Philip Aylmer is owner of 24-26 Princes Street/1-2 Tombland Alley.
Ann(e) Burgess owns 22 and 20/Princes Inn
1701 Anne Burgess, widow of William Burgess, carpenter, who died in 1689, dies. The Princes Inn messuage was then passed on to William’s kinsman, Peter Burgess. Peter Burgess was a clergyman in Whinburgh.
1714 Election – Robert Bene and Richard Berney. Freeholders in St George Tombland: Matthew Amyas Doctor of Physick. Peter Burgess is in The Close.
1714 Election – Waller Bacon and Robert Britiff (Whig). Freeholders: Henry Davy Esq, Isaac Park, James Scottow worsted weaver, James Wormsley. All voted for both candidates. Bacon won St George Tombland 61 to 58 votes.
1724 Robert Burgess, carpenter, inherited property in St George Tombland from another Robert Burgess, also a carpenter, and sold one or more of his tenements to Thomas Tanner, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich. Tanner later became bishop of St Asaph, in 1732, and moved away from Norwich.
1727 George II reign begins
1727 Philip Aylmer dies – Francis, his son, inherits all property. Possibly sells off part of it, to the Harveys, as is living elsewhere. Memorial in St George’s Tombland.
1728 Peter Burgess dies. The executors of his will “paid the city for a messuage, called Prince’s Inn in Tombland, granted to Augustine Steward, 30th Henry VIII (1538); also for a tenement sometime Dr Capps’, now annexed to said Inn” He left his St George Tombland property to his son Robert Burgess, a woolcomber.
1734 Election. Candidates: Sir Edward Ward, Bart. Miles Branthwayt, esq (Tory, Jacobite – appears twice); Horatio Walpole (Whig), Waller Bacon (Whig), Thomas Vere. Freeholders in St George Tombland include Robert Burgesse/Burghes (Ward & Branthwayt), Thomas Cater merchant (Ward), Thomas Cooke Esq (Walpole, Bacon and Branthwayt), Samuel Johnson Esq (Walpole, Bacon and Vere), John Johnson (Ward, Bacon and Branthwayt), Thomas Warkhouse Esq (Ward and Branthwayt). John Howes is a St George Tombland freeholder but resident in St Giles. Gibbs Leeds, carpenter, freeman (Ward, Branthwayt), Samuel Leeds, sieve maker, Walpole, Bacon and Vere. Robert Marsh Esq Walpole, Bacon, Vere. Thomas Scottow gent freeholder in St Peter Parmentergate (Ward, Branthwayt, Vere). Result: Ward 38, Branthwayt 34, Walpole 50, Bacon 47, Branthwayt #2 29, Vere 60
1738 Revd John Tanner, Thomas Tanner’s younger brother and executor of Thomas Tanner’s will pays £50 to Burgesse as an exemplification of recovery, relating to 12 messuages in the parish of St George Tombland. Robert Harvey (who had just become Mayor of Norwich and was a Tory) then paid Robert Burgesse £175 for the Prince’s Inn messuage and all other property of Burgesse in Norwich, and £200 to Rev John Tanner of Lowestoft. He then passed on his St George Tombland properties to his son Robert Harvey junior (1730-1816) who was Magistrate, Sheriff in 1766 and Mayor twice in 1770 and 1800.
1756 Octagon Presbyterian chapel built on Colegate. Architect Thomas Ivory.
1758 – Francis Aylmer dies. His only child Elizabeth, aged 12, inherits all his property. Some of it may have been sold to the Harveys.
1760 George III reign begins
1761 Election – candidates Harbord Harbord (conservative Whig), Edward Bacon (son of Waller Bacon, Whig. Tory interest but Walpole supporting), Robert Harvey, Nockold Thompson (dissenter). Freeholders in St George Tombland – Samuel Johnson Esq (Harbord and Bacon), Nehemiah Lodge, gentleman (Harbord and Bacon). Freemen – Charles Leeds, worsted weaver, Gibbs Leeds worsted weaver, Gibbs Leeds sieve maker. (all voted for Harbord, Gibbs Leeds sieve maker and Charles Leeds voted for Harvey, Gibbs Leeds WW voted for Thompson), Robert Marsh Esq Alderman (Harbord and Bacon). Result Harbord 50, Bacon 40, Harvey 16, Thompson 22.
1763 – licence granted to John Wright, a labourer, for Princes Inn
Robert Harvey seems to have sold 24-26 Princes Street to Robert Marsh or maybe to his nephew Charles Marsh.
1766 and 1768 Excise Office marked on Hungate Street on King’s New Plan, to the east of Princes Inn alley. Princes Inn Lane (now Waggon and Horses Lane) renamed Elm Lane.
1768 Election – Freeholders of St George Tombland – John Vere (voted for Harbord Harbord (a conservative Whig, sitting MP) and Edward Bacon (Tory)). Freemen Charles Leeds, coachmaker, Gibbs Leeds and Gibbs Leeds junior, sieve makers all vote for Whig candidate Thomas Beevor. Outcry by 500 Norwich freemen that Harbord and Bacon had conspired to keep Beevor out.
1768 Election – candidates: Harbord (conservative Whig), Bacon (Tory), Beevor (independent/Whig). freeholders in St George Tombland – John Vere (Harbord and Bacon). Charles Leeds coachman (Beevor), Gibbs Leeds senior and junior (Harbord and Bacon). Robert Marsh carrier (Harbord and Bacon). Result: Harbord 59, Bacon 55, Beevor 18
1769 John Wesley visits Norwich – opens Cherry Lane chapel
1771 Robert Marsh Esq, former Mayor of Norwich, dies at the age of 92, and leaves his messuages and tenements in St George Tombland to his nephew, Charles. He left instructions in his will that he should be buried at St George Tombland, where he was also baptized.
1774 John Ollyett, tailor, named in respect of the Princes Inn alehouse in the Poor Rate book. John Ollyett marries widow of Robert Woodhouse.
1778 – Advertisement for the Norwich and Yarmouth machines – from the Black Horse in Tombland. Genteel coaches and post chaises to be had at John Howes‘s by St George Tombland Church
1779 Edward Peterson & Co “importers of Spirituous Liquors” announce that they were taking over a warehouse next to the excise office – this may have been the hall at the back of number 26, which would at that time have been a separate building with its own doorway onto Tombland Alley.
1780 Supervisor of excise appears on electoral roll for St George Tombland
1780 Election – candidates Harbord Harbord (Whig) and Edward Bacon (Tory – had changed sides), John Thurlow (Tory), William Windham (Whig). Freeholders – Stephen Burrell hot presser voted Bacon and Thurlow. Freemen Charles Leeds coachman, Gibbs Leeds senior and junior, sieve makers all voted Harbord and Windham.
1780 August – an advertisement was placed by Thomas Blake senior and junior, for a public house, to be let, late the Six Bells, and now the Horse and Groom, with the Dwelling house adjoining, situated in St George’s of Tombland, and now in the Occupation of Mr James Beevor, or his undertenants.
1783 Chase’s Norwich Directory records a Hungate-street and an Excise Office Street.
Hungate Street:
- 2 Robert Elwin, Baker
- 3 William Norris Esq
- 4 John Fox, Plumber, Glazier and Painter
- 11 James Brunton, baker
- 12 Charles Morley, throwsterer
- 13 John Aldred, wine merchant
- 17 Meen and Fair, mantua makers
- 18 John Howes, hackney coach master
- 19 Mrs Gilbert
- 20 Mrs Berney
- 22 Edward Chittock
- 23 Gibbs Leeds, Sievemaker
- 25 Captain Gordon
- 26 Rev Thomas Price (at St Peter Hungate)
- Michael Gardiner, Taylor
Excise Office Street
- 1 Mrs Riches, Milliner and Haberdasher
- 2 John Wells, dwelling house
- 4 John Syer staymaker
- 8 Mrs Peterson boarding school for young ladies
- 9 Mrs Meen
- 10 John Snelgrove, collector of His Majesty’s excise (possibly 24 Princes St)
- 11 John Snelgrove, collector of His Majesty’s excise – office (possibly 26 Princes St)
- 12 Patent Ornament Manufactory
- 13 Mrs Garland, robe maker
- 14 Peckover and Wells, Merchants
- 15 Mrs Lany
- John Vere, Esq; No. 231, King street
1784 Norwich Public Library instituted.
1784 Election – Bacon has died. Candidates were Sir Harbord Harbord (Whig), Henry Hobart (Tory), William Windham (Whig). Harbord 44, Hobart 21, Windham 19. Harbord and Windham elected. Freeholders in St George Tombland – Thomas Blake Junior gent (H & H), Paul Colombine gent (H&H), Thomas Emerson, gent, (H&H), John Vere Esq, (Harbord and Windham). Not freeholders – Robert Marsh, carrier, Harbord and Windham. Gibbs Leeds and Charles Leeds senior and junior – Harbord and Windham.
1786 Election – Harbord had become Lord Suffield. Hon Henry Hobart of Intwood (Tory) vs Sir Thomas Beevor of Hethel (Whig). St George Tombland voted for Hobart 25 to 21 votes. Freeholders – MJ Armstrong (H), Gent, Thomas Blake, Gent (H), Edward Browne worsted weaver (H), Richard Stevenson worsted weaver (B). Also Robert Marsh, gent (B), John Vere Esq (B). Freemen included Gibbs Leeds sieve maker (B), Charles Leeds senior (B) and junior coachmen (B). Contested election, resulting in a riot and Hobart elected. Election then declared void due to ineligible votes.
1787 Election (28 Beevor to 24 Hobart in St George Tombland). Hobart elected. Freeholders – MJ Armstrong gent freeholder St Martin at Palace Plain (H), Thomas Blake junior, gent freeholder St George Tombland, (H), Edward Browne worsted weaver, freeholder St George Tombland (H), Stephen Burrell hot presser, freeholder St George Tombland (H), Thomas Fabb carpenter, freeholder St George Tombland, (H), Thomas Maltby gent, freeholder in Heigham (B), Richard Stevenson, worsted weaver freeholder in St George Tombland (B), Thomas Symonds, worsted weaver, freeholder St Martin, (H), John Vere Esq. freeholder St George Tombland (B), Freemen Gibbs Leeds and the two Charles Leeds (B), Robert Marsh London Carrier (B)
1789 Charles Marsh dies and is buried at St George Tombland.
1789 John Snelgrove moved to Hereford, succeeded by Daniel Ritson.
1789 – Sale announced in Norfolk Chronicle, presumably of Charles Marsh‘s estate. “To be SOLD by Private Contract, An eligible ESTATE, convenient and airy situation in St. Peter’s of Hungate and St. George’s Tombland, in Norwich consisting of a commodious dwelling-house, in the occupation of Mr. John Aldred, with suitable offices, stable, large paved yard, walled-in garden, compting-house, extensive warehouses and work-rooms, and two tenements adjoining, all in excellent repair. A DWELLING-HOUSE, the occupation of Edward Lark, called the Coopers, with good cellars, let to Mr. John Day, Also a DWELLING-HOUSE, in the Occupation of Mr. John Howse with a large yard, stable for twelve horses, hay-chambers, granary, garden, and tenement adjoining, good repair.”
1789 – John Howes becomes owner of Princes Inn messuage – coach master, who used to run the Norwich and Yarmouth machines.
1790 Charles Marsh‘s estate is put up for auction, including Snelgrove’s former residence and office, described as “a dwelling house and garden, with a large store cellar” with a yearly rent of £33.
1790 John Aldred’s house up for sale again, described as being in St Peter Hungate.
1790 Election – Henry Hobart (Tory), William Windham (Whig), Thomas Beevor (Whig). Freeholders – John Attow stone mason (HW), Edward Brown worsted weaver (B), Stephen Burrell (1783 – Hotpresser, No. 10, Tombland, W), Thomas Fabb carpenter (H), Thomas Maltby merchant (HW), John Morphew esq (1783 Attorney, No. 1, Blue Boar-lane, King-street HB), Richard Stevens worsted weaver (W). Freemen – two Gibbs Leeds, two Charles Leeds, Jonathan Leeds stone mason, (all W) Gibbs Leeds coachman in St Peter Hungate. Robert Marsh, carrier, (W). Result – Hobart 39, Windham 31, Beevor 13. Hobart and Windham elected.
1792 French Revolutionary wars begin
1796 Election – Henry Hobart (Tory), William Windham (Whig), Bartlett Gurney (opposition/radical). Freeholders – Thomas Blake jun (HW), Daniel Coppin painter (Copping Daniel, House Painter, No. 11, St. Martin’s-lane HW), Thomas Fabb carpenter (HW), Sylas Neville M.D. (HW), WC Pillans esq (HW), Rev Philip Pyle, clerk, (HW), Richard Stephens worsted weaver (G), John Symonds, gardener, (HG), William Utten, gent (HW). Not Freeholders – Gibbs, Charles and Jonathan Leeds all vote HW. John Howes coach master voted HW. Result Hobart 41, Windham 39, Gurney 10
Map: Hochstetter, 1798. Elm Lane now Elm Hill Lane (now Waggon and Horses Lane)
1798 Land Tax Redemption
- William Cooch Pillans Esq, proprietor (and occupier 3 Tombland in 1802)
- Thomas Blake (proprietor, occupied by Mary Lany 15 Excise Office St in 1783) – 1783 Attorney at Law, No. 10, Red Well Plain
- Paul Colombine D.D. (proprietor and occupier – 9 Tombland 1783, 10 Tombland in 1802)
- Robert Harvey (occupied by Captain William Gordon, 21 Hungate in 1802, 25 Hungate Street 1783)
- Mrs Howes – occupied by Bolton and Arthur Ladell
- James Parkerson – occupied by John C Parkerson (13 King Street 1783, 9 Hungate Street 1802)
- Rand Hewett – occupied by himself – Samson & Hercules Court in 1802. Woolcomber 1783
- Edward Squire – occupied by himself
- Daniel Chettleburgh – occupied by Rebecca Sutton
- Mrs Freeman – occupied by Mary Laney
- Mrs Foster – occupied by herself
- Thomas Fabb – occupied by himself
- Thomas Blake – occupied by Roger Kitson (writing master, 3 St Andrews’ Plain in 1802)
- James Alric – occupied by himself (1783 No. 2, Tombland)
- Mrs Aylmer (Elizabeth Aylmer?) occupied by Denn Greenfield.
1799
Election: John Frere of Roydon and Robert Fellowes of Shotesham (Whig). Freeholders – Thomas Blake junior (Fre), Thomas Fabb (Fre), Joseph Hipkins baker (Fel), William Cooch Pillans, Gent (Fr) Rev Philip Stannard (Fel), Richard Stevens (Fel), Benjamin Sword coachman (Fr) (6 King Street in 1802). Edward Squire (1 Tombland and King Street, corn merchant in 1802) (Fr). Not freeholders – Gibbs Leeds, Jonathan Leeds, Charles Leeds, Robert Marsh all voted Fellowes. John Howes voted Frere. Result 21 Frere, 15 Fellowes.
1799 owners: Elizabeth Aylmer of 2 Tombland Alley, Mrs Howes 20 Princes Street.
Sources:
See also https://colonelunthanksnorwich.com/2021/03/15/revolutionary-norwich/
A concise history of Norwich https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32829/32829-h/32829-h.htm
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