[23b] October 11, 1643.
[23c] It is said accompanied by Sir William Widdrington. Rapin.
[25] Dr. Stukeley has incorrectly described this fortress as a complete parallelogram: Gough, too has erroneously stated it to have enclosed twenty acres. The track of the wall will be found on the modern plan of the town.
[26] The Roman youth were first instructed in the game of Troy Town by Ascanius, called also Julus, the son of Æneas, and from him the maze in which it was performed took the name of Julian Bower. A very animated description of this game is given by Virgil in the fifth book of his Æneid. See also Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 91.
[29a] “Ecclesia de Horne Caster, & de Askeby, & de superiore Toynton, & de Mering, et de Hinderby sunt de donacoe d’ni Regis, & Osbertus Persona tenet eas de dono Regis Ricardi.” Testa de Nevill.
[29b] See the note in page [31].
[30a] This shield is merely painted in a cavity where a brass has been fixed.
[30b] In the Harleian collection of manuscripts, in the British Museum, is a volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, taken about the year 1640, by Mr. Gervase Holles, a native of Great Grimsby, and a representative of that place in several parliaments. Beside noticing the above monument and epitaph, it contains the following account of arms and inscriptions at that time in this church, not a vestige of which is now remaining.
In Fenestra Insulæ borealis.
Orate pro a’ia Thomæ Coppuldike Armig. & D’næ Margaretæ Consortis suæ fundatoris Gildæ Cantar . . . Fenestram fieri fecit Ano Dni. 1526.