Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820] / in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacent

In the valley at Salmonby, near to the spot where the earthy oxide of iron is found, is a chalybeate spring, the water of which is of the same nature as that of Tunbridge, but much stronger.

APPENDIX

In Endrebi III car. t’re.  Ibi XVI soch. et VI bord. h’nt IIII car. et LX ac^as p^ati et CCCCL ac. siluæ past.

No. 2.

Carolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franc’, et Hiberniæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. omnibus ad quos p’sentes l’re p’venerint Sal’tem.  Inspeximus irrotulament’ chartæ confirmac’on’ quam D’nus Henricus quondam Rex Angliæ tertius, progenitor noster, fecit Walt^o Carliol. Episcopo, in rotul. claus. de anno quarto decimo ejusd’m nup.  Regis irrotulat. ac inter recordia canc’ n’re infra Turrem n’ram London’ residen’, in hæc verba: Rex concessit p’ chartam suam Walt’o Carliol.  Episcopo q’d ipse et heredes sui habeant imp’petuum p’ omnes terras et tenement’ sua in manerio et soka de Horncastle cum pertinen’ quasdam lib’tates et quietancias sicut plenius in p’dict’ charta continetur.  Et mandatum est Vicecomiti Lincoln. q^d p’dictam chartam in pleno comitatu suo legi, et concessas à Rege eidem Episcopo lib’tates et quietancias ei et heredibus suis firmiter fac’t observari.  T. R. apud Portsmouth vicessimo sexto die Aprilis.  Inspeximus etiam irrotulament’ quorundam seperal’ brevium ejusd’m D’ni Henrici quondam Regis Angliæ tertii, progenitoris n’ri, adtunc Vic. suo Lincoln. direct’, gerent’ dat. vicessimo die Aprilis anno p’dict’ in rotul. claus. de anno supradict’ ejusd’m nup.  Regis irrotulat. ac ibid’m de recordo residen’, in hæc verba: Rex Vicecomiti Lincoln. Sal’tem.  Scias q^d p’ cartam n’ram concessimus venerabili patri Walt’o Carliol.  Episcopo q^d ipse et heredes sui habeant imp’petuum unam feriam apud maner’ suum de Horncastle singulis annis, que incipiat in Vigilia Sancti Barnabæ Apostoli, et duret p’ octo dies sequen. preter feriam illam qu’ habent in eod’m manerio singulis annis ad festum Sancti Laurentii, nisi p’dict’ feria sit ad nocumentum vicinar’ feriar’; et ideo tibi p’cipimus q^d p’dict’ feriam clamari fac’ et teneri sicut p’dictum.  Teste meipso apud Portsmouth vicessimo die Aprilis anno re’ni n’ri quarto decimo.  Rex eid’m Vic. Sal’tem.  Scias q^d p’ chartam n’ram concessimus venerabili patri Walt’o Carliol. Episcopo q^d ipse et heredes sui habeant imp’petuum liberam warrenam in manerio suo et soka de Horncastle; et ideo tibi p’cipimus q^d s’c’d’m tenorem p’dict’ chartæ n’ræ warrenam p’dictam clamari facias et teneri sicut p’dict’.  Test. ut supra.  Inspeximus etiam irrotulament’ cujusdam al’ chartæ confirmac’on’ ejusd’m D’ni Henrici quondam Regis Angliæ tertii, eid’m Episcopo Carliol. quondam fact’, in rotul. claus. de anno quinto decimo ejusd’m nuper Regis irrotulat’, ac ib’d’m de recordo residen’, in hæc verba: Rex p’ chartam suam conessit Walt’o Carliol. Episcopo quod ipse et heredes sui et omnes homines eor’ in manerio et soka de Horncastle cum pertinentiis suis h’eant imp’petuum lib’tates et quietancias in p’dict’ charta Regis sic inde conferta contentas.  Et mandat’ est Vicecom. Lincoln. q^d p’dict’ chartam in pleno comitatu suo legi faciat, et concessas eis p’dictas lib’tates et quietancias in balliva sua firmiter eis faciat observari.  Teste R. apud Walingford sexto die Januarii.  Et mandat’ est Baron’ de Scaccario q^d lib’tates illas et quietancias irrotulari fac’ et observari.  Teste ut supra.  Inspeximus ulterius irrotulament’ cujusdam al’ chartæ ejusd’m quondam Regis Henrici tertii, eid’m Episcopo Carleol. quondam fact’, in rotulo claus. de anno quinto decimo ejusd’m Regis irrotulat’, ac ib’d’m in recordo residen’, in hæc verba: Rex concessit Carleol. Episcopo q^d ipse et heredes sui habeant imp’petuum singulis annis unum mercatum p’ diem Mercurii apud manerium suum de Horncastle, et q^d habeant imp’petuum unam feriam singulis annis, ib’d’m singulis annis duraturam p’ septem dies, viz^t in Vigilia et in die et in crastino S’cti Laurentii et p’ quatuor dies sequen’, nisi, &c.  Et mandatu’ est Vicecom.  Lincoln. q^d p’dict’ mercatum et p’dictam feriam clamari faciat et teneri sicut p’dict’ est.  Teste Rege apud Westm^r decimo octavo die Octobris.  Inspeximus ulterius irrotulament’ cujusdam inquisic’onis captæ coram D’no Will’o de S’cto Omero et Warino de Chaucambe Justiciar’ D’ni Ed’r’i quondam Regis Angliæ primi, anno regni sui tertio, in rotul. wapentag. ejusd’m nup.  Regis Ed’r’i primi irrotulat’, ac ib’d’m de recordo residen’, in hæc verba: Hæc est Inquisitio facta apud Lincoln, coram D’no Will’o de S’cto Omero et Warino de Chaucumbe, Justiciar’ D’ni Regis assignat’ ad inquirend’ sup’ articulis subscriptis p’ duodecim juratores de wapentag’ de Horncastle, viz^t p’ D’num Rob’tum de Polum jur’, Simon Camerar’ de Edlington, Ric’um de Woodall, Petrum de Danderby, Will’um de Wispington, Henricum fil. Andreæ de ead’m, Sim. juxta Aquam de Baterfield.  Qui dicunt p’ sacramentum suum, quod cum ab eis inquirit’ que et quot &c. maneria D’nus Rex habet in manu sua in singulis comitat’ tam &c. dicunt q^d nihil sciunt.  Capit que etiam maneria esse solent in manibus Regis predecessoris D’ni Regis &c. dicunt q^d D’m’nus H. avus D’ni Regis H. patris D’ni Regis qui nunc est, habuit quoddam manerium de Horncastle in manu sua, et feoffavit Gerbaldum de Estald quondam militem de Flaunder’ pro servicio suo, scilicet p’ servicium feod’ unius militis D’no Regi faciend.  Et post obitum d’cti Gervaldi descendit dictum manerium in Gerrardo de Rodes, nepoti suo et heredi.  Et post decessum d’cti Gerrardi de Rodes, descendit Rad. de Rodes, filio suo et heredi, qui etiam longo tempore tenuit de D’no Rege H. patre Regis Ed’r’i qui nunc est, dictum manerium p’ servicium militar’ feod. unius militis, et vendidit d’ctum maner’ Walterio Mauclerke quondam Episcopo Carliol’ et successoribus suis ex concessione et confirmac’one D’ni Regis H. patris D’ni Regis Ed’r’i qui nunc est.  Et D’nus Rob’tus Carleol’ Episcopus tenet nunc d’ctum manerium tanquam Ecclesiæ suæ Carleol. p’tinen’.  Dicunt etiam q^d Gerrard de Rodes, filius p’d’ Rad. est modius int’ D’num Regem et d’ctum Episcopum, et defendit d’ctum manerium versus D’num Regem p’ servicium feod’ unius militis, unde Soka de Horncastle cum p’tinen valet p’ ann’ x libras except. ecclesiis d’cto manerio p’tinen.  Cap. simili modo inquirat de firmis, Thrything et Wapent. Civitat’ Burgor’ &c. dicunt q^d Subthrything p’solvit D’no Regi p’ ann’ c mure’.  Dicunt iterum q^d Wapentag. de Horncastle et Gayretree valent p’ ann’ ad opus D’ni Regis XIIII marc’.  De ceteris autem Wapentagiis nihil dicunt.  Capit qui alii à Rege clamant habere returnam vel extract’ brevium &c. dicunt q^d D’nus Episcopus Carleol. habet extractas et return’ brevium, et q^d tenet placitum de vetito nameo; habet etiam assis’ panis et cervis. furcas et waif infra Sokam de Hornc’, sed à quo tempore et quo warranto qualit’ dicunt q^d nesciunt.  Inspeximus ulterius irrotulament’ cujusdam al. chartæ confirmac’onis quam D’nus Henricus quondam Rex Angliæ sextus, progenitor n’er, fecit Deo et Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carleol. et venerabili patri Waltero quondam Carleol. Episcopo et successorib’s suis et Priori et Canonicis Carleol. in ead’m ecclesia Deo servien. et eor’ successorib’s, in rotul. chart’ de anno vicessimo quinto ejusd’m nup’ Regis Henrici sexti irrotulat’ ac ibid’m de recordo residen’, in hæc verba: Rex universis et singulis Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, &c. Sal’tem.  Inspeximus chartam D’ni Hen. quondam Regis Angliæ tertii post Conquestum, progenitoris n’ri, factam in hæc verba: Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliæ et Franciæ et D’nus Hib’niæ, Dux Normand’ et Acquitann’, Comes Ande’, Arch’ep’is, Episcopis, Abatib’s, Priorib’s, Comitib’s, Baronib’s, Justiciariis, Vicecomitib’s, Preposit’, Ministris, et omnib’s Ballivis fidelib’s suis, Sal’tem.  Sciatis nos intuitu Dei, et pro salute animæ n’ræ et animarum antecessor’ et heredum nostror’, concessisse et p^rsenti charta n’ra confirmasse Deo et Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carliol’, et venerabili patri Waltero Carliol’ Episcopo et successorib’s suis, et Priori et Canonicis Carliol’ in ead’m ecclesia Deo servientib’s, et eor’ successorib’s, omnes terras et redditus, tenem’t’ et possessions, jura et dignitat’, lib’tates et lib’ras consuetudines, quæ eis à nobis vel antecessorib’s n’ris vel aliquib’s aliis collatæ sunt vel conferend. sicut chartæ donator’ rationabilit’ testantur vel testabunt’.  Concessimus etiam eid’m Episcopo et successorib’s suis, quod ipsi et Prior et Canonici Carleol’ et eor’ successores imperpetuum habeant p’ omnes terras suas et tenement’ sua theol. thenc et infangenthef et utfangenthef; et q^d ipsi et omnes homines eor’ sunt quieti imp’petuum erga nos et heredes n’ros, Vicecomites, Constabular’, Prepositos, et omnes Ballivos n’ros, de theolonio; et q^d ipsi et omnes homines eor’ et omnes homines feod’ suis sunt quieti imperpetuu’ erga nos et heredes n’ros, Vicecomites, Constabular’ Preposit’, et omnes Ballivos n’ros, de passagio, pontagio, lastagio, stallagio, et de conductu thesauri, et de operac’onib’s castellor’, domor’, muror’, fossator’, pontium, calcetor’, vivarior’, stagnor’, et clausur’ parcor’, et de omnibus aliis operac’onib’s, et de sectis shirar’, wapentaccor’, hundr’or’, et frethingor’ et de auxiliis Vicecomitum, et de murdro, et de franc’ pleg’ et de vis. frankpleg’, et de misericordiis et de finib’s pro misericordiis, et p’ transgressionib’s, et p’ licencia concordandi, et de escapiis latron’, et de bobus seizina, et de placitis, querelis, et omnib’s exacc’onib’s ad nos, Vicecomites, Constabularios, vel aliquos alios Ballivos n’ros pertinentib’s.  Concessimus etiam eid’m E’po et successorib’s suis q^d nullus Vicecomes, Constabular’, vel alius Ballivus n’er ingressum vel posse habent in predict’ terris, feodis, vel hominib’s, sed totum ad p^rdict’ Ep’c’um et successores suos et eor’ Ballivos p’tineat, preter attachiament’ de placito coronæ, ad quæ quidem cum Coronatores venerint faciend’ ea ita fac’ q^d in nullo lædat^r lib’tas p’dicti Episcopi vel successor’ suor’.  Omnes autem p^rdict’ lib’tates concessimus ita q^d p^rdict’ Prior et Canonici Carliol. et omnes successores sui subsint et respond’ et satisfaciant p^rdict’ E’po et omnib’s successor’ suis, et nulli alii nisi de voluntate ejusd’m Episcopi et successor’ suor’, de omnib’s p^rdictis, sicut nobis aut heredib’s n’ris, aut Vic’ aut Constabulariis vel aliis Ballivis n’ris, subessent et responderent et satisfacient de eisd’m si ad nos ilia pertinerint.  Concessimus etiam q^d id’m Episcopus et successores sui distringere possint p^rdictos Priorem et Canonicos Carleol. terras et feoda et homines de terris et feodis illorum, et omnes homines de terris et aliis feodis ipsius Episcop: et successor’ suor’, ad omnia p^rdicta, sicut nos ad ead’m eos distringere possumus aut heredes n’ri, aut Vic’ aut Constabular’ vel aliqui alii Ballivi n’ri si p^rdict’ lib’tates aut quietanc’ concesse non fuissent.  Concessimus etiam p^rdiot’ Ep’o q^d si aliquas lib’tates aut quietancias ex hiis que continent^r in charta ista concessit Priori et Canonicis Carliol. nos eas confirmabimus.  Concessimus etiam eid’m Epis’po et successorib’s suis, et Priori et Canonic’ Carliol. et eor’ successorib’s, quod omnes homines eor’ sint liberi et quieti imperpetuum de omnib’s juratis et assis. et recognic’onib’s faciend. preterquam in attingend. p’priis dominicis n’ris p’ juratam si opus fu’it infra com’ ubi manentes fuerint, si forte contenc’o int’ nos ipsos et alios oriat’, ita q^d occ’one talis jurat. si forte evenerit p’ Vic’ vel alios Ballivos n’ros non occasionentur nec lib’tas p^rdicti Episcopi vel successor’ suor’ in aliqua lædat^r.  Concessimus etiam eid’m Episcopo et successorib’s suis quod si aliquis hominum de terris vel feodis suis sive de terris vel feodis Prioris et Canonicor’ Carleol. p’ delicto suo vitam aut membrum debeat amittere, vel fugit et judicio stare noluit, vel aliud delictum fecit pro quo cattalla sua perdere debeat, ubicunq’ justic’ fieri debeat, sive in cur’ n’ra sive in alia cur’, omnia cattalla illa sint p^rdicti Episcopi et successor’ suor’, et liceat eis sine disturbac’one Vicecomitum et quorumcunq’ Ballivorum n’ror’ et alior’ ponere se in seisinam de p^rdictis cattallis in p^rdictis casibus et aliis quando Ballivi nr’i, si ad nos pertinerent, cattalla illa in manum n’ram ea seisiri possent et deberent.  Concessimus etiam eid’m Episcopo et successoribus suis, quod quotiescunq’ aliqui malefactores capt. fuerint in p^rdictis terris vel feodis p’ Ballivos ejusd’m E’pi et successor’ suor’, de quibus non possit vel non debeat fieri judicium in cur’ p^rdicti E’pi vel successor’ suor’, Vicecomites et Ballivi n’ri recipiant p^rdictos malefactores sine difficultate et dilac’one sup’ forisfacturam n’ram, quandocunq’ Ballivi p^rdicti E’pi et successor’ suor’ dictos malefactores p^rdictis Ballivis n’ris liberare voluerint.  Concessimus etiam eid’m E’po et successorib’s suis q^d habeant imperpetuum omnia amerciamenta de omnibus hominib’s de terris et feodis suis, et de Priore et Canonicis Carleol. et eor’ successoribus, et de omnib’s hominib’s de terris et feodis omnib’s eorund’m, quæ amerciamenta ad nos vel heredes n’ros, vel Vic’ aut Constabular’ vel aliquos alios Ballivos n’ros, possent pertinere, si ipsa amerciamenta p^rdictis E’po et successorib’s suis concessa non fuissent; et q^d id’m Ep’us et successores sui habeant potestatem ad distringend. omnes p^rdictos ad amerciamenta eis reddend.: prohiben. insuper sup’ forisfacturam n’ram decem librar’ ne quis de p^rdict’ amerciament’ colligend. vel recipiend. sine districtione inde faciend. nisi p’ voluntatem ejusd’m E’pi aut successor’ suor’ se intromittat.  Concessimus etiam eid’m E’po et successorib’s suis, quod habeant in o’ib’s p^rdictis terris ten. et feod. omnia illa quæ vocant’ waif.  Concessimus etiam eid’m E’po et successorib’s suis et eisd’m Priori et Canonicis et eor’ successorib’s omnes p^rdict’ lib’tates sicut p^rdict’ est tam in terr’ ten. feod. et hominib’s adquirend. quam adquisit.  Concessimus insuper eid’m E’po et successorib’s suis quod licet aliquam lib’tatem p’ nos ipsis concess. processu temporis quocunq’ casu contingen. usi non fuerint, nihilominus tamen postea utantur lib’tate ead’m sine aliqua contradicc’one, non obstant’ eo q^d aliquo casu ea usi non fuerint.  Omnes autem p^rdict’ lib’tates et quietancias concessimus p’ nobis et heredib’s n’ris p’fat.  E’po et successorib’s suis in liberam puram et p’petuam eleemosynam.  Quare volumus et firmiter p’cipimus q^d p^rdict’ E’pus et successores sui, et p^rdict’ Prior et Canonici Carleol. et successores sui, et omnes ho’i’es eor’ et terr’ et feod’ et omnes homines de feod. illis, habeant p^rdictas lib’tates et quietancias, fin. et amerciament’, bene et in pace, integre et plenar’, in o’ib’s rebus et locis imperpetuum, sicut p^rdictum est.  Hiis testibus: H. Lincoln.  J. Bathon.  Th. Norwic’ E’pis, Hub. de Burgo comit. Lanc. justic’ Angl’, Godefro de Craucumbe, Ph’o de Albinas, Hugone Dispensatore, Raun’ Britone, Waltero de Kirkham, Alex’o de Swerford archerd. Salop’, Henr’ de Capella, Ric’o fil. Hug’, et al.  Dat. p’ man. R. Cicestr’ E’pi, cancellar’ n’ri, apud Oxon. sexto decimo die Julii anno regni n’ri quinto decimo.  Nos autem concession’ p^rdict’ ratas h’entes et gratas, easq. p’ nobis et heredib’s n’ris quantum in nobis est acceptam’, approbamus, et ratificamus, ac venerabili in Christo patri M. nunc E’po Carliol. et Priori et Canonicis Eccl’iæ p^rdictæ et successor’ suis p^rdictis concedimus et confirmamus sicut charta p^rdict’ rationabiliter testatur, et p’ut iidem E’pus, Prior, et Canonici eis uti debent, ipsiq’ et p’decessores sui p^rdict’ lib’tatib’s, franc’es’, et quietanciis illis à tempore confectionis chartæ p^rdict’ hactenus rationabiliter uti et gaudere consueverint.  Et ulterius de uberiori gratia n’ra concessimus eid’m E’po, Priori et Canonicis Eccl’iæ p^rdictæ, q^d ipsi habeant à primo die Aprilis ultimi preterit’ sibi et successorib’s suis imperpetuum cattalla felon. et fugitivor’, fellon. de se, dampnator’ et utlagator’, ex quacunq’ causa et p’ quamcunq’ causam, omnium hominum tenentiu’ suor’, residentiu’ et non residentiu’, de et in terris et feodis p^rdictor’ E’pi, Prioris et Canonicor’, ubicunq’ cattalla illa sint vel fuerint inventa, sive infra regnum n’rum Angliæ seu alibi infra regiam potestatem n’ram; et licebit p^rfato E’po, Priori et Canonicis, et successorib’s suis, et eor’ ministris, ponere se in seisinam dictor’ catallor’ sic à dicto primo die Aprilis forisfact’ et ex nunc forisfaciend’, et ead’m catalla ad opus dictor’ E’pi, Prioris et Canonic’, et successor’ suor’, habere et tenere sine occasione vel impedimento n’ri vel heredum n’ror’, Vic’, Escaetor’, aut alior’ Ballivor’ Ministror’ n’ror’ ac heredum n’ror’ quorumcunq’.  His testibus: Venerabilib’s patrib’s, J. Archie’po Cantuar’ totius Angliæ Primat’, cancellario n’ro, et J. Archie’po Ebor. Angliæ Primat’; W. Sarum et A. Cicestriæ custod. privati sigilli n’ri, Ep’is; charissimis consanguineis n’ris Ric’o Ebor’, Joh’e Exon’, et Humfrido Buck’, Ducib’s; Edmundo Dors’ et Will’o Suff’i camerar’ n’ro Angliæ, Marchionib’s; Ric’o Sar’ et Henr’ Northombr’ Comitib’s; Joh’e Vicecomit’ Beamont’, Rad’o Bottiller D’no Sudley, senescallo hospitii n’ri, et Jacobo Fenes D’no de Say, camerario hospitii n’ri, Militib’s, et aliis.  Dat’ p’ manum n’ram apud Westm^r vicessimo tertio die Maii, et p’ bre’de privat. sigillo, et de dat. &c. et p’ dimid. marca solut’ in hanaperio.  Nos autem seperal’ tenor’ omnium et singulor’ p^rmissor’ ad requisitionem dilecti subditi n’ri Thomæ Freestone armigeri duximus exemplificand. p’ p’sentes.  In cujus rei testimonium has l’ras n’ras fieri fecimus patentes.  Teste meipso apud Westm’ vicessimo sexto die Februarii anno regni n’ri sexto decimo.

No. 3.

The Abbot and Covent of Kirkstead have right and Lordship in the Maris which is called Wildmore, as by their antient and manifest instruments in writeing doth appeare.  And for that their right and l’b’tie may more planly be known unto the world, it behoveth that the declaring thereof by antient times and dayes be more manifested and opened.  Be it therefore knowne, that the said Marris Ground called Wildmore is p’tinent and belonging to three Barronnies, that is to say, Bullingbrooke, Horncastle, and Scrivelsbie: the said whole Marris Ground in antient time was called Wildmore, that is to say, in the time of Stephen, late or sometime King of England; and in the fourth yeare of his raigne was founded the Abby of Kirkstead, by the progeinto^rs and fowndo^rs of Tattershall; and in the eight yeare of the raigne of the said King Stephen was founded the Abbey of Reavesby, by William Romar, Earl of Lincoln, which William did give the house of Kerxe com’on of pasture in Wildmore, as much as to him and to the lands he had did appertaine; these things being ended and finished before the great and generall battells and warres, the said King Stephen died, after whome succeeded King Henry, who when he retayned in his owne hands two of the said Barronies, that is to say, Scrivelsby and Horncastle, he did give unto the said house of Kerxe, the Hermitage of Wildmore, with a certaine pasture thereunto belonging.  And in pr’cesse of time the said King did give the Barronary of Horncastle unto Gerbald Skalde, of Fland^rs, and the Barronary of Scrivelsby unto Rob^te Marmyon, a Norman: theise two Barrons did after give unto the said house of Kirks by their writings com’on of pasture in Wildmore, on condition they should suffer no man to com’on with them in the said Wildmore, but only themselves and theire tennants.  Will’m of Romar Earl of Lincoln after being dead, the gift which he made unto the said house of Kirks, Will’m of Romar, his nephew and his heir, did by his writeing confirme his said uncle’s gift unto the said howse.  And after him, Ralfe Earle of Chester did likewise confirme by his deed of gifte.  At length contenc’on fell amongst the said Barrons for the said Wildmore, for that none of them did know what or how much did appertaine of the said Wildmore to every of their Barronaries, wheruppon division was made between the Barron of Bullingbrooke and the Barron of Horncastle and Scrivelsbie, in the said Marris; that the men of the Barronry of Bullingbrooke might quietly com’on in their owne feudal com’ons, and the men of Horncastle and Scrivelsby in theire p’ts, which said division was made in the time of the said Will’m Romar the elder, in this manner.  It is ordained betwene the Sookes and the assent of their Lords and their tennants, that eight of the most wisest, discreetest, and antientest of the same Sookes, should walk and view the same Marris, and make division thereof amongst the said Sookes, which said eight men were chosen by the assent of the said Sookes.  That is to say, four in the soke of Horncastle and Scrivelsby, that is to say, Goodricke of Cunningsby, grave of Wildmore for the space of forty yeares, Brodericke the father of Algar, Gericke, an ould and reverend man, Recell son of Utenker; and foure of the Sooke of Bullingbrooke, Walter of Keale, Henry of East Kirkby, Gunford of Smerhurne, and Hiver of Miningsby.  These eight men set downe the stones and markes in forme as followeth, that is to say, beginning at Fillward mere, distant a little from mere end, and there setting up a redd marke, proceeded directly behind Newham, waveing the same on the left hand, from thence unto Ellmere pitt, and All garr more, and soe directly unto Maple buske under Sherwood.  And whatsoever was in the East part app’teined unto the Soake of Bollingbrooke, and whatsoever was in the West part apperteined unto Horncastle and Scrivelsby.  All theise were renewed in the time of Ralfe Earle of Chester.  Terebald of Scalde aforesaid, being dead, succeeded him as Barron of Horncastle.  After which succeeded Gered of Rhodes, a worthy and valiant knight; after him succeeded Ralfe of Rhodes, Lord of Horncastle, who, contrary to the grants of his ancesto^rs, did bring in the said Wildmore other mens cattell, whereup’n a plea of covent was sued against the said Ralfe of Rhodes, by the Abbot and Covent of Kirkstead, in the court of our souvraigne Lord the King, and a fyne knowledged by the said Ralfe of Rhodes, wherein was contayned, that the said Ralfe did give for him and his heires unto the said Abbot and Covent of Kirkstead all his right and l’b’tie which he claimed to have, or might have by any manner of meanes in Wildmore.  That is to say, in meadowes, pastures, and feedings, and in all other man’er of proffitts, easm^ts, lib’ties, customes, and in all other things, without reteining of any thing, saveing and reserving to himselfe and his heires, and his men, pasture in Wildmore, and turbary to be had and taken to their only use and uses, and not to be given or sold to any others.  The same Ralfe hath alsoe given unto the said howse of Kirkstead all his lordship and right in Wildmore, as appeareth by his graunt.  Furthermore, Rob^t Marmyon, Lord of Scrivelsby, being dead, succeeded after him Rob^te, his sonne.  This Rob^te, after the death of his father, likewise contrary to the graunt of his ancestors, did bring into the said Com’on of Wildmore other mens cattell, whereupon the like plea of covent was sued against the said Rob^te, whereunto he did appeare, and did knowledge aff’yne to the said Abbot and Covent in the same court, the same conteining in effect the same words before menc’oned: from which time until this p’sent, whereby the said Abbotts and Covents of Kirkstead, in impoundm^ts, and all other lib’ties and customes, have bene Lords of Wildmore, and peaceably and quietly have enjoyed the same as true Lords thereof, without impedim^te of any man.

No. 4.

Regina om’ib’s ad quos &c. Sal’tem.  Cum p^rdil’c’us et fidelis consiliarius ac subditus n’r Edwardus Fynes, p^rnobilis ordinis Gart^rij Miles, D’us Clynton et Saye, ac Magnus Admirallus n’r Anglie, nob’ humilit’ supplicav’it ut in villa de Hornecastell in com’ n’ro Lincoln’ unam scolam gram’aticalem ad bonam educac’o’em et instrucc’o’em pueror’ et juvenu’ ibidem et circa partes vicinas h’itanciu’ et com’oranciu’ in cognic’o’e bonar’ l’rar’ erigi, fundari, et stabiliri dignarem^r: Sciatis q’d nos huic pie petic’o’i libent’ annuentes, ex gra’ n’ra sp’iali, c’ta sciencia et mero motu n’ris, volum^s, concedim^s, et ordinam^s p’ nob’ hered’s et successorib’s n’ris, q’d de cet^ro sit et erit una Scola grammaticalis in villa de Horncastell p^rd’c’a, que vocabit^r Lib’a Scola Grammaticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ ex fundac’o’e Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye p’ educac’o’e instituc’o’e et instrucc’o’e pueror’ et juvenu’ in gram’atica p’petuo tempore duratur’; ac scolam illam de uno Mag’ro seu Pedagogo et uno Subpedagogo sive Hipodidasculo p’ p’petuo continuatur’ erigim^s, ordinam^s, cream^s, fundam^s, et stabilim^s p’ presentes.  Et ut intencio n’ra p^rd’c’a meliorem capiat eff’c’m, ac ut t^rre, ten’, redditus, rev^rc’o’es, ac alia hereditamenta ad sustentac’o’em scole p^rdc’e concedend. assignand. et appunctuand. melius gub’nent^r p’ continuac’o’e ejusdem scole, volum^s et ordinam^s q’d de cet^ro imp’p’m sint et erunt decem discreti et p’bi ho’i’es qui vocabunt^r Gub’natores possessionu’, revenc’onu’, hereditamentor’, et bonor’ p^rd’c’e scole, vulgarit’ vocat’ et vocand’ Lib’a Scola Grammaticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ ex fundac’o’e Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye.  Et ideo sciatis q’d nos elegim^s, no’i’avim^s et constituim^s ac p’ p’sentes eligim^s no’i’am^s assignam’ et constituim^s dilc’os nob’ Clementem Monke cl’icum, Joh’em Smith cl’icum, Joh’em Zacheverell gen^rosum, Thomam Litlor gen^rosum, Georgiu’ Hartgrave gen^rosum, Thomam Raithbecke yoman’, Joh’em Neale yoman’, Thomam Hamerton yoman’, Will’m Warde yoman’, et Will’m Harrison yoman’, fore et esse primos et modernos Custodes et Gub’natores possessionu’ hereditamentor’ et bonor’ d’c’e lib’e Scole vulgarit’ vocat’ et vocand’ ibidem Lib’a Schola Gra’maticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ ex fundac’o’e ejusdem Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye, ad idem officiu’ bene et fidelit’ ex^rcend. et occupand. à dat. p^rsenciu’ duran’ vit’ eor’ et eor’ diucius viven’.  Et q’d ijdem Gub’natores in re f’c’o et no’i’e de cet^rro sint et erunt unu’ corpus corporat’ et politiquu’ de se imp’p’m p’ nomen Gub’nator’ possessionu’ revenc’onu’ et bonor’ lib’e Scole gram’aticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell ex fundac’o’e Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye incorporat’ et erect’; ac ip’os Gub’natores possessionu’, revenc’onu’, et bonor’ lib’e Scole gram’aticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Horncastell in com. Lincoln, ex fundac’o’e Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye, p’ p^rsentes incorporam^s, ac corpus corporatum et politicum p’ idem nomen duratur’ realit’ et ad plenu’ cream^s, erigim^s, ordinam^s, facim^s, et constituim^s p’ p^rsentes.  Et volum^s ac p’ p’sentes ordinam’ et concedim’ q’d ijdem Gub’natores t^rar’, possessionu’, revencionu’, et bonor’ libe’ Scole Gram’atical’ Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ h’eant successionem p’petuam, ac p’ idem nomen sint et erunt parsone habiles et in lege capaces ad p’quirend. recipiend. capiend. et possidend. d’nia, maner’, t^rras, ten’, redditus, revenc’o’es, decimas, possessiones, rev^rc’o’es et hereditament’ quecumq’, cujuscumq’ sint gen^ris, nature, seu spe’i, sibi et successorib’s suis in feod’ et p’petuitate, necnon ad dand. concedend. dimittend. et assignand. easdem t^rras, ten’, hereditamenta, ac om’ia et singula alia fact’ et res faciend. et exequend’ p’ nomen p^rd’c’m.  Et q’d p’ nomen Gub’nator’ possessionu’, revencionu’, et bonor’ libe’ Scole gra’maticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ ex fundac’o’e Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye, pl’itare et impl’itari, respondere et responderi, defendere et defendi valeant et possint in quibuscumq’ cur’, placeis, et locis, ac coram quibuscumq’ judicib’s et justiciar’ ac alijs p’sonis et officiar’ n’ris vel aliquor’ alior’ quor’cumq’, in om’ib’s et singulis accⁱo’ib’s, sectis, querelis, causis, mat^riis, et demand. quibuscumq’, cujuscumq’ sint gen’is, nature, seu sp’iei, eisdem modo et forma p’ut alii ligei n’ri hujus regni n’ri Anglie parsone habiles et in lege capaces pl’itare et impl’itari, respondere et responderi, defendere et defendi, ac h’ere, p’quirere, recip’e, possidere, dare, concedere, et dimittere valeant et possint.  Et q’d p’d’c’i Gub’natores et successores sui de cet’o imp’p’m h’eant co’e Sigillum p’ causis et negocijs suis quibuscumq’ ac successor’ suor’ agend. s’vitur’.  Et ult^rius concedim^s, ordinam^s, et decrevim’ p’ p’sentes q’d quandocunq’ contig^rit aliquem vel aliquos d’c’or’ decern Gub’nator’ p’ tempore existen’ mori, q’d tunc et tociens bene liceat et licebit alijs dict’ Gub’natorib’s sup’vivent’ vel majori parti eor’dem adtunc infra d’c’am villam sive socam de Hornecastell com’oran’ et inh’itan’, aliam idoneam p’sonam vel alias idoneas p’sonas in locum vel locos sic morien’ vel morien’ in d’c’o officio Gub’nator’ successur’ elig’e et no’i’are.  Et hoc totiens casus sic accident.  Et ult’ius de ub’iori gr’a n’ra ac ex c’ta sciencia et mero motu n’ris dedim’ et concedim’, ac p’ p’sentes p’ nob’ hered. et successorib’s n’ris dam’ et concedim’, p’fatis modernis Gub’natorib’s et successorib’s suis ac majori parti eor’dem, plenam potestatem et auctoritatem no’i’andi et appunctuandi Pedagogum et Subpedagogum Scole p’d’c’e tociens quociens eadem Scola de Pedagogo vel Subpedagogo vacua fu’it.  Et q’d ip’i Gub’natores p’ tempore existen’ de tempore in tempus faciant et fac’e valeant et possint idonea et salubr’ Statuta et Ordinac’o’es in scriptis conc’nen’ et tangen’ p’servac’o’em et disposic’o’em reddit’ et revenc’ ad sustentac’o’em ejusdem Scole appunctuand. tangen’ et conc’nen’.  Que quidem Statuta et Ordinac’o’es sic fiend, volum’, concedim’, et p’ p’sentes p’cipim’ inviolabilit’ observari de tempore in tempus imp’p’m.  Et ult’ius sciatis q’d nos in considerac’o’e q’d d’c’i Gub’natores d’c’e lib’e Scole grammaticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ ex fundac’o’e p’d’c’i Edwardi D’ni Clynton et Saye et successores sui on’a ejusdem Scole ac Pedagogi et Subpedagogi inde de tempore in tempus melius sustineant et supportent, de gr’a n’ra sp’ali ac ex c’ta sciencia et mero motu n’ris dedim’ et concessim’ ac p’ p’sentes dam’ et concedim’ p’fatis modernis Gub’natorib’s possessionu’ revenc’onu’ et bonor’ d’c’e lib’e Scole Gra’maticalis Regine Elizabeth’ in villa sive soca de Hornecastell in com’ Lincoln’ et successorib’s suis, licenciam sp’alem, lib’amq’ et licitam facultatem, potestatem, et auctoritatem h’end. recipiend. et p’quirend. eis et e’or successorib’s imp’p’m, tam de nob’ hered’ et successorib’s n’ris q’m de alijs quibuscumq’ p’sonis et alia p’sona quacumq’ man’ia, mesuag’, t’ras, ten’, r’c’orias, decimas ac alia hereditamenta quecumq’ infra regnum Anglie seu alibi infra d’nac’o’es n’ras, que non tenent’ de nob’ im’ediate in capite vel alit’ p’ s’viciu’ militare, du’modo non excedant clar’ annuu’ valorem quadraginta librar’, p’fatis Gub’natorib’s et successorib’s suis ut p’fert’ p’ nos in forma p’d’c’a concess’, statuto de t’ris et ten’ ad manu’ mortuam non ponend. aut aliquo statuto, actu, ordinac’o’e, seu p’visione, aut aliqua alia re, causa, vel mat’ia quacumq’ in contrariu’ inde antehac h’it’, edit’, ordinat’, seu p’vis’ in aliquo non obstan’.  Et volum’ et p’ p’sentes concedim’ p’fatis modernis Gub’natorib’s q’d h’eant et h’ebunt has l’ras n’ras patentes &c. absq’ fine seu feodo in hanap’io &c.  In cujus rei &c.  T. R. apud Westm’ xxvº die Junii.

[4a]  Taciti Breviarum Vitæ Cn. Julii Agricola. sec. xx et xxi.

[4b]  Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.

[5]  The Roman road from Lincoln to Horncastle did not vary materially from the present road between these places.  Another Roman way branched from this road at the distance of about four miles from Horncastle, leading nearly in a straight line to Caistor, and from thence to the Humber: it bears the name of the High Street, and several tumuli are to be seen on its sides.

[6]  Leland’s Collectanea, tom 1. part 2. p. 509.

[7a]  See Appendix, No. 1.

[7b]  Adelias de Cundi was the daughter and heiress of William de Cheney, Lord of Cavenby and Glentham in the county of Lincoln, at the time of the conquest.  By her husband, Roger de Cundi, whom she survived, she had a daughter and heiress Agnes, afterwards married to Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford Castle, in the county of Hereford.  Dugdale, vol. ii. p. 336.  Monast. Ang. vol. ii. p. 646. a. n. 50.

[7c]  Dugdale’s Baronage, p. 39.

[8a]  Hund. Rot. 19. Hornc. Wap.

[8b]  On the eastern boundary of the parish is a place called Hangman’s Corner, where those convicted of capital offences, in the court of this manor, were executed.

[8c]  Cart. Rot. 14 et 15. H. III.

[9a]  Hund. Rot. ut antea.

[9b]  Mag. Rot. 17 H. III. Madox. collect.

[9c]  Cart. Rot. 18 Ed. 1. m. 39.

[9d]  Cart. Rot. 12. Ed. 2. no. 17.

[9e]  Pat. 14 Ric. II. pars 1. m. 3.

[9f]  The house where the bishops used to reside, a spacious structure, but destitute of architectural merit, was situated at the north-west corner of the ancient fortress.  It was demolished about the year 1770, when the present manor house was erected on its scite.

[10a]  All these grants were again acknowledged, and the privileges further extended in the sixteenth year of the reign of Charles the second.  See Appendix, No. 2.

[10b]  Parliamentary Survey, made in the years 1647 and 1648.

[10c]  Robert Aldrich was born at Burnham in Buckinghamshire, educated at Eton, and elected a scholar of King’s college, Cambridge, in 1507, where he took the degree of M.A. afterwards became proctor of the university, schoolmaster of Eton, fellow of the college, and at length provost.  In 1523 he was one of those who were sent out by the university of Cambridge to preach in different parts of the nation, as the judges now go their circuits.  In 1529 he retired to Oxford, where he was incorporated B.D.  About the same time he was made archdeacon of Colchester.  In 1534 he was installed canon of Windsor, and the same year he was appointed register of the most noble order of the garter.  July 18, 1537, he was consecrated bishop of Carlisle.  He was a correspondent of Erasmus, who termed him when young, “blandæ eloquentiæ juvenis,” and appears to have associated with him during his residence at Cambridge.  Leland was his familiar acquaintance, and gives him a high character for parts and learning.  He was the author of a volume of epigrams, and several theological treatises.

[10d]  Memoirs of Sir Henry Fynes Clinton, Annual Register 1772, Characters, p. 2.

[11]  See Appendix, No. 3.

[13]  Clarendon, Rapin, and Hume.

[14a]  Ludlow’s Memoirs.

[14b]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[14c]  Colonel Russel’s.

[17]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[18]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[19a]  Intercepted letter from Sir William Widdrington.  Rushworth’s Collections, 8vo. edit. vol. v. 78.

[19b]  Ibid.

[19c]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[20a]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[20b]  Some say this was a Captain Portington, who afterwards told Cromwell that he aimed at his nose, when he hit his horse on the head.  Life of Cromwell.  See also Ludlow, Vicars, and Hume.

[21a]  The road adjoining to Winceby field bears the name of Slash Lane, where it is traditionally related great numbers of the royal army were slaughtered, owing to their retreat being obstructed by a closed gate.

[21b]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[22a]  Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[22b]  Ibid.

[23a]  This anecdote the author has repeatedly heard from the several of the old inhabitants of the town.

[23b]  October 11, 1643.

[23c]  It is said accompanied by Sir William Widdrington.  Rapin.

[25]  Dr. Stukeley has incorrectly described this fortress as a complete parallelogram: Gough, too has erroneously stated it to have enclosed twenty acres.  The track of the wall will be found on the modern plan of the town.

[26]  The Roman youth were first instructed in the game of Troy Town by Ascanius, called also Julus, the son of Æneas, and from him the maze in which it was performed took the name of Julian Bower.  A very animated description of this game is given by Virgil in the fifth book of his Æneid.  See also Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 91.

[29a]  “Ecclesia de Horne Caster, & de Askeby, & de superiore Toynton, & de Mering, et de Hinderby sunt de donacoe d’ni Regis, & Osbertus Persona tenet eas de dono Regis Ricardi.”  Testa de Nevill.

[29b]  See the note in page 31.

[30a]  This shield is merely painted in a cavity where a brass has been fixed.

[30b]  In the Harleian collection of manuscripts, in the British Museum, is a volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, taken about the year 1640, by Mr. Gervase Holles, a native of Great Grimsby, and a representative of that place in several parliaments.  Beside noticing the above monument and epitaph, it contains the following account of arms and inscriptions at that time in this church, not a vestige of which is now remaining.

In Fenestra Insulæ borealis.

Orate pro a’ia Thomæ Coppuldike Armig. & D’næ Margaretæ Consortis suæ fundatoris Gildæ Cantar . . . Fenestram fieri fecit Ano Dni. 1526.

Hic jacet Francisca filia primogenita Petri Frescheville de Staveley in Com. Derb. Arm. [ex priore uxore sua Elizabetha filia Gervasii Clifton de Clifton in Com. Nott. Militis] et quondam Uxor Gervasii Holles de Burgh in Com. Lincoln.  Militis, cui peperit Freschevillum Holles, & Margaretam gemellos, & Franciscum Holles filium juniorem.  Obijt Horncastell.

Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 241.

[32]  It is observable that Cromwell is here stiled the arch-rebel, although at the time mentioned he was only a colonel, and by no means an illustrious individual in the war.  The date given to the battle is wrong, it having been fought on the 11th of October; and the signal defeat of the royalists is diminished in its importance, by stiling the conflict a skirmish.

[35]  See Appendix, No. 4.

[37]  The same Act also empowered the commissioners of the river Witham, in conjunction with the Horncastle and Sleaford Navigation Companies, to complete the navigable communication between the Witham and the Fosdike canal through the High Bridge at Lincoln.

[39]  “Horne Castelle, as far as I can lerne, is now most builded withyn the Circuite of an old waullid Toune, or sum hughe Castel, as apperith from divers Ruines of a Waulle.  It hath one faire Paroche Chirch.  Alluitur Bano et Verino qui paulo infra op Banum.  Dr. Thybleby of the Queen’s College hath Landes aboute the olde Walles of Horne Castelle.  Warig risith of divers springis aliquot passuum millibus ab oppido.  Pons ibidem super Verinum flu.  The market is very good and quick occupiers in the town.”  Leland’s Itinerary, vol. 7. p. 51.

[41] William Banks, Esq. father of the present lessee.

[43] See Appendix, No. 1.

[44a]  Mr. Holles, in the Church Notes before quoted, mentions the following inscription at this place, which now no longer exists:

On a Gravestone.

“Hic jacet Gulielmus Brackenburgh, & Emmotta uxor ejus, qui quidem Gulielmus obiit 6 die Januarii An’o D’ni 1476 quorum a’iabus p’pitietur Deus Amen.

“The pictures of themselves upon the stone, & of ten children, all in brasse.”

Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 177.

[44b]  Mr. Holles notices the following arms and inscriptions on the bells, in this church, the first of which are now gone, the latter still remaining:

Fenes. boreal. Cancelli.

Sa. a crosse betw. 4 cinquefoyles arg

Campane.

[1]  Sit nomen Domini benedictum.

[2]  Intonat e cœlis vox campana Michaelis.

[3] Sum rosa pulsata mundi Maria vocata.

Ibid. p. 342.

[46]  Mr. Holles notices the following arms once in this church, but now gone:

Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 244.

[47]  In the windows were the following arms when this church was visited by Mr. Holles:

In Fenestris Cancelli.

Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 245.

[49]  The following arms and inscriptions, now gone, are noticed by Mr. Holles, as being in this church when visited by him:

Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 218.

[50]  By the following extract it appears that in the time of Mr. Holles, the windows of this church abounded with stained glass, of which not a single vestige is now remaining.

In Fenestra Orientali.

Orate pro a’iabus fratrum, & sororum Gildæ be’æ Mariæ de Cuningsby, qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt.

This is a fayre Window, adorned with the Genealogy of the Kinges of Israel and Judah, David lying along through the whole bottome, from whose roote branch out the several stems.  In one part of it below the Picture of King Edward the first, crowned, &c. &c.

Edwardus primus regnavit annos

Orate pro Matilda de Padeholme, et Alicia

On a Gravestone.

Hic jacet D’nus Thomas Butler, quondam Capellanus Gilde beæ Mariæ Cunningsby, qui obiit 10 die Mensis Decembris, A’no D’ni 1510.  Cujus aiæ &c. &c.