Excerpt from The Norfolk Tour, or Traveller's Pocket Companion: Being a Concise Description of All the Principal Towns, Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats, and Other Remarkable Places, in the County of Norfolk; Compiled From the Most Authentic Historians and Modern Travellers, and Corrected to the Present Time Pofi Roads, to many of the principal cities and manufacturing towns in England, will, lam perfuaded, prove extenfively ufeful, and very mail. 'i he Parochial Lift of the inhabitants at different periods, and the Tables of Baptifins and Burials in Norwich, from i7.io to 1743 and to 1794, have been extracted from manufcript papers, and regular returns for the lafi eleven years. The Lifts of Knights of the Shire, and Re pret'entatives for the City, from the Refio ration to the prefent time, with the fiate of the poll at each contcfied Election, have in part been taken from different ms. Co pies, compared with each other, and I be lieve are not to be found complete in any other printed book. The Biography has been confiderably enlarged; and in thort, from the new materials interfperfed through almofi every part, fince the publication of the Fourth Edition, in 1786, this may perhaps more properly be called a new work, than the revifal of an old one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.