DEREHAM-EAST, (Norfolk) or Market-Dereham, 83 cm. 97 mm. from London, is a fair large T. with abundance of hamlets bel. to
it, which was formerly almost burnt down to the ground. In the R. of Q. Eliz. it bel. to the Bps. of Ely, but was
afterwards in the crown, being part of the settlement made upon Q. Catherine wife of Cha. II. Sir Charles Herbert,
surveyor-general farmed it, and afterwards purchased the reversion. Its Mt. is on F. and Fair June 22, Here was formerly a
nunnery.