Editing Ipswich (section)

===Early-modern era===
[[File:Early map of Ipswich published in 1780.jpg|thumb|Early map of Ipswich from Hodskinson's 1783 Map of Suffolk|alt=|left]]

During the 14th to 17th centuries Ipswich was a [[kontor]] for the [[Hanseatic League]], the port being used for imports and exports to the [[Baltic region|Baltic]].

In the time of [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary]] the [[Ipswich Martyrs]] were burnt at the stake on the Cornhill for their [[Protestant]] beliefs. A monument commemorating this event now stands in [[Christchurch Park]]. Ipswich was a printing, [[Bookselling|bookseller]] centre, and an entrepôt for continental books in the 16th century.<ref>King, John N. (1982) ''The English Reformation Literature: the Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition'' Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 100f. {{ISBN|9780691065021}}.</ref> From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major centre for emigration to [[New England]]. This was encouraged by the Town Lecturer, [[Samuel Ward (minister)|Samuel Ward]]. His brother [[Nathaniel Ward]] was first minister of [[Ipswich, Massachusetts|Ipswich]], Massachusetts, where a promontory was named 'Castle Hill' after the place of that name in north-west Ipswich, UK. Ipswich was also one of the main ports of embarkation for puritans leaving other [[East Anglia]]n towns and villages for the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] during the 1630s and what has become known as the [[Great Migration (Puritan)|Great Migration]].<ref>Thompson, Roger, Mobility & Migration, East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629–1640, Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1994</ref>

[[File:View of Ipswich from Christchurch Park c.1746-9.jpg|thumb|''View of Ipswich from [[Christchurch Park]]'' by [[Thomas Gainsborough]] {{circa|1746}}-49]]

The painter [[Thomas Gainsborough]] lived and worked in Ipswich. In 1835, [[Charles Dickens]] stayed in Ipswich and used it as a setting for scenes in his novel ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''. The hotel where he resided first opened in 1518; it was then known as The Tavern and later became known as the [[Great White Horse Hotel]]. Dickens made the hotel famous in chapter XXII of ''The Pickwick Papers'', vividly describing the hotel's meandering corridors and stairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dickens-online.info/the-pickwick-papers-page196.html |title=The Pickwick Papers|first=Charles|last=Dickens|publisher=Charles Dickens online|page=196}}</ref>