[565a] Parkin, 140.
[565b] Parkin, as before.
[566a] “Be it known unto all men by these presents, that we John Salisbury, dean of the cathedral church of the holy undividable trinity of Norwich, and chapter of the same church, have remised, released, and clearly for ever, for us and our successors, quit claim, and do by these presents remise, release, and quit claim to the mayor of the burgh of Lynn Regis, and to the burgesses of the same; and also to Robert Gervise and John Towers, all manner of quarrels, trespasses, variances, controversies, debates, and demands, which we have, and ought to have, for the Lead, Glass, Bells, Iron, Brass, Laten, Timber and Stones, of the Chapel of St. James in King’s Lynn aforesaid, for all and every other cause and causes whatsoever, concerning the same Chapel. In witness whereof to these presents, We the said Dean and Chapter have set our chapter seal this 8th day of January, in the 8th year of the reign of Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Registrator.
Sealed and delivered, to the use of the Mayor and Burgesses of King’s Lynn, and Robert Jervis and John Towers, in the presence of John Debney of Norwich, David Coytmor, Alexander Auger, and Richard Lasher.” [Mackerell, 217.]
[566b] In 1560, five or six years anterior to the date of the above deed, as we learn from Mackerell, “several gentlemen came to Lynn, and would have taken the state of St. James’s church, by order of the Councils Letters, but were opposed and resisted by the corporation.” But if they actually came by the authority of the privy council, as the above seems to imply, it must be rather odd that the corporation should venture to oppose and resist them: but so it is said, see Mackerell 227.—The same writer says, p. 177, that in 1567 the pinnacle of St. James’s chapel, (by which we may suppose he meant the spire of it,) “was taken down, and the steeple built flat.” So that the tower appears to have been left for some time in its original state, after the chief part of the chapel had been pulled down.
[570] Mackerell, 222.
[571a] Ib. 178.
[571b] By the above Act, if we are not mistaken, or about the time when it took place, there was also appropriated, as a further adoption to the revenue and maintenance of the said house, four pence per chaldron on all coals imported here by strangers; which is said to amount yearly, one year with another, to 200l. and upwards. [Mackerell, 178.]
[571c] Mackerell, 178.