S42 HERRING. Class IV. 



king *. The facetious Dodor Fuller f takes 

 notice of the great repute the county of Norfolk 

 v;as in for this fifh, and, with his ufual archnefs, 

 calls a red herring, a Norfolk Capon. 

 . In 1 195, Dimzvich in Suffolk accounted to the 

 * king for their yearly fee farm rent, £120, i mark^ 

 and 24000 herrings, 12000 for the monks of Eye^ 

 and 12000 for thofe of £/y. 



The Dutch are mod extravagantly fond of this 

 fiili when it is pickled. A premium is given to 

 the firft bufs that arrives in Holland with a ladins: 

 of this their avjihrcfia^ and a vaft price given 

 for each keg. We have been in the country at that 

 happy minute, and obferved as much joy among 

 the inhabitants on its arrival, as the Mgyptians 

 fliew on the firft overflowing of the Nile. Fhnders 

 had the honor of inventing the art of pickling 

 herrings. One William Beukelen^ of Biervkt^ near 

 Sluys^ hie on this ufeful expedient : from him was 

 derived the name pickle^ which we borrow from 

 the Dutch and German. Beukekn died in 1397. 

 The emperor Charles V. held his memory in fuch 

 veneration for the fervice he did mankind, as to 

 do his tomb the honor of a vifit. It is very lingu- 

 lar that moft nations give the name of their fa- 

 vorite difh to the facetious attendant on every 

 mountebank. Thus the Dutch call him Pickle 



* Camhden Briton, I. 458. 

 f Britijh Worthies y 238. 



Herring 



