[85] Mackenzie Walcot, Memorials of Stamford, p. 2.
[86] There is some little uncertainty whether the “Stanforth” mentioned by Wessington can be positively identified with the Lincolnshire Stamford. Cf. Vict. Cty. Hist. of Lincs., vol. ii.
[87] Cf. Vict. Hist. Northants, vol. i. p. 256.
[88] Peck.
[89] E. W. Lovegrove, M.A., in the chapter on “The Churches of Stamford,” in the “Homeland” Handbook to Stamford, by H. Walker (1908), from whose admirable notes on the architecture of Stamford much of the present account has been taken.
[90] For this information the writer is indebted to the Rev. E. A. Irons, rector of North Luffenham, who has long made a special study of the records of the diocese and district.
[91] An interesting account of this fight, and the circumstances which led up to and followed it, is to be found in an article entitled “An Unnoticed Battle” in Rutland Magazine, vol. i. p. 186 et seq.
[92] Lincolnshire Topographical Society, 1843.
[93] Chequée or and gu., over all a bend erm.
[94] Sa. semée with cinquefoils arg., a lion rampant arg.