Great Yarmouth is in Norfolk.
Calendars. 03 Feb 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23). Ewell, Surrey [Map]. To the Treasurer and the Barons of the Exchequer. Whereas the king lately commanded them to put into execution all the writs of the late King pending in the exchequer, and although the late King commanded his treasurer and barons of the exchquer, at the supplication of the burgesses of Great Yarmouth [Map], by his writ now in the exchequer, as the said burgesses assert, to allow them 1,000 marks in which the late king was bound to them for a loan in the time when John de Kirkeby was his treasurer, and 1,£760 for the arrears of the wages of divers men sent by them to the late King's command into Gascony for the expedition of this war and for remaining there for a great time, and also for £250which they expended, by the order of the late King, in the making of two galleys (galiarum) in the said town, and also £780 for the wages of certain sailors and divers other costs expended by them at divers times for the expedition of the war in Scotland, to be allowed to them out of the debts owing by them to the said late King, as well as the tenth, eleventh, sixth, seventh, twentieth, and thirtieth granted by the community of the kingdom to the late King, as from other causes whatsoever; they are ordered to execute the said writs. Witness: Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 24).
Around 1490 Joan Larke was born to Peter Larke at Great Yarmouth [Map].
Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 13 Jul 1553. About this tyme or therabouts the vj. shippes that were sent to lie befor Yarmothe [Map], that if she had fled to have taken hir, was by force of wether dreven into the haven, w(h)er about that quarters one maister Gerningham was ray sing power on quene Maryes (age 37) behalfe, and hering therof came thether. Wherupon the captaynes toke a bote and went to their shipes. Then the marynours axed maister Gernyngham what he wolde have, and wether he wolde have their captaynes or no; and he said, "Yea, mary." Saide they, "Ye shall have theym, or els we shall throwe theym to the bottom of the sea." The captaynes, seing this perplexity, saide furthwith they wolde serve quene Mary gladlie; and so cam fourthe with their men, and convayed certeyn great ordenaunce; of the which comyng in of the shipes the lady Mary and hir company were wonderfull joyous, and then afterwarde doubted smaly the duke's puisance. And as the comyng of the shipes moche rejoyced quene Mary's party, even so was it as great a hart-sore to the duke (age 49), and all his campe, whose hartes wer all-redy bent agaynst him. But after once the submyssyon of the shipes was knowne in the Tower [Map]a eche man then began to pluck in his homes; and, over that, worde of a greater mischief was brought to the Tower the noblemen's tenauntes refused to serve their lordes agaynst quene Mary. The duke he thought long for his succours, and writ somewhat sharplie to the counsayll here in that behalfe, aswell for lacke of men as munytion: but a slender answer he had agayn.
Note a. This passage, together with those that follow, shows that the Chronicler was still writing in the Tower of London.
Pepy's Diary. 01 Dec 1665. After dinner to it again, and at night had long discourse with Gibson, who is for Yarmouth [Map], who makes me understand so much of the victualling business and the pursers' trade, that I am ashamed I should go about the concerning myself in a business which I understand so very very little of, and made me distrust all I had been doing to-day.
Pepy's Diary. 29 Jul 1666. By and by a letter from Sir W. Coventry (age 38) tells me that we have the victory. Beat them into the Weelings1 had taken two of their great ships; but by the orders of the Generalls they are burned. This being, methought, but a poor result after the fighting of two so great fleetes, and four days having no tidings of them, I was still impatient; but could know no more.
Note 1. In a letter from Richard Browne to Williamson, dated Yarmouth [Map], July 30th, we read, "The Zealanders were engaged with the Blue squadron Wednesday and most of Thursday, but at length the Zealanders ran; the Dutch fleet escaped to the Weelings and Goree" (Calendar of State Papers, 1665-66, p 591).
Calendars. 30 Jul 1666. Great Yarmouth [Map]. 80. Rich. Bower to Williamson. The Zealanders were engaged with the Blue squadron Wednesday and most of Thursday, but at length the Zealanders ran; the Dutch fleet escaped to the Weelings and Goree; only hears of six ships lost by them; 32 wounded men from the Victory and Vanguard have come to Southwold, Suffolk [Map]. The Victory being threatened by a fire-ship, the captain sent his lieutenant in a ketch to put the fire-ship by; the ketch followed the fire-ship too near the Dutch fleet, and being herself taken for a fire-ship, every one near let fly at ber, so the ketch was sadly shattered and the lieuten- ant killed. Capt. Talbot of the Elizabeth came into Aldborough [Map], with his vessel in good condition, walking the deck in his silk morning gown and powdered hair. The East India London also came into Aldborough [Map]; the captain was killed, and the surgeon's arm broken; the men declared they would not fight without a surgeon; other arrivals at Yarmouth [Map]. Sir Thomas Allin (age 54) has taken and fired Banckart's flag ship, Banckart escaping in a boat. The Royal Charles is sent in; the generals remain on board the Royal James. The Hull fleet has sailed from Yarmouth [Map] for London without convoy. Begs the Gazettes regularly; 22 wounded men are brought ashore.
Pepy's Diary. 05 Jul 1667. By and by out with Sir W. Pen (age 46) to White Hall, where I staid not, but to the New Exchange to buy gloves and other little errands, and so home and to my office busy till night, and then walked in the garden with my wife, and then to supper and to sing, and so to bed. No news, but that the Dutch are gone clear from Harwich [Map] northward, and have given out they are going to Yarmouth [Map].
Pepy's Diary. 07 Mar 1669. So to my cozen Turner's, and there staid talking a little, and then back to Suffolk Street, where they not being yet come home I to White Hall, and there hear that there are letters come from Sir Thomas Allen (age 36), that he hath made some kind of peace with Algiers; upon which the King (age 38) and Duke of York (age 35), being to go out of town to-morrow, are met at my Lord Arlington's (age 51): so I there, and by Mr. Wren (age 40) was desired to stay to see if there were occasion for their speaking with me, which I did, walking without, with Charles Porter (age 37)1, talking of a great many things: and I perceive all the world is against the Duke of Buckingham (age 41) his acting thus high, and do prophesy nothing but ruin from it: But he do well observe that the church lands cannot certainly come to much, if the King (age 38) shall [be] persuaded to take them; they being leased out for long leases.
Note 1. Charles Porter (age 37) "was the son of a prebend in Norwich, and a 'prentice boy in the city in the rebellious times. When the committee house was blown up, he was very active in that rising, and after the soldiers came and dispersed the rout, he, as a rat among joint stools, shifted to and fro among the shambles, and had forty pistols shot at him by the troopers that rode after him to kill him 24th April, 1648. In that distress he had the presence of mind to catch up a little child that, during the rout, was frighted, and stood crying in the streets, and, unobserved by the troopers, ran away with it. The people opened a way for him, saying, 'Make room for the poor child.' Thus he got off, and while search was made for him in the market-place, got into the Yarmouth [Map] ferry, and at Yarmouth [Map] took ship and went to Holland.... In Holland he trailed a pike, and was in several actions as a common soldier. At length he kept a cavalier eating-house; but, his customers being needy, he soon broke, and came for England, and being a genteel youth, was taken in among the chancery clerks, and got to be under a master.... His industry was great; and he had an acquired dexterity and skill in the forms of the court; and although he was a bon companion, and followed much the bottle, yet he made such dispatches as satisfied his clients, especially the clerks, who knew where to find him. His person was florid, and speech prompt and articulate. But his vices, in the way of women and the bottle, were so ungoverned, as brought him to a morsel.... When the Lord Keeper North had the Seal, who from an early acquaintance had a kindness for him which was well known, and also that he was well heard, as they call it, business flowed in to him very fast, and yet he could scarce keep himself at liberty to follow his business.... At the Revolution, when his interest fell from, and his debts began to fall upon him, he was at his wits' end.... His character for fidelity, loyalty, and facetious conversation was without exception"-Roger North's Lives of the Norths (Lord Keeper Guilford), ed. Jessopp, vol. i., pp. 381-2. He was originally made Chancellor (age 60) of Ireland in the reign of James II, during the viceroyalty of Lord Clarendon, 1686, when he was knighted. "He was", says Burnet, "a man of ready wit, and being poor was thought a person fit to be made a tool of. When Clarendon was recalled, Porter was also displaced, and Fitton was made Chancellor (age 60), a man who knew no other law than the King's pleasure" ("Own Time"). Sir Charles Porter (age 37) was again made Chancellor of Ireland in 1690, and in this same year he acted as one of the Lords Justices. This note of Lord Braybrooke's is retained and added to, but the reference may after all be to another Charles Porter. See vol. iii., p. 122, and vol. vi., p. 98.
On 06 May 1682 The Gloucester sank during a strong gale when it struck a sandbank twenty-eight miles off Great Yarmouth [Map] on a journey from Portsmouth to Edinburgh. Of the estimated 330 people on board it is believed between 130 and 250 sailors and passengers perished.
The Duke of York (age 48) [the future King James II] and John Churchill 1st Duke Marlborough (age 31) were rescued in the ship's boat.
Robert Ker 3rd Earl Roxburghe (age 24) drowned. His son Robert Ker 4th Earl Roxburghe (age 5) succeeded 4th Earl Roxburghe.
John Hope of Hopetoun drowned. He gave up his seat in a lifeboat to the future King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 48) for which his son was rewarded with an Earldom twenty-one years later when he came of age.
Richard Hill drowned.
The pilot James Ayres was blamed for the disaster. The Duke of York (age 48) wished him to be hanged immediately. He was court-martialled and imprisoned.
On 07 Jan 1800 Reverend Samuel Cooper (age 60) died at Great Yarmouth [Map]. He was buried on 14 Jan 1800 at the Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth [Map] where he had been Rector.
On Sat 11 Jan 1800 the Ipswich Journal:
On Tuesday last died, after a long and gradual decay, in the 61st year of his age, the Rev. Dr. Cooper, Minister of this Town, and Rector of Morley and Yelverton, in the County of Norfolk. The faculties of his active mind till sickness had deprived him of the powers of exertion, were strenuously employed in the duties of his profession as a divine, in the exercise of his functions as a magistrate, and in schemes of general utility and extensive beneficence as a member of the community, His writings, whether religious or political were uniformly distinguished by an ardent zeal for the encrease of Christian faith and practice, and an animated attachment to the civil and ecclesiastical establishment of his country. Fervent in devotion, boundless in charity , warm in friendship, placable in controversy, social in public, and affectionate in private life; while proper allowances are made for human frailty, his memory will be long cherished by those who knew him, with mingled regret, esteem and veneration. He was formerly of Magdalen col. Cambridge, where he proceeded A.B. 1760, A.M. 1763, D.D. 1777.
On 24 Sep 1875 Charles Stewart Bonnett (age 22) and Keomi aka Keytumas Gray (age 34) were married at Great Yarmouth [Map].
The River Yare rises around Thuxton, Norfolk [Map] from where it flows past Coston, Norfolk [Map], Brandon Parva, Norfolk [Map], Barnham Broom, Norfolk [Map] after which it is joined by the River Tiffey before flowing past Marlingford, Norfolk [Map], Bawburgh, Norfolk [Map], Bowthorpe, Norfolk [Map], Colney, Norfolk [Map], Earlham Park [Map], Eaton [Map] to Old Lakenham [Map] after which it is joined by the River Wensum. Thereafter it flows past Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk [Map], SurlIngham, Norfolk [Map], Brundall, Norfolk [Map], Buckenham, Norfolk [Map], Cantley, Norfolk [Map], Reedham, Norfolk [Map] to Berney Arms, Norfolk [Map] after which it is joined by the River Waveney then flows through Great Yarmouth [Map] where it is joined by the River Bure then meets the North Sea at Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk [Map].
The River Bure rises at Melton Constable, Norfolk [Map] from where it flows past Briston, Norfolk [Map], Thurning, Norfolk [Map] after which it is joined by the River Thurne. Thereafter it flows past Corpusty, Norfolk [Map], ItterIngham, Norfolk [Map], Blickling Hall, Norfolk [Map], where there is a large ornamental lake, Ingworth, Norfolk [Map], Drabblegate, Norfolk [Map], Aylsham, Norfolk [Map], Burgh, Norfolk [Map], Church of St Michael, Oxnead [Map], Buxton, Norfolk [Map], Little Hautbois, Norfolk [Map], Horstead, Norfolk [Map], Belaugh, Norfolk [Map], Wroxham, Norfolk [Map], Horning, Norfolk [Map], Upper Street [Map], Ranworth, Norfolk [Map] after which it is joined by the River Ant after which it passes St Benet's Abbey, Norfolk [Map] then joining the River Bure just after Thurne, Norfolk [Map]. The River Bure then flows under Acle Bridge, Norfolk [Map], past Stokesby, Norfolk [Map], Herringby, Norfolk [Map] to Great Yarmouth [Map] where it joins the River Yare before joining the North Sea.
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Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth [Map] was founded in 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, the first Bishop of Norwich,[2] and consecrated in 1119. It is cruciform, with a central tower, which may preserve a part of the original structure.
On 29 Nov 1787 Reverend Samuel Lovick Cooper (age 24) and Sarah Leman Rede (age 21) were married at the Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth [Map] where his father was Rector.
On 07 Jan 1800 Reverend Samuel Cooper (age 60) died at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk [Map]. He was buried on 14 Jan 1800 at the Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth [Map] where he had been Rector.
On Sat 11 Jan 1800 the Ipswich Journal:
On Tuesday last died, after a long and gradual decay, in the 61st year of his age, the Rev. Dr. Cooper, Minister of this Town, and Rector of Morley and Yelverton, in the County of Norfolk. The faculties of his active mind till sickness had deprived him of the powers of exertion, were strenuously employed in the duties of his profession as a divine, in the exercise of his functions as a magistrate, and in schemes of general utility and extensive beneficence as a member of the community, His writings, whether religious or political were uniformly distinguished by an ardent zeal for the encrease of Christian faith and practice, and an animated attachment to the civil and ecclesiastical establishment of his country. Fervent in devotion, boundless in charity , warm in friendship, placable in controversy, social in public, and affectionate in private life; while proper allowances are made for human frailty, his memory will be long cherished by those who knew him, with mingled regret, esteem and veneration. He was formerly of Magdalen col. Cambridge, where he proceeded A.B. 1760, A.M. 1763, D.D. 1777.
