Transcribed from the 1869 Jarrold and Sons edition by DavidPrice,
INCLUDING
A SURVEY OF THE CITY:
AND ITSPUBLIC BUILDINGS;
CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL HISTORY:
INCLUDINGCOMPLETE LISTS OF MAYORS AND SHERIFFS,
AND NOTICES OF EMINENTCITIZENS;
POLITICAL HISTORY:
INCLUDINGCOMPLETE ELECTION RETURNS AND LISTS OF MEMBERS
OF PARLIAMENT;
RELIGIOUS HISTORY:
INCLUDINGMEMOIRS OF BISHOPS AND DEANS—RISE AND
PROGRESS OF NONCONFORMITY;
COMMERCIAL HISTORY:
INCLUDINGTHE SUBSTANCE OF PRIZE ESSAYS ON THE MANUFACTURES
AND TRADE OF NORWICH.
By A. D. BAYNE.
JARROLD AND SONS, 12, PATERNOSTERROW, LONDON;
AND LONDONAND EXCHANGE STREETS, NORWICH.
MDCCCLXIX.
Some account of the sources ofinformation should be given in the preface to a history, in orderto assure the reader of the authenticity of the narrative. No one can have turned over a bookseller’s catalogue oflocal historical publications without observing how few they arein comparison with the extent and importance of the particulardistrict in view. The fact is, that most of the productionsof the early authors are either very scarce or are entirely outof print. No city or county can boast of so manyindustrious topographers and antiquarians as Norwich andNorfolk. If we arrange them in alphabetical order, wehave:—Ames, Beatniffe, Blomefield, P. Browne, Brettingham,Sir Thomas Browne, Chambers, Cory, Cotman, Dixon, Eldridge, SirRichard Elles, Forby, Sir John Fenn, Sir Andrew Fountaine, R.Fitch, Gibson, Gillingwater, Hudson Gurney, Green, Gunn, Gurdon,Harrod, Ives, Kent, J. Kirkpatrick, Le Neve, Lawrence, Mackerell,Manship (both father and son), Marshall, Tom Martin, Matchett,Neville, Nashe, Parkin, p. viPrideaux, Quarles, Richards, Sir H.Spelman, Sir John Spelman, Clement Spelman, Swinden, DawsonTurner, Wilkins, Watts, Wilkinson, and the Woodwards (father andson). Most of these, however, were antiquarians, andcontributed more to archæology and topography than tohistory.
Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, in the early part of the eighteenthcentury, was the first who formed the plan of a regularhistorical narrative. He spent the greater part of his lifein making researches and collecting materials for a history ofNorwich; and he wrote an immense quantity of matter in thickfolio volumes, the whole of which he left in MS. to the oldcorporation. They comprised—
No. 1. A thick folio volume of the Early History andJurisdiction of the City; date 1720.
No. 2. A similar folio volume, being an account of theMilitary State of the City, its walls, towers, ponds, pits,wells, pumps, &c.; date 1722.
No. 3. A thick quarto.
No. 4. Several large bundles, foolscap folio; Annals ofNorwich.
No. 5. A fasciculus, foolscap folio; Origin