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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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![longed to the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, who, about seventeen years after, on what occasion does not appear, relinquished their right and claim to it, by a formal deed to that purpose, a copy of which is given below. * This was about the year 1566. + From that petiod itlay, probably, in ruins till 1581, when it was, at the expense of the corporation, prepared and made a * Be it known unto all menby these presents, that we Jolz Salis- bury, dean of the cathedral church of the holy undividable trinity of Norwich, and chapter of the same church, have remised, released, and clearly for ever, for us and our successors, quit claim, and do hy these presents remise, release, and quit claim to the mayor of the burgh of Lynn Regis, and to the burgesses of the same; and also to Robert Ger= vise and Join Towers, all manner of quarrels, trespasses, variances, controversies, debates, and demands, which we have, and ought to have, for the Lead, Glass, Bells, Ircn, Brass, Laten, Timber and Stones, of the Crape! of St. James in King’s Lynn aforesaid, for all and every other cause and causes whatsoever, concerning the same Chapel. In witness whereof to these presents, We the said Dean and Chapter have set our chapter seal this 8th day of January, in the 8th. year of the reign of Elizabeth, by the yrace of God, Queen of England, France, and Jreland, Defender of the Faith, &c. REGISTRATOR. Sealed and delivered, to the use of the Mayor and Burgesses of King’s Lynn, and Robert Jervis and John Towers, in the presence of John Debney of Norwich, David Coytmor, Alexander Auger, and Richard Lasher.’’ [ Mackerell, 217.] + In 1560, five or six years anterior to the date of the above deed, as we learn from Mackerell, ‘‘several gentlemen came to Lynn, ant would have taken the state of St. James’s church, by order of the Councils Letters, but were opposed and resisted by the corporation.” But if they actually came by the authority of the privy council, as the aboye seems to imply, it must be rather odd that the corporation should venture to oppose and resist them: but so it is said. see Mac- kerell 227.—The same writer says, p. 177. that in 1567 the pinnacle of St. James’schapel, (by which we may suppose he meant the spire of it,) ‘*was taken down, and the steeple built flat.”? So that the tower appears to have been left for some time in its original state, after the chief part of the chapel had been pulled down.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29326618_0001_0590.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
