The following pages are a reprint of extracts from the file of the Norwich Mercury, which, under the heading of “Yarmouth Notes,” have recently appeared in the columns of the Yarmouth Mercury; and in consequence of a very generally expressed wish on the part of the public, re-appear in the present form.

At the time these notices of Yarmouth News appeared in the Norwich Mercury, that journal was the organ of the old Whig party, and such of them, as treat of politics, being doubtless tinged by the party feeling of the Editor, should be so taken and read.

The idea of collating this matter suggested itself to the compiler upon the occasion of Geo. Wm. Darby Palmer-Kerrison, Esq., presenting the file of the Norwich Mercury, (then in his Library), but which had been preserved by the late Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq., to the Yarmouth Free Library, and it is hoped that this action will not only prove of some entertainment and amusement to the reader, but also will be of service to any person who may, in the future, deal with local events as affecting the history of the borough of Great Yarmouth.

F. D. P.

Hall Quay,
December, 1889.

TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
CHARLES LORD SUFFIELD,
P.C., K.C.B., &c, &c.

The following pages, relating to a Town, in the welfare of which his Lordship and his noble forefathers have taken so deep an interest for many years, are with his permission, inscribed by

HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.

Great Yarmouth,
December, 1889.