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LYN'LEY, a village in Skropfhire, north of Bilhop’s 
Cattle. 
LYNN, a river of England, which runs into the Oufe 
at Lynn Regis. 
LYNN, a river of America, in Norfolk county, Upper 
Canada, which rites in Windham townfhip, and difcharges 
itfelf into lake Erie, affording a good harbour for batteaux. 
LYNN, called Sagus by the'Indians, a maritime poft- 
town of North America, in Effex county, Maffachufetts, 
on a bay about nine miles north-by-eaft from the town of 
Bofton. The towntliip was incorporated in 1637, and 
contains 2837 inhabitants, in two parithes. The princi¬ 
pal manufacture is that of women’s filk and cloth fhoes, 
which are fold for home ufe, and Clipped to the fouthern 
fiates and to the Welt Indies. Lynn-beach, which is a 
mile in length, connects the peninfula, called Nahant, 
with the main land. In the fummer feafon it is a place of 
great refort from neighbouring towns, and ufed as a race- 
ground. 
LYNN CANAL', an inlet on the weft coaft of North 
America, and upper arm of Crofs Sound; extending 
about fxty miles north from the north extremity of Chat¬ 
ham Sound : fo named by Capt. Vancouver, from his na¬ 
tive place Lynn in Norfolk. Lat. 58.1a. N. Ion. of the 
entrance to the fouth 225. 12. E. 
LYNN RE'GIS, or King’s Lynn, a large refpedable 
fea-port, borough, and market.town, in the county of 
Norfolk, is fituated ten miles from the Britifh ocean, 
on the eaftern bank of the Great Oufe river, which at 
this place is nearly the breadth of the Thames above 
London-bridge. Camden was of opinion that Lynn de¬ 
rived its name from the Britifti word Lhynn, which means 
fpreading waters ; but Spelman affirms that the right name 
is Len, in Saxon “a Farm or Tenure in Fee;” and Len 
Epifcopi , as it was formerly called, meant “the Bifhop’s 
Farm.” It retained the name of BiJJiop's Lynn till the time 
of Henry VIII. who exchanged the monaltery of St. Ben- 
net in the Holme, and other lands, for the revenues of the 
bifhopric, when this town, among the reft, came into his 
hands, and, with the poffeffor, changed its name to Lynn 
Regis, or King’s Lynn. 
Lynn is a rich and populous town, containing 10,253 
inhabitants ; and is one mile and a quarter long from the 
fouth gate to the Block-houfe, and about half a mile from 
the river to the eaft gate, which is the broadeft part. It 
is encompaffed on the land-fide by a deep ditch and an an¬ 
cient wall, which was formerly defended by nine baftions, 
and it might now be made a place of confiderable ftrength. 
This town is divided by four fmall rivers, called Jleets, 
over which there are fifteen bridges ; and at the north end 
of it there is a platform of twelve cannon, (18-pounders), 
called St. Anne’s Fort. 
King John, becaufe it adhered to him againft the rebel¬ 
lious barons, made it a free borough ; and alfo prefented 
the corporation with an elegant double-gilt emboffed and 
enamelled filver-cup and cover, weighing feventy-three 
ounces, which is well preferved, and upon all public oc- 
cafions and entertainments ufed, with fome uncommon 
ceremonies, at drinking the health of the king and queen ; 
and whoever goes to vifit the mayor drinks out of this 
cup. He likewife gave them, from his own fide, itisfaid, 
a large fword with a filver mounting, to be carried before 
the mayor, who is chofen annually on the 29th of Auguft, 
and fworn into office on the 29th of September. Henry III. 
made it a mayor-to\yn,forits lerving him againft the barons. 
It has had fifteen royal chartsrs ; and is governed by a 
mayor, high-fteward, under-fteward, recorder, twelve al¬ 
dermen, and eighteen common-councilmen ; and fends 
two members. This borough was always attached to the 
Walpole family, under whole influence it continues at this 
time. Sir Robert Walpole was member for this place at 
the time of his famous expulfion, in 1711,-for alineating 
five hundred pounds of the public money; the words of 
his expulfion being “ for breach of truft, and notorious 
'corruption, when fecretary at war.” And it was refolved, 
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“ that he was, and is, incapable of being* elefted a mem¬ 
ber to ferve in parliament.” The debtors of Lynn, how¬ 
ever, choofe him again ; but the houfe declared the elec¬ 
tion void. The major is the returning-officer ; the num¬ 
ber of voters about 300. The members are—Lord Wal¬ 
pole, eldeft fonof the earl of Orford, and fir M. B. Folkes, 
bart. 
The harbour is capable of containing 300 fail of fhips. 
The fpring-tides flow nearly eighteen feet perpendicular; 
and, if at thofe times there happens to be a ftrong north¬ 
erly wind, they come in with fuch rapidity as to force the 
fhips in the harbour from their moorings, though they lie 
ten miles diftance from the fea. There are no frefn-water 
fprings in this town ; but the inhabitants are plentifully 
fupplied with that neceffary article from the Gaywood- 
river, by the water-works near the eaft gate, called Ket¬ 
tle-mill. 
St. Margaret the Virgin being the tutelary faint and pa- 
tronefs of this town, in honour of her, its arms are three 
dragons’ heads, each wounded with a crofs ; and its public 
and common feal is the effigies of St. Margaret Handing 
in a triumphant manner, wounding the dragon with a 
crofs, and treading him under foot, with this infcription 
round it : Slat Margaret a, draco Jngit in cruce laEla. The 
principal church is of courfe dedicated to St. Margaret; 
it was built by Herbert de Loiinga, bifliop of Norwich, 
about the year 1100; and then had a lofty lantern in the 
middle of the crofs aide, and at the weft end two towers, 
in one of which are eight bells; on the other there was 
a very elegant fpire, which, from the foundation, was 25S 
feet high, and equal to the length of the church and 
chancel; but this being blown down, in the year 1741, 
and greatly damaging the body of the church, the ruins 
were entirely taken down, when it was rebuilt with three 
large aifles, and is now one of the largeft parochial 
churches in England, the breadth of it to the outfide of 
the foundation of the walls being 130 feet.—St. Nicho¬ 
las’s chapel, fuppofed to have been built between the years 
1327 and 1377, in the reign of Edward III. is 200 feet 
long and 78 broad ; it is reckoned one of the faireft and 
largeft of the kind in England, and has a bell-tower of 
free-ftone, and an eight-fquare fpire over it, both which 
together are 70 feet from the ground. There is a library 
in it, that was erected by fubfcription ; alfo another at 
St. Margaret’s.—The chapel of Si. James, fince the diffo- 
lution of the priories, being in part demoliftied, and the 
reft become ruinous, was rebuilt in the year 1682, by the 
liberal benefa&ions of the mayor, burgeffes, and principal 
inhabitants, and converted into a workhoufe for fifty de¬ 
cayed old men, women, and poor children ; where good 
endowment and provifion is made for their work, inltruc- 
tion, an 3 maintenance, and for putting the children out 
to trades. Great additions have been made to this place ; 
and it is now the general workhoufe for the whole town. 
The Exchange, or Cuftom-houfe, which w>as erefted in 
1683, by fir John Turner, is a neat free-ftone building, with 
two tiers of pilafters, the lower in the Doric, and the up¬ 
per in the Ionic, order; it occupies the fcite of an old 
religious houfe, which was appropriated to the Trinity- 
guild. Two markets are held, on Tuefdays and Satur¬ 
days, in different places : the Tuefday market-place com- 
prifes an area of three acres, furrounded by fome good 
lioufes; near the centre, on an afcent of four fteps, Hands 
a building called the Market-crofs, of free-ftone, erected 
in the year 1710; the lower part is encompaffed by a peri- 
ftyle formed by ffxteen Ionic columns; the upper part is 
finifhed with a cupola, and the whole is feventy feet in 
height. The Saturday market is kept in a convenient 
area recently opened near St. Margaret’s church-yard. 
The Guildhall is an ancient ftrufture of ftone and flint; 
it contains a large ftone hall, courts for the adminiftration 
of juftice, and three fpacious affembly-rooms. By the fe- 
cond charter of king Henry VIII, to this town, in the 
twenty-ninth year of his reign, two fairs or marts were 
granted: one to be held on Aug. 27, (fince changed to 
the 
