The last of our naval heroes, whose early career associated him with those already mentioned, was Captain Thomas Arnold. He earned great distinction in an action against the Spanish Fleet when serving under Admiral George Byng in 1718. He belonged to a family which had held a high position in the town for more than century, and which still holds the same position amongst us. The prestige of this family has been since enhanced by the celebrity of others of its members—the great educational Reformer, Dr. Arnold, Head Master of Rugby School, and his son, Matthew Arnold, one of the most distinguished of the poets and essayists of the Victorian Era. FOOTNOTES. {3} “Ramsay’s Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain,” and “Woodward’s Geology of England and Wales.” {10} Camden’s Britannia, p. 381. “For it is possible that the steepness of the hill, and a morass below next the river might be thought a sufficent security on that side.” Sir H. Spelman in his Icenia, speaks of Burgh “as a place surrounded with morass and narrow passes.” {13} Exhibited at this Lecture. {14} This is a corrected _Erratum_.—Was “at Lothu Wistoft (Lowestoft) and a beruita (or subordinate manor) in Gernemutha (Yarmouth)” and corrected to: read “at Gernemutha (Yarmouth) and a beruita (or subordinate manor) in Lothu Wistoft (Lowestoft).” {17} Two lasts and two barrels. The value of salt herrings at this time was probably about 30s. a last, or £4 10s. of our present money. In 1295 fresh herrings sold at Yarmouth for 37s. a last. Swinden p. 922. Several salt works, (salinæ) are mentioned in Domesday at Caister and other places. The art of curing herrings by hanging and smoking them was apparently not practised until some two centuries after the conquest. {21} Turner’s History of the Anglo Saxons. {31} See Swinden p. 924. {32} Swinden p. 94. {33} Swinden, p. 300. Palmer, p. 43. {39} Swinden p. 221. {57} Built before 1553 by one “Katharine Mayde” Suckling’s Suffolk, Vol. II. pt. 5. p. 37. {66} Froude, Vol. 8, p. 434. {67a} Then. {67b} The right thing. {67c} Michaelmas. {67d} Pigs ears, &c. {67e} Ember-days. {70} See below, p. 74. {72} Not including the plague year, 1603, when the enormous number of deaths would give very misleading evidence of population. {77} Palmer’s Perlustration of Great Yarmouth vol. III. 252. {80} Swinden, p. 708. {85} Carlyle’s Letters of Oliver Cromwell 109. {90a} Gillingwater p. 31. {90b} p. 78. {92} Gill. p. 27 {93} Gill. 87. {94a} Gill p. 86. {94b} Gill. p. 100. {94c} Gill. 1st Edition, p. 243 {95} Swinden, p. 475. {99} Swinden, p. 334. {101} Gill., p. 50.