[7] Except, perhaps, about Castlacre.
[8] Something of the same kind is related of the rivers Thames and Medway in the reign of Henry I. See Stow, 138.
[9] His last years were spent at East Dereham in Norfolk, where he finished his course in 1800. In the north transept of that parish church, where his remains have been deposited, is a neat monument of white marble, with the following inscription:—
In Memory of
WILLIAM COWPER, Esquire,
Born in Hertfordshire, 1732:
Buried in this Church, 1800.Ye who with warmth the public triumph feel
Of talents dignified by sacred zeal,
Here, to Devotion’s Bard devoutly just,
Pay your fond Tribute due to COWPER’s dust.
England, exulting in his spotless fame,
Ranks with her dearest sons’ his fav’rite name.
Sense, fancy, wit, suffice not all to raise
So clear a title to affection’s praise:
His highest honours to the heart belong:
His virtues form’d the magic of his Song.
[10] The Cam and the Larke also passed then along with the Ouse by Wisbeach.
[11] See Vancouver’s Map, and his Appendix, p. 10, where the original track or course of these rivers appears to have been divided by a kind of ridge or higher ground from that of the lesser Ouse and Wessey or the river of Stoke, (sometimes also called Winson and Storke) which together with the Lenne or Nare seem to have been the only original Lynn rivers.
[12] The haven and river of Wisbeach while the Ouse passed that way went by the name Wellstream and the Water of Well, while those of Lynn went by the name of Wigenhale Ea, and the Water of Wiggenhale. Vide MS. late Mr. Partridge’s.
[16a] Hist. Embank. chap. 37.
[16b] By an arm of the sea he meant, probably, something similar to what Lynn Haven is now.
[16c] A Commission is said to have been issued 21 Edward I. for sending the Waters of Well by Wisbeach, their ancient outfall; which further corroborates the idea that Wellstream or Waters of Well, was formerly a name of the Ouse about Wisbeach.