Features of Berwick in text and image give a sense of its history.
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Thomas Rugg was a wealthy cloth-dealer or mercer who traded between London and Scotland. He and his wife Jane moved to Berwick in 1562 and in 1563 he was made a Freeman, with permission to trade from a shop in the street.
In 1337 a ship belonging to Walter Brekheved of [King's] Lynn, carrying grain for Berwick, 'was driven by a storm against a wall called Holdman, with such force that she broke ...
