By a general account of the Poor-Rate taken in 1776, it appears, that the city and county of Norwich pays £12,403 15s. 2d.
It is not unworthy of remark, that there are sixteen public clocks in this City, the dial-plates of which are said to front the Cardinal points, four each way.
CORRECT LIST of the PARISHES in NORWICH.
With the present Incumbents and Patrons.
Parish. | Incumbent. | Patron. | ||
St. Andrew | C. | Jacob Mountain, in litigation | 1782 | The Inhabitants |
St. Benedict | R. or P. C. | Richard Tapps | 1737 | Ditto |
St. Clement at the Bridge | R. | Charles Carver | 1766 | Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge |
St. Augustine | R. | John Brooke, D.D. | 1733 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. Giles | R. or P. C. | John Smyth, D.D. | 1781 | Ditto |
St. Edmund | R. | Thomas Beckwith | 1781 | Rev. Thomas Beckwith |
St. Etheldred | C. | John Brooke, D.D. | 1746 | Mayor and Aldermen of Norwich |
St. George Colegate | C. | Richard Tapps | 1752 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. George Tombland | C. | John Green | 1756 | Bishop of Ely |
St. Gregory | C. | Michael Brown | 1781 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. Helen, in Holm-street | C. | Thomas Wigg Hancock | 1775 | Mayor and Aldermen of Norwich |
St. John Maddermarket | R. | Henry Bathurst, D.D. | 1775 | New College, Oxford |
St. John Sepulchre | C. | Ephraim Megoe | 1738 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. John Timberhill | C. | John Walker | 1781 | Ditto |
St. James | C. | James William Newton | 1776 | Ditto |
All Saints, with St. Julian and St. Edward | R. | Stephen Buckle, jun. | 1768 | Charles Buckle, Esq; |
St. Lawrence | R. | Robert Parr | 1775 | The Crown |
St. Mary in Coslany | C. | Stephen Buckle | 1761 | Lord Viscount Townshend |
St. Margaret Westwick | R. | John Blackburn | 1739 | Bishop of Norwich |
C. | Ephraim Megoe | 1733 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich | |
St. Martin by the Palace | C. | Thomas Beckwith | 1781 | Ditto |
St. Michael Coslany | R. | Samuel Story | 1774 | Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge |
St. Michael at Pleas | R. | Thomas Wigg Hancock | 1775 | Sir Lambert Blackwell, Bart. |
St. Michael at Thorn | P. C. | Daniel Fromanteel | 1762 | Earl of Buckinghamshire |
St. Paul | C. | James William Newton | 1776 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. Peter per Mountergate | C. | John Walker | 1781 | Ditto |
St. Peter of Mancroft | C. | John Peele, upper Minster Hen. Harington, under Min. | 1767 1781 | Feoffees and Inhabitants |
St. Peter of Hungate | C. | Thomas Pryce, Cur. and Seq. | 1774 | Bishop of Norwich |
St. Peter of Southgate | C. | John Brooke, D.D. | 1738 | Ditto |
St. Saviour | C. | Richard Tapps | 1752 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. Simon and Jude | R. | John Burcham | 1736 | Bishop of Norwich |
St. Stephen | V. | Henry Carrington | 1773 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
St. Swithin | C. | John Blackburn | 1738 | Bishop of Norwich |
St. Mary in the Marsh | C. | James Willins | 1771 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
Hamlets within theLiberties of the City and County. | ||||
Earlham | V. | John Offley | 1758 | Edward Bacon, Esq; |
Eaton | V. | Michael Brown | 1781 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
Heigham | R. | Robert Parr | 1781 | Bishop of Norwich |
Lakenham | V. | Charles Millard | 1772 | Dean and Chapter of Norwich |
Part of the Parishes of Hellesden, Catton, Sprowston, Thorpe, and Trowse, belong to the county of the city of Norwich, viz. Trowse-Millgate, Carrowe, Bracondale, &c.
Norwich, 43 miles north of Ipswich, 42 east of Lynn-Regis, and 108 miles from London, near the conflux of the Yare, and another river called the Wensom; 30 miles from the sea by water, and 18 by land; is a famous ancient city, which had a castle so long ago as the 7th century. It was even in Cambden’s time reckoned among the most considerable cities in Britain, for the industry of its citizens, their loyalty to their prince, and civility to foreigners; as well as for its wealth, number of people, and the neatness of their buildings.
It stands on the side of a hill, one mile and a half from north to south, but little more than half as broad. It was first destroyed, by Sweno the Dane, but recovered so soon, that, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, it had 1320 burghers; but in the reign of William the Conqueror, it being the seat of a civil war raised against him by the earl of the East-Angles, it was so impaired at to be reduced to 560 at most.
The Cathedral was founded here in 1096, by Herbert Lozinga, on the translation of the bishop’s see hither from Thetford.
This place was built anew and first made a corporation by king Stephen, who granted it to his son for an appendage; but Henry II. took it from him, though Henry his son, then aspiring to the crown, had fully promised it to Hugh Bigot, earl of Norfolk, who miserably harrassed the city, and is thought to have rebuilt the castle on the hill, which is encompassed with a very deep trench, over which there is a strong bridge, of one very large arch; but Lewis of France, under whom the barons confederated against king John, besieged and took it.