[76] See the Charter in Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. i. p. 822.
[79] Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.
[81] Dr. John Taylor of Norwich was one of the earliest ministers appointed by Mr. Disney. He held his appointment from about 1715, for 18 years, and at this place composed his justly valued “Hebrew Concordance,” in two vols. folio.
[86a] Itinerarium, p. 162.
[86b] Gough, and others who have copied from him, erroneously state this tower to be two hundred feet in height.
[90] The principal part of the stained glass taken from this church was placed by the Earl of Exeter in the church of St. Martin, Stamford Baron, with some other richly stained glass, procured from the churches of Snape in Yorkshire, and Barnack in Northamptonshire.
[91a] Joan Lady Cromwell was one of the daughters of Sir Richard Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell. She married Humphry Bourchier, third Son of the Earl of Essex, who was created Lord Cromwell, in the first year of Edward the fourth.
[91b] Matilda Lady Willoughby was the other daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell.
[92a] Gough in his “Sepulchral Monuments,” vol. ii. gives a description of the arms contained in these shields, as well as in those which were attached to the figures of the Lord Treasurer and his wife. His description however differs widely from that given by Mr. Holles in his MS. vol. of Lincolnshire Church Notes.
[92b] Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. p. 179.