Some books consulted--"Murray" useless to motorists: proceeds by rail and observes county boundaries--Arthur Young's _Six Weeks' Tour_ dull--Leland's _Itinerary_ a mass of undigested notes--_The Paston Letters_ full of excellence--Start from Abingdon--The six-cylinder Rolls-Royce--Freedom from trouble--Hopes and Nemesis--Abingdon to Thame, a bad cross-country route--Thame to Royston direct--The gate of East Anglia--The "Cave"--Royston's broad hint to James I--To Newmarket--Straight road and abundant game--The mystery of the Hoodie Crow--Wild creatures and motor-cars--Weather Heath--Appropriate name--Value of tree "belts"--Scotch fir hedges--- Elvedon Hall and its game--Best use for such land--Enter Norfolk--Warrens and heaths--Thetford--Its story--Its Mound--Mr. Rye's theory dissipated by the learned--Windmills in East Anglia--Thomas Paine a Thetford man--Euston unvisited--Attleborough--Wymondham's twin towers--Their origin--Religious houses and popular risings--Kett's Rebellion--Curious legend on a house--Stanfield Hall--Its grim tragedy--A monograph quoted--Wholesale murders and a famous trial--Extraordinary cunning of the criminal--To Norwich and the "Maid's Head." [Illustration: IPSWICH PORT] During the interval between the first and second tours in East Anglia many books, more or less promising of material, were read. Of these books it will be prudent to say a little before recording an expedition in which East Anglia was attacked, so to speak, amidships. Many of them it is needless to mention, though some will come in for passing reference. The first was Murray's Handbook to Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, which is well-planned, having regard to the needs of its age, and well, no less than learnedly, written; but it was published more than thirty years ago, and is therefore rather out of date as to some of its facts, and for motorists absolutely obsolete in its method. It proceeds, for the most part, county by county; its routes are railway routes; it almost ignores roadside scenery, and it enlarges, very usefully sometimes, upon the internal details of churches and of other edifices, with which the motorist can rarely be concerned; for, as it is not intelligent to hurry through the country always, so it is not motoring to "potter" at every place. The good "Murray" is really rather embarrassing to the motorist. Let me illustrate. Scole, mentioned in the last chapter, is a little more than two miles from Yaxley, on the Roman road. A brief account of Scole is found on p. 183. If Yaxley were mentioned at all (and it is worth mentioning, for the sake of its church, in a guide-book pure and simple) it would find a place in some Suffolk route, for only very occasionally does the guide-book writer allow even a railway to transport him across a county boundary. Amongst other