NORWICH. 
nearly in the middle of the keep. Within this fortrefs there 
was formerly a royal chapel, exempt from all epifcopal jurif- 
dictien 
The ealtle precin@ contains fix acres, one rood, and thir- 
teen perches, and the fummit o ill is in cieoumterence 
s: the whole of the latter is inclofed with i 
c& of i 
Saxons, who came firft to affitt, and afterwards to fabdue 
len During the Danith incurfions, it is faid to have been 
burnt by aa who failed with his fleet up the Wenfum. 
According o fome writers, it was chiefly occupied, at this 
time, by merchants and fifhermen: but if fo, confiderable 
cen muft have taken en in thé courfe and extent of 
that very material alterations 
the tide rivers on the Englifh coaft 
fince the Romans left the c 
25 ch 
this time, the cee a per ive of as 
Of the 
burgeffes, either Lincoln, 
sips » or Canterbury, It was then deemed 
a based of itfelf, oo 833 acres of land and mea- 
dow, having alfo a ances within its jurifdiGtion ; fo that 
_— d nearly a mile beyond the se inaapr is 
t by the ae rae len of its walls the 
oa able reign of Edward, and that of his faeeelibe Ae 
it continued rapidly to increafe both in wealth and po opula. 
tion; but in the year 1075, by the fiege it endured in the 
rebellion of Ralph de Waher, it LS ulalae prodigioufly, and 
experienced jecreafe any of the citizens, who 
had efpoufed the earl’s caufe, fled; others were banifhed b 
the king’s ge » Waleram, as aiders and abettors; and 
tween the years 1083 and 1086, in which the sti frvey 
of the whole kingdom, contained in — mefday-book, was 
made, it appears that numerous hou a 
at that time 4428. one Norwich then contained this 
comparatively {mall population, yet it in fize fecond 
metropolis, as appea 
rop ars by the 
moft confiderable places in the 
York contained 1118 families, Norwich 738, 
. fettle i in in Eagiaad the Conqueror, as chapmen for the 
confifcated goods of his fubjetts ; aa encouraged by his fon 
= fucceffor, - numbers were greatly increafed. Tn the 
» the 
inhabitants of Norwich were seeder under Ae ae of 
citizens. In confequence of a reprefentation how much t 
place had fuffered, in the rebellion of the barons againft 
king John, and at other times, the citizens obtained leave to 
{urround the city with a wall, and to ere gates: og bul- 
warks for its defence. aad 
IIL., AD. 1342. 
ie citizen, erected 
and towers, with portcullifes to the gates, 
and furni . the aeien with various military engines, am- 
munition, 
The i - rhea ever be memorable to the inhabitants 
ort 
his city has 
other articles in the weaving manufa ve they contributed 
much to the general gt of the place. +“ IS7A, 
when a rumour was {pread of invafion, by mean ° the 
Invincible Armada, Norwich, towards the general dese 
exhibited on its sagen ae 2120 able men; 400 of — 
were armed. 1578 queen Elizabeth made a 
grefs through hee county, and took up her abode for fel 
days in this city, where fhe was entertained with great hofpi- 
tality and loyalty. In the time of Charles I. the city de- 
clared for the parliament, and during that rebellion it was 
poffeffed by their forces, os RAs was declared protector 
of id realm. 
éfliccen In the year o , A.D. 
1556, the extent of peed ed ‘“<the a rad aay of 
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