342 HERRING. Class IV, 



king *. The facetious Doctor Fuller f takes 

 notice of the great repute the county qf Norfolk 

 was in for this fifh, and, with his ufual archnefs, 

 calls a red herring, a Norfolk Capon. 



In 1195, Bunwich in Suffolk accounted to the 

 king for their yearly fee farm rent, £120, 1 mark, 

 and 24000 herrings, 12000 for the monks of Eye 7 

 and 12000 for thofe of Ely. 



The Dutch are mod extravagantly fond of this 

 n(h when it is pickled. A premium is given to 

 the firft bufs that arrives in Holland with a lading 

 of this their ambrofia^ and a vaft price given 

 for each keg. We have been in the country at that 

 happy minute, and obferved as much joy among 

 the inhabitants on its arrival, as the ^Egyptians 

 fhew on the firft overflowing of the Nile. Flanders 

 had the honor of inventing the art of pickling 

 herrings. One William Beukelen y of Biervlet, near 

 Sluys, hit on this ufef ul expedient : from him was 

 derived the name pickle, which we borrow from 

 the Dutch and German. Beukelen died in 1397. 

 The emperor Charles V. held his memory in fuch 

 veneration for the fervice he did mankind, as to 

 do his tomb the honor of a vifit. It is very fingu- 

 lgr that mod nations give the name of their fa- 

 vorite difh to the facetious attendant on every 

 mountebank. Thus the Dutch call him Pickle 



* Cambden Britan. I. 458, 

 f Britijh Worthies, 238. 



Herring; 



