[154g] “Rot. Can. Reg.,” 6 Rich I.
[154h] Leland, “Coll.,” vol. i.. 92.
[155a] The buildings of the Priory must have been on a large scale, as they covered several acres, and of great architectural beauty. Not one stone of them now remains upon another, but, as an ornament, outside the front door of a house in Horncastle, there stands a large “boss,” formerly in the Priory roof, from which branch off six concentric arches. It is about 2ft. in diameter, and most exquisitely carved with elaborate foliage. The writer has a photograph of it.
[155b] The Rev. James Alpass Penny, now Vicar of Wispington.
[156] Bedæ Martyrology, D. Kalend, Nov.
[157] Commem. of All Souls. “Golden Legend,” fol. 200.
[158] Maddison’s “Lincolnshire Wills,” Series I., p. 32, No. 84.
[159] This collar disappeared about the year 1887, but has since been recovered.
[160] “The Story of Two Noble Lives.” Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, pp. 93, 95, 96.
[161a] It is said that Thistlewood’s last words before mounting the scaffold, addressed to one executed with him, were “Courage, brother, we shall soon learn the great secret.”