KING’S LYNN, NORFOLK (formerly called LYNN) © Stanbury/Raguin/MMK

1. King’s Lynn, Map of Borough of King’s Lynn, 1102-1537. After E.M. Beloe, F.S.A., Our Borough: Our Churches: King’s Lynn, Norfolk (Cambridge, 1899).

1a. Plan of Lynn in Norfolk. Note: Market Place, St. Margaret’s still with Charnel Chapel on north side of facade, remains of the transept of St. James now in its function as the Work House, White Friars showing the ruins of its gate. After William Richards, The History of Lynn (Lynn, 1812), 2 vols

2. Map of King’s Lynn made in 1581, during the reign of Elizabeth 1. After H. Harrod, Esq. F.S.A., Report on the Deeds & Records of the Borough of King’s Lynn (King’s Lynn, 1874).

2a. Seal of the Borough of Lynn, Obverse: St. Margaret trampling the Dragon: SUB MARGARETA TERITUR DRACO, STAT CRUCE LAETA. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844).

2b.  Seal of the Borough of Lynn, Reverse: Eagle, Symbol of St. John the Evangelist  On scroll in eagle’s claws IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM.  On border, SIGILLUM COMMUNITATIS LENNIE. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844).

2c.Seal of the Mayor of Lynn, Obverse: St. Margaret trampling the Dragon, Arms of Lynn: Azure three dragons heads erected and erased, from their mouths as many crosses crosslet fitchy or.  Inscription: sigillum decretum maioratus lennie. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844).

2d. Arms of Lynn, Azure three dragons heads erected and erased, from their mouths as many crosses crosslet fitchy or. After Holcombe Ingleby, Lynn, Its Myths and Traditions, King’s Lynn, 1925).

3.  King’s Lynn, Guild Hall built 1421-3, with refitted window, gable, and porch ca. 1580.

3a.  King’s Lynn, Guild Hall built 1421-3, original condition. After H. Harrod, Esq. F.S.A., Report on the Deeds & Records of the Borough of King’s Lynn (King’s Lynn, 1874).

3b. Seal of the St. George’s Guild, Obverse: St. George Slaying the Dragon, Sigillum fraternitatus Sct. georgii martitis tent in eclia Scc margarete lenn epi. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). Founded in the reign of Henry IV by John Brandon, Batholomew Sistern and John Snailwell.  To maintain two chaplains to pray for King.
 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Furnishings

• Cotman, John Sell, Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Nortfolk (London: George G. Bohn, 1838).
• Fox-Davis, Arthur Charles, A Complete Guide to Heraldry (London: Bracken Books, 1929, repr. 1993).
• Macklin, Herber W. , The Brasses of England (London: Methuen & Co., 1907).
• Remnant,  G. L. , A Catalogue of Misericords in Great Britain (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1969), St. Margaret’s, 102-3.
• Tracy, Charles, English Gothic Choir Stalls 1200-1400 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1987) and id. English Gothic Choir Stalls 1400-1540 (1990).Choir stalls: At St. Margaret’s: Tracy 1987, 65, pls. 213, 214c.At St. Nicholas, a choir stall completed 1418, now in Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Tracy 1990, 12, 25, 36, pl. 87
• Trivick, Henry H., The Craft and Design of Monumental Brasses (London: John Baker, 1969).

• Beloe, E.M. , F.S.A., Our Borough: Our Churches: King’s Lynn, Norfolk (Cambridge, 1899).
• Harrod, H.  Esq., F.S.A., Report on the Deeds & Records of the Borough of King’s Lynn (King’s Lynn, 1874).
• Hillen, Henry J.,  A History of the Borough of King’s Lynn, 2 vols. (Norwich, 1907).
• Mackerell, Benjamin, The History and Antiquities of the Flourishing Corporation of King's Lynn (London: E. Cave, 1738).
• Taylor, William, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844).