From The Jewish Chronicle 22 April 1842 p.138

‘STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL JEWISH
COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT ENGLAND'
(To be continued Weekly)

GREAT YARMOUTH. - A seaport, is a very ancient borough in Norfolk, one hundred and twenty-three miles from London. Its markets are held on Wednesday and Saturday, and are principally noted for the vast supply of herrings they produce. A curious charter still exists at Yarmouth, it is this, the first hundred herrings cured each season, are sent to the reigning sovereign as a mark of allegiance. Our nation has been established as a congregation for upwards of half a century; the late Simon Hart, Joseph Miers, and Aaron Mordecai were the founders of the kehillah [in Hebrew]. There are at present about ten families of Jews, resident here, who are chiefly engaged in trade. The synagogue, which is rather small, is in Chapel-street, and the burial ground is what is called the Deans, one of the most agreeable and pleasant parts of the town: it obtained this name from its being supposed to be the place at which the Danes first landed when they invaded this country. I. Mordecai, Esq., is president, and the Rev. I. Sturnberg, reader. ’

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