NORFOLK. 
rebels having imbibed the fpirit of ai ancient levellers, 
abolifhing diftin€tion of ranks, they proeeed 
their nefarious defigns under two a oe 
of Ket. They fixed their grand i ay on  Montchold. 
heath, near Norw ich. Here the elder, Rob Dert Ket, with 
d h 
Suffolk, pa Heatfor, and Effex, to which Lin 
coln was afterwards added. In 1643, a tax was levied by 
eal for the af - its a to . by weekly in- 
allments. ‘This ie! contribute 
oads, &c. ant is ee that Nor- 
on of many battles, and have 
been alternately occupied ae warriors of different nations and 
would be enlarged 
In addition to the five 
or as exploratory os mps. 
h Creak, in the north part of the county, where 
a oe battle was fought between the Anglo-Saxons 
and the Danes, are veftiges of a circular encampment, which 
ftill retains the name of Blood-gate. Near Weeting are the 
remains of another, conrfifting of a vallum and fofs, known 
- Near it are places of fepulture, 
ee Narborough is a {mall circular 
id to hav upied, if not t thrown ae by the 
— ales they also on wo part of the coait, A.D. 
t Relides the eel fortifications in the county, feveral of 
the old halls were formerly encompafied with moats, and 
their entrances aoe by towers, {trong doors, bridges, 
&c. Remains of fome of thefe features are full preferved 
in Diboroal: hall, Stif key-hall, Caftor-cattle, Baconfthorpe- 
hall, Huntianton shall, Gaywood, Scales-hall, Fincham- 
hall, &e. 
he viz militares, or great Roman roads, made for the 
though the traces of moft of them are now obliterated. It 
was the cuftom of the Romans to open this kind of commu- 
nication between all their ftations, and many appearances of 
between the north-eaftern and the fouth-weftern extremities. 
lis commencing on the coaft of Norfolk, probably at 
Burg, near Yarmouth, paffed by Cattor, and is now confpi- 
cuous near Downham; crofling the river Oufe, it Reread 
through the fens into Cambridgefhire, and proceeding 
through the ae ear iee joins the Julia-ftrata, and ter- 
minates at St. David’s Head. Sir William pis ees fays 
was difcovered in is “fens hoe feet wide, and three fee 
deep, and formed of co 
tonfhire. 
Of the chimini minores, or vicinal roads, fome traces are 
fill vifible. What is called Pedders-way, pafling from Thet- 
ford by Ichborough, Swaffham, Caftle-Acre, Fring, Ringf- 
head, to the i near Braucsies r, appears one of this fort. 
The road lea y Long-Stratton to Tafburg was pro- 
bably aioe, ‘whili a third branched off from this to the 
2h wala going through Marfhland, Upwell, and Elm, to 
ach. What is called the Milky-way has been confider- 
ed ona 3 but it is more probable of later date, and was 
poflibly made for the convenience of the devotees who 
went on a pilgrimage tothe chapel of our Lady of Walfing- 
ham. It is traceable in feveral a and is ‘pretty perfe&t 
inthe vicinity of Grimes-Grave 
Several barrows or tumuli are to be found in. different 
parts of the county, particularly in the neighbourhood of 
Creek, Amnor : ham, Sedgeford, Stifkey, Long- 
Stratton, Weeting, Norwich, and Walfingham. In fome 
which have ote opened, different relics have been difcaver- 
ed, as human benes, wood-a urns made of baked 
c 
1 e antiquaries to have 
been orizinally employed in facrifice. 
oufehold-heath, near Norwich, are many excava- 
tions in fhe earth, which Mr. King and fome other antiqua- 
ries have called hiding pits, or Britifh caves. Several of 
fimilar chara¢ter are to be feen on the downs of Wilthhire 
fhire. 
cfaftical Hi ifory and heh mae of the Diocefe.—Soon 
= the fettlement of the Saxons in Eatt Angha, the Chrif- 
rege king of the 
t here. He had been 
banifhed, by his eldett brother Peenwe into France, 
where he contracted an intimacy with a religious Burgun- 
dian, named Felix, who prevailed on him to adopt the 
Chriftian faith, Onthe death of Erpenwald, Sigebert re- 
turned to Britain, and fucceeded his brother as king of Eaft 
Anglia, His predilection, after bis converfion, increafed - 
towards Felix, w m from France. He 
fir : 
ed for public vedic. Over thefe Felix was ee to 
4 prefide 
