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proportion of Norman or French blood in southern and 
eastern England in the time of Edward I. may have equalled 
15 or even approached 20 per cent. It "was greater than 
this, he thinks, in the south-midland counties, and was con¬ 
siderable in the north and east of Yorkshire. 
The Huguenot immigration—in which I include that of 
the Flemings and Walloons who came over on account of 
religious persecution, as well as the French—having extended 
over a period of 140 years, from the time of Edward VI. to 
that of James II., has probably not had its numerical impor- 
portance fully recognised. 27 In the time of Queen Elizabeth 
it was found that 4679 foreigners were settled in Norwich, 
while Colchester in 1609 contained 1300 Walloons and other 
foreigners. In Elizabeth’s time, also, Flemings and Walloons 
established the fishery at Yarmouth, and the arts of salt- 
making and herring-curing. After the revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes in 1685 it is computed, says Mr. Smiles, 
that 100,000 French manufacturers and workmen fled into 
England, chiefly from Normandy and Brittany. At the be¬ 
ginning of the last century there were 35 French churches in 
London and the suburbs. Silk-throwing was introduced 
into Essex in the last century, at Braintree, by one of the 
Courtaulds ; and in the parliamentary records of this county 
the names of Ducane, Pecliell, Papillon, and Kebow are 
prominent. 28 
The British Association appointed, in the year 1875, an 
Anthropometric Committee to collect evidence with regard 
to the physical characteristics of the inhabitants of the British 
Isles. The final report of this committee appears in that of 
the British Association for 1883, and is illustrated by five 
maps of the British Isles, shaded so as to show the compara¬ 
tive stature, weight, fairness, and darkness of the inhabitants 
of the various counties and districts. From the map showing 
stature we learn that the tallest men live in Galloway and 
27 It must not be forgotten that a considerable number of Frenchmen 
came over here before the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes in 1598, 
though a much greater number arrived after its revocation in 1685. 
29 See Smiles on the • Huguenots in England and Ireland.’ 
