Chapter XLVIII: 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, Chapter XXXIII

Louth, 60, 239-45
Grammar School, 242

Louth Park Abbey, 37, 242-4
Chronicle, 244, 433
Roads, 244

Lud, R., 3

Ludford Magna, 274

Lusby, 363

“Lyttyl clause,” the, 240-2

M

Mablethorpe, 292, 347

Maddison, Canon, 103

Maltby-le-Marsh, 291

Manby, 278-9

Mappa Mundi, 76

Mareham-le-fen, 370

Markby, 306

Markham, Mrs., 102

Marquis of Granby, 70

Marsh, the, 2-3, 464-5

Marsh Chapel, 295

Marton, 139

Marston, 149

Martyrs, Clerical, 242

Masquerade at Nocton, 169-70

Massingberd family, 322

Mausoleum at Brocklesby, 236

Mavis Enderby, 362, 366, 434

Maypole, use of, 44

Mazes, 196-7

Melton Ross, 234

Mercia, kings of, 7-8, 114

Messingham, 107, 200

Miningsby, 366

Miserere seats, 104, 423

“Molly Grime,” 270

Monksthorpe, 324

Monumental effigies, &c., 30, 31, 34, 49, 67, 69, 77, 79, 80, 83,
103, 104, 145-7, 149, 171-3, 184, 192, 195, 200, 210, 223-6,
229-30, 232, 235-6, 238, 267-9, 271, 278, 280-1, 292-5, 310,
312, 317, 322-4, 330, 334, 340, 364, 372-5, 423, 453, 468,
471-2, 487

Monumental epitaphs, 26-7, 420, 457.
_See also_ Inscriptions in Churches.

Moorby, 368

Morton, 31, 204

Moulton, 260, 465-6

Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 209

Muckton, 247

Mustard, cultivation of, 463-4, 472, 477
Colman’s factory, Norwich, 464

Muston, 70

“My owd Son,” 440

N

Names ending in ‘by,’ 185, 341

Nature’s poets, 303-4

Navenby, 161-3

Nettleton, 231

Nettleship, R. L., 297

Newsham Abbey, 238

Newton Church Tower, 42

Newton, Isaac, 31, 46-8, 55, 57, 62

Newton-by-Toft, 270

Noblemen not Saints, 257

Nocton, 166-9

Nonconformists, 324-5

Normanby-le-Wold, 230

Norman buildings, 255

North Country humour, 303

Northorpe, 200

North Wytham, 46

Norton Disney, 148, 170-3

O

Octave of E.E. Churches, 42

Orgarth Hill, Danish Camp, 276

Ormsby, North, 284

Ormsby, South, 361

Osbournby, 33

Oswald, St., 212-4

Oswy, King of Northumbria, 8

P

Pagnell, Boothby, 51

Palmer, effigy of, 34

Parish Clerks, Stories of, 319-20

Partney, 358-60

Paulinus, St., 93, 112-14

Peasant poets, 303-4, 501

Pelham buckle, the, 238, 385

Pelham pillar, 231, 233, 236

Penda and Pæda, Kings of Mercia, 8, 114

Penrose, Rev. Trevenen, 163

Peterborough, cathedral, 49-50, 52

Pickworth, 41

Pilgrimage of Grace, 240, 242

Pinchbeck, 448-50
metal called, 461-2

Plague, 290-1, 439

Plague-stone, 290-1

Ponton, Great, 50

Ponton, Little, 51

Pope Gregory, 112-13

Potter Hanworth, 165

Potteries, Pre-Roman, 315-6

Premonstratensian, meaning of, 395

Pulpit, early, note, 192

Q

Quadring, 455

Queen Margaret (Ed. I.), 428

Queen Eleanor’s heart buried at Lincoln A.D. 1290, 103

R

Raithby, 361-2

Rasen, Market, 272
Middle, 271
West, 270

Ravendale, 267, 274

Rawnsley, 27, 43, 249, 328, 330, 332, 336, 340, 352, 361, 493, 496

Read’s Island, 187

Rebellion, Lincolnshire, 240-2, 243

Registers, Early, 306, 476

Remigius, Bishop, 76, 93, 140

Revesby Abbey, 367

Riby Grove, 232

Richard III. at Grantham, 56

Ridge, the, 4, 159

Rigsby, 247

Rippingale, 34

Riseholme, 269

Roads, few going E. and W., 33
in the marsh, 280, 316
without villages, 151

Roadway streams, 246-7

Robert de Brunne, 25-6

Rochford, Stoke, 48

Romanus, Bp., 113-114

Romans, our benefactors, 401

Roman works:
embankments, etc., 2, 295, 310-12, 315, 401, 409, 417, 456, 459,
464-5;
_see_ Carr Dyke, Foss Dyke
gateways, 91
roads, 23, 34, 89, 91-3, 137, 144,183, 230, 328, 465.
_See_ Ermine Street, Foss Way, King’s Street
stations, 32, 50, 67, 87, 88, 91, 138, 140, 184, 228-9, 248, 315-6,
364-5
remains, 91, 104, 120, 122, 125-6, 149, 184, 196

Rood lofts and screens, 256

Roof covering both nave and aisles, 87, 225

Rooks in towns, 365

Ropsley, 43

Rothwell, long and short work, 230

Rowston, 150

Rulos, Richard de, father of Lincolnshire farmers, 21-22

S

St. Denis, 76

St. John, family of, 49-50

St. John, Oliver, 49-50

St. Poll, family of, 145

St. Thomas of Canterbury, Church Dedicated to, 40

Saleby, 278

Salinas, Mary de, 31

Salisbury, Connection of Grantham with, 62-3

Saltfleetby, All Saints, 293
St. Clements, 294

Samplers, 168

Sandbank, “The Old Warp,” 187

Sandtoft, 209

Sapperton, Pulpit Hour-glass at, 41

Sausthorpe, 360

Saxby, All Saints, 186

Saxilby, 137

Saxon Churchyard, 29

Scamblesby, 276

Scartho, 264

Scawby, 183, 198
Sutton Nelthorpe of, 198, 494

Schools, 13, 16, 27, 43, 57, 206, 242, 272

Scopwick, 149

Scremby, 282

Scrivelsby, 372-4

Scunthorpe, 198, 207

Sea-dyke, 2, 416-7,
_see_ Draining, Roman Embankment

Seals, Ancient, 227

Sedgebrook, 69, 70

Sempringham, 35-38

Sempringham Hall, Stamford, 14

Sempringham, Order of, 25-6

Sheep in Churchyard, 267, 454

Sibsey, 361

Silk Willoughby Wayside Cross, 33

Sixhills, 146, 273, 277

Shakespeare Quotations, 63, 209, 491-2

Skating in Fens, 405-7
International, 408

Skegness, 314-5
Roman Castrum at, 316

Skendleby, 282

Skidbroke, 294

Skirbeck, 420, 427

“Skirth” Billinghay, 371

Slash Lane, 364

Sleaford, 4, 76-8, 169

Slope of Church W. to E., 66, 186

Smith, Capt. John, 278

Snarford, 144-5

Snelland Register, 144
St. Poll Tombs, 145-6

Somerby, 42-3

Somercotes, South, 294

Somersby, 340-343, 345-353

Somersby Brook, 298, 322, 342

Somersby Church Opening, 352

Somerton Castle, 160-1

South Thoresby, 247, 290

Spalding, 441-8

Spectacles, Use of, 51

Spelling, a clear gift, 49

Spilsby, 233, 333-7

Spital-on-the-Street, 178-81

Springs, Mineral, 22, 69, 70

Springthorpe, 206

Stainfield, 395

Stainsby, 379

Stainton-le-Vale, 274

Stallingborough, 223
The Ayscoughe Tombs, 223-4

Stamford, 4, 7-17
bedehouse, 13-14
churches, 7, 9, 12-14
college, 14
St. Leonard’s Priory, 8

“Stamford Baron,” 12

Stanley, Dean, on Wesley, 211

“Staple,” the meaning of, 428

Starlings, flocks of, 250

Steeping, Little and Great, 323-4

Stephen King, 76

Stickford and Stickney, 361

Stixwould, 395-6

Stocks, 372, 389, 457

Stoke Rochford, 48

Stones, sculptured, 139, 150, 212, 269, 281, 366, 368

Stonebow, the, 129

Stone Coffin, use for, 80

Stow, 140-2

Stow Green, 32

Stragglethorpe, 90

Strubby, 291

Stubton, 71

Stukeley, Dr. W., 43, 500

Sturton, 207

Suffolk, Duke of, 398-9
Duchess of, 31

Surfleet, 452-3

Sutterton, 459

Sutton, Long, 472-4

Sutton, Thomas, 206

Swallow, 231

Swan, St. Hugh’s, 116

Swan-marks, 492

Swan, ballad of the, 299

Swaton, 86-7

Swineshead, 457-9

Swinstead, 31

Sword called “Fox,” 131

Syston Hall, 64

T

Tallington, 7, 19

Tathwell, St. Vedast’s, 276-7

Tattershall, 12, 235, 370-1, 379-80, 382-9
Mantelpieces, 384, 388

Taylor, John, poet, 405

Tealby, 273, 343

Temple Belwood, 210
Bruer, 76, 151, 154-9

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 131-4, 340, 346-357

Tennyson, Dr., 342-344, 346

Tennyson Centenary, 131-2

Tennyson, family of, 343-57

Tennyson-Turner, C., 233-4

Tennyson poems in the Lincolnshire dialect, 356

Tennyson, Matilda, last of the family, 353

Tetford, 379

Tetney, 3, 266-7

Theddlethorpe, West, 293, 313

Theodore, Archbp. of Canterbury, 193

Thorganby, 274

Thonock Hall, 204, 495

Thornton Abbey, 219-21, 238

Thornton Curtis, 108, 215-16

Thorpe, 325-7

Thorpe Hall, 284-9

Thorpe St. Peter’s, 259

Threckingham, 32

Thurcytel, first Abbot of Croyland, 485

Thurlby, 29, 259

Tickencote, 18

Toft-next-Newton, 270

Top, Cliff and Wold, 232

Torrington, East and West, 263

Tothby, 290

Tournai fonts, 108, 215, 259

Tournays, or Tourneys, family of, 269-70

Tower-on-the-Moor, 398

Toynton, High, 342

Trent, R., 4, 114, 137-8, 200-2, 207

Tumby, 370, 379-80

Tupholme, Abbey, 284, 395

Two churches in one churchyard, 280

Tydd St. Mary, 465, 474

U

Uffington Hall, 19

Ulceby, 213, 282

Uppingham, founder of, 16, 206

Upton, 206

Usselby, 231

Utterby, 260, 267, 284

V

Vyner, F. G., 144

W

Waddington, 164

Wainfleet, 91, 327-9, 379

Wainfleet, St. Mary’s, 329

Wainfleet, William of, Bishop, 327-8

Waith, 263

Wake, de, family of, 20-1, 23, 40

Walcot, double “squint” at, 41

Walesby, 274

Walks, Uppingham to Boston, 35;
Horncastle to Mablethorpe, 249

Wall-painting, 141, 182, 410

Walmsgate, 283

Waltham, 264, 274

Wapentake, meaning of, 73-74

“Warping,” process of, 212

Wars, Civil, 19, 53-5, 201, 232, 286, 364

Wars of the Roses, 10-11, 18

Watts, G. F., and Tennyson, 134

“Wedercoke” at Louth, 240

Weir dyke, 144, 183, 186

Welbourn, John de, treasurer, 98, 151

Well, 247-251

Welland, R., 7

Wellbourn, 154

Wellingore, 161

Wellington and Dr. Keate, 345

Wells, blow-, 232, 267

Welton-le-Wold, 268

Wernington, William de, Master Mason, 487

Wesley, Samuel and John, 210-12, 499

Westmoreland Stories, 303, 338-9

Weston, 463

Whitgift, John, Archbp. of Canterbury, 225, 232

Wickenby, 260

Wilfrid, Bishop, 8-10

Wilksby, 368

Willingham, North, 146, 230, 244, 272, 277
South, 244, 268
Cherry, 143
by Stow, 206

Wilsthorpe, 40, 41

Whaplode, 466-8

Willoughby, 248, 278

Willoughby d’Eresby, family of, 30-1, 86, 248-9, 333-5

Willoughton, 157

Winceby, 364-5

Wine-cellars in Boston, 430-1

Winteringham, 3, 184, 195

Winterton, 184, 195-6

Winthorpe, 312-14

Witham-on-hill, inscription on Bells, 20

Witham, R., 39, 44, 46, 51, 90, 91, 126, 129, 134, 137, 149, 371,
425-6, 432-3

Withern, 278

Woad, cultivation of, 464

Wolds, the, 2-5, 146, 148, 232

Wood, Enderby, 369

Woodhall Spa, 397-8

Woodcarving by Wallis, of Louth, 237

Wood-work, church, 255-6

Wool, staple, 13, 147, 309, 428-9, 432

Woolsthorpe, 31, 47-8

Wordsworth, Bishop, Christopher, 103, 265, 269

Wordsworth, W., Sonnet _Persuasion_, 113

Wragby, 269

Wrangle, 413-4

Wrawby, 183, 185, 206

Wray, Sir Christopher, 145, 200

Wright family, 289, 413

Wulfhere, King of Mercia, 7

Wyberton, 476

Wyclif, John, 199

Wykeham Chapel, 448

Y

Yarborough, Earls of, 236-7
Church, 281

Z

Zucchero, 289

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