The lamentable death of King Iohn, how he was poysoned in the Abbey at Swinsted, by a false Fryer.


Is Swinestead prouncounced with a short or long "i"? (Like swine the pigs, or swin like 'win' cards?)

  A Trecherous deede forthwith I shall you tell,
  Which on King John vpon a sudden fell:
  To Lincolneshire proceeding on his way,
  At Swinestead Abby, one whole night he lay.
  

From Thomas Deloney late 16c