The Common Reader

Not so very far off lie more ruins--the ruins of Bromholm Priory,
where John Paston was buried, naturally enough, since his house was
only a mile or so away, lying on low ground by the sea, twenty
miles north of Norwich. The coast is dangerous, and the land, even
in our time, inaccessible. Nevertheless, the little bit of wood at
Bromholm, the fragment of the true Cross, brought pilgrims
incessantly to the Priory, and sent them away with eyes opened and
limbs straightened. But some of them with the...