NOTE J.—(_Page 67._) KING’S LYNN IN THE 18TH CENTURY. “This beautiful and large Town standeth towards the Mouth of the Great Ouse.” “The Goodness of its Situation affords a great Advantage to Traffick and Commerce, having a commodious large Harbour, capable of containing two hundred Sail of Ships, and several navigable Rivers falling into it from Eight several Counties by which means divers Capital Cities and Towns therein, viz.: _Peterborough, Ely, Stamford, Bedford, St. Ives, Huntingdon, St. Neots, Northampton, Cambridge, St. Edmund’s Bury, Thetford_, etc., are served with all sorts of heavy Commodities, as Coal from Newcastle, Salt from Lymington, Deals, Firr-timber, all sorts of Iron, Wines, etc., Imported hither from beyond the Sea; and from these parts great Quantities of Wheat, Rye, Oats, Cole-seed, Barley, etc., are brought down these Rivers, whereby a great foreign and inland Trade is maintained, the Breed of Sea-men increased, and the Customs and Revenues of the Town very much advanced.” But Lynn, as a port, seems then to have been declining, in comparative importance, for Mackerell says on p. 188:— “The Port is reckon’d Commodious, but the Trade of the Northern Coast is almost ruin’d by the Southern and Western having ingrossed it to their own great Advantage.”—_History and Antiquities of King’s Lynn_, by B. MACKERELL, Gent., London, 1738. NOTE K.—(_Pages 74, 409._)[*] THE CAMP OF REFUGE SURRENDERED. (_From Historia Eliensis, lib. sec._) 109. “_Quod monachi Elyensis clementiam regis adierunt et de atrocitate itineris exercitus et equorum ejus._