ORB - Medieval English urban history - Lynn

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History of medieval Lynn

Origins and early growth | Development of local government
Buildings and fortifications | Economy | INFORMATION SOURCES
Map of Lynn in the fifteenth century
Lynn mayors and chamberlains
Biographies of Lynn townsmen
Appendix 1: Lynn by-laws
Appendix 2: Oaths of officers and burgesses
Appendix 3: Rental of community property, 1391

Information sources

The following is a small selection of published sources of information about medieval King's Lynn. For additional secondary sources as well as primary sources, see the bibliography to The Men Behind the Masque.

Clarke, Helen, and Alan Carter. Excavations in King's Lynn 1963-1970. Society for Medieval Archaeology, 1977.

Hillen, H.J. History of the borough of King's Lynn. 2 vols. Norwich, 1907.

Ingleby, Holcombe. The Heart of Lynn. London, 1925.

Owen, Dorothy. The Making of King's Lynn: A Documentary Survey. British Academy Records of Social and Economic History, new series, vol.9 (1984).

Parker, Vanessa. The Making of King's Lynn: Secular Buildings from the 11th to the 17th Century. Chichester, 1971.

Rutledge, Elizabeth and Paul Rutledge. "King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth, two thirteenth-century surveys." Norfolk Archaeology, vol.37 (1978), 92-114.

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Created: February 21, 2000. Last update: November 11, 2002