_Account of the monasteries and religious houses formerly here_. SECT. 1. Account of the house of _Benedictines_ in priory 489 lane, with a sketch of that religious order. SECT. 2. Account of the convent of the _Carmelites_ or 493 White Friars, with a sketch of that order. SECT. 3. Account of the convent of the _Franciscans_, 498 Friars Minors, or Grey Friars, with a sketch of that order. SECT. 4. Account of the convent of the _Dominicans_ or 503 Black Friars, with a sketch of that order. SECT. 5. Account of the convent of the Augustinians, or 513 Austin Friars, with a sketch of that older. SECT. 6. Of the Friars de Penitentia, or brothers of 519 repentance, and their convent here—also the college of Priests, and the hospital and church of St. John. SECT. 7. Account of _St. Mary Magdalen’s Hospital_, Lazar 530 Houses, St. Lawrence’s Hospital &c. SECT. 8. Of the _Red Mount_ and our Lady’s chapel 554 there—also her chapel by the Bridge, and the chapels of St. Ann, St. Catherine, and St. Lawrence. SECT. 9. Account of _St. James’s Chapel_ (now the 564 Workhouse) from its first erection, in the 12th. century, to the present time; including an account of the _management of the in-door pensioners there_, as well as the out-door ones, and our present enormous _poor-rates_. CHAP. VII. _Brief_ Biographical _notices of the most remarkable and 585 distinguished personages who appeared among the inhabitants of Lynn in the intervening period between the Conquest and Reformation_. _Nicholas—Sawtre—Alan—Wallys—Baret—De Bittering—Wentworth—Petipas—Miller_. Postscript or supplement to the History of the Royal Touch PART I. INTRODUCTION. CHAP. I. Site of Lynn—Account of its harbour, and that of Wisbeach—Ancient and present state of its rivers—Inland Navigation—Drainage—Projects of improvement—State of its shipping, commerce, and population, at different periods. SECTION I. _Situation of the town—its distance from the sea_, _&c.—its harbour—river Ouse and its tributary streams_. LYNN is situated on the eastern side of Marshland, and of the Great Level, or Fen Country, about 12 miles from the Sea, 42 from Norwich, 46 from Cambridge, and 98 from London. {1} It stands partly on each side of the Ouse, but chiefly on its eastern banks; though it is supposed to have stood originally all on the opposite shore, and hence that part of it is still called _Old Lynn_.