persecution; in 1647, he
retired to a little estate he rented at Heigham, where he died in
September, 1656, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church
there; he was by foreigners stiled the English Seneca; his works are
numerous, which are collected and printed in three volumes, folio.

Norwich is 108 miles from London by Newmarket, 110 by Colchester, 114 by
Bury St. Edmunds, and it is a remarkable fact, that Norwich, Bury and
Lynn, form an equilateral triangle, each side measuring 42 miles, it is
also 43 miles from Ipswich, and 24 from Yarmouth. The soil of Norwich is
mixed the upper stratum is light of sufficient depth for the plough upon
chalk, gravel and sand; the air is remarkably salubrious, it is screened
from the easterly wind by Moushold Heath, and abound in springs of water
of the purest kind.

There are five Banks in Norwich, which draw upon London, viz.--

_Messrs. Gurney's_, St. Michael at Plea, upon BARCLAY'S, TRITTON and
BEVAN, No. 56, Lombard-street.

_Messrs. Harvey_ and _Hudson's_, King-street, upon HANKEY and Co. No. 7.
Fenchurch-street.

_Messrs. Ketts_ and _Back_, Orford-hill, upon HOARE, BARNETTS and Co. No.
62, Lombard-street.

_Starling_, _Day_ and _Son_, Pottergate-street, on FORSTER, LUBBOCK and
Co. No. 11, Mansion-House-street.

_Thomas Bignold_, _Son_ and_ Co._ Market-place, upon STEPHENSON'S,
REMINGTON'S, SMITH and Co. No. 69, Lombard-street.

_List of MAYORS during the last Century_.

1701, John Hall. 1702, John Atkinson. 1703, John Freeman. 1704,
William Blyth. 1705, William Thacker. 1706, William Cooke. 1707, Peter
Seaman. 1708, Thomas Havers. 1709, Mathew Nall. 1710, Robert Bene.
1711, William Cockman. 1712, John Goose. 1713, Nicholas Helwys. 1714,
John Norman. 1715, Peter Attelsey. 1716, Augustus Metcalf. 1717, R.
Lubbock, died--T. Bubbin, died, A. Parmenter succeeded. 1718, Richard
Mott. 1719, John Hall. 1720, Edward Coleburne. 1721, Benjamin Nuthall.
1722, Thomas Newton. 1723, Edmund Hunton. 1724, John Croshold. 1725,
Daniel Fromanteel. 1726, John Custance. 1727, John Harvey. 1728,
Thomas Harwood. 1729, John Black. 1730, John Pell. 1731, Robert Marsh.
1732, Francis Arnam. 1733, Jeremiah Ives. 1734, Phillip Meadows. 1735,
Thomas Vere. 1736, Timothy Balderstone. 1737, John Spurrell. 1738,
Robert Harvey. 1739, William Clark. 1740, John Nuthall. 1741, Edward
King. 1742, William Wiggett. 1743, James Nasmith. 1744, John Bla