Chamberlain—Mr. Robert B. Fenn.
Churchwardens—I. Preston, Esq. and Mr. J. T. Bracey.
Auditors—G. Bateman, Esq., F. R. Reynolds, Esq., Mr. I. Preston, and Mr. E. Youell.
Collectors—Charles Costerton, Esq., and Mr. James Clarke.
Muragers—Charles Symonds and Charles J. Palmer, Esqs.
Dec. 9th.—A meeting had been held to petition the legislature for a Reform in Parliament. The Mayor (E. Preston, Esq., in the chair), Mr. Alderman Barth, Mr. S. Cobb, John Shelley, Esq., and John Brightwen, Esq., took part in the proceedings.
Dec. 23rd.—The self-styled Gorleston and Southtown Corporation dissolved, and formed itself into the “Hand in Hand Friendly Society,” and it was ordered that “the regalia of the late Corporation should be sold and the money arising therefrom distributed among the poor of the parish.”
1831.
Feb. 10th—The Gorleston and Southtown Magazine had been issued in weekly numbers or monthly parts, and contained a biographical notice of Mr. Dawson Turner, F.S.A., &c.
Feb. 17th.—Amongst the vessels lost and driven ashore by the then late gales were the Alfred (Simmonds), the Flora, the Juno (Moss), the Elizabeth and Mary Welch (Amis), and the Anson (Garwood).