[127b] By an Inquisition taken at Partney, 8 Sep. 7 Hen. VIII (A.D. 1491), it was found that Bernard Eland, son of Eustace Eland, late of Stirton, Esquire is an idiot, and that he has an infirmity called “Morbus Caducus; and he held his manor of Stirton of the lord the King, by the service of two parts of a knight’s fee.” (“Archit. S. Journ.” 1195, p. 74).
[128] By an Inquisition, 20 Hen. vii (A.D. 1504, 5), held at Lincoln, it was found that John Billsby and Nicholas Eland were seized of the manor of Malbissh-Enderby, with appurtenances in Hagworthingham and also of the manor of Bag Enderby, with appurtenances in Somersby, &c.
[129] This rood-screen has been reproduced in late years in the restored churches of Brant Broughton and Thornton Curtis. (“Linc. N. & Q.,” 1896, p. 49).
[131] Of Thomas Goodrick, Bishop of Ely, we may observe that he was rather a “timeserver,” though one of the supporters of Lady Jane Grey, and acting on her Council during her nine days’ reign. On the accession of Queen Mary, he did homage to her, and was allowed to retain his bishopric. The historian says of him, that “he was a busy secular-spirited man, given up to factions and intrigues of state, preferring to keep his bishopric before the discharge of his conscience.”
The name was probably originally spelt Gode-rich, and a Latin epigram was composed, in allusion to this, as follows:—
“Et bonus et dives, bene junctus et optimus ordo,
Prœcedit bonitas, pone sequuntur opes”;
which may be Englishised thus:—
“Both good and rich, duly combined,
The good in front, the rich behind.”
There is probably a trace of the Goodrick family in a carved stone over the kitchen door at the farmhouse close by the church, on which the device is a cross “fitchée,” rising from another recumbent cross, combined with a circle, between the initials L and G, with the date above 1544.
[133] Our modern rock-salt was unknown till 1670, when it was accidentally found in Cheshire. Before that time the only salt in use, was that collected by evaporation, in “salt-pans,” on the Humber or the sea-coast. Of these, Sharon Turner calculates (“Hist. Anglo-Saxons,” vol. iii., p. 251, Ed., 1836), that there were no less than 361 in the county.