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Cattle

The amount of grassland of one kind or another revealed in the 1618 Manor Roll (about 170 acres), when compared with that discernible in the 18thcentury Tithe Accounts (about sixty-five acres of permanent pasture, or meadow, and an annual average of twenty-eight acres of the sown variety) may appear to suggest that fewer cattle were being kept in the parish by 1700 than had been the case one hundred years before.

On 15 January 1737 – the year being 1736, by use of the old Julian Calendar – King George II (1683-1760) made a sudden and unplanned landing at Lowestoft, on a return journey from the North-western German province of Hanover – where he and his father, George I, were the rulers (as Electors) as well as being monarchs of Great Britain. Both of them made summer journeys, periodically, to spend time in their land of origin, and it was on his return from one of these that George II was forced to put ashore.

This fascinating document records settlement of the estate of a leading Lowestoft merchant, whose burial was recorded in the parish registers on 18 September 1636. It is located within the pages of the Lowestoft Tithe Accounts book (Norfolk Record Office, 589/80) – placed there by the Revd. John Tanner (Vicar of the parish, 1708-59), who had married into a branch of the Mighells family on 20 January 1713 (1712, by Julian Calendar dating) and who probably found the document among existing family papers. He obviously noticed, in the second set of accounts, that burial within the walls of St.

Robert Reeve (local lawyer), who lived at what is now No. 49 High Street and who had his office next door at No. 48, was steward of the Lowestoft manor during the late 18th and early 19th century. Among the many things he did, connected with the history of the town (and also with that of Lothingland Half-hundred) was to compile a four-volume, handwritten account of various aspects of their past, connected with manorial and parochial matters of all kinds. Dated at c.

Introduction

An account of this trip, taken by two young men, from Saffron Walden to Lowestoft and back, took place between Saturday 26 August and Sunday 3 September 1797. It is written on two pieces of rag-paper 7½ inches by 63/8 in size (190mm X 162), folded to form eight pages, and with a half-piece serving as the first two – the outer one of which is the title-page itself. Originally hand-stitched down the middle of the fold (and with this either failing or being removed, at some point), the document was later secured by a single staple in the middle.

Saved by the Argus

One of the earliest balloon flights in England took place on Saturday, 23 July 1785, at 4.25 p.m. in Quantrell’s Gardens, Norwich – located in the city adjacent to present-day Queen’s Road (part of the A147) in the area now occupied by a large Sainsbury supermarket.