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

[19a] Intercepted letter from Sir William Widdrington. Rushworth’s Collections, 8vo. edit. vol. v. 78.

[19b] Ibid.

[19c] Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[20a] Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[20b] Some say this was a Captain Portington, who afterwards told Cromwell that he aimed at his nose, when he hit his horse on the head. Life of Cromwell. See also Ludlow, Vicars, and Hume.

[21a] The road adjoining to Winceby field bears the name of Slash Lane, where it is traditionally related great numbers of the royal army were slaughtered, owing to their retreat being obstructed by a closed gate.

[21b] Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[22a] Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.

[22b] Ibid.

[23a] This anecdote the author has repeatedly heard from the several of the old inhabitants of the town.