CHAPTER VII. 

 FOUNDING OF YARMOUTH. 



" The Britons oft are wont to praise this place, for that through 



all 



The realm they cannot show the like ; and Yarmouth they 

 it call." 



MANSHIP'S " History of Yarmouth " 

 (time, Queen Elizabeth). 



" For here is the noblest fishery for herrings in Europe." 



SIR H. SPELMAN. 



'HE very seat of that town doth more 

 nearly and properly adjoin to that 

 part of the sea-coast, where now be 

 the fishing streams and the very sea 

 of herring, about the Feast of St. 

 Michael the Archangel, for more than 

 six hundred years, far above any other sea-coast town 

 within this realm of England, or in any part of the 

 world beside. It is undoubtedly true that, to make 

 a city or town populous, or rich, or great (next to the 

 blessing of the Almighty), is to have some merchan- 



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