Besides the merchants and mariners directly engaged in the fisheries, there were several other trades supported more or less by the shipping business. There are as many as ten different names of shipwrights in the register; showing that ship and boat building was carried on at this time in the shipyards under the cliff, notwithstanding the proximity of Yarmouth. The six brewers probably depended largely for the sale of their beer upon the fishing boats and other ships visiting our roads. It appears that there was an enormous quantity of beer taken on board of our fishing boats in these times; so much that we cannot help suspecting that it was used as an inducement to attract men on board. Beer was of course very cheap, not more than a farthing and halfpenny a quart. From an estimate given by some shipowners in 1670 of the quantity of beer required for a fishing boat, it appears that each man was supposed to drink a gallon of beer a day (putting the number of the men at 10). The coopers also were evidently very closely connected with the fishing business. On a later occasion, some hundred years after our period, when Lowestoft had had another bout with Yarmouth about the herring fishery, and the town had a heavy lawyers bill to pay, they decided to defray the expense by a tax on herrings, and a supplementary tax on the brewers and coopers of the town. The butchers, of whom the large number of 20 names appear in the register during our period, probably did a good deal of business in supplying meat to ships. Meat was also very cheap at this time, and was probably eaten far more generally, and in greater quantities, than now. The number of bakers mentioned, 4, is very small, but the 11 millers, though not implying that there were 11 windmills (although probably there were nearly as many—they would be much smaller than our present windmills) implied a large consumption of flour. Lowestoft people doubtless baked at home. The hokemaker, doubtless had a good trade in supplying hooks for sea fishing, as well as for catching fish in the “fresh water.” The tower was a man skilled in “hanging” herrings in the curing-house. OTHER TRADES.