HUNSTANTON, (Norfolk) not far S. of St. Edmund's Cape, on the shore of the washes, was at first a royal tower only, built
by St. Edmund, who retired to it for near a year, that he might get the whole book of Psalms by heart. This village, first
a royal demesne, was afterwards given to the abbey of St. Edmundsbury; and, upon the coming in of the Normans, it passed
to the family of Strange, whose seat it has been ever since, and who held this manor of old, upon condition that they
should find two soldiers towards the defence of Castle-Rising.