his wife

Partridge, Joseph, son if Joseph ^ Eliz- abeth Partridge • Partridge, Christopher . .

Partridge, Samuel, son of the above Robert Partridge, . .

Partridge, Joseph . ,

Partridge, Mary, his second vnfe

Partridge, Elizabeth, his first wife

AGED. niEIl.

1

2 11

63

1749 1753 1760

1696

73 1656

** ] 1677 51 '' 1679

44 ! 1728 4' I I 1724 65 j 1782 67 1783

2^ 1731

60 i 1679

54

9 54

16

1675

1701 1745

1679

74 ^ 1725 44 i I7I6

51 I 1704

IN ST. NICHOLAS* CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

65

Partridge, Robert

Partridge, Martha, his first wife Partridge, Alice, his second wife

Patteson, Matthew . .

Payne, John . .

On the same stone as Thomas Davy.

Peacock, Sarah, wife of George Peacock Peacock, Sarah, their daughter . .

Pearson, Lydia

Pearson, John, her son . .

On the same stone as Ann Jennys.

*Peirson, Capt. WiUiam . . Pepys, Elizabeth

On the same stone as EUing Spihnan.

* Perkins, Lunn

Peters, Mary, wife of Wm. Peters, ^ daughter of Abel Tisill, of Dover

Pewtinger, Martha, wife of John Pewtinger Pewtinger, Elizabeth, their daughter

Pewtinger, Hannah, daughter of John Francis Pewtinger

Peyton, Capt. Thomas, r. n., died on board H.M. S. Monarch

Philippo, Onias

Oil the same stone as Thomas Scarlett, Esq., his grandfather.

Used.

I 48 81

24

43

68 30

54 49

53 24

46 20

DIED.

1694 1681 1740

1663

1765

1709 1707

1749 1739

1743 1715

1753

1734

1656 1655

1658

1801 1714

66

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Phippa, Hannah Lacy, wife of John Phipps, and preiuously of Wni. Hurnard

Pitman, Susan, ivife of John Pitman

With her lie two of their children.

Pitman, Elizabeth, second wife of the same

*Pitt, Thomas, Esq. . .

Pitt, Dorcas, his wife

With them sixteen of their children.

Plummer, George Bruce

Porter, Sarah, undoiv of Francis Porter

On the same stone as Benjamin and Christopher Bernard, her brothers.

Porter, EUzabeth, daughter of Richd. ^ Sarah Porter, and grand-daughter of Leonard and Sarah Bernard . .

Prattant, Rev. John

Prattant, Mary, his wife . .

Preston, Jacob

Preston, Jacob, Esq.^

Preston, EUzabeth, 7ds wife

58 29

24

22

36 57

87

74

1714

1682

1685

76

1786

66

1778

inf.

1832

74

1777

1763

1722 1742

1625

1827 1810

" It was in April, 1814, during the second mayoralty of this gentleman, who was exten- sively engaged in busines-* as a ship-b>iilder and ship-owner, that what is commonly known in Yarmouth by the name of t?ie Festival, was celebrated. Its object was to record at once the return of peace, the overthrow of Napoleon, and the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France. Of this, a full account, accompanied with engravings, was published by Mr. Robert Cory, (see p. 21, supra, note). It is sufficient for the present occasion to state that more than £1 100 was raised by subscription, and was expended upon a dinner to the poor, of which all that thought proper were allowed to partake. To accommodate them, fifty-eight tables were arranged along the Quay, in the wide space extending from the New Hall northward, and more than eight thousand individuals enjoyed a plentiful meal of roast beef, plum puddings, and ale ; the gentlemen of the town assisting and presiding. Mr. Preston himself, though then 71 years of age, took the head of one of the tables.

IN ST. NICHOLAS* CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

67

Preston, Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Preston, Esq.,""

AGED

DIED.

their second son, and daughter

of Samuel Tolver, Esq

63

1837

Preston, Caroline ^ daughters of the Preston, Margarettaj preceding

21

1832

16

1831

Preston, Phillis, wife of Edmund Preston, Esq.,

third son of the above-named

Jacob and Elizabeth Preston, and

daughter of Jonathan Symonds,

Esq. ..

26

1805

Preston, James Symonds

17

1817

Preston, Phillis Symonds Preston, Edmund, jun.

' their children

5

inf.

1803 1799

Preston, Harriet Preston -

1

1803

Preston, Frances Maria, second wife of Edmd.

Preston, Esq., and daughter of

Thos. Smyth, Esq., of Dereham

41

1822

Preston, Isaac, son of Isaac and Mary Preston

inf.

1835

Pritchard, Maria, wife of John Pritchard

25

I8O7

Pritchard, Eliza, their daughter

2

1808

» The first stone of the Nelson Monument, the great ornament of Yarmouth Denes, was laid by the Hon. Col. Wodehouse, m.p. for the County, and afterwards Lord Wodehouse, while Mr. Preston was Mayor, August 15th, 1817. Tlie design of the Column was furnished by the celebrated architect, Mr. William Wilkins, 3Mt)xox oii\\e Antiquities of Magna Grmcia: the inscription, an elegant specimen of Latinity, was written by Mr. Sergeant Frere; and the superintendence of the whole was committed to Mr. Thomas Sutton, a man of singular mathematical and mechanical powers, who was never more happy than when engaged upon the work, and, just as he had brought it to its completion, actually died upon the summit, on the first of June, 1819.— "Credibile est, ipsum sic voluisse mori." Mr. Preston closed the day by a ball at the New H;ill, at which he received more than three hundred of the principal strangers and inhabitants that had attended the ceremony. Another event that occurred in his second mayoralty, 1823, is related by Mr, Goddard Johnson, in the Norfolk Archaeology, vol. i, p. 165.

68

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Puc, Susanna

Piie, Jonathan, Esq.

Pue, Rebecca, his wife . .

Pue, Rebecca, their second daughter

On the same stone as Susan Pitman.

Pultcncy, Elizabeth, wife of Michael Pulteney

Pulteney, Michael

Pulteney, Elizabeth

*Ramey, John, lost at sea . .

Ramey, Elizabeth,'' his wife

Ramey, Joseph

Ramey, Dorothy

Ramey, Joseph

Ramey, Elizabeth, his wife

*Randall, William, Merchant

Randall, Susan, his wife . .

63

84 50

53

DIED.

1719

1727

1746 1743

1715

75

1736

**

1758

28

17I8

64

1758

63

1756

51

1749

73

1794

77

1800

55

1719

59

1722

» The monirment that here records this lady, was erected by her son. John Ramey, Esq., (see notes, p.p. 12 and 36, supra ) the father of the Countess of Home, and of the wife of Peter Upcher, Esq. He himself was originally an attorney, but towards the close of life relinquished practice, and became a barrister, and retired to Scratby Hall, where he died 1796, and was bnried in the Church of Ormesby St. Michael. Sayers, the Caricaturist, who began the world as his clerk, introduced him in the first part of his once much-read Poem of Mun- dungus; and, in the second, makes him end a speech with,

" My well-known character and station high

Hid me Mundungus' pointed shafts defy.

To gain that station merit pav'd the road ;

And wliat I blush'd to ask my friends bestow'd.

I never offered incense to a i)eer.

Or talk'd of places in a courtier's ear.

Who says I did — let him aloud declare it;

'Tis false by heaven ; and, Spurgeon, thou canst swear it." At all events, Mr. Fuller (see note p. .10, supra) would not have sworn it. — Whatever Mr. Ramey's sincerity or disinterestedness, the inscription to his mother's memory does him credit. He placed the monument, he says, " in justice and gratitude to those abilities of liermiiid and tliat goodness of her heart, to which, under Providence, he is chiefly indebted for liis pros- perity." And where is the son that can look back with satisfaction on his course tlirough life, who will hesitate to acknowledge that it is to his Motlier he is indebted lor what has made it estimable I

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

69

Ransome, Martha ...

Ransome, Judith

Ransome, Simon

Ransome, William, his son Ransome, Mary, his wife

With them lie three sons and a daughter.

Ransome, Rev. William

Ray, JoJin, husband of Elizabeth Ray . .

With hini lie five of their children.

Reap, James

Reay, Susannah Matilda, wife of Alexander Reay

With her lie three children of Charles and Esther Reay.

Revans, Joseph "ychildren of Joseph and

Revans, Mary/ Mary Revans

Reynolds, John Esq.

Reynolds, Ann, his wife daughter of —

Payne, of Lynn

Reynolds, Sophia 1 ,7 . , ., ,

'' , , T 1 • \their children Reynolds, John, jun.

Reynolds, Thomas John

Reynolds, Thos. Milles Reynolds, Eliz. Rey- nolds Reynolds, Mary

also children of the above John and Ann Rey- nolds

Reynolds, Septima \ also childrenof

Reynolds, Sarah Bloom > the above J. S^ Reynolds, Octavia j Ann Reynolds

AGED.

42

25

73 62

48 56

52

47

46

46

60

65 30 36

3 1

14 25

38 68 61

DIED.

1698.

1712

1726 1760 1776

1779 1733

1785

1627

1727 1729

1799

1804 I8O7 1814

1770 1780

1783 1791

1820 1839

1842

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

-

sons of Francis Rid- dell Reynolds, Esq., eldest son of the

AGED.

DIE

Reynolds, Jacob Preston

above-named J. ^ A.

inf.

18(

Reynolds, F. R.

Reynolds, and of Anne his wife dau- ghter of Jacob Pres-

22

18.

ton, Esq.

Riddell, Mary, wife of James Riddell, Esq., of

Caister ^

27

17(

Riddell, James, their second son

6

17

Riddell, Andrew Patterson, their fourth

son

inf.

17

Riddell, Mary Christian Patterson, their

daughter

inf.

17

Ridge, Thomas, Surgeon

62

18

Ridge, Thomas, his son

16

18

Ringer, John

83

16

Rivett, Monox

47

16

Rivett, Margaret, his wife

56

16

Rivett, Samuel

**

17

Rivett, E. . .

31

17

On the same stone as Robert Cooper.

' Mr. Riddell, who, in the epitaph to his wife, is described of Caister by Yarmouth, was the third son of George Riddell, Esq., of Kinglass, and was created a baronet in 1 778, by the title of Sir James Riddell of Ardnaniurchan. The lady, here recorded, was daughter and heiress of Thomas Milles, of Billockby, in Norfolk, Esq., by Mary, his second wife, daughter of Major Ferrier, of Hemsby, Member of Parliament for Yarmouth, (see note, p. 33, sjiprn.) Sir James Riddell married, secondly, in the year 1775, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Burden, Esq., of the County of Durham, and by her inherited large estates in that county and in Yorkshire; and this took him finally away from the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, to which his connection with the Milles family had brought him.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH. 71

Rix, Hephzibah, wife

of Nathaniel Rix,

of

AGED.

DIED.

Oulton, and daughter of Robert

and Heph'zibah Luson

••

2G

1780

Robins, John . .

64

1707

Robins, Elizabeth, Ms wife

58

1703

Robins, John Robins, George Robins, Roger

4

1675

•their children

2 inf.

1675 1675

Robins, Roger .

**

1684

Robins, Robert, Esq.

**

**5H*

Robins, Jane, his wife

. ,

**

****

With them lie three of their daughters.

Robinson, Anne

79

1841

*Roope, John

. .

35

1749

Roope, Susannah, his ivife, daughter

of

Samuel and Judith Wakeman

89

1795

Rysvort, Capt. Gysbert Jan Van ^

25

1797

Sacker, Isaac, husband of Mary Sacker

• •

47

1799

Saltonstall, Walter, Esq., Comptroller of

'he

Customs at Yarmouth 46 years

••

76

1750

Sancroft, James,^ Surgeon . .

80

1840

Sancroft, Ann Leach, his wife

••

67

1830

» Capt. Van Rysvort died in Yarmouth, in consequence of the wounds he received in tlie victory obtained off Camperdown by the English Fleet, under Admiral Duncan, over the Dutch Fleet, under Admiral De Winter, in which action he himself commanded the Batavian Republic's ship, the " Hercules." He was interred with military honors.

^ In the obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1841, p. 108, it is stated that Mr. Sancroft "was lineally descended from the Archbishop of that name, and in his features resembled tlie portrait and medal of that prelate." The former assertion was necessarily

72

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS UURIED

Sarman, Catliarine, dauffhier of James and Frances Sarman

Saycr, Mary

Sayer, Thomas, her brother

Sayer, Elizabeth, wife of Edivard Sayer, of Norwich, Gent, and eldest dnugt^- ter of Samuel 6f Judith Wakeman

On the same stone as her parents.

Sayei', Hannah, wife of John Sayer

Sayer, Benjamin *

Sayers, Anne, his wife . .

**

32

70 60

17GG

1649 1657

1767

1702

1752 1756

inaccurate ; the Archbishop never having been married ; and the error was pointed out in the number of tliat work for the foUowinf? I\ray, p. -18G, by Mr. King, Rouge Dragon. The same gentleman very obligingly called upon me to remark that the inscription upon Mr. Bancroft's stone is cut in a vi'ay similar to that in which S winden, p. Sfi }, describes that of Mr. Cowldliam ; " the edges being cut slanting, by which art the letters are perfectly preserved from being worn out, and appear very legible after one hundred and fifty years." Mr. Bancroft was the son of a respectable house-painter in Yarmouth, who lived to a very advanced age. His wife was grand-daughter and heiress of John Hasclum, formerly of Cambridge, Esq.

» It appears that it was with these persons that the family name was changed from Sayer to Sayers, as it has ever since continued. They were related, I know not how, to Dr. Sayers and Mr. James Sayers, respecting whom see notes, p.p. 26, 58, and 68, supra. Of the latter I can find no posthumous notice, save the few lines in Taylor's Biographical Memoir of Dr. Sayers, p. 25, and in Chambers' Norfolk, i, p. 311. The following circumstances may there- fore be worth recording. He was baptized at Yarmouth, August 31st, 1748. His parents were William and Sarah Sayers, the former master of a trading vessel. At Yarmouth too he was brought up and educated for the law, and served his clerkship with Mr. Kaniey, by whom he thought himself ill used. He then practised here as an attorney, in partnership with Mr. Willi.am Taylor, and was elected into the Common Council. His pen and his pencil, however, involved him sadly in disputes ; for from early life he had been an unsparing satirist with both. On this account, therefore, but probably also in consequence of an unreturned attach- ment to Miss Ferrier, who married Mr. Purvis, of Beccles, he quitted Yarmouth for London about the year 1780. He there entered into a fresh partnership, but soon retired from his profession, and devoted hinisulf to politics, in which he had always taken an active part, as what is commonly called a " rcd-lmt Tory." He was probably infiuenceJ to this step, by some of his Caricatures, of which he published many on the leading topics of the day,— Mr. Fox's India Bill, Hastings' Trial, the Regency Bill of 1789, &c.— having attracted the notice of Mr. Pitt, who consequently appointed him Marshal of Exits. The place was a small one, worth but .£200 per annum ; but small also were the duties annexed, requiring him only to walk once a year before the Chancellor of the E\clie(iuer, when he goes to the Court. Lord Eldon suhaequently gave him another small appointment, as a Cursitor. Of his Caricatures, which

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth.

73

Sayers, John

Ou t!ie same stone as Elizabeth Millison.

Scarlett, Thomas, Esq.

Scarlett, Jane, his wife

Scroutton, Capt. Robert . .

Scroutton, Eliza, his wife Scroutton, Sarah Seagoe, their youngest daughter

Scurry, Benjamin . .

Scurry, Martha, his wife

Scurry, Martha, wife of Benjamin f^curry, Jun., daughter of H. ^ Martha Hubert

With her lie three of her children.

Seago, *** ivife of William Seago

On the same stone as Henry William Marshall.

Seagoe, Mary, wife of Sampson Seagoe

On the same stone as John Millison, her father.

Seagoe, dementia, ivife of Richard Seagoe

On the same stone as Thomas Davy.

AGED.

8

DIKD.

1729

55

1690

51

1689

56

1715

69

1730

27

1727

&1

1732

45

1712

28

1727

49

1733

28

1724

59

1770

are numerous, and deservedly ranked him among the first artists of that line in his day, if not as the very first, none perhaps was equally popular as his Carlo Khan's Triumphant Entry into Leadenhall Street. As a political song-v/riter, Mr. Sayers was likewise excellent ; indeed, as far as I have known, unrivalled. But it were unfair to judge him by these. His talents were unusually great in whatever direction they were applied ; and it was only to be lamented that such a man,

" Tho' born for the universe, narrow'd his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." A stronger proof of the estimation in wliich these talents were held could scarcely be given, than that his Elijah's Mantle, the most important of his poems, has not unfrequently been ascribed to Mr. Canning. In London Mr. Sayers resided, first with his mother and sister in Great Ormond Street ; and, subsequently, with the latter in Curzon Street. And there he died, on the 20th of April, 1820, and was buried in the vaults under St. Andrew's Church, Holborn. He kept up to the last his attachment to Yannouth and his connection with his old friends there : more especially with the families of Fisher, Lucas, Lacon, and the Rev. Richard Turner; so also with that of Berners, who, now removed to near Ipswich, had resided in bis earlier time at Southtown, and occupied the no longer existing mansion of the Bendislies, from wliom they arc descended.

K

7-i

LIST OF iNoninrALS nuiMEi)

Sciunaiu Francis

Seaman, Rebecca, his wife Scanrian, Anna, their daughter

On tlic siinie stone as Thomas Wilson.

Seaman, Rebecca, also their dauyhier . .

Seaman, William, Auctioneer

Seaman, Mary, his vufe, dauj/Jiter of

William and Elizabeth Buog Seaman, Francis Reynolds, Lieut, r. n. Seaman, Charles, Sure/eon

With tliem lie their children, Mary, Henry, Searle, and Susan ; and two more who died infants.

Seward, Lydia, icife of Ematmel Scivard

On the same stone as Timothy Money, her lather.

Sharpe, Joseph

Sharpe, Judith, his wife

Shelly, John ■>..

Shelly, Martha

Shcrring, John

A<ii'.n.

62

DIKD.

1761

42

1744

60

1790

73

1796

72

1829

IG

1808

23

1809

.31

1820

60

35

1808

74

1812

62

1797

72

1809

32

1784

1798

"T have often in my ymith heard Mr. Shelly pointed out as an instance of highly praise- worthy, but I fear unusual, integrity. He was a merchant, and had failed in business in his early life. Afterwards, becoming successful, he invited all his creditors to dinner, and surprized them most agreeably, by each finding the amount of his debt, with interest, upon his plate. His more remarkable son, of the same name, who died 1S3.5, aged.').', and is buried in the Yarmouth Cemetery, was a man tliat eminently devoted himself to ))romoting the good of the town ; taking the lead in whatever was liberal, benevolent, and useful. His friends, after his death, caused an engraving to be made from his portrait by his cousin, Mr. K. U. Eddis, and after taking each of them an impression, destroyed the plate. The family are in possession of another portrait of him, which reiiresents him as a boy not more than ten or eleven years of age, walking with his sister. Sir William Becchy, by whom it was painted, told me himself that he regarded it as the best of liis works. It is in the style of Zollany, whose studio Sir William had just left ; and it has all the peculiar merits and defects of that master. Beechy was then living at Norwich, and came freiiuently to Yarmouth, where he on one occasion resided for a twelvemonth.

IN ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

75

Shipper, Thomas

AGED.

DIED.

1742

Shipper, Mary, his wife

**

1740

Shipper, Thomas, their son

39

1754

Shomberg, John S. ^ children of R.

2

1757

Shomberg, Ehzabeth S. ) Shomberg, m. a. ^

inf.

1758

Silvers, Mary Ann, ivife of Timothij Silvers . .

81

1829

On the same stone as Mary Ann Thirkettle, lier grandmother.

Smith, Ehzabeth, wife of Richard Smith

*H:

1682

Smith, Job

**

1784

Smith, Mary, his loife

**

1779

Smith, John, Merchant

63

1721

Smith, Hannah, his first wife . .

41

1707

*Smith, Joshua, Esq.,^ their son

39

1744

Smith, Mary, second wife of the above

John Smith . .

39

17I8

Smith, John 1 ,, .

cv . , „ . . Uheir sons

Smith, Benjamin J

5 30

1721

1748

° Dr. Ralph Shomberg (as the name is here spelt, or Schomherg, as it is generally and more properly written,) the brother of the moi-e eminent Dr. Isaac Schomberg, practised fur some years in Yarnuiiith, but afterwards removed to Bath, and finally to Reading, where he died in 1792. He published several medical works, and, besides these, a Life of Mctcemttt. and a Critical Dissertation on the Chiiracter and Writings of Pindar and Horace; the former designated by Watt in his Bibtiotheca Britannicii as taken from Meibomius ; the latter, as a shameful plagiary from Blondell's Comparaison de Pindare ct d' Horace. — Another gentleman of this name, the Rev. Alexander Crowcher Schomberg, who died 1792, aged liO, was also born at Yarmouth. He was tlie author of An Historical and Chronological View of the Roman Laws, and other similar works. Lord Chedworth mentions him respectfully in his Letters to Crompton, p. 72.

'' Mr. King informs me that the Arms on this stone were " granted to Mr. Smith, as son of John Smith, of Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, deceased, son of Thomas Smith, of Runton, in the said County, the twenty-third of August, 1722; \'i7.., Gules, on a chevron argent, between three handfuls of barley, each containing five ears or, as many bees proper. Crest, an eagle regardant, wings elevated proper, beaked, membered, and crowned with a Naval Crown, and reposing his dexter foot upon a Quadrant or, the string and plummets azure — to be borne by the descendants of the said John Smith." He adds, that in " Willesdeu Church-yard, county of Middlesex, is an altar-tomb to Mary Ann, only child of Job and Mary Smith, of Great Yarmouth, who died 12th June, 17G9, cet. IG."

IG

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Smith, Samuel 1 also children of thejn'e-

Smith, Martha] ceding J. ^ M. Smith

Smith, Hannah, wife of John Smith

On the same stone as Benjamin Steadman, Esq., Iier father.

Smith, Elizabeth, ivife, first of John Cotman, and then of John Smith, both of Yarmouth, Merchants

On the same stone as her first husband.

Smith, William, Surgeon . .

Smith, Elizabeth, his wife

*Smithson, James "1 7 .7 7 /. ,-

^ . , _, children of James

Smithson, Thomas y , . ^ . , _, . , ^,. and Ann Smithson

tbmithson, Eliza J

Spanton, Francis, husband of Mary Spanton Spanton, Susan, their daughter

Spanton, Joseph, husband of Jane Spanton

Spelman, Robert

Spelman, Anne

Spelman, Mary, Ids second wife

With them lie four sons and four daughters of Mr. Spelman and his second wife.

Spelman, Wales

Spelman, Sarah, his wife

Spendlove, Rev. Christopher, Lecturer of Yar- mouth . . Spendlove, John

Spendlove, Susanna, widow Spendlove, Lydia

1

2

61

'72

81

1819

90

1834

inf.

1723

3

1729

inf.

1732

8G

1728

19

1694

38

1729

80

1756

**

1719

54

1732

51

1770

65

1787

69

1665

66

1699

G7

1700

**

'I^'l^'l^'f*

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth.

11

Speiidlove, Christopher,''' Apothecarij, youngest

AGT.D.

DIED.

son of Rev. C. Spendlove, minis-

ter of Yarmouth

37

1711

Spilling, Elling Maria, daughter of T. Spilling,

Esq., of Earsham, and Maria, Ms

wife, afterwards married to John

Fisher Costerton, Esq.

11

1840

On the same stone as Francs Costerton, her sister.

Spilman, George, Sen.,^ Alderman, husband of

Elling, daughter of Nicholas Cut-

tinge, by whom he had eleven sons

and three daughters

67

1668

Spilman, Elling, Ms wife . .

6G

1668

Spilman, George, Sen.

90

1715

Spilman, Samuel . .

47

1739

Spilman, Eliza, his daughter

24

1748

On the same stone as Elizabeth Pepys.

Spilman, E,ebeccah, wife of Geo. Sjnlman, Jun.

41

1669

Spilman, Susannah

**

1715

» Under the same stone lies his wife, who, after his death, married, first, William Man- thorpe, and then John Grant ; see supra, p. 39.

* The only mention of this once extensive family which I have found in any writer upon Yarmouth, is where the George Spilman here recorded signed in 1651 a Petition to the Committee for the Navy, praying that the duties arising from coals might he g-iven to the relief gf tlie poor of the town; and in 16SS an Address, more memorable than creditable, to Richard Cromwell, owning the government in his hands, promising to support it, and deeply lamenting the loss sustained by the nation in the death of the Lord Protector. The former he subscribed in his quality of Bailiff, which ofllce he then held conjointly with Mr. John Carter. Both the Petition and Address are curious documents ; the one, as descriptive of the state of the town ; the other, it must be presumed, of the public feeling. They are printed by Swinden, p.p. 577 and 5(8, and, but for their length, should be repeated here. Xiie name of not one of the Spilmans, any more than of their connections, the Albertsons and tlie Cuttinges, is among the Aldermen and Common Councilmen enumerated in the charter, granted by Charles II, in 16G3. A strong proof this of the political bias of the family, which appears to have ended in Yarmouth about sixty years ago, with three young ladies, daughters of a Mr. Spilman, an extensive sail maker; one of whom married the Kev. Richaid Fayerman, of Oby ; a second married George NichoUs, Esq., of Cambridgeshire ; and the third died single.

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Spilman, Nicholas,'' Merchant

Spilnum, James, son of Samuel and Jane

Spilman Spilman, James, son of Samuel Spilman

Spilman, William

Spilman, Judith, his wife Spilman, Judith

On the same stone as Mrs. Susan Thompson.

Spilman, George, Jun., Esq., Alderman and once Bailiff. . Spilman, Esther, his loife Spilman, Rachel "] Spilman, George \ their children Spilman, Esther J

Spilman, Elizabeth, wife of Geo. Spilman, Jun. Spilman, Elizabeth, their daughter . .

Spilman, Benjamin

Spilman, Elizabeth, his wife Spilman, Susanna, his second wife Spilman, Elizabeth, wife of S. Spilman

Sjjilman, Samuel

Spilman, Jane, his wife Spilman, William, tlieir son

Spilman, Sarah, ivife of Isaac Spilman

Ou the same stone as the Rev. James Hannot, her father.

Spooner, Elizabeth, ivife of Peter Spooner . .

AGRD.

38

9

28

86

75 **

64

38

14

58

3

27 26

75 43

60 59

77

51

50

78

niF.li.

1663

1712 1754

1722 1715 1704

1717 1697 1697 1745 1697

1678 1703

1719 1692 1714 1749

1717 1739 1756

1742 17I6

•In the same grave lies Rachel, his wife, subsequently mavried to William Alburtson j Rco p. I, supra.

IN ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, GT. YARMOUTH.

79

Spooner, William, Esq.-'' . .

AGED.

67

DIED. 1722

Spurgeon, John, Esq.

90

1738

Spurgeon, Mary, his wife, daughter of

— Bendlowes

84

1735

Spurgeon, Richard,'' their son

73

1756

Spurgeon, Elizabeth, his wife . .

48

1735

Stanle}^, William, Beer-brewer . .

•

1657

Stanley, Judith, his wife

**

1646

Stanley, John, Shipwright

**

1690

Steadman, Benjamin, Alderman of Yarmouth

G4

1690

Steadman, Margery, his ivife

40

1678

Steadman, Benjamin, Jun., Shipwright and

Merchant

27

1691

On the same stone as Robert Gilling.

Steadman, Capt. Thomas, Alderman

39

1721

On the same stone as Robert Scroutton — 'with him lie Dorotliea,

Robert, Christopher, and Sarah, his children by his wife.

Eliza, who all died infants.

i'jMr. Spooner's epitaph states that he was once Bailiff and once Mayor of Yaniiouth. The former office he held in 1C99; the latter, in 1713. In the first of these years the Haven and Pier Act expired ; and, after various objections on the part of the Justices of Norfolk and Norwich, a new one of an important character was passed, an abstract of which is given at length by Swinden, p. 917-921.

''The Mr. Richard Spurgeon, here buried, was father of Mr. John Spurgeon, who was many years town-clerk of Yarmouth, and died the second of March, 1810, aged 94, and was buried at Clopton, in Suffolk. The Rev. John Grove Spurgeon, the eldest son of the last- named gentleman, was distinguished for his love for the arts, and printed for private distri- bution a small volume of etchings. A short account of him is given in the Gentleman's Miigasine for August, 1829, on the first day of which month he died, in the eighty-third year of his age, at his residence at Lowestoft, leaving a son and daughter. The former took his maternal name of Farrer ; the latter married Capt. Acton, of a Shropshire family, and removed after her father's death into tliat county. Mr. Spurgeon's second son, the Rev. Christopher Spurgeon, was rector of Harpley ; and his third son, the Rev. Richard Spurgeon, of Mulbarton. They died and were buried in their resi)ective parishes ; the former 1831, the latter 1842. Mr. Christopher Spurgeon, married, first, Mai ianne, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Cooper, and, secondly, Eleanor, daughter of William Paigrave, Esq., both of Yarmouth.

so

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS BURIED

Stead man, Elizabeth

AGED.

16

DIED.

1731

Steward, Timothy

60

1739

Steward, Mary, his ivife

Steward, Hannah, their dauyhter

Under the same stone lies Mrs. Beyiion, tlieir other daughter— see p. 8.

87

27

1829 1803

*Stewa»d, William, Esq.^ . . . .

80

1841

Steward, AVilliam, Jun., his son

21

I8O7

" It is with great pleasure that I multiply hy the press the copies of the inscription upon the monument of this late excellent friend of mine ; an inscription singularly laudatory, and, what can seldom be added of such, not therefore untrue. Indeed in one respect it does not go far enough ; for it may safely be stated that our Hospital, which has already been the instrument in the hands of the Almighty for curing four thousand live hundred individuals, and relieving half that number, would never have been erected but for him. — Mr. Steward began life asasolicitor and ship-owner, and ended it as an extensive brewer. Through the whole of it, he was most active in promoting what he considered essential to the welfare of Yarmouth; and latterly, after he had retired from the practice of the law, he occupied himself almost exclusively in the superintendence of its public institutions, to which his habits of business, guided by a clear head and comprehensive mind, and seconded by a liberal hand, made him extremely valuable. The epitaph is as follows —

In memory of

WILLIAM STEWARD, ESQ.,

for many Years a Magistrate

of this County,

who by his uprightness and integrity

secured the regard and esteem of all classes.

Benevolent, liberal, and Humane,

He devoted a long, valuable, and active life

in promoting the Welfare

of his humbler neighbours;

And he greatly contributed

hy his exertions and munificence

To the Building of the Royal Hospital in this Town,

for the reception of the sick and v.ounded.

In the more intimate ties of life,

He proved himself an affectionate liusband,

A kind and endearing Parent,

An ardent and sincere Friend.

To commemorate so good and excellent a man,

His Family has raised

This Tablet.

He was born on the 2.5th of May, a.d. 17fiO, And died on the l!)th of May, a.d. ISH,

" In the fervent hope of obtaining a joyful resurrection to eternal

Life, through the merits of his .Saviour, Jesns C'lrist."

IN ST. Nicholas' church, gt. Yarmouth.

81

Stoker, Ann, daugJder of John and Ann Stoker

AGr.n

2.3

DIED.

1798

Stoker, John Barber, her brother

28

1S05

Straycock, Elizabeth, wife of James Stray cock,

Mariner

65

1827

On the same stone as Capt. Robert Abbon Mash, her brother.

Suckling, Susannah . .

15

1815

Swanton, Samuel

72

1737

Swanton, Elizabeth

61

1734

On the same stone as Ann Whitby.

Swanton, Elizabeth

53

1763

On the same stone as Thomas Shipper.

Swash, Robert, Confectioner

52

1795

Swash, Sarah, Ids ivife

62

1795

Swinden, Henry ^ . .

55

1772

^ The mural monument in the Nortli aisle of the church, commemorative of Henry Swinden, the Historian of Yarmouth, was erected, as stated in the epitaph, by his friend,