NORWICH. 
tially benefitted by their fill and exertions. New fabrica- 
tions were introduce the ee of filk, mohair, 
and wool; and feveral new ere aPure > as 
various in their qualities as their names ; ak as bayes, fay 
rras, and mochades. In 1575, the Dutch elders ee ae 
in court 4 {pecimen of a novel work, called bombazines, for 
the manufacturing of which elegant ftuff this city has ever 
fince been famed. In the reign of George I., an att was 
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for the importation of wool and woollen as a cireumftance 
which proved highly beneficial to the general trade of this 
city and county. m a ftatement furnifhed by a matter 
manufacturer in the year 1724, it appears that 120,009 
perfons were then employed in the woollen, worfted, and 
filk manufaGtures. Not that the whole of thefe perfons 
refided in the city, but they were employed in fome branc 
of the trade, she ind labours were conducive to the pro- 
duétions of Nor 
e ftaple article 7 this manufacture, at prefent, are 
bombazines, worfted damafks, flowered fatins, and fin 
camblets ; for ae latter, de Eatt India Compan he given 
annually large orders, which has afforded fome relief during 
the torpor of the trade to Italy and Spain, To thefe arti- 
cles has been recently added the manufaturing of cottons, 
fhawls, and other fancy goods, adapted both for furniture 
and drefs, which for elegance, at prefent, furpafs any thing 
of the kind made i n he making of cotton 
thread-lace has alfo been introduced ; and the trade in linen, 
calied Suffolk hempen, is i s) g tate. The ftap 
manufa@ure of Norwich furnifhes about fifty diftin@ occu. 
pations, reckoning from the fhearer who procures the fleece, 
to the mariner, who fh e bale goods; and ade 
Lincolnthire and Leicefterfhire wools are chiefly ufed, while 
weavers in as on an average not more than 6s., but 
then many women can earn as m uch, and children, by f{pin- 
ait = ipe-filling, a ty ne ae earn from gd. to 2s. 6d. 
perw 
Of 1 the ie One religious Houfes, and other ecclefiaftical 
—A difti 
ele of the C early period Norwich was diftia- 
gul r “a rous Sapna ftructure Herbert 
i otablithed the fee at Norwich in the year 1094, 
the foundation Rone of the cathedral in the year 
It has been faid, that “ the firit building was chiefly 
and laid 
was completed by Herbert is not clearly defined; though 
it is ftated, that the choir, with its aifles, alfo the tranfept 
and tower, were erected by him. To this Eborard, his 
fucceffor in the fee, added the nave, with its two aifles, ex- 
tending from the antichoir, or rood-loft, to the weft end 
_ it ftood, though not fitted up till 1171, when it was 
damaged by fire. John of Oxford, the fourth bifhop, re- 
paired = injury, fupplied the church with proper veft- 
eee a hae it with ornaments, about the year 
L197. r de Suffield, the tenth bifhop, made another 
addition, eens the Virgin chapel at the eaft end, 
which has jince been demolifhed. In the year 1272, the 
cathedral was again injured by fire, var was repaired A.D; 
1278. Soon after the 
and another ere 
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bounteous prelate, who alfo erected that part of the cloifter, 
which extends from the entrance of the chapter-houfe to > 
grand door-way into the church. Three more arches, o 
the fame fide, were executed by the clerk of the et 
Richard de Uppehall. The remaining five arches, and the 
fouth fide of the cloifter to the arch, where the efpoufals 
was carved, were eere by bifhop Salmon, with the affift- 
ance of the mon who, on ie occafion, fupprefled the 
office of pittanc oe sod expended on the work the pittances 
of the convent. The north fide, alte the church, was 
built by Henry de Well, who a himfelf, and 
obtained feveral donations to cany on die rk. He was 
alfo allowed a portion of the pittance mone he weft 
fide, from the carving of the efpoufals, the highly orna- 
mented entrance towards the refeCtory, the lavatories, and . 
the door-way into the pilgrims’ hall, were built by Jeffery 
Simonds, the then reétor of St. ary-in-the-Marth. 
art extending from the pilgrims’ hall door-way, to the 
ork of bifhop 
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ment, this {pacious, elegant, and juftly pene cloifter 
was finifhed, in the prefidency of bifhop Alnwick, by whofe 
executors the weft end of the cathedral was rebuilt. In 
1361, a hurricane blew down the upper al of the fteeple, 
and at that time the prefent {pire was bui 
Plan, Dimenfions, Divifions, Aibiesure, ee. of the Cathe- 
ral.—The architeGture of this noble pile of building is 
chiefly of that ftyle called Norman, wherein the femicircular 
eatures. 
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lays a nave, with fide aifles, a tranfept, a ‘choir, with yore 
circular eaft end, an an aifle furrounding it. Attached to, 
but projeting from this aifle, near the eatt end, is a {mall 
chapel dedicated to Jefus, and on the oppofite fide, at the 
fouth-eaft angle of the church, is another, called St. Luke’s 
chapel. Welt of this is a fquare lope Projecting from 
the aifle, now ufed as the confiftory co Betwee 
door to tranfept, 140 feet. The extreme width of the latter 
is 191 feet, of nave, with aifles, 72 feet. The cloifters form 
a {quare of 174 feet within the walls. They branch off 
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the fame number on the fouthern fide il thefe i 
are divided into three lights, by two columns, and alla 
decorated with tracery ; the latter prefents much variety aad 
diffimilarity. At the fouth-weft angle is a large lavatory. 
The roof is fupported by groins, {pringing from cluftered 
columns, and ornamented with very bold boffes at their 
points 
