An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

AUTOBIOGRAPHY autumn residence, but did not get them, or some= bungalows at Gorle~ton. On 12th October my uncle George· Tuppen died at Brighton, and on 29th October, 1883, my wife was confined of a still-born girl. ·During the year and at Christmas 1 I have little doubt that · I . was sailing on the Broads, but my memory of this part of my life is almost a blank owing to my attack of typhoid in 1884. Some time during 1883 I brought out the first part of the rough materials for a History of North Erpingham. This when eventually completed ran into no less than 761 pages; and was an attempt to get together all the materials I could from the Bodleian, the British Museum, and the Public Record Offices relating to this Hundred, besides all the inscriptions in its churches and church– yards, notes of all the Feet of Fines, and copies of all early Subsidies, as well as a reprint of all Le Neve's Collections as to the Hundred in the Bodleian Library. This was a very ambitious idea, and I hoped to have compiled from the printed material a very comprehensive history of the Hundred. But other things took me away from the job, which I am happy to believe is to be undertaken by Miss C. Hoare, whose capacity to do so is evidenced by her excellent History of SidGstrand, one of its parishes. By the end of the year I issued the second volume of the Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, and dedicated it to my old school fellow, R. Howlett, whom I justly described as "once my scholar but now my master." His contribu– tions to it were a very able translation of the libellous " Descriptio N orfolciensium," &c., a paper on the Custom Rolls of the Port of Lynn, temp. Ed. I., which was his first article on the History of Lynn, of which be was afterwards as great an authority, and another on the. Account Rolls of St. Benet's et Holme. My own chief contribution was a long one, on the riot between the monks and citizens of Norwich in 1272, already mentioned. Other papers were those by Miss Lucy Toulruin Smith on the. Walloon Church of Norwich, by E. M. Beloe on "Our h0me in East Anglia," with a speculative map by Dr. J essopp, on the Life of Elizabeth Lady L'Estrange nee 1 I 'think this was the Christmas I took my sons out, but 011ly drifte<l a few miles each day, there being no wi11d. I tried flight– sbooti11g at Cantley with very little success, and tlieu the weather which had been most mild changed to bitterly cold.