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Lynn Priest Makes National History
One-time Lynn priest at St Margaret’s, William Sawtry, was the first person in England to be officially burned alive for heresy. He was executed at […]
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- The Lost Friaries of Lynn: Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and More
- A Lot of Executions (Mainly Medieval)
- Sir John Oldcastle: Both Hanged and Burned
- The Civil War Siege of King’s Lynn, 1643
- A Self-Help Guide: Dying Well
- King’s Lynn’s Town Hall Complex
- The King’s Lynn Storm of 1741
- He Came, He Saw, He Pillaged
- Valentine Walton: Cromwell’s Man Who Held King’s Lynn
- The Woman of the Bedchamber in King’s Lynn
- A Gentleman of Vision: Henry Bell and the Shaping of 17th-Century King’s Lynn
- A Political Revolution in Tudor Lynn
- Fighting The Spanish From King’s Lynn
- Sir Hamon L’Estrange: The Hunstanton Royalist Who Shaped The Fate Of King’s Lynn
- Lynn Before 1066: A Re-evaluation
- Charles Burney: The Scholar Who Learned To Like King’s Lynn
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- Harriet Fox: Saved By The False Hair In King’s Lynn
- The Bishop of Norwich, the Sheep, and the Unholy War
- King’s Lynn’s Medieval Street Names
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- Hanging in Chains
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- Capturing the King: the First Battle of Lincoln
- King’s Lynn’s Special Windmill
- Herbert de Losinga
- A Lot of Digging: Eau Brink Cut
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- The Walks, King’s Lynn: Pilgrims, Promenade, and Parkour
- The Perpetual Prison of Lynn’s White Martyrs
- Castle Rising Castle
- Three Women And A Castle
- The Fight And The King’s Lynn Treasure: St Nicholas’
- Yes, Minster
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- The Man, The Galloper, And The Ice Cream Cone
- The Wars of the Roses: A Summary and Study Guide
- Distant Ideas In Lynn Part Two: Thomas Thoresby
- Distant Ideas In Lynn Part One: William Sawtry
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- Pirates Threaten Lynn
- The Wicked Farmer And Other Errors
- John Wesley: Reluctant Revolutionary Enriches Lynn
- Thomas Of Lynn
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- The Lynn Man, The Pub, and The Ruptured Spleen
- Saving the King: the Second Battle of Lincoln
- The Alleged Witches Of Lynn
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- The Cry, The Murder, Lynn And The Bard
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- The Leaning Tower of Lynn
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- John Capgrave
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- Lynn Mayor Cheats Customs For Years
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- The Hanging and the Two Survivors
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- King’s Lynn’s Compass
- Lynn Lost A Chantry
- King’s Lynn’s Contradictory Window
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- Lynn Priest Makes National History
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- The House, The Bank, And The Arctic Ice
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- Executions in King’s Lynn
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- Sir Benjamin Keene
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- Big Changes to the River and to the Town of Lynn
- King John Had At Least Three Very Cunning Plans
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- Castle Rising’s She-Wolf Revisited (2 of 2)
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- Hanseatic League and King’s Lynn (1 of 3)
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