'Amongst private houses, the duke of Norfolk's palace is the greatest I ever saw in a city out of London. Here a covered bowling-alley (the first, I believe, of that kind in England) on the same token that when Thomas last duke of Norfolk was taxed for aspiring (by marriage of that queen) to the crown of Scotland, he protested to queen Elizabeth, "that when he was in his bowling-alley at Norwich, he accounted himself as a king in Scotland."'