[201b] Words and Plans, by J. Taylor.
[202] This tract of forest probably was very extensive. We know that in the north-west of the county, and extending to near Doncaster, there was the forest of Celidon; south of that was Sherwood forest. In Holland there was the forest of “Haut Huntre” (its Norman name); and there is a tradition, in our neighbourhood, of a church, not far from Old Bolingbroke, being called “St. Luke’s in the Forest,” now known as Stickney; this name itself probably meaning a “sticken,” or staked, island; a kind of preserved oasis, or clearing, in a wilderness of wood and morass. Architectural Society’s Journal, 1858, p. 231.
[203a] This has also been quoted in the Notes on High Toynton; and another case of a similar tenure of land is mentioned in the Notes on Hameringham.
[203b] Lincs. Notes & Queues, vol. iii, pp. 245–6.
[203c] Domesday Book, “Land of Robert Despenser.”
[204] In Domesday Book the chief features are “the woodland” and “fisheries,” no less than 10 of the latter are named as belonging to Robert Despenser.
[205] Harleyan MS., No. 6829, pp. 179–182, given in Weir’s History of Horncastle, pp. 50–53.
[206a] In the reign of Mary Sir Edward Dymoke married Anne, daughter of Sir G. Taillebois.
[206b] Gentleman’s Magazine, April, 1826.
[207a] Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. ii, p. 108.