The Charity School erected in the Market Place by a few benevolent persons; and in 1724 the Corporation built two large rooms. First Town Hall built at a cost of £880. (See April 20th, 1880, and May 31st, 1882.) 1715. Mayors and Justices allowed to wear different gowns to those of other Corporate members. St. George’s Episcopal Chapel finished building. The contractors were Messrs. Price and Son, who built the Town Hall. The Chapel was consecrated Dec. 8th, 1815. Cost £3,800. South Denes laid out as a race-course by John Holdrich and other innkeepers of Yarmouth; but annual races not held till 1810. Easter Fair held on Good Friday until this date, when the Corporation ordered it to take place on the Friday following. Geo. England, Esq., and the Hon. Horatio Townshend returned to Parliament. 1718. It was agreed that the two last and every succeeding Mayor should receive £100 each, in lieu of the fishing thousand. The Vicar’s house built by the Corporation. 1721. An Act passed enforcing half the amount of ordinary duties on the Haven to be expended in improving the Haven, Piers, and Jetties; one-fourth part to be expended in deepening and cleansing the three rivers, and repairing the bridge and public quays at Yarmouth; and the remaining fourth part in cleansing and deepening Breydon. 1722. Oct. 2nd. William Spooner, Bailiff, and afterwards Mayor, died, aged 67 years. Hon. Charles Townshend and Hon. Horatio Walpole returned to Parliament. The latter created a Baronet in 1756. 1723. Guildhall, near St. Nicholas’ Church, pulled down and replaced by an unsightly building, where Corporate assemblies were held till 1835. 1724. The Charity School for 50 boys and 30 girls was built by subscription. (See, 1713). Jan. 28th. James Artis, Esq., Bailiff, Mayor, and Captain of Fusiliers, died, aged 68 years. 1724. Corbridge published his “West Prospect of Yarmouth.” Buck published one in 1741; and Laing’s Map came out in 1867. 1726. July 14th. Mrs. Bridget Bendish, granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell, died at Southtown. 1727. Hon. W. Townshend and Hon. Horatio Walpole returned to Parliament. The _Norwich Mercury_ of this date says:—“The persons appointed for choosing a Mayor for the town of Great Yarmouth (according to custom) were locked up in a room on Tuesday last at 12 o’clock, and did not determine the election till 9 o’clock on Thursday morning, when Samuel Artis, Esq., a gentleman of known loyalty and integrity, was declared Mayor-Elect for the year ensuing, to the great disappointment of the Tories.” 1729. The Pillory removed. £50 raised by the town for the relief of the English prisoners at Mequinez. 1730. July. A remarkable storm and tempest; hailstones of prodigious magnitude fell. 1732 Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, K.G., High Steward of the Borough. 1733.