M. S. D. Johannis Holt, _Equitis Aur_. _Totius Angliæ in Banco Regis_ _per_ 21 _Annos continuos_ Capitalis Justitiarii _Gulielmo Regi Annæqur Reginæ_ _Consiliarii perpetui_: _Libertatis ac Legum Anglicarum_ _Assertoris_, _Vindicis_, _Custodis_, _Vigilis Acris & intrepidi_, _Rolandus Frater Uncius & Hæres_ _Optime de se Merito_ _posuit_, _Die Martis Vto_. 1709. _Sublatus est_ _ex Oculis nostris_ _Natus_ 30 _Decembris_, _Anno_ 1642. When we come into Norfolk, we see a face of diligence spread over the whole country; the vast manufactures carried on (in chief) by the Norwich weavers employs all the country round in spinning yarn for them; besides many thousand packs of yarn which they receive from other countries, even from as far as Yorkshire and Westmoreland, of which I shall speak in its place. This side of Norfolk is very populous, and thronged with great and spacious market-towns, more and larger than any other part of England so far from London, except Devonshire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire; for example, between the frontiers of Suffolk and the city of Norwich on this side, which is not above 22 miles in breadth, are the following market-towns, viz.:— Thetford, Hingham, Harleston, Diss, West Dereham, E. Dereham, Harling, Attleborough, Watton, Bucknam, Windham, Loddon, etc. Most of these towns are very populous and large; but that which is most remarkable is, that the whole country round them is so interspersed with villages, and those villages so large, and so full of people, that they are equal to market-towns in other countries; in a word, they render this eastern part of Norfolk exceeding full of inhabitants. An eminent weaver of Norwich gave me a scheme of their trade on this occasion, by which, calculating from the number of looms at that time employed in the city of Norwich only, besides those employed in other towns in the same county, he made it appear very plain, that there were 120,000 people employed in the woollen and silk and wool manufactures of that city only; not that the people all lived in the city, though Norwich is a very large and populous city too: but, I say, they were employed for spinning the yarn used for such goods as were all made in that city. This account is curious enough, and very exact, but it is too long for the compass of this work.