[58] We have, in the north of the county, Goxhill which, in Domesday Book, is Golse; and in Broughton, not far from thence, is the hamlet Gokewell; both of which may contain the same prefix. Although Goltho, which has a similar sound, is a corruption of Caldicot.
[59] It is not improbable that these early possessions in Goulceby, &c., may have come to the Cromwells indirectly on the females’ side, through their connections, the Willoughbys; since we find, by a Feet of Fines (Lincoln, folio 69, A.D. 1302), that as early as the reign of Edward I., a suit was instituted between John Bec (of the ancient Spilsby and Lusby family), and Robert Wylgheby; wherein it was proved that the Willoughbys even then held lands in “Golkeby, Donington,” etc.
[60a] Feet of Fines, Lincoln, Trinity, 22 Elizabeth (“Architect. S. Journ.” 1895, p. 129.)
[60b] I have referred to this Thomas Glemham, in notices of Mareham-le-Fen, of which manor he was Lord. Other members of the family settled elsewhere in the neighbourhood, besides Burwell, the headquarters.
[60c] British Museum, Add., 5524., fol. 68.
[60d] He was eventually imprisoned by Cromwell, and died in exile in Holland.
[61] It is also stated that Mrs. Eleanor Lister “was buryed in ye vault, Dec. ye 28th, in woollen”; and their first-born grandson Matthew, baptized 7 May, 1703, was “buried in woollen” on the 13th of the same month.
[69] Of course it is possible that the supposed owner of Greetham may have been this second Lord Strafford, whose Ancestors held Ashby Puerorum. I quote this from a paper in the “Architectural Society’s Journal” of 1891, by Rev. A. R. Maddison, F.S.A., entitled “A Ramble through the parish of St. Mary Magdalene,” in which he mentions house property in Lincoln belonging to the Wentworths. It certainly shows a connection of the Wentworths with Ashby Puerorum, then probably still an appurtenance of the Greetham Manor.
[73] The close connection of Haugh and Hagi, is shown by Domesday Book, which called the Lincolnshire village Haugh Hage. Taylor (“Words and Places”) connected the word with “hedge” and our modern “haw-haw,” a sunk fence; and so a hedged enclosure.
[75] The present holders of this title (the Keppels), are a different family, their honour dating only from 1696. Albemarle or Awmarle, a town in North Normandy, is now Aumale, from which the Duc d’Aumale takes his title.