The vicar’s spelling is bad for this time, and his account is curiously inaccurate. Bishop Scroope’s Christian name was Thomas, not Richard, and he died in 1491, not 1364. The Jettors were an old Lowestoft family, and we have seen their names in the Subsidy Rolls for 1524, in which John Jettor, senr., of that date, appears as possessed of £10 worth of “movabyll goods.” The existence of brasses in the Parish Church commemorating 12 generations of this family before 1644 was very improbable. No such name as John Goodknapp appears in the list of vicars in the Diocesan Register. It appears that the “litle bell,” which was cast from the brasses taken from the church, was in use as the chapel bell in Gillingwater’s time at the end of the last century. It was re-cast when the chapel was converted into the Town Hall; in the tower of which it still hangs, and sounds the hours for the Town Clock. Although both Yarmouth and Lowestoft must have suffered with the rest of the country from the restrictions on social and commercial intercourse during these sad times, the fishing business seems to have improved rather than otherwise, owing to a diminution in the number of foreign competitors, and an increase in the exportation of fish. There appears to have been a considerable increase in the number of ships sent from both towns to the cod fishery off Iceland, and to the herring fishery in the North Sea. During the years 1641 and 1649, the Yarmouth cod fishing reached its greatest height. The ships destroyed by the “pirates” in 1644 were soon replaced, and the accounts shew that no less than 33 barks were sent to the Iceland fishery in 1648, besides 182 boats employed in the herring fishery. According to Gillingwater, as many as 30 ships were employed by Lowestoft in the same fisheries at this one. If this was the case, the Lowestoft fishermen must have made a great advance since the days of Elizabeth, when we were told by Mr. Mighells that their ships going to Iceland had been reduced to one. Gillingwater gives a full account of the cod fishery, as carried on by the Lowestoft fishermen, and tells us that in his time— “There was a trench still visible upon the Denes, a little to the north of Lowestoft, in which stood the blubber coppers where they used to boil the livers of the fish when they returned home from the voyage.” THE GREAT FIRE OF 1644. It was in 1644, the year after Cromwell’s visit, that Lowestoft suffered the greatest calamity with which the town was ever afflicted, before or since. On the 10th March in that year, we are told, by Mr. Rous,— “There happened in this towne a most violent and dreadful fire which consumed and burnt down soe many houses above and beneath the cliffe, as could not be rebuilt according to the judgement of knowing artificers who viewed it for above ten thousand pounds.”