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

by George Weir

[8a] Hund. Rot. 19. Hornc. Wap.

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

[8c] Cart. Rot. 14 et 15. H. III.

[9a] Hund. Rot. ut antea.

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

[9c] Cart. Rot. 18 Ed. 1. m. 39.

[9d] Cart. Rot. 12. Ed. 2. no. 17.

[9e] Pat. 14 Ric. II. pars 1. m. 3.

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

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