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ftrongly fituate and fortified, Na- 
ture and Art confpiring to make it 
impregnable. We obferved, in a 
Clofe near the Town called Grans- 
wick, great Store of Carum ; it grows 
in many Places about this Town, 
and in fome Places of the Fens in 
Lincolnp^ire. In this Town there is 
a Foundation called Trinity- Houfe^ 
which is a Society of Merchants, and 
to it belong good Revenues. There 
• are maintained thirty poor Women, 
called Sifters, every one of vvhom 
hath a little Chamber or Cell to live 
in. This Building confifts of a 
. Chapel, two Rows of Chambers be- 
low Stairs for the Sifters, . and two 
Rooms above Stairs, one very fair, 
where the Brethren of the Society 
meet, in which hang mahy' Tables 
of Orders for the Society’s ' Govern- 
ment ; another large Chamber where 
they make Sails: In the middle 
whereof 
