Transcription of Lorina Bulwer’s samplers
NWHCM : 2014.?
/ = line break
(?) = unsure of word
TO S. LACON ESQ BANKER H.E. BUXTON ESQ / BANKER / TO THE
BECCLES MON PRINGEE (?) NAVIGATION / SCHOOL /
SOUTH QUAY GT YARMOUTH NORFOLK X TUNBRIDGE X PALMER
DRAPER X DIBOLL X FOREIGNERS X NUTMAN OPPOSITE BEACH
STATION
– TO H.E. BUXTON ESQ BANKER I MISS LORINA BULWER
NEVER HAD A FARTHING OF THE ESTATES CAMBRIDGESHIRE OR
INDIAN X THESE ARE REPUBLICANS X I AM A TRUE LOYALIST X HELL
REPUBLICANS X ALL THE POOREST AND THE MOST COMMON WOMEN
I EVER SEE X I HATE WOMEN X THIS IS A BANKERS OLD HAG SHOP X
WHAT HAVE I MISS LORINA BULWER A SINGLE WOMAN WITH ALL THE
OLD MARRIED NIGHT CAP WOMEN I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH
THEM I WOULD NOT TOUCH THEM WITH A FORK – ARNOLD – POWELL
– R JOHNSON ESQ EUSTON ROAD
I MISS LORINA BULWER NEVER SPOKE / TO THE BECCLES
FRENCHMAN I SEE HIM / WHEN I WENT TO MY ENGLISH FRENCH
SCHOOL / HE WAS A TEACHER OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE / I HAVE
SEEN HIM DRIVING A SULKY IN / BECCLES SUFFOLK HE PASSED OUR
HOUSE / ONE DAY MY FATHER SAID THERE IS THE / FRENCHMAN
SINCE WE LEFT BECCLES I HAVE / ALSO SEEN HIM IN GT YARMOUTH
NORFOLK / ON THE QUAY YEARS AGO HE WAS ALONE / IT WAS
REPORTED HE HAD LEFT FOR HIS OWN / HOME IN FRANCE OR
ELSEWHERE DID THE / PEOPLE KNOW IN GT YARMOUTH GLENELG /
HOUSE OCCUPIED BY FRANK BURTON SOLICITOR / IS A BROTHEL THE
SO CALLED DR DANIEL MEADOWS / KEEPS A WHORE SHOP AT HIS
HOUSE KING STREET / OLD MAD MOLLY WALKED ABOUT THE TOWN
AND / BEACH WITH HER BASKET OF DISEASED AND / DROPT MEAT
SOLICITING CUSTOMERS FOR BURTON / AND MEADOWS KING

STREET OPPOSITE ST GEORGE / CHAPEL AND F. BURTON GLENELG
HOUSE QUEENS / ROAD GENERAL BOOTH’S SALVATION ARMY /
WHORE SHOPS AND ALL THE SO CALLED / WORKHOUSES ARE
BOOTH’S LOOK ‘EM UP / PICK ‘EM UP HOARD UP OLD HAG SHOPS /
NOW I HAVE DONE THE INSIDE HAVE IT I MISS / LORINA BULWER
MUST TAKE THE OUTSIDE / CARROT HAVE IT OPINION / I LIKE TO
HEAR IT JINGLE / I LIKE TO HEAR IT ROLL / I LIKE IT MORE THAN
ANYTHING / THAT PRECIOUS STUFF CALLED GOLD / MARIA EASTER
ALIAS MRS JAY 67 DOWAGER PLACE / FORMERLY OF 67 CROWN
ROAD WHORE AND / WHORE SHOP KEEPER THE FURNITURE IS HERS
/ FOR LIFE ONLY NO POWER TO SELL IT IT IS / LEFT TO SOMEONE
ELSE BY WILL SHE WEARS / WAIVED HAIR FRONT BANDS THE ONLY
ONE / IN YARMOUTH WHO WORE THEM SHE / WENT TO PARIS WITH
HER MASTER MR E.W / JAY SHE SAID SHE SEE LEE ROY SHE / HAS
BEEN TO IRELAND WENT TO DUBLIN CATHEDRAL / MET MR MRS
BLYTH REGENT ROAD MARRIED / COOPER THE CARPENTERS
DAUGHTER / THEY WERE IN DUBLIN CATHEDRAL / AT THE SAME TIME
MR JAY WAS A RETIRED / CHEMIST MR BLYTH A RETIRED
TRADESMAN OF / GT YARMOUTH MARKET PLACE MARIA / EASTER
WENT TO WALES LLANDUDNO SHE BOUGHT / AN ALBUM OF WELSH
VIEWS WITH HER MASTER / MR E.W. JAY SHE ALSO HAS BEEN TO
LONDON WITH HER MASTER AND LODGED AT A MRS JAYS / THEY
ALWAYS LODGED THERE_SINCE MR JAY / DEATH MARIA EASTER HAS
TAKEN A FANCY / TO JAMES GEORGE MARKET GARDENER /
ROLLESBY NEAR GT YARMOUTH SHE LEANED / OVER HIS STALL AND
SQUEEZED HIS HAND / AND SAID SHE NEVER SEE A MAN SHE / LIKED
SO WELL BEFORE SHE HAS BEEN SEVERAL / TIMES HOME WITH
JAMES GEORGE ROLLESBY / DROVE HOME WITH GEORGE AFTER THE
/ SAURDAY NIGHT MARKET STAYED AT HIS / HOUSE UNTILL MONDAY
MORNING GEORGE / DROVE HER BACK AGAIN TO YARMOUTH IN HIS /
MARKET CART JAMES GEORGE TOLD MISS LORINA / BULWER IT
WHEN MR CHRISTMAS THE FIRM / OF FRERE AND CHRISTMAS
LIQUOR MERCHANTS / HEARD OF MR JAY’S DEATH HE CAME DOWN /
TO CROWN ROAD TO SEE IF IT WAS TRUE / HE SPOKE TO ME I LIVED

AT 68 AND MR JAY AT / 67 CROWN ROAD BOTH HOUSES WERE MR
JAY’S / WE WERE MR JAY’S TENANT 21 YEARS MR JAY’S / WE NEVER
KNEW MR JAY TO HAVE A DAY’S ILLNESS / TO NEED A DOCTOR HIS
DEATH MYSTERIOUS / AFTER A FEW DAYS WAS THROUGH STOPPAGE
/ OF HIS WATER AND STOPPAGE OF HIS BOWELS / HE PERSPIRED SO
MUCH MARIA EASTER HIS HOUSE / KEEPER TOLD US SHE COULD
WRING HIS SHIRT / HE TRIED TO SPEAK HE COULD NOT SO HE MADE /
SIGNS FOR SOMEONE OR SOMETHING I THINK / MARIA EASTER HIS
HOUSE KEEPER SENT TO MR / DIBOLL OR DYBALL MR JAY’S INTIMATE
/ FRIEND MR JAYS DEATH WAS THROUGH HIS HOUSE / KEEPER MARIA
EASTER ADMINISTERED CHEMICALS / TO HIM WITHOUT THE LEAST
KNOWLEDGE OF DRUGS / HAD A DOCTOR BEEN SENT FOR IN TIME HE
WOULD / HAVE BEEN ALIVE HER CONFEDERATE MRS SUARD / ALIAS
KING HAD BEEN HERE ABOUT 7 YEARS / DOING MARIA EASTER’S
TRICKS HER CHALLENGE / WOMAN THE SAME WOMAN WHO I SEE
WALKING / ON GT YARMOUTH RACE COURSE DRESSED IN MAN’S /
CLOTHING YEARS AGO MR JAY’S SISTER MRS STEEL / WIDOW DIED
AT HER LODGINGS WINDSOR / HOUSE PRINCE ROAD AFTER A BRIEF
ILLNESS / A GREAT SURPRISE TO ALL WHO KNEW HER / TELL MR
LIVINGSTONE TO SEND ME A BRIGHT / SCARLET SHAWL HARLOT I
TAKE MEADOWS TRICK / NOW DR MEADOWS MUST COME INSIDE THE
WORK / HOUSE THAT IS HIS TRANSFER THEN HE WILL SEE / AND
KNOW BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION I HAVE / NOTHING TO DO WITH
REPUBLICANS JOHN / LANGHAM IS A REPUBLICAN AND ALL HIS /
SONS AND DAUGHTERS 1 DAUGHTER IS A SHOP / ASSISTANT HER
AUNT MARIA TURNER TOLD US / SUSAN TURNER HER SISTER
MARRIED JOHN LANGHAM / LONDON AND BUILT A HOUSE IN LONDON
THEY / LIVE IN IT WHERE DID SUSAN LANGHAM GET / THE MONEY
FROM SUSAN TOLD US IN ONE THING AND / ANOTHER THING THEY
HAD BUILT A HOUSE TAKE THE / NAME OF LANGHAM ROAD OFF THE
AQUARIUM HE / IS A BEACH SINGERS PROMPTER HIS FATHER AS
WELL / AS I.E ARE MUSIC HALL AND THEATRE PROMPTERS / WELL
KNOWN ON GT YARMOUTH BEACH BETTER / KNOWN IN LONDON BY
HIS ECCENTRIC WAYS / HOW ABOUT THE DEPTH OF THE RIVER

THAMES LONDON / ENGLAND MARIA TURNER OBTAINED £300 / BY
FRAUD BACCARAT WILSON OF TRANBY COURT / BACK A RAT WILSON
WHO SAID HE CAME FROM / AMERICA AND WISHED TO BE NEARER TO
ROYALTY / AFTER HE HAD OBTAINED AN INTERVIEW WITH / HRH
PRINCE OF WALES THE BACCARAT SCANDAL / BEGAN IT WAS
SPOKEN OF IN THE NONCONFORMIST / PULPIT AGAINST HRH PRINCE
OF WALES I READ / IT IN THE NEWS PAPER BEFORE THIS THE
MORDAUN / SCANDAL WAS SEEN IN THE STANDARD NEWS PAPER /
HRH PRINCE OF WALES NAME BROUGHT BEFORE / THE PUBLIC WAS
SHAMEFUL WHATEVER HRH / PRINCE OF WALES DOES IT IS HIS
BUSINESS NO ONE / HAS THE RIGHT TO INTERFERE I READ IN THE
NEWS / PAPER HRH EMPRESS FREDERICK OF GERMANY / HAD AN
IPSWICH GOVERNESS I OFTEN WONDER / IF SHE IS THE SAME
TEACHER FROM THE BECCLES SCHOOL / KEPT BY THE MISSES
SLOPER MISS THURSTON OF / IPSWICH HER NAME THE NAME OF THE
OTHER TEA / CHER I DO NOT KNOW ALSO TWO BELGIAN OR FRENCH /
YOUNG LADIES / I MISS LORINA BULWER WONDER IF HRH PRINCESS /
BEATRICE FRENCH GOVERNESS IS ONE OF THE / YOUNG LADIES
FROM THE BECCLES SUFFOLK SCHOOL / WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WAS
I AT HOME I MISS LORINA / BULWER WOULD ASK THE BECCLES
BELGIAN / OR FRENCH MAN THE VICTORIA AND ADELAIDE / TAYLOR
TRICK MY MOTHER WAS SURPRISED / THEY WERE CALLED SUCH
GRAND NAMES / A TRICK AND I MISS LORINA BULWER WAS CALLED /
VERY TRICKY / CAN E. BULWER ESQ SEE THROUGH IT NOW / THE
FONEREAUS BUTTIFANTS WHO DEFRAUD / ED AN ASSOCIATION AND
ELOPED TO SPAIN THE / DETECTIVES OF NORWICH WEWT (?) TO
SPAIN AND / BROUGHT THEM BACK AGAIN THEY HAVE BEEN HERE /
FOR YEARS THE WORKHOUSE MASTER BLYTH SLIPS / AWAY THESE
FELLOWS SINGERS ON THE BEACH / WALKING ABOUT BOASTING OF
THE GREAT / ESTATE OUT FOREIGN ALSO CHIPPENHAM PARK /
CAMBRIDGESHIRE ESTATE THE KING OF THE / BELGIANS MAY HE
LIVE FOR YEARS TO COME / THE FRENCH ARE REPUBLICANS NOW
WITH A / CHANGE OF OPINION AN EMPEROR WOULD BE / ON THE
THRONE GEORGE DAWSON TURNER SUSAN / AND MARIA ARE HIS

DAUGHTER THE UNDERWITTED / LANGHAMS ARE HIS
GRANDCHILDREN THE / ABOVE GEORGE DAWSON TURNER WAS IN A
TEA / BLENDING WAREHOUSE GRAYS (?) INN ROAD LONDON / HE
TOLD MOTHER AND I THE HUNDREDS OF TONS / OF TEA LANDED
THERE FROM THE EAST INDIA / DOCKS LONDON AND ELSEWHERE HE
STAYED A FEW / DAYS WITH US GEORGE DAWSON TURNER ONLY /
KISS THE BACK OF MY HAND 68 CROWN ROAD HE / HAD TURQUOISE
BLUE EYES HIS BROTHER WILLIAM / DAWSON TURNER HAD DOUBLE
JOINTED LIMBS HE / WAS ORGANIST IN A CHURCH AT EASTBOURNE /
SUSSEX A MAN OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL TALENT / THESE ARE
STREET ARAB DENS FORMED / FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFYING
EVERY LAW IN ENGLAND / LEFROY DEAN OF NORWICH WHO
MURDERED M / GOULD IN A RAILWAY TRAIN THE FONEREAUS / AND
WESTONS ARE 3/4 (?) BEACH SINGERS ON GT / YARMOUTH BEACH
THEY WERE ALL TURNED OUT / OF CAMBRIDGE WHEN E. BULWER
ESQ BOUGHT / THE COTTAGE IN AUDLEY STREET HIS MOTHER / AND I
LORINA BULWER LEFT CROWN ROAD AND / CAME TO LIVE IN AUDLEY
STREET IN THE COTTAGE / THAT IS THE CORRECT TIME ALL THE
STREET ARAB / ANARCHISTS NIHILISTS TRAITORS BAD COINS / AND
MEDAL MAKERS FLASH BANK NOTES FALSE / NAMES FALSE
ADDRESSES OLD FONEREAU / LEFT AND HIS SON HAS BEEN HER
EVER SINCE / ORDERS EVERYTHING AS POOR AS A CHURCH MOUSE /
FONEREAU AND WESTONS LIVE BY EXTORTION / WHEN THE DEAD
COCK FLY OVER THE RIVER / THIS IS THEIR SAYING BETWEEN THEIR
TEETH / THE ABOVE NAMED TRICK DENS ARE ALL BUILT / CLOSE TO
THE COLLEGES CAMBRIDGE FONEREAU / AND HIS SON OF CHRIST
CHURCH PARK IPSWICH / SUFFOLK THE FRENCH REPUBLICANS HE IS
WILFRED / WESTONS UNCLE MOLLY CODDLE POLLY / CODDLE
WESTON MOLLY CODDLE POLLY CODDLE / FONEREAU IS WELL
KNOWN OVER THE WATER / SPAIN FRANCE ITALY HIS SON IS A COPY
/ OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DENMARK THE SAME / MAN WHO
ANNOYED ME BEHIND MY WALLS / THE FELLOW SHOULD TAKE ALL
HIS OLD / MOLLY CODDLES AND POLLY CODDLES TO / BATH
SOMERSETSHIRE AND STRAP THEM IN / A MOTOR CAR AND RUN

THEM UP AND DOWN / THE HILLS HAVE A CREMATION FURNACE / AS
MR WILFRED WESTON SAID TO ME MISS LORINA / BULWER ALL THE
MOLLY CODDLE POLLY CODDLES / GO TO BATH SOMERSETSHIRE
FOR THE BENEFIT / OF THEIR HEALTH TAKE MOLLY CODDLE /
MEADOWS AND HIS MOLLY CODDLE POLLY / CODDLE SONS HELL
REPUBLICANS / AND HMG MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII OF / ENGLAND
ON THE THRONE AS GOOD A / SOVEREIGN AS ERE THE SUN SHONE
ON / FONEREAUS THE TRUTH IS THIS / THE FOREIGN ESTATE HELD
BY THE WESTONS TURNERS GODERICHS TAYLORS LANGHAMS
GURNEYS ANNA / MARIA BULWER ALIAS PINCHING WHO / MARRIED
MR GEORGE YOUNG AND LEFT IN / THE SHIP MAXWELL WITH THEIR
FAMILY FOR / NEW ZEALAND AND AMERICA WHAT HAVE / I MISS
LORINA BULWER TO DO WITH THE ABOVE / DEFRAUDERS I MISS
LORINA BULWER HAVE / NOT HAD A FARTHING OF THE MONEY MY /
MONEY IS MY OWN AND IT WILL NEVER BE / FOR ANNA THE
PROPHETESS FOR THE TRICK / MEN AND WOMEN NOR YET HER
CHILDREN / BANK TO GET A CHECK FILLED UP IN THE NAME OF / THE
FOREIGN AND THE CHIPPENHAM / PARK ESTATES THE RIGHTFUL
OWNER / IS H.M.G MAJESTY THE LATE KING LEOPOLD / OF THE
BELGIANS AND H.T.M (?) THE LATE / QUEEN VICTORIA OF ENGLAND /
WHO SENT THE WOMAN SUARD ALIAS KING / AND HARIET SEARS
ALIAS BRUCE TO MESSRS LACONS