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.