[26a] “Ecclesia de Horne Caster, & de Askeby, & de superiore Toynton, & de Mering, & de Hinderby sunt de donac’oe d’ni Regis, & Osbertus Persona tenet eas de dono Regis Ricardi.” Testa de Nevill.
[26b] See the note in page [28].
[27a] This shield is merely painted in a cavity where a brass has been fixed.
[27b] 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.
In superioriFenestra boreali Cancelli. | |
G. a Lyon passant guardant Arg. | |
Sa. 3 Flowres de lize betw: 6 Crosses botony fitchyArg. | |
G. a Crosse sarcely Arg. | Beke. |
In FenestraOrientali Insulæ Australis. Orate pro benefactoribus artis sutorum, qui istam Fenestramfieri fecerunt sc’æ Nenianæ cum sera etcatena. Item sc’i Crispinus & Crispinianus cuminstruments Calcearis. | |
Fenestræborealis superius. | |
Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or | Dymoke. |
Empaled. Or a lyon ramp. double queue sa. | Welles. |
Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw. 3bulles passant sa. Empaled. Quarterly. B. a fesse betw. 3 goatesheads erased arg. Empaled. Quarterly. Argent a chevron gobonysa. Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. on a bend G. 3 rosesarg. | Tourney. |
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw 3 griphons headeserased G. | Tilney. |
Quarterly. Arg 3 bars G. over all a bend engrayledsa | Ros. |
Quarterly. Quarterly or and G. a border sa.bezanty Quarterly. Arg. 2 crosses botony fitchy B. semy offlowres de lize | Rochford. |
Quarterly Ermine and chequy or and G. | Gipthorpe. |
Arg. a chevron betw. 3. roses G. | |
Taylboys, &c. | |
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G. a fesse betw. 3 waterbougets ermine | Meres. |
Empaled. Marchant’s Marke Empaled. Arg on a bend G 3 ferniers of the first | |
Fenestra Australis superior.
Hic jacet Francisca filia primogenita Petri Frescheville de Staveley in Com. Derb. Arm. [ex priore uxore sua Elizabetha filia Gervasii Clifton de Clifton in Com. Nott. Militis] et quondam Uxor Gervasii Holles de Burgh in Com. Linc. Militis, cui peperit Freschevillum Holles, & Margaretum gemellos, & Franciscum Holles filium juniorem. Obijt Horncastell.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 241.
[29] It is observable that Cromwell is here stiled the arch-rebel, although at the time mentioned he was only a colonel, and by no means an illustrious individual in the war. The date given to the battle is wrong, it having been fought on the 11th of October; and the signal defeat of the royalists is diminished in its importance, by stiling the conflict a skirmish.
[35] The same Act also empowered the commissioners of the river Witham, in conjunction with the Horncastle and Sleaford Navigation Companies, to complete the navigable communication between the Witham and the Fosdike canal through the High Bridge at Lincoln.