Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire

by W. F. Rawnsley

From Frieston shore one gets by a circuitous three-mile route to Fishtoft. Here once was a Norman church. The present one has two rood screens; one, at the west end, having been purchased from Frieston, which, however, retained its two aisle screens. There is a good small figure of St. Guthlac, the patron saint, over the west window of the tower, much like that at Frieston. On a tombstone in the churchyard is the following:—

Interred here lies Anne the wife

Of Bryon Johnson during life

The 25ᵗʰ day of November

In 68 he lost this member.

He only survived her two months, and the next inscription is:—

Now Bryon is laid down by Anne

’Till God does raise them up again.

This rhyme might do for Norfolk or Devonshire, but is not Lincolnshire.

BOSTON STUMP