[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.

In superiori Fenestra boreali Cancelli.
G a Lyon passant guardant Arg.
Sa. 3 Flowres de lize betw: 6 Crosses botony fitchy Arg.
G. a Crosse sarcely Arg.	Beke.
In Fenestra Orientali InsulÆ Australis. Orate pro benefactoribus artis sutorum, qui istam Fenestram fieri fecerunt sc’Æ NenianÆ cum sera & catena. Item sc’i Crispinus & Crispinianus cum instrumentis Calceariis.
FenestrÆ borealis superius.
Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or	Dymoke
Empaled. Or a lyon ramp double queue sa	Welles.
Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw. 3 bulles passant sa	Tourney.
Empaled. Quarterly. B. a fesse betw. 3 goates heads erased arg.
Empaled. Quarterly. Argent a chevron gobony sa. Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. on a bend G. 3 roses arg.
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw. 3 griphons heades erased G.	Tilney.
Quarterly. Arg. 3 bars G, over all a bend engrayled sa	Ros.
Quarterly. Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty	Rochford.
Quarterly. Arg. 3 crosses botony fitchy B. semy of flowres de lize
Quarterly Ermine and chequy or and G.	Gipthorpe.
Arg. a chevron betw. 3. roses G.
Taylboys, &c.
Fenestra Australis superior.
G. a fesse betw. 3 waterbougets ermine	Meres.
Empaled. Marchants Marke Empaled. Arg. on a bend G. 3 ferniers of the first

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 coelis 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:

Fenestra australes Cancelli.
G. 3 lyons passant gardant or	England.
Verry a fesse G. fretty or	Marmyon.
Argent a plaine crosse B.
Or a lyon rampant purpure	Lacy.
Chequy or & G. a chiefe ermyne	Tateshale.
In Campanili.
Arg. a sword sheathed proper, a buckler appt. with girdle wrapped, hilte pomel, & neuf or

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.

Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or	Marmion.
G. a crosse sarcely arg.	Beke.
Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or	Dymoke.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa.	Welles.
Sa. 3 flowres de lize betw. 6 crosse crosselets fitchy arg.
G. 3 bars ermyne	Kirketon.
Barry of 6 or and sa.
FenestrÆ boreales.
B. a lyons head erased betw. 6 crosses botony arg.	Touthby.
Arg. 2 bars G. a border sa.
Dymoke each lyon charg’d sur l’espale with an annulet	Dymoke.
Ermyne on a bend G. a cinquefoil or
G. crosse crucilly fitchy a lyon rampant arg.	La Warre.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa.	Welles.
FenestrÆ australes.
G. 3 waterbougets arg.	Ros.
Or on fesse G. 3 plates	Huntingfield.
Quarterly or & G. a border sa. bezanty	Rochfort.
Rochfort with a garbe in the 2d quarter arg.	Rochfort.
Rochfort with an annulet in the 2d quarter arg.	Rochfort.
Or a manche G.	Hastings.
G. a bend ermyne	Ry.
Rochfort with an eagle displayed in the 2d quarter arg	Rochford.
Arg. fretty of 6 pieces G. a canton ermyne
In Fenestra borealis Navis.
G. crosse crucilly fitchy a lyon rampant arg	La Warre.
Arg. on a bend G. 3 gryphons heads erased or
In Campanili. Joh’es Staines W. Jo.

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:

In Fenestra Australi.
Empaled. Arg. a crosse sa.
Empaled. Arg. on a crosse G. a bezant
Empaled. Arg. a crosse sa.
Empaled. Quarterly arg. and G. on the 1st & 4th quarters a popinjay vert. membred and beked G,
In Fenestra Occidental, ex sinistra Campanilis.
Orate pro a’ia Joh’is Tott, Agnet, & Helene uxorum ejus, & specialiter pro Andrea Tott Artium Baccalaureo, qui istam Fenestram lapidari, nec non vitreari fecit.
Sup Fulchrum ex p’te Australi.
Quarterly Ufford & Beke	Willughby.
3 Crosses portate
2 Chevrons betw. 3 roses
A crosse
A lyon passant
Domus mea domus Orationis vocabitur. 1591.

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 Fenestris Orientali Cancelli.
Quarterly. Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or		Marmyon.
Quarterly. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned d’or		Dymoke.
Empaled. G. a frett of 8 pieces d’or
Empaled. B. 3 garbes d’or
G. a lyon rampant d’or
Sa. a sword in pale arg.
Sa. 2 lyons passants arg. crowned d’or		Dimoke.
Arg. 3 flowres de lize betw: 6 crosse crosselets fitchy sa. a border G.		Hillary.
Arg. a playne crosse G.
G. a playne crosse arg.
Tumulus lapidus. Hic jacet Anna fillia ThomÆ Dymoke Militis D’ni . . . et Margaretis consortis suÆ quÆ obiit Ao. D’ni 1462 &c. &c.
Empaled. Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or		Marmion.
Empaled. Or a lyon rampant double queue sa.		Welles.
In muro boreali erÆ sculptum. Orate pro a’ia M’ri. Joh’is de Croxby, quondam Rectoris istius ecclesiÆ, qui dedit annualem redditum xxs. annuatim impetuum, et in secunda feria primÆ hebdommadÆ quadragessimÆ habitantibus in Conningsby sc’am formam evidentiÆ suÆ distribuendorum. This charity hath ceased for many yeares, the evidence having been sacrilegiously stolne out of that monument within the wall, as by the loosening of the plate of brasse may appeare.
In Fenestra Occidentali CapellÆ Orientalis. Orate pro a’iabus . . . Hatcliffe . . . Uxis suÆ . . . Fenestram.
Sa. 3 welles arg. bis		Wellis.
Empaled. Sa. 3 welles arg.		Wellis.
Empaled. B. 2 bars d’or over all a lyon rampant G.		Hatcliffe.
Sa a. sword in pale arg.
Arg. a fesse daunce betw. 3 talbots heads erased sa.
Arg. a fesse betw. 3 cootes sa
B. 2 bars d’or over all a lyon rampant G.		Hattecliffe.
Orate pro bono statu H. Wellis notoria publici et sequelis eorum . . . hanc fenestram fieri fecerunt A’no D’ni 1460.		Hatcliffe uxoris suÆ
In superioribus Fenestris Borealibus.
G. a cinquefoil peirced betw. 8 crosse crosselets d’or		Umframville
Quarterly. Sa. a cross engrayled d’or	Ufford.	Willughby.
Quarterly. G. a crosse sarcely arg.	Beke	Willughby.
G. 3 waterbougets arg.		Ros.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa.		Welles.
Arg. a crosse patonce G.
Arg. a chiefe G. over all a bend engrayled B.
Chequy or & G. a chiefe ermyne		Tateshale.
Ermyne a fesse G.		Bernake.
Arg. a chiefe G. over all a bend B.		Crumwell.
Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or		Dymoke.
Or on fesse G. 3 plates		Huntingfield.
Quarterly or & G. a border sa. bezanty		Rochford.
G. a crosse molyn arg.		Beke.
Quarterly or & G. a border sa. bezanty on the 2d quarter a garbe arg.		Rochford.
Quarterly &c. an annulet on the 2d quarter		Rochford.
B. crucilly a lyon rampant arg. bis
Argent 3 shell snayles sa.
Dymoke Crumwell Holland
Quarterly France & England a label of 3 arg.
Quarterly France & England a label of 3 ermyne

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.

On another.

Pray for the Soule of John Smith of Cunsby sometimes M’chant of the Staple of Calis, which died in the yeare of our Lord God 1470, & Jonet his Wife which died the 24th Day of November in the yeare of our Lord God 1461.

And all good people that this Scripture reade or see

For theire soules say a Paternoster, Ave-Maria, & a creed for Charity.

On another the pourtraytures of a man and his two wives on either side of him in brasse with this inscription vizt.

Pray for the soules of Richard Whetecroft of Coningsby M’chant of the Staple at Calice & sometimes Lieutenant of the same, & Jane & Margaret his Wives, which Richard deceased the 23d day of November, Ao. D’ni 1524.

In the Parlour of the Parsonage House.
Arg. a crosse engrailed G. betw. 4 waterbougets sa.	Bourchier.
Quarterly & Quartered with Quarterly. Gules billetty d’or a fesse arg.	Lovayne.
Quarterly & Quartered with Quarterly. Crumwell and Tateshale
B. a manche d’or
Empaled. Sa. 3 lyons passant guardant arg.	Dymoke.
Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned d’or
Empaled. Dymoke
Empaled. Marmyon
Verry a fesse G.	Marmyon.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa.	Welles.
Empaled. A coate defaced
Empaled. Welles
Empaled. Verry a fesse G.
Empaled. B. a manche d’or

All these Escocheons are in 2 Windowes, in which two Windowes also are these Verses:

Alme Deus coeli Croxby tu parce Johanni
Hanc Ædem fieri benefecit sponte Jo. Croxby
Anno Milleno quater. c. L. x. quoq. terno.

In the other Windowes.
Barry of 6 ermyne & G. 3 crescents sa.	Waterton.
Quarterly Ufford & Beke	Willughby.
Verry a fesse G.	Marmyon.
Ermyne 5 fusils in fesse G.	Hebden.
Arg. a crosse sarcely sa.
Empaled. Quarterly Crumwell & Tateshale	Crumwell.
Empaled. B. a fesse betw. 6 billets d’or	Deyncourt.
Empaled. Dymoke
Empaled. Welles
Sa. an arming sworde pile in poynte arg.
Empaled. Arg. 3 bulls passant
Empaled. G. on a chevron arg. 3 pomeis
Empaled. Arg. a fesse daunce betw. 3 talbots heades erased sa.
Empaled. Arg. a fesse betw. 3 cootes sa.

Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 179 to 182.[54] Harleian MS. No. 618. Parliamentary Returns.[55] “In Badeburg h’b. h’b. Vlf XII car. t’rÆ ad g’ld. T’ra x car. Ibi h’t Gislebt v car. et XXI vill. et VI bord. et XX soch. et XVI bord. eor. Int. om’s VI car, et I molin. VIII solid CXL ac’s silvÆ pastil. T R E. val. X lib. † mº. XII lib. Tallia in lib. De hoe t’ra VI car. in Soca.” Domesday, folio 354.[56a] Burton’s Monast. Ebor. p. 215.[56b] The following arms and inscription, now gone, were in this church when it was visited by Mr. Holles.

In Fenestra.
Arg. a plaine crosse G.
G. a fesse betw. 6 cosselets botony fitchy arg. charged with as many mullets or pierced G.
Sa. a bend betw. 6 mullets or pierced G.	Briton.
In the Church on a flat marble stone in Saxon Characters. ICI : GIST : MARGARETA : DE : LACI : QE : FVLA : FEME : GWILLEAMA : DE : MOVSTE

Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 177.[57] See Appendix, No. 1.[58a] Escheat Rolls.[58b] Cook C. Herald, MS.[58c] From the information of E. Turnor, Esq. F.S.A.[60a] Lodge’s Illustrations, vol. ii. 191.[60b] The windows were formerly embellished with the following heraldic bearings in stained glass, of which no vestiges are now existing.

In Boreali Fenestra Chori.
Arg. 3 chaplets with roses gules	Lascels.
G. 3 mascels argent
G. 4 fusils in fesse arg. a border engrailed or	Nevill.

Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 140.[62] See Appendix, No. 1.[63a] For a description of the ceremony performed by the king’s champion at coronations, see “Sandford’s History of the Coronation of James the second;” also “Banks’s History of the Family of Marmyun.”[63b] In the forty-second and forty-third years of Henry the third, Philip Marmyon had grants of a market, fair, and free warren, at his manor of Scrivelsby. In the ninth year of Edward the first, he showed that he had those rights, and that of gallows at Scrivelsby, with the other privileges incident to one of the great barons of the realm; and also right of free warren in the soke of Horncastle.[64] In this inscription Sir Robert Dymoke is, by mistake of the sculptor, styled knight and baronet, instead of knight banneret.[69] “Vir illustris in consilio, strenuus in prÆlio, princeps militÆ in AngliÆ, et in omni regno ornatissimus.” Wever’s Fun. Mem. p. 366.[71] The MS. vol. of Church notes, so often before quoted, contains the following description of this castle:—

“The castle of Bullingbrooke was built by William de Romara Earle of Lincolne, and ennobled by the birth of King Henry the 4th, who from thence took his sirname. Heretofore it was a famous structure, but now gone much to ruine and decay.

“The towne standes in a bottome, and the castell in the lowest part of it, compassed about with a large moat fed by springs. It is most accessible on the south-west part, the rest being encompassed by the hills.

“As for the frame of the building, it lieth in a square, the area within the walls conteyning about an acre and a half, the building is very uniforme.

“It hath 4 stronge forts or ramparts, wherein are many roomes, and lodgings: the passage from one to another lying upon the walles, which are embattled about. There be likewise 2 watch-towers all covered with lead. If all the roomes in it were repayred, and furnished [as it seemes in former tymes they have bin] it were capable to receyve a very great prince with all his trayne.

“The entrance into it is very stately over a faire draw-bridge. The gatehouse a very uniforme, and strong building. Next within the porter’s lodge is a payre of low stayres, which goe downe into a dungeon, in which some reliques are yet to be seene of a prison-house. Other 2 prisons more are on either side.

“The building itselfe is of a sandy stone hewen of a great square out of the rockes thereby, which though it abide the weather longe, yet [in processe of tyme] it will moulder, especially if wett gett within it, which hath bin the decay of many places of the wall where the roofe is uncovered.

“There be certaine roomes within the castle, [built by Queen Elizabeth of freestone] amongst which is a fayre great chamber with other lodgings.

“In a roome in one of the towers of the castle they usually kept their auditt once by the yeare for the whole Dutchy of Lancaster, having ever bin the prime seate thereof, where all the recordes for the whole countrey are kept.

“The constable of the castle is Sir William Mounson Lord Castlemayne, who receaveth a revenue out of the Dutchy lands of £500. per annum, in part of payment of £1000. yearely given by the king to the Countesse of Nottingham his lady.

“One thinge is not to be passed by affirmed as a certaine trueth by many of the inhabitants of the towne upon their owne knowledge, which is, that the castle is haunted by a certain spirit in the likenesse of a hare; which att the meeting of the auditors doeth usually runne betweene their legs, and sometymes overthrows them, and soe passes away. They have pursued it downe into the castleyard, and seene it take in att a grate into a low cellar, and have followed it thither with a light, where notwithstanding that they did most narrowly observe it [and that there was noe other passage out, but by the doore, or windowe, the roome being all close framed of stones within, not having the least chinke or crevice] yet they could never finde it. And att other tymes it hath been seene run in at iron-grates below into other of the grotto’s [as their be many of them] and they have watched the place, and sent for houndes, and put in after it; but after a while they have come crying out.”

Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 162.[73] The following arms and inscriptions were in the windows of this church when it was visited by Mr. Holles.

In Fenestra Orientali Cancelli.
G. 3 lyons passants gardants d’or a labell of 3 each charged with 3 floures de lize of the second		Comes Lancastr.
Empaled. Castile, and Leon quarterly. A label of 3 arg. each charged with 2 de lizes sa.
Empaled. France, and England quarterly. A label of 3 arg. each charged with 2 de lizes sa.
Or a lyon rampant purpure		Lacy.
B. 2 garbes d’or		Meschines. Com. Cestr.
Quarterly. Sa. a crosse engrayled d’or	Ufford
Quarterly. G. a crosse molyn arg.	Beke	Willughby.
Argent a fesse G between 3 bugles trippant sa.
In Fenestra Orientali ad dextram Navis.
B. 6. lyoncels rampant d’or. 3. 2. 1		Longespee.
Lancaster. England, and France quarterly. Lacy. G. 3 lyons passants arg. a labell of 3 d’or, each charged with a lyon rampant purpure
In 1ma Fenestra australi.
B. 3. garbes d’or		Meschines.
Chequy d’or & B a bend G.		Clifford.
Quarterly arg. & G. the 2d & 3d charg’d with a frette d’or over all a bend sa.		Spenser.
Femina gestans in veste sex leones aureos erectos una cum leone purpure conjunctos		Longespee. Lacy.
In 2da Fenestra australi.
G. a fesse verry betw: 3 leopards heads jesant floures de lize d’or		Cantilupe.
G. a crosse molyn arg.		Beke.
B. a fesse daunce betw: 10 billets d’or		Deyncourt.
In Campanili.
Quarterly France, and England
Quarterly or, & G. a border sa. bezanty		Rochford.
Or, a chevron betw: 10 crosses botony sa.		Slight.
Orate pro bono statu . . . Ducis Aurelie. Ad hoc Campanile . . . Ao. r. r. Hen
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw: 3 martlets sa.
Quarterly. Chequy or & G. on a chiefe arg. a lyon passant sa.

Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 163.[74] “In Bolinbroc h’b Stori II car. t’rÆ ad g’ld. T’ra II car. In soca I car. de hac t’ra. Ibi h’t Iuo modo II car. et XII vill. et VIII bord. et XII soch. cu. III car. Ibi Æccla et mercatu. novu. et III molini X solidos et LXX ac. p’ti. T R E. val. XXX lib. mº. XL. lib. Tailla q’ter XX lib. cu. omnib’s adjacentib’s.” Domesday folio, 351.[76] See the Charter in Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. i. p. 822.[79] Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.[81] Dr. John Taylor of Norwich was one of the earliest ministers appointed by Mr. Disney. He held his appointment from about 1715, for 18 years, and at this place composed his justly valued “Hebrew Concordance,” in two vols. folio.[86a] Itinerarium, p. 162.[86b] Gough, and others who have copied from him, erroneously state this tower to be two hundred feet in height.[90] The principal part of the stained glass taken from this church was placed by the Earl of Exeter in the church of St. Martin, Stamford Baron, with some other richly stained glass, procured from the churches of Snape in Yorkshire, and Barnack in Northamptonshire.[91a] Joan Lady Cromwell was one of the daughters of Sir Richard Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell. She married Humphry Bourchier, third Son of the Earl of Essex, who was created Lord Cromwell, in the first year of Edward the fourth.[91b] Matilda Lady Willoughby was the other daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell.[92a] Gough in his “Sepulchral Monuments,” vol. ii. gives a description of the arms contained in these shields, as well as in those which were attached to the figures of the Lord Treasurer and his wife. His description however differs widely from that given by Mr. Holles in his MS. vol. of Lincolnshire Church Notes.[92b] Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. p. 179.[92c] The MS. volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, notices all the foregoing inscriptions, though not in a very correct manner. It also contains the following account of inscriptions and arms, in this church, which are now gone:

In the upper ende of the Chancell.

Next under another fayre monument of blew marble [as the former] the picture of one also inlayd in brasse, adorned rounde about with a border of curious workemanship in brasse, with the pictures and names of some prophets in the Old Testament, and of other saintes, and some Saxon kinges, as Edmund, Edward, Etheldred, Ethelbert, there is noe inscription, onely this ensuing escocheon upon either side of him.

Shield

On the North Side under a Marble.

Orate pro a’ia M’ri Joh’is Gigur baccalaur. TheologiÆ custodis hujus collegii, ac etiam . . . Collegij Marton in Oxonia qui obijt 12º. die

On the Wood Worke in the lower ende of the Quire, curiously carved in capital l’rs this,—

Ad honorem & gloriam Dei opt. Max. & decorum domus ejus hoc opus factum est Anno D’ni 1424.

In Fenestris.

The history of the passion depainted. In another Hell’s torments, where are divers creatures bound together in a chayne; amongst whome one with a crowne, another with a mytre on his head, the divell tormenting them, and under them is written—

‘Sic affiguntur poenis, qui prava sequuntur.’

The history of Hermogenes that raysed up devills, and of Guthlake [the saint of the fens] and of Catherina, who cast them into the sea, that Hermogenes and Philetus raysed.

The history of Cosdre with his decollation.

In Fenestris ex latere Australi.
Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B.	Crumwell.
Quarterly.—Crumwell, with chequy d’or and G. a chiefe ermyne	Tateshall.
G. a lyon rampant d’or	Fitz-Alane.
Arg. 3 cinquefoyles and a canton	Driby.
Bendy of 10 pieces arg. and G.
Ermyne a fesse G.	Bernake.
B. a fesse daunce betw: 10 billets d’or	Deyncourt.
G. 10 annulets d’or
Chequy d’or and G. a bend ermyne	Clifton.
Quarterly.—Crumwell and Tateshall
Empaled. Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B.	Crumwell.
Empaled. Arg. a chevron B. a file with 3 lambeaux d’or
Barry of 6 arg. and B. a bend G.	Grey of Rotterfield.
Verry a fesse	Marmyon.
Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B. a labell of 3 ermyne
Lozengy arg. and G.	Fitz-William.
Ex latere boreali.
Empaled. Chequy d’or and G. a bendlet B.
Empaled. Lozengy arg. and G.	Fitz-William.
B. a crosse patonce arg.
Party p. pale G. and sa. a lyon rampant arg. crowned d’or
Arg. 3 water-pots covered G. a border sa. bezanty	Monboucher. [ut upinor.]
Empaled. Arg. a chiefe G. over all a bend B.
Empaled. Party p. pale G and sa. a lyon rampant arg. crowned d’or
Arg. a chevron betweene 3 pots covered G. a border sa. bezanty.
Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B. a labell of 3 d’or
Barry of 6 arg. and G. a bend engrayled d’or
Crumwell with a labell of 3 ermyne
In Fenestris utrimq. supra portas Australem et Borealem.
Orate pro a’ia Radulphi nuper D’ni de Crumwell & Tateshale Thesaurarij AngliÆ, & fundatoris hujus Collegij.
The Roode Loft, 1524.
G. a saltier arg. a file with 3 lambeaux B.	Nevile.
Lozengy sa. and erm. on a chiefe sa. 3 lillies arg.	Wainflet Ep’us Wint.
Wainflet Ep’us Winton cujus insignia sculptata sup. utranq. porticum in saxo. Thomas Howard gen. & Beatrix consors ejus vitriaverunt fenestram borealem in honore s’cÆ CatherinÆ, cujus passio ib’dm.
Empaled. Arg. a chevron chequy d’or and G. betw. 3 flesh-hookes sa.
Empaled. B. a fesse betw. 3 storkes arg.
Arg. a chevron betw. 3 catherine wheels d’or
Deyncourt sup. portam collegii.
Sup. crucem in foro ville Crumwell & Tateshall paling Deyncourt & p. se 3.

Gravestones in the Church.

Hic jacet Thomas Gibbon Artium Liberalium M’gr. Rector nuper de Wiberton Socius & precentor hujus collegij qui obijt 16º. die mensis Januarij An’o D’ni 1506 cujus &c.

Another.

Orate pro a’ia D’ni Henr. Porter capti quondam Socij Collegij de Tateshall, ac prÆcentor ejusdem Eccl’ie, qui obijt 12º. die Martij An’o D’ni 1519.

Another.

Hic jacet Edwardus Okey nup. unus sex clericorum hujus Collegij qui obijt 29 die January An’o D’ni 1519, cujus &c.

In Insula Australi.

Hic jacet Ric’us English artium liberalium Mgr. socius ac p’centor huj. Collegij & Vicarius Eccl’iÆ de Burwell qui obijt 27º. die Martij A’o D’ni 1522.

Another.

Orate pro a’ia M’ri Rob’ti Sudbury sacrÆ TheologiÆ Baccalaureus nuper Rector . . . ac quondam p’centor & socius hujus Collegij qui obijt 19º. Decembris An’o 1482.

Under the arched worke of the Partition betw. the Chancell and the body of the Church, this,

Orate pro a’ia Rob’ti de Whalley . . . hujus collegij qui hoc opus fieri fecit A’o D’ni 1528. cujus a’ie p’pitietur Deus. Amen.

Within a Chapel on the North side, a fayre flatt Marble, on which this Epitaph,

Have mercy on the soule [good Lord] we thee pray
Of Edward Hevyn, lay’d here in sepulture,
W’ch to thine honour this chappel did array
With ceeling, desk, perclose and pourtrayture,
And paviment of marble long to endure.
Servant of late to the excellent Princesse
Mother to King Henry, of Richmond Countesse.

The Armes on the Gravestone are
Empaled. A chevron betw. 3 boares heades couped, having so many pomeis in their mouths; on the chevron a crescent	Hevyn.
Empaled. A chevron betw. 3 bulls heades.	Hevyn.

Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 184–189.[97] “One of the Cromwelle’s builded a preaty turret caullid the Tour of the Moore; and thereby he made a faire greate ponde or lake, brickid about. The lake is commonly caullid the Synkker.” Leland’s Itinerarium, vi. 58.[100a] By some called Bind, by others Clunch Clay.[100b] At Donington, 103 yards; and at Kirkstead, 150 yards. A succinct account of the boring at Donington may be seen in the Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 3.