Note 508 — HISTORY OF LYNN. PART III. (continued 3)

In France they were called Jacobins, from having obtained the house of St. James, at Paris, for their principal church, or convent; the identical place, it is supposed, which gave the very same name in our time to a certain order of politicians, who used to hold their meetings there, and who seem to have too much resembled their former and stinted namesakes in the violence and ferociousness of their tempers and proceedings.