FALSTAFFS AT YARMOUTH
Yarmouth, where Sir John Simon is seeS a new seat at the next elecSKtas memories of another Sir John of very different renown, says the "Manchester Guardian." For the ancient fishing town was the home of the Falstaffs and birthplace, presumably of Shakespeare's immortal Old Jack A Fastolfe, or Falstaff, was Bailiff ol Yarmouth in 1281, and from time to time members of the family held high municipal offices and represented the town in Parliament. John Fastolfe, a man of very considerable local account, purchased lands at*Caistor at the close of the fourteenth century and became father ol Sir John Fastolfe, who, after a distinguished military career, was luckless enough to have his name—but seemingly none of his other characteristics —borrowed by Shakespeare for his dubious hero. In Yarmouth they still remember the original Sir John as a generous benefactor of the great parish church of St. Nicholas.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 12
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151FALSTAFFS AT YARMOUTH Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 12
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