Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood: from A.D. 46 to 1884Finch-Crisp, William
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Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood: from A.D. 46 to 1884
Finch-Crisp, William
Great Yarmouth (England) -- History
The Lancasterian or British School erected; enlarged in 1861.
William III. landed at the Jetty.
North Mayo Militia left the town, and the Wexford Militia the following
year.
Sept. 3rd. John Hannah (70) tried at the Yarmouth Sessions for the
murder of Elizabeth, his wife, he being the last man executed in the town
for murder. A bill issued, with the imprint of Clark, Broad Row,
Yarmouth, read as follows: “Monday Morning, Sept. 6th, at about 11
o’clock. Everything being ready, the prisoner, attended by the gaoler
and a number of constables, with a great concourse of spectators, moved
from the Gaol at 11.15. They went at a slow pace, and at the entrance of
Regent Street were joined by the Mayor and other Borough Officers. It
was past 12 o’clock when the prisoner arrived at the place of execution;
on his way thither he was perfectly composed, turning from one side to
the other, viewing the populace. After ascending the scaffold, he spent
some time in prayer, and when the hangman had placed the rope round his
neck, he was asked if he had anything farther to say. He then confessed
as follows: ‘That he was the murderer of his wife by strangling her with
his hands, and not with a rope, as had been stated; he said they had
lived a very uncomfortable life for many years past, owing to his wife
giving her company to other men, which was the cause of his committing
the murder.’ The instant before being turned off, he particularly
requested to see his daughter, when he was informed it was not possible,
as she was confined in Bedlam; he also desired the gaoler to look under
the step of the cell, and he would there find four shillings and
sixpence. A signal was then given, and the unhappy man was immediately
launched into eternity. The body, after hanging the usual time, was
delivered to the surgeons for dissection. The gaoler, on his return,
found the money as described in the cell.”
1814.
July 6th. Peace proclaimed at Yarmouth; Mayor and Corporation went in
procession, and at night the town was illuminated.
The Duke of Clarence (afterwards King William IV.), accompanied by his
Duchess (Queen Adelaide), landed at Yarmouth, and stayed one night at the
“Angel Hotel.”
March 11th. Henry Joddrell, Esq., Bayfield Hall, many years Recorder and
Representative of Yarmouth, Chairman of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions,
died in London.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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