The first letter of Defoe’s Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain takes the reader through Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk: market towns, ports and fisheries, the cloth trade of Colchester and Norwich, Ipswich and Harwich, and the place where the martyr Rowland Taylor died. A diary of the siege of Colchester in 1648 is included.
A vivid snapshot of eastern England’s economy and towns three centuries ago. Download the free EPUB.