Here we bid farewell to castle halls, to the ghosts of belted knights and hooded dames, to spinning wheels and tapestries, falcons, jennets, tournaments, and banquets, to the border’s bord upon the skirting of his lord’s domain, the serf’s log hut, the cowherd’s shed, and the prisoner’s dungeon,—the moat, once deep and flowing, now dried up, and teeming with cultivated trees and shrubs, and ornamental flowers, and sculptured figures,—we say adieu to the past history, written on the flints and mortar of the ramparts, that have braved the “battle and the breeze,” for near a thousand years,—and leave the soaring heights, whence we may look down upon the little city world below as on a stage, whose scenes and slips are all laid bare beneath us in their skeleton machinery—dark lanes and lumbering alleys crowded round, and shut in out of sight, by facial frontings of glass, and brick, and plaster. Churches and heaped-up churchyards, bursting their walls with the accumulated corruption of centuries of generations,—distant villages and village spires,—and spots made sacred by the blood of hero-martyrs,—the winding river, once the stormy sea-passage for Norsemen and Saxon fleets—and take one final leave of the giant mound,—whose origin, whether first reared in Celtic ages far remote, a temple to the Sun, or a portion of the far-famed Icknild Way, that crosses our island like a belt from south-west to north-east, whether the architecture of Danes, Saxons, or Normans, is alike full of history and of poetry, and the well garnered store-house of many a rich and precious truth,—a monument of the past, ever present to our eye, as a landmark by which to measure the progress of our nation in religion, freedom, and social happiness. CHAPTER IV. THE MARKET-PLACE. _Market-place_.—_Present aspect_.—_Visit to its stalls_.—_Norfolk Marketwomen_.—_Christmas Market_.—_Early History_.—_Extracts from old records_.—_Domestic scene of 13th century_.—_Early Crafts_.—_Guilds_.—_Medley of Historical Facts_.—_Extract from Diary of Dr. Edward Browne_.—_The City in Charles the Second’s reign_.—_Duke’s Palace Gardens_.—_Manufactures_.—_Wool_.—_Worsted_.—_Printing_.—_Caxton_.— _Specimens of Ancient Newspapers_.—_Blomefield_.