PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. PART I PREHISTORIC. HORNCASTLE ITS INFANCY.

CHAPTER II. RECORDS OF THE MANOR, and c., FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

CHAPTER V. NONCONFORMIST PLACES OF WORSHIP.

CHAPTER VI. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

CHAPTER VII. WATSON'S FREE SCHOOL.

CHAPTER VIII. THE DISPENSARY

CHAPTER IX. THE CANAL.

CHAPTER X. WORKHOUSE OR UNION.

CHAPTER XI. HORNCASTLE WORTHIES, and c. MISS ANNIE DIXON.

APPENDIX. THIMBLEBY.

INDEX. A

Footnotes:

SEAL OF SIMON DE ISLIP. Vicar of Horncastle, 1349; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1349–1366

We are indebted for the engraving of this seal to the courtesy of Miss G. M. Bevan, author of Portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury, published by Messrs. Mowbray & Co., London.

a
History of Horncastle,
from the
earliest period to the present time.

ILLUSTRATED.

by
James Conway Walter,
author of
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood, Parishes around Horncastle,
The Ayscoughs, The Coitani, &c., &c.

HORNCASTLE:
W. K. Morton & Sons, Ltd., Printers, High Street,
1908.

Market Place and Stanhope Memorial