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 viâ Wisbech--Its association with the Fens--The cathedral--Cathedrals as books in stone--Crowland.