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Excerpt from Highways and Byways in East Anglia 
So I do not ask any one to believe all I shall tell of the castles and abbeys, towns and hamlets of East Anglia. If I have any aim or method in my narrations, it is to follow the lead of the monkish chroniclers and relate both fact and myth, generally leaving it to others to judge where the line should be drawn between them. Wherever I go I am an incurably sentimental traveller; I love to muse over a grey old priory as much on account of its incredible legends as for its actual and credible history. Walsingham Abbey loses nothing of its charm for me because Erasmus made caustic comment on the silly stories he heard from the monks there; the assurance of a learned bookworm that Dunwich in the height of its prose perity did not rival the London of its day, does not rob me of a moment's pleasure while I Stand on the cliffs from which the old city sank into the sea. As I am a seeker of the picturesque in scenery, so am 1 a searcher for the romantic in story and while I have eyes for the one and instinct for finding the other, no isolated hamlet can be utterly dull to me, or legend and. 
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Publication Data:
Author(s): William A. Dutt
Publisher: FB&C Limited
Pages: 444
Language: en
Category: History
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Customs & Traditions
ISBN: 1332559158
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