Newspapers__1800_-_1829

Almost all the details from these Newspapers were taken by Edwin A Goowyn

ASSIZE of BREAD at NORWICH:
The Penny loaf is to weigh: Wheaten 4ozs, 3dr; Household 5ozs 13 dr
Coals 42s 4d per Chaldron.

Weekly Bill of Mortality: Christened 15; Burials 24.
Butchers’ Meat:- Beef : 2s 8d to 4s 4d; Pork: 3s 8d to 4s 4d.
ADVERTISEMENT: Port’s Essence of Fruits: Sore Throats, Hooping Cough, Smallpox, etc. Sold by

Sparshall, Beccles.
LOTTERY: The very extraordinary & unparalleled benefits that are to be gained in the present
English Lottery have caused so great and unusual demand for tickets & shares that those who have

not already purchased will make a considerable saving by laying out their money immediately. A
whole Ticket at £16 3s 0d may gain £60,000
SALE of SHIPS: On Wednesday 12 February at the King’s Head in the Market Place, at 11 o’clock

the following vessels now lying in Yarmouth Harbour, Prizes to His Majesty’s ships of war on the
north station.
Ship American

Brig Beigen
Brig Frodent

Dogger Maria
Fishing Vessel, de Winter

73 tons
57 tons
47 tons

Lugger Le Dragon
On the following day will be sold by auction the ENTIRE CARGO of the Ship VRINDEN, Jurgen

Hendrick’s, Master from Riga, bound to Embden, captured by His Majesty’s Ship Androdema, Henry
Inman, Esq,, Commander, consisting of 150 Tons of Codille Hemp; 1300 Quarters of Rye.
MILITIA: Yarmouth: On Monday the East Norfolk Regiment of Militia marched here from Beccles
and Bungay

SALE: A Messuage commodiously situated for a small genteel family or for trade, in the centre of the town of
Beccles, late the Residence of Mrs Ann Amyas, comprising two handsome Parlours, a Kitchen, & proper offices

on the Ground Floor; Four very good Bedrooms, two attics & two garrets, also a good Garden & Stable
adjoining. Further particulars from Rede & Smith

SALE: Hose & Shop, Linen, Woolen Draper, Milliner ... Mr Hooke (engaged in another business)

NORWICH: Committee for Supplying Soup to the Poor: list of subscribers
WEATHER: The enlivening verdue thrown upon the face of the country in the course of a few days,

by the pleasing attention of the sun and showers, with the promising reports, from many parts, of the
situation of the young wheat, and the excellent seed time of other grains ... furnish the strongest

reason that the “God of Seasons” will again revisit our isle with plenty”.

WEATHER: So promising a Spring has not been known for many years.
[LANGLEY Enclosure Act]

TAXES: Stamp Office, Woodbridge:
Persons keeping a Coach or Carriage on which Armorial Bearing painted

Duty on inhabited Houses: Windows or Lights
Armorial Bearing
Sub-Distributor: Mr Richard Wilby, Beccles

EDUCATION: Boarding School, Beccles [Leman School]: Mr Burrows gratefully acknowledges the
favours of his Friends and hopes his assiduous attention to the Several Duties of his Profession will

entitle him to Liberal encouragement. His School reopens July 15, 1800.
Terms for Boarders 25 guineas per annum & 1 guinea entrance.

QUARTER SESSIONS at Beccles: Stephen Foulger, indicted for grand larceny & pleading guilty,
was ordered to pay a fine of 1 shilling and to be imprisoned in the House of Correction in solitary

confinement and kept to hard labour, for the space of 12 calendar months.
William Chilvers convicted of grand larceny, was ordered to be transported beyond the seas for 7

years.
Francis Griffen, convicted of grand larceny ordered to pay fine of 1 shilling and to be imprisoned in
solitary confinement in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour for 6 calendar months.

RACES: Beccles Races: 15th & 16th of September.
RACES: Beccles Races postponed to Thursday 18th & Friday 19th of September

WANTED: A youth of respectable character and connections on apprentice in the Grocery Business. Apply Mr

RACES: Beccles Assembly: Tradesman’s Ball on first night of Races.
BENEFIT of the POOR: A Ball at the Assembly Room, Friday 2 January 1801. Rev Bence Sparrow,

Steward. Tickets 5s, Tea & Coffee included. Dancing to begin at 8 pm.

THE POOR: Captain Robert Sparrow of Worlingham Hall has erected an oven in his Parish at which
the neighbouring poor are supplied with rice pudding at 1d a pound; Potatoes at 4s 6d [?] a sack.

James Algar of Beccles supplies his workmen with wheat at reduced price, good mutton at 3d per lb;
THEATRE: Detailed account of alterations. Hindes, manager.
THE POOR: Subscription at Beccles to supply poor with red herrings & potatoes at cheap rate.

QUARTER SESSIONS at Beccles: William Cooper & William Balls convicted of a riot and assault:

FIRE at Malt Kiln of BU Dowson of Geldeston. Beccles 2 Fire Engines arrived and saved corn
Granaries & House

KING’S BIRTHDAY at Beccles: Yeomanry CO Capt R Sparrow; Infantry: Capt T Farr: exercises,
volleys. Dinner at White Lion & King’s Head.
ADVERTISEMENT: Miss Brightly received from London handsome & fashionable assortment of

RACES: Cocking at Beccles 17, 18 & 19 September (Races & one day). Ordinary at Turrell’s, White

Horse at 12. Cocking after Races.
RACES: Beccles already begins to experience good effects of the renewal of the Races. Two very

INSURANCE: Norwich Union Fire Office: Beccles Agent: T Johnson
BECCLES RACES: “One gent had his pocket picked of £135.”

BALL at Beccles Assembly Room in prospect of Happy Peace on 15 Oct. J Smith, Portreeve, Steward.

Tickets 4s of Crowe at Post Office.
KING’S HEAD: JF Barlow entered on above Inn. Neat Post-Chaises with able horses & carefully

driven to any part of the Kingdom.
THE POOR: BU Dowson of Geldeston gives dinner to 160 Poor, for Peace.

DIED at Beccles: “Lord”, alias James Bradnum, well known on turf and at all Hackney races in
Suffolk & Norfolk, aged 40.
EDUCATION: Wanted immediately Usher at Beccles Free School. Salary £30.

SALE: Sam Crowe to sell Heptenstall’s House. “Handsome new-built Brick & Sash etc ... at entrance
to the Town from Yoxford.

ADVERTISEMENT: Celebrated Absledgent? Lotion ... cure of redness, pimples, coarseness etc., on
face, hands or neck. 5s 5d a pint; 2s 9d half. Sold by Horth & Newsom, Beccles. Also Vegetable
Tooth Powder 6d a box. Anti Sechilic Drops Horth & Wales.

POST OFFICE established at Hadleigh. Letters collected every day except Sunday & sent to London.
32 Post offices in Suffolk (including Beccles, Bungay, Lowestoft)
ADVERTISEMENT: William Denny, Carpenter of Beccles.

DIED at Beccles: Charles Leeder, many years Purser in the Navy, son of late Leeder, surgeon of
Beccles.
DIED at BECCLES: John Crisp, Gent, Merchant & Maltster.

WANTED by James Cole, Woollen & Linen Draper, an Assistant. Liberal salary.
ACCIDENT: A shocking accident happened at Beccles on Saturday last as a poor woman was
standing under a wall which was taking down to start work in clearing the bricks, it suddenly gave

way, fell and crushed her to death.
DIED at Beccles: William Verdon, baker, aged 61
ADVERTISEMENT: Ching’s Patent Worm Lozenges recommended by Rev Charles Preston (as

having cured his son). Sold by Horth, Beccles. 5 shillings a box.
INSURANCE:Norwich Union Fire Office: Beccles Agent: T Johnson

SALE: Freehold Estate, Bridge Street, Beccles: Edmund Skipper.
Substantial Dwelling House, Cottage in the Yard in three dwellings, back house, Granary, Slaughter

House, Stable for six horses, hog styes & all other necessary outbuildings for a Butcher in large
business.

ALSO Butcher’s selling shop in Market Place, Cottage adjoining.
DIED at Beccles: Mrs Mary Custance, aged 72. “whose integrity as a servant left her well provided

for on the decease of Rev & Mrs Chase, with whom she served many years.”
DIED: John Dady of Beccles, pump maker.

PEACE: News of Definitive Treaty of Peace arrives at Norwich .. “The mail at Beccles was received
with every demonstration of joy.” The Volunteer Corps commanded by Capt Thomas Farr were

ordered immediately under arms and fired three excellent volleys. The Gents of the Town &
Neighbourhood dined with the Officers of the Corps at the King’s Head Inn. Several barrels of beer

were given to the populace. A grand display of fireworks etc.. The whole concluded with the greatest
harmony, much praise due to Jeremiah Smith, Esq., Portreeve for his friendly attention, which so
much conduced to good order.

BALL at Beccles Assembly Room on Monday 19 April. R Purvis, Potreeve in honour of Peace.
GIFT: Rev B Sparrow one guinea to Norfolk & Norwich Hospital in list of subs mostly 1 or 2
guineas.

PRESENTATION to Curacy of St Michael South Elmham to Rev JFH Bohun by Rev B Sparrow
PORTREEVE: R Purvis sworn in on Thursday se’ennight. Gave elegant Dinner to upwards of 100
gentlemen “at which the uttermost conviviality & harmony prevailed to a late hour.

BEAR BATING at Great Yarmouth in Meadow at Ferry Farm House; 1 shilling (6d to be returned in
liquor). Bowling Green there opened
DIED at BECCLES: J Harmer of the Black Boy, aged 70.

ADVERTISEMENT: John Brown of Beccles returned from London with large amount of fashionable
prints & muslins.
BECCLES QUARTER SESSIONS: John Hindes, William Tuthill & Robert Bean fined 5 shillings

each & Charles Chinery £1 for suffering hogs to go at large in the streets of Beccles
DIED at Beccles on Monday last: Captain Richard Purvis, aged 58, RN & JP.
DIED at BECCLES: John Turrell of Three Pigeons, Puddingmoor, aged 70

DIED at BECCLES: R Harmer, aged 75.
BALL at Beccles in honour of Peace. R Purvis, Portreeve. 5 Shillings

PEACE THANKSGIVING DAY, Beccles: 1,600 tickets enabling bearer to 1 lb of Beef, 3d Loaf & a
quart of Ale. T Rede gave every family peck of coals to cook dinners. Public Celebration Dinners at

King’s Head & White Lion. Illuminations & grand display of Fireworks.
SWINDLE on Beane, baker, of Beccles. Man as farmer sold wheat by sample. Soon afterwards asked

for 7 gns in fast payment. Not heard of since.
DIED at Beccles, Sam King, brazier, aged 59.
KING’S BIRTHDAY Celebrated at Beccles . Bells, flags, etc. Yeomanry commanded by Capt

Robert Sparrow. Capt Thomas Farr paraded in Market Place, fired three vollies. Dinner at White Lion
... Cavalry at King’s Head.
WIFE SELLING: Roberts, a shoemaker of Wrentham, led his wife by a halter to the public market on

Wednesday & sold her to a gardener of the name of Harding for one shilling
DIED Mrs Sparshall, wife of Joseph Sparshall of Beccles died.
ADVERTISEMENT: G Winn, Hair Dresser, Perfumer ... returns from London with fresh fashionable

stock of articles
MARRIAGE: Robert Ward, grocer of Beccles, marries Miss Esther Chittle.
DIED Rev Peter Routh, [formerly Rector of Beccles] died at Bungay aged 79. He was 49 years

Rector of St Peter, South Elmham & 50 years Vicar of Cricklewood, Norfolk.
DIED at Beccles, Augustine Holl, aged 88, formerly seedsman of Norwich
BECCLES RACES on Monday & Tuesday 13th & 14th of September. Hon Mr Vanneck, Major

Wilson, Stewards. Sam Crowe, Clerk of the Course.
RACES: Public Breakfast at the Assembly Room on Tuesday. Ordinaries & Assemblies as usual. A
bell will be fixed upon the Steward’s stand, to warn all persons to keep clear of the Course, previous

to the horses starting.
Cocking at Beccles Races - Gents of Suffolk & Gents of Norwich, Monday & Tuesday. Main of

Cocks at the old established Cock Pit, 21 Mains & 7 Byes, to fight for 5 Guineas per Battle & 25
guineas the odd. Feeders Arnold, Norwich; Clark, Suffolk.

NB a good Ordinary at the Falcon Inn.
SERMON by Rev Bence Sparrow on Sunday last. In a pathetic sermon from the pulpit, lamented the

recent death of Rev Mr Heptinstaal, dissenting minister of that place. An instance of liberality that
conferred on the preacher the highest honour, as a “fellow labourer in Christ’s vineyard.”
RACES at BECCLES: In the Open Plate the favourite broke his shoe, which obliged the jockey to

pull up. Much money lost by this accident. Among the company: Lord & Lady Huntingfield, Lord
Brome & family, Sir John Blois, Joseph Windham, Esq. & a large party.
RACES: “One Gent had his pocket picked of £135”

ADVERTISEMENT: Grocery & Tea Warehouse, Beccles of Robert Chapman, takes Shop &

Premises of Mr Harmer.
INSURANCE: British Fire Insurance: Beccles Agents: Horth & Wales.

SALE of Heptinstaall’s furniture. 6 Days by Sam Crowe. Pictures, Geographical, Astronomical,
Mathematical, Mechanical & Musical Instruments. The Library of nearly 1400 volumes (most in neat

state of preservation.) Very good feather beds and bedding, mahogany dining tables and chairs. 2
Good Kidderminster Carpets ... Pair of good 18” globes by Senea, astronomical clock, solar

microscope, Hardley’s quadrant, Mariner’s compass, variety of microscopes, telescopes,
mathematical instruments, harpsichord, violin and flutes
RIOT at BURGH near Acle over Enclosure. Surveyor & two Constables beaten, wounded & lives

threatened. Party of Light Horse from Norwich ... large & dangerous mob. Riot Act read three times
... ringleaders secured.
LEATHER SELLERS: 24 Curriers & Leather Sellers give notice to Shoe Workers that only 6 months

credit will be allowed (8 from Norwich, 1 each from 12 other places, 2 from Yarmouth & Harleston;
Edward Arnold from Beccles)
MARRIAGE: Mrs Parsley, mistress of the Horse & Groom, marries William Smith, butcher of

London.
MILITIA: Suffolk, 1040; Norfolk, 1209. Ballot. Ages 18 - 45. 5 years. Substitutes from same county
or adjoining parish also 5 gns. Not more than one child. Churchwardens or Overseers may give sum

for Volunteers not exceeding £6 each & make a rate for this.
WEAVERS’ BALL at Beccles on 9 December.
DIED: John Colthorpe of Beccles, butcher, aged 56.

SALE: Sam Crowe to sell Heptinstall’s House “Handsome, new-built ; brick & sash ... at the entrance
to the Town from Yoxford.
ASSIZES at Beccles: Robert Aldred given 1 year in Gaol for illegally removing poor pregnant

woman from Corton to Shipmeadow House.
COUNTY ALMANACKS published, including Suffolk

SOLDIERS: Several Regiments land at Yarmouth & go to Norwich. “The populace seemed anxious
to alleviate the fatigues of the wearied soldiers by every kindness they could bestow; the women and

boys compassionately conducting them to their quarters and bearing their muskets, baggage etc.”
MILITIA: Suffolk 1040, Norfolk 1209. Ballot. Aged 18-45. 5 Years. Substitute for some country or

adjoining parish also 5 guineas. Not more than one child. Churchwarden or Oversees may give sum
for Volunteers not exceeding £6 each and make a rate for this.
DIED at BECCLES: John Colthorpe, Butcher, died aged 56.

SALE: Sam Crowe to sell Heptinstall’s House “Handsome, new-built, brick and sash at entrance to
Town from Yoxford.” Full details on October 16th.?
BALL: Mr Noverre’s Ball at Beccles on 5 December. Tickets 3s 6d.

SALE: Granaries at Beccles to be sold by Sam Crowe “Staithe Garden close by water’s edge” Staithe
Garden close by Water’s edge.

FOOT RACE on Beccles Common between 3 ... Pedestrians, Mr W, Mr M, MJW round the Race
Grounds one and a quarter miles.

ADVERTISEMENT: Boyce Maskell to reopen the Millinery Shop at Beccles.
CORSETS: F Stiles, fancy Stay & Corset Maker.
RACES: Sept 19 & 20. Cocking at Falcon Inn, with Ordinary. Capt Bacon & Frank Morse, Esq,

Stewards. 21 Mains & 7 Byes. 5 gns a Battle & 50 gns the odd.
TELEGRAPH to be erected on top of Castle in Norwich to communicate with Strumpshaw Mill &
thence to Yarmouth Steeple. “Intelligence can be conveyed to Norwich in a few minutes.”

BALL: Novarre’s Ball at Beccles on December 1st (also Balls at Yarmouth & Norwich)

BECCLES ASSEMBLY: Thursday 26 January. Rev John Lewis & Jeremiah Smith.
BECCLES QUARTER SESSIONS: 1 assault, 3 Grand Larceny ... 12 months

2 Petty Larceny 2 months each
BECCLES VOLUNTEERS: under Captain Smith, inspected by Lt Col Sharpe: satisfactory etc
BECCLES ASSEMBLY Friday 2nd March; J Bedingfield, Thomas Farr.

DIED at Beccles Mary Piper, aged 95.
WHITE LION, BECCLES, taken by James Frost
DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS: Among 30 Deputy Lieutenants for Suffolk: Thomas Rede of Beccles;

John Farr of North Cove.
DIED Johnson, schoolmaster & Goffe, returning to Beccles in one-horse chaise, horse took fright,

chaise overturned. Johnson killed, aged 33
BECCLES QUARTER SESSIONS: 2 Cases of Petty Larceny; 13 months

MILLER: Mr King of Beccles, miller, his daughter died
KING’S HEAD: While Mrs Barlow & two of her nieces were preparing confectionery at the King’s

Head, Beccles for a public dinner of the Clergy on the following day, an over-drove ox rushed in,
upset them and their sweetmeats and also knocked down Mr Barlow who the entered ... it then ran
into the Yard and was secured. Only bruises.

MENTION: Jones, blacksmith of Beccles
RECTOR: Rev Bence Sparrow, second son of Robert Sparrow, by Ann his wife, and daughter of
Robert Bence of Henstead ... to use surname of Bence and bear arms of Bence.

ADVERTISEMENT: W & S Godbold offer £100 reward for information in imitation of their
Vegetable Balsam.
SALE: Sam Crowe to sell King’s Head Inn, in possession of Mr Barlow

MENTION: John Gostling, carpenter of Beccles
SALE: Sam Crowe to sell Freehold Estate of MANOR of ROSEHALL & ASHMAN’S: 600 acres.
Occupied by Mr Spalding.

TO BE LET: King’s Head Inn, Beccles.
BECCLES RACES: Wednesday & Thursday 19th & 20th of September. Stewards: Hon W
Wodehouse & Capt Beauchamp Proctor

PAVEMENT: The new pavement at Beccles is complete, the centre of the streets with crown
pavement and the footpaths with flag stones, which has greatly increased the neatness of the Town.
BECCLES RACES: Crowded Assemblies at Races. Fashionable families.

DIED at Beccles: Francis Shreeve, grocer & draper, aged 56.
DANCING: Noverre’s classes begin: Beccles, 10.30 am, Wednesday, 23rd of January

ADVERTISEMENT: Horth & Wales, agents for Sewell’s Black Lead Pencils.
BECCLES QUARTER SESSIONS: One case of Grand Larceny: William Lamb: one year in House

of Correction
SALE: Freehold Messuage in Beccles opposite the King’s Head, now occupied by Miss Howard,
extensive trade in Millinery & Haberdashery many years.

ADVERTISEMENT: Cattermole, Beccles, sells Coleby’s varnish for boats, tops, etc.
SUFFOLK YEOMANRY, 5th TROOP: Robert Sparrow, Esq, to be Captain; Thomas Farr & Robert

Rede lieutenants?, G Bohun, cornet
WORKHOUSE CHILDREN: 31 Children go from Norwich Workhouse to Manchester. Provided

with “suitable quantity of apparel.”
DIED John Richardson, butcher of Beccles, dies on Common

ADVERTISEMENT: New Introduction to Arithmetic sold by Horth & Wales. Also young Ladies
ditto 2s, & introduction to the use of Globes 2s 6d
ADVERTISEMENT: Mr Hook, Grocer of Beccles.

ADVERTISEMENT: Oders for Blomfield’s History of Norfolk - to Messrs Horth & Cattermole at
Beccles. At Bungay Mrs Eaton & Mr Brightly.
SALE: Sam Crowe to sell at White Lion, at Beccles: House with garden & Mill & land of Robt

Watling of Wrentham.
SWINDLER: On Friday last a man offered a horse for sale at the Horse & Groom pub at Beccles. He
asked 18 guineas, but soon dropped to 12. There was suspicion. He decamped without the horse. “a

regular chase took place three miles towards Geldeston. He was frequently in view. Then he induced
some waterman to put him across the river, saying he was pursued for a bastard child, and escaped for
a few hours; they, however, continued the pursuit & took him at St Andrews in Suffolk & he is now

lodged in Beccles Bridewell.”
HOUSE of ILL-FAME: [not Beccles?] Barry Simmons, William & Susan Noble for keeping
notorious house of ill-fame 3 months each & to stand in the pillory 3 times.

MILITIA: 150 Fifeshire Militia marched from Yarmouth to Beccles where they were drawn up
in the Market Place. 8 Recruiting Sergeants present. all 150 volunteers enter 42nd Royal
Highlanders.

BECCLES QUARTER SESSIONS: Simon Storkey, Petty Larceny, 3 months.
James Arnold & Robert Barber Grand Larceny 9 & 2 months in Bidewell

PRESS GANG at Yarmouth. 6 Parties take 300 men from Yarmouth & Gorleston. Greater number
released the next day.

EDUCATION at BUNGAY: Master Wanted: Church of England & graduate. c £130 pa “exclusive of
what money may arise from the pupils.”

INSURANCE: Yarmouth, Norfolk & Suffolk Equitable Fire Office. Beccles Agent: William Barnard.
(20 agents: Bungay, Wrentham, Southwold, Wangford etc)

INSURANCE: Norfolk & Suffolk Fire Office: Beccles Agent: William Barnard.

EDUCATION: Miss Mannell: School at Beccles .. Grammar School foe English & French languages,
Needlwork useful & ornamental.
ADVERTISEMENT: “Beauties of British Prose” sold by Horth & Wells & Cattermole.. “Builders”

now 3s 6d.
SMALLPOX OUTBREAK in Norwich : Two letters supporting vaccination, one from Guyton Jollye
of Loddon.

ADVERTISEMENT: New invented Patent Telima Corsets. The Latest Fashion. 30s. Sold by Mrs B
Primrose
ASYLUM: G Jollye’s Asylum [Loddon]: 1 - 2 guineas a week. Pleasure Ground a mile long.

Enclosed Yard.
LABOURERS at DISS refusal to work for customary wage, Unemployed appeal to Magistrates for
relief. Parish officers told to set them to work. They had to carry bricks in a hod on their shoulders 2

miles from Palgrave to Diss. Soon returned to employment.
CURATE: William Spurdens to Perpetual Curacy of Great Redisham, the gift of Robert Sparrow.
ABSCONDED from the Parish of Great Yarmouth: David Service, a native of Scotland, by trade a

cordwainer, leaving a wife & family chargeable to the Parish. He is about 35 years of age, of a fair
complexion, slender make and has flaxen hair. Whoever will give information of David Service to the
Overseers of Yarmouth shall receive Five Guineas reward on his being apprehended; & whoever

harbours David Service after this notice, will be proceeded against as the law directs.
SALE: Land at Beccles to be sold at King’s Head: All enclosures, viz:

1. The School Piece, or Mill Hill or Satten Pans (12 acres),
2. Bullock-Shed Piece (9 acres)

3. Middle Close or Upper 6 acres,
4. Farrow’s Close or Upper 6 acres: Triangle Piece or Mill Piece (all tree adjoining) ,

Swine’s Green Close or Rigbone Hill ... all but 3 in occupation of Mr Scoles.
BECCLES RACES: Thursday 26 & Friday 27th of September. Besides Gents Purse of £50 on
Thursday & Town Purse £50 on Friday, a Sweepstake, 3 guineas each, 15 gns added by Town, for

horses that have never started for plate, match or sweepstake. The horses to be the property of the
subscribers: Hon Col Harbord, Hon W Wodehouse, Sir Thomas Gooch, FS Gooch, R Wilson, S
Emden, Thomas Farr, GWB Bohun, S Lillistone, MW Suckling, James Reeve, William Carpenter,

John Stapleton. Stewards: TS Gooch, JJ Bedingfield.
ADVERTISEMENT: Horth & Wales also Cattermole of Beccles sell “The Complete Grazier or
Farmers’ & Cattle Dealers Assistant” 10s 6d.

CHILDREN: Mr Nield visits Bury Gaol & Workhouse, where 28 children, several of whom had been
there for 14 years, were “nearly in total ignorance”.
BECCLES RACES: Cocking: Gents of Norfolk & Suffolk. 5 gns a Battle & 25 gns the odd Battle,

Feeders: Suffolk, Balls; Norfolk, Lamb.
BECCLES RACES “numerously attended”
WINDOW TAX: Public acknowledgement of misdemeanour - no prosecution in consequence - of

labourers & their wives “for obstructing & assaulting” the Collectors of Window Tax.
EPITAPH:
“Here lieth Jane Gubbins, whose virtues were such,

That she died lamented, but not much.”
DEATH OF NELSON: “We have received many well written effusions on the subject of the recent

National loss.”
DANCING: Noverre’s Ball at Beccles on Friday 6 December.

SERMON: Appropriate Sermon on Thanksgiving Day by the Rector ... recommended contribution
for benefit of missing seamen in Battle of Trafalgar. Considerable collection at Church Door.

Beccles volunteers offer a day’s pay
THANKSGIVING DAY: Principal Gents dinner at King’s Head ... spledid exhibition of fireworks.
Mr CROWFOOT’S exploit at Kessingland.

EDUCATION: Boarding School, Beccles: Rev Burrows respectfully informs his Friends his School
re-commences Tuesday, 14th Jan. After present recess there will be 3 vacancies for Boarders.

ADVERTISEMENT: Horth & Wales sell Novels. 2 & 3 Vols. 8s to 10s 6d.
Dr CROWFOOT’S exploit: Account given

“May the promulgation of this fact serve as it is intended, the cause of humanity, & incite others to
follow the example.”

Dr Crowfoot’s exploit: further long account. Gentlemen dine at house where was revived & when
men assisting received awards. Address delivered.

MARRIAGE: Mr Buck, fellmonger of Beccles marries Miss Page, only daughter of Page, farmer,
Hardwick.
THEFT: While Sam Tovell & his wife were attending Church £24 - 5s - 0, his whole property was

stolen. Tovell is a labourer of 70 years of age.
ADVERTISEMENT: William Libbis, plumber and glazier
DIED S Walker, tailor of Beccles.

EDUCATION: Mr Burrows’ School re-commences Tues 15 July. Board & English Education 25
guineas per annum. Entrance 1 guinea Latin & Greek by Rev L Girdlestone 5 guineas per annum,
entrance 1 guinea. Drawing, Dancing & French by eminent Masters, 4 gns each & 1 gn entrance.

BECCLES QUARTER SESSIONS: Many cases including John Green the elder & John Green the
younger, pleaded guilty to an indictment for a misdemeanour. Fined £100 each & to find security for
good behaviour for 12 months.

SALE of SHIPWRECK: To be sold by Auction, in small Lots at the Bridge Street Staithe, Beccles:
entire wreck of the Sloop “Providence” 80 Tons.
NORWICH SOCIETY of ARTISTS Exhibition: Monday 11 - Saturday 23 of August. - Tickets 2s 6d.

BECCLES RACES: Monday & Tuesday, 22 & 23 September. Stewards: Hon Col Harbord, Major
Forster, Clerk to the Course: Sam Crowe.
ADVERTISEMENT: Firm of Charles Maplestone, Thomas Butcher, lime business, Beccles,

dissolved. Mr Maplestone and his son to continue.
TO LET: House and old established Blacksmith’s Shop in occupation of William Aldis to be Let.

BECCLES RACES: Account
INSURANCE: Norwich Insurance Office: Beccles Agent: William Barnard

INSURANCE: British Fire Office: Horth & Wales
BENCE BENCE instiuted Rector of Kelsale with Carlton & Thorington, own petition & Rectory of

Beccles presentation of Robert Sparrow.
DANCING: Noverre & Nicholson’s Annual Ball, Thursday 4 December
SALE of OLD GAOL; Sam Crowe to sell on premises materials of OLD GAOL at Beccles. 15,000

bricks, 6,000 flat tiles, 9 large oak & fir beans, large quantity of joists, oak & fir doors, windows, iron
& lead, etc
BECCLES ASSEMBLY: Edmund Bacon & Rev Richard Gooch, Stewards. Profits of expenses of

INSTIUTE for the BLIND: Subscriptions: Robert Sparrow 5 gns.
DRAWING: Mr Dixon’s School for Drawing, Beccles, Wednesday, 28 January “Private Families

attended.”
EDUCATION: Free School at Beccles reopens Tuesday 20 January. Entrance 1 gn, Board & Tuition

25 gns pa.
COMMISSIONERS: Gillingham Enclosure: Robert Boyder & John Crowfoot
DIED: Richard Arnold (Little Dick”), renowned smuggler, died at Wickham Market. Vicissitudes of

fortune: Sentence of death for firing into a Revenue Cutter, changed to 2 years hard on hulks.
SALE: House & Premises at Beccles in upper end of Old Market. [Ravensmere House] Late Le Grice
Brown Bohun, deceased.: Vestibule, 2 Parlours, Study, good Kitchen, Laundry, Back House,

Pantries, Store Rooms, Cellerage, 5 good Sleeping Rooms, Attics, Garden, Stables & Coach House.
NB These Premises are well adapted for a good Boarding School
WEATHER: Terrible Gale at Yarmouth. Many perish.

DIED at Beccles, Mrs Crisp, wife of Crisp, tallow chandler
DIED at Beccles: Miss [Mary] Page, aged 13, daughter of Rev [Robert Leman] Page
DIED at Beccles: Wife of Mr Lyon, carpenter

BOOKS: Randall’s Collection of Designs for Villas, Casinos, Mansions, Lodges & Cottages in the
Grecian, Gothic & Castle styles ... 34 large quarto plates £2 12s 6d. & 8 other similar books
“Country Gent’s Architect ... designs for Farmhouses, Farm Yards, Cottages, Barns, Stables, Brew

Houses, etc.
ADVERTISEMENT: L Buck at present with eminent Milliners & Fancy Dress-Maker in London,

takes House in Beccles opposite the Church. To open in the early summer.
THEATRE at Beccles; 4 Nights only: Wednesday to Saturday, 29 April- 2 May

“Will be presented one of the most splendid spectacles that has ever been exhibited out of the
Metropolis: Moving Panorama of the Funeral Honours, Ceremonies & the magnificent procession,

both by water & Land observed to commemmorate our late Gallant Hero LORD VISCOUNT
NELSON, with dancing by a child only 8 years old. The whole to conclude with a Grand Display of

Artificial Fireworks, without smoke or Gunpowder. Boxes 2s, Pit 1s, Gallery 6d, 7 pm..
SALE: Sam Crowe to sell at King’s Head Freehold Estate, upper end of Saltgate, late Residence of

Samuel Creed, deceased and the other part occupied by Boyce Maskell, upholsterer, large warehouse,
detached, etc.
EDUCATION?: Lady living near Beccles has arranged to take 6 young ladies aged 6 - 14.

MARRIAGE: Mr Crickmay, Schoolmaster of Beccles marries Miss Burrell of Beccles.
EDUCATION: Mr Burrows’ School reopens Tuesday 21 July. 2 Vacancies for Boarders.
QUARTER SESSIONS at Beccles: James Roberts, stealing 36 hens’ eggs: 4 months

James Fiske assaulting the Keeper of the House of Industry: 1 month
DIED: J[ames] Mann of Beccles, Whitesmith [aged 37]
RACES: Wed & Thurs 23, 24 Sep. Nicholas Bacon & Vincent E Eyre, Stewards.. “Fully &

fashionably attended”.
DANCING: Mr Eager, Music & Dancing Master, Yarmouth: “Begs leave to announce to the Ladies
& Gents of Beccles etc and its vicinity .”A Grand Concert & Ball at the Assembly Room, including

Gardell’s Favourite Minuet and Gavot by Mr Eager & Miss Eager, who is only five years old, on
Friday, 25 September: 4s
DANCING: Mr Eager to teach Dancing from Michaelmas on Fridays at 4 pm in Assembly Room ... a

year’s tuition at something less than his competitors charge for 3 quarters.
ADVERTISEMENT: Horth & Wales sell British Restorative Tooth Powder.
ADVERTISEMENT: Sold by Horth & Co: Crosby’s Farmers’ Memorandum Book, The State of

France 1s; Comic Tales 1s; New Introduction to Bee Keeping, Pocket Gazetteer of England & Wales
5s; English Musical Repository; Builders’ New Prize Book, New History of England 5s;

DANCING: Noverre & Nicholson’s Ball, Beccles, Thursday 19 November.
ASSEMBLY at Beccles: Edmund Bacon, Rev Richard Gooch 5s; Tea, Coffee, Music

ADVERTISEMENT: Norfolk & Norwich Memorandum Book sold by Cattermole, Beccles
CLERGY in Norwich Diocese to send Bishop list of Schools, all details

ADVERTISEMENT: Bowler’s Universal Essence for Soups & Gravies. 5/s pint bottle sold by
Chapman, Beccles
QUARTER SESSIONS at Beccles: 5 cases. Thomas Philips, Esq of challenging Mr Thurlett of

Bardwell and spitting in his face. Fined £5
DANCING: Novere & Nicholson’s Academy Yarmouth & Beccles 27th January.

FOOTPADS: Several stories of Footpads; Gent returning from Bungay to Beccles, in a gig, with his
wife, 2 men darted out from a hedge; a good horse, so he escaped.

INSURANCE: Equitable Insurance: Beccles Agent: Harmer
LEGAL: Case of Eden v Hennel: Former had supplied gloves from London to Hennel when latter
kept shop at Beccles 1798-99 to the value of £60. Hennel left Beccles without paying. Amount

reduced to £42 - 10s (Mr Garrow defended)
BANKRUPT: Boyce Maskell, upholsterer, dealer and chapman. Meeting of creditors at King’s Head.
Boyce Maskell entitled, through his wife to £1200 & £1500 bequeathed to his wife by William

Creed, deceased.
TURNPIKE: “The high Turnpike road from London to Yarmouth through Beccles.”
POACHERS: Reflection on Poachers condemned to death. Sympathy for them.

PEAL of 10 BELLS to be o0pened at Yarmouth by company drawn from Yarmouth & Beccles
ringers, “but from insufficient practice, they did not perfectly succeed.”
DIED: John Brooks of Beccles, leather cutter

WANTED: 15 or 20 Bricklayers; Wages paid 17s per week.
SURGEONS WANTED: Two Surgeons required for attendance at the Shipmeadow House of
Industry, one to reside in Beccles and one in Bungay.

FAIR: Beccles Middle Fair: Monday July 11. Stock of every kind
DIED: John Lincoln, late of Beccles, Merchant, died.
BOOK: Odes of Pindar translated by Rev JL Girdlestone, Master of Beccles Grammar School. One

Guinea, to be paid on delivery. Print by subscription.
DIED: Mrs Lodington, relict of Rev J Lodington died at Beccles aged 94.

LEGAL: Mary Pitchers fined at Beccles £20 for selling ale without licence on Bungay Fair Day..
Benjamin Pipe fined £10 for refusing to give evidence on this. (Before Sparrow & Farr)

SALE of FURNITURE: To be sold by Auction by Sam Crowe on Wednesday, 10 August & the
following day at the House of the late Mrs Loddington of Beccles:

The Household Furniture comprising: 6 good feather Beds, Bedsteads & Hangings & Bedding;
Mahogany & other Tables, Mahogany Chairs, Chests of Drawers, Bureau & Book Case, Cabinets,

Pier & Dressing Glasses, 2 Coppers, Clock, small table Clock, Carpets, good Household Linen,
Books, with Kitchen backhouse & brewing Utensils, a quantity of glass Bottles, and various other

useful Furniture. The Sale to begin each morning at 10 o’clock.
SALE of LAND: Sometime in the month of August at the White Lion: A very desirable Estate in
Beccles called the Fair Fields, consisting of about 34 acres of Arable Land in the highest state of

cultivation, now in the occupation of Miss Donn, the Proprietor.
HUMANE SOCIETY MEETING of Suffolk meeting at Lowestoft. Sparrow in Chair. Medal to WH
Crowfoot, founder of the Society, Capt Manby etc ofLowestoft. Lifboat launched & tested. Sparrow

expressed to consolidate Lifeboat & Society.
RACES: September 20 & 21. A Apchen? , H Bence, Stewards. Assembly the First Night.
Tradesmen’s Ball the Second

RACES: Account of Races: Crowded Assembly. Excellent Sport at Cocking. Chipperfield’s Bowling
Green crowded.

LEMAN SCHOOL: Advert for School Assistant fro Mr Burrows, Boarding School, Beccles
DEATH of Mrs Lodington aged 84 in London aunt to Captain Royal Marines, formerly of Beccles
Volunteers, “on a recent Noble Marriage”.

DANCING: Noverre & Nicholson Beccles
THEATRE: Fisher & Scraggs Co at Beccles. By desire o