1382
June 20th. Violent shock of an earthquake, and much damage done.
June. King Richard II. visited Great Yarmouth.
1384
Market Place paved, and a Cross and Pillory built.
1385
William Bardolf, Baron Bardolf, died. He had large estates near Yarmouth.
1386
Sir Henry Percy and Fauset Percy sent to Yarmouth with 300 men-at-arms and 600 archers, to guard the coast, an invasion from France being apprehended.
1392
A Horse Ferry at Gorleston existed.
1393
The second Haven made, and a third in 1408.
1395
Several small Yarmouth and other ships taken by Danish pirates in a sharp conflict off the coast. Lost £20,000 in specie.
1396
After a lapse of 111 years the fortifications of the town were completed—20 towers, 10 gates, and the wall, 2,280 yards in extent. (See 1544.)
1400
Coals first imported here from Newcastle. Wood was used as fuel before this.
1403
Henry IV. granted, by the consent of Parliament, that the shipping, weighing, and packing of wool, hides, and skins, should be done at Yarmouth, it being a frontier town.