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. PART II To Castle Rising--Once a port--Once a borough--The keep and surroundings--The mystery of the earthworks--Not Roman probably--A suggestion--Robert de Montault's feud with Lynn--Rising and the She Wolf of France--Not so harshly imprisoned after all--Wolferton--Sandringham--Always beautiful country--The house--Sports and pastimes of royalty--Dersingham--Snettisham--The Hunstantons and the Le Stranges--"Twthill"--A suggested derivation--Brancaster--The Peddars way--The Saxon pirates--Brancaster described by Mr. Haverfield--Excavation needed--Burnham Deepdale--Burnham Thorpe--The birthplace of Nelson--To Fakenham--Rainham Hall--The early Townshends--Elmhan--Once seat of bishopric--Earthworks--East Dereham and George Borrow--His description--Cowper--Swaffham--The first Coursing Club--Castle Acre--The Castle's story clear--That of the earthworks all darkness.