Chapter XXI: Part I

King's Lynn--The Globe Hotel--English hotels--Reform
necessary but difficult--Centre of exploration in
adjacent country--Early history of Lynn--Little
known--Not Roman--Important in the eleventh
century--Formerly Lynn Episcopi--Lynn Regis since Henry
VIII--Chapel of Red Mount--Stopping-place for
pilgrims--"King John's" cup and sword--Possibly that of
King John of France--Early prosperity of
Lynn--Contribution against the Armada--Lynn during the
Civil War--Sir Hamon le Strange--Cromwell at siege of
Lynn--Custom-house and Guildhall--A city of
merchants--Lynn and Eugene Aram--Bulwer's novel and the
facts--Was Aram guilty?--The theatre--Sea-faring
men--To Peterborough via Wisbech--Its association with
the Fens--The cathedral--Cathedrals as books in
stone--Crowland.