But being myself
an East Anglian by birth--one of my Christian names is St. Edmund,
because I was born at Bury St. Edmunds--I can say something about
what the East Anglian papers call 'Aylwinland,' and of the truth of
the pictures of the east coast to be found in the story, Since
_Aylwin_ was published an interesting attempt has been made by a
correspondent in the _Lowestoft Standard_ (25th August 1900) to
identify Pakefield Church as the 'Raxton' Church of the story, and
the writer of the letter mentions the most remarkable, and to me
quite new fact, that although the guide-books of Lowestoft and the
district are quite silent as to a curious crypt at the east end of
Pakefield Church, there is exactly such a crypt as that described in
_Aylwin_, and that in the early days of the correspondent in question
it was used as a storehouse for bones. The readers of _Aylwin_ will
remember the author's words: 'The crypt is much older than the
church, and of an entirely different architecture. It was once the
depository of the bones of Danish warriors killed before the Norman
conquest.
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