celebrity of the smeeth—decoys. SECT. 11. Brief remarks on the parish churches of 87 Marshland and Holland; with a short sketch of the history of the castle and town of Wisbeach. SECT. 12. History of Wisbeach continued. 99 SECT. 13. Additional account of Marshland—Parkin—bishop of 112 Ely’s manor in Terrington—queen Henrietta—admiral Bentinck—cross keys demolishers of banks prosecuted and suppressed—high tides—destructive inundations—principal divisions of Marshland. SECT. 14. Biographical sketches of some of the most 121 distinguished personages of other times in Marshland and its vicinity. CHAP. III. _Of the parts about Lynn_, _on the eastern side of the Ouse_. SECT. 1. Aspect of the country—its agriculture and rural 135 economy—Wayland wood—memoir of Shuckforth—parish churches and other edifices, ancient and modern. SECT. 2. Further account of cables, edifices, and places 146 of ancient note in these parts—Brancaster—Rising—Hunston—Castle-acre—Wormegay— Middleton—Gaywood, &c. SECT. 3. Account of modern palaces, and other notable 162 mansions in these parts—Houghton—Holkham—Rainham—Narford—Narborough—Oxborough SECT. 4. Biographical sketches of some of the most 174 celebrated or memorable personages who were of this part of the country—Coke—Sir Henry and Sir John Spelman—L’Estrange—Walpole—Fountain—Folkes—Horace Walpole—Nelson—Bewley. SECT. 5. Of the animals, and particularly the birds, of 193 this country SECT. 6. Brief account of places hereabout, before 201 omitted—Sechey—Runcton—Downham—Denver—Helgay—Southery— Feltwell—Methwold—Stoke, &c. Feltwell new-fen-district—Fincham—Swaffham—Babingley—Sharnborne— great malthouse—Hunston Light-house &c. PART II. OF THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF LYNN, WITH A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY FROM ITS FIRST RISE TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST. CHAP. I. _Of Lynn while Britain formed a part of the Roman empire_. SECT. 1. Present town or borough of Lynn of no great 213 antiquity—its site not the same with that of the original town—the probable site of the latter, and era of its origin. SECT. 2. Digression relating to the first introduction of 216 Christianity into Britain—Bardism. SECT 3. Ancient history of Lynn continued—town supposed to 220 have been founded by a colony of foreigners introduced by the Romans—etymology of its name—mistakes of Camden, Spelman, &c. SECT. 4. Lynn the mother-town of the fens—further account 223 of its supposed founders and original inhabitants—remarkable works executed by them—great improvers of the country—account continued to the extinction of the Roman power. CHAP. II.