LORD BURLEIGH, LORD LINCOLN, LORD SUSSEX, LORD WARWICK, LORD LEICESTER, LORD HUNSDON, SIR FRANCIS KNOLLY’S, SIR JAMES CROFTE, SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM, SIR WALTER MILDMAY; T. WILSON, Secretary. Afterwards in the year 1616 we find the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth petitioning for leave to extend their jurisdiction, or power, on the west side of the haven; but it does not appear, that they ever acquired any authority there till the 20th of Charles II., when Southtown was incorporated with Great Yarmouth; for about that time Sir Robert Paston, being desirous of adjusting the differences which had for so many years subsisted between the town of Great Yarmouth and Little Yarmouth (or Southtown) and Gorleston, brought a bill into the House of Commons in the year 1664, for incorporating the former with Southtown, which was accordingly effected. And, again, in the 36th of Charles II. a new charter was granted to Great Yarmouth, wherein the said incorporation was confirmed, and other grants and privileges subjoined; and was afterwards confirmed again by another charter, granted in the reign of Queen Anne, and remains incorporated to this day. It appears from what has been premised, that this island, as part of the ancient demesne of the crown, was held in the time of Edward the Confessor, by Earl Guert; in the time of William the Conqueror, by Earl Warren; {12a} and in the time of Henry III., by Roger Fitz-Osbert {12b} afterwards it descended to the Baliols; but, upon John de Baliol’s renouncing his homage to Edward I. and thereby forfeiting all his English estates, it again reverted to the crown, and king Edward I. in the 34th year of his reign gave the island to his nephew John de Britainy, earl of Richmond, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth the greatest part of the island belonged to Sir Henry Jerningham {12c} In the reign of Charles II. the part contiguous to Gorleston was in the hands of Sir Robert Paston, knight.