Sepulchral Reminiscences of a Market Town: As Afforded by a List of the Interments Within the Walls of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth
Sepulchral Reminiscences of a Market Town: As Afforded by a List of the Interments Within the Walls of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...do at the present time: the property, consisting of about five hundred acres, has neither been added to nor diminished; nor have the proprietors changed their station in life, that of Franklins. Their arms, carved, not of late years, upon their pew in the church, seem to denote them of respectability. The old family ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...do at the present time: the property, consisting of about five hundred acres, has neither been added to nor diminished; nor have the proprietors changed their station in life, that of Franklins. Their arms, carved, not of late years, upon their pew in the church, seem to denote them of respectability. The old family-house was taken down by the late possessor, who erected in its place the present one, a plain, square, red-bricked blue-tiled building, with a door in the centre, and a window on each side of it, and three windows above. My great-grandfather was, most probably, brought to Yarmouth, and obtained the town-clerkship, in consequence of his marriage with the daughter of Mr. Thomas Godfrey, his predecessor, but not immediately so, in the office. (See p. 37, note.) My grandfather held the office of Minister of St. George's Chapel, for the long space of forty-nine years, and finally resigned it, together with his life, in consequence of falling down into the cellar of the house lately occupied by Mr. Francis Riddell Reynolds, but then by his son, the Rev. Richard Turner. He was likewise for some time master of the grammar-school of the town, which ceased to exist when he retired from the direction of it. It occupied, according to Tanner, a portion of the lodgings and chapel of St. Mary's Hospital, founded by Thomas Fastolf in the reign of Edward I; while another portion of the building formed what Corbridge calls the Corporation House for the Lecturer, (see note, p. 51, supra) in which my grandfather resided. He printed, at the request of the Corporation, "a Sermon preached by him in St. Nicholas' Church, October 9th, 1746, being the Day appointed by His Majesty for a General Thanksgiving for the Suppression of the late unnatural Rebellion;" a...
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