According to contemporary reports in 1216, King John of England travelled from Spalding, Lincolnshire, to Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk, but he was taken ill and decided to return. While he took the longer route by way of Wisbech, he sent his baggage train along the causeway and ford across the mouth of the Wellstream. This route was usable only at low tide; the horse-drawn wagons moved too slowly for the incoming tide, and many were lost. However, scholars cannot agree on whether the king's jewels were actually inside the baggage train.
King John of England is said to have lost some of his jewels at the Wash in 1216. According to contemporary reports, John travelled from Spalding, Lincolnshire, to Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk, but he was taken ill and decided to return. While he took the longer route by way of Wisbech, he sent his baggage train along the causeway and ford across the mouth of the Wellstream. This route was usable only at low tide; the horse-drawn wagons moved too slowly for the incoming tide, and many were lost.[4] However, scholars cannot agree on whether the king's jewels were actually inside the baggage train, with suspicions that John left his jewels in Lynn as security for a loan and arranged for their "loss".
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