Among the eminent citizens of this century may be first mentioned the chief merchants and manufacturers, who were very intelligent, wealthy, and enterprising. They were also benevolent, and the founders of various charitable institutions. Many of them were Nonconformists, and active supporters of their chapels, while they carried on a great foreign trade. The correspondence which they had begun on the continent they extended in every direction. By sending their sons to be educated in Germany, Italy, and Spain, they cultivated a more familiar connection with those countries. Their travellers also were acquainted with various languages, and went all over Europe, exhibiting their pattern cards in every town on the continent. Norwich could then boast of rich, energetic, enterprising, and intelligent men, who made the city what it was in their day. Lest their very names should be forgotten, we shall place them in this record. Amongst the manufacturers were Messrs. Robert and John Harvey, Messrs. Starling Day and Son, Messrs. Watson, Firth, and Co., Messrs. John Barnard and Angier, Messrs. Thomas Paul and Flindt, Messrs. J. Tuthill and Sons, Messrs. William Barnard and Sons, Messrs. Edward Marsh and Son, Messrs. Bream and King, Messrs. Martin and Williment, Messrs. Peter Colombine and Son, Messrs. James Buttivant and William White, Messrs. W. and W. Taylor, Messrs. J. Scott and Sons, Messrs. E. Gurney and Ellington, Messrs. Patteson and Iselin, Messrs. Booth and Theobald, Messrs. George Maltby and Son, Messrs. William and Robert Herring, Messrs. Worth and Carter, Messrs. Bacon and Marshall, Messrs. Ives and Robberds, Messrs. J. and J. Ives, Son, and Baseley, Mr. Robert Partridge, Mr. Bartholomew Sewell, Mr. John Robinson, Mr. Robert Wright, Mr. John Wright, Mr. Robert Tillyard, Mr. Daniel Fromantiel, Mr. J. C. Hampp, Mr. John Herring, Mr. Joseph Cliver, Jun., Mr. Oxley, and others, all of whom have passed away. _Mr. John Kirkpatrick_. Mr. John Kirkpatrick, a linen merchant, who lived in St. Andrew’s, was a learned antiquarian of this period, to whom the city is greatly indebted for his researches and documents respecting the antiquities of Norwich, but only fragments have been published. The late Mr. Hudson Gurney obtained possession of most of his manuscripts, and published his account of the “Religious Orders in Norwich,” in 1845. This work was compiled from a manuscript quarto volume of 258 pages, in the handwriting of the author. Mr. Dawson Turner, the editor, says, in the preface:—