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THis County is pleasantly Situated, and receives many Advantages by lying so commodiously open to Sea, which Bounds it on the North-East, and part of the West; on the South, it is Bounded by Suffolk; and the remaining part of the West, by Cambridgshire. It produces plenty of Butter, Cheese, large Cattle, Corn, Wooll, Deer, Coneys; Sheep, and store of Woollen Manufacture. It has in it one City, viz, Norwich, a Bishops See, it is divided into 31 Hundreds, containing 660 Parishes, 33 Market Towns, and 3 Rivers of note, the River Yar (from which Yarmouth takes its Name) being the Principal. It sends Members to Parlia∣ment 12; Norwich 2, Thetford 2, Yarmouth 2, Lynn-Regis 2, Castle-Rising 2, and 2 Knights of the Shire.
Yarmouth lies advantagiously on the North side the River Yar, and has great Trade by Shipping; it was Foun∣ded by the Danes, the better to favour their Landing, when they Invaded this Island, and has been often Graced with the Presence of many Kings and Princes, as William the Conquerer, who Fortefied it, Henry the Second, and Queen Elizabeth.
Norwich, the Antient Venta of the Romans, is a City of great Antiquity, often Sacked and Burnt by the Danes, especially it was levelled to the Ground by them Anno 1004. It suffered much in the Conquerers time, for siding with Earl Randdulph. The Cathedral was Founded by one Herbert, who Translated the Bishoprick from Thetford to Norwich, and was the first Bishop of Norwich. This City Imploys Thousands of People in the Woollen Manufacture, in ma∣king Stuffs, Bays, Says, Serges, Stockings, &c.
Thetford, the Antient Stigomagus of the Romans, was the principal seat of the Saxon East-Angle Kings, where King Edmund the Martyr was Overthrown by the Danes.