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he following lines, which I met with in a poem composed some years since, may serve for an Introduction to the history of this place:

Sitomagus,, Tedford, Tetford, Tefford, Theford, and Thetford, as it is now called, was a place formerly of great redown, and now to be taken notice of for its great antiquity; who were the first wise people that made choice of its commodious situation, whether a colony of the Senones, an ancient people of Gaul, or the Sitones, an ancient people of Germany, I cannot certainly learn; but am apt to conclude that it was a place of note before the coming of the Romans into this isle, and doubt not but the name Sitomagus was given it long before they ever set foot in the place; for vol. ii.