Note 901b — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 4)
Reading edition
About the same time that the pens of Armstrong and Badslade were thus engaged, that of the elder Kinderley also was employed in the same cause, as appears by the dedication and preface to his son’s volume on the ancient and present state of the navigation of Lynn, &c. About these times, the names of Messrs. Steph. Allen, John Cary, and Geo. Hogg, became enrolled among our freemen, whose descendants have ever since figured among the first families of this town.—They are thus noticed in our volume of Extracts—“Augt. 29th. 1724. Mr. St. Allen to have his ffreedom, paying 20 nobles.—Sept. 27. 1727. John Cary elected free upon paying 20 nobles.—Febr. 3. 1728–9. Granted the ffreedom to Geo. Hogg, marriner, at the request of alderman John Kidd, as his mayor’s ffreeman.”