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The history of Lynn. Civil, ecclesiastical, political, commercial, biographical, municipal, and military, from the earliest accounts to the present time / To which is prefixed a copious introductory account of the ancient and modern state of Marshland, Wisbeach, and the Fens. By William Richards.
- William Richards
- Date:
- 1812
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of Lynn. Civil, ecclesiastical, political, commercial, biographical, municipal, and military, from the earliest accounts to the present time / To which is prefixed a copious introductory account of the ancient and modern state of Marshland, Wisbeach, and the Fens. By William Richards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Section VIII. Of the Red Mount, and our Lady's Chapel there—also her C hapel by the Bridge which still bears her name-—St. Ann's Chapel, with those of St. Catherine, Sé. Lawrence, Sc. From the particular situation of the Red Moent, (on _ the out-side of the town-walls, and within the wet: foss which flanked those walls,) there can be litle doubt of its being once a small fortress, or fortified and castel- lated place; so that it might without much impropriety be denominated a castle. What will farther corrobo- rate this opinion is a fact noticed among our remark able or memorable occurences, that in 1469 king Ed- lodged inthis place; from which it may be very natu- rally interred and concluded,’ that it was then well for- tified ; for the king in his then situation, (retreating before Warwick,) would hardly have been lodged with- out the walls in an unfortified place. rom the same pre- mises it may be likewise fairly inferred, that it was also a large and sumptuous structure—Lidward’s numerous t : retinue requiring it to be of the former description, and his royal dignity of the latter: . had it been small it could not have accommodated so large a company, and. had it been mean, the king would not have been Jodged — there —* But however strong, large, or sce Sawai We * The author of the Norfolk Tour, speaking of the Red Mount, gives the following account of the said king’s visit to this place—— When Edw. IV. and his brother, the duke of Gloster, fled before the great earl of Warwick, on passing the Washes in Lincolnshire, at an im- proper time, they lost their baggage and money; and arriving at Lynn, - October 2. 1470, [other accounts say 1469] lodged one night in this building, which the historian erroneously alls a cast/e.”” [But the his- torlan was, perhaps, more correct than his corrector. | ;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29326618_0001_0574.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
