CHAPTER XLII
LINCOLNSHIRE FOX-HOUNDS
BY E. P. RAWNSLEY, ESQ., M.F.H.
Brocklesby—Burton—Blankney and Southwold—Note by Author.
[Sidenote: THE BROCKLESBY]
Except the fen country and a small corner in the extreme north-west, the whole of Lincolnshire is hunted by fox-hounds. Four packs, namely, the _Brocklesby_ (Lord Yarborough’s), the _Burton_, _Blankney_ and _Southwold_ hunt entirely in Lincolnshire; while the Belvoir and Cottesmore hunt partly in Lincolnshire. Premier position must be given to the _Brocklesby_. It is one of the very few packs maintained entirely by the master, and for over 150 years the Earls of Yarborough have done this for the benefit of the residents and farmers in the large tract of country they hunt over. The country hunted extends from the Humber on the north to a line drawn from Louth to Market-Rasen on the south, and from the sea on the east to the river Ancholme on the west. The country is mostly wold, and consequently plough, but very open, the only big woods being those that surround Brocklesby itself. The hounds having been so long in one family are of the best, and there are few kennels in England but have a large infusion of the Brocklesby blood, famous for nose, tongue, and stoutness. For upwards of 100 years the family of Smith carried the horn and did much to establish the notoriety of the pack, while in more recent years Will Dale, a great huntsman and houndman, and Jem Smith, no relation of the former huntsman, have kept it up. Possibly sport in the country was never better than when W. Dale and Mr. Maunsell-Richardson each hunted one pack; when one was hunting the other was always out to render assistance, and as both knew the country perfectly, the result was more good runs and more foxes caught at the end of them than was ever done in the country before or since.
With the exception of Brocklesby there are not many residences in the country, though the Upplebys of Barrow, the Alingtons of Swinhope, the Nelthorpes of Scawby in old days joined the chase; and it is related of the first, grandfather of the present owner of Barrow, that after a good run he was found riding on his pillow shouting at the top of his voice, “Mind you keep your eye on Blossom,” a noted bitch at that time in the pack. At the present time a great supporter is Mr. Haigh of Grainsby, who cannot have too many foxes, though he does all his hunting on foot. Mr. Pretyman’s covers at Riby are equally well stocked; while Bradley Wood, the property of Mr. Sutton-Nelthorpe, is the key of all that side of the country. Probably hunting will continue longer over cultivated country, such as the Brocklesby, than in most parts of England. There are few railways, the country is not adapted to small holdings, the farmers are all sportsmen, and occupy large farms, delighted to have a litter of cubs reared on their land and to see a couple of fox-hound puppies playing in their yards, while such a thing as a complaint about hounds and field crossing their land is unknown.
[Sidenote: THE BURTON AND THE BLANKNEY]
_The Burton_ comes next in point of antiquity, and takes its name from Burton, Lord Monson’s place near Lincoln, where Lord Monson first started the hounds in 1774. Many notable sportsmen have held the mastership. The old Burton country was of very wide extent, stretching from Brigg on the north to Sleaford on the south, and from Stourton by Horncastle on the east to the Trent on the west. It is now divided into _Burton_ and _Blankney_, the present southern boundary of the Burton being the river Witham and the Fossdyke. The most notable Masters of the country when undivided were Mr. Assheton-Smith, Sir Richard Sutton, Lord Henry Bentinck, who bred a pack of hounds which for work were unequalled, and their blood is still treasured in many kennels, and Mr. Henry Chaplin, to whom Lord Henry gave his hounds, and when the old Burton country was divided Mr. Chaplin took this pack with him. The Burton country as it is now was established in 1871; Mr. F. Foljambe being the first master, a great houndman with a thorough knowledge of the science of hunting, he very soon established a pack, and with Will Dale as huntsman, sport of the highest order was the result. Mr. Foljambe was succeeded by Mr. Wemyss, Mr. Shrubb and again Mr. Wemyss for short periods; then Mr. T. Wilson came, and for twenty-four years presided over the country. He bred an excellent pack of hounds, and sport, especially during the latter part of his reign, was very good; the country, when he gave up, being better off for foxes than it had ever been; this was in 1912. Sir M. Cholmeley succeeded Mr. Wilson. The Burton country is a fair mixture of grass and plough, with some very fine woodlands on the east side of it, known as the Wragby woods. It is far the best scenting country in Lincolnshire, and being little cut up with railways or rivers, is the best hunting country in all the shire. There are not many residences in the country, but excellent support in the way of foxes is given by the landowners. The Bacons of Thonock have ever assisted; then the Amcotts family of Hackthorn and Kettlethorpe, the Wrights of Brattleby, the owners of most of the Wragby woods, and of Toft, Newton and Nevile’s gorses are perhaps most conspicuous; but the whole country is well provided.
_The Blankney_ was first formed as a separate country in 1871, when Mr. Henry Chaplin took command, and as he brought the pack given to him by Lord H. Bentinck, and H. Dawkins as huntsman, very good sport was shown. On Mr. Chaplin giving up he was succeeded by Major Tempest. Then followed Mr. Cockburn, and for a short time Lord Londesborough joined him; Mr. Lubbock followed, then an old name in Lord Charles Bentinck; Mr. R. Swan came next and is still in command. Changes have been rather frequent, as in many countries.
The Blankney country is now a good deal intersected by railways, and the vale towards the Trent has two rivers, the Brant and Witham, which cut it up further. The Wellingore vale is looked on as the best part, having a large proportion of grass, “the heath,” in the centre, is all light plough and very bad scenting country, while on the east there is a strip of country bordering on the fen of good hunting character, and a portion of the Belvoir country towards Sleaford, which is lent to the Blankney, is also very fair.
[Sidenote: THE SOUTHWOLD]
_The Southwold_ was the last part of Lincolnshire to be established as a separate country (later, that is, than either the Brocklesby or the Burton); it was not till 1823 that it was hunted regularly. It has a wide range, extending from the sea on the east to the river Witham on the west, and from Market-Rasen and Louth on the north to the fens on the south. It is probably more varied than any part of Lincolnshire. The marsh with its wide ditches comes on the east; the wolds, mostly light plough, in the centre; while on the west they dip into a mixed country of grass and plough. The fen country, all ditches and plough, is in the south; hounds, however, only occasionally get into it, as there are hardly any covers. Very short masterships have been the rule, but a committee ruled for nearly twenty years (1857-76), at the end of which time foxes were very scarce in the country. Mr. Crowder then came for four years, and in 1880 Mr. E. P. Rawnsley took the country, and is still master. With latterly the aid of Mr. J. S. V. Fox, and now of Sir W. Cooke, so great an alteration has taken place that whereas formerly four days a week sufficed to hunt the country, now it is always hunted six days, Sir W. Cooke taking the north side and Mr. Rawnsley the south. Sir W. Cooke has a pack of his own, while Mr. Rawnsley hunts the pack which belongs to the country and has been bred from all the best working strains of blood obtainable. Though there are some very big woods on the edges of the country, the centre is all open; there are few railways and no rivers, the scenting conditions are fair, and it is probably the second best hunting country in Lincolnshire.
Conspicuous supporters of the hunt are the Heneages of Hainton, and the large extent of covers and country owned by them has always been open to hounds. The Foxes of Girsby and Mr. Walter Rawnsley of Well Vale have been the same. The late Captain J. W. Fox was for many years chairman of the committee when it ruled the affairs of the hunt, and his son was for seven years joint master with Mr. Rawnsley, during which time the sport was of higher average merit than it had ever attained. Many more residents now come out than was formerly the case, and everywhere the stock of foxes is far better than thirty years ago.
Somersby, the birthplace of Tennyson, is situated in the centre of the hunt, but we never heard of the Poet Laureate joining the chase in his young days. Then Spilsby, the birthplace of Sir John Franklin, and Tattershall Castle, noted as one of the finest brick buildings in England, are both of them in the Southwold country.
NOTE BY AUTHOR
[Sidenote: MASTERS OF THE SOUTHWOLD]
It appears that Mr. Charles Pelham, who was the last of the Brocklesby Pelhams, was the first M.F.H. of _The Brocklesby_, at first as joint and then as sole master, till his death in 1763. Also that Lord Yarborough hunted what is now the Southwold country for a month at a time in spring and autumn, having kennels at Ketsby until 1795, by which time his gorse covers round Brocklesby had grown up and he was able to dispense with the country south of Louth. Then till 1820 a pack of trencher-fed harriers hunted fox and hare indiscriminately. These from 1820 to 1822 were called “_The Gillingham_” and were hunted by Mr. Brackenbury from Scremby, after which the kennels were transferred to Hundleby and the name changed to “_The Southwold_.” They now kept to fox entirely, and the Hon. George Pelham, then living at Legbourne, was the first master.
The following is a complete list of the masters of the Southwold up to the present date, 1914:—
Hon. G. Pelham 1823-6 Lord Kintore 1826 Mr. Joseph Brackenbury 1827-9 Sir Richard Sutton, combining it with the Burton 1829-30 Captain Freeman, who brought hounds from “The Vine” 1830-32 Mr. Parker 1832-35 Mr. Heanley, who brought his own hounds 1835-41 Mr. Musters, who brought his own hounds 1841-43 Mr. Hellier 1843-52 Mr. Henley Greaves 1852-53 Mr. Cooke 1853-57 A Committee, presided over part of the time by Captain Dallas York 1857-76 Mr. F. Crowder 1876-80 Mr. E. Preston Rawnsley 1880
From this it will be seen that until the days of the committee no one hunted the pack for even five years, with the exception of Mr. Heanley and Mr. Hellier, until the present master, Mr. E. P. Rawnsley.
[Sidenote: BELCHFORD KENNELS]
With the reign of the committee central kennels were established for the hunt at Belchford in 1857. Previously each master fixed his kennels as it suited him, either at Louth, Horncastle, Hundleby or Harrington.
Now, April 1914, Sir William Cooke having given up, Lord Charles Bentinck has succeeded him. He brings his own pack with him, and the country no longer is divided into north and south, but hunted as a whole again.
APPENDIX I
The altar tombstone from which John preached is near the chancel door. Epworth people will tell you that the mark of his heels is still visible on the stone. Really they are segments of two ironstone nodules in the sandstone slab. The inscription is a remarkable one:
“Here lieth all that was mortal of Samuel Wesley, A.M., who was Rector of Epworth for 39 years and departed this life 15th of April, 1735, aged 72.
As he lived so he died, in the true Catholic faith of the Holy Trinity in Unity, and that Jesus Christ is God incarnate and the only Saviour of mankind.—Acts 4, 12.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.—Rev. 14, 13.”
APPENDIX II
Dr. Wm. Stukeley, 1687-1765, was a famous Lincolnshire antiquarian. He practised medicine, first at Boston and then at Grantham from 1710 to 1726. He was made an F.R.S. in 1717, and in that or the following year he helped to establish the Society of Antiquaries in London, and was for the first nine years secretary to that Society. In 1719 he became an M.D. of Cambridge and was made a member of the “Spalding Gentlemen’s Society” in 1722. In 1727 he took Holy Orders and from 1730 to 1748 officiated as Vicar of All Saints at Stamford, where he founded the short-lived “Brazenose Society.” He was a great friend of Sir Isaac Newton and kept up his interest in scientific matters to the end, inasmuch as he put off his service on one occasion in order that his congregation might watch an eclipse of the sun. Whilst still Vicar of Stamford he was made Rector of Somerby near Grantham, 1739-1747, but he retired from both livings in 1748, and spent the rest of his life in London, where at the age of 75 he preached his first sermon in spectacles, taking as his text “Now we see through a glass darkly.” He wrote five volumes of Notes of the proceedings of the “Royal Society,” which are now in the library of the “Spalding Gentlemen’s Society,” and he dedicated his “_Itinerarium curiosum_” to Maurice Johnson, the founder of that society. He took, for many years, antiquarian tours all over England; writing at some length on Stonehenge and the Roman Wall, and often illustrating his articles, for he was a skilful draughtsman. He died in London in his seventy-ninth year.
APPENDIX III
A LOWLAND PEASANT POET
I had not long ago a couple of poems put into my hands by one who, knowing the author, told me something of his life and circumstances. Being much struck by the poems I set to work to make inquiries in the hope of getting something further. But he seems to have written very little. His nephew copied out and sent _The Auld Blasted Tree_ and added “I made inquiry of my aunt if she had any more; she says those you have seen along with this one I now enclose were all he wrote, at least the best of them.” The relatives allowed me to see the account of his funeral with an appreciation of the man as it appeared in the local newspaper. It ran as follows, and was published in _The Peebleshire Advertiser_, July 7, 1906.
THE LATE MR. FARQUHARSON, LONELYBIELD.
Our obituary of Saturday last contained the name of one whose memory will be for long in this district. We refer to the late Alexander Forrester Farquharson. His “mid name” takes us back to the first baptismal scene of by-gone long occupants of Linton Manse, viz., the Rev. Alexander Forrester, whose father, too, was minister before. Born in Carlops sixty-nine years ago, there are but few now amongst us who were children then. When six years old, his father, of the same vocation as himself, removed to the picturesque hamlet at the foot of the “Howe,” and here his lifetime was spent. Married to one of a family of long pastoral connection with our district, who still survives to cherish the happy memories of their long sojourn together, in this, their quiet and peaceful home, they reared their family. By his departure, there has gone from amongst us one of the finest types of Scotchmen that our country districts develop, both, it may be said, in lineaments of feature and character. But, added to the possession generally of the best features of our race, there was in him truly a special element, which seemed to be gathered from the classic scenes in which he was reared. It is not too much to say that his manner and language (quaint to a degree) were a living, embodied personification of the genius of the place, as pictured in the pages of the immortal Pastoral of Ramsay. Gifted with musical powers and some inspiration from the Muses—which, however, not often saw the light—these were fostered in his wanderings amid the lovely scenes, o’er moor and fell, whither his daily vocations led. And with such characteristics, added to his stores of local lore and story, and knowledge of bird, beast, and fossil, it may be gathered how entertaining were the “cracks” in the homesteads he visited, and how much these would be looked forward to and welcomed. And not less so were those in the cosy home in the “Bield,”[39] to which many a one of kindred spirit specially pilgrimaged. Evidence of this was ample from the large gathering from all parts to his resting-place with his “forbears” in Linton’s “auld kirkyaird.”
Thus far the newspaper of 1906; and a correspondent who knew the family writes under date March 18, 1912, “Alexander Forrester Farquharson (the subject of the foregoing notice) was born on Sept. 26, 1836, and was named Forrester after the minister of West Linton Parish. He was the son of Andrew Farquharson, mole catcher and small Farmer, and Isabella Cairns, both natives of the Carlops district who lived there at a house called Lonely Bield. Alexander lived in the same house, and followed his father’s occupation. His son died lately and the mother has now left the House.” From this somewhat meagre account we may gather that the whole of his life was spent in Nature’s lonely places
“up on the mountains, in among the hills”
and in this respect he resembles Allan Ramsay who drank in the poetry of Nature when a boy at Leadhills high up on the Crawford moor in Lanarkshire, where hills, glens, and burns, with birds and flowers and ever-changing skies were his to watch and study and take delight in, at the impressionable season of boyhood; whereby Nature herself laid the foundations of his poetic fancies. And this opportunity to walk with Nature came also to Farquharson, in even a greater measure than it did to Ramsay; for he, like Burns, lived and laboured in the country after he had grown to manhood. But Farquharson had not so good an education as the other two, nor did it fall to him, as it did to them, to have at the outset of his career books put into his hands which directed his attention more especially to poetry. Thus, what the selection of English Songs, which he called his _Vade mecum_, did for Burns, Watson’s collection of Scottish poems did for Ramsay, and among these, notably, one by Robt. Semphill called “The life and death of the Piper of Kilbarchan” and another by Hamilton of Gilbertfield, “The last dying words of Bonnie Heck.” Later, Hamilton, who by this poem first inspired Ramsay with the desire to write in verse, heartily recognised his merit and himself wrote of him
“O fam’d and celebrated Allan! Renowned Ramsay! canty callan! There’s nouther Hieland man nor Lawlan In poetrie, But may as soon ding doun Tantallan As match wi’ thee.”
This source of inspiration from books of poetry never, as far as we know, fell to the lot of Farquharson, whose education was altogether on a lower plane. He was born and died just a Scottish peasant; but his communing with Nature gave him the power of observation, whilst the love of reading, which has for generations been the heritage of the Scots even in the humblest walks of life, taught him how to express the thoughts which came to him, and he had undoubtedly a gift for verse. His poems on his old “Hardie” fiddle, and on the Sundew are so good that they might have been written by Burns. But, like Burns and Ramsay too, he is best when he sticks to the vernacular. When he begins to write English he is less convincing. It is well to remember that Ramsay could owe nothing to Burns, as he died in 1758, the year before Burns was born; but Farquharson, whose widow is still alive, died only the other day, and was acquainted with the works certainly of one and probably of both of them. This does not, however, make him less deserving of notice; for little as he wrote, the two poems just mentioned show, I cannot help thinking, a high degree of poetic merit, being not merely surprising as the work of a peasant, but—extremely good _per se_, and serve to show how the true poetic gift may lurk unsuspected in a country village. In his poems _Fair Habbies Howe_ (or hollow) and _Monk’s Burn_ he refers to the fact that the descriptions of Nature in Allan Ramsay’s pastoral _The Gentle Shepherd_ are taken from the Carlops district, about twelve miles from Edinburgh, in which he himself lived. The second scene of the first act of _The Gentle Shepherd_ begins thus:
_Jenny._ Come, Meg, let’s fa’ to wark upon this green, This shining day will bleach our linen clean; The waters clear, the lift’s unclouded blue Will make them like a lily wet wi’ dew.
_Peggy._ Gae farer up the burn to Habbie’s Howe, Where a’ the sweets o’ spring an’ simmer grow: Between two birks, out o’er a little lin,[40] The water fa’s an’ maks a singan din: A pool breast-deep, beneath as clear as glass, Kisses wi’ easy whirls the bord’ring grass. We’ll end our washing while the morning’s cool; An’ when the day grows het, we’ll to the pool, There wash oursells—’tis healthfu’ now as May, An sweetly cauler on sae warm a day.
_The Gentle Shepherd_, the poem on which Allan Ramsay’s reputation is mainly founded, is a pastoral of great beauty and charm. The original MS. was presented by the author to the Countess of Eglinton. It is a folio Vol. of 105 pages, clearly written by his own hand, and has a few comic pen-and-ink sketches added at the beginning or end of the acts, and at the close is this note:
“Finished the 29ᵗʰ of April, 1725, just as eleven o’clock strikes, by Allan Ramsay.
All glory be to God. Amen.”
We will now turn to the seven bits of verse we have been able to collect by the Shepherd of Lonely Bield.
FAIR HABBIE’S HOWE.
(May be sung to the tune “Craigielea,” with first verse as the Chorus).
O Habbie’s Howe! Fair Habbie’s Howe, Where wimplin’ burnies[41] sweetly row; Where aft I’ve tasted nature’s joys, O Habbie’s Howe! Fair Habbie’s Howe.
Roond thee my youthfu’ days I spent, Amang thy cliffs aft ha’e I speil’d. Thou theme o’ Ramsay’s pastoral lay; O hoary, moss-clad Craigy Bield.
The auld oak bower, wi’ ivy twined, Adorns thy weather-furrowed brow, A trysting-place where lovers met When tenting flocks in Habbie’s Howe.
When April’s suns glint through the trees, The mavis lilts his mellow lay; And, deep amid thy sombre shades The owlet screams at close of day.
Amang thy cosy, mossy chinks, The fern now shows its gentle form And through thy caves the ousel darts, To build his nest in early morn.
The scented birk, and glossy beech, Hang o’er thee for thy simmer veil; And gowany haughs[42] aroond thee bloom, Where shepherds tauld love’s tender tale.
Sweet Esk, glide o’er thy rocky path, And echo through thy classic glen; Where can we match, in flowery May, Fair Habbie’s Howe, and Hawthornden?
ALEX. FARQUHARSON.
Lanely Bield. Carlops, 1885.
MONK’S BURN.
Doon in Monk’s bonnie verdant glen A sparklin’ birnie murmurs through Dark waving pines, ’mang hazel shaws Decked with the hawk-weed’s golden hue.
It ripples aft ’neath ferny banks With fragrant birks and briers spread Till o’er the linn its echo sings, Deep cradled in a rocky bed.
Here Auld Dame Nature gaily haps Frae ilka side her crystal streams; And soaring high o’er leafy bowers, On hovering wing, the falcon screams.
Aboon Glaud’s yaird the burnie meets Esk dancing to the morning sun, An’ glintin’ bonnie through Monk’s Haugh,[43] Where Pate and Peggie[44] aft hae run;
Noo joined wi’ silv’ry limpid Esk, Gangs merrily singing tae the sea. Ilk bird and flower the chorus join Till wilds and braes resound wi’ glee.
Sing on, ye warblers ’mang the trees, Bloom fair, ye blue-bells on the plains, And deck the banks of infant rills That wander through my native glens.
ALEX. FARQUHARSON.
Lanely Bield, _16th January 1886_.
THE AULD BLASTED TREE.
The blasted ash tree that langsyne grew its lane, Whilk Ramsay has pictured in his pawky strain, Wi’ Bauldy aboon’t on the tap o’ the knowe, Glowrin’ doon at auld Mause[45] in aneath, spinnin’ tow, Is noo whommilt doon ower the Back Buckie Brae, Baith helpless, an’ lifeless, an’ sair crummilt away, ’Mang the bonnie blue speedwell that coortit its beild, Tho’ its scant tap e’en growin’ but little could yield.
For years—nigh twa hunner—it markit the spot Whaur Mause the witch dwalt in her lanely wee cot; But dour Eichty-sax sent a drivin’ snaw blast, An’ the storied link brak ’tween the present an’ past. Tho’ in summer ’twas bare, an’ had lang tint its charms, Scarce a leaf e’er was seen on’t to hap its grey arms, Yet it clang to the brae,[46] rockit sair, sair, I ween, Wi’ the loud howlin’ winds that blaw doon the Linn Dean.
An’ mony a squall warsled at the deid ’oor o’ nicht. When Mause took in her noddle to raise ane for a flicht, On her auld besom shank, lowin’ at the ae en’,[47] That she played sic pranks on when she dwalt i’ the glen; Some alloo she could loup on’t clean ower Carlops toon, Gawn as heich i’ the air as Dale wi’ his balloon, Wi’ nocht on but her sark an’ a white squiny much— A dress greatly in vogue in thae days wi’ a wutch.
But thae fashions, like wutches, hae gane oot o’ date E’en the black bandit squiny has shared the same fate, The lint-wheels they span on are just keepit for fun, Or tae let lasses see the wey hand-cloots were spun. Feint a trace o’ the carlin’ there’s noo left ava— Her wee hoosie’s doon, an’ the auld tree an’ a’, That waggit ayont it for mony a year Ere anither bit timmer took thocht to grow here.
A. FARQUHARSON.
Lanely Bield (1887?).
EPISTAL TO ALAN REID. EDINBURGH. 1888.
Gin August wiles oot wi’ her smile Auld Reekie’s sons when freed frae toil, There ane’ comes here tae bide awhile, A clever chield; Ilk place he’s paintit in grand style, E’en oor wee bield.
He’s craigs an’ castles, cots an’ ha’s, Lint mills, auld brigs, an’ water fa’s, Auld stumps o’ trees an’ cowpit wa’s[48] A treat to see’t.
O’er vera hills he’s gi’en a ca’, Frae Rullion Green yont ta’ Mentma’; An’ brawer pictures I ne’er saw, They’re fair perfection: They’d even mense[49] a baron’s ha’ That rare collection.
Thanks tae ye, noo, for paintin’ bonnie The “Lanely Bield,” whaur dwells a cronie, Wha likes a nicht wi’ ane sae funny An’ fu’ o’ glee: I trow Auld Reekie has nae mony Tae match wi’ thee.
It mak’s me dowie the news I hear That ye’re no comin’ oot this year; They tell me that ye’re gaun tae steer For Lunnon toon: Losh, man, I’ll miss ye sair I fear No’ comin’ doon.
But gif I’m spared wi’ health ava, A holiday, or may be twa, I’ll tak’ an’ come tae see ye a’, An’ bide a’ nicht; An’ faith we’ll sing tae the cock’s craw At “grey daylicht.”
ALEX. FARQUHARSON.
Lanely Bield.
ADDRESS TO THE SUNDEW.
(One of the insect-eating plants).
Wha e’er wad think sae fair a flow’r Wad be sae pawky[50] as to lure A midge intae its genty bow’r O’ bristles bricht, An’ syne at leisure clean devour It oot o’ sicht?
Your crimson colour’s sae enticin’ In simmer gin the sun be risin’ I daursay they’ll need nae advisin’ Tae step in ow’r Tae view an’ find the plan surprisin’ O sic a bow’r.
For oot again they canna wun; Tho’ wee an’ gleg,[51] they’re fairly done, I wad they’ll get an awfu’ stun Gin its deteckit They’ve death tae face an’ no’ the fun That they expeckit.
It serves them richt, the wicked crew, De’il gin the lave were in your mou’! For oh! they’re ill tae thole the noo When bitin’ keen, Dingin’ their beaks intae ane’s broo Up tae the een!
Ilk foggy[52] sheugh aroond ye scan, An’ nip as mony as ye can, ’Twill help a wee tae gar ye stan’ The winter weather, For fient a midge ye’ll pree[53] gin than Amang the heather.
I kenna hoo ye’ll fend ava Gin a’ the muirs are clad wi’ snaw. I doot ye’ll hae tae snooze awa’ Sax months at least, An’ aiblins then your chance is sma’ Tae get a feast.
But gin I happen ere tae stray Neist August roond by Jenny’s Brae, I hope tae see ye fresh an’ gay, Wee muirlan’ plantie! Wi’ routh[54] o’ midges then tae slay Tae keep ye cantie.
A. F.
Lanely Bield.
ADDRESS TAE A MATTHEW HARDIE FIDDLE.
Ae blink at you an’ ane could tell That ye’re nae foreign factory shell, But a Scotch mak’, an’, like mysel’, Made gey and sturdy; An’ as for tone, there’ll few excel Ma guid auld Hardie.
Ye’ve been ma hobbie late and sune, Noo sax an’ twenty years come June, An’ noo and than I tak’ a tune; Yet gin I weary. Altho’ it’s but a kin’ o’ croon, It keeps ane cheery.
Gin ower ye’re thairms[55] I jink the bow, Bright notions bizz intae ma pow, For worl’y cares ye them can cow, An’ a’ gangs richt, When ower I stump[56] ‘Nathaniel Gow,’ Or ‘Grey daylicht.’
Wi’ reek an’ rozet noo ye’re black An scarted sair aboot the back, But what tho’ tawdry ye’re ne’er slack Tae lilt a spring[57] Wi’ ony far fecht fancy crack They e’er will bring.
In silk-lined cases ower the seas Scrawled oot an’ in wi’ foreign lees Aboot their S’s, scrolls, an’ C’s,[58] An’ eke a name Wad tak’ a child that’s ta’en degrees Tae read that same.
An’ nocht but bum-clocks[59] at the best Wi’ shinin’ coats o’ amber drest; Och! what o’ that? their tones but test! Sic dandie dummies! Lyin’ in braw boxes at their rest, Row’d up like mummies.
For a’ the sprees ye hae been at, Haech! nae sic guide-ship e’er ye gat, But took your chance tho’ it was wat, Ay, e’en wat snaw I’ve seen or noo a denty brat[60] Oot ower ye a’.
I never kent ye tak’ the gee,[61] But aye sang sweet at ilka spree, Tho’ I played wild at times a wee Gin I gat fou. The fau’t lay wi’ the wee drap bree,[62] An’ no’ wi’ you.
Sae noo I trust gin I’m nae mair, Some fiddlin’ frien’ will tak’ guid care, And see that ye’re nae dauded[63] sair, When frail an’ auld; For Hardies noo are unco rare Sae that I’m tauld.
A. F.
Lanely Bield.
SONNET IN MEMORY OF ELEANORA BROWN.
Gone! noble spirit, from our mortal view, The still form shaded by the sombre yew In Mary’s Bower, a spot remote from din, Save when in flood the shrill gush of the linn From wailing waves is wafted o’er her tomb, Retiring soft round her parental home, Where trained with pious care to womanhood, Henceforth her motto, Ever doing good; Gentle with youth, and comforting the old, In faith and hope to gain the promised Fold. Alas! the link has snapped in Friendship’s chain. Kind Ora’s call we’ll sigh for now in vain, Amid her native flora laid to rest, The modest speedwell a remembrance on her breast.
A. FARQUHARSON.
Lanely Bield.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Or Medeshamstede = Meadow homestead.
[2] He claimed the Earldom of Oxford and the Great Chamberlainship of England in right of his mother, Lady Mary Vere, sister and heiress of Edward, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, but succeeded in establishing his claim to the Chamberlainship only.
[3] Defeated and slain at Flodden Field, 1513.
[4] The others are Riby, Sutton St. Edmund, and one in Lincoln, now destroyed.
[5] The Hermitage which dated from 1323 was absorbed into the Hospital.
[6] Originally “Glanford briggs.”
[7] At Mellor in Derbyshire is a pulpit of very early date, hollowed out of the trunk of a tree and carved in panels.
[8] Nearly five hundred years later his tombstone was discovered in the pavement of St. Mark’s and brought to England.
[9] The coal output in the United Kingdom in 1913 was 287,411,869 tons, an increase of 27 millions on the previous year.
[10] As at Grantham.
[11] Where there were no osiers they took to the reeds. A Ramsay man, now in his 95th year (1914), remembers the reed-harvest at Whittlesey Mere being frequently injured by the clouds of starlings who roosted in them.
[12] Figured in Lyson’s Cumberland p. ccvii.
[13] She saved Smith’s life, subsequently married an Englishman, John Rolfe, and died at Gravesend, where two windows have just—July, 1914—been put up to her memory. Her most distinguished descendant is Sir R. S. Baden-Powell.
[14] Near Boston Haven.
[15] The ‘shout’ was a sort of flat-bottomed canoe, sometimes covered fore and aft with canvas painted grey in which one man lay with his hands over the sides so that by using short paddles he could approach the ducks unseen. It is not likely that Hall _made_ the gun, but no doubt he fitted it to the shout.
[16] On the outer side of Boston Deeps opposite Friskney Flats.
[17] The gift of a late parish clerk.
[18] _Wytteworde_ may have meant the warning notice of a funeral.
[19] _Yereday_ = the anniversary of a death.
[20] Corporaxys is the plural of corporax = a linen cloth for the consecrated elements. (_See_ Chap. XXIII.)
[21] Spelt indifferently Reseuyd, Receuyd, Reseauyd, reseueade, Resauyd, resevyd, Recevyd.
[22] This is Gunby St. Peter; Gunby St. Nicholas is between N. Witham and the Leicestershire border.
[23] The corporax or corporal was the linen cloth to go under or over the vessel containing the consecrated elements.
[24] Wong = field. In Horncastle there is a street called “The Wong.”
[25] The most notable instance of this is on the Gosforth Cross in Cumberland, where the same figure represents both Odin and Christ. Here too was a permanent Norse settlement.
[26] The astounding list of Manors and advowsons handed over to “the Master or custodian and the Chaplains of the College and almshouse of the Holy Trinity of Tattershall and to their successors” was the following:—“The Manors of Wasshyngburgh, Ledenham, ffulbeck, and Driby, and the advowsons of the Churches of the same Manors, and the Manors of Brinkyll, ffoletby, Boston, Ashby Puerorum, Withcall Souche, Withcall Skypwyth, Bynbroke, called Northall, Woodenderby, Moreby, Wylkesby, Conyngesbye, Holtham, the moiety of the Manors of Swynhope, Willughton, Billingey and Walcote and the advowson of the Church of Swynhope.”
[27] They all came from Lord Middleton’s park in Nottinghamshire.
[28] This is now being done.
[29] A tax of a fifteenth levied on merchants’ goods in King John’s reign.
[30] Prov. 17. 14.
[31] See Frontispiece.
[32] _Hydegy_ Hay-de-guy or guise lit. Hay of Guy or Guise, a
## particular kind of hay or dance in the 16th and early 17th century.
Spenser, Shepherd’s Calendar “Heydeguyes”; Drayton, Polyolbion, “dance hy-day-gies” among the hills. Robin Goodfellow in “Percy Reliques,” &c. English Dictionary, Murray. _Hay_ (of uncertain origin) a country dance with winding movement of the nature of a reel.
[33] See Illustration, page 180.
[34] This Matthew Flinders, of Donington, was a notable hydrographer. He was sent as lieutenant in command of an old ship the _Xenophon_, renamed the _Investigator_, to explore and chart the coast of S. Australia in 1801-3. And he took with him his young cousin John Franklin who had just returned from the battle of Copenhagen where he distinguished himself as a midshipman on the _Polyphemus_,—Captain John Lawford. Under Flinders he showed great aptitude for Nautical and Astronomical observations and was made assistant at the Sydney observatory, the Governor, Mr. King, usually addressing him as “Mr. Tycho Brahe.” These two natives of Lincolnshire, Flinders and Franklin, are of course responsible for such names on the Australian Coast as _Franklin Isles_, _Spilsby Island_ in the _Sir Joseph Banks_ group, _Port Lincoln_, _Boston Island_, _Cape Donington_, _Spalding Cove_, _Grantham Island_, _Flinders Bay_, _&c._
The _Investigator_ proving unseaworthy, Flinders, with part of his crew, sailed homewards on the _Cumberland_; and touching at St. Mauritius was detained by the French Governor because his passport was made out for the _Investigator_. He was set free after seven tedious years on the island, 1803-1810, and died at Donington 1814.
[35] The _Times_, alluding to the Ulster Plot, spoke of “The Pinchbeck Napoleons of the Cabinet.”
[36] See Chap. XXII.
[37] These were cut in Nottinghamshire; but I see that Sussex is to supply the oak for the roof timbers of Westminster Hall.
[38] An expression used in “Long whist.”
[39] Or “Shelter,” which, from its name, “Lonely Bield,” was probably far from any other human habitation.
[40] Waterfall.
[41] “A trotting burnie wimpling thro’ the ground,” Allan Ramsay’s _Gentle Shepherd_, Act I., Sc. 2.
[42] Daisied slopes.
[43] Vale.
[44] Characters in _The Gentle Shepherd_.
[45] Characters in _The Gentle Shepherd_.
[46] Brow.
[47] Flaming at one end.
[48] Ruinous walls.
[49] Grace.
[50] Cunning.
[51] Quick.
[52] Hollow.
[53] Taste.
[54] Plenty.
[55] Catgut, fiddlestrings.
[56] Play.
[57] A tune.
[58] Stradivariuses and Cremonas.
[59] Chafers.
[60] Thick covering (of snow).
[61] Offence.
[62] Brew = whisky.
[63] Knocked about.
INDEX
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,