A History of Horncastle, from the earliest period to the present time

by J. Conway Walter

Zouch, Eudo la, bequest to, [197].

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Printed by W. K. Morton & Sons, Ltd., 27, High Street, Horncastle.

Footnotes:

[0] His father, for about 12 months, occupied the house in North Street, of late years known as the “Red House,” distinguished, it is said, as being the only house in the town having a front door of mahogany.

[1a] Mr. Jeans, in his Handbook for Lincolnshire, p. 142, says “the Roman station (here) probably utilized an existing British settlement.”

[1b] Words and Places, p. 13, note. Ed. 1873.

[1c] There are probably traces of British hill-forts in the neighbourhood, as on Hoe hill, near Holbeck, distant 4 miles, also probably at Somersby, Ormsby, and several other places.

[1d] In the name of the near village of Edlington we have probably a trace of the mystic Druid, i.e. British, deity Eideleg, while in Horsington we may have the Druid sacred animal. Olivers’ Religious Houses, Appendix, p. 167.

[2a] Words and Places, p. 130.