It appears from the account of a survey of the losses incurred by the different owners, that the totals comprised £4,145 10. on dwelling houses, on fish-houses £3,085 0. 0. and on goods £3,066 12. 4. {90a} The number of houses burnt was stated afterwards to have been 140. {90b} According to a survey made in 1642 the yearly value of the houses and tenements in the Parish was put at £412 6. 8., and the value of land at £447 11. 8., making a total of £859 18. 4. As the valuation of the houses and fish-houses burnt was £7,000, a sum which at as low a rate as 5 per cent would represent an annual value of £350, the property burnt would appear to have been much the larger part in value of all the houses and tenements in the town. Considering how simple the construction of even the better class of houses was at this time, the value put upon the dwelling houses burnt, would seem to imply that they included many of the best houses on the cliff, where the owners of the fish-houses at the bottom resided: though the fire does not seem to have reached the house, which still exists at the top of Wilde’s Score. The losses of the owners on fish-houses ranged from £25 to £450. Mr. Josiah Wilde’s loss was £400 on fish-houses. Doubtless this included the large fish-house at the bottom of Wilde’s Score. Many of these fish-houses had probably been built in the early times of the Edwards and the Henrys. In a statement made some 20 years afterwards these fish-houses, then restored, are referred to as “monuments” proving the antiquity of the trades of the town. In 1649 another valuation was made, in pursuance of an order of the Parliament. According to this valuation the value of property in the parish had been much reduced since 1641. The yearly value of all the lands and tenements in the parish was put then at £655. Doubtless this reduction was mainly due to the loss of property caused by the fire. But assuming that the value of the house property at this period was very small; and the annual value of land still less, it is impossible to reconcile these statements of the yearly value of the whole parish, with the valuation of the property destroyed by the fire. The explanation of the discrepancy would seem to be that the valuation of their property by our old townspeople to furnish a basis for taxation, was on a very different principle to that on which it was valued for the purpose of supporting a claim for exemption. Probably houses had no marketable or ascertainable value either for sale or letting at this time, and the estimate of either their capital or annual value would be of a very speculative character. VALUE OF MOVEABLE GOODS.