[196a] Revesby Deeds & Charters, published by Right Hon. E. Stanhope, No. 150.
[196b] Architectural Society’s Journal, 1894, p. 214.
[196c] Architectural Society’s Journal, 1891, p. 24, and 1897, pp. 145–163.
[196d] Architectural Society’s Journal, 1897, pp. 75, 79.
[196e] Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. iii, p. 215.
[198a] A pamphlet on The Ayscough family and their connections, by J. Conway Walter, 1896.
[198b] Lincolnshire Wills, by Canon Maddison.
[198c] At this early period, partly perhaps owing to laxity of morals, but partly because the papal supremacy was not fully recognised, celibacy of the clergy was not strictly enforced. On the accession of Queen Mary great numbers of them were found to be married. She issued “Injunctions” to the bishops in 1553–4, ordering them to deprive all such of their benefices; although some of them, on doing public penance, were restored to their position. In the Lincoln Lists of Institutions to Benefices, at that period, many of the vacancies are stated to have occurred, owing to the deprivation of the previous incumbent; and in some cases, as at Knebworth, Herts., and at Haversham, Bucks, (both then in the Lincoln diocese), it is specified that the incumbent so deprived was married (sacerdos conjugatus). Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. v, p. 174.
[198d] One derivation of the name Revesby is from “reeve,” a fox, or rover, and we still call the fox the “little red rover.”
[201a] The Glenham family were at one time located at Miningsby; when the Revesby estates passed from the Duke of Suffolk, Thomas Glenham, Esq., with Sir Henry Sidney, and some others, succeeded to different portions.