NOnTHERN MEMOTKS. 271 



her ports guarded with artillery (as above ex- 

 prest) and was made equal in success with the 

 most fortunate garisons relating to the royal in- 

 terest. 



Here are four fairs quarterly proclaimed every 

 year by the mayor and aldermen of the town of 

 Newark ; besides the weak-day market, and a 

 running trade with the country round about 

 them. From the north come those large and 

 fair fronted cattle, that fill Newark folds ; and 

 on Wednesday every week their market is duly 

 observed, where you may see this large pave- 

 ment as 'twere overspread and crouded with 

 corn, and the shambles, as any market in the coun- 

 ty, furnish'd with flesh : besides in the very front 

 of this general exchange, the stalls are as well 

 burden'd with fish. Moreover, fowl, with fruits, 

 and many other entertainments, they have in 

 abundance. But now I think it high time to 

 relinquish the ports of Newark, to scale the fa- 

 mous ascents of Trent, whose generous streams 

 invite us westward. 



Thcoph. This corporation (I perceive) by your 

 relation, has been a fortress almost impregnable. 

 Arn. There was none beyond it northward, 

 and I'm sure southward there was none compa- 

 rable to it. So that above and beneath this town 

 of Newark, as we ride along, you may observe 





