Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire

Compiled mainly by Miss Rotha Clay, author of Mediæval Hospitals of England and Hermits and Anchorites of England.

• A
• Addlethorpe, 307-12
• Ædwin, King, 93, 114, 354
• Agricultural returns, 477
• Alexander, Bp., 76, 95, 371
• Alford, 305
• Algarkirk, 32, 459-61
• Alkborough, 196-7
• Allington, E. and W., 70
• Alms-box, 69
• Almshouses, 13-14, 16, 186, 206, 267, 414.
• See also Hospitals
• Altar stone, 41, 142, 200, 257
• Alton church fight, 287
• Alvingham, 280, 371
• Anatomy of Melancholy, 274
• Ancaster, 88-9
• Ancholme, R., 183
• Anderson, Sir Charles, 205-6, 207
• Angel Hotel, Grantham, 56
• Anglo-Saxon ornaments, 254-5
• Anglo-Saxon remains, 168-9.
• See also Architecture
• Anwick, 371
• Aragon, Katherine of, 31
• Architecture, Different Styles, 6.
• Saxon and Early Romanesque, 19, 29, 43, 46, 71-2, 85, 90, 126, 139, 148, 164, 188-9, 196, 230, 251-5, 252-4.
• Norman Domestic, 51, 122, 124, 255
• Armada picture of Bratoft Church, 321
• Arras and Cambray, St. Vedast, Bp. of, 276
• Ashby near Spilsby, 335
• Ashby-cum-Fenby, 267
• Ashby Puerorum, 342, 379
• Askew (Ayscoughe), family of, 223-4
• Axholme, Isle of, 4, 5, 198, 208-12
• Ayscoughe Fee Hall, Spalding, 445
• B
• Baden-Powell, Sir R. S., 278, note
• Bain, R., 274, 364-5, 371, 385
• Bacon, Sir Hickman, of Thonock, 204, 405
• Baptists in Lincolnshire, 325
• Bardney, 390-3
• Barholm, 19
• Barkston, 65-6
• Barkwith, East and West, 268
• Barlings Abbey, 143, 395
• Barnadiston, family of, 225
• Barnetby-le-Wold, 234, 259
• Barnoldby-le-Beck, 283
• Barrow-on-Humber, 216-7
• Barrowby, 70
• Barton-on-Humber, 7, 188-93
• Barsham, Norfolk, 384
• Bassingham Saxon font, 148
• Bassingthorpe, 40
• Baston, 29
• Baumber, 144
• Bayons Manor, 273
• Beacon, 48, 167, 423
• Beaufort, Lady Margaret, 12, 49
• Bec, Sir Walter’s grave, Halton, 330
• Thomas and Antony, Bishops, 97, 160
• Belchford, S. W. H. Kennels, 275, 283
• Belleau, 247-48, 249
• Bells, 19-20, 60, 99, 126, 197, 311, 313, 318, 434, 438, 459
• Belton, 64-5, 210
• Belvoir Castle, 69-70
• Benington, 416-7
• Benniworth, 268
• Bertie, family of, 19, 30-1, 335
• Bicker, 457, 459
• Bigby, 183, 235
• Bigby font and Tyrwhit Monuments, 235-6
• Billingborough, 35
• Bilsby, 305
• Bitchfield, 40
• Binbrook, 274
• Black Death, 480-2
• Blankney, 149
• Bloody Oaks, battle of, 11, 18
• Blow wells, 232, 267
• Boat, ancient, 184-5
• Bolingbroke, Old, 339, 359
• Bolles, family of, 284-8
• Bond family monuments at Croft, 318
• Books, chained, 60
• Boothby Graffoe, 162
• Boothby Pagnell, 51
• Bore, the, 201-2
• Boston, 420-40
• “stump,” 60, 108, 420-3
• guilds, 430
• religious houses, 430
• silting of the river, 432-3
• Bottesford, 200
• Botolph, St., 426
• Boucherett, family, 273
• Bourne Town and Abbey, 23, 27;
• manor, 21-4, 32
• Braceborough Spa, 22
• Bracebridge, 164
• Braceby, 42
• Bramfield, Sub-dean, Murder of, 104
• Brandon, Chas., Duke of Suffolk, 399
• Brant, Broughton, 90, 148, 151-4
• Brasenose Coll., Stamford, 14
• Brasses, 171-2, 225, 235, 294-5, 317, 334, 387
• Brasses, earliest in County, 146, 317
• Brasses twice used, 200, 322
• Bratoft, 321
• Bridges, ancient, 129, 270, 490
• Brigg, old boat at, 184-5
• Brigsley, 274
• Brocklesby, 236-8
• Bromhead and Chard, 131
• Brothertoft, 404
• Broughton near Brigg, 71, 183-4
• Browne family, Monuments at Croft, 317
• Browne, William, 12, 13
• Brownlow family, 64-5
• Buckden, 109, 117, 384
• Buckland, 283
• Bulb trade, Spalding, 441-4
• Bull-running, 11
• Bully Hill, 276
• Burgh-le-Marsh, 320
• Burgh-on-Bain, 268
• Burghley House, 12
• Burleigh, Lord of, 16-17
• Burton Coggles, 40
• Burton Pedwardine, 85
• Burton Stather, 4, 198
• Buslingthorpe, early brass, 146
• Butterwick, 418
• Bytham, Castle, 44-5
• maypole ladder, 44
• Bytham, Little, 40, 44, 46
• Bytham farmers’ motto, 46
• Byways, 245-7
• C
• Cabourn Hill, 231
• Caenby, 269-270
• Caistor, 7, 228-30, 236
• Callis, (Almshouse), 13
• Candlesby, 283, 382
• Canwick, 149
• Careby and Carlby, 40
• Carlton Scroop, 67
• Carlton Gt. and Little, 278
• Carr, use of word, 183-4
• Carr Dyke, 23, 28-9, 34, 40, 44, 87, 165, 183, 371, 401, 456
• Carre Family, 77
• Casewick Hall, 19
• Casterton, Great, 7
• Cathedrals Compared, 98-9
• Cawdron Monuments, 85
• Cawkwell, 276
• Cawthorpe, 245-7
• Caythorpe, 67-8
• Ceremony of Championship, 376-8
• Chalice, Priest’s, 83
• Champion of England, Grand, 334, 372-8
• Chantries, 63
• Chaplin, Jane, aged 102, 277
• Cartulary, Alvingham, 281
• Charterhouse, Founder of, 206
• Chaucer, 199, 339, 359, 444
• Cherry Willingham, 143
• Church Clock at Rowston, 150
• Churchwardens’ Books, 83-4, 137, 240, 257, 260, 309-10, 318-19, 325-7
• Claxby, near Alford, 248
• Claxby, near Rasen, 232
• Claypole, 71, 74-75
• Clee, 264-6
• Cleethorpes, 227, 265
• “Cliff,” 159, 183, 198, 232-3
• Clixby, 234
• Cockerington, (North, South), 279-81
• Coifi, Chief Priest, 113
• Coleby, 141, 162-3
• Colsterworth, Newton Chapel, 46-47, 66
• Compton Church, Surrey, 397
• Coningsby, 370-1
• Conington, Prof., 423
• Corby, 31, 40
• Corringham, 200-1
• Cotes-by-Stow, 141-2
• Cotes, Great, and Barnadiston Brasses, 224-5
• Cotes, Little, 267
• Cotes, North, 295
• Country Seats near Grantham, 64
• Covenham, St. M. and St. B., 281
• Cowbit, 406, 483-4
• Cowpaddle, The, 149
• Crabbe, Rector of Allington, 70
• Cranwell, 90
• Cressy Hall, 71, 454-5
• Creeton, Stone coffins at, 40
• Cripple, Memorial Brass to, 310
• Croft, 316-19
• Cromwell, Oliver, 201, 364, 439
• his letters, 54-55, 364, 439
• Cromwell, Ralph, 380-382, 384-385
• Crosses, Stone, 33, 57, 71, 74, 79, 80, 134, 139, 150, 196, 342
• Queen Eleanor, 9, 62, 134, 174
• Boundary, 489-90
• Crowle, 212, 261
• Croxby Pond, 267, 274
• Croyland Abbey, 5, 342, 483-9
• Bridge, 490-1
• Curfew, 149
• Cust, Family of, 64-5, 450-2
• Cuthbert Bede, 40
• Cuthbert, St., 213-14
• Cuxwold, 231
• D
• Dalby, 360
• Danegelt, 7
• Danish occupation, 8-9, 20, 32, 140, 201, 204, 263-5, 276, 402-3, 485
• Dashwoods and Batemans at Well, 249
• Deeping Fen, 21-2
• St. James, 20, 29
• Denton, 69
• Devil’s door, the, 331
• Devil looking over Lincoln, 101
• Dictionary, Elliott’s, 327
• Digby, 150
• Disney, family of, 171-3
• Doddington Hall, 173-6
• Dog-whipping in church, 83, 319
• Dominus, use of word, 394-5
• Donington, 455-6
• on Bain, 276
• Dorchester (Oxon), bishopric of, 93, 140
• Drainage and embankments in fen and marsh, 28, 209, 314, 432-5, 446, 456.
• See also Roman Works
• Drainage opposed by Fenmen, 433
• Drayton, M., quoted, 426
• Driby, 378-83
• “Droves,” all E. and W., 44
• Duck-decoys, 200, 411-13
• Dunham Bridge, 137-8
• Dunsby and Dowsby, 34
• Dunston pillar, 148, 167
• Durham priory, 8
• Durobrivæ Roman station, 7
• Dymoke, family of, 80, 334, 372-7
• E
• Eagle, 173
• “Eagre” or bore in R. Trent, 201-2
• Early church towers, group of, 198-9, 230, 252, 262
• Easter Sepulchre, 21, 41, 75, 82, 106, 162
• Easton, 48, 50
• Eden, R., 40, 41, 43
• Edenham, 29-30
• Eleanor, Queen, 9, 103, 116, 174
• Elkington, South, 274, 284
• North, 284
• Elloe stone, 466
• Elsham, 3, 185-6
• Empingham, battle at, 11, 18
• Enderby, Bag, 258, 340, 379
• Enderby, Mavis, 362, 434
• Enderby Wood, 369
• Epworth, 210
• Eresby, 335
• Ermine Street, High Dyke, 3-4, 7, 18, 50, 88, 90, 92, 122, 129, 149, 151, 154, 157, 159, 178, 182-4, 190, 230, 269
• Ewerby, 60, 78-9, 85, 259
• F
• Farquharson, A. F., 501-10
• Fens, 2, 5, 23, 34-35, 400-8, 464-5
• Ferriby, South and North, 186-7, 196
• Ferries over the Trent, 138
• Ferry at Hull, 217-8
• Fillingham, 199
• Firsby, 325
• Fishtoft, 419-20
• Fiskerton, 143, 168-9
• Fleet, 470
• Flinders, Matthew, 456-7, note
• Flodden Field, 240
• Floods, in the fen, 433-5
• Floss, mill on, 201
• Flowers in June, 262-3, 464
• Rare, 370-1, 419
• Folkingham, 32
• Folk-song, Lincolnshire, 296-303
• Font covers, 257-8, 419, 475
• Fonts, 64-5, 69, 108, 215, 234-5, 257-61, 291, 305, 306, 340-1, 368, 417, 463, 465-6
• Football, a family team, 207
• Fosdyke, Rennie’s Bridge at, 475
• Foss Dyke, 134, 137
• Foss Way, 92, 148, 173
• Fotherby Top, 284
• Fox, John, born at Boston, 438
• Fox-hounds, 493-8
• Frampton, 476
• Franklin, family of, 336, 457
• Friaries, 124, 430
• Frieston, 257, 418-9
• Friskney, 380, 409-11
• duck decoy, 411-12
• Frodingham, 198
• Fulbeck, 68
• Fulney, 448
• Fulston, 281, 295
• G
• Gainsborough, 138, 201-4
• Gautby, 144
• Gaynisburgh, Richard de, 204
• Gayton-le-Marsh, 278
• Gayton-le-Wold, 268
• Gedney, 470-2
• Gelston Cross, 74
• Gentleman’s Soc. of Spalding, 445-6
• Giantess, Lincolnshire, 34
• Gibbets, 270-1
• Gibraltar Point, 298, 315
• Gilbert de Gaunt, 32
• Gilbert of Sempringham, St., 35-8, 371
• Girsby, 268
• Glass, ancient, 12, 33, 43
• Glen, R., 19, 29, 39-41, 43-4, 51
• Glentham, 269-70
• Glentworth, 199-200
• Gobaud family, 34
• Godiva, Lady, 444
• Gonerby Hill, 71
• Goosetoft, 404-5
• Gosberton, 452-4
• Gowts, 126, 432
• Goxhill, 218-19
• Grainsby, 263
• Grainthorpe, 294-5
• Grandiloquent writing, 109
• Grantham, 5, 52-63, 73
• Grantham, Thomas, of Halton Baptist, 325
• Grasby, 233-4
• Great Humby, 34
• Grebby, 282
• Green lady, the, 286, 289
• Greetham, 342
• Gretford, 19-20
• Grey friars at Grantham and Lincoln, 62, 128
• Grimblethorpe, 268
• Grimoldby, 216, 242, 279, 281
• Grimsby, 225-7
• Corporation seals, 227
• Grimsthorpe, 30-1
• Grinling Gibbons, 65
• Guilds and charters, 430, 432
• Gunby, Dan, 296
• Gulls breeding at Manton, 198
• Gunby St. Peter, 283, 322
• Guthlac, St., 483-5
• Gynewell, Bishop, 481
• H
• Habrough, 222
• Hacconby, 31
• Haceby, 42
• Hagnaby, 306, 366
• Hagworthingham, 362
• Hainton, 268
• Hale, Great, 71, 84-5
• Hallam, historian, 439
• Halstead Hall, 396
• Haltham, 369
• Halton, East, 221
• Halton, West, 195
• Halton Holgate, 329-32
• Halton, John de, Bp. of Carlisle, 368-9
• Hameringham, 363-4
• Harlaxton, 68-9
• Harmston, 164
• Harpswell, 198
• Harrington, 340
• Hatcliffe, 267
• Haugh, 285
• Haugham, 245, 277
• Havelock, The Dane, Story of, 227, 394
• Haverholme, 37, 78, 243, 371
• Hawysia, de Trikingham, 42
• Haydor, good stained glass, 33
• Heapham, 206
• Heckington, 80-3
• Helpringham, 85-6
• Heneage, family of, 268
• Henry VIII., 76, 109, 157, 240
• Hereward the Wake, 23-4, 40
• Hermits, 178, 219
• Hexham, 80
• Hibaldstow, 183
• High Dyke, alias Ermine St., 159
• From Caistor, 230
• Hogsthorpe, 307
• Holbeach, 468-70
• Legend of, 478-9
• Holdingham, 89
• Holland Fen, 404
• Holton-le-Clay, 263
• Holywell, 22
• Honington, 67
• Horbling, 35
• Horkstow, 186-7
• Horncastle, 91, 364-5
• Hospitals and Almshouses, 9, 12-14, 53, 134, 178-81, 186
• Hough-on-the-Hill, 71-4, 149, 162, 184
• Hour-Glasses, 41, 90, 164, 210, 364
• Houses, beautiful, 40
• Howell, 79-80
• Howorth, Sir Henry’s interesting book, 112
• Hubbert’s Bridge, why so called, 46
• Hugh of Lincoln, St., 96-117
• Hugh of Wells, 96-7
• Hugh, “Little St. Hugh,” 118-9
• Humber, R., 187
• Humberstone, 266
• Hundleby, 361
• Hundon, Tombs, Caistor, 229-30
• Hussey, Ld., 76, 242, 438
• Huttoft, 306
• I
• Iconoclasm, 256-7
• Immingham, 222-3
• Imp, The Lincoln, 106
• Ingelow, Jean, 434, 439
• Ingoldmells, 310, 315
• Ingoldsby, 40
• Inscriptions in Churches, 19, 21, 42, 43, 46, 49, 51, 67, 108, 201, 216, 224, 225, 234, 235, 267, 280, 286, 288, 307, 318, 321, 363, 375, 414, 417, 424, 476, 487, 489
• On Jubilee Memorial, 186
• On Bells, 511, 313
• Irby, 324
• Irby-on-Humber, 231-2
• Irby family monuments, 468
• Irnham, 40-1
• Ithamar, first English Bp., 114
• J
• Jesus Coll. Chapel bench ends, 332
• Jews, persecution of, 117-9, 123
• Joffrid, Abbot of Croyland, 486-7
• sends Lecturers to Cambridge, 486
• lays first stone of the third abbey, 487
• John, King of England, at Kingscliffe, 9, 56, 71, 76
• John, King of France, 53, 160, 238
• Johnson, Archdeacon, 16
• Johnson, Dr., 360
• Jump, famous, of Dr. Trought, 246
• K
• Katherine Howard, 76, 109, 157
• Keate, Dr., 345
• Keddington, 244
• Keelby, 283
• Kelstern, 274
• Kettleby, 235-6
• Kettlethorpe Hall, 176-7
• Killingholme, North, South, 222
• King’s Street, 23, 31-4
• Kirkby-Underwood, 40
• Kirkby, East, 366
• Kirkstead, Abbey and Chapel, 396-8
• Kirmington, Green Spire, 236
• Kirmond-le-mire, 274
• Kirton, 475
• Kirton-in-Lindsey, 182
• Knaith, 206
• Knights Hospitallers, alias of Jerusalem and of St. John, 155-9
• Knights Templars, 155-9, 173, 198.
• See also Temple Belwood, Temple Bruer
• Koh-i-noor (mt. of light), diamond, 237.
• Kyme, North and South, 87-9, 371
• tower, 438
• L
• Laceby, 232, 267
• Lady Lucia, 339
• Lambert, Daniel, 16
• Langton, 360
• Langtoft, 20-1
• Laughton, 200
• Lea, 201, 204-5
• Leadenham, 68, 151
• Leake, 413-6
• Leasingham, 89-90
• Lenton or Lavington, 40
• Leverton, 416-7
• Liddington, 481
• Lincoln—
• Lindum Colonia, 91
• Afternoon tea at, A.D. 1762, 136
• Bishop’s palaces, 109, 117, 384, 481
• Cathedral, 91-111
• Chancery, 109-10
• Chapter-house, 110
• Churches, 126-7
• Corporation, 129-31
• Conduits, 128-9
• Friaries, 123-4, 128, 135
• Gates, 91-2, 120-2, 129, 131
• Guild, 124-5, 255
• High bridge, 129
• Hospitals, 134
• Jews’ houses, 118, 121-3, 255
• Library, 131
• Stonebow, 129-30
• Lincoln, Bishops of, 95-8, 103-8, 117, 481
• Parliaments of, 110-11
• Heath, 148-9, 157
• Lincoln Stuff ball, 134
• Lincolnshire flocks, 232
• Lincolnshire, divisions of, 4-5, 22, 73-4
• Lincolnshire Rebellion, 240-2
• Lincolnshire Roads, 207
• Slope of the land, 34, 39
• Lincolnshire stories, 337-8, 339-40, 462
• Linwood, 146-7
• Littleborough, 90, 138
• Lock-up house, 150
• “Long and short” work, 2, 253
• Long Bennington, 71
• Lord High Treasurer Cromwell, Chapter XXXIII
• Louth, 60, 239-45
• Grammar School, 242
• Louth Park Abbey, 37, 242-4
• Chronicle, 244, 433
• Roads, 244
• Lud, R., 3
• Ludford Magna, 274
• Lusby, 363
• “Lyttyl clause,” the, 240-2
• M
• Mablethorpe, 292, 347
• Maddison, Canon, 103
• Maltby-le-Marsh, 291
• Manby, 278-9
• Mappa Mundi, 76
• Mareham-le-fen, 370
• Markby, 306
• Markham, Mrs., 102
• Marquis of Granby, 70
• Marsh, the, 2-3, 464-5
• Marsh Chapel, 295
• Marton, 139
• Marston, 149
• Martyrs, Clerical, 242
• Masquerade at Nocton, 169-70
• Massingberd family, 322
• Mausoleum at Brocklesby, 236
• Mavis Enderby, 362, 366, 434
• Maypole, use of, 44
• Mazes, 196-7
• Melton Ross, 234
• Mercia, kings of, 7-8, 114
• Messingham, 107, 200
• Miningsby, 366
• Miserere seats, 104, 423
• “Molly Grime,” 270
• Monksthorpe, 324
• Monumental effigies, &c., 30, 31, 34, 49, 67, 69, 77, 79, 80, 83, 103, 104, 145-7, 149, 171-3, 184, 192, 195, 200, 210, 223-6, 229-30, 232, 235-6, 238, 267-9, 271, 278, 280-1, 292-5, 310, 312, 317, 322-4, 330, 334, 340, 364, 372-5, 423, 453, 468, 471-2, 487
• Monumental epitaphs, 26-7, 420, 457.
• See also Inscriptions in Churches.
• Moorby, 368
• Morton, 31, 204
• Moulton, 260, 465-6
• Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 209
• Muckton, 247
• Mustard, cultivation of, 463-4, 472, 477
• Colman’s factory, Norwich, 464
• Muston, 70
• “My owd Son,” 440
• N
• Names ending in ‘by,’ 185, 341
• Nature’s poets, 303-4
• Navenby, 161-3
• Nettleton, 231
• Nettleship, R. L., 297
• Newsham Abbey, 238
• Newton Church Tower, 42
• Newton, Isaac, 31, 46-8, 55, 57, 62
• Newton-by-Toft, 270
• Noblemen not Saints, 257
• Nocton, 166-9
• Nonconformists, 324-5
• Normanby-le-Wold, 230
• Norman buildings, 255
• North Country humour, 303
• Northorpe, 200
• North Wytham, 46
• Norton Disney, 148, 170-3
• O
• Octave of E.E. Churches, 42
• Orgarth Hill, Danish Camp, 276
• Ormsby, North, 284
• Ormsby, South, 361
• Osbournby, 33
• Oswald, St., 212-4
• Oswy, King of Northumbria, 8
• P
• Pagnell, Boothby, 51
• Palmer, effigy of, 34
• Parish Clerks, Stories of, 319-20
• Partney, 358-60
• Paulinus, St., 93, 112-14
• Peasant poets, 303-4, 501
• Pelham buckle, the, 238, 385
• Pelham pillar, 231, 233, 236
• Penda and Pæda, Kings of Mercia, 8, 114
• Penrose, Rev. Trevenen, 163
• Peterborough, cathedral, 49-50, 52
• Pickworth, 41
• Pilgrimage of Grace, 240, 242
• Pinchbeck, 448-50
• metal called, 461-2
• Plague, 290-1, 439
• Plague-stone, 290-1
• Ponton, Great, 50
• Ponton, Little, 51
• Pope Gregory, 112-13
• Potter Hanworth, 165
• Potteries, Pre-Roman, 315-6
• Premonstratensian, meaning of, 395
• Pulpit, early, note, 192
• Q
• Quadring, 455
• Queen Margaret (Ed. I.), 428
• Queen Eleanor’s heart buried at Lincoln A.D. 1290, 103
• R
• Raithby, 361-2
• Rasen, Market, 272
• Middle, 271
• West, 270
• Ravendale, 267, 274
• Rawnsley, 27, 43, 249, 328, 330, 332, 336, 340, 352, 361, 493, 496
• Read’s Island, 187
• Rebellion, Lincolnshire, 240-2, 243
• Registers, Early, 306, 476
• Remigius, Bishop, 76, 93, 140
• Revesby Abbey, 367
• Riby Grove, 232
• Richard III. at Grantham, 56
• Ridge, the, 4, 159
• Rigsby, 247
• Rippingale, 34
• Riseholme, 269
• Roads, few going E. and W., 33
• in the marsh, 280, 316
• without villages, 151
• Roadway streams, 246-7
• Robert de Brunne, 25-6
• Rochford, Stoke, 48
• Romanus, Bp., 113-114
• Romans, our benefactors, 401
• Roman works:
• embankments, etc., 2, 295, 310-12, 315, 401, 409, 417, 456, 459, 464-5;
• see Carr Dyke, Foss Dyke
• gateways, 91
• roads, 23, 34, 89, 91-3, 137, 144,183, 230, 328, 465.
• See Ermine Street, Foss Way, King’s Street
• stations, 32, 50, 67, 87, 88, 91, 138, 140, 184, 228-9, 248, 315-6, 364-5
• remains, 91, 104, 120, 122, 125-6, 149, 184, 196
• Rood lofts and screens, 256
• Roof covering both nave and aisles, 87, 225
• Rooks in towns, 365
• Ropsley, 43
• Rothwell, long and short work, 230
• Rowston, 150
• Rulos, Richard de, father of Lincolnshire farmers, 21-22
• S
• St. Denis, 76
• St. John, family of, 49-50
• St. John, Oliver, 49-50
• St. Poll, family of, 145
• St. Thomas of Canterbury, Church Dedicated to, 40
• Saleby, 278
• Salinas, Mary de, 31
• Salisbury, Connection of Grantham with, 62-3
• Saltfleetby, All Saints, 293
• St. Clements, 294
• Samplers, 168
• Sandbank, “The Old Warp,” 187
• Sandtoft, 209
• Sapperton, Pulpit Hour-glass at, 41
• Sausthorpe, 360
• Saxby, All Saints, 186
• Saxilby, 137
• Saxon Churchyard, 29
• Scamblesby, 276
• Scartho, 264
• Scawby, 183, 198
• Sutton Nelthorpe of, 198, 494
• Schools, 13, 16, 27, 43, 57, 206, 242, 272
• Scopwick, 149
• Scremby, 282
• Scrivelsby, 372-4
• Scunthorpe, 198, 207
• Sea-dyke, 2, 416-7,
• see Draining, Roman Embankment
• Seals, Ancient, 227
• Sedgebrook, 69, 70
• Sempringham, 35-38
• Sempringham Hall, Stamford, 14
• Sempringham, Order of, 25-6
• Sheep in Churchyard, 267, 454
• Sibsey, 361
• Silk Willoughby Wayside Cross, 33
• Sixhills, 146, 273, 277
• Shakespeare Quotations, 63, 209, 491-2
• Skating in Fens, 405-7
• International, 408
• Skegness, 314-5
• Roman Castrum at, 316
• Skendleby, 282
• Skidbroke, 294
• Skirbeck, 420, 427
• “Skirth” Billinghay, 371
• Slash Lane, 364
• Sleaford, 4, 76-8, 169
• Slope of Church W. to E., 66, 186
• Smith, Capt. John, 278
• Snarford, 144-5
• Snelland Register, 144
• St. Poll Tombs, 145-6
• Somerby, 42-3
• Somercotes, South, 294
• Somersby, 340-343, 345-353
• Somersby Brook, 298, 322, 342
• Somersby Church Opening, 352
• Somerton Castle, 160-1
• South Thoresby, 247, 290
• Spalding, 441-8
• Spectacles, Use of, 51
• Spelling, a clear gift, 49
• Spilsby, 233, 333-7
• Spital-on-the-Street, 178-81
• Springs, Mineral, 22, 69, 70
• Springthorpe, 206
• Stainfield, 395
• Stainsby, 379
• Stainton-le-Vale, 274
• Stallingborough, 223
• The Ayscoughe Tombs, 223-4
• Stamford, 4, 7-17
• bedehouse, 13-14
• churches, 7, 9, 12-14
• college, 14
• St. Leonard’s Priory, 8
• “Stamford Baron,” 12
• Stanley, Dean, on Wesley, 211
• “Staple,” the meaning of, 428
• Starlings, flocks of, 250
• Steeping, Little and Great, 323-4
• Stephen King, 76
• Stickford and Stickney, 361
• Stixwould, 395-6
• Stocks, 372, 389, 457
• Stoke Rochford, 48
• Stones, sculptured, 139, 150, 212, 269, 281, 366, 368
• Stonebow, the, 129
• Stone Coffin, use for, 80
• Stow, 140-2
• Stow Green, 32
• Stragglethorpe, 90
• Strubby, 291
• Stubton, 71
• Stukeley, Dr. W., 43, 500
• Sturton, 207
• Suffolk, Duke of, 398-9
• Duchess of, 31
• Surfleet, 452-3
• Sutterton, 459
• Sutton, Long, 472-4
• Sutton, Thomas, 206
• Swallow, 231
• Swan, St. Hugh’s, 116
• Swan-marks, 492
• Swan, ballad of the, 299
• Swaton, 86-7
• Swineshead, 457-9
• Swinstead, 31
• Sword called “Fox,” 131
• Syston Hall, 64
• T
• Tallington, 7, 19
• Tathwell, St. Vedast’s, 276-7
• Tattershall, 12, 235, 370-1, 379-80, 382-9
• Mantelpieces, 384, 388
• Taylor, John, poet, 405
• Tealby, 273, 343
• Temple Belwood, 210
• Bruer, 76, 151, 154-9
• Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 131-4, 340, 346-357
• Tennyson, Dr., 342-344, 346
• Tennyson Centenary, 131-2
• Tennyson, family of, 343-57
• Tennyson-Turner, C., 233-4
• Tennyson poems in the Lincolnshire dialect, 356
• Tennyson, Matilda, last of the family, 353
• Tetford, 379
• Tetney, 3, 266-7
• Theddlethorpe, West, 293, 313
• Theodore, Archbp. of Canterbury, 193
• Thorganby, 274
• Thonock Hall, 204, 495
• Thornton Abbey, 219-21, 238
• Thornton Curtis, 108, 215-16
• Thorpe, 325-7
• Thorpe Hall, 284-9
• Thorpe St. Peter’s, 259
• Threckingham, 32
• Thurcytel, first Abbot of Croyland, 485
• Thurlby, 29, 259
• Tickencote, 18
• Toft-next-Newton, 270
• Top, Cliff and Wold, 232
• Torrington, East and West, 263
• Tothby, 290
• Tournai fonts, 108, 215, 259
• Tournays, or Tourneys, family of, 269-70
• Tower-on-the-Moor, 398
• Toynton, High, 342
• Trent, R., 4, 114, 137-8, 200-2, 207
• Tumby, 370, 379-80
• Tupholme, Abbey, 284, 395
• Two churches in one churchyard, 280
• Tydd St. Mary, 465, 474
• U
• Uffington Hall, 19
• Ulceby, 213, 282
• Uppingham, founder of, 16, 206
• Upton, 206
• Usselby, 231
• Utterby, 260, 267, 284
• V
• Vyner, F. G., 144
• W
• Waddington, 164
• Wainfleet, 91, 327-9, 379
• Wainfleet, St. Mary’s, 329
• Wainfleet, William of, Bishop, 327-8
• Waith, 263
• Wake, de, family of, 20-1, 23, 40
• Walcot, double “squint” at, 41
• Walesby, 274
• Walks, Uppingham to Boston, 35;
• Horncastle to Mablethorpe, 249
• Wall-painting, 141, 182, 410
• Walmsgate, 283
• Waltham, 264, 274
• Wapentake, meaning of, 73-74
• “Warping,” process of, 212
• Wars, Civil, 19, 53-5, 201, 232, 286, 364
• Wars of the Roses, 10-11, 18
• Watts, G. F., and Tennyson, 134
• “Wedercoke” at Louth, 240
• Weir dyke, 144, 183, 186
• Welbourn, John de, treasurer, 98, 151
• Well, 247-251
• Welland, R., 7
• Wellbourn, 154
• Wellingore, 161
• Wellington and Dr. Keate, 345
• Wells, blow-, 232, 267
• Welton-le-Wold, 268
• Wernington, William de, Master Mason, 487
• Wesley, Samuel and John, 210-12, 499
• Westmoreland Stories, 303, 338-9
• Weston, 463
• Whitgift, John, Archbp. of Canterbury, 225, 232
• Wickenby, 260
• Wilfrid, Bishop, 8-10
• Wilksby, 368
• Willingham, North, 146, 230, 244, 272, 277
• South, 244, 268
• Cherry, 143
• by Stow, 206
• Wilsthorpe, 40, 41
• Whaplode, 466-8
• Willoughby, 248, 278
• Willoughby d’Eresby, family of, 30-1, 86, 248-9, 333-5
• Willoughton, 157
• Winceby, 364-5
• Wine-cellars in Boston, 430-1
• Winteringham, 3, 184, 195
• Winterton, 184, 195-6
• Winthorpe, 312-14
• Witham-on-hill, inscription on Bells, 20
• Witham, R., 39, 44, 46, 51, 90, 91, 126, 129, 134, 137, 149, 371, 425-6, 432-3
• Withern, 278
• Woad, cultivation of, 464
• Wolds, the, 2-5, 146, 148, 232
• Wood, Enderby, 369
• Woodhall Spa, 397-8
• Woodcarving by Wallis, of Louth, 237
• Wood-work, church, 255-6
• Wool, staple, 13, 147, 309, 428-9, 432
• Woolsthorpe, 31, 47-8
• Wordsworth, Bishop, Christopher, 103, 265, 269
• Wordsworth, W., Sonnet Persuasion, 113
• Wragby, 269
• Wrangle, 413-4
• Wrawby, 183, 185, 206
• Wray, Sir Christopher, 145, 200
• Wright family, 289, 413
• Wulfhere, King of Mercia, 7
• Wyberton, 476
• Wyclif, John, 199
• Wykeham Chapel, 448
• Y
• Yarborough, Earls of, 236-7
• Church, 281
• Z
• Zucchero, 289