Great Yarmouth, the principal port of Norfolk and a major centre of the herring fishing industry, was reviewed as part of the 1539 coastal defence programme. Though the immediate threat in 1539 was from France and the Holy Roman Empire, Yarmouth had suffered from both French and Genoese raiding during the Hundred Years War and the town walls needed investment. The 1539 muster was the first systematic military review of Yarmouth defences in the Tudor period.
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