WHITISH

TISH

AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

ANCIENT TOWN AND PORT

OF

WISBECH,

IN THE ISLE OF ELY, IN THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGE,

AND OF THE CIRCUMJACENT

TOWNS AND VILLAGES,

THE DRAINAGE OF THE GREAT LEVEL OF THE FENS,

THE

ORIGIN OF THE ROYAL FRANCHISE OF THE ISLE OF ELY, &c.

WITH ENGRAVINGS.

BY

WILLIAM WATSON, Esq. F.A.S.

Sic toties versa es fortuna locorum

Vidi ego, quod fuerat quondam solidissima tellus,

Esse fretum, vidi factas, ex æquore terras.

Ovid's Met. xv. 261.

WISBECH:

PRINTED BY AND FOR H. AND J. LEACH.

SOLD ALSO BY RIVINGTONS, AND LONGMAN AND CO., LONDON.