Benjamin Cowper, Esq., re-elected, with G. Hardware, Esq., to serve in Parliament. 1624. Artillery yard on the site of present Unitarian Chapel. 1625. Dec. 29th. Poor people were ordered not to marry unless sanctioned in writing by the Chief Alderman and Chief Constable. Manship, who wrote the “History of Great Yarmouth,” died. He was Town Clerk in 1579. Sir John Corbet and E. Owner, Esq., elected to Parliament; and in the same year Sir John was re-elected with Thomas Johnson, Esq. Fish Market, on the site of the present, covered in and paved. Covering removed in 1844. 1626. Robert Sydney, Earl of Leicester, K.G., High Steward of the Borough. 1626. Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, died. He was a native of Yarmouth, and one of the prelates employed by James I. in the new translation of the Bible. 1627. Sir John Wentworth and Miles Corbet, Esq., elected to Parliament. 1628. The town obtained leave to export 1,000 lasts of herrings, which continued till 1637, when £50 per annum was demanded by the Trinity for 10 years, and afterwards for 40 years. 1629. Twelve hundred householders in Yarmouth. Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, K.G., High Steward of the Borough. 1631. Fishing with a trawl prohibited by proclamation. £1 a quarter paid by the town to the Postmaster of Ipswich for carrying letters to and from Yarmouth for London. 1632. Tobacco allowed only to be retailed in this town by one apothecary, six grocers, two hosiers, one merchant, and a chairmaker. June 26th. Four Frenchmen executed for murdering Nicholas Harpley. 1633. Aldermen’s wives compelled to wear velvet hats up to this date, when the ordinance was annulled. 1637. Thirty-four brewing-houses in Yarmouth. 1639. Miles Corbet, Esq., re-elected, with Edward Owner, Esq., as members of Parliament. The East and West Flegg granted to the family of Cornwallis. 1642. Oct. 12th. A ship, with 140 armed soldiers on board, through stress of weather, put into Yarmouth port; she was seized by the townsmen, and her crew and soldiers imprisoned on behalf of the Parliament. 1642. Sept. Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral, visited Yarmouth, and was entertained by the Corporation. Dec. 23rd. A rate of £1,200 assessed upon the inhabitants for the fortifications. The town collected £136 for the relief of distressed subjects in Ireland. 1643. Feb. Lord Grey of Werke required Yarmouth to send 80 dragoons to Cambridge. 1644. The number of “tippling-houses” increased to 80, besides great inns and taverns; and in 1705 augmented to 120. Letters between Yarmouth and London only passed once a week. Twenty Iceland fishing barques belonging to Yarmouth merchants taken by pirates, only three escaping. 1645. Additional fortifications made. Breastworks and platforms built at the seaside, and ordnance mounted on them. The Earl of Lauderdale visited Yarmouth, and was sumptuously entertained at the town’s expense.