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

by J. Conway Walter

[184a] A “trentall” was thirty masses for the dead to be celebrated on thirty several days.

[184b] Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol iv, pp. 12–13.

[185a] Weir’s History, ed. 1828, p. 335.

[185b] Mr. Taylor in his Words and Places, p. 130, says that “there is hardly a river named in England which is not celtic, i.e. British. The name Waring is British; garw, or gwarw, is welsh, i.e. British, and appears in other river names, as the Yarrow and Garry in Scotland, and the Garonne in France.

[186] This bridge was taken down and a wider and more substantial one erected in 1899.

[187a] Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. iii. p. 218.

[187b] Ibid., pp. 87, 88.

[187c] Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. iv. pp. 212, 213.

[188a] Canon Maddison, Architectural Society’s Journal, 1897, p. l62.

[188b] In the old Register Book of Burials, &c., of the parish of “Toynton Inferior,” is an entry of the burial of “--- Newcomen ye 17th November, 1592.” The Christian name is undecipherable.