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V.—Some Seventeenth-century Houses in Great Yarmouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

B. H. St. J O'Neil
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Great Yarmouth has been fortunate in its historians and archaeologists. There, can, for instance, be few towns in England boasting so useful a record of its past as Henry Manship's History of Great Yarmouth, edited by Charles John Palmer, F.S.A., in 1854. Manship's father, another Henry, was elected into the Corporation in 1550, and appears to have taken an active part in affairs connected with the Haven in 1560. The younger Henry was educated at the Free Grammar School, and, whilst still a schoolboy, laboured with his own hands at the fortifications. He was Town Clerk from 1579 to 1585, and continued to be a member of the Corporation until 1604. Thereafter, although sometimes at loggerheads with some of his contemporaries, he busied himself upon his history of the town, compiled from records, most of which have since been lost. The history was finished in 1619, and the Corporation voted Manship a gratuity of £50. He died in poverty in 1625.

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Archaeologia , Volume 95 , 1953 , pp. 141 - 180
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1953

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page 141 note 1 p. 35.

page 141 note 2 C. J. Palmer, Illustrations of Domestic Architecture in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, exemplified in the interior of the residence of John Danby Palmer, Esq. London, 1838.

page 142 note 1 Manship, History of Great Yarmouth, p. 93.

page 142 note 2 Ibid., p. 97.

page 142 note 3 Ibid., p. 121.

page 142 note 4 Ibid., p. 249.

page 142 note 5 Ibid., pp. 64–65.

page 143 note 1 To whom he is indebted for much help, as also to Mr. J. Seymour Lindsay, F.S.A., who has contributed section D of this article.

page 144 note 1 It is interesting to recall that this pair of houses is closely similar in size and plan to the foundations of houses excavated at Jamestown, Virginia, U.S.A., where the earliest recorded brick house was of the same year of erection. For this information the writer is indebted to Mr. J. C. Harrington of the National Park Service of the U.S.A.

page 146 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xxix, 8–12.

page 146 note 2 The appearance of the coinage supports this assertion. The coins of Cromwell look modern; those of Charles I have a distinctly medieval appearance.

page 149 note 1 During demolition it was found that the ‘9’ was really a reversed ‘6’.

page 149 note 2 Information from Mr. J. C. Harrington, National Park Service of the U.S.A.

page 149 note 3 Claridge, History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, II, 600.

page 174 note 1 e.g. Row 118, Nos. 2 and 3 (fig. 9).