Part 9 (2/2)

1579.

May to Sept. Great plague; 2,000 persons died, and the Grammar School shut up for six months. (See 1349 and 1550.)

1580.

August 2nd. Dinner provided for 43 gentlemen on a sandbank out at sea, called Scratby Sand. In 1582 it was swept away by a strong easterly wind and tide, much to the disappointment of Sir Edward Clare, Knt., who had made a claim to it. Valuable wreckage was often found there.

2,000 lasts (2,640,000 single fish) of herrings brought in on one tide.

1582.

Large fish, 17 yards long, the jaw 3 yards long, body 4 yards thick, caught at Caister.

1583.

No one could be elected a Burgess in Parliament unless he was an Alderman.

1585.

The Privy Council requested the town to provide s.h.i.+ps for the transport of 400 soldiers into the Low Countries. To raise funds, every Alderman advanced 5, and every Common Councilman 2 10s., the rest of the money being raised by a.s.sessment.

1586.

Pulpit erected at the west-end of St. Nicholas' Church; removed in 1635.

Another erected in the south-east comer of the south aisle, which was also removed in 1846.

Number of ”tippling houses” in Yarmouth restricted to 16.

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