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 As Exhibited in a List of the Goods destroyed in certain Lincolnshire 
 
 Churches, A.D. 1^66^ 
 
 Edited by FDWARD TEACOCK, F.SA. 
 
 ETC. 
 
 " Qui abominaris idola, sacrilegium facis."y 
 
 
 LONDON: 
 JOHN CAMDLN HO 1 ILN, PICCADILLY. 
 
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 LONDON : 
 SAVILL ilND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, 
 COVENT GARDEN. 
 
 Introduction 
 
 Fresco of the Seven Sacraments 
 The Hearse 
 The Easter Sepulcre . 
 Monuments of SuPEfisTixioN 
 Alford 
 
 Asbye juxta Sleford . 
 Ashbie juxta Spillesbie 
 Astrape . 
 Aswardbie 
 Aubor 
 
 Awkeborowe 
 Bardney . 
 Barhome . 
 Barkeston 
 Barroughbie 
 Basingham 
 Baston 
 Bastonne . 
 Beeson . 
 Belton, in the Isle of Axholme 
 Belton juxta Grantham 
 Bichefeld 
 Billingborowe 
 Birton 
 
 Bitham, Little 
 Blyton 
 Bomnbie . 
 Bothebye Panell 
 Bracebie . 
 Bradley . 
 Braughton 
 Braunceton 
 Carlebie . 
 
 Carltonne juxta Lincoln 
 Carlton in Moorland 
 Castlebytham . 
 Colsterworth . 
 Corbie •. 
 Corriiigham 
 
 Cownham Bartholomew 
 Croxbie . 
 Croxton . 
 
 PAG8 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 Monuments of Supebstition— cow^mwec^. 
 
 Dennilbie 
 Deuton . 
 Deepinge, Market 
 Deepinge, James 
 Depmg, West . 
 Dowsbie . 
 
 Dunhame juxta Weltonne 
 Dunslie . 
 
 Durrington 
 Ednam . 
 
 Epworth, in the Isle of Axholme 
 Evedon . 
 Ewerbie . 
 
 Eolkingham 
 EulJetbie . 
 
 Ejllmgham 
 Gaton 
 
 Gedney Pen End 
 Glentworthe 
 Gouwarbie 
 Grantham 
 Gretford . \ 
 Gunbie 
 Gunbie . 
 Habrough 
 Haconbie . 
 
 Ha^worthingham 
 Haither . 
 
 Halton, East 
 Harebie . 
 Harlaxtonne '. 
 Harpswell 
 
 Helpringham .' 
 Hemsweil 
 Hepam . 
 Ho^he . ' 
 Holl^well 
 Homngton 
 Horblinge 
 Icam, South ! 
 Ireham . 
 
 Kfife' ^? "f Pa^isii of Hajd 
 ft^irkbie Underwood 
 -Liangtoft . 
 
 Laughton juxta Sto 
 i^ea . 
 
 LrndontS '""''" 
 Manton 
 
 Markbie . * 
 Mmtinge . 
 J^ewtonne 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 MoNtJMENTs OP Superstition — continued. 
 
 Ownedbie 
 
 Paunton Parva 
 
 Pickworth 
 
 Pilhame . 
 
 Reason, Market 
 „ West , 
 
 Reston, North 
 ,, South . 
 
 Ripingale 
 
 Riskiugton 
 
 Ropeslaie . 
 
 Saleby cum Thorestrop 
 
 Scotter . 
 
 Scot tonne 
 
 Screginton 
 
 Semperingham . 
 
 Sibsaie 
 
 Skegnes . 
 
 Skellington 
 
 Sleford Nova . 
 
 Somerbie . 
 
 Spridlington 
 
 Springthorp 
 
 StallingbroK 
 
 Stamford, St. George's 
 „ St. John s 
 
 Stamnford, All Saints' 
 
 Stevenbie 
 
 Stickford . 
 Stowe 
 Swafeld . 
 Swaton . 
 Swynested 
 Syston 
 Tallington 
 Tedforth . 
 
 Thorpe, in tlie parish of Heythcr 
 Thurlbie . 
 Totill 
 Uffington 
 Ulcebie . 
 
 Waddingham, St. Ma^y 
 ,, St. Peter 
 
 Wauphlett, St. Mary 
 Welbie . 
 
 Welton juxta Lincoln 
 „ „ Louth 
 
 „ in the Marsh 
 Westboroughe . 
 Willerton 
 Willingham, South 
 Wilsford . 
 Wintertonne . 
 Winthorpe 
 
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 CONTENTS, 
 
 Monuments of Superstition— con^jwwerf. 
 
 Witham .... 
 Witham, North . '. 
 
 » South 
 Withern .....' 
 Wollesthorp . . . '. 
 Wrought, m the Isle of Axhoime 
 Yeaster Kelle . 
 
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 Appendix , 
 
 De Oraamentis Ecclesise in Provincia Ebor. 
 iJe Ornamentis Ecclesise in Provincia Cantuar. . 
 Churchwardens' accounts of St. Mary's, Stamford, a.d. 1428 
 Inventories of goods given by Sir Thomas Cumberworth to 
 
 Somerby Church, a.d 1440. 
 Inventory of the goods of St. Mary's Guild at Boston, a.d.* 1534 
 Documents relatmg to the confiscation of church goods 
 
 Lmcolnshire under Edward VI 
 Letter from the Privy Council concerning church goods .* 
 Inventory of bells and plate at Grayingham 
 Ditto ditto, at Northorpe 
 
 Ditto ditto, at Bottesford 
 
 List of church goods at Holbeach, a.d. 1547 
 
 -Briets read in Bottesford church, a.d. 16G0— 1677 
 
 iLxcommunications, &c., at Bottesford 
 
 Inventory of church goods at Healaugh Co. Yoik, a.d. 1549 
 
 Ditto ^^- ''^ i^^l^°P>^^9rPe>_ Co. York 
 
 Ditto 
 
 PAGB 
 165 
 
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 167 
 168 
 169 
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 170 
 
 ditto, at Rufforth, Co. York 
 ditto, at Acomb, Co. York 
 
 Glossary 
 
 Index 
 
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 ENGLISH 
 
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 INTRODUCTION, 
 
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 The series of documents here printe'd exists in a mutilated 
 manuscript preserved among the miscellaneous papers in the 
 Episcopal Registry at Lincoln. It has now no title other than 
 the inscription Inventarium monumentohum superstitionis on 
 the outside of its parchment cover. The volume consists of 
 returns made in the eighth year of Elizabeth to certain royal 
 commissioners, by the churchwardens of one hundred and fifty 
 parishes in the county of Lincoln, of such articles of church 
 furniture as had been used in the previous reign, but were in 1566 
 considered by the authorities to be superstitious or unnecessary. 
 From the present state of the manuscript it is not possible 
 to determine with certainty whether any leaves have been lost 
 from the end. The binding seems to indicate that it was never 
 much thicker than it is at present. '\\w first six leaves have 
 been torn away, and the next six so far mutilated as to render 
 the documents very imperfect, and the sense, at times, obscure. 
 With these exceptions and that of folios 125, 126, 156, 157 
 163-165, 192-200, which have also unhappily perished, the book 
 seems to be complete. The paper, handwriting, and general cha- 
 racter prove that it is a record of the age to which it relates. A 
 
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 ENGLISH CHURCE-FURNITUBE, A.D. 1566. 
 
 few of the earlier pages are a secretary's transcript ; but by far the 
 greater portion of the returns are the original inventories, given 
 in by the parish officers themselves. This imprint presents its 
 readers with the documents entire, with the exception of the 
 headincrs and the memoranda of exhibition. As these almost 
 always follow the same form, it has been thought advisable in 
 most instances to give the facts unclogged by a repetition of use- 
 less verbiage. Horbling and Colsterworth are printed without 
 abridgment as specimens. 
 
 The appendix contains illustrative documents of various ages. 
 The first and second articles are especially interesting as furnish- 
 ing the earliest known complete lists of church goods. They are 
 the foundation of our present law as to the relative duties of 
 rectors and parishioners in regard to the fabric of the church and 
 its ornaments. Spelman printed them upwards of two centuries 
 ago, but they have not hitherto been published accurately. 
 
 The Compotus of the churchwardens of Saint Mary's, Stamford, 
 has remained in manuscript up to the present time ; a translation 
 was indeed published long since by Francis Peck, but that indus- 
 trious antiquary has in several cases entirely failed to understand 
 the oriq:inal. 
 
 The series of papers relating to the Boston guilds will, it is 
 believed, have a peculiar interest to many persons. They are 
 valuable because they supply a singularly full description of the 
 furniture of the church and guild chapels of an important town 
 when the country was on the eve of the great Tudor revolution. 
 To some of us they will have a far deeper attraction from the 
 faint gleam of light they throw on the town-life of the ancestors 
 of those who founded the most illustrious of American cities. 
 The whole of this series, with the exception of the inventory 
 of the guild of St. Mary, was unknown to Mr. Thompson, the 
 Boston historian. , 
 
 The editor could have extended this part of his work to a far 
 greater length, but he conceives that he has acted wisely in re- 
 straining it within its present limits. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. ^^ 
 
 Little need be said as to the few notes by which these old 
 papers are .Ilustrated. The editor has endeavoured to explain the 
 njeanmgof all the terms likely to be unintelligible to the ordinary 
 reader, and has given such genealogical illustrations as the nature 
 of h.s task seemed to require. In a work like the present, con- 
 ta.n,ng so many personal names, concerning each of which perse- 
 vering research might have recovered something, it is not likely 
 that his selection has always been the wisest. To have illustrated 
 the geneaIog.es of the families mentioned in the record as fully as 
 they deserve would have taken years of labour.* The old fami- 
 lies of Lincolnshire are worthy of being remembered in connexion 
 with happier scenes and nobler actions than those recorded here 
 The editor's thanks are due in the first place to Messrs. John 
 and Robert Swan, registrars of the diocese of Lincoln, by whose 
 courtesy he has been permitted to have the fullest access to the 
 monumental and especially to John Swan, Esq., who, at great 
 personal inconvenience to himself, on two occasions surrendered 
 his pnvate ofiice to the editor's sole use while he was engaged in 
 making tlie transcript for the press. 
 
 He must also offer his warmest thanks to William Simonds 
 i=.sq., mayor of Boston, and to Francis Thirkell White Eso ' 
 town clerk of that borough, for permission to consult the muni- 
 cipal archives, and for the great facilities so kindly given for 
 the inspection of documents. 
 
 Neither can the editor fail to remember that he is under the 
 deepest obhgations to John Ross, Esq., of Lincoln, not only for 
 the loan of h.s valuable genealogical collections and the prompt 
 answer to numberless troublesome queries, but also for the ver, 
 beautiful drawings from which the engravings of the Easter 
 
 parisfreli td 0^317 lS:Xt:: ^o^ave examined the 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 13 
 
 sepulchre and the hearse have been copied. Neither of these in- 
 teresting relics of Christian art would have been reproduced 
 here had it not been for the courtesy of this accomplished anti- 
 quary. 
 
 Inquiries on particular subjects have been kindly answered, and 
 valuable information and assistance received from Sir Charles 
 Anderson, of Lea Hall, Baronet ; the Rev. Edwin C. Blenkinsopp, 
 M.A., Rector of Springthorpe; Thomas Close, Esq., F.S.A., of 
 Nottingham; Charles Henry Cooper, Esq., F.S.A., Town Clerk 
 of Cambridge ; F. J. Furnival, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn ; Arthur 
 Larken, Esq., of Balderton Hall ; the Rev. Francis Charles Mas- 
 singberd, M.A., Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral ; the Rev. John 
 Wilson, M.A., Vicar of Wigtoft; the Rev. Charles Francis 
 Newmarch, M.A., Rector of Leverton ; the Very Rev. Daniel 
 Rock, D.D., John Richard Walbran, Esq., F.S.A., of Ripon, 
 and the Rev. Francis M. Willan, Vicar of Auburn. 
 
 There are few periods in the world's history that attract the 
 minds of Englishmen so strongly as the era of the Reformation. 
 To many the heroic world of antiquity is unknown, and the 
 Middle Ages are a blank, or at best a mere shadowy background ; 
 but to all whose knowledge extends beyond the annals contained 
 in the Holy Scriptures, the acts of the great drama of the six- 
 teenth century are in some degree familiar. Nor can we wonder 
 that it is so. Since the days when Charles the Great laid the 
 foundation of the polities of modern Europe, no change so mighty 
 had come across the lives of men as that which separated the 
 northern races from the common worship of Europe. No one can 
 fail to appreciate the mighty import of this revolution. Of its 
 
 effects for good and evil, even among men of the same faith, there 
 must at present be very wide divergences of opinion. 
 
 For upwards of two centuries this period has been the chief 
 battle-ground of religious controversialists, and in consequence 
 its history has been studied and its literature commented on, 
 not with the single-minded intention of learning and teaching 
 the truth, but for the purpose of supporting preconceived 
 opinions on the dogmas of theology. While numberless books of 
 deep research and unquestionable ability exist of this partisan 
 character, the student can point to few that are untainted with 
 sectarian bias; that are not, in fact, party pamphlets in disguise. 
 What effect this line of action has had on theology, they who are 
 professionally interested in its cultivation are the best able to 
 judge. The few who pursue the study of history as a science, 
 and who in consequence regard it as something higher than a 
 collection of romantic tales or a storehouse of missiles for use in 
 religious contests, feel deeply the losses they have sustained and 
 the impediments that have been thrown in their path by this 
 spirit of party. This is more especially true on all those matters 
 that relate to social history. The main chain of events, though 
 subject to distortion and disfigurement, could not be entirely 
 concealed by any artifice of the narrator ; but the lesser cords that 
 in their endless interlacings make up the folk-life of the age were 
 in many cases capable of complete obliteration. Almost every- 
 thing that has not borne directly on these unhappy questions, or 
 whose relation to them could not be used in party warfare or 
 worked up into an indictment or a " cry,'' has been neglected. 
 
 The scientific study of history is of so recent a date, that we 
 cannot blame our predecessors for neither recording facts nor pre- 
 serving documents which seemed to them of no value ; but it is 
 somewhat surprising to find persons, otherwise intelligent, unable 
 to comprehend that many of the more obscure human records are 
 deserving of as high a regard as a fossil footprint or the bone of 
 an extinct animal. Yet it is beyond the reach of cavil that facts 
 illustrative of the customs and feelings of the generations that 
 
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 ENGLISH CHURCH-FURNITUBE, A.D. 1566. 
 
 have gone before us are as important to those who would inves- 
 tigate the growth of civilization as the remains that chronicle the 
 progress of our globe ere man had become its lord are to those 
 who cultivate that earlier portion of history called geology. None 
 of us can make even a rude approach towards understanding the 
 life of any one century without a considerable knowledge of what 
 has gone before. This is more especially true with regard to the 
 sixteenth, when Teutonic Europe broke away from the imme- 
 morial traditions of the past. To appreciate fully the love that 
 such of the English people as were not Protestants showed for 
 the rites of their old religion, it is necessary to remember several 
 things now commonly forgotten. 
 
 The means by which Christianity was planted in northern 
 Europe were widely different from those taken by modern mis- 
 sionaries to spread their faith. Individual conversions were so 
 rare as to be almost unknown. When the people became Christian, 
 they did so not as isolated units, but as families or villages, tribes 
 or kingdoms. We can at best but imperfectly comprehend the 
 nature of the influence that moved the fierce conquerors of the 
 South to embrace the faith of the people they had subdued. The 
 manner in which the new creed presented itself to the shepherd, 
 the hunter, the forest-dweller, and the sea-rover, so as to induce 
 them to cast away their ancient picturesque mythology, is a still 
 darker problem. There can, however, be no doubt that when all 
 due allowances are made for the barbarism and superstition in 
 which the converters and converted participated almost equally. 
 It was the higher instincts of their nature which led the wor- 
 shippers of the Norse gods to bow before the cross. 
 
 Conversion from a religion that encouraged cruelty and blood- 
 shed, to one whose main social feature was mercy and brotherly 
 love, must have had a salutary influence on life and manners, but 
 with the mass of the people its progress was extremely slow. The 
 change to a person Hving at the time cannot have seemed such 
 a radical one as it does to us who see it in the light of succeeding 
 events. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 15 
 
 Such of the rites of the Church as were not derived directly 
 from the Holy Scriptures or Apostolic teaching were mostly of 
 Greek origin. Rome, the great organizing power of the world, 
 had little of plastic art -, the moulding and the modelling, not of 
 thought only, but of many of those outer things through which 
 thoughts are made comprehensible to the unthinking, were mainly 
 the work of the subtiler and more poetic minds of the Eastern 
 Patriarchates. But Rome, with that instinct for oneness which 
 had distinguished her from those early days when her patricians 
 first founded a civic polity, urged on all who entered within the 
 mystic sheepfold the practice of the same forms, as only one 
 degree less necessary than the belief in the same creeds. But 
 Rome was not even then all-powerful. As the only organized 
 power in Europe that was based on intellect and thought, that 
 appealed from the passions and animal instincts of man to his 
 mind and conscience, she exercised a power far beyond anything 
 the world had hitherto beheld. She dethroned the Norse gods, 
 and appropriated their temples to her own purer worship, but she 
 could not uproot the primjeval traditions of her adopted children."^ 
 Thus it came about that while all Europe was one not only in 
 professed religious belief, but in all the main features of exterior 
 ceremony, every people, every district, almost every village had 
 its own local and private customs, its own legends and wild 
 
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 * No question has been more fiercely debated than that of the influence of 
 heathen rites on Christianity. An exhaustive treatise on the subject, free from 
 sectarian bias, is as yet a desideratum in literature. The theory of the Church 
 on this subject may be seen in the often-quoted letter from Pope Grcj^ory I. to 
 the Abbot Meliitus (Beda, EccL Hist. lib. i. cap. xxx.). The practice v/as, no 
 doubt, far more elastic than the theory as there laid down. Confers Middleton's 
 Letter from Rome on the Conformity Jjetween Popery and Raganism^ with Bishop 
 Challoner's answer to the same, give a popular view of each side of the con- 
 troversy, as far as classic customs are concerned. Cf. Blunt, J, J., Vestiges 
 of Ancient Manners and Customs in Italy and Sicily ^ 1828. As to the ancient 
 discipline concerning idol temples, synagogues of Jews, and the churches of 
 heretics, see a learned treatise in Edm. Martenc, Be Antiq. Eccl. RitibuSy t. ii. 
 p. 283, edit. Bassani, 1788. 
 
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 imaginings^ with which were often connected principles and 
 practices much at variance with the higher teaching. 
 
 Under the slightly altered drapery which the Church had 
 thrown over them, our ancestors retained most of the old forms 
 to which they had been accustomed in childhood. Many of the 
 new ideas, such as the efficacy of sacramental grace and the de- 
 pravity of unregenerate man, were harmonized with the not dis- 
 similar traditions of their own people, and thus created around 
 the Churches authentic teaching an imaginative region of poetry 
 and sorcery unknown to pure heathenism or to the earlier Christian 
 history. The faith, as written in books and taught by synods 
 and councils, remained that of the whole Christian family; but 
 the faith of the hall and the cottage, the battle-plain and the 
 death- bed, was something other than this, though not in conscious 
 opposition. It was a strange mingling of old heathendom with 
 the teachings of the Gospel— a dream-world where Woden, and 
 Friga, and Thor mingled with the saints of the Church's 
 kalendar; where the sagas of the Northmen joined their wild 
 chant to the war-songs of the chosen people of God. 
 
 It is now three centuries since the medieval form of Chris- 
 tianity was overturned in this country, and we can see but very 
 dimly in the present practice of other lands what were its effects 
 upon a people fervent in faith, and harassed by none of those 
 inward questionings which latter times have brought forth. If 
 we would understand these things, we must try to realize the 
 mental position of men holding substantially the same faith as 
 a modern Roman Catholic, with the most intense devotion and 
 love for religious ceremonial, but with very little of that assumed 
 reverence which the prevalence of scepticism has now made 
 common; men of turbulent nature, free living, free spoken, 
 strong in their joys and their sorrows, their loves and their 
 hatreds; men who, although they believed the Church to be the 
 kingdom of God upon earth, and the sacraments the channels of 
 his grace, would yet manfully wrestle with any one-priest or 
 bishop, cardinal or pope-who should infringe their recorded or 
 traditional liberties, or violate their sense of right. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 17 
 
 We must bring -before us these fore-elders of ours, with full 
 memory of the fact that every action of daily life was under the 
 blessing of the Church ; that men were not only brought into 
 contact with her services at baptism and confirmation, marriage 
 and burial, but literally at almost every hour of their lives ; that 
 every place and every article of secular use — the knight's horse, 
 his tent, and his armour — the housewife's larder, kitchen, and 
 cooking vessels — the tools of the labourer, and the nets of the 
 fisherman — the books of the scholar, and the very flowers that 
 decked the village May-pole, were subjects of the Church's bene- 
 diction,"'^ a blessing, not as now a mere edifying religious custom, 
 but a rite believed to have a deep effect on the hidden powers of 
 nature. Men in those days made little distinction betw^een the 
 good things they received from God by the direct action of phy- 
 sical laws, and those more indirect ones which they believed the 
 Church had power to draw forth by the influence of her spirit 
 over nature and on man. To their simple minds the effect of the 
 showers and the sunlight on the growing corn seemed not more 
 directly the cause of its fruitfulness than the priest's blessing. 
 
 * Martene published for the first time many of these interesting memorials 
 of the devotion of former days. Others still remain in manuscript. As the 
 subject is an interesting one, and these old forms will be new to most of my 
 readers, I subjoin two specimens from the De Antiq. Eccl. RitibuSy t. ii. p. 302. 
 
 BENEDICTIO AD LIBROS BENEDICENDOS. 
 
 Descendat, Domine, virtus Spiritus sancti tui super hos libros, qui eos mun- 
 dando purificet & benedicat atque sanctificet, & omnium clementer corda 
 illuminet, & verum intellectum tribuat ; sed & illuminata tua prsecepta con- 
 servare & implere secundum tuam voluutatcm bonis operibus implendo concedat. 
 Qui vivat & regnat. 
 
 BENEDICTIO RETIUM AD CAPIENDOS PISCES. 
 
 Dominus Deus omnipotens, coeli & terrae aquarumque creator, qui homini ad 
 imaginem tuam condito ideo ad servieudum & pie utendum universam subdidisti 
 creaturam, ut cum sibi cuncta ad votum famulari videret, ipse tuis prseceptis 
 instantius atque devotius inserviret ; oramus pietatem tuam, ut hsec retia ad 
 capiendos pisces intenta potenti benedicas dextra, quatenus dum tuorum usibus 
 famulorum piscium captura in eis pervenerit, tibi Domine bonorum operum 
 largitori de coucessis bencficiis debitas gratias rcferamus. Per. 
 
18 :BNGLISH CEVRCH-FURNITURE, A.D. 1566. 
 
 • His prayers, and the incantations^ that were often wedded to 
 them, were another form of medicine, at least as potent 
 as the foreign drugs of the apothecary, or the plants that 
 grew in their own meadows. And along with this religious sen- 
 timent, sometimes running parallel, more often mingling with 
 it in strange and fantastic confusion, were the ideal realms of 
 magic and sorcery— real and terrible hierarchies in our ancestors^ 
 minds— ruled over by demon potentates, the princes of the lost 
 
 Mr Cockayne, in Iiis admirably edited Saxon Leechdoms, has given many 
 ot the charms used by the husbandmen of former days. A charm for bewitched 
 land, which he has printed from .¥^. Cott. Cullg. A. fol. 171 a, is a long 
 magical service of great interest and some beauty of expression. I quote a 
 lew lines near the end from the editor's translation. 
 
 "Let one drive 4)rward the plough and cut the first furrow; then say— 
 
 "Hail to thee, mother earth, 
 " Mortals maintainins: ; 
 " Be growing and fertile 
 " By the goodness of God, 
 " FUled with fodder 
 " Our folk to feed. 
 
 „ y ^^.^^.^^K^ ""^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^°^' ^^d let one bake a broad loaf, as big as will 
 lie withm his two hands, and kneed it with milk and with holy water, and lay 
 It under the first furrow. Then say— 
 
 "Laud filled with fodder, 
 
 " Mankind to feed, 
 
 " Brightly blooming 
 
 *' Blessed become thou, 
 
 " For the holy name 
 
 " Of him who heaven created, 
 
 " And this earth 
 
 " On which we live. 
 
 " May the God who made these grounds 
 
 ** Grant to us his growing grace, 
 
 " That to us of corn each kind 
 
 " May come to good. 
 
 " Then say thrice Crescite, etc., and the Paternoster thrice." 
 
 Those who are curious in folk-lore wiU not need to be told that the spread 
 ot knowledge has not extirpated the belief in magic among our peasantry We 
 lear, however, that something that is uot knowledge has made men forget in 
 
 INTR OB UCTION, 19 
 
 kingdoms of darkness, whose lot it was to wage, to the end of 
 time, a partially successful war against the children of li^rht. 
 This frightful dream-world, the distorted reflection of the autho- 
 rized teaching on minds too subtile to receive unhesitatingly 
 the Church's faith, or too fully saturated with the traditions of 
 the elder mythologies to accept the newer teaching as their only 
 guide, haunted them in a manner that we can but half compre- 
 hend. Of the intensity of this horrible fascination there is, 
 however, no room for doubt. It was the parent of many of the 
 darkest crimes of the Middle Ao-es.^ 
 
 When the Reformation burst upon England, the great body of 
 the people were little prepared for change. The growing corrup- 
 tion of the clerical order, the gross tyranny of the spiritual 
 courts, the harsh manner in which the ecclesiastical law was 
 administered when it clashed with family rights or the sanctities 
 of home, and, perhaps more than all, the exorbitant pecuniary 
 
 these latter days the pious practices with which their forefathers were accus- 
 tomed to accompany their work in field and garden. The following Note for all 
 grafters and planters occurs in a gardening book of the era of the Common- 
 wealth. It is evidently a composition of far earlier days. 
 ^^ "Whensoever ye shall plant or grafle, it shall be meet and good for you to 
 *| say as followeth :— In the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
 *' Ghost, Amen. Increase, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And say 
 " the Lord's Prayer. Then say— Lord God, heare my prayer, and let this my 
 ** desire be heard of thee. The Holy Spirit of God, which hath created all 
 ** things for man, and hath given them for our comfort, in thy name, LORD, 
 II we set, plant, and grafi"e, desiring that by thy mighty power they may increase 
 ^ and multiply upon earth, in bearing plenty of fruit unto the profit and comfort 
 " of^ all the faithful people, through Christ our Lord, Amen."— 1%^ Country, 
 man^s^ B^creatwn ; or, the Art of Planting, Graffmg, and Gardening. 4to, 1654, 
 
 * The persecutions of the Jews, Albigenses, and Knights Templars were 
 mainly due to this unhappy superstition. Most of the victims were, no doubt, 
 quite innocent. It may be, however, that some few sought knowledge, hap- 
 piness, or peace in the practice of these vain iUusions. No one can read the 
 Acta contra Ternplanos without being convinced that the charges made against 
 that illustrious order were almost entirely without foundation. False as they 
 are, they present a strange picture of old-world beUefs.-See Wilkins' Concil. 
 vol. u. pp. 329-401. 
 
20 
 
 ^ENGLISH CHURCH-FURNITURE, A.D. 1566. 
 
 demands of Italian officials^ had engendered much outspoken and 
 concealed bitterness; but theological speculation, at least of such 
 a kind as would have naturally led to Protestantism, was almost 
 unknown. Even on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, when the 
 reformed doctrines had been spreading themselves for twenty 
 years, and the old religion had become odious to many by the 
 crimes that had been perpetrated in its support, the bulk of the 
 people were anxious to retain their ancient services. Historians, 
 in their blind partisanship, have seldom paused to point out that 
 the contest between the English Catholic people and their oppo- 
 nents was almost entirely concerning those practical matters 
 which rightly belong to the domain of politics or to the ceremonial 
 of their religion, hardly ever as to dogmas which could have no 
 scenic representation or visible embodiment before the eyes of men. 
 From that first wild outbreak in Lincolnshire which lighted the 
 far greater conflagration of the Pilgrimage of Grace, when all 
 Old Northumbria rose in arms because they feared that 
 
 " Christis churche very like is spoilyd to be 
 And all abbays suppressit," 
 
 to that other fatal rising in the North, when - the Perc/s crescent 
 set in blood,- there is everything to show the great attachment 
 the people bore to their traditional rites, but little to indicate that 
 they took more than a languid interest in the dogmatic and 
 metaphysical niceties which occupied so large a portion of their 
 instructors' thoughts. 
 
 It may be thought that a book which records the destruc- 
 
 INTR O D UCTION. 
 
 21 
 
 KeLmtiont r ^^^"'^'"^^!' ^^^^^ ^^^ «^e of the main causes of the 
 Ketormationin Germany, produced but little irritation here. That profligate 
 
 tSlt; Hnl: T'^h" '^' "^^^^^' "^^ ^^^^--^ within 'comX 
 Ye L~. 0^^ '^'' ^.'T ^'''^'^' teaching as to indulgences, see 
 
 ^^mous Kde 0/ Faith, trans, by J. Waterworth, 1833 pn 49-65- L'AhhA 
 
 Appen. . 1. u. p. 381, Eccl. See. Edit., Burnet OnThirty-nine Article:^ 
 
 tion of some of the last relics of ancient ritual and practice should 
 contain at least a short account of those customs in which the 
 Mediaeval Church differed most widely from its counterpart of 
 modern days. To have done so effectively would have extended 
 the present volume beyond all reasonable limits, and might have 
 introduced subjects of modern controversy distasteful to the 
 editor and his readers. It must also be remembered that the 
 greater part of the following pages do not represent the orna- 
 ments of our churches as they stood before the change begun. 
 They show only what had been retained after the violent reforms 
 of King Edward's ministers, or restored during the reign of his 
 Catholic sister. Few and poor as they no doubt were when com- 
 pared with the objects of religious reverence that had been swept 
 away, they were intimately connected with the devotion and 
 social life of the people, and endeared to them by the holiest 
 associations. It requires an effort to place ourselves, in imao'ina- 
 tion even, in the same position of aflTectionate reverence for mere 
 articles of furniture—silk and gold, brass and stone—as our fore- 
 fathers ; but let us remember that the vestments thus wantonly 
 cut up into hosen and cushions, or made into costumes for stroll- 
 ing players, were the solemnly blessed garments in which they 
 had seen their priest celebrate the great sacrifice of the Catholic 
 Church; that the altar-slabs thus used as fire-backs and bridges 
 had been dedicated by episcopal unction and the relics of the 
 saints, and had received the far higher consecration of beino- the 
 appointed place whereon that same sacrifice was consummated f 
 
 * The insults levelled at the Catholic religion, and especially at its sacra- 
 mental teaching, by the more violent spirits who had allied themselves with 
 the Reformers, were frequently of a very gross character. At one time some 
 unknown person hanged a cat on a gallows beside the cross in Cheapside 
 habited m a garment like a chasuble, with its head shaven to imitate a priest's 
 tonsure, and a round piece of paper made like the host fastened between its 
 fore paws. At another a lady of high rank caused her dog to be carried before 
 her dressed in a rochet like a bishop, calling him in derision by the name of 
 Gardiner. When Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge in 1564, the students 
 performed a play in her presence, in which the actors were vested like the 
 
22 ENGLISH CEVBCH-FUBNITURE, A.D. 156G. 
 
 that the rood was to them the visible representation of their 
 God — of Him who had died for them on Calvary, and who, with 
 hands, feet, and side pierced as they saw Him there, would, as 
 they believed, come ere long in glory and terror to judge the 
 universe. The bells that profane persons hung to the harness 
 of their horses had been borne before the priest through many 
 a crowd of kneeling villagers when the blessed sacrament was 
 carried from its resting-place over the altar to the bed-side of the 
 sick and the dying. The banners, the hearse, the lights, and almost 
 every article of the church's furniture were connected in their 
 minds with the solemn funeral services, which, in their plaintive 
 melody, show forth more fully than anything else that is left 
 to us the wistful longing of the faithful here for the kingdom 
 where sickness and death, marrying and giving in marriage, and 
 all other sorrows and joys of this phenomenal existence, shall 
 have passed away.* 
 
 imprisoned Catholic bishops. At one part of the performance a dog appeared 
 on the stage with the host in his mouth. It is pleasant to remember that this 
 profanity was highly resented by the queen. 
 
 When Welsh, the vicar of St. Thomas's, Exeter, was executed for the part 
 he took m the Devonshire rising of ]549, he was hanged from a beam run out 
 from one of the windows of his own church tower. One who saw the dead 
 body hangmg in chains says that it was vested in priestly robes, with a holy- 
 water bucket and sprinkler, a sackring bell, and a string of beads dangling 
 aDout It. 
 
 Those who have read Wood's Life of WilUam Wittyngham, » the false and 
 unworthy Dean of Durham," as some have called him, will remember his 
 indignant account of that person's « works of impiety" in Durham Cathedral ■ 
 how he made the coffins of the priors into swine troughs, and the stoups for 
 holy water into vessels for ignoble kitchen uses.-Machyn's Diary, p. 59- 
 Cooper s^/^...CV../.* vol. i. p. 453 ; Fronde's Hist,, vol. v. p. 201,'';ol. viii! 
 p. 92 ; Wood's AthencB Oxon., edit. 1721, vol. i. col 195 
 
 * The medieval funeral customs, and the rites for the repose of the soul that 
 
 Zstrrn" Th:: w ''^"^' ^'t ''''^' ' ''''' ^^^^^^ ^- their :Ct 
 
 Illustration They were among the most ancient ceremonies of the church and 
 
 pTac i:'e In :7"""/r:.P"^1 ^^' ^ '^^'^ -^ --^ Tem^agrof 
 practices and opinions not distinctively Christian. The legends concerning hell 
 
 and purgatory owe at least as much to the Teutonic m^thotras to Chr s 
 
 Sold l^z^t^j:7r^'' ^-°"»^ -^ --^ P-- ^^r.v:.'oZ 
 
 told the editor that she had known a man who, when he walked abroad 
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 23 
 
 None of us ought to withhold sympathy from the unlettered 
 poor, the great body of whom remained unchanged. To them 
 the Reformed faith could have few attractions. The Bible and 
 Erasmus's Paraphrase in the vulgar tongue were chained in the 
 churches, the ten commandments of the old law were painted 
 on their whitewashed walls, but these ill supplied the place of 
 those poor men's books, whose pictured leaves had glowed in 
 every window and shone on every frescoed wall, — from whose 
 pages they had learned the truths of the Gospel and that won- 
 derful mass of legendary lore which contained at once their 
 history and their religion."^ The calm beauty of the Book of 
 Common Prayer was to them but a tame and bald substitute 
 for the stately forms of the traditional worship. Its doo-matic 
 teaching grated harshly on those whose childlike faith for ever 
 mingled the visible with the unseen — who saw no separation in 
 the grave that kindly words, hopes, and prayers might not 
 bridge over. Its simple ritual could but ill satisfy the cravino- 
 for each rite and ceremony, legend and lay, in which the peasant's 
 
 at night, could see the souis of the dead departing to the spirit- world. He 
 declared that they passed him like little points of fire, and that sometimes 
 they flew about so thickly that it was like being in a stubble-field all ablaze. 
 Lyke-wake dirges were in use long after the Keformation. Few of these 
 wild chants have been preserved, though references to them are frequent. A 
 sixteenth-century writer thus describes what he had seen in Yorkshire : " When 
 «* any dieth, certain women sing a song to the dead bodie, recyting the journey 
 " that the partye deceased must goe ; and they are of beliefe (such is their fond- 
 " nesse) that once in their lives yt is good to give a pair of new shoes to a poor 
 *• man, for as much as, after this life, they are to pass barefoote through a great 
 " launde full of thornes and furzen, except by the meryte of the almes afore- 
 *' said they have redeemed the forfeyte ; for at the edge of the launde, an auld 
 "man shall meet them with the same shoes that were given by the partie when 
 «' he was ly ving ; and after he hath shodde them dismisseth them to go throueh 
 "thick and thin without scratch or scralle."— 6W^. 3/*?., Jul. F. vi. f. 435 
 The song that the author describes was probably identical with those heathenish 
 verses preserved by Aubrey, and printed in Brand's Antiquities, vol. ii. p 180 • 
 Walbran's R^dcar, p. 121 ; The Archceologia, vol. xxxvi. p. 152, and ellewhere • 
 cf. Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. ii. p. 363. * 
 
 * Froude's Hist, vol. v. p. 37. 
 
24 ENGLISH CBVRCE-FURNITURE. A.D. 1566. 
 
 faith was embodied. Its infreque,>t services fell coldly on the 
 ears and hearts that had listened and responded to the worship 
 of the old days, when the church's doors were ever open, and 
 the lamps always burning by night and by day-when the 
 people worshipped at her altars, not on Sundays only, but when- 
 ever the cares of the world or their own hearts prompted them 
 to seek solace and succour in those never-ending prayers and 
 praises which re-echoed here, in the valley of tears, the " deep 
 song of joy" that resounds in the courts of the city whose gates 
 stand open for evermore. ^ -p 
 
 BOTTESFOKD MaSOR, 
 
 .___ -Jkeemier 22, 1864. 
 
 > 
 
 Ll^- 
 
 f ^ 
 
 I. 
 
 FRESCO OF THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS. 
 
 In the year 1860, when the parish church of Kh'ton in Lindsey 
 underwent certain alterations and structural repairs, a fresco 
 painting was found on the wall of the north aisle, hidden under 
 many cmts of whitewash. It was not discovered until a great 
 portion had been destroyed. The persons who carefully removed 
 the whitewash from the picture observed that its upper part had 
 been covered at some comparatively recent time with a scroll- 
 work design in classic taste, enclosing texts of Scripture written 
 in a blacUctter character. The height of the picture was 6 feet 
 II inch, by 6 ft^et wide. The wall on which it was executed 
 belono-s to the Perpendicular period of our architecture. It is 
 probable, judging from the tracery of the adjoining windows and 
 the very slight indications of date to be found in the dresses of 
 the ilo-ures, that it was executed about the close of the fourteenth 
 century. • ( 
 
 i 
 
 I.-FRFSCO OF THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS. 25 
 
 The subject of the painting is the seven sacraments of the 
 Roman Catholic Church. In the centre once stood the figure of 
 our Blessed Saviour on the cross, the head surrounded by I rayed 
 nimbus, the base of the cross resting on a globe, the upper part 
 of which is stained with blood. On the right hand of the 
 Redeemer stands the Blessed Virgin, clad in a blue garment ; on 
 the left is St. John the Evangelist. From the wounds in the 
 hands and the feet of the Crucified flow streams of blood, which 
 are directed to the seven comparhments arranged around. In 
 the first compartment on the left is shown the Holy Communion, 
 where a bishop, in eucharistic vestments, with a pastoral staff iii 
 his left hand, is giving the chalice to an attendant priest. Im- 
 mediately below this group is the fragment of another, which, 
 when perfect, represented Baptism ; here nothing now remains 
 but a small portion of the priest^s figure and the outline of the 
 upper part of a circular font. The two next compartments are 
 entirely gone ; they no doubt once represented Holy Orders and 
 Confirmation. In the first division on the right, we have a very 
 interesting representation of Extreme Unction ; an emaciated 
 male figure, without any body-clothing whatever except a night- 
 cap, but covered from the waist downwards by a red quilt, lies on 
 a bed; the officiating priest is in the act of signing the cross 
 upon the sick man's breast ; an attendant, also an ecclesiastic, 
 holds a book, on whose open leaves are inscribed a sentence, of 
 which one word only— operatione— is legible. The wife' of 
 the departing man is seen between the two clerical figures • 
 she is evidently attentively watching the ceremony. The next 
 compartment represents Penance. It would have been exceed- 
 ingly valuable to the liturgical student had it been preserved 
 entire ; unhappily, little remains except the outline of a fio-ure 
 giving the priestly blessing to another who kneels before him 
 The object of the third figure is not clear; I believe it represents 
 a person in the act of prayer. Lastly, we have the marriage rite • 
 but here, too, the hand of the destroyer has swept away more 
 
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26 
 
 ENGLISH CHURCH FURNITURE— A.D. 1566. 
 
 than half the picture. The bride is quite gone, and but a very 
 dim outline of the priest remains; the bridegroom is more 
 perfect, his face and hands have disappeared, but we can make 
 out that his wedding dress was a green tunic with red hose. A 
 lady stands near him, dressed altogether in blue. 
 
 At the bottom of the picture, below the globe on which the 
 foot of the cross rests, are some remains of the outlines of a 
 shield. Here, perhaps, was once figured the arms of the person 
 who caused the painting to be executed. 
 
 This noble fresco, when perfect, must have been a work of 
 great beauty ; the drawing is of unusual excellence, and the sub- 
 ject is, as applied to mural decoration, unique in this country. 
 
 It is probable that this picture was an ornament of a private 
 altar belonging to one of the five guilds which anciently existed 
 at Kirton in Lindsey. The will of William Blyton, of that place, 
 executed a.d. 1498, supplies us with their names. They were 
 called — 
 
 The Guild of the Sepulchre of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 The Guild of Saint John Baptist. 
 The Guild of Corpus Christi. 
 The Guild called '' May Gilde/' 
 The Guild called '' Pluygh Gilde/^ 
 
 II. & III. 
 THE HEARSE. 
 
 The various meanings of this word are explained, and the objects 
 signified thereby described, in the note under Ripingale. The 
 interesting relic here engraved has become the editor's property 
 since a portion of these pages was in type. It was removed 
 from the church of Snarford in this county many years ago. As 
 the tomb to which it was attached has long ago perishrd, it is 
 
 11. Sf IIL-^THE HEARSE. 27 
 
 impossible to decide with certainty what was its original position. 
 The engraving represents all now preserved, except two massive 
 upright rods of iron, the upper parts of which have been worked 
 into a cable pattern, with balls on the tops, a fleur-de-lys, like 
 the centre one in the drawing, and fragments of two other orna- 
 ments which have been similar to those at the ends. The editor 
 has been informed that other portions have been destroyed in 
 recent days. It is probable that when perfect it presented another 
 side similar to the one here shown screening ofiT a tomb lying 
 under an arch between the chancel of the church and a chantry 
 chapel. The centre fleur-de-lys and the two leaved appendages 
 have been for ornament only. The spiked objects are prick 
 candlesticks, in the interior of which some wax was still adhering 
 when they came into the editor^s possession. Every existing 
 portion is of ^vrought iron, except the upper frieze, which is comt 
 posed of a thin plate of latten, once richly gilt, enclosed within 
 a slight iron frame. This band is inscribed in a very bold and 
 elegant black letter ; 
 
 <D;^KiS ♦ (EimQ^^BE * 'Nm^IJL * ^S>E • 
 
 After the word « euum,^^ and nearly in the middle of the band, 
 is a shield, from which the bearing seems to have been carefully 
 erased. After the word - Deum^ the vacant space has been filled 
 m by a passant lion, holding in his dexter paw a rabbit. I have 
 not been able to obtain any satisfactory evidence to connect this 
 interesting relic with any person or family. The destruction of 
 the tomb and erasure of the arms remove all hope of identifica- 
 tion. The ornamental details and general character indicate that 
 the time of its manufacture was towards the close of the fifteenth 
 century. At that time the Saint Pauls were lords of Snarford • 
 It IS not, therefore, improbable that it was executed for some 
 member of that family. 
 
 c 2 
 
28 ENGLISH CHURCH FURNITURE, A.D. 1566. 
 
 IV. 
 
 TEH EASTER SEPULCHRE. 
 
 Before the changes of ritual in the sixteenth century almost every 
 village church possessed an Easter sepulchre. These sepulchres 
 were usually moveable closets of wood, on which were suspended, 
 during Passion-week and Easter-tide, hangings of precious silk 
 or gold and silver tissue. In the more costly churches— built 
 during the Decorated and Perpendicular periods— they were fre- 
 quently of stone, elaborately carved and ornamented. Few of 
 these beautiful works of art now remain. The examples that 
 still exist at Hawton, Patrington, Heckington, Northwold, Hol- 
 combe Burnell, Southpool, and Woodleigh are, it is believed, all 
 more or less mutilated. The original form was that of a small 
 arched recess* in the north wall of the chancel; but in later 
 times the design was developed with many ornamental and sym- 
 bolic details. In the more elaborate specimens we find at the 
 bottom, below the recess, the Roman soldiers vvatchino- the 
 grave, and high above the figure of our Lord rising from the 
 tomb. He IS usually accompanied by angels, with censers, in 
 the attitude of adoration. 
 
 The sepulchre was used in the latter days of Passion-week in 
 one of the most touching rites of the old ceremonial. On Holy 
 Thursday the celebrating priest consecrated three hosts; one 
 which he had to receive on that day, another for use on Good 
 i^riday, when no mass was said, and a third to be shut up 
 in the pix and hidden away in the Easter sepulchre. From the 
 time when the host was thus concealed until Easter morn, when 
 It was again placed upon the altar, there was, day and night, a 
 constant succession of watchers, praying and reciting psalms and 
 
 beautm IW^^^^^^ 7^ «^^ be seen in the north wall of the 
 
 surmounted b/a nil eairi u'"''^"^' ''' ^^°^°^'^- ^he arches are 
 and lock of tl^d ot l^^^lXl^:'' ''' ^'''' '' ''' '''^^^"^ '^^^' 
 
 INVENTARIUM MONUMENTORUM 
 SUPERSTITIONIS. 
 
 Alford.— A true certificate of all the ornamtes pertaynigeto the 
 churche of Alforthe sence the death of Queue Marie. 
 All the mass book — defacid by ffrauncis spayinge and James 
 halton then gard^. 
 
 the^Rood Marie and John and all other pictures— brent. 
 Itin a handbell — Remaynethe. 
 Itiii the Sensors crwetes and suchlike trash— was sold by the said 
 churchward and defacid. 
 
 Itm one cope whearof is made a clothe for the coion table. 
 Itm one vestmt sold and defacid. 
 Exhibited at Lincoln 25.April 1566.before 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 
 AsBYE luxA Sleford.— William Daunce and Robart cranwell 
 26.April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis of Images of the Rood mary and Jhon wth all other 
 Images— -burned A6 iijo Elizabethe. 
 
 Itm iij papistical books — wch did belonge to Mr Yorke^ who 
 hath defaced them Ao quarto Elizabethe the other were stolle 
 awaie in queene maries raign. 
 
 Itm one supaltare— brokne and defaced by or vicar anna 
 septimo Elizabethe. 
 
 Itni vestmetes copes crosses aulbes phanellesf crosse clothes 
 
 rPK ? }^^^f.Y^'f ^^!^^^^ ^^ Ashby-de-la-Laund in the fifteenth century. 
 The founder of the family was Sir Richard York, Kt, Mayor of the Staple of 
 Calais who died 1448 By his first wife, Joan Mauleverer, he had issue Sir 
 
 7T a1 .? . ' \^" 7"^"^ "'^''"^^ ^ daughter of the first Lord Darcy, of Darcy 
 (ot Memill he has been sometimes staled). From this match sprung Thomas 
 lork, the owner of tlie three " papistical books." His wife was Mary, daughter 
 r "^°^«^^?'^\tmV.«^^Vashmgborough,a lady descended in the l^male line 
 f ? ,^'^^-^V. ^^^'"^ f Claworth, Disneys of Fulbeck, and other families 
 
 li^n fc.^?^\ -^jiir^^^^ '^^^^ ^^^ ^""^^ ^^^e a saltire angent.—Harl. MS. 
 1550 t. 221 b Offshoots of this family have been settled in Yorkshire and 
 Northamptonshire.-^^r/. MSS. 1415, f. 37 b ; 1420, f. 204 ; 1187. f. 23 b 
 T ine ±anon or maniple is one of the vestments worn by the sacrificing 
 
I 
 
 30 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 banner clothes and all such like ymplementes—stolle out of or 
 cnurcne in quene maries tyme. 
 
 t mf" ^^^ ^^^ """^"'^^ crismatorie handbelles— stolle at the same 
 
 Itm or sepulcre— broken and burned Ao ij Elizabethe. 
 Elizabethe ' '^^^''~^^^^"« ^^^ P^^id in or churche Ao quito 
 
 Itm a cope— wch we borrowed of Mrs stringar of Darbie and 
 restored to her agayne Ao primo Elizabethe not defaced 
 leades! ^oft-burned anno vj to Elizabethe to mak the 
 
 exaiat et iurat. 
 
 Imprimis our llood'wtli Marie and John and the Rest of ye 
 TOcet'JolaaBowghof P"l"sli Pictures— Ao p^mo Elizabth was 
 je popisli pictures. "^*^^^ ^"O- Goodoher and Jolien Bown-he 
 T,~ -T, \, r *^"™ I'einj,' churchwardens. '^ 
 
 In or Rood oft-sold Ao tertio regine wch is defaced. 
 
 Ao jr pxri^CiSel ''^ -'-^ ^--^-^ 
 
 Bow::hel£„t"::i:S7„: ^' '^ ^"^ '^^- ^-^^y -d John 
 4^°ESf ^"" "■°" '^1°*'^— seven to the poore Ao iij o 
 
 intorrn<>-.,tr i ^'^f^r stock— whearof is mad a morter. 
 mtorrogat Eoughe de cruce chrismat^ campanilis. 
 
 '"'TlM'^Se^e''"''^'" '""^ '''"™^ ^^^' churchwardens 
 Itm ij vestm^nt-sdd vnto wm Calis* Ao tertio regine Elizahth 
 
 ^ti^^i-^::^^:^, l^:,^:^'^ ^-] ^ n- stn-p of Unen-a 
 
 «■»» liiglilj- decorated, and of en , nlff 1 • ?''^''^""'''- In latter times it 
 
 derived fn,n, the Germa"'rZ« Lp! "'"' n' T'^™'^" ^he word is 
 
 * Mill am Calls of A«^»Mw' ' -f«««-— Du Fresne, ff/osj. s„4 roc 
 
 Little Hale i„ ?h.rc'onn v *i't TorohT'^n ?' /''^f-"'? long settled at 
 Uenry Calliec, of thclatter'villa-e "^Tl^ ■ , '"'' r ^ ^'^^ " ^^Vr son of 
 great obscuritv. The nedilrUTf * '"'''"'>' °^ ""'s family is involved in 
 vsitations, . Ui, 'i^ ?1, 'f. " e' nl", r 1 7n 7u ' Y L-eoinshire Leralds" 
 George s visitation was mide fflkin.f,->''f:i '',''"" Sir Richard Saint 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 31 
 
 by Thomas Lawgliton and Gilbert Grene churchwardenes w*^** is 
 defaced. 
 
 Itiii a crose of wood ij candellstickes a paire of Sensors and a 
 holie water fate — sold vnto Gilbert Grene Anno tertio regine 
 Elizabth he then being churchwarden who defaced theim. 
 
 Itm ij handbells — sold vnto wm Callis Ao iij Elizabth by the 
 abouesaid churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 a commissioner of sewers for Lincolnshire, 1530; a justice of the peace, 10th 
 Jan., 1033-4. He was author of I. The case and argument against Sir Ignoramus^ 
 of Cambridge, in a Reading at Staple's Inn in Lent, 14 Ja. R. ; Lond., 4to, 1648 : 
 il. Reading on the statute of Sewers, 23 lien. 8, caj). 5 ; London, 1G47, 1685, 
 1686, 1824. This last edition was published under the editorship of W. J. 
 Broderip ; a manuscript, described as the author's autograph copy of this work, 
 was advertised for sale in a London bookseller's catalogue about fourteen years 
 ago. The arms used by Serjeant Callis were quarterly, argent, and gules, over 
 all a bend purpure ; they have all the appearance of an ancient bearing. — Igno- 
 ramus, ed. Hawkins, p. 1. xiv. Dugdale, Orig.Jurid. 296, 329, app.107. Croke, 
 Reports, temp. Cha. I. 71. Duijdale, Embanking and Braining, ed. Cole, 417, 
 420. Bruce, Cal. Bom. State Pap. Cha. I. vi. 409. 
 
 The following fragments of pedigree embody all that is known of the family. 
 They have not hitherto been printed : — 
 
 Kobert Calys, of Little Hale. Will dated 13 Jan. 
 Proved at Lincoln 2 March, 1533. 
 
 Henry Callice, of Little Hale, eldest 8on.=7= 
 Died i Oct., 1557 ; seized of lands in I 
 Little Hale and Aslacby. I 
 
 Alison, mentioned 
 in her father's 
 will. 
 
 Thomas, 2nd son, men- 
 tioned iu his father's 
 wiU. 
 
 Robert Callice, of Little Hale, s. and h., tet. 30, 1557; was married at that time. 
 Keturned as a Freeholder in Little Hale, 1561 (Lansd. MS. 5, f. 59.) 
 
 William Callis, of Little Hale, Yeoman; married at=i=Thomasine Gibbon. 
 St. Martin's Church, Lincoln, 3 Aug., 1592; died 
 25 April, 1607; seized of land in Little Hale^ 
 
 William Callis, s. and h., set. 6 at his father's death. 
 
 Kobert Callis-r 
 
 Robert Callis, of Dalderbv, Co. Lincoln,= 
 admitted a memlter of Gray's Inn 13 
 Aug. 1596, Scrjeant-at-Law 12 April, 
 1627. Willdated30 Dec, 1641. Proved 
 at Doctors' Commons 16 May, 1612. 
 
 William Callis,^ 
 probably dead 
 nefore 30 Dec, 
 1641. 
 
 Elizabeth,=John Doughty, s 
 
 d. and 
 coh., 
 living 
 1 Aug., 
 1650. 
 
 and h, of Henry 
 Doughty, of 
 Thornley, Co. 
 Lane, Esq., 
 living 30 Dec, 
 Ifril; dead 1 
 Aug.,1650. Eoy- 
 alist Com. Pap. 
 1 8. V. 21, p. 16. 
 
 Susan 2nd d. 
 and coh. 
 Proved her 
 father's will 
 1642. Then 
 unmarried. 
 
 WilUam Cal- 
 lis, men- 
 tioned in 
 his uncle's 
 will. 
 
 Daughters 
 mentioned 
 in their 
 uncle's 
 will, but 
 number 
 and names 
 not given. 
 
 Robert, adm. a 
 member of 
 Gray's Inn 
 12 Aug. 1622. 
 * ' Sine fine quia 
 neposlectoris." 
 Not mentioned 
 in his onele's 
 will. 
 
 It seems from an account preserved among the Eoyaiist Composition Papers 
 (2 s. V. 13, p. 744) that in 1646, Mercy Callis, widow, had a mortgage of £110 
 
32 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes — sold to Gilbert Grene one of the 
 churchwardens Ao iij regine Elizabth who defacid theim. 
 
 Itni one altar stone — laid upon a grave and so contineweth 
 Anno iij Elizabth Thomas Lawghton and Gilbert Grene church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itin one rood marie & Jobs (^z>)— was broken and defacid 
 Anno^tertio regine by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itin the vail Imageis Marei and John — wear defacid and 
 made^awaie Anno tertio Elizabth by the said church w^ardens. 
 
 Itiii the pixes the cruetes and the pax — defacid in the second 
 or th^rde yeare of the Quenes Reigne that now is vpon o*" othes. 
 
 Itrn the mass bookes the processioners the manuell and all such 
 peltrei of the popes sinfull service — was made away torne and 
 defacid in the second or third yeare of the Eeigne of o*" soue- 
 raigne Ladie that now is. 
 
 Itm one crose clothe— made awaie Anno tertio rci^ine Elizabth 
 Thomas Lawghton and Gilbert Grene churchwardens and what 
 was done of theim wee knowe not. 
 
 John Aelmer I.April 1566. 
 
 AsTRAPE.—Ry chard semkinson and alyxsandar haryson church- 
 wardens. 
 
 churchwardens the vijth yeare John Clarke haman atkenson. 
 imprimis or rood mane and Jhon— we have non nor had sens 
 the tyme ofi kinge Edward. 
 
 Qilene M ^^^^ ^o^^— ^e have non nor had sens the tyme off 
 
 Itm or mass bookes wth manuels and such popishe bookes— we 
 Have non nor we can not hear off any wythein the towne. 
 
 upon property at Maltby-in-the-Marsh belonging to Henry Martin eentleman 
 testifvinrthat fl P ;J' \f' ^^^^ '• ^^T? ^ certificate dated 18th July, 1654. 
 
 mi-i. ^ ^^' "■ ^*'^^- ^6 was buried at that place 15th Jan., 
 
 it SfdeSereV' Tl,?f„l^'> '° l""'^' r'^^'"^^ ^'"'^ 'hat much of 
 legible :_ ""'^P''"^''- The following entries relative to this famUj are still 
 
 i-oc'<T^°°'"* *^''"'«e, bapt., 5th Nov 
 610 Nov' 9- ^I^'IrCalliee & Susannah Garwell married 
 \m. N : :V ^ lll'-iT- «--»i I-beU Callis Cried. 
 
 16-21 Nov iV RrhTii n * ''^^^'^'^^^^^ 
 
 167- ' hZ \vi,"'^ ?'^ ^ ^S^^« Callicc married. 
 
 m.. June . . . \^ lUiam Saule & Bridget Cailice married 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 33 
 
 Itui or altar stones — be gon we know not how. 
 
 Iti'n a holie waiter fatt — ys broken and mad away. 
 
 Itm a pix a pax and a crismatorie — we had non sens the death 
 off King Edward. 
 
 Itm or candelstickes crwetes handbells and a sacring bell — we 
 had non sens the dethe of King Edward. 
 
 Itm or vestmentes albes Amises stoels ffanels and such like — 
 wee had non sens the tyme afforesayd. 
 
 Itm a crosse and a crosse clothe — non sens the same tyme. 
 
 Itiii or banners banner staves and crosse staves — non sens the 
 sayd tyme. 
 
 Lincoln 2.May 1566.John Aelmer. 
 
 AswARDBiE. — Thomas waite and Thomas Stevenson Church- 
 wardens 29. April 1566. 
 
 Impmis the rood marie and Johnne and all other Imagies of 
 papistrie — were burnte by a plu^mer in a** 1562 anthonie cheiles 
 and Robert Stevenson churchwardens. 
 
 Itin all the mas bookes and all bookes of papistrie— vy ere torne 
 in peces in a*" piTio Eliz and sold to pedlers to lap spice in. 
 
 Itiii the roode lof'te taken downe 1562 and^ broken in peces 
 
 and burnte. 
 
 Itm two vestmentes were cut in peces yesterdaie and sold to 
 Thomas waite and george holmes and the^ haue put them to 
 prophane vse. 
 
 Itm one albe wth one amys^ one stole and the fannelles cut in 
 peces a pino Eliz and made awaie. 
 
 Itm one crose of woode burnte a° pino Eliz. 
 
 Itin one handbell broken the start of yt and sold to Johnne 
 Chamberlaine and he haith made a morter thereof. 
 
 Itiii one crewett cruste in peces and sold to a plu^mer for 
 sawdar. 
 
 Itin one crysmatorie sold to a tincker but yt was first broken 
 in peces. 
 
 * The amice here spoken of is the linen vestment worn on the shoulders by 
 a priest in the act of sacrifice, not the furred amice with which it is sometimes 
 confounded. The linen amice was introduced into England from Italy at a 
 later date than the other sacrificial vestments. Its original form was probably 
 that of a hood. Much is to be found in ritualistic writers as to its supposed 
 mystical signification. The popular opinion was that it represented the veil 
 with which the Lord's face was covered when the soldiers, mocking, said, 
 •• Prophetiza, quis est qui te percussit" (Luc. xxii. ^i).—Durandus, iii. cap. 2. 
 
 The furred amice was a hood or tippet of fur, worn by certain of the monastic 
 clergy and others. In Skelton's Dirige for the Soul of Fhyllyp Sparowe we 
 are told that the little birds — 
 
 " Shall mome soft and styll . 
 In theyr anysse of gray,*' 
 
34 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm one sacringe bell broken in peces and .nir] ];i. • 
 
 -broken and defaced L tC W'^v ' 't"''' ""^ ^^^^^^ ^'o^he 
 Mr. mearse. ^-l^'^' i^^^''^ of quene Elizabethe by 
 
 I^ MEMORIAJI ANTOXTT xnni, 
 
 Catherine, d. of Si. Eve.M n... .^ . . " ^^^^^ ^^^^'« ^"^ 76. 
 
 '^I'uwaer Conspirator. I ''""Pledrke, of JlarriDc- 
 
 ton, died a.p.i 2nd wife. 
 
 .ew. Ph„. .„dte'„ »!-'. I fc,ssii.e^ff oir -i^/^v- 
 
 temp. Phil unAv''^ ^^"''^' 
 
 Grove. ' 
 
 •'i May, 'l6.>5°^i.h,^y l^«^'"e!l. Died 
 'fe.Tf ,Sf,l',f-" H.ers. of 
 Saitxnarst of strulby'" '^'^^^ 
 
 Lincolnshire, 1,596 
 Buned at Washinsf. 
 boroughl6May,l6^ I 
 
 ot Houghton, si7'john 
 i:*?-. Line, I '» " 
 
 -wvmg 1621. 
 
 of John 
 of the 
 
 "I 
 Seven 
 other 
 children. 
 
 l*ayton, 
 fisl 
 
 oflsham, 
 Co.Camb. 
 Knt. and 
 Bart. 
 
 Edolphe.ofSt. Rade- 
 g^nd's, Co. Kent, by 
 whom she had issue 
 
 bjmonaged4,inl619. 
 Margaret, Barbara, and 
 Jane. 
 
 Arms of Edolphe : Er- 
 
 mine, on a bend sable- 
 three cinquefoiia, arg' 
 
 William. Tjj ' , 
 
 ^0, I. oi ^. Berry, Aeni Genealogies, 
 
 SUFEBSTITION. 
 
 35 
 
 Itm j handbell one sacring bell one crosse one pax — broken and 
 defaced in the fyrst yeare of quene Elizabethe by Mr. mearse. 
 
 exaiat et jurat. 
 
 AwKEBOROWE. — Christopher Baudwine and Michael Robinson 
 Churchwardens 3 O.March 1566. 
 
 Imp^mis the rode Marye and John were painted of a borde 
 and all other imagies of papestrie — were defaced and burnt in a° 
 1565 by Michael liobinson and Christopher Baudwine church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm all the masse bookes & all other book of papestrie — were 
 burnt by the aboue named churche wardens in anno 1565. 
 
 Itm iij vestements — sold to Christopher Baudwine in anno 
 1565 who hathe put them to prophane vse. 
 
 Itm one crosse — Broken in peces by the aboue named church- 
 wardens in anno 1565. 
 
 Itm a holiiwater stock of stone a peare of Sensers of latten — 
 Broken in peces and sold to Christopher Baudwine in anno 1565. 
 
 Itm a pixe of brase — Broken in peces by the aboue named 
 church wardens in anno 1565. 
 
 p. 124. Bp. Sanderson, Mon, ins. Line. Cath, p. 6. Gent. Mag. v. 75, pt. 2, 
 p. 1211. 
 
 The elder branch of this family, which derived its descent from Thomas Meeres, 
 the eldest son of Sir John Meeres, of Kirton, in Holland, was represented by 
 Francis Meeres, the author of a once noted school-book — "Wit's Treasury, being 
 the Second Part of Wit's Commonwealth, by Francis Meres, Maister of A.rts of 
 both Vniversities. — London, 1598." He also published " Grauados Devotion, 
 Exactly Teaching how a Man may trvely dedicate . . . himself to God ; written 
 in Spanish by ... F. Lewis, of Granada ... and Englished by Francis Meres, 
 Master of Artes. — London, 1598;" and " God's Arithmetic : a Sermon on 
 Eccles. 11. 9, 1597," 8vo. " The Epistle Nuncupatorie" is addressed "to the 
 right worshipfuU M. John Meres, Esquire, high sherifFe of Lincolnshier." He 
 speaks of being entertained at the sheriff's " house at Auborne ;" and the assist- 
 ance he had received in a certain " successlesse suit to Maister Laurence Meres, 
 of Yorke, sometimes of her majesties councell established for the North." He 
 dates from his " chamber in Saint Marie, Buttolph Lane, nere London Stone, 
 this 10th of October, 1597." His works are in the British Museum Library. 
 — Anth. Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, v. 2, col. 203. 
 
 Francis Meres was the grandfather of Anthony Meres and Robert Meeres, 
 whose names occur among the cavalier gentry, who, in July, 1642, subscribed 
 horses "for the maintenance and defence of his majesties just prerogative." 
 Anthony was of Bonby, but seems to have spent the latter part of his Hfe at 
 Lincoln. He died 1G53-4, and was buried in the Minster. His younger 
 brother, Robert, took upon him holy orders, proceeded to D.D., and became 
 chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln, vicar of Tempsford, co. Herts., and rector 
 of Hongham cum Marston. He married for his 6rst wife Elizabeth, dau. 
 of William Williams, of Gag, niece to Archbishop Williams and relict of Wm. 
 Dolbyn, D.D., whose son became Archbishop of York. His second wife was 
 Faith, dau. of Sir John Hatcher, of Careby. He left issue by his first wife 
 only. Chancellor Meeres died in his rectory house at Hougham. In tho 
 
 li 
 
30 
 
 monum:ents of 
 
 Itm y eandlestiokes of woode-wch w^J^ 7 .'^ '""'° ^^^S. 
 named churche wardens in a» 1565 '^''°^<^ ''^ ^^^^ ^boue 
 
 Su|L°:f. '"''^-"'^'^ -^ -- !>"* f-the to „,ake or priest a 
 
 ^^^^''^itutc^Zi:^^^ C-l^^ -d -".-am 
 
 put it to profane ^^^y'''''^^^^' Baudwme m a" 1563 who hath 
 
 in aM 5"6r~"'' "^^ ''"™* ''^ ^^^^ -boue named church wardens 
 
 ^pS^^^^:^^^o,^ in peees V 
 Itni 1] banner plnfl.n. ^ ^^ 1565. -^ 
 
 Baudwi e cSt X Tl'T^ltt^t ^ ^''-topher 
 and^mad^thereo^painted cLhes ''^'' ^'"^'^^ ^««'<=ed them 
 
 vr ^^^^^^^^ - 1- 
 
 trkle' Itt^l^ ^ -^ t- affi^ea to the south .aH eo..e.oratea 
 C T° shields are engraven on f l.o 
 
 , The Mr. iters who i„ thp , '^'^ ^^ ^" ^"^ 
 
 ^^^^^st:!''^^^S:i:^^t^:^ 'r^^^"'^^ f- Leicester 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 37 
 
 Itm the aulter stones— Broken in peees by the aboue named 
 church wardens and pauid ther wth the churche flore in a*^ 1565. 
 
 Bardney.— Ric knowell and John balderston Church wardens 
 1566. 
 
 Impmis the rood mary and Jhon wth all other Images of 
 papistry— brokm and defacid in this prissent yere by ric knowelles 
 and Jhon balderston churchwardins. 
 
 Itm one masse book and all other popishe bookes— Were takin 
 awaie by one ser Robte cambrige w^'' was our prist and what he 
 hathe done w*^ them we can not tell. 
 
 Itm the hordes of the rood loft— Sold to the veker and to Mr 
 hall the scollm^. 
 
 Itm one crosse of lattin one pear of senseres and ij handbelles 
 ij candellstickes of lattm one pix ^v'^ other mettell of papistry- 
 Sold to robt fowler and he saythe th they by defacid 
 
 Itm one vestm*— Sold to Jhon beestan and he hathe defacid it 
 Itm ij candellstickes off wood— broken and defacid by the sam 
 churchwardins aboue sayd. 
 
 Itm ij alter stones— laid down in the church vnbrokin 
 Itm an holiwater fat of Stone— defacid and brokin by the 
 handes of John balderston churchwarden. 
 
 Barhome.— Thinventarie of all suchegoodes belongino-e to the 
 Churche of Barholme in the deanrye of Ness* in the 
 Countie of lincoln wch remayned in the ffirst yere of the 
 reigne of o'' soveraigne ladie the quenes ma*^^ that now is 
 taken by Willm Shippe Nicholas laxon' Roberte Shippe 
 and Roberte laxonne of Barholme aforesaide the xxiij^'' of 
 marche 1565. 
 
 ffirst a roode marye and Johnne wch were burnte before the 
 pishejn the first of the reigne of the quenes ma«« that now is. 
 
 Itm patrone of or churche wee had none."^ 
 
 Itm a pixe of latten and an old clothe destroyed before the 
 pishe in the said first yere. 
 
 Itm an altar stone broken in the said first yere. 
 
 Itm clothes for the vpper and nether partes of the alter we had 
 none. 
 
 .\* '?^^U^ ^^^^^ ^^^ "? ^'^^^^ 0^ S. Martin, the patron saint, within the 
 cnurch Ihe tower was built during the civil wars ; its northern side bears 
 the following rude rhyme :— 
 
 I. H. 1648. 
 Was ever such a thing 
 
 Sine the creation ? 
 A new steeple built in the 
 Time of vexation. 
 
 —Gent. Mag., v. 213, p. 738. 
 
^^ MONUMENTS OF 
 
 foAt^o^^itottbf ''^ °^^^- --^-=- now a clothe 
 Itm candlestickes we had none. 
 Itm one chalice of silver yet remayninffe. 
 Itm crewettes we had none 
 
 Itm a paxe defaced by the pishioners in the said first vere 
 Itm corporaxe or corporaxe clothe we had none ^ 
 
 Itm a masse booke and a manaell defaced and vet rp^n • 
 Itm the wmter part of a portes^ burntP h^ ' k i ^^^^3^"^nge. 
 Itm a crosse of wood JaJ.iT.T ^ ''^^^^' ^^^^^• 
 distroiedin the said ffirst Jere Procession broken and 
 
 Itiji Crosse clothe we had none f 
 itm roode clothe we had none 
 Itm one old vestmente of white fncfin,. x i 
 phannell sold by the pishioners to Ll 7 ^ '^^^^ ^"^ ^ne old 
 Itm Cope we had nTne! "'' ^'''^"^ ^^^ ^^^ken. 
 
 Itm one Albee wt an amvce ^nlr^ i. ^i 
 Personne and cut in peces ^ ^ ^^^' Pishioners to willrn 
 
 Itm sacringe bell wee had none. 
 Itm two surplises yet remaynincje. 
 itm sensers we had none 
 Itm an old lecter wt a deske yet remavnino-. 
 Itm a crysmatorie of leod ^^i a .^ ^^^^' 
 
 Robert Shippe. at- i , ^ 
 
 Willin ShipL ^'fohsLaxonne. 
 
 ^^ I^oberte Laxonne. 
 
 arc almost alwav^l; » * ?" Autumnalis Tlip p!:„i- u '° '^°"'" parts— 
 breviaries aceorafu^t^H ''°''""^' «"'t. Mmed HieSf ''''.""^ ""= ''"""•^T. 
 
 printed, bu? are tf ?e ° Jit T""' S^'^C, Yo 1-"'! "l?'' f ^'j^?''«- Tife 
 Breviarv m-i^ k. ""^y.great rarity. A tahln%.f *i " Hereford have been 
 
 asi eV3 "t- tl^e rood loft tbat could b ^ ^''"'"' ^''''■ 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 39 
 
 Barkeston.— Willm Brackilbie and Thomas halino-worthe 
 Churchwardens 26. April 1566. "^ 
 
 The Rood marie & John and all other Imagies of papistrie— 
 were burned a- pmo Eliz Sym« welbie"^ & Edward dawson then 
 churchward 
 
 ij candelstickes broke^ one vestmet cut in peces one albe cut in 
 pec one pixxe broke^ a sepulcre of lattes ij handebelles broken a 
 holiewater fatte broke^ one paxbroke^ a chrismatorie broken one 
 sacringbell--were defaced about three yeres past, one Symo^ 
 welbie & Ldxvard Dawso^ churche wardes at that tyme, & sold 
 at Christems last to W Christopher porterf Giles porter, willin 
 iirackelesbie & Brian Battie. 
 
 The Roode lofte— was take^ down aboute ij yeres last past & 
 the tymber put to pphane vse. 
 
 The alter Stones— are broke^ and putto {sic) pphane vses as 
 to Bridges paving as to the townes behofe. 
 
 Bann^ clothes 73 ij are cut in peces & putto {sic) pfaine vses. 
 
 Barroughbie.— Williii davisonne and willm wrio-hte church- 
 wardens S.April 1566. ^ 
 In p^mis the rood marie and Johnne and all other Imagies of 
 
 and of Denton who bear for coat armour sable a fess between three fleur d/- 
 js argent. It is however, not at all improbable that Symon Welby 'sances 
 
 0? yeren.'^ "^'^"'' ^''" '^'' ^"°^^^^ ^'^^^' ^^"^'^ ^^^ sunk ^to^L rank 
 
 Pntf£^'"fW.'' Porter of Barkston was a younger brother of Au-ustine 
 itZ '^^''r T' ^'^''^^}^'^> }« f'^'^ and to^John Bellow the manor of 
 oft^^stlte'd^f^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^'^ ^'"'^ ^' ''' ^^-^' -^^-^ ^^e wall! 
 
 (!'" vTl'smf'' "^'^H'.f fll"^*^" '' LineolnshV^^l'uMt^s 
 {ttau.jl^ 6S29), he preserved the following memor al of Augustine Porter 
 
 which he found marking his place of sepulture in Belton churcli - ' 
 
 ANNO DNI^1554. ET HELENA UXOR EJUS, QUE OBIIT 2 DIE JULII 1569 
 
 A^f^yf.// ^ ^^^ MISERICORDIAM DEI OMNIPOTENTIS EEQUIESCANT CUM 
 ABRAHAM, ISAAC ET JACOB IN REGNO COELORUM. 
 
 This approaches so nearly to a prayer for the souls of the departed that T 
 cannot but think some members of the Porter family were adherent ^ heart 
 If not m form, of the old reUgion. If so, we may hope that ChHrtopher 
 Porter was moved by a higher spirit than that of worldly gain, to purchase 
 those objects which his father had deemed holy. ^ ' purcliase 
 
 to Jo^hnlox, the Martyrologist, is preserved in the Harleian Collection, 41?; 
 diff^^Ut'a'i^^^^^^ ^^^^^^- ™^ ^--^^ -- -etimei 
 
40 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Papistrie — made awaie and burnte to o*" knowledges and so far 
 forthe as we canne learne by the whole pishe in anno 1561 
 James Smythe and Richard wrighte churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one mass booke and one graile w* all the rest of o^ popishe 
 bookes— cut in peces and defaced in aM560 Richard wrighte and 
 James Smythe churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the roode loft taken downe in a° 1563 and pte thereof 
 made seates in or churche and the rest remaynethe in o^ churche 
 w^*' ar postes and beames for the mending of o*" said churche. 
 
 Itm ij coppes ij vestmentes iij albes one amisse ij corporaxes 
 iij towelles one vaile sold to Johnne ffoster clerk o' pson and 
 george verna^sens"^ michaelmas last past an** 1565 willm wright 
 
 * The Veraons were settled at Barrowby early in the 16tli century. Joan, 
 daughter and heiress of William Vernon, by his wife Thomazin, daughter and 
 heiress of James Deane of that place, married IJeury Saville of Lupset, co. 
 York. He was returned as a freeholder in Barrowby in 1561, but it is not 
 likely that he lived on his Lincolnshire property. His appointment as one of 
 the Council of the North seems to imply that he usually resided in Yorkshire. 
 His will is dated 15G8. I have seen no record of the aate of his wife's death. 
 His son and heir, Sir George Saville of Thomhill, was created a baronet 29th 
 June, 1611, and died 19th November, 1622. Sir George's grandson, Sir 
 William Saville, the third baronet, was colonel of a regiment in the service of 
 Charles I., and successively governor of Shefiield Castle and of York. He 
 died when holding the latter appointment. A poem in his memory has been 
 preserved ; it is marred by the literary affectation of the time, but gives us a 
 noble picture of this devoted loyalist. The concluding lines are worth 
 quoting : — 
 
 " Then live still in thy master's heart, 
 Live in thy country's better part. 
 Live in thy (best of) lady's breast, 
 Live in the eaglets of thy nest ! 
 Live in thy friends' best thoughts, thy followers* tears, 
 And thou shalt live midst our distracted fears ; 
 For if aught ill to us henceforth betide. 
 We'll say this happened since our Saville died." 
 
 His wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Lord Coventry, keeper of the great 
 seal, was in Sheffield Castle during the siege. The 4th article of the surrender 
 of that fortress provides for her personal safety. The heroic conduct of this 
 lady during a time of great trial and privation contrasts favourably with the 
 manners of many of her sex in modern days. Dr. Peter Barwick, in the Life of 
 his brother, Dr. John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's, tells us that " this gallant 
 lady, famous even for her warlike actions beyond her sex, had been besieged 
 by the rebels in Shefiield Castle, which they battered on all sides by great guns, 
 though she was big with child, and had so little regard for her sex that in that 
 condition they refused a midwife she had sent for the liberty of going to her. 
 Yet this unheard-of barbarity was so far from moving her that she resolved to 
 perish rather than surrender the castle. But the walls being everywhere full 
 of cracks with age, and readv to fall, the soldiers of the garrison began to 
 mutiny, not so much concerned for their own danger as for the lamentable con- 
 dition of this noble lady, so near the time of her falling in labour; for she was 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 41 
 
 and willm davisonne churchwardens and thei haue cut theini in 
 peces and defaced the same w* iij banner clothes defaced. 
 
 Itm one crosse xiiij candlestickes a paire of sensors w* all other 
 brassen thinges belonginge to o"" churche sold to george verna^ 
 sens michaelmas last past 1565 and the said george vorna^ haith 
 sold them to one arthure Wilson-^ a pewterer of Lincoln. 
 
 Itiii two alter stones broken and paved in o"" churche. 
 
 Itm one hallywater fatt of lead sold to george verna^ 1565 
 and he haith melted y* and made (sic) mylke vessell thereof. 
 
 Itm one hally water fatt of brass and two handbelles sold to 
 Thomas Clarke the yonger sens michaelmas last past and he 
 haith broken them in peces. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one crosse clothe sold to M^^ Thymelbiel and she haith 
 made a cushion therof. 
 
 Exhibited at Lincoln before Matthew Ilollingworth 9 Apil 1566. 
 
 Basingha. — Thomas Cooke and Johnne Chambers Church- 
 wardens 18. March 1565. 
 
 In pmis that the said churchwardens haith burned before shrof- 
 tide last past the roode marie and Johnne and peter J w* other 
 mo. 
 
 Itm that the said churchwardens haith broken the handbelles 
 in peces as y* here appearethe. 
 
 Itm that the saide churchwardens haith made inquisiciou of all 
 other suche popishe ornameutes as hereafter folio wethe. 
 
 Itfii found owte in the handes of Thomas ledna^ by the said 
 churchwardens one vestmente. 
 
 Itm found owte in the handes of Johne lambe one vestmente 
 one crosse w* a crosse clothe one booke one paire of sensures two 
 banner clothes two albes wherof we haue made a surples and a 
 clothe for or colon table. 
 
 in the handes of Thomas harbar iij elnes of canvis w* 
 
 two .... 
 
 brought to bed the night after the castle surrendered."— p. 112. IlarL MS. 
 1550, f. 8. Lansd. MS. 5. Hunter, South Yorks.W. 301. Hunter, Hallamsh. 
 112. Whittaker, Loidis and Elmete, 3U, 817. 
 
 * My friend, Mr. lioss, informs me that the name of Arthur Wilson 
 occurs occasionally in the records of the Corporation of Lincoln, as a common 
 councilman, and now and then as an unsuccessful candidate for higher municipal 
 oflBce. 
 
 t For the Thimbleby family see Ireham. In 15C6 there were, at least, three 
 Mrs. Thimblebys. It is now quite impossible to decide which of these ladies 
 it was who desecrated the " crosse clothe." 
 
 J Saint Peter is not the patron saint of this church; it is dedicated to St. 
 Michael the Archangel. 
 
42 MOyUMENTS OF 
 
 und owt ill the handes of iilcholas Senton one paxe. 
 
 und owte in the handes of Edmond Pke one booke. 
 
 haue a cope in the churche the Wch wee ar 
 
 admitted tions to kepe for o"" minster. 
 
 Of all suche ymplementes as the said churchwardens and (sic) 
 fynd owte thei haue written theim in this bill. 
 
 Nicholas bishop of Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 
 Geo Monson 19. March 15G5. 
 
 Baston. — A delyjT^ent Enquyrie made by Robt Jackeson vicar 
 of Baston wtli the rest of thinhabitance ther ot all suche 
 monumentes of supsticion as remaynyd in the church of 
 Baston sence the death of the late Queue marye &c. 
 
 Imp^mis the Image of the Eood mary and Johan and an other 
 ymage of papistry was burnt by Thoiiis pank in the p^^ens of 
 Symond doddes & m**"*^^ Elizabeth Lynne Thoms panke & John 
 normanton churchwardens then. 
 
 Itm a masse boke broken & cut in peces by John normanton 
 churchwarden. 
 
 Itii'i ij old albes sold to Thorns Stevenson and by hym defacid. 
 
 Itm a handbell a Crismatory a pyx two candlestickes broken in 
 peces & sold to thorns Lewick. 
 
 Itm two alt^ stones broken & pavid. 
 
 Itm one Crosse of latten lat llichard hamers disseassid and by 
 his wif sold to Robt Barterton of Burn. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre broken & del'acid by M* Yycar & the cloth 
 defacid by witim Cope. 
 
 Itm an old crose cloth a corporax cloth & ij ban^ clothes con- 
 veid we can not tell how, a Canopy a vale we had none on alt^ 
 table broken by M"" Yycar a paxe of wood & a erewit by hym 
 broken a sacreiiigbell broken by mMiarbotell^ two clappes broken 
 by m* vicar one holy water fate broken by John normanton. 
 
 Itm Laten bookes we knew of none but that o^ vyc^ than had. 
 
 Itm as for Hood loft we had none sence o' pishe churche was 
 puld down theise beino witnesses & diu^s others. 
 
 ^ by me Rcbt Jackson John Ilynd. 
 
 vicar y^ John Harbotylle. 
 
 •^ thoms lowycke. 
 
 ip Symond lawsons m^ke 
 
 churchwarden. 
 X Thoms watsons m^ke. 
 
 ^ * John Ilarbottell and William Cope, yeomen, were returned as freeholders 
 m this parish a.d., I'b'ol. ^J.ansd. MS. 5, f. GO. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 43 
 
 Bastonne. — John Normanton Simond lawsonne church 
 wardens 2:2. March 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis the Image of the rood marie and Johnne and all 
 other Imagies of papistrie burnte in a° 15G2 Thomas pancke and 
 Johnne normanton churchwardens at that tyme. 
 
 Itm one masse boke broken and cut in peces by Johnne nor- 
 manton churchwarden. 
 
 Itm two old albes sold to Thomas Stevenson 15G5 by the said 
 Johnne normanton and Simond lawson and the said Thomas 
 Stevenson hath defaced the same. 
 
 Itm a cope and a vestment of Bustian defaced and a carpitt 
 made of the same for o^ coion table. 
 
 Itm a handbell a crysmatorie a pixe two candlestickes broken 
 in peces and sold to Thomas leivicke vpon sondaie last^ 15G5 by 
 the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm two alter stones broken and paved. 
 
 Itm one cros of latten lent to o'' churche by one llichard 
 hamer wch is now ded and at the defacinge of all papistrie helene 
 the wief of the said decessed now the wief of one Roberto filetcher 
 had y* awaie from or churche and as she saith sold y* to one 
 lloberte Barterton of borne. 
 
 Itiii one sepulcre broken and defaced. 
 
 Itm one crose clothe one corporate cloth ij banner clothes one 
 cannabic one veale one alter table one paxe of wood one crewitt 
 one Sacring bell two clappers one paire of Sensors and one hally- 
 water Ifatt wee knowe not what is become of theim nor what was 
 done w* theim nor whoe had theim or made theim awaie and that 
 we will depose vpon a book. 
 
 Itm all the rest of o"" latten bookes we knowe not what is 
 become of theim. 
 
 Itm the roode lofte was taken downe in Kinge Edward the vj 
 tymes and was sold to S"" tlrauncis Beaver o"" late vicare for ix» 
 but we knowe not whoe were churchwardens at that tyme. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Monnson. 
 
 Beeson. — John Tomson and Allen Haye churchwardens 
 
 April 25. 1566. 
 Imprimis one Rood wth marie and John and the rest of such 
 
 * We have evidence here that the strict observance of Sunday was not 
 enforced by public opinion among the reformed to the degree tiiat it is at pre- 
 sent. Sunday was an ordinary day for parochial meetings before and for a 
 considerable time after the Reformat iou. 
 
 D 2 
 
44 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Idolles-was brent A"" ij» Elizabeth John Boyes and Thomas 
 
 ^X^sst^rthe .est of .„eh late, le^ndes-wa. 
 
 brent the said second yeare by the ^«>'1^,^1'"-.';7;^'L"^, , ™ ,.,,i 
 Itm one cope and a vestnit-sold the said tjme to w veal 
 
 and John olsbie wch is defacid. ,,,,., i *„„ 
 
 Itffi handbells vealcs pixes Sensers candellst.ckes and cv^xe^os- 
 
 wee ad none sence King Edwardes tyme but a handbclhvch wee 
 
 Wed in quene Maries tyme of the church ot Saleb.e to whome 
 
 wee redeliuerid it againe A" piiio Llizabth. 
 
 ItTL altar stone-broken in peees A" seeundo Elizbth by 
 
 the forsaid churchwcardens. , -, p • i o a.. 
 
 Itffi 0^ Hood Loft-was puld downe and defacid a« secundo 
 Elizabth by the forsaid churchwardens. 
 
 Itm albes amis stols and such hk-was torne m peces a 
 secundo EHzab^ by the said churchwardens and put to p ane vse. 
 
 Itm a sepulcheZ-brent A« ij Elizabth by the aforesaid church 
 
 wardens. , ^^ ^ -i i^pr. 
 
 Lincoln 20. April 1566. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 Robert Monson. 
 
 Belton^ in the Isle of Axholme.— \Villiam Browghton and 
 
 George Clark Churchwardens 22. April 1566. ^ 
 
 Imprimis one Rood with Marie and John— defacid as Robt 
 
 Caster saith iij or iiij yeare ago John Kiching and willm Awdeis 
 
 churchwardens. , • . i 
 
 Itm one Rood loft with a tabernacle whearin Imageis stood-— 
 
 defacid a yeare and an halfe ago AYillm ffowster and John Tailer 
 
 then churchwardens. 
 
 Itm an other table of Imageis — defacid this year by the 
 
 churchwardens fyrst aboue writton. 
 
 ItiTi a pece of an other table of Imageis — in such sorte at the 
 
 said tyme made awaie by the said churchwardens fyrst above 
 
 written. ^ 
 
 * Stoneliouse's Bisiory of the Isle of Axholme, p. 332, contains a memorandum 
 that " the blasphemous pictures of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy 
 Ghost, were removed out of the glass windows of the choir of Bellon 
 January 10th, 1595, the expense whereof was ten pence, and no more. \\ it- 
 ness John Melton, Clark ; Henry Glew ; William Ashton ; William Mercer ; 
 llicliard Medley." 
 
 The Reverend N. Brunyee has most kindly examined the register in the nope 
 of finding this entry for me, but in vain. It appears that the book that ouglit 
 to contain it has been subjected to very rough usage, as the cover and many 
 leaves at each end are wanting. 
 
 SUPEBSTITION. 
 
 45 
 
 Itm an Idoll of all halowes^— cut in peces by M'^ willm 
 ^Ttrli^Xldon^^^^^ and defacid by AYiUmSandoll 
 
 '^ 'E cfnapie and ij vestm- with a cope-defacid this yeare by 
 the said churchwardens aforesaid. 
 
 • A carved or painted representation of All-Saints, to whom the church is 
 
 „f (l,s Inner Temnlc and some t ine keeper ot llie signet to tl e Louncu oi iiie 
 1 1^ sfr Joh7s pr neipal claim to Veme.nbranee in modern days is liis 
 
 rthird Lord Sheffield of Butterwick, Earl of Mulgrave, / l*fb. l<)2b, Jv.Lr 
 
 ,l,i. .ori i. pr-iuM ••, 1«™%M .r, 'W .riM.m.i.tl- 
 3 E .Ki;;.??. i ttitJ-,U'., b. 1.,. .«.. 0.1, b, 
 
 the fictitious incidents of a world-known poem 
 
46 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 47 
 
 |i 
 
 i 
 
 Itm albes stoles Amis and such Like linnen belonging to the 
 vesttn^^^ — det'acid this yeare by the said churchwardens. 
 
 ItiTi ij liandbells and one sacrini^e bell — defacid in like manner 
 this yere by the churchwardens lyrste aboue written. 
 
 Itm ij paxes and one crismatorie — one of the paxes wth a 
 erismatorie was g-one a^ pmo Elizabth John Crashe and Thomas 
 Kead churcliwardens wee knowe not howe and thother pax was 
 defacid this yeare by S^ W"" Caster vicar ther. 
 
 Itm one paire of Sensers one crose of wood and one cros cloth 
 — defacid this yeare by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a pix — defacid this yeare by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm iiij "^ altar stones — Kemaynith vnbroken but at o^ retorne 
 wee will put it (sic) to pfane vse. 
 
 Itiii a sepulker wth litle Jack"^ — broken in peces one year ago 
 
 woman and a lowlj and loving wife, of whose death, to comfort her husband, 
 William Camden, his learned irieud, writt these verses foUowini: : — 
 
 (( ( 
 
 IN OBITUM OrTDI^ ET CASTISSOLE JirLIERIS DrGLASI.E, SUAYISSIM^ 
 UXORIS KADULPHI IIOKEBEII EPITAPUIUM. 
 
 Dufjlasiam junxit Rokesbeo jure jugali 
 
 Una fides, unum fa'dus, et unus amor. 
 Utrique sequales urebant pectora flaninia : 
 
 llle bonus, melior sed tamen ilia fuit. 
 Ilia lideni Cliristo defixit ; fida marito 
 
 Vinea; spes matris ; delicia^que patris. 
 Ilia pudica, decens, huniilis, .... provida, mitis. 
 
 Omnibus et animi conspicicnda bonis. 
 Vidit et invidit mors improba ; jussit ut ilia 
 
 Cederet e vita : paruit ilia libens. 
 Paruit, et tcnebras leterno lumine mutans. 
 
 Jam Christo vivit, perfruiturque Deo.' '* 
 
 Two armorial coats, or rather one slightly varied, have been assigned to the 
 lernes. ler bend indented or and gules, and Per bend or and gules two 
 lions lieads erased eounterchanged. If we may trust a popular book of re- 
 
 \'\h\}i\f\ ^r^'^^ ^^^- ^J9«- f- G9. Whitaker, T. D., Richmnd.h, 
 hA ^^ • /J ;'^'7; ^^i''.:^'^'^'- i- 31 ; ii- 102. Slonehouse. hie ofAxhol.M, 
 
 dnrin!!^.l*"\^'l'"! f^ ^^^l^"^^ /^ ''°^^^^'^ ^^'^ ^'^^^^ ^hest or box in which, 
 w thif ri^F 1 ^^^^^'TT^' the blessed sacrament was reserved and enclosed 
 Poet^^^^^^^ ^'^' ^''^ m^tructedandmoreVehen.entof the 
 
 an amo: n Z?^ aecuston.ed to speak of the sacrament of the altar with 
 
 lure exnres Irll T^'": ^"^^^verdale, the translator of The Holy Scrip- 
 
 Selmbi 1 wf^^''^ ^^''' P^^^^^i^^ The fornrer said, 
 
 on ins examination, ^hen charged with teaching the old doctrines, " that there 
 
 but litle Jack was broken in peces this yeare by the said church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm one crwet— gone we know not how. 
 
 Itm a crose of copper with banner clothes and a banner state 
 -made awaie by John Crashe and Tho Kead A^ pmo Elizabth 
 
 then churchwardens. . i c 'a " 
 
 Itm one INIasse book one graile and ij pressioners— detacid ij^ 
 yeare ago by willm Sandoll clerek of the said pish and b iho 
 
 ^^rSriiToucS^ awaie A^ pmo Elizabth John Crashie 
 
 and Thomas Kead churchwardens whether they be defacid wee 
 
 ^Tm^one vestm^-defacid A« iiij Elizabth by John Mownson 
 cent John Schott and John Singleton churchwardens. 
 
 Itm ii candlestickes— made Awaie howe wee knosye not A pmo 
 Elizabth by the aboue said Crashie and Kead churchwardens. 
 
 Itm o" altar clothes— Rotten in peces in the bottome ot a 
 
 cheste. • ,w • ^ 
 
 ItiTi one cope — remaymnth {sic) . , . . i i ch 
 
 Itm one holie water fatt— puld downe but not broken w 
 
 shal be. ■ 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin Ilollingworth. 
 22. April 15G6. 
 
 Belton iuxa Grantha^.-Alexandr Ellis and wittm Grayme 
 
 Churchwardens 12. April 15G6. , , ,, . , 
 
 Imprimis one Rood wth Marie & John— brent this yeare by 
 
 the said churchwardens. -, - r -^ + ^ r.onr 
 
 Itm a Rood loft-taken downe and pte of it ge^en to poor 
 folkes and thother pte occupied aboute the mendmg of the pmtold 
 veates and the church yard yates. , , i i • + 
 
 Itni a mass book wth diuerse other laten bookes belonging to 
 the Idolatrous mass & popishe seruice-bix^nt y yeares a go 
 Aucnistine Astocke and Thomas Willerton then beinge church- 
 
 ''"iSra manuell a crismatorie and a crwet-cut in poces and 
 defacid this last weike by the said churchwardens first a bove 
 written. .^ 
 
 were at Paul's Cross and diverse other places fi''^'l,,^^'']"f .^^''/Jf/'^t^rf 
 sacrament, terming it -Juclc in a ljo^;'the sacrament «/'/« .""'^f^' .^"r 
 roOi.; witli sucli like unseemly terms ; lor the «h.ch <=^7;4j' .^V^^^^;^^',,/]; 
 nnre^ercnd behaviour of certain enl.disposed persons preached a"™^^? 
 ot that matter as 1 miglit.'-iUdley, U'orts, ed. 1841. p. 26o. Ooverdale, ea. 
 1841, p. 426. 
 
48 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm a wodden crose — broken this last week by the said 
 churchwardens by whome it is defacid. 
 
 Itm one altar stone— broken in peces A° p^mo Elizablh. 
 
 Itm a corporax a crwet wth diuerse other popishe peltrie — 
 was stoln out of o"" church thre or iiij''' year ago by whome wee 
 
 knowe not. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar. 
 Geo Mounson gen. 
 
 BiCHEFELD. — John Slefford and Geoferaie Clark church- 
 wardens 2 L March 1565. 
 
 Imprimis the Rood loft wth mari and Johne — sold to wittm 
 Nicholso^ of the said pishe for vij« iiij^ A° quiiito Elizabth Peter 
 Lichen and Harrie Russell churchwardens who defacid theim post 
 visit 1565. 
 
 Itm ij albes — broken and cutt in peces to make a clothe for 
 the colon table and a surples for the Priest A° 1565 John 
 Sleford and Geofraie Clark gard 1565 p visit. 
 
 Itm onevestmt — broken in peces A** dni 1565 Johne Sleford 
 and Geofraie Clark gard 1566 post visit. 
 
 Itiii iij vestmentes and a crose clothe — sold to Crofor wim- 
 berlaie of the saidpishe A'' dni 1565 Johne Sleiford and Geofferaie 
 Clark gard, who broke theim in peces and put to pfane 
 vse. 
 
 Itin a crose of laten a paire of Sensors ij candelstickes a holie 
 water fate a crwet a ship an (s/V) canabie a pix a pax ij banner 
 clothes and a sacrin^: bell — Sold to Peter Lichine and Geofraie 
 Clark for 5' A** dni 1565 by the said churchwardens who broke 
 theim in peces and defacid theim. 
 
 Itm a mass book a pressioner and a manuell — Torn broken 
 and ryven in peces Anno dni 1565 by Johne Sleford. and 
 Geofferaie Clarck gard^ pred^. 
 
 Itm a sepulker — broken and burnt Anno dni 1563 "W" 
 Boroughe and AV°^ Askew churchwardens. 
 
 Itm ij altar Stones — broken in peces A** dne regine Elizbth 
 piho Johne Burton and Thomas Hawet churchwardens wch altar 
 stones lieth on brod bridge to bear vp the bank. 
 
 Itm one cope — remaynig in o'^ said pishe church. 
 
 Itin one altar stone — broken in peces A° dni 1565 Johne 
 Sleford and Geoffraie dark pred^ by whom it is defacid. 
 
 Itm a hollie water stock — broken and defacid Anno pimo 
 Elizabth AY™ Borough an AVittm Askew gard^. 
 examinat p iuramt^. 
 
 SUFERSTITION 49 
 
 BiLLTNGBOROWE. — Richard. Eyre and Crofer Sole churchwar- 
 dens 14. March 1565. 
 
 In pmis ij vestmentes one crosse clothe iij stoles iij phannelles 
 ij doubyckes a girdell a fruntall and 3 albes — sold to Robert 
 Burley of the said pishe anno dni 1565 — Richard Eyre and 
 Crofer Sole churchwardens defaced. 
 
 Itfii iij pillowes a sepulcre clothe and one vale and a roode 
 clothe — sold to Hughe Tyngle of the said pishe anno dni 1565 by 
 the said churchwardens defaced. 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes iij Corporaxes clothes a blewe clothe 
 and a lampe — sold to waiter diconsonne of the said pishe anno 
 dni 1565 by the said churche wardens and defaced. 
 
 Itm one pixe and v tapers — sold to Johnne Buckburie of the 
 said pishe ano dni 1565 by the said churche wardens and de- 
 faced sanctus bell sold to Roberte Buckeberie-^ 
 
 of the said pishe anno dni 1565 by the said church wardens. 
 
 ij candlestickes .... ooke and a ma- 
 
 yiucll — is defaced and broken in peces a*' domini 1565 by the 
 
 said churchwardens graile a cowcher • • • • 
 
 booke and a defaced the said tyme by the said 
 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one cope — remayneth in or pishe churche wt a surplesse 
 and 5 towclles w*^'' we occupie about the colon but all the trom- 
 perie r.nd popishe Ornamentes is sold and defaced so that ther 
 remaynethe no supersticious monumente wt in or pish churche of 
 Billingborowe. One crosse ij handbelles iij candlestickes and a 
 hollie \'ater fait remayninge wch we halve to make awaie and 
 breake afore Easter nexte. 
 
 Itiii ij altare stones broken and defaced. 
 
 The Palace Lincoln. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer, Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 
 George Monson gen. 
 
 INIartin llollingworth civis. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 BiRTON.t— Wil^f" Eland and henrie lenton churchwardens 21 
 
 March 1565. 
 In pmis the roode marie and Johnne w* all the other Imagies 
 of papistrie one masse booke one portes and all other bookes of 
 
 * Robert Buckbery, yeoman, was returned as a freeholder here in 1561.— 
 
 Lansd. MS. v. 59 ^. ^ , 
 
 f Burton Goggles. 
 
60 
 
 MOXUATEXTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 51 
 
 paplstrle — \Yere burnte a° 1559 Antlionie dickons and Thomas 
 wyer churchwardens at that tyme. 
 
 Itili the roode loft — taken downe ano piTio Elizabeth and sold 
 to Johnne Allaine of the same birton wch he haith made win- 
 does and other thinges of. The said Thomas wier and anthonie 
 dicons beino^ churchwardens. 
 
 ItiTi ij handbelles broken and solde to Johnne nixe and Thomas 
 Allaine of the same Toune Alio 1505. 
 
 Itm two crewettes and one crysmatorie and one paxe — was 
 taken awaie by o^ late posohne w^*" is nowe ded. 
 
 Itm one crosse — sold to llobert Kinge for xij*^ wch he haith 
 broken. 
 
 Itn'i two alter stones — were broken and sold to Robert 
 Chomley^ and. Thomas Conneyf and also the said couney haith 
 o^ pixe wch was broken and defaced. 
 
 Itm ij candlestickes— broken and sold to Thomas Gell. 
 
 Itm ij pricke candlestickes— broken and sold to geor<^e nyxe. 
 
 Itu'i the sepulcre — was burnte in melting lead for to mend or 
 churche. 
 
 Itm ij albes and two lynnen sheetes — cut in peces and geven to 
 thre poor women. 
 
 Itm one hallie water flitte of bras—sold to Richard dicons 
 ^^^'>JJvhoe haith broken and defaced the same. 
 
 Itm one sacring bell— willm Eland had and hong it by his 
 horse eare a longe tvme but nowe vt is broken. 
 
 Robert Cholmoudiey was descended from a Cheshire faniilv of considerable 
 note. He converted the Chantrv-house at Burton Co?i>les'into a dwellinc^- 
 house. His death took place :^sth June. 1500. A mouumental slab to his 
 nieiuorv vet exi.ts in the l)ari^h church. His nephew, Sir Henry Cholmondlev, 
 Jvut. who marrud Alice, daughter of William Lacv of Stac.fo^d, is the direct 
 ancestor ot Mr Mouutague Jobu Cholmclev, of lia^ton Hall and Norton Place, 
 Ixtronet. Ine pedi-rt-e compiled from tlie Herald's Visitation of 1634 and 
 
 fZT'''^'"'^^ ^-n'f'" ^" '^'^'^'^'^ ^''^' ^/-^/^/Z/S^///, p. 152.-Piayfair's 
 Jsaron€ta(/ey vol. ii. p. / 94. "^ 
 
 f The Coney family is said to be of French extraction. Robert Conin 
 
 lnst„rGrantham (died io M^.^i^^^iZ^S^^^L;^^;^ 
 U.rsTof- RlT''/r'-''''''V'^'"''f ^^«^^^^">1^ book of Thon.as Coiiev, 
 
 recL ot .ir n^'^" ^°' ?'^^ ^^'^'' ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ Calais merchants^. This 
 
 d.uihter of ^\'^,V^'"^^^^^'? ^-f-^trr Ihon.as Coney married Alice, s?cond 
 aaughter of bir Ihomas Leah, kt.. Lord Mavor of London 155S by whom 
 
 h z rd t'o'^m" nf " ""'! — '^^^^IP-^-'-ere not whUat t^o^reand 
 in Tols nor Hil r ^ ^/^^'^^^P^^^oner by the French at the taking of Calais 
 m loob, nor did his captors release hioi until me sum of 374/. had been paid 
 
 It ill iij vestmentes and iij banner clothes and one crose clothe 
 — sold in Ano 1565 to Thomas Conney and Roberte chambly 
 who haith cut and defaced theim. AVittm Eland and henrio 
 lenton churchwardens. 
 
 LiTLE BiTiiAM. — Thomas blissit and Wittm wallice church- 
 wardens -Zl. !Marcli 1565. 
 
 Imprimis ij altar stones — defaced and broken in peces A® p^mo 
 Elizabth John Smithe and Thomas blissit then churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii one crosse of wood one pix, one vestment ij albes ij stooles 
 one paire of Sensors ij handbells ij candellstickes ij crwettes one 
 manuell one mass book one pressioner one sacringe bell iij banner 
 clothes a vaile one crismatorie one corporax cloth one corporax 
 bagg one veale in the chauncell and one sepulker — broken and 
 defaced anno dni 1565 Thomas Blissit and Wittm wallice church- 
 wardens but certaine of theis thinges weare made awaie ij year a 
 go so that no one popishe ornament of all remanith but is 
 vtterlie defacid broken in peces and put to prophane vse. ^ 
 
 Itm one Rood w^^ Imageis marye & John — burnid A'^dni 1565 
 Thomas blissit and AVittm Wallice churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one Rood loft — pliickid downe A^ dni 1565 Thomas 
 blissit and wittm wallice churchwardens by whome it was burnt^ 
 
 Itm one vestment — sold vnto Nicholes Nailor of litlebitha^ 
 A° dni 1565 by Thomas blissit and wittm wallice churchwardens 
 defaced. 
 
 for his ransom. Most of the members of this family took the king's side m 
 the war between Charles 1. and his parliament. Tliomas's grandson. Sir 
 Sutton Coney of Basingthorpe, was fined, March 164S, in the sum of 2648/. 
 for his own "dehnqnency and that of his eldest son, William Coney : this 
 latter person was soon engaged in new troubles, for we find, in 1G52, his name 
 among the lonij list of Cavaliers whose estates were forfeited for high treason. 
 Another grandson of Thomas Coney, Sir William Coney of Staunton Parva, 
 was one of the seventy-five gentlemen of this county who subscribed "horse 
 furnished fit for warre" for the king's service in the summer of 1G42. His quota 
 was three horses. Richard Coney of Grantham, Gent., was one ot the Farha- 
 mentarians indicted of high treason at Grantiiarn, 1G43. Some other members 
 of this familv seem to have taken the popular side. Thomas Coney of Bostoa 
 served the Parliament in a civil capacity as collector of the subsidies for that 
 borough in 1G13. He nad previously filled the office of town-clerk. His 
 wife was Mary Cotton, sister of John Cotton, that noble Puritan, ol a descent 
 from whom the most illustrious families in New England are not unnatural ly 
 proud. Mary survived her husband ; she was buried at Boston 15 Jan. Iboo. 
 Bassingthorpe Hall, the old home of the Omeys, was built about lobG; 
 the north wing is vet standing in fair preservation, but degraded into a larm- 
 
 Boston, 83,* 413. ' ComMons' Jour. v. 7, 102. A Declar. of Commons in Pad, 
 upon two Letters sent by Sir Jjhn Brooks to Sir JFra. Killecjrew, 4lQ, 1643, 
 

 52 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 tliei™ ^{ ' '"''^ ^''''•* ""'' ^•''""=« churchwardens so that 
 
 Itm one Cope— remayni<je in o' pishe clmrch. 
 
 examiiiat p iuramct. 
 
 Blytox.*— Thomas Rushtont church warden 20. April 15C6 
 Imprimis the Rood Marie and Johne wth all other Ima^eis 
 
 lL7.fhLVof " H^° f "*° ^''^'^'^^'' ^^°^* Saunderson aud 
 ifiomas his brother then bein^e churchwarden («r). 
 
 wh^rf mall Prt-'r"P^ "•^•'' ^^™»>->""'' - ^"^ 
 wneaiot is made a surpless and a vestm' of the w'" is made a 
 
 cov~ for o' pulpit by the said churchwardens the s. id ;ete 
 
 clt aced A quinto Lhzabth by the said churchwardens. 
 Itm a mass book- gone no man knoweth howe. 
 
 Itm one handbell — remaynith. 
 Tocetur Jll^ a sepulker of wainscot— Taken from the Church 
 by the vicar and remayneth in his house as wee suppose 
 
 Lincoln George Monson gen^ 20. April 15CG. 
 BoMNBrE._Chrofer Becham and wllim hemprcingha^ 26. April 
 
 wrlgh, tsSglasi' . ""'"^ ''''^ ^'""■'='' «-'--" the following arms 
 
 poi^ls'a'rrf W alio^ra^nar' S"-"™"-^ ?^ =""• S«'e3 a label of five 
 In a north window of he chXel ^O ?7"f'' •";' » '"'^'''"^ ^''''^ ^ezanty. 
 am gules three crlseen saWrw.^""''"'^ ^f ? ^^ B""^ °f «i^ enniue 
 sab e three bezants, Bukgu III' sfhl! ■ T" " ^,!:?™' °" a fess daneetee 
 Sable 3 mattocks argent. ''^"' "'■ ^^'"^ t^iese were empaled 
 
 lu an eastern window of the nave ; 
 
 supeVpee"oraeadl;;i„sifuii"'3"''^°"^- "^^^^'^^ ^iri et famine gestantium 
 ill two nortli windows'? 
 
 In ^wSt^^i^lt L?X d'i'^J.^"'"^ -"^ '-''"■- =-te mak... 
 ^.^•'GS^n. Ks*: '=<""""'"-=-d --gent and aznre a chevron gules.-//../ 
 
 ^iUeV;Lro\"K^^^ of'^„L^r°?!o"^ "-' r- °f '^'^'- - 
 
 SUPEBSTITION. 53 
 
 Imprimis our Rood w^^ ]\j;^^,,jg ^^^j j^|^j^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^ Idols- 
 brent A« pmo Elizabeth wittm hornsaie and llobt Lowe then 
 churchwardens who is dead. 
 
 Itni one alb one sacrinc^ boll one paire of sensors thre old 
 towells and a crose of wood — Ilemaynitli. 
 
 Itm or Rood loft— defacid thre year ago Robt Ilornsae and 
 John Liawe then being churchwardens. 
 
 Itm o"" mass bookes and such popish peltrie apptaynlo- to the 
 popish mass— was torne in peces and defacid and thereofis made 
 2)ainted clothes. 
 
 Itm one altar stone— pavid in or church A° piTio Elizabeth by 
 the toresaid churchward^ *^ 
 
 Itm a pix— defacid and broken in peces and therof is made a 
 salt celler for salt. 
 
 Itni a vestm* and ye rest as flinells stooles and such like- 
 brent uij yeare ago pte of the same and the rest hath made 
 quishwines of John Michill and James Totter then church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm or hollie water stock— gone we knowe not how nor who 
 was churchwardens. ' 
 
 Itm a crwet— wee borrowid of pson Newcom^ who had it 
 againe A° p^mo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm a sepulker and a crose— broken in peces iiij a year a go 
 the said Miclull and lotter being churchwardens. 
 
 Itni candellstickes crose clothes— broken in peces John Alichill 
 and James Totter then being churchwardens. 
 
 Lincoln xxvj. April. 
 
 Martin Ilollingworth civis. 
 
 BoTHEBY Panell. — WilliTi Waltou and Richard fforman 
 22 Mch 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis one vestment a stoole a phanel and a corporax— sold 
 to Helen Milborough of Bothebie A« dni 1503 Richard Lono-- 
 landes and Robt Muston then churchwardens who defacid theim 
 and broke theim in peces. 
 
 Itni an alb — wch we made a Rochet of for or clerk A^ dni 
 1565 Willm walton and Richard Iforman then bein^re church- 
 wardens. ^ 
 
 Itni a crose ij crewetes a handbell and a sacring bell broken 
 
 and sold to a brazier at Grantha^ faire Anno dni''l563 Richard 
 Longlandes and Robt Musto^ then churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii a rood wth Marie and John— burnid wth in or said pishe 
 Anno dni 1563 Richard Longland and Robt Muston then bein^r 
 churchwardens. ^ 
 
 Itni a Masse booke a manuell a pressioner — weare burnid sence 
 
 -^■<1»— •"■ — r^-Tf — 
 
54 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 M^ archdeacon of Lincoln^ his visitacon A° dni 15G5 by Wilham 
 Walton and llichard li'orman churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a rood loft — sold to Richard L:ni<^'landcs of the said ]}ishe 
 sence W Archdeacon his visitacon Anno Dili 15G5 by Wiitrn 
 Walton and Richard tiborman and is by the said Longlandes broken 
 in peces who haithe nowe made a bridge fur his sheep to go over 
 
 into his pasture. 
 
 Itm an altar stone— broken in peces and occupied for the 
 pavinge of the churche A"" dni 1563 by Richard Lunglandcs and 
 Robt Muston then churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one other altar stone — M"" Frauncis Pennell of the said 
 pishe had out of the churche Anno diii 1563 Richard Langland 
 and Robt Muston then churchwardens who made a fyre berth of 
 
 it in his hall, 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Geo. Mounson gen. 
 22. March 1565. 
 
 BiiACEBiE. — Niches Rawne Churchwarden 1. April 1566. 
 
 fRrst all o*" mass bookes and other of the Idolatrous mass — 
 weare torne and made awaie A^ piTio Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm one banner clothe — made awaie a*^ piTio Elizabth. 
 
 Itin ij candelstickes an oynting box a canabie and a crosse — 
 sold to Johne Pellf A** dni 1565 by the said churchwarden and 
 is defacid. 
 
 Itm a crwet — or vicar that was had it awaie wth him A^ piTio 
 Elizabth who is the vicar of Londonthorp. 
 
 ItiTi one vestment — broken and defacid A° piTio Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm iij altar stones and a hollie waterfate — broken and defiicid 
 anno pdco and is occupied about the mending of Skellingtou 
 Hall. 
 
 Itih 0^ Rood Loft — broken and therof is made seats for the 
 pishners anno dni 1563 Niches Bawman then churchwarden. 
 
 Itm an alb — whearof is made a coverinire for o*" font A° 1565 
 the said Nicholcs then churchwarden. 
 
 Itin o'" roode Imagies ^larie & John — burnid Anno piTio 
 Elizabth so that their remaynith none vpon o' othes. 
 
 1. April 1566. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 
 * John Aelmer, S.T.P., Archdeacon of Lincoln, 6 Nov. 15G2. Consecrated 
 Bishop of London 24: March, 15/7. 
 
 f John Pell was, no doubt, one of the Pells of Dembleby, but his name does 
 not occur in the Visitation books. Arms of Pell of Deinbleby, ermine, on a 
 canton or, a pelican azure. — liar I. MS. 1550, f. 13S. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 
 
 55 
 
 Bradley.— Wiltm Lustbie 25. April 1566. 
 Imprimis one Rood w^^ jNIarie and John— brent this yeare bv 
 the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itin o'- Hood Loft— puld downe and sold this yeare by the 
 said churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 Itm a mass book wth all the rest belonging to the popish ser- 
 vice— brent as o^ pson saith a« pmo Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm a vest"^* stooles Amis and such like linnen belono>ln<T- to 
 the V'cstmt — sold in King Edwardes tyme. ^ "^ 
 
 . Itm one altar stone — broken and laid in the high waies the 
 rest was made awaie ii\ King Edwardes tyme. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln, 
 liobert ^lounson ar. 
 Thomas Saintpoll ar. 
 Martin Ilollingworth civis. 
 
 BiiAUGHTox— Robert Leighte (sic) and Richard Heid church- 
 wardens S.April 1566. 
 
 ffirst a vestm<^ an albe a stoole a crose clothe & a cross iij ban- 
 ner clothes a sepulker cloth a crismatorie a hand bell and a litell 
 brass bell— sold to Roger Mariiet of the said pishe Thorns 
 JoSon wittm w^atson & Peter dent of the said pishe this yeare by 
 the said churchwardens and what they have done wdth theim wgq 
 knowe not. 
 
 Itm one altar stone— willm Leget and Peter Dent toke and 
 Laid on a grave w*^*' so remaynith unbroken, the said Lc^-et & 
 l^ent beinge churchwardens A*» iij regine Elizabth. ^ 
 
 Itin i[ pixes— ar defacid and ^q\q\\ awaie by Richard Ileid 
 and Robt Light foot- (sic) church w^ardcns this yeare vnto a child 
 to plaie wth all. 
 
 Itin a mass book — sold vnto a Pc^dlar this year by the a])ove 
 namid Rotit Leightfoot and Richard Ileid churchwardens. 
 
 Itni all other Laten bookes belonginge to the popishe service is 
 
 gonejnade a waie and defacid so that nowe their remaynith non. 
 
 Itin a Rood Loft — puld down and broken in peces A** iij^ 
 regine Elizabtii Win Leget and Peter dent churchwardens. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George ^lonnson fjen. 
 JMartin Ilollingworth civis. 
 
 Brauncetn. — .Iho wattes and John Storr churchwardens 
 thelast of Apl 1566. 
 
5G 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 ^ I 
 
 
 1i *f 
 
 Imprimis a box made of bone"*^ sold to Jho Wattes sens the 
 last visitacon who keeps yt to put monney in. 
 
 Itm one candelstick and one hallyvvater fatt sold to wiitm 
 Brinckill sens the last visitaco. 
 
 Itm a candelstick sold to Bartill weston this yereand he occu- 
 pieth it on his table. 
 
 Itm one Ammys sold to Thomas sens said visitacon 
 
 and he brake y*^ in peces in o"" si<^ht this yere. 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes and a towell sold to Roger brinckill 
 sens the last visitacon. 
 
 Itm a towell sold to Laurenc Pane sens the last visitacon And 
 he occupieth yt on his table. 
 
 Itm a painted cloth that covered the fnte sold sens the last 
 visitacon to Crof'er Bust. 
 
 Itm a corporax one cros ij candelstickes two crnettes a paire of 
 Sensors and two hand belles sold sens the last visitacon to Geog 
 Backhouse and we saw him deface them. 
 
 Itm a pax sold to the said Georg Backhous sens the said last 
 visitacon and wee willed him to deface it. 
 
 ItiTi a sacking bell sold to willm Thurswell sens the last 
 visitacon. 
 
 Itrn a corporax sold to Eobert Ashton this yere. 
 
 Itm to Robert Bellamee ij corporax^ sold this yere wherof his 
 wief made of one a stomacher for her wench and of thother being 
 ript she will make a purse. 
 
 Itm an old albe sold to Robert Atkynsn this yere. 
 
 Itm a veale sold this yere to John Grenewod defaced. 
 
 Itm an altar ffrontf sold to S Richard thoryld. 
 
 Itm the rode loft taken down a yere sens and sold to wiitm 
 Brinckill this yere. 
 
 Itm a vestmet sold to Thomas Preston this yere. 
 
 Itm ij vestmentes a crose cloth and a banner cloth of silke sold 
 to AVittm Alen this yere. 
 
 Itni ij pillowes one towelle iij peces of heare cloth sold to 
 Willm Brinckill this yere. 
 
 * This was probably a box to keep altar-breads in. 
 
 t The altar frontal was a movable front of metal, wood, or silk put close to 
 the fore part of the altar, reaching from the slab on the top to the ground. 
 The f rentals were usually of the same colour as the vestments, and were 
 changed at the same times, according to the festivals. Sometimes the 
 silken froutals veiled the two sides as well as the front of the altar. The 
 modern custom of ornamenting the front of the altar with sculpture or paint- 
 ing was almost, if not quite, unknown in this country before the Reformation. 
 
 Antependium is the term now used here for designating the frontal The 
 Roman Missal calls it ;3«///V//^ ; in Italy it is known Vi^ X\\q palioUo.-^Rock, 
 Church of Our Fathers, i. -230. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 57 
 
 Itm ij toweltes (./.) sold to Reginald AVatres this yere. 
 toJcH thtyte'- "^^^'^^^ ^^'^^ ^"^ ^''^ -^' -- ^^-^ -^ one 
 
 Itm thimages of the rode marie and John and othr imacrjes 
 were broken ao pmo Elizabeth Robert Bella.nie and Robe e 
 welhven churchwardes. -Lvuuerie 
 
 nJ^"' .i^^^overing of the pix sold to John Storr and his wief 
 occupieth yt m wipmg her eies. 
 
 iZdunl "'J ^"■'' '""' ^"''^'' '"^ ^^'^^ "'•^■•e and 
 
 Itrn alepulcre broken in peces and jroven to the pore tliis yere 
 Md that most of the said monumentes remayned in the cust'd°e 
 
 CARLEBiE—llichard Shippe and lloberte Bentley 18. March 
 
 In pfnis the roode altare tables altars and altar stones-was 
 defaced anno prnno Elizabeth Johnne Tcmpleman Z Jl^l 
 gilberto then churchwardens. o''>"e.o 
 
 anJf d!^i" K,il"'| Jo''»"e-was burned the xxiiijth of ffebruarye 
 wardens. ^ ^^'^ ''"'^ ^^''^'''^ ^"''^^'y "'^"''ch- 
 
 ..... masse bookes other popishe . 
 
 was burned anno pmo Elizabeth Johnne Templema^ and Gcm'o-c 
 (jilberte beinge churchwardens. -Jcoij^t 
 
 fn'p.L*/ V ^^'^^^ It ttes— were sold in Staunford 
 
 to Roberte Caresbye the pewterer by Joline Templema^ and 
 
 George Gilberte clmrchwardens ao pmo Elizabeth. ^ ' 
 
 Itm an albe which made a rochett for the Clarke anno Dmo 
 
 Lhzabeth John Templema^ and george Gilberte churtwi ns 
 
 ..uT ^yestmente the amices the corporaxe and the stole-was* 
 
 old to Roger l^mplema- of Carllby am^ 15G5 by Robert 
 
 Bentley and Richard Shippe churchwardens and by ^the sa d 
 
 lemplema^ put to prophane vse. ^ ^ 
 
 Itm one cope wch was taken awaie at the death of psonne 
 
 Edmondeby hisexequutorsano pmo Elizabeth Johne Templ^ma' 
 
 and george Gilbert churchwardens so that no popishe mZm^l 
 
 remayneth in or pishe churche. ^ "^monument 
 
 The Palace Lincoln 18. March 15G5 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln 
 
 . Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth civis. 
 
 K 
 
'ri 
 
 58 MOyUMENTS OF 
 
 Carltonne iuxta lincoln. — Thomas Clapliam cliurclie warden 
 . . . March 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis thimageis of the roode Marie and Johnne — were 
 reo^ine can witness. 
 
 Itm one vestment one albe one cope one crose two candlestio 
 .... one pare of sens hallywater fatt 
 
 Itin as for o-railes and other latten bookes .... boxes and 
 altare tabl . . . wl all other monumentes of supersticon .... 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George mounson gen. 
 
 Caelton in Moorland. — Win Nailor and John Harling, 
 26. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis our Rood wth ^Iay\q and John and the rest of the 
 painted pictures— Brent A« dni 1563 "W"^ Tailor and W"" Saun- 
 dcrson then churchwardens. 
 
 It in or Rood loft — sold and defacid this last yeare Robt 
 Tailor and withn Barker churchwardens. 
 
 Itm or popish mass booke wth the rest apptayning to the said 
 popishe service — sold to ^Ir. disney"^ of the said towne A° diii 
 1563 wm Sauuderson and Win Tailor then churchwardens. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 
 
 * Tlie family of Disnev or D'Isney, of Carlton-le-Moorland, was a junior 
 branoh of the Disnevs of Norton Disney. The founder of this younser house 
 was John Disney, falher of Thomas Disney, the gentleman liere mentioned. 
 Thomas Disney married Katherine, daughter of Augustine Porter, of Belton, 
 by whom he had a large family. The Disneys have a long and illustrious 
 pedigree, more than usually well authenticated. It may be seen at length in 
 Ilutchins' History of Dorsetshire, v. iv. p. 3S9. They were divided in their loyalty 
 during the reign ot Charles I. Molineux Disney, of Norton Disney, son and 
 heir of Daniel Disnev bv Mary his wife, dauirhter of Richard Molineux, of 
 Haughton in Nottinghamsluie, took the side of tiie royal preroj^ative, and was 
 ia consequence fined 0/. 13«. 4^/., witli 30/. per annum settled upon his estate. 
 Another Disney was a captain in the Cavalier army and a prisoner after the 
 battle of Marston Jloor ; and a John Disney, for the part he took in the Nor- 
 folk rising, was under sentence of death, until pardoned 17 Jan. 1650. Two 
 Disneys at least were in the Parliament's armies : one held the rank of 
 colonel 14 March, 1G15, the other was a captain in Colonel Hammond's 
 lleifiment, in 1610. The Commons Journals of 20 Nov., 1651, notice 
 a petition from Joan, the widow of Captain Guido Disney, of Col. Syler's 
 Regiment, from which it appears that her husband had been slain during 
 the campaign in Scotland. 
 
 Several members of tlie family have been authors of no mean merit. John 
 Disney, theologian, magistrate, and poet, was born at Lincoln, 1077 ; ordained 
 priest in middle life in 1719 ; instituted to the Vicarage of S. Mary's, Not- 
 tingham, 1722 ; died 3 Feb., 1730. His body awaits the general resurrection 
 in the chancel of his own church near the communion table. His grandson, 
 John Disney, D.D., born at Lincoln 17 Sep., 1746, educated at Peterhouse, 
 
 ^^IJn or altar stones-pavid i„ or church and broken dco Ao 
 
 wffi ^JioTTSiSri: der^^r' ""^°'-^ -^-^ ^ '^-°»— '^ to 
 
 Jtft bannS wt;^""'*'''' ""'^ l'^'^'^'^ ^^^ ao 1563. ' 
 
 ^^^f^y Mr}i:^':rt^::>-:^^~'^^r..i, d.o a^ dm 
 
 de/acir '"'-"''' '' ''"" «-"J-on dco Ao 1563 wch is 
 
 wardens in Aiio predP Sh he Si? T' ^ *''^ ^^''^ -^'^^''^I'^ 
 
 Itiii one cope one vLtment 11 T'^'' ",''™*'^^" ™°rt" "f- 
 for the some of Vs ^0^30^1 '" ^^'~'''" ^ '^'^°'"''« ^^^^^ 
 defaced and cutt in pC. ' " seven.ghte wch he haith 
 
 Pefl anur;rTd'': '"''-'"^ '"™*^ ^^ '^''-"^ I"-^ and Eichard 
 
 crewit?ctiri;Tf„dX?''f '''' '^"^"^ -ndlestickes 
 clothes-we^had not' h^ttfZr'''Tf\ ''' '^'' '^'^""er 
 
 Stamford and at Z deL' te of aJlT V''"'' ^"'"''' ^^ 
 J;""'»ae^olJilithe said monumentes of 
 
 Literature, v. vi. p. 4S0. ^ ^ ""^^^ ^° Nichols' Illustrations of 
 
 ^^r^p.£^^t^h^;1t^ ^,^ -rious hiographica. 
 Oun^y, Esq., 1692. It brin.'s before Z JL --^t f^ V"^ ^'"'"' "f Gervase 
 
 Protestant Dissenters endu"r d tder Ve rX'of^V^'l'''^"'^ ^"^^"-g' '£' 
 liouse of Stuart. ^ ™'^ °f '"e two latter kings of the 
 
 QuIen's^CoT ^^ITv^'^M 'f f'^^' .*hree/«..*./^, or. MSS 
 Turner, Hist. GraniLf'rTo'q S„ • ''■-^^'■'',^'" J«^. iraJcripi p 120 
 p. 329. Drinr?'s Ar/ f; j^' ^P"Sge, England'., Recovery Oxf fc. • / 
 
 Gent. Mag. 86. pt. ii! p. 627 "'"'^'^i'^'^ "f Literature, v. vi. p. 478.i8T 
 
 - W.^'l^rs^foTTo'f "'^"''^*''^"' y^-'" --="« as a freeholder in 1 561. 
 
 E 2 
 
 M 
 
60 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 supsticon were restored to him againe by Richard Pell and 
 Thomas Inma^ churche wardes at that tyme. 
 
 Itm iij alter stones— broken and paved in the churche. 
 Itni one sepulcre— wch we haue made a coion table of. 
 Itm as for mass books and other bokes of papistric— we had 
 none but that we borrowed of o'' vicare whiche he had againe at 
 the tyme of the defacinge of all papistrie wch vicare is now ded. 
 Itm one pax— defaced and broken. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin HolHngworth 
 March 18. 1565. 
 
 CoLSTERWORTH.— Thinventarie of all the popishe ornamentes 
 that remayind in the church of Calsterworth at anie tyme 
 sens the deathe of the late Queue Marie made by Miles 
 Darbie and Symond Meares churchwardens the xviijth of 
 Marche 1565. 
 
 Itm the rood Marie and Johne was burned A° p^mo Elizabeth 
 by Thomas Tidd and John Tidd churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one cope— sold to a bell founder of Notingha^ A^. 
 
 Itm a veale and ij albes — wheareof ther w^as made one surpless 
 and clothes for the coion table by the said church wardens A** p^mo 
 EHzabeth. 
 
 Itm a mass book a manwell and all other latein books— weare 
 burnt in the second yeare of Elizabeth John Buds and Wm Bil- 
 lingworth churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a crose a paire of sensors a crismatorie a cruet a pix and ij 
 candellstickes sold in the second yeare of Elizabeth at Granthame 
 faier John Buds and Vs"^ Billingworth churehwardcs. 
 
 Itm a sepulker one vestment one banner — sold to certain of 
 the pishners A° vj*° Elizabeth Simon Meares^ and :\lyles Darbie 
 churchwardens wch is defaced. 
 
 Itm the Rood loft ij altars and altar stones — broken and 
 defaced by Johne Buds and AVm Billingworth churchw^ardens. 
 
 Ex^°^ apud Lincoln in ecclia poche dini Martini ciuit^e Lincoln 
 cora^ Georgio Mounson generoso et martino Hollingsworth ciue 
 ciui^te Lincoln Comi^ssariis regiis p'' iurament gard predator 
 xviij° Marcii 1565. 
 
 Corbie. — Henrie Browne and Anthonie Askewe church- 
 wardens. 
 In p^mis an awbe a vestment and a Cope .... sold to Richard 
 
 * Doubtless one of the family of Meeres, of Kirton, in Holland. His name 
 is not on the visitation books of the heralds. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, g^ 
 
 St;ieur'^°'^^^^' KedeandRoWtdayebebg 
 
 Itm the same Richard Nicoll haith defaced . . thereof 
 
 cushinges. • . . . uuncoi 
 
 Itm the Image of the roode wt the Images of ma Johnne 
 
 vere off '"" '"'""^"- '-"f ^ ' ■; ■ ■ ^^-^^e burute iu the lirst 
 yere ot the quenes maiest . . . that now is in the presence of 
 
 iriv .' "" • • • A'^thonie dericke and will nLu ilg 
 
 Itm the roode lofte was pulled downe and sold . . Arme 
 
 s ronget the xxvth dale of fiebruarii anno 15 . . . s'om^ of Wh". 
 he hordes and tymber whereof . . . fauncis haith vtt rUe di 
 tT~' .^•''"'■cl'^vardens . . . liede and Robert Daie. 
 All\! i" ''.^"^'^'^"'-^^ ''"■■'' ^'^W lo Koberte dente of Grauntham. 
 
 bp^n . .1 'r'"'"^ '"^'^ P"* '"*° t'^" <=« Corbie and 
 
 beao« ed ut-on dmors po comon welthe of the Towne. 
 
 Co?£>ir""" 7-.then befor wtin the yishe of 
 
 v^uiuit uuu Maries rcigne nor at auny t . . . . 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Holhngworth civis. 
 14. March 1565. 
 
 CoiiRiNGUAM.— Edmund Hammer. 
 
 Matthew Robinson Cliurchwardens 
 «. April 156G. 
 
 Imp^mis an albe and a vestmt-was taken frome the church 
 by Peter Heaton ot the said pishe. vocet^ heato. 
 
 llm a Grade and a mauueil— remainth in the custodie of or vicar 
 
 Urn a crose of laten and a shaft a handbell and a sacrin- bell 
 — remaynmg in or pish churche. ° 
 
 Itm one other handbell— lost in the plague tyme.J 
 
 1 ?t!:- '^^^^ ^^^ i^vaugelist is the patron saint of the church. 
 
 had been slTeTTc''^^''^'^^' "'^^^f^^^ *'"'" T^^eedak, in Northumberland, 
 EUzahefh t1 I Corby lor several generations on the accession of Queen 
 lijlizabeth Ihej had originally rendered themselves wealthy as Calais uier 
 
 :!:^..^^, ^°^^^"^^^' '^ ''' ^-^-^ «^ ^-^^^ -tu fhe mtitvrh; 
 
 --iZrir5!?'lu f ''^^^'"^°' ""^^ '^^'''''^^ ^' ^ freeholder in Corby 1561. 
 J llie great Plague of 1563. This frightful pestilence broke out amoncr the 
 
 nr,t liity men a day, but beiore the surrender the death-rate had doubled The 
 town was delivered up 20th July, 1563. The intected garrison rmediaS 
 
02 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm a Mass book and ij pressioners — wch weare tliold vicars 
 who toke the same out of the church, vocet^ rector de hephiii. 
 
 Itm Timber and boordes of the Rood Loft — sold to Thomas 
 Broholme for xvj^ A** 1565 by the churchwardens fyrst aboue 
 written. 
 
 Itfh an alabastr table — defacid A^ dni 1566 by the church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itiii one pix one canabie a coi-porax and a crismatorie — taken 
 awaie by the old vicar A° pmo Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm iij altar stones whearof one was sold to Mr. Toplife"^ and 
 thother ij remaynith and is pavid in the church. 
 
 Itm a holie water stock — sold to Mr. Vicar of the said pishe 
 that now is who haith put it to ppfane vse. 
 
 Thimage of Mary the rode and John burned said da so non 
 constat propterea vocet^ Thorns Tason John Cleye. 
 
 CowNHAM Bartholomewe. — Jhon maver Thomas Drabery 
 churchwardens 26. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis the rood mary and Jhon wth all other Images of 
 papistrie — brockin and defacid by Robert collinwode Rychard 
 rigate then churchwardines in anno p^mo elizabethe. 
 
 Itm one mase booke ij portasis and one manuell — burnte in the 
 sam yere and by the sam churchwardines. 
 
 returned and brought the plague to this country, and as they separated to 
 their several homes spread the disease throughout the length and breadth of 
 England. In London alone it seems that upwards of twenty-one thousand 
 persons were swept away. John Abel, who was there at the time, wrote 
 an account of the visitation to Henry Bullinger. Of this document the 
 Parker Society has given a translation, but most provokinglv has not 
 printed tlie original because it was in German. John Parkhurst", Bishop of 
 Norwich, writing to the same correspondent on the 13th August, 1563, tells 
 him that he has suffered from it in bis own household. "Pestis grassatur 
 Londiui," he says, " et in novo Portu, et in exercitu Gallorum, ut fama est. 
 Cetera ex literis Gualteri. 20 Julii misi literas ad consiliarios per unum ex 
 prajcipuis meis famulis. Is mihi 26 ejusdem mensis attulit responsum, et post 
 quatriduum peste obiit. Dominus misereatur nostri !" 
 
 Notices of this dreadful visitation are sometimes met with in parish registers. 
 A very touching record of this kind may be seen in that of Almondbury, near 
 Iluddersfield. It is printed in the late Mr. Hunter's JIallamshire, p. 6.— 
 Parker Soc. Epist. Tignrbue, v. i. p. 79. Zurich Letters, v. ii. p. 109. Carte, 
 Hut. -Eng. v. in. p. 414. HoUinshed, Chron. 1587, v. iii. p. 1205. Kennett, 
 Hist. Eng. 1706, v. ii. p. 393, col 1. 
 
 * The Topcliffes were of Somerbv, which had come into theh possession by 
 the marriage of Walter Topcliffe with Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of 
 John lowers, or de Turribus, in 1352. The person here indicated is Richard 
 lopchfle who married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Willoughby, Bt. Se- 
 veral ot Ills ancestors had married women of illustrious families. He was 
 descended in the female line from the Yorkshire Fairfaxes and the Water- 
 tons of vV alton. 
 
 II 
 
 1 
 
 SUPEHSTITION g3 
 
 not but tl'yTaJ l^ "' '"''" ^'''^^ *'"^'" °' 
 
 It.n one crose of brase-brockin and defocid in anno sexto 
 by Jhon maver and tbomas d.-ewery churchwardines. 
 
 n.ave";;pofb;ctnes """"^ '"''''''"''' '" ^ '''' '^^'Pl.ilip 
 
 n,a"f\iiarAo"- H'r"f-,"'f '^ '^ ^""-^"^ ''»'' » crismatorie- 
 w:el<nre.tt."" ''''""' '^ the ibrsaid ehurehwardens ho. 
 Itm or lioUie water fate— was broken the sai<l fyrst veare 
 I .n ,j altar stones-broken the said f^rst yeare! ^ 
 
 defaeld It!''' '"'"^'^ '° ^'"^' South* A-^i.^o EHzabeth who 
 Itm a crose cloth and a banner clothe— defaoid H-b d 1 f * 
 
 'T/:tSf >'''''' ^"^ ^'f '-•''. ^^JetfebwrrdT /^'-^^ 
 poo. pe^r °"" " ^^^" ''" ^''^^ '>-* 3'eare and given to 
 
 Itm a pax-broken in peces tlie said fyrst yeare. 
 nowbein.J"'' lo^t-defucid this yeare\yihe churchwardens 
 
 Croxb.e -Thorns Wright and John croxton churchwardens 
 
 caLoTaJtaiVTT^f ' ma„uell-tbei knowe not vvhat L 
 came ot the Robert Swallowe (now disceased) & Wittm Skvnn^ 
 
 irreS it" "T.r* '''' "'"^'-'^ ^<^"'" churchwKles inno 
 pmo regme Lliz and there pson ys dead, who was at y' tyme 
 
 it a^lr ''' "" '' '""" "''' ''■'' ^^"^ ^'-' P-- -'J te had 
 
 ship Discovery Imvi, rbeea seS ?t kLIi ' ^Y T '?u°' ,""= ''^'•K" "' «'« 
 Ath, 0.ron.]sub mm. ' ' '' ^' ^' ^''^' ^''^'> '^'bnom.; Wood, 
 
 ' ! 
 
 
.., f 
 
 64 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 ij Albes were broke^ & giue^ to ij poore wome^ in the towne 
 about a veare since. 
 
 One pixxe a pere of sensars a crosse a cruet & a handbell^ were 
 broken at Christenms last & sold to Mr. Nicholas Dowsan in 
 theis churchwardes tyrae. 
 
 Roode marie & John were burned the last yere, to make a 
 plumer fier wch mended y^ churche leades. 
 
 liood loft was take^ down parte of it ij yeres agoe & part at 
 Christems last and it is sold to Mr. John Slietieild"^ to mak sealing. 
 
 * John Slieffield of Croxby was tlie representative of a younger branch of 
 the noble family of ShelBeld of Butterwick, tliat had become possessed of the 
 manor of Croxby by the marriage of John Shctlield, a younger son of Sir 
 Kobert Sheffield of Butterwick, with Johanna, daughter and heiress of John 
 Thoresby of Croxby. This lady's grandmother, also called Johanna, was 
 daughter of Sir Koger Asterby of Croxby, and became eventually a co-heiress 
 ot her brother John, the last male of the line. John Sheffield "took to wife 
 Dorothy, daughter of Alexander Amcottes of Aisthorpe. His death occurred 
 9th June, 15SG. The Croxby estate remained in the family until 1G70, when 
 It was alienated by Christopher Sheffield. 
 
 The elder branch of the family were ennobled in the person of Sir Edmond 
 Sheffield, Knt., who was created Baron Sheffield ot Butterwick, IGth Feb., 
 J547. He died in battle against the Norfolk rebels, in 1519. Having acci- 
 dentally fallen from horseback, he was refused quarter. It is reported that 
 his brains were beaten out by a person named Fulke, with a fuller's club. A 
 record of his burial is preserved in the parish register of Saint Martin's, 
 Norwich :— "Dominus Sheffield cum xxxv. aliis sepulti fuere primo Augusti" 
 [lol9]. A stone is engraved in the Kev. i\ W. Kussell's Hist, of Kett's 
 Rebellion, p. 97, that once marked the place where he fell. The same book 
 contains (p. 200) an interesting letter from this Edmond Sheffield, written, it 
 seems, before his elevation to the peerage, during some period of great distress 
 ot nimd ; Its resigned and religious tone impresses the reader wiih a high 
 opinion oi its author. An error or omission in a very inaccurate book 'of 
 popular reference has led Mr. Russell to doubt whether Lord Sheffield was 
 the writer That he was so is beyond question. The letter is addressed to 
 ^ iMaister Caudyshe," who married his father's widow, Margaret, daui^hter of 
 John Zouch, whom he calls "his most worshipfull father in Lawe^" His 
 grandson, Edmond, third Baron Butterwick, received the Earldom of Mul-rave 
 Irom Charles 1., 7th Feb., 1G2G. 
 
 John Sheffield, tiiird Earl of Mulgrave, great-grandson of the first earl, was 
 created Marquis of Normanby, co. Lincoln, 10th Mav, 1691. by William and 
 JMary. Uii 9lh March, 1703, he was raised to the highest rank of the peerac^e 
 as Duke ot Normanby; and on the 23rd of the same month was created Duke 
 ol Buckin^ghamshire He died 21th Feb., 1721, desiring by his will to be buried 
 in VVestmiubter Abbey with the following inscription over his remains :— 
 " Pro Rege sape, Pro llepublica semper." 
 
 " Dubius sed non improbus vixi, 
 Incertus morior, sed inturbatus ; 
 Humanum est ne^cire et errare: 
 Christum adveneror, Deo confido 
 Oinuipoteuii, benevolentissimo : 
 Ens entium, miserere mei." 
 
 SUPERSTITION. (35 
 
 ij alter Stones-One Mr. Sheffield haith made a sinck of in his 
 Lite hme and thother maketh a bridj^e in the Towne 
 
 Ihe pax the late pson had but what he did wt^ yt he can not 
 
 tilief ' ^'' "'""'''''^' ^'^^' ^'''^ '^''' ^^''^ ^("^t t^ll ^^'^•- 
 
 can^noAlirVl'V' TI^'Y ^^^'"^^'''^ ^^^ ^"^ ^^ ^^^^h that he 
 can not tell what he haith don wt y^ 
 
 A crosse clothe— sold to a poor woma^ for Id. 
 
 'ixiat et iurat. 
 
 Croxton.— Thomas Crowder and Nichas Backhouse Church- 
 wardens 30. April 156G. 
 
 AVm"i!'''"''^ ""' J''!^'^ '"'^'"^^^ ^"^ Jhon— brent A« p'^mo Elizabth 
 AV - Emeson and Crofer Atkinson then churchwardens. 
 
 Itrn or rood Loft— puld downe this veare and defacid. 
 d.f*, Jl ^':.^;^^^^^/^^^^^'« ^vith manuels and such popishe bookes- 
 ddasid mj or fyve yeare ago by the said Emeson and Atkinson 
 men cliurcliward . 
 
 ,v...!.V" "' ""'^"'i «^°»««-soWe and defacid this yeare by the cliurch- 
 wamens now bein<'e. 
 
 Itin a holie water fatt— is defacid Six yeare ago. 
 
 Itm a^p.x a pax— defacid iiij°- year ajro in like >nanner. 
 nnfoFl?, ,'^;'"'',''-'«t','^'^es crwetes and a sacringe bell-defaeid A° 
 pnio Lhzabth by tlie said churchwardens. 
 
 itm o vestmentes albes Amises stoUs ffanels and such like - 
 cut m peees and thereof is .nade clothes for the colon table an,l 
 puij)itt tnis yeare. 
 
 Itni a crosse and a crosse cloth— defacid and made awaie ii 
 year ago or thre. -^ 
 
 Itrn banners banner staves and crosse staves— defacid A° p^mo 
 Jiiizabthe by Emerson and Atkinson then churchwardens. 
 Itm a sepulker— whearof is made a shelf for to set dishes on. 
 
 Dennilbie.— Thorns Tailor Churchwarden 8. April 1566 
 
 Inpmis a Hood loft-whearof is made a framde table for the 
 coicants. 
 
 Itm a Mass book w^*' all such booke of papistrie— ar aholished 
 
 ^tl7:':tl;^^^ ^hosc duty 
 
 !}aTL S;r ;T6r"^ '-'''''' ^^ ''^ ^'--'^ "^ StonehousC:^- .^ 
 
66 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 made awaie and defacid in the first or second years of the Quenes 
 Ma*^® that now is. 
 
 Itfh Hood \vt^ Marie & John — burnid A° 156^ Stephen 
 Marrall then beinge churchwarden. 
 
 Itfh ij altar stones — broken in Feces and ar pavid in or said 
 churche A** 1565 Stephen Marrall beinge churchwarden. 
 
 It in a pax — gone awaie I know not how. 
 
 Itm a vestmt a veal and an yron that the lamp hangd on — 
 solde to George Stockdale of the said pishe A° 1565 Thorns 
 Taylor beinge churchwarden wch is cutt in peces and defacid. 
 
 itfh a handbell and a paire of Sensors wth a crismatorie — sold 
 to John Pollard of the said pishe A^ 1505 by Thomas Tailor 
 churchwarden whether he hath defaced it I knowe not but moste 
 certainly at my retorne he shall deface it. 
 
 Itfh iij banner clothes — sold to Stephen Marrall A^ 1565 by 
 the said churchwarden who hathe made painted clothes of ye 
 same. 
 
 Itfh a vestfht — taken out of the church iiij year ago by whom 
 is vnknowne. 
 
 Itfh a crewet — made awaie in such sorte at the said tyme for I 
 never saw anie in or churche this iiij or yeare. 
 
 Itfh one albe — whearof is made a surples. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer xVrchdeacon of Lincoln. 
 
 Robert Monson arm. 
 
 Dentox. — Roberte Baker and \Alltm Wilson Churchwardens 
 6. April 1566. 
 
 Inp^mis the images of the roode fnarie and Johnne and all 
 other Imagies of papistrie — were burnte in aho 1568 for the 
 meltinge of lead by a plu^mer that mended o'' churche Roberte 
 Bracebrigge and Edwarde Kell churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh all 0^ masse bookes manewell legendes grailes and all other 
 bookes of papistrie — weretorne in peces and defaced vpon mu^daie 
 last past 1506 Roberte Baker and williii'i wilsonne churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh the roode lofte — taken downe pte of yt wch was hordes A"^ 
 150:3 Edwarde KoU and Roberte Bracebrige churchwardens and 
 pte was burnt aboute meltinge of lead for the mendinge of o'^ 
 churche and the rest is res^ved for the mendinge of o'" stcple 
 tiorth and as for all the great tymber of the same roode lolte 
 was taken downe sens Christmas last 1565 and was sold to Mr. 
 Bekingha^ or late curate who haithe made Joystes for a chamber. 
 
 Itfh iij banner clothes j crosse clothe and one roode clothe & 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 67 
 
 one herse sold to Simond hall ats somerbie vpon mu^daie last and 
 ne haith made hanginges of theim. 
 
 Itm one vaile sold to Wittm fibrgame and Nicholas ors5n A° 
 iobd and thei haue defaced the same and cut yt in peces 
 
 Rm one pix geven to wittm fibrgame o^ pish clarke vpon 
 mu daie last and he haith broken y t in peces and also one crisma- 
 torie wch he haith broken likewise. 
 
 Itin one vestment of worsted sold to wittm grene vpon mu'^daie 
 last past lo06 and he haith cutt y* in peces and made him a dub- 
 lett thereof. 
 
 Itm one albe wch we haue defaced and made a surples thereof. 
 Itm one crose and two candlesticke— broken in peces and sold 
 to Roberte Baker vpon mu^daie last past 1506. 
 
 Itfh as for crewettsand handbelles and shippes we had none in 
 
 queue manes tyme so lar Ibrthe as we can learne nor vet sacrinc.- 
 bell. " *^ 
 
 Itfh iij alter stones— broken in peces and bridges made thereof. 
 Itm one sepulcre— sold to Johnne orson and he haith made a 
 presse tlierof to laie clothes therein. 
 
 Itfh one old albe and two towelles— sold to Roberte orson vpon 
 mu-'daie last past 1566. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 6. April 1566, 
 
 Market Deepinge.— Wm Harvieand Wni Fen churchwardens 
 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis ij deacons vestm^ a cope of white silk ij candellstickes 
 a Bason and Ewre^ a crismatorie a crosse foot a cross sold to 
 Thomas Burton of ]\Iarket doping aforesaid Anno dhi 1563 hugli 
 bushe and Richard Jelowes church wardens, vocet^ because he wold 
 not pmitt the church wardens to see theim. 
 
 Itfh one cope and a candellstick—solde to chrofer wilton of the 
 said Market doping xVnno dhi 1563 hughe Bushe and Richard 
 Jelowes churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh ij deacons ij albes a pix and a paire of censers— sold to 
 Alexander Hundson of the said Market depinge Anno dhi 1563 
 bugh^ Bushe and Richard Jelowes beinge churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh iij worsted copes an albe and a candelstick— solde to Win 
 Mamynge of ye said depinge A« dhi 1563 by the said church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itfh one cope and a vestment— sold to W^ harvie of the saide 
 
 * The sub-deacon at ordination received a bason and ewer to signify to him 
 that one part of his work would be to help at the washing of the celebrating 
 priest's hands.— Rock, C/iurc/i of our Fathers, v. iii. p. 2, p. 34. 
 
 ! I 
 
(58 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 nishe A« dni 1563 by the said churchwardens and is by the said 
 W- Ilarvie defaced and put to ptane vse. 
 
 Itm ii vestmente and the tymber ot the rood lott-soldc to 
 John Bushe of the said pishe A« dhi 1563 by the said church- 
 
 '""Itm a kerchef clothe and a cros<e clothe solde to M^ Thomas 
 wake^ of &^r. Borrow sucken in the countie of Northampton 
 A« dni 1563 by the said church wardens 
 
 Itni hordes and Tymber of the rood lofte and a l^aju lbell---sd^^^ 
 to Thomas graunger of the said Market depinge A<>dni lo()3 by 
 the churchwardens aforesaid. . , 
 
 Itm the rest of the tymber-sold to W - Amoore of the said 
 depin^e A« dhi 1563 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itih one sepulker a crosse and the holie water f f ^^^^--f^^'f ,^^ 
 hughe Bushe of Deeping aforesaid now decessid M> dm lob3 by 
 
 the said churchwardens. • i i • ^ 
 
 Itm a candelstick— sold to John Beare of the said depinge 
 
 A^ dih 1563 by the saide churchwardens. . , , • 
 
 Itm a handbell-sold to John Maund of the said depinge 
 A'' doraini 1563 by the said churchwardens and put to plane vse 
 
 Itm a holie water slock— sold to Chrofer More of the said 
 Market Depinge Anno dni 1563 by the said churchNvai^ens and 
 by him put to profane vse wch wee^W"^ Harvie and A\ m alien 
 nowe churchwardens do aihrme on o'' othes. , 
 
 Itm one vestment ij deacons one redd worsted cope— remainid 
 in the custodie of Richard knowells pishe dark of the said depinge 
 A« dhi 1563 Hugh bushe and Richard Jelowes churchwardens 
 aforesaid and what is become of it wee knowe not, nor whether 
 he hathe it. vocetur. 
 
 Itm fyve table clothes xv towelles a foiite clothe a surples a 
 
 * Thomas Wake, of Deeping, soa and heir of Thomas Wake of the same 
 
 place, was a member of that kuightly family which is beheved to draw its origm 
 
 from Hereward, the Saxon patriot. The Wakes are certainly among the oldest 
 
 English families. As far back as record evidence carries us, they appear as 
 
 persons of c^ood note and position in this and other shires, but tbe early parts 
 
 of their pedigree cannot be supported in a thoroughly satistactory manner. 
 
 A table of their lineage, compiled by Thomas Close, Esq l.b.A.. begmmng 
 
 with the Saxon Thane of Bourne, a generation before the Conquest and witli 
 
 Richard 1., Duke of Norniaudv, and his concubine Gunnora, a.d Ubb, may be 
 
 seen in The Reports of Lincobish. Arch. Soc, 18G1, p. 18, cf. Raines J^asti 
 
 Ebor. i. 417, quoting R. of Pari. ii. 194. 
 
 It has been thought that the Wakes of Blyton, 1589-1661, were descended 
 from the above Thomas Wake. In 1610, llobert Wake held in Blyton, ot the 
 manor of Kirton-on-Lindsey, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, one tott and 
 two hempcrofts, one swathe of meadow, and certain lands in the common helds, 
 of the total yearlv value of twenty-one shillings and ten pence.— J/uore? J/6*S., 
 Tub. Lib. Cant. ff. 4, 30. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 69 
 
 rocket or ij for the dark and a silver coppe— Remaiiith in o^ 
 pishe church a« dni 1565 W™ Ilarvie and \Vm affen church- 
 wardens so that no popishe peltrie remaineth in o"" said pishe 
 church 
 
 Church of St. Martin Lincoln. 
 
 George IVIounson. 
 ^lartin Ilollincrworthe. 
 18. March 15G5. 
 
 Dfpinge James.— Richard Matthcwm'^ and Thomas Ilarhie 
 churchwardens 18. March 1565. 
 
 Itm the Imacre of the roode wt marie and Johnne and all 
 other Images of sup^stition— were burned by John Tighe and 
 Robert Clarke churchwardens at that pn^te time in the'face of 
 the whol pishe anno 1560. 
 
 Itnl iij Copes — sold to two men of leicester by the said church- 
 wardens in Anno Dni 1560 for the some of xx« wch monney was 
 debte^to the pore of the same pishe & defaced. 
 ^ Itm two old copes and two old vestmentes — sold to Robert 
 tighe and Johnne tighe by the said churchwardens for the some 
 of \» and bestowed a*^ 156;i in the settinge forth of soldiers to 
 Newhaven^ & defaced. 
 
 Itiii one crosse clothe and two hand belles — sold by the said 
 churchwardens anno 1562 for the somme of xx^ and the monney 
 bestowed vpon shewes and geven to a poore child wth in the 
 pishe defaced. 
 
 Itm two latten Candlestickes and crosse of Copper wt a staf to 
 the same crose a Crysmatorie and two crewettes and a paire of 
 sesers — sold by the said churchwardens A*' 156Ji to Edward 
 Brathericke for the some of V^ wch he haith sold againe to a 
 pewterer. 
 
 Itfii one pyxe of bone one old sylke clothe and a sacring bell 
 —wch were borrowed of tighee in queue Maries tyme wch the 
 said Robert had again at the defacinge of allth said monumentes 
 of Superstition wch he haith made awaie and defaced as we are 
 able to depose. 
 
 Itm an altar stone — paued wt in o'' said church. 
 
 Itiii one litterne of brass one challis and one silk clothe and to 
 
 altare clothes. ^a. i^f i.- y n\ i, t • i 
 
 ot Martin s Church Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson gen. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 * Newhaven is the old popular name for Havre in Normandy. The defence 
 took place in June and July, 1563. Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, the 
 commander, surrendered the town on the 29th of the latter month. 
 
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 MOXUMENTS OF 
 
 West Deping. — Johnne woldon'^ and George ffawcitte church- 
 wardens. 
 
 18. March 15G5. 
 
 Imp^mis the Image of the roode marie and Jolinne and all the 
 other Images of supersticion — were burnte and broken in the 
 second yere of the quenes Ma'^® that now is by Johnne weldoii 
 and Thomas Hall churchwardens at that pn*® time. 
 
 Itm two handbelles wth a latten cross and a paireof sensers one 
 hallie water stock wt a candlestick wt one pix of Copper and sj^ilte 
 — solde to leonard Stubbes by the said churchwardens anno Dni 
 151)0 wch the said churchwardens boughte againe of the saide 
 leonard Stubbes wch was melted and cast towardes the mendino-e 
 of a broken bell. 
 
 Itm^hc roode loft — solde by the saide church wardens 1560 to 
 S"" wilhn Evers psonne ther and wittm hersonne for the some of 
 xij"^ wch thei haue defaced and made awaie. 
 
 Itrn one albe and stooles — given to the pore of the towne by 
 the^ said churchwardens wt the consente of the whole p^ishe ano 
 15G0 and defaced. 
 
 Itm all o"" masse books and portises and all other books of 
 superstition— one p^sonne AVatures or late p^sonne caried awaie 
 wt him at his departinge from us wch was in Anno Dni 1560. 
 vocetur. 
 
 Itrn ij alter stones broken and defaced— by John weldon and 
 George ffawcitt churchwardens 1564. 
 
 Church of St. Martin Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 IMartin Hollingworth civ. 
 
 DowsBiE.—Thomas Gee and Willm daile churchwardens 21 
 April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis a Rod wth Marie and John— was burnd A« ii 
 Lhzabth Kobt W hitehead and Robert warren churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a rood Loft— wch wee have bestowed aboute the repavrino-e 
 ot 0^ church seate and Hen yates A° iij^ Elizbth. " ^ 
 
 Itm a pix wth the bishop of Romesf hatt'yt did cover it— 
 
 150L "l^^i^^ in 
 
 t The vessel used for holding the little box or pix in which the holv 
 eueharist was preserved was usually in the form of a cup of ^d silver or 
 some less precious metal. This receptacle was suspended over fhe alta d^co 
 
 supi:est2tioa'. 5-1 
 
 len Ji, witlm daile cliurelinaideiis. 
 
 Itm ij Candlostiekcs-sold to Crofer Mawdes A" ij" Elizabtli 
 wch wee saw broken in peces. '' ^"'^''"^'i 
 
 Itm one vestmt one albe u tl. all tlnn<?es thenuito belono-in^p 
 -sold ynto Robt warren A" ij" Elizabtirthe said liobt t rfe "& 
 Robt whithead chnrchward^ who defueid it and tlu^-eof ™"dt 
 necessane thmges for his children Quishions for his house and 
 hanyinjjfes for Ins bedd. "ouse ana 
 
 Itm albes « th other naperie-sold to Johne whitehead the said 
 second yeare « ho put the same to pfane vse 
 
 Hawl" w'm4"l^*''Z'' " r^'^'T "■''' 'J P<^'f«-«olde to Chrofer 
 
 ,,,?'';IP';"'.°''^ 'J, crewetcs and ij handbells— Robt AVarren A" ii 
 Lbzabth bemg then ehurehwardcn had who sold theim to a «ell^ 
 
 yearfan7wl,athe'd~f "':'%*' Christopher Mawde the said second 
 >earc ana wiiat he did w'^ it wee knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij crosses of xyood & laten-sold .the said veare to Rot>t 
 Ser." '^" "''^^^" ''''' ^"^ ^^IJ ^^- l^ten to a 
 
 Itm one altar stone— pavid on the top of a grave and nte of 
 It broken m the said second yeare. ^ 
 
 Itm banner clothes-made awaie wee knowe not howe Ao ii^ 
 Ehzabth Robt A) arrcn & Robt Whitehead -ard^ '^ 
 
 Itm banner pooles and crose staves-made awaie the same 
 tyme but howe wee knowe not. 
 
 to have a symbolical meanin- An illumina+ion in a Life of St. Edmund kfnc, 
 and mart.yr, to be found in the llarJeian library (2278 fol 55 br .«. 1 1 " 
 pubhshed by Doctor Rock. It shows us the cup'itLr/endosed in Le^^^^^^^^ 
 of cloud-Ike muslin and surmounted by a canopy of tliree crowns ^"^ ^"""^'^^P^ 
 A cloth of this kind was sold by the churchwardens of Erauston to a man 
 whose wife used it as a liandkerchief. -ui.msion 10 a man, 
 
 , The blessed Sacrament was, until recent days, reserved in a similar manner 
 m many churches of France. There the form of the receptacle was bf a 
 beautiful symbolism, usually that of a dove (St. Matt. iii. 16) This shLp 
 was very uncommon, but not quite unknown in this country, as "the folloS^ 
 exiract trom an Inventanum oniametdorum in ecdesia Sarum, taken a.d. 1222^^ 
 
 EukarisTiam'"''" '"''" ^'°'''^'' '''°' ''^^''''' ''^ ''^''''*' '""^ '°^""^^^ ^^'^^^t- ^^ 
 The tabernacle standing upon the altar was not introduced into England 
 untilthe reign of Mary 1. and was never connnon. It is much to be regretted 
 that Ronian Cathoics in this country have abandoned the old custom of sis 
 pending the host above their altars for one much less beautiful and appropria e' 
 -Rock, Church of our Fathers, v. iii. pt. ii. p. 20G. Second paginatioTriQl 
 
Wi' 
 
 72 
 
 \h 
 
 ri 
 
 iUf 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 •geven to a poore woman fyve year agoo wLo 
 
 Itm a Sepulker— 
 
 brent it. x • i 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 n. April 1566. 
 
 DUNIUMK lUXTA wETTONNE.-Johnne Woia cluircluvarden 
 l!!,>:jrthe Imagies of the roode Marie and Johnne and all 
 
 "^^Kvlfold vWtmenJe; and one old cope one crosse two candle- 
 sticte^oneUeof sensurc^sand one halHe water fatte wt all other 
 
 monumentes of superstia'm . . . . . • • • l.nvP^— 
 
 uchers crrailes and latten booke and .... boxes-- 
 weWt^rne and made awaie in the third yere of the quenes ma le 
 u'at now is by wittm watkinson and Johnne Bentley then churche 
 Wardens of the said churche of donhame. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 llobert !Mouson ar. 
 
 Edmund Hall ar. 
 
 George Monuson gen. 
 11. March 1565. 
 
 DUNSBIE.-Wittm Sknowe and Willm White Churchwardens 
 
 27. March 1506. ,,,,•• i 
 
 Imnmis the roode Marie and Johnne and all other imngies and 
 all the bookes of papistrie— were burnte in iV fmo Lliz Johnne 
 o-rene Edward Southwell churchwardens at that tyme. 
 " Itm a crosse the handbelles the candlestickes and one pixe— 
 were broken in peces and sold to a brasier ot hncoln m an 6 
 Elizabeth regine Thomas flenne and lioberte btrugle beinge 
 
 churchwardens. . , , 
 
 Itm the roode loft— was taken downe in the said yere by the 
 said churchwardens and sold to whole pishe and the haue made 
 barres and railes for a bridge thereof A*' 4^ Eliz. 
 
 Item iii vestmentes two Albes one Crosse clothe of canvis t\yo 
 stoles and one vale— sold to wittm Sknowe one of the church- 
 wardens at this pnte tyme and he haith defaced and torne theim 
 in peces and bathe made hanginges for beddes and painted cloth 
 
 Itm an alterstone— paved and broken in peces. 
 Itm one sacringe bell one pax of wood and one bally water 
 stock of stone broken and defaced. 
 
 Itm one crismatorie of pewter and two crewettes broken and 
 
 made awaie. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 
 
 73 
 
 It in sepulcre we had none. 
 Itm banner clothes we had none. 
 
 Itm sensors broken and sold so farr as I can lerne and other 
 more I knowe not. 
 
 S lea ford. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln, 
 
 llobert Carr arm^ 
 1. April 1560. 
 
 DuRRiNGTON.— Willm Storre and John Parson church wardens 
 26 April 1500. 
 
 The masse booke — thei had none but that thei borrowed of 
 the pso^ of Ruskington nowe deceased & he had it ao-aine-vocct^ 
 Greyne de Ash by exaiat rector de Ruskingto^. 
 
 A pressionarie & a portis were burned before christmas last. 
 
 Vestmet iij one made a couering for the Colon table thother 
 was re^t and sold to the viccar. 
 
 ii Handbelles & a Crosse — were broke & sold to Leondard 
 lawcock of Lincoln. 
 
 An Albe torne in peces & sold to the vicar & also the stole. 
 
 pixxe was broke^ and sold to one Wittm wilkinso^ anno prime 
 Regine Eliza^. 
 
 The Roode & marie & John were burned aboute l^^o, yeres 
 past. John buck and John leis being churchwardes. 
 
 The Roode loft was take^ doun aboute the said tyme and sold 
 at Christmas last to willifh Storre & Robert Cappe who haue 
 broke^ & made it awaie. 
 
 Sepulcre was broke & sold to the said willm Storre and Robert 
 Cappe who have made a henne penne of it. 
 
 Holie water fat of wood — is broke^. 
 
 Chrismatorie — was broke^ in peces & sold to a tyncker. 
 
 Alter stones ij — one is broke^ and paueth the churche and 
 thother is put to kepe Cattail fro the Chappell wall & yet 
 standeth edgewaie in the grownd. 
 
 Banner clothes iij — sold to old John buck A° V Reo-ine Eliz 
 who haith made painted clothes of the {sic). 
 
 Edna^. — A certificat of all suche stuffe as belonged and dothe 
 
 belonge to the p^ishe of Edna^ in the countie of Lincoln 
 
 mad the xviijth day of Marche in tlie yere of o^ lord 1565 
 
 by Thomas Clej)ole and Edward Tokke churchwardens. 
 
 ffirst the roode marie and John defaced and burnt by Nidilas 
 
 Welles beinge then clarke, in the presence of John Goodall and 
 
 Simond Tebbe then being church wardens a"" p^mo reo-inp 
 
 Ehzabeth. 
 
74 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 The Images of Saint Michael being patron of the churohe 
 burnt by Arnolde Helye clarke the forenamed John and Snnond 
 beinge churchwardens anno p^^mo regine Elizabeth 
 
 Itm a crosse of Copper «th mary and John all gilt wtb the 
 staffe defaced and broken by W Bertie* in the presence ot 
 Thomas Clepole and Edward Tebbe churchwardens in anno 1565. 
 
 Itm a table svinge for the highe alt_er wth out any pictur or 
 memlon of Idolatry put to other vses wth in the church at this 
 
 time 1565. ^ ^, - ,^ \ \ ..a 
 
 Itm the aulter stones broken for pavemet m the church and 
 
 put to other vse necessary in the times of the forenamed churche 
 
 Masters 1562. , , ^, ^, i • xt ^ 
 
 Itm the pixe defaced broken and sold to Thomas Clepole in the 
 
 presence of the pistioners in the tyme of the church wardens 
 
 aforesaid for iiij'^ 1564. „ 
 
 Itm the Canapie clothe defaced and sold to wiltm Sharpe tor 
 
 iiiid by the Churche wardens aforesaid 1 564. 
 
 Itm ij banner clothes defaced and sold by the churche wardens 
 
 aforesaid to Henry Dawes for xvj^ 1561. 
 
 • Richard Bertie, son and heir of Thomas Bertie, of Bersted, co. Kent 
 captain of Hurst Castle, in Harnpshire. The pedigree has been car^^^^^^^ 
 back by the Elizabethan heralds nine generations beyond « Thomas de Bertie, 
 armter Capitaneus Castri de Hurste." It is doubtful whether the evidence 
 they^admit ted for the earlier descents would satisty a H.odern ^"q«„^;;f -^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 Beftie was born about Christmas, 1517, admitted %^t «^^^ .^J,^%"^^^^^ 
 Pnllp^p Oxford 17 Feb., 1533-4, proceeded B.A. 3 May, lo37. About the 
 end of i552re ma ried Catherine Sowager duchess of Suffolk, who was in her 
 own ric^ht Baroness Willoughby of Eresby. The nuptials are said to have been 
 solemnized at Grysby in Lincolnshire. Mr. Bertie and his, noble wite were 
 St on "adherents of the reformed religion; the lady seems m some cases to 
 have shown forth her feelings in a manner which, however natural in a strong 
 partizan was neither in accordance with her high position nor her religious 
 profession We are told on good authority that at one time she caused, as a 
 LtTe oHhe Bishop of Winchester, one of her dogs to be earned before her 
 ested in a rochet, and called Gardiner. The marked Protestantism of bo h 
 husband and wife rendered England an unsafe place tor them during the re i- 
 g'ous reaction in Mary's reign. 0" 5Eeb., 155^-5 they embarked or ^ 
 continent, and spent the next few years in foreign wanderings. At ^\ esel the 
 duchess was deUvered of their firstborn son, fitly named Peregrine. Soon after 
 the queen's death they returned to England. ^[^^1?^^^,^^ ^^^ ^^f,^-^,^;/ 
 Lincolnshire in the Parliament of 1562-3, and sheriff of the county in 1564^ 
 He and his wife rest together under a most sumptuous tomb in Spilsby Lliurcli. 
 An inscription on the base informs us that it is— 
 
 SEPULCRUM D RICARDI Bl-RTIE ET CATHERINE. DTJCHISSJE SUFFOLKI^ BA- 
 RONISS.Ii DE WILLOBY DE ERESBY CONIVG. ISTA OBIIT XIX SEPTEM. 15ijU 
 ILLE IX APRILIS 1582. 
 
 We learn from Cole's Escheats that at his death he owned a third of the 
 monastery of Vawdie, or Valdy, valued at 12/. 26-. 3^., the manors of Eden- 
 ham and Scottlethorpe, the rectory of ffulstow, and the lordship and manor 
 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 75 
 
 Itm the mess book and prosses.ioners burnt by M- Thomas 
 Hod.,reky„ mynester Jolin Goodall and Svmond T^hlt fT^ - 
 clu„-cl.e masters in anno p^mo Elizabeth re-^n" ^' *''"' 
 
 at t£ t;mf "^' '' """ '"^''' ^"'^ t.vo surplishes re.na,-uinge 
 
 was'muid ofau awlbe " "°''" ''""'^■'"° ^^h'^'^'^of *>« 
 
 Itm a crosse clothe of -rene sesynet defaced. 
 Itm apa.re of small latten candlestickes defaced vet remaynin-e 
 
 the tyme iKinttl ""',°'''" ^'^'^^ ^'^'"^ ^^^ IdoSbefore' 
 t e tyme ot Kinge Ldward were by m"^ G Ibie, bein"' n^son her^ 
 
 defaced and burnt before quene marye reiane " ^ ' 
 
 sacSin! h!jf "?,° ,?' cres-natory the crewetcs the pax the lytle 
 sTre Thomi Q,'"'* "" f "''" 'If^ ^"^^'^^'^ =""1 mad away when 
 
 Itm a water tankard for or holy water wth sprinck defaced bv 
 
 The svvorne mens names to our bill 
 
 Kobert Good John Markarles 
 Church of St. Martin Lincohi. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 
 ISnhltnor^ 
 
 Witeall, ml:^:Z^r£l^ - 
 
 moreover, land to the value of 10/. in Fullebv a 11 hAd ' ilTrll • ^^ *'!^' 
 The inquest posl.n^orf.n was taken at iuruTsO AuL^ I5S2 ""'' '" ''^''''' 
 
 Kobert Bertie, tentii Baron WillouKhby d'Ere'sbv <rnn,knn ^f .k„ i 
 crea ed Earl of LinJsey 22 No... 1026,^al,e'ritd hb ^^^^^^^^ 
 IrZ, '^llf-^^o'^ent, among the loyal gentlea,en who scr'ved CI ades I in ^^ 
 
 F 2 
 
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 76 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 I 
 
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 Epwouth in the Isle of Axholme.— W°^ Maw^ and John 
 Foster Churchwardens 21. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis a Rood loft— sold to John ftar this yeare by the said 
 Churchwardens wch is delacid as Ifar saieth. 
 
 It or Rood Marie and John — made awaie wee knowe not how 
 A° dni 1562 W"" Peacockf and Robt Kelsay gard. 
 
 Itm a corporax a brason vessell for holie water a paire of 
 Sensors a handbell and a lamp— Sold to John fFar this yeare by 
 the said churchwardens what he hath done wth theim wee knowe 
 
 not. 
 
 It^ crwetes pixes chrismatories and candellstickes— howe or 
 whether they be defaced wee knowe not And who was church- 
 wardens wee ar vncertaine. 
 
 ItiTi A mass book an Antiphoner wth other legendes of laten 
 — broken and torn in peces this year by the said churchward^. 
 
 Itm a veale — remayneth but at o"" retorne home wee will 
 deface it. 
 
 * The family of Maw have long been yeomen landowners in the Isle of 
 Axholme. The blood and name is now widely diffused through the country, 
 but it is probable that all descend from the Maws of Epworth. A pedigree 
 is recorded in the Suffolk visitation book of 1577, in which the descent of 
 the Maws of Rendlesham is traced from John Maw of Epworth, ^ent. This 
 John Maw was certainly a connection, most likely a brother, of William Maw 
 the Churchwarden. " Thomas Mawe de Epworthe yeom," probably the father 
 of both the above, was returned as a freeholder there in 1561. A foolish fancy 
 of the historian of the Isle of Axholme has led some persons ill versed in the 
 history of familv nomenclature to believe that the Maws were a junior branch 
 of the family of Mowbray. 
 
 In Rendlesham Church, Suffolk, is (or was five-and-forty years ago) a mural 
 monument thus inscribed :— 
 
 HERE LYETH SIMON MAWE, AND MARGERY HIS WIFE, BY WHOM HE HAD FIVE 
 SONS AND SIX DAVGHTERS. HE WAS BORN AT EPWORTH IN LINCOLNSHIRE, 
 BROUGHT UP IN SUFFOLK, BORE THE OFFICE OF STEWARD OF THE LIBERTY 
 OF ST. ETHELDRED 33 YEARS, LIVED IN CREDIT TO THE AGE OP 79 YEARS, 
 AND DIED IN PEACE THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, ANNO DOMINI 1610. 
 
 Symou Maw's fourth son Leonard became successively Master of Trinity Coll., 
 Cambridge, and Bishop of Bath and Wells. He was elected to the latter 
 preferment 24 July, 1628, and died at Chiswick in Middlesex the 2nd of Sep- 
 tember in the following year. He was buried in Chiswick Church on the 16th 
 of the same month. 
 
 His arms were : I. Mawe, Azure two bars gules between six martletts or. II. 
 PiNDER of the Isle of Axholme, azure a chevron between three lions' heads 
 erased or. III. Finder, argent on a chevron gules three fullgates or between 
 three boars' heads couped sable, lan^ued gules. IV. Wylde, argent a chevron 
 sable on a chief of the last 3 martletts of the first. V. J aye, argent three 
 kings' heads proper crowned or. Crest a camel couchant on a green hillock. 
 A patent for the first coat was granted by Cook, Clamcieux, 1576. — Lannd. 
 MSS.^UA.ld. 5. f. 59. Add. MS. 5524. f. 88 A. Stoiihouse, HisL Isle 
 of Axholme, p. 430 etseq. Gent. Mag. v. 91, pt. 1, p. 10. 
 
 f For this reference see pp. 78, 79. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, yy 
 
 Itm alhes paxes ladaces wth suche trifelinge tromperev— madp 
 awa.e wee knowe not howe and who was^churehSns ^J 
 
 i\'^%f^V^T^~T^'' ^"''^'^ ^e« knowe not howe Anno 
 ks dRilt", ffr-'^"/,^'":'-- Wilson cl>urchwa.denT 
 A° ,' J-^l J*'" •^<'''" *"■ Ambrose Wilson. 
 
 il f- \lf, ^u^^"^ '^'"'"'*«» ^''■""nd Awkland. 
 Ao dm 15G4 Thomas Pilsworth Thomas H>11 
 
 .ut° ■ . ^^T^'' Murf^ne and Chroler Hawkvne hathe 
 
 verof 't 'T^'"^ t'^^^"^" ^^ churchwardens se^;^ the fyrst 
 
 Itm one cope and a chalice— remaynith. 
 
 mo^n^o„Se^^^'°^ w'Tr ^'"^^ P'' ^^''^^ ^po Roberto 
 mounson ar et Martmo Holhngworth cive civitat' Lincotn Comis- 
 sarus &c. XX.J die raensis Apts 1566 p gard jur^. 
 
 the defecll .?■■ ' wk'°' ^'''' ^ '"'^' ^'^'°'^ ^^i^ daie next of 
 J^eeH^rm^o^IrrLffeXTer "' '''' '''' ^^^^^^ ^^ 
 
 EvEDON.-John Darffild and John pell 1566. 
 
 Imp mis the rood Mary and Ihon wth all other Imao-es of 
 
 Itm one vestment ij albes one candelsticke ij stoyles one crose 
 
 d fac'rbv ?h;r •'''"'"f v ^^^""'^"* ■> «"^- - wi .rand 
 
 detacid by the forsayd church wardines the candelstick the cro«e 
 
 iall Sch wI'h" "" '" "" ""'''''' '^>' ^'— carneJl and Rob 
 iiau church wardmes in anno pino Elizabethe. 
 
 Itm one pax one cruitt one vail wth all other empellmetes of 
 
 EwERBiE.— 27. April 1566. 
 
 The Roode & marie & John & all other Images of Idolatrie— 
 
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80 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 ij vestmentes — were sold to Awsten Almou^ of Evverbie 
 aforesaid beinjj^ first taken in peees. 
 
 vj albes & one vestemete \vt soch other stufFe — were sold to 
 one John Cressey of billingborowe since candehYis last beinge 
 first broke^ in peces. 
 
 iywQ banner Clothes — Sold to Wittm fotherbie of Ewerbie 
 about a senyt last past being first torn in peces. 
 
 xvj candelstickes ij handbelles a holie water stock & ij Crosses 
 — were all broke^ sauig the Candelsticke & sold to one Cuthbeit 
 a pewterere of lincoln in the begynig of lent. 
 
 One masse booke was tome in peces since this let & sold to sir 
 peter Laiighton curate there. 
 
 Canapie and pix the old vicear had in the begynni^ge of thes 
 queues tyme & l.e is deed & what is become of the^ thei can not tell. 
 
 Pax, Se^sers and Chrismatorie — thei ca^ not learne what is 
 become of them. 
 
 Sepulcre — was broken in peces aboute sixxe yeres last past. 
 
 Alter stones — are broke^ and laid for pauig in the Churche. 
 
 FFOLKiNGHA^. — A trewe Inventorie of all such ornamentes as 
 
 Latelie belonged to the Church of fiblkinghni in the 
 
 Raigne of o"" sou^gne Ladie Queene Marie with A trewe 
 
 certificat how the foresaid ornamtes were made awaie to 
 
 whom & by whome thei were made awaie as foUoweth &c. 
 
 Imp^mis Ye shall vnder stande that we had neither Masse 
 
 bookes grades Legendescouchers &c but onlie one portuis which was 
 
 caried from tfolkinghm by one S. John Tyson for all other were 
 
 rent burned & vtterlie destroiM in Kinge Edward his daies & 
 
 never anie other bowgh by the parish. 
 
 2. The roode Lofte wth that wch plained vnto it besides the 
 images were sold to Thomas Gammon &; John GrenehiTi in the 
 third yere of ye raigne of o'' Sou^ne Ladie Quene Elizabeth & 
 the yeare of o"" Lord 1560 by the hundes of the churchwardens 
 whose name {sic) are George Boys Henry Cooke. 
 
 3. The Images belonging to the same roode loft as the Image 
 called the roode Marie and John wth an other other (sic) Image 
 called St. Andrewe (vppon the wch the parish church of fiblk- 
 inghni drewe his name) were burned the same yeare by the 
 same churchwardens. 
 
 4. The other ornamentes belonginge to ye same church as ij 
 copes, crosses, a pax, a crismatorie, a pix, a paire of censors, a 
 shipe^ of brasse to put frankeinseuce in, ij d [sic) candelstickes of 
 
 The navette or ship contained the grains of incense with which the censer 
 was supplied. It ^vas of meted, coverea with a lid, and furnished with a spoon. 
 As the name implies, the shape was like a boat. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 81 
 
 brasse & one cruet were sold in the forenamed yeare by the same 
 churchwardens to one JohnTounesendeTinkardwellingein haken- 
 bie in ye countie of Lincolne who brake them in peces L put them 
 to other pfanevses. The rest of the ornamentes, as ij albes, ij vest- 
 mentes & j cope, were sold by the same churchwardens and in the 
 same yeare 1560 to Thomas Gamman & Henrie wahven wch were 
 by them cut & vtterlie defaced saving to other vses. The other or- 
 namentes as Vtowelles, an aultar cloth A crosse crosse (^ic) clothe, 
 a pillowe beier, were sold the yeare 1560 by the same church- 
 wardenes to John Tompson dwellinge in fiblkinghni wch are 
 also put to other vses. The other implementes as the stooke 
 caned the holie water stooke, the steers or gryses comlg vpp to 
 the al are wth the altar stone being broken were sold by ye fore- 
 said churchwardenes 1560 to Henerie wallwin & put to other 
 purposes other ornamentes as ij hand belles was sold to Edward 
 
 1 "L f "^!^'^ "J ^^"''^' ''^''^^''''' '^^^ ^y ^^'^ same church wardenes 
 lobO to Ihomas Gammon & Henerie walwyn And these be all 
 the ornamts we had in the raigne of Quene Marie as witnesseth 
 llenenerie (.7.) Cooke & George Bois churchwardenes than (sic) 
 and this we will depose vpon a book. 
 
 Wittm S (sic) Hall 
 llichard Smith 
 Henerie walwen & 
 John Grenhin 
 
 ) churchwardenes now & 
 
 / presenters of this Inventorie. 
 
 5- Sworneme^. 
 
 Lincoln 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ. 
 8. April 1566. 
 
 FFULLETBIE. 
 
 Imprimis one vestmt one alb and suche as belongith to it broken 
 and put to other vse. 
 
 Itm one cope and a sacringe bell remaynith. 
 
 Itin a crose one supaltarie and a crismatorie broken. 
 
 Itm ij Imageis marie and John brent. 
 
 Itiii a mass book torne in peces. 
 
 Itm a pece of wood (whearon stood xxiiij candels in the tyme 
 of Quene Marie) brent. 
 
 Itm iiij o" booke of papistrie wee have. And the same bookes 
 they must make awaie a (sic) this side the fyrste of Male and 
 certefae. 
 
82 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm one pix one sepulker one paire of old Sensors and the 
 Hood vvth a paire of Clappers Lackinge. 
 
 } 
 
 John Philipson 
 Eobt Smithe 
 Lincoln 
 
 George Monson gen. 
 24. April 1566. 
 
 gard 1566. 
 
 lur coram me FFYLLINGHA^. — Wittm Moris and Richard An- 
 il. Mounson. drowe Churchwardens 12. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis one Rood Loft — It was taken downe and made 
 avvaye by pcelles so that there remajnethe nothinge of it. 
 
 Itm o'^ Imageis Marie and John wth the Rood — were broken 
 in peces to be burned afore M^ Archdeacon docter kelke.^ 
 
 Itm the banner clothes and a streamer — remaynith in the cus- 
 todie of Robt Toyne of the said pish wch are defaced. 
 
 Itiii a cope — was delivered to the kepinge of Anthonie Ireland 
 of Bratelbie what he hath done there withe we knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij old vestmts — deflicid. 
 
 Itfn ij handbells — sold thone of theim to willm^ moris and 
 thother to wittm drewriet who hathe defacid them. 
 
 Itm ij Candelstickes and a broken crose — solde to Robt Scott 
 
 * Eoger Kelke was the 4tli son of Christopher Kelke, of Barnetby, co. 
 Lincola. His ancestors had been settled at the villasre, from which they take 
 their name, from an early period, and had intermarried with the Monsons and 
 other Lincolnshire families of distinction. Archdeacon Kelke was born about 
 1524. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, and took his B.A. degree 
 in 1544. During the reign of Mary he dwelt abroad. On his return he was 
 appointed Master of Magdalen College in 1559, and Archdeacon of Stowe on 
 the 5th of May, 1563. He died 6 Jan., 1575-6, and was buried in the choir o! 
 Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge. The following epitaph, long effaced, 
 once covered his remains : — 
 
 In Tumulo hoc Hominis generosa Stirpe creati 
 
 Doctrina et clari Munera Corpus inest. 
 Qui Verba hand cessans divina tonare solebat 
 
 Instar namque Tubae praeco sonantis erat. 
 Post Bellum sequitur Victoria dicere suevit 
 Sperabat Lucem post Tenebrasque sequi. 
 Hunc Famulum semper reputabat et esse beatum 
 
 Quem Dominus veniens inveniet vigilem 
 His sua quffique fuit, finitaque Concio Verbis : 
 
 Accelera Adventura, Christe, citoque veni. 
 Cum Christo est igitur, quem sgepe cupivit adesse 
 Cum Christo certe est, hie licet ossa jacent. 
 . ,„.„. Harl. MS, 1550. f. 228. Cooper, ML Cant. i. 341. 
 
 t William Drurry was a yeoman freeholder in this parish a.d. 1561.— 
 Lansd. MS. 5. f. 57. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 83 
 
 Lincoln"!''"'" '^"'^''''^' '^^"^ ^^^'' '"^'^ '^^^ ^^'^ *^ ^ P^^^^^^ ^^' 
 
 Itm o^ hollie water fatt-Lc^one wee knowe not howe. 
 Itin Crwete— gone we knowe not howe. 
 
 not i ' bookes-weare taken awaie by whome wee know 
 
 Lincoln. 
 Nicholas Bp of Lincoln. 
 Robert Monson ar. 
 19. April 15G6. 
 
 Gaton -Rafe Simpson and Henrie Willerton churchwardens 
 25. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis o^ Rood Marie and John wth a picture of St. Georgef 
 ^nl p' 7 ^^f/'^^.^like Idols-brent A^ p^mo Elizabeth by 
 Ihosjreston and Richard Skipw^^^J then churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one vestnit one alb ffanell stools wth such like linnen 
 appertaimnge to the popishe preist a mass book and a pax wth 
 such trifling tromprie belonging to the sinfull service of the 
 popish preist-was deliuerid to S^ James Bancroft A« piTio 
 Ll.eabth of whome wee had ye same the fyrst yeare of QGene 
 Marie the said preston and Skipworth being churchwardens. 
 FH.nWN ^'^7"f/>fi-7;yas given to the pson of Tottill A« pino 
 Lhzabth and what he did wth it wee knowe not. 
 
 Itm an antifoner one graile wth other broken bookes— weas 
 geaven to willia^ drape A^ pmo Elizabth who hath painted the 
 same and defaced it. ^ 
 
 Itm banner^ clothes & banner staves—was solde to James 
 diconson A« pmo Elizabth by the foresaid church warde wch is 
 ueiacid. 
 
 far cl«Lr n? ^;f '^"^^ "\t^'^ inventory would, if now in existence, be of 
 Johf Wvnll ff''^^^ /^ »^^"y than the ordinary furniture of a village church. 
 Jolm^^ycif the Reformer was instituted into the rectory of this church on 
 
 htd^[t' until r '^ ^'^^rl^'^^'^'' ^^^r^> ^^ ^^^y^ 1^«'' ^»d continued to 
 nrior of t ^>7^»;ber 1308, when on the presentation of Sir John Paveley, 
 
 fiv^^c of T a'^'^^uV^- ^^ '^t'' ^J '^^•'"salem, he effected an exchange for the 
 }!?% \ ^^,^?f ^s^4^ 1° Buckinghamshire. It is probable that many of the 
 ess destructible articles-the candlesticks, handbells, and cruets~we?e he 
 identical objects used by the reformer when he said mass here two hundred 
 years before. If time and the fierceness of religious hate had spared them 
 they would now be invaluable. Thus one generation, in the fury of its S 
 zeal, sweeps away what its successors would treasure with reverence and 
 
 + *^5T'''^' ^'/"^r :"'''] M Joh. Wyclif,ed. W. W. Shirley, xiv. xxxviii. 
 
 I ^^'^^.^""^•ch of Gayton-le-Marsh is under the patronage of St. George. 
 
 t Probably cue of the Skipwiths of S. Ormsby. ^ 
 
84 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm ij Candelstick — sold to Andrewe ffen the said first yeare 
 who defacid theim. 
 
 Itm one wood den crose — restord in the said fy rst yeare vnto 
 John Tawke who made it and he defacid it. 
 
 Itm or Rood Loft — puld downe and solde to certaine of or 
 I)ish A*' pmo EHzabeth who defacid it. 
 
 Itm one altar stone — broken and laid in the high waie the said 
 fyrst yeare. 
 
 Itm a hollie water fatt crwete and suche like — was the said 
 fyrst year meltid and occupied aboute the mending of o"" church. 
 
 R Canffield. 
 
 Gedney ffen end.— Peter Trote Churchwarden 30. April 15G6. 
 
 In pmis the roode marie and Johnne and all other popishe 
 Imagies — were burnte in A*' piTio Eliz Peter Trote and george 
 Spaine churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the masse bookes and all othe^ popishe bookes — were torne 
 in peces and made aw^aie in ye said yere by the said church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm or rode loft was taken downe in kinge Edwarde daies. 
 
 Itm one albe and one vestment wl the stole amys andfannelles 
 made^awaie and defaced by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one crose broken in peces and one pixe broken and defaced 
 likewise. 
 
 Itm one crysmatorie broken likewise in peces in A° pmo Eliz. 
 Itm one sacringe bell defaced and broken. 
 Itm one altar stone broken in peces and pavid. 
 Itrn one hallywater stocke of stone broken in peces. 
 
 Glentworthe.— Roberte Smith 8. Aprill 1565. 
 
 First the Rood and the Images Marie and John — was burned 
 in the first year of quene elezebethe by Thomas skynar and 
 wylhn toone churche wardenes. 
 
 Itm a mass booke portas wythe all other bookes of saruys a 
 mawell a preseshon— was defacid the same year by the sayd 
 churche wardenes. 
 
 Itiii ij allter stones— the one broken the other lyethe paued in 
 
 ^^^.^^^i« ^J the same churchwardenes. 
 Itm iij vestmentes— wyche M' wraye^ hath bought and hath 
 detasyd the sayd year by the same churchewardenes. 
 
 Tl,. "" ,^>''^^^0P\^^ Wrav, Knt., born at Bedale, co. York, a youn-er son of 
 
 \tZrf ) ?^' ""^ .^n ^4°^"'' "'^' l^i^limond, by his wife Join, daughter of 
 llobert Jackson of Gatenby, m the parish of Bedale. He was a student at 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 95 
 
 Itm a alb— wherof ys mayd a surpells for the preste A° dom 
 1005 by the sayd churchwardenes. 
 
 Itin a handbell— gone we cannot tell howe the same yeare 
 
 Itm a holly water stocke of stone— defacied a« dni 15G6 by 
 Kobart smythe and ellesand^ edwar churchewardens. 
 
 Itni a banear clothe a towell— sould to thorns batmane aBFio 
 tarcho (sic) Regine Elezbethe and defasyd by Robart smyth 
 ellesand^ edward churchewardenes. 
 
 Itiil an oulboxe a holy water fate a crose and a cruet— sould to 
 Kychard hardforthe of the said pishe a« dom 1563 by the sayd 
 cliurclie wardenes wyche is defasyd. 
 
 Itm on corporaxe cloth— gone no man knowethe howe. 
 
 Itm ij alltear cloth— defasyd and mayd table clothes by the 
 sayd churche wardenes. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln 
 9. April 156G. 
 
 Buckingham ColWe, afterwards Magdalen College, Cambridge ; from thence 
 lie went to Lincohi s Inn. where he was admitted Feb., 1544-5 In the 
 parliaments of 1553-1554, 1555 and 1557 he was M.P.for B^roughbridge, and 
 about l^fifi\^ for Ludgershal. He took up his residence at GleiS^orth 
 about 1506. In 15/1 he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons; on 
 14 May, 15/^ was constituted one of the Justices of the Queen's Bench, and 
 on 8 J\ov 15/4 received the appointment of Chief Justice of the Queen's 
 Bench. His wife was Anne, daughter of Nicholas Girliufrton of Nonnanbv 
 A stately tomb canopies his dust in his parish church of Glentworth. whereon 
 is lis elhgy as he seemed when alive, and in his official robes. He died 7 May 
 159-2. An absurd report of his iilegitimacv was industriously circulated 
 and, as is ever the case with calumny, has found many believers. At this 
 distance of time it is impossible to decide on the matter certainly but all the 
 evidence there is goes to discredit the story. If he had been the bastard son 
 of feir Christopher Wray, the parson of Hornby, begotten upon a wench in a 
 belfry, it is not conceivable tliat he would have quartered the arms of Jackson 
 He would, m fact, have had no right to coat-armour at all ; whereas, if he were 
 the legitimate issue of Thomas Wray by his wife, a co-heiress of the Yorksiiire 
 family of that name, it was natural for him to do so. It i^ives me <^reat pleasure 
 to support my opinion in this matter by that of the verf learned authors of the 
 Athen(e Cantabriyiomes, who, by an independent course of investigation have 
 come to a similar conclusion with myself. ' 
 
 Arms VVkay, azure, on a chief or, 3 martletts gules. Jackson, argent, on a 
 clievron sable between three falcons' heads erased azure as many cinquefoils 
 or. Motto Etjmte et vrai/.—lIarl. MS. 1550, f. 15S b. 
 
 A wiudow in Lincoln's Inn, where the arms are pictured on glass, ^ives the 
 Jackson quartering azure on a chevron sable between 3 falcons' heads' erased or 
 as many mullets pierced argent. A window of Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street 
 had the arms of Wray thus :— Az. a chevron ermine between three scimitars or* 
 on a chief of the last as many birds gules.— Cooper, At/i. Cant. ii. 121. Lord 
 Campbell, Lives of Ch. Justices, i. 200. Eoss, Lives of Judges, y. 546. 
 
86 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 87 
 
 GoNWARBiE. — Robert Charles and Johnne Armeston Chnrcli- 
 wardens 9. April 156(). 
 
 In p^mis the rode marie and Johne and all other Imac^eis of 
 papistrie — were burnte and cutt in peces in aiio pn'io Eliz Richard 
 armeston and Thomas knott churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all the masse bookes and all other bookes of papistrie — 
 were burnt in the said yere the same men being churche 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm one pixe one crysmatorie ij candlestickes one crosse of 
 copp^ one hallywater fatt of bras one paire of sensors one crewitt 
 one howslmge bell one sacring bell ij handbelles — broken in peces 
 and sold vnto Iloberte Sandes of Gunwerbie Smythe sens the last 
 visitacon. 
 
 Itin ij copes ij vestmentes one albe wt all the prestes apparrell 
 that he was wonte to were at masse — were cutt in peces a** p^mo 
 Eliz and sold to wittm carter of Gonwarbie tailor. 
 
 Itm the roode lofte taken downe — by vicare knighte of 
 grantha^ Johnne wilkinson and Richard barlie in a** piiio Eliza- 
 beth the hordes therof were putt to the mendinge of the stales in 
 o'" churche and the leades and the rest was burnte. 
 
 Itm one corporaxe clothe — cutt in peces. 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes wch were rotten and torne in peces. 
 
 Itm one alterstone broken in peces and pavid. 
 
 Itm one hally bred skeppef sold to M"* Ailen^ and he makethe 
 baskett to carrie ffishe in. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer. 
 10. April 1566. 
 
 * The Alleyns were a Grantham family, originally from Chortley in Stafford- 
 shire. George Allin and John Peake were aldermen of Grantham in 1577. 
 Henry, second son of Richard Alleyn, married Anne, daughter of Richard Peake 
 of Wakefield, co. York. The marriage was fruitful in sons and daughters. 
 
 Arms party per chevron gules and ermine, in chief, two lions' heads erased 
 OT.—Harl. MS. 1484, f. 23. Tumor's HisL Grantham, 46. 
 ^ t The holy bread has sometimes been confounded by moderns with the eucha- 
 ristic bread, but the two were quite distinct. No writer, Protestant or Ca- 
 tholic, of the reformation period, ever confuses the two. Unleavened bread in the 
 wafer form was alone used in the holy communion from the days of St. Augus- 
 tine until the publication of the prayer-book in 1552. The 'holy bread, holy 
 loaf, or Eulogia, was ordinary leavened bread blessed by the priest after mass, 
 cut up into small pieces and given to the ])eople. It was also customary for 
 women, when they came for their purification or churching after childbirth, to 
 have some of this blessed bread given to them. The words of blessing varied 
 in different churches ; the following is the Roman form : — 
 
 *' Domiile Je^u Christe, panis angelorum, panis vivus ceternse vitce, bene- 
 
 Grantram in com^ LINCOLN.— The presentment of the church 
 Goode of the Burgh Towne of Grantham sence the last 
 yeare of tlie Reigne of the kit Queene marye presented 
 according to the commandment of the Eight worshupfull 
 John Aylmer archdeacon of lincoln and professor of the 
 Devyne word of God. Exebyted by the churche wardens 
 and others of the same in a° 1565 et Elizabethe Ile<>ine et 
 octavo. ^ 
 
 fTurst we present that the Hoode loff stode vpe in carved work 
 in the ffurst yeare of the Queues maiestie Reigne that nowe is 
 and was broken downe and soldo and the mony to the vse of the 
 poore and paying wages for Takyng downe to carpenters and 
 masons and of the surplusage accompt was made by JohnTaylyer 
 then beyng churche warden to master Bentham master ffleetwod 
 and mast: eueryngton then beyng visiters. 
 
 Itm the Rood marye and John and all other Idoles and pyc- 
 
 dicere dignare panem istum, sicut benedixisti quinque panes in deserto ut 
 omnes eo gustantes, inde corporis et animae percipiant sanitatem." 
 
 Ihis holy bread was frequently, in early times at least, carried home bv its 
 receivers. Ihe religious feelings of the people led them to believe that miracles 
 ^^\^ P^^^jroxx^\\i by its agency. Thus we are told by Beda, that when a 
 certain Hildmer, an officer of king Ecfrid's court, was confined to his bed by a 
 sickness that his friends thought mortal, one of them gave him a cup of water in 
 which was a little fragment of a holy loaf blessed by Saint Cuthbert. As soon 
 as the water was swallowed, the pain in the sick man entirely departed, aud ere 
 long he was restored to robust health. Imaginative legends such as this the 
 offspring of a time when medical science, as we understand if, had no existence 
 were the result of forces that had been in operation long before Christianity 
 was planted among us. The Church was not responsible for them any more 
 than she was tor the darkness or the poetry of the times on which she worked 
 but it is owing to her intlucuce that imagination did not harden into a fixed 
 creed or degenerate into mai^ical dogn)a. 
 
 One of the demands of the Devonshire men who rose in rebellion in the vear 
 1549 for the restoration of the religion of their youth, was, ** We will have holy 
 bread and holy water every Sunday;" and when these same rebels marched to 
 Jay siege to Exeter, they bore before them the host under a canopy with crosses 
 banners, candlesticks, holy bread and holy water. 
 
 Foxe, the Martyrologist, has preserved for us the words which Hugh Latimer 
 was accustomed to use when he gave the Pauis Benedictus to his pa- 
 rishioners : *^ 
 
 " Of Christ's body this is a token, 
 
 Which on the cross for your sins was broken; 
 
 Wherefore of your sins you must be forsakers, 
 
 If of Christ's death ye will be partakers." 
 
 Beyerlinck Mag. Speculum Vitcs Humana, v. i. p. 405 c. Beda, Vita S. Cuthb., 
 cap. xxxi. Cone. Dunelm. sub Ric. de Marisco Episc. in Wilkins' Cone, v i p' 
 579. Foxe, Acts and Mon., ed. 1861, v. vii. p. 4(51. Froude, vol v'p I'zs' 
 Heylm, Eccl. Restaur. Ecclesiastical Sac, ed. v. i. p. 176. 
 
 i 
 
88 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 W 
 
 i 
 
 tours mass bookes le<^end bookes and all other papistical) bookes 
 and serymonyes was openlye burned at the Cro&se called the 
 markett Crosse in the seid yeare Master witlm Porter then beyng 
 alderman. 
 
 Itm the vestments Copes albes Tunacles and all other such 
 baggages was defaced and openlie sold by a gen^all consent of 
 The hoole corporacion and the mony employed to settynge vpe 
 Deskes in the churche and makyng of a Decent comunyon Table 
 and the Remanaunt to the poore. 
 
 Itm two chalyces of silver there patente and a silver and copper 
 shryne called senet Wulffram shryne"^ was sold and bought wythe 
 the pryce therof a silver pott pcell Gylt an an Ewer of sylver for 
 
 * Grautliam Church is dedicated to Saint "Wulfran ; some of his relics were 
 preserved in this place, but there is no ground whatever for the statement 
 made by Gcrvaise Hollis on the authority of Leland's manuscripts, that Wul- 
 fran was buried here. His biography may be found at length under his feast- 
 day, March 20, in the Acta Sanctorum. 
 
 Saint Wulfran was born about the jear G50, at Mauriliac, near the abbey of 
 Saint Wandragesilius, or St. WandriUe, otherwise Fontenelle, a Benedictine 
 house situated on the banks of the Seine, seven leagues' distance from Rouen. 
 He is said to have been of noble birth ; his father was attached to the Court of 
 Dagobert I. "When he became a monk, he gave his family property at Mauriliac 
 to the Abbey of Fontenelle. His election to the Archbishopric of Sens took place 
 about the year G93. He died at Fontenelle, Ihe date is variously given as 720 
 and 741. There cannot be much doubt but that the earlier is the true one. 
 The error has probably arisen from a blunder in transcription or the misread- 
 ing of a manuscript. Portions of his relics have been preserved in many 
 continental churches. Fontenelle, Sens, and the church ot St. Peter at Gand 
 are the principal places where their veneration is recorded. The feast of their 
 translation is held on 15 October. 
 
 Saint Wulfran preached the Christian faith among the Fresians, and made 
 many converts among them. Kathbod, their chief, was so far moved by his 
 words that he presented himself for baptism. Ere the rile was administered 
 the heathen prince solemnly adjured his teacher to tell him whether his pre- 
 decessors the kings and leaders of his people who had died in times past were 
 in the heavenly mansions which he promised to the faithful, or in the region 
 of eternal tire. Wulfran replied, " 1 do not err before God, it is certain that 
 your predecessors, the princes of the Fresian people, who died without bap- 
 tism, have received sentence of damnation, but he who shall now believe and 
 be baptized shall rejoice with Christ for evermore." When Rathl^od heard 
 this he turned away from the font, saying he would not be separated from his 
 fore-elders, the princes of his tribe, to dwell for ever with a few poor men in 
 the kingdom of heaven. The Christian missionary's exhortations and threaten- 
 ings were vain. In vain he told him that the gates of the everlasting kingdom 
 ot bliss opened not but to those signed with the mystic seal of baptism, and 
 that the pains of eternal damnation would embrace for ever those who were 
 without. Many of the populace were moved by the preacher's words to seek for 
 safety or peace within the Christian fold, but not this stout-hearted heathen. 
 He died as he had lived, a worshipper of the old gods. 
 
 Of the miracles recorded of Saint Wulfran, the reader will probably be 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 89 
 
 the raynistracion of the holye and most sacred supper of oure 
 lordejhesus Crist called the holye comunyon. 
 
 Itm there remaynes a copper crosse broken in peces a brasen 
 liatt called a hooly water ffatt broken in peces ij old Candyl- 
 stykes broken in peces the lawer pte of two Copes the Hacvno. 
 taken of and sold wich two lawer ptes ys of Damask and we 
 reserv for this vse that they may be layd on the pulpytt at euy 
 preachy ng & oia bene. ^ ^ 
 
 prepositores Ecclie de Grantham 
 predict Wittms murr Wittms lemyn"- 
 Slelbrd. 
 
 John Aelmer 
 1. April 1566. 
 
 } 
 
 ur. 
 
 th™rlfN,f f -"^'^ ?■"''"'"' ' '^ °°'' '"' ™^y ^''^ '"""y ■""fe such like iu 
 tne pages Ot Ins biographers. 
 
 Erat igitur quaedam mulier in villa, quae vocatur Frigeja. H«c concento 
 
 visPPnn. f T •^''f ""^^''''^ ''^^P^T^ ^''^^^"' ^^^"^ imminente periculo interius 
 tTr^w/ ? '^r *°'^^'"- Namque,ut moris est, parere non potuit. In- 
 S at/'^T 7'f ' '''^'''''^'' r ^'^^^^ "^"^^ aliud quam mortis debitum 
 u ffic .1 ttPm /.^^f.^^fq^e mcommodum atque pariendi passa est inlirmitatem et 
 surt.P nl? f^^t^^^tate S. Sebastiani usque ad octavam diem Dominica3 Ee- 
 SricordLl^"- .^.^'^ ^^P^^^o samore consilio, nisu, quo valuit, coepit 
 msencordiam Domini implorare & ejus Gemtricis, ut sibi dignaretur iisereri. 
 Nihilominus etiam Irequentms nomen S. Vulfranni invocans (cuius vi-iliis qu^ 
 ex more hactenus a iidelibus, celebrabantur, interfuerat, atque^ semefipam^" n 
 
 clemtL '"^''"'^ 'f^'"''' ^'J^' deprecabatur pietatem, ut per se omnipotenti De^ 
 clementiam exoraret, quo cam aut a praesenti angustia liberaret, aut vif^ finem 
 misencorditer imponeret. Dum autem devote "precibus insis ere SancS 
 nomen crebrms iterans auxiliari sibi iideliter posceret, repente vLus Slvina 
 aatuit, et venter ejus tumens a pectore usque ad umbilicum, sicque in trans 
 verso per medium, mirabile dictu, divisus est, veluti novale finderetur, at ilia 
 
 tTonlTr^ ""^P"^' ^^"^ taha patiebatur, coepit angustiari, qua etiam vocifera! 
 tione athnes pene omiies venire coegit. Qui veuientes et earn quasi mortuam 
 lugentes, non modice mirati sunt talia considerantes, et inito consilio ventrem 
 ejus aperuerunt, et mfantis ossula cum putrida came iuvenerunt, ataue semi- 
 viva muliere ea omma traxerunt. Quo facto iterum inulier Sanctum Patronum 
 obnixe expetiit, ut, quia ea.a mu-abiliter ab incommodo partus liberaverat ex 
 integro earn sanaret. Nee mora, ilia orante, ventris divisio sic consolidata est 
 
 h^nH^mn •''•". P.^'P^'f ^^'''^^' ^.''^'P^'^ ^'^^^ '^°"^"^ divisionis, ad compro! 
 bandam Dei virtutera et ejus servi meritum, permansit. Taliter itaque ut 
 diximus liberata atque incolumitati perfectai restituta, Fontanellam perrexit 
 et haec, quae diximus, ipsa pro se ita esse gesta narravit : ventris cicatrices 
 cunctis ostendens, gratias Deo et S. Vulfranno non immerito retuHt ac oust 
 modum laetabunda et laudans domum rediit. * P 
 
 The Cotton MS Otho, D 8 contains a life of this Saint differing in manv 
 particulars from that printed by the Bollandists. It has, unfortunately been 
 very much mjured by the disastrous fire in Little Dean's Yard, Westnfinster! 
 
 Z sj,!; w r T^ ?'''''^^^' ^^^^r^'' ^^ ^^^,^P^^"' '"^^ ^^^^ P^^^io^ that relates 
 to Saint Wulfran. I hope some day to pubUsh it in a volume devoted to 
 
90 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Grktkoud. — Tliinventnrie of all the opcodes belono:inge to the 
 church of Gretford wt in the deanrie of Nesse in the 
 countie of Lincoln wch remayned in the first yere of the 
 reijxne of the Quenes Ma*'® that nowe is taken by S*" 
 Henrie Howe clerke psonne ther S^ Roberte Grace curate 
 Koberte J^rowne Henrie warde willm harrisonne Roofer 
 Locke and Richard huntonne of Gretford aforesaid the 
 iiij*^ daie of marche 1565. 
 
 flirst a roode wt marie and Johne and tlie Ima<2fe of saincte 
 martine the Patrene wch were destroyed in the said ffirst yere of 
 the quenes maieslie that now is S^ henrie howe psonne there then 
 presente. 
 
 Itm a pixe of pewter wt an old white clothe <j^oune in the tyme 
 of R'»berte Browne"^ and Ra(fe holdinge churchwardens. 
 
 Itm an altare stone nowe paved in the chauncell an old painted 
 clothe for the neither part of the altare an altare clothe of lynnen 
 remnynini^e a clothe for the coion table and two candlestickes of 
 latten yet remaynini^e. 
 
 Itfii a tal)le of wood for the vpper parte of the altare destroyed 
 in the said first yere by tlie said S'^ henrie howe psonne. 
 
 Itm one chalice of silver yett remayninge. 
 
 Itm a paire of crewettes and a paxe borrowed of Stephen bond 
 and restored againe in the said first yere. 
 
 Itm an old corporaxe wt a clothe broken by Roberte Browne 
 churchwarden. 
 
 Itm a masse booke and a pressessioner and the winter parte of 
 a portes defaced then by the said S'' henrie howe psonne. 
 
 Itm a litle crosse of woode wt a staffe for procession broken 
 and destroied in the said first yere. 
 
 Itm a crosse clothe of grene silke wt the Image of the trynytie 
 yet remayninge. 
 
 Itm an old roode clothe jjone not know^en howe Roberte 
 Browne then churchwarden. 
 
 Itm two old vestmentes of bustion a stole and two old plian- 
 nele yet remayninge. 
 
 Itin an old cope of black bustion gone Robert Browne beinge 
 then churchwarden. 
 
 mediffival h\o»r2Lp\\y .—lansd . MS. 207 e. Acta Sanctorum, March, t. iii 143- 
 105. Moroni, Dizionario EccL sub nom. Chron. S. Petri Fivi Senom?nis in 
 D'A.cliery, Spiciler/ium, ii. 464. Surius, De Prohatis Snttdorum Hixtoriis, ed. 
 1570-5, t. ii. p. 290. Beyerlinck, Mar/. Theat. Vit^ Humance, \. iii. p. 254, vi. 
 11/0, vu. 28, 620. Butler, Lives of Saints, 20 March. Turner, Hist. Gran- 
 tham. p- 23. 
 
 * Robert us Browne de Gret fordo was a veoman freeliolder in 1501.— 
 Lansd. 5, f. GO. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, g^ 
 
 iiii^^^vertTfft^/' •'' ^"fr^^^ converted into a surples in the 
 iiij yere of the reign of the quenes ma^- that nowe i^ 
 
 Itm one sacrmge bell stolen awaie Robert Browne then 
 churchwarden. . ^luwuc tiien 
 
 Itm two surplesses yet remaynino-e 
 
 Itm an old lector wt a deske yet reraayniiiM. 
 wardTn." '"'™''*'''"'<^ ''°'^'" "^^^^ie Robert Biowne then ch.Tch- 
 
 clothe tor th^ neither parte of the altare serWnge lor ihe s^me 
 Itm handbelles we had none 
 
 sp>i ncLle* o a stick lor tlie same destroyed in the said first vere 
 
 snrincVle ^f'^^'^'f ^'^'^ °f ^^one L the church dore vTa 
 spnnclvle ol a stick for the same destroied in the said first yere. 
 
 Robertas Grace vbi. 
 
 dispensator ibm. 
 Henry ward. u^^,^^^ b,.^^^^^ 
 
 Kichard hamtoniie {sic) his mark ^ . 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer. 
 26. March 1566. 
 
 Imp^rais one rood with marie and John an<l the rest of the 
 
 cTb rt ff '"~^'"^*^^°.P'"^ ^'•-^^'' Thomas Steel and 
 t/Utbert Lrutterson churchwardens. 
 
 J''?,,.°"? '■""'1 *^'t'' ;' sepulker-sold to S^ Henrie Banister A-" 
 pmo Ehzabth by the sad churchwardens. ^ 
 
 nplt^in ° """f ."""f''"' '^''' ^'''^ '^'^ «'■ ^"cl' 'ii^'"eJ tables and 
 pel ing popish bookes-Borowid of M' massi„o:|,erdt in Quene 
 Maues tyme who had it againe A" pmo Elizabth and detLklTt 
 
 tl.e\'^ot' S'wL^^prlukfeT' The ^ f''^.?" ''' '''^^^ -"I' "hfei. 
 
 the following enrry!!^ = " '^'""■^''"''■•'leM' accounts contaia 
 
 G 2 
 

 92 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm or altar stones — ])roken in peces and defacid this yeare. 
 
 Itin a vestment albes Amises and such like linnen belonirin^ 
 to tlie popishe prest— deliuerid to M^ Massini^^berd a vestm^ who 
 haith defaeid it and of the albes and the rest is made a surples. 
 
 Itm or handbels cruets a cross wth a sacringe bell and the rest 
 apptaining to the popish service — handbells and cruets wee had 
 non, a crose and a sacringe bell defacid A** pmo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm banner clothes banner staves and a crosse stalfe— deflicid 
 a yeaa- ago Cuthbert Gutherson and Tho Williamson crard^ 
 
 Itm a holie water fatt— broken in peces A^ p^mo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm a pix and a pax— sold and defacid the pix this yeare and 
 the pax was defacid fyve or six yeare ago. 
 
 GuNBiE.^—W"^ Middelbrok churchwarden 18. March 1565. 
 
 Itm one vestment one cope one chalice an albe w*^*' is nowe 
 made a sui-ples one old broken crosse ij old candelstickes a sepulker 
 ij old pix ij table clothes one old painted clothe vj old towels iij 
 old pamted clothes a pax a processioner a paire of Sensors a 
 crwett— Eemainith in o^ j)ishe church of Gunbie. 
 
 female hne from the famnies of Kyme, Bernake, Bevercotes, Hussey, Fitz 
 VVilliam, litz Kanulf, and many other houses of eminence. His grandfather, 
 bir Ihomas Massmgberd, who married Jane, one of the heiresses of John 
 Braytott of Braytoft Hall, became on her death a member of the order of 
 Xnights Hospitallers. At his death, wliich took place May 25, 1552, he ^yas 
 buried in Gunby Church. His younger brother Christopher was installed 
 treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral Oct. 23, 151 G, and advanced to the di-nity of 
 Archdeacon of Stowe 2i Aug., 1543. He was buried in the Cathedral Church 
 ot Liincoin. Ihe stone that covered his remains bore the following inscrip- 
 tion, long since effaced : — o r 
 
 HERE LIETH MASTER CHRISTOPHER MASSINGBERD, LATE ARCHDEACON OF 
 STOWE, W^HICH DIED THE VIIIJ OF MARCH ANNO d'nI MDLIII. UPON WHOSE 
 SOUL GOD HAVE MERCY. AMEN. 
 
 Arms.— I. Azure 3 cinque foiles and bear passant in chief or [Massingberd . 
 The bear is an error of engraver for boar.] 
 II. Three helmets in a border engrailed fHallidav 1 
 III. A fess [Benake.J ^ ^ 
 
 nil. Three crescents between two cottiz in bend, 
 f .f ^^'^r?^ Massingberd, son of Sir Thomas, died 17 Feb.. 1550, during his 
 lather s life, and was succeeded by Thomas, the person mentioned in the text 
 who married a.d. 1539, Alice, daughter of Richard Bevercotes of Newark' 
 He represented the city of Calais in the English Parliament of 1552. His 
 great-grandson Henry Massingberd, of Braytoft Hall, took an active part on the 
 side ot the Parliament during the great civil war. He and his brother 
 
 /S^^'f 'm ^^^'^"^^^^^ '''^^^ ^"^°"S ^^e Lincolnshire gentry who were indicted 
 ot Migh ireason at Grantham sessions a.d. 16^3. At the Restoration he received 
 
 ^^^ri^lTl ' ''''' '''''^^^'^ ^ ^^^OMti 22 Aug. lOGO.-Cooper, Athena 
 
 * Guni)y Saint Nicholas is a small village on the borders of Leicestershire, 
 about two miles troin Colsterworth. 
 
 I 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 93 
 
 M"TxV•4f^^^^^^^^^^^■~^^^^^ and defacid A'^ dni 1565 bv tho 
 saide WiHm middellbrooke churchwarden ^ ^^ 
 
 Itm all the Ima-eis weare burnid in the house of Ao-nes shaw 
 widdowe in he second yeare of the Reigne of Elizabth S 
 Kinge then churchwarden. "" ^^ -c^iizauui \'\ m 
 
 Itm the Hood— burnt in the house of ye said Ao-no^ ^how nf 
 
 Elizabth Johne Grene beinge then churchwarden. ^ 
 
 The Palace Lincoln. 
 Nicholas Bp of Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Geo Mounson gen. 
 Martin Ilollingworth civ. 
 
 Imprimis one rood wth marie and John and the rest of the 
 Itm „j altar stones-Erokne in peces and Laid wth in the 
 
 ^f STeLtf;r sfi.r •''^ '^ ^-« '-- -^'^ ^^«i'p-i "-': 
 
 Itm a vestment albes Amises and suche like linnen belon-rino-e 
 to the popishe prest-the vestm wee liave cut in peces and maf 
 a pulpit clothe of and of thalbes a surplus of ^ 
 
 s-,crin!.e"ben"S''fr'''''/'"°'''' candelstickes and censors wth a 
 .oEl,l.ri ••- '"'^ appartaining to the popishe service- 
 sold and defacid mj yeare agoo Kobt Philipsou and James Hall 
 (as wee thinck) then charehwarden« 
 
 Itin banner clothes baner staves and a crosse staffe-Broken in 
 peces the said luj veare ago. i^roKen m 
 
 Itm a holie wat'er latt^solde and defacid the said tyme 
 Itm a pax a pix and a cHsmatorie— sold and defacid thV <,^iA 
 tyme^by the said churchwardens in the said iiij or yean 
 Itm a Sepulker-sold and defacid this yeare. 
 
 In pmis the roode marie and Johnne and aU Imagies of papis- 
 
94 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 trie— were burnt in anno pmo Eliz Johnne Okley and Jolinne 
 Bete churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh ij crosses of copper one paire of censors one pixe one 
 chrismatorie two processioners one Manuell one antiphoner one 
 cowcher one greate alter table vvt leaves full of Imagies of alla- 
 blaster—were burnfe in anno 1562 Wittm Smythe and Johnne 
 Tounesend churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii ij candlestickes and one other candlesticke wt braunches 
 wherin were thre sockitLes— were broken in peces at the same 
 tyme and sold to Willfh Clarke and robertc haire and thei haue 
 made theim awaie. 
 
 In pmis two vestmentes of purple veluit cut in peces likewise 
 and sold to the said clarke and harwarde and thei haue made 
 cusshinges of theim. 
 
 Itm one white vestmente of bridges satten^ ripte in peces and 
 a clothe made fherof to hange before o"" pulpitt. 
 
 Itm iij albes defaced and clothes made thereof for o'" colon 
 table. 
 
 Itm one vale wch or vicare haith and he haith made a hallino-f 
 therof. *=' ' 
 
 Itin two banner clothes wch or said vicare had and he haith 
 made curtaines for a windoe of theim. 
 
 Itm one cannapie wch o"" said vicare had and he haith made a 
 testor of a bed thereof. 
 
 Itm one holly water fatt of stone wch or said vicare haith 
 made a swines troughe of. 
 
 * A rich kind of satin, manufactured at Bruges. It is of very common 
 occurrence in old inventories, e.g. : 
 
 "A pillow and two cushions covered with ray sattin from Buries, stuffed 
 
 Trnn^^^^^r''. ^^^ ^^*'- 4«^."— Invcntorj of the Goods of Thomas Keble, a.d. 
 15U0, in Aichols Illus. 0/ Manners and Expens., ]797, p. 239. 
 
 t The tapestry han-ings for the hall or the chamber in the houses of the 
 wealthy were often ot the richest material and most costly execution. In- 
 stances occur of their purchase bein- ratified by deed executed with every legal 
 formality. The term " hailing," "chamber," or "bed," was applied to these 
 tangmgs accordmg to the use in which they were employed. Henry Bradshaw, 
 writing before the change in religion and manners had displaced legendary and 
 romantic subjects by scenes taken from the Scriptures or the Greek and Roman 
 poets, describing a royal hall during a time of feasting, tells us that— 
 "Ouer the hye desse, in the pryncipall place, 
 Were the sayd thre kynges sate crowned all. 
 The best hallyng hanged as reason was. 
 Wherein were wrought the ix ordes angelicall 
 Djvyded in thre Jerarchyses, not cessyng to call 
 Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, blessed be "the trynitie 
 Dominus Deus sabaoth, thre persones in one deyte." 
 --BradshawYXyA of Sf Werburge, 1521, cap. xvi. s. 12. [Parker] IIu.L of 
 Vomei^tir Architrrturc, v. 111. pt. 1. p. 62. l j .y 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 95 
 
 Itfh two handbelles broken in peces and sold to Johnne 
 chamberlaine. 
 
 Itrn the rood lofte sold to Johnne okelye and Robarte haiwood 
 and thei haue made a ioyce tree for a chamber and of the hordes 
 the (^6-) haue made bed selinges of. 
 
 Itm iij alter stones broken in many peces. 
 
 Itfh one sacrin^e bell wch Thomas Carter had and he haith 
 made^a horse bell therof to hange at a horses eare. 
 
 Itfh one paxe burnte. 
 
 Itfh one crewitte broken in peces by or vicare. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 11. April 1566. 
 
 Hagworthingha^.— Chrofer Jackson and John West church- 
 wardens 26. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis or Eood wth Marie and John wth the rest of the 
 popish pictures— brent A^ij^Aprilis Philip Neaf and Win Railor 
 church wardens. 
 
 Itfri or Rood loft— sold this last yeare wch is defacid Tho 
 Draunt & John west churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh or Mass bookes wth all such laten bookes— A° ij Elizabeth 
 by the aforesaid churchwardens, then beinge made awaie wee 
 know not howe. 
 
 Itm a sepulker — sold wch is defacid A° ij Aprilis. 
 
 Itfh handbeles crwetes crismatories paxes w^th such like trifles 
 -—was defacid A^ ij Elizabth by the forsaid churchwardens then 
 bein«r. 
 
 Itm banner clothes crosse clothes wth the rest of the trash as 
 vestfhts albes and such lik tromperie— wear defacid deb Ao iij 
 Eliziibth by the said churchwardens then beinge. 
 
 Itni altar stones — broken and defacid. 
 
 Itfh cros staffes and banner stales — defacid this yeare. 
 
 Itfh a sacringe bell— sold to one Storie of Connisbi'e brasier 
 A° ij Elizabth. 
 
 Haithk. — Edmond Jenkinsonne and Johnne Robinson church- 
 wardens 7. April 1566. 
 
 In pmis the roode marie and Johnne and all other Imagies of 
 papistrie were defaced in an"" pmo Eliz regine but thei were' burnt 
 but yesterdaie. 
 
 Itfh one cope broken and cut in peces yesterdaie. 
 Itfh one masse booke one half yere winter pte port-s for mat- 
 tens two precessioners one manuell two vestmentes of white silke 
 
i 
 
 96 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 for the deacon and subdeacon fower albes ij amyses ij pillowes two 
 crosses one corporaxe one crosse clothe two banner clothes one 
 sepulcre clothe iij stoles two fannelles a sacrinore bell a hallie 
 brede box two lynnen towelles one shipe a pece of the nether pte 
 of a sensor a crewitt a pix two hallie water fattes one of leade 
 and thother of latten'one crysmatorie one kirchowe {sic) that was 
 in the corporaxe broken in peces and cut in peces and defaced 
 yesterdaie beinge the vij**' of Apll 1566 and sold to S"" Leonerd 
 Towne vicare Symond Jenkinson and Wittrn Smythe. 
 
 Itin the roode lofte defaced and sold to Thomas Jenkinson wt 
 the pascall post anno 1565 and he haith put yt to prophane vse. 
 Itm one other vestraente soldo to M^ Busshey^ of the same 
 towne of heither in anno p^mo Eliz Edmond dawnte and Johnne 
 Tymberland beinge churchwardens and he haith defaced the 
 same in makinc^ a bed hanging thereof. 
 
 Itm as for alter stones we had none in queue maries tyme but 
 certaine grave stounes wch wee were faine to take vp of o'" 
 churche flower and when the alters were taken downe we paved 
 theim againe. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ. 
 8. April 1566. 
 
 Easte Halton.— Thorns Suddabyt and Thoms Dowtye church- 
 wardens 1566. 
 
 Imp^mis an alter stone broken in peces and pavid in the 
 que re. 
 
 Itm ye Rowd themages of mary and Jhon were sold to one 
 
 * Jolin Eussey of Haydor, born about 1533, died 1593, was the representative 
 of ajuuior branch of the house of Bussej of Hougbam, a family of great dis- 
 tinction, whose pedigree is proved by record evidence almost to the era of the 
 Norman conquest. John Bussey's grandfather, Edmond Bussey, the founder 
 of the Haydor family, was a younger sou of Sir John Bussey of Hougham, 
 who died in 1497. A family of this nama dwelt during the 10th century at 
 Levertou, near Boston, occupying the rank of yeomen ; they may have sprung 
 trom this house, but 1 have seen no proof of it. The Winterton parish register 
 contains an entry which seems to record the marriage of a lady of this house 
 who IS not noticed in the pedigrees : — 
 
 [1594]^" The xijth day of november was xpfer ffenwycke & mawdde Bussey 
 
 Tht Copiafeodorum Johamis Bussi/ militis domini de Houqham is a valuable 
 chartdary of this family. It forms No. 1756 of the Harleian Collection. 
 • t^... .^ buddebyde Halton generosus," was returned as a freeholder 
 in \h^\.^Lansd. MS. 5, f. 57 d. 
 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 97 
 
 georg^ Dowghtie and ye said george did burne them in ye 
 p^sence of thome Suddaby and Thorns Dowghtie in a*' Dm 1560 
 llobt Toll John^ wylson beinge then churchwardens. 
 
 Itin aF alb cut in peces and y^ of maid a cloth for a comunion 
 table in ye p^sence of Thorns Suddaby & Thorns Doughtie. 
 
 Itm a vestmet Rypt in peces and maid a cou^inge to ye pulpit 
 in ye p^sence of ye said Thoms Suddaby & Thos Dowghtye 
 Ao 1566. 
 
 Itm a payre of sensefrs a holy water fatt a pyx a handbell and 
 a lytle crewett a crose sold to M^ Willm both"^ by ye said 
 Thoms Suddaby & Thorns dowghty and ar defaced and putt to 
 pfayne vse. 
 
 Itm a grayle a portys a masse booke wch were brent in ye 
 p^sence of all ye pyshe by Thoms Suddaby and thoms dowghty 
 in ye Second yere of ye reinge of or souerge Lady queue Eliz. 
 
 * William Boothe, a younger son of John Boothe of Midelsoyle, in the 
 parish of Killingholme, by his second wife Eleanor Fitzwilliam. The Boothes 
 of Killingholme were a junior branch of the family of Boothe of Barton, co. 
 Lancaster, who became settled in Lincolnshire by the marriage of Henry 
 Boothe with Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Gaskerike of Midel- 
 soyle. The family was represented at the time of our great civil war by 
 William Boothe (born 1608). He was a Royalist, and his loyalty soon 
 brought him into trouble. On Wednesday, 8 June, 1642, the trained bands, in 
 which he was a captain, met at Caistor in accordance with the summons of Lord 
 Willoughby of Parham, Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. This summons was 
 issued by order of the Parliament, and was very distasteful to Captain Boothe, 
 who brought with him the king's proclamation and read it in a tavern to such of 
 the soldiers and others as would listen to him, "thereby endeavouring to dissuade 
 manj of the soldiers from shewing their arms." He also, it would seem, was not 
 sparmg in his ridicule of the small muster that had taken place at Lincoln a 
 short time before in obedience to the Lord-Lieutenant's summons, telling him 
 in public that ** there was a brave appearance at Lincoln of some 15 or 16 
 men." For these offences he was " disarmed to his great disgrace, in the 
 presence of his own souldiers," and kept in confinement for two days. 
 
 He afterwards served in the Royal army until the surrender of Newark, 
 May, 1646, where he was among the prisoners. He was fined by the commis- 
 sioners 415/. He returned his estate in answer to their queries at 100/, per 
 annum in possession, and 80/. per annum in reversion, out of which issued for 
 ever 1/. 7s. 9d. 
 
 This loyal gentleman did not live to see the Restoration. He was buried at 
 Killingholme a.d. 1657. 
 
 Captain Booth was taken prisoner at Winchester Dec. 1642, and Kilham 
 Booth, master gunner, happened the like fate at the taking of the city, minster, 
 and castle of Lincoln by the Earl of Manchester on Monday, 6 May, 1644, 
 a day ever memorable for the melancholy havoc committed upon the tombs 
 and other ornaments of the cathedral by the Parliamentary soldiers. — Ilarl. 
 MSS. 1190, f. 58 b. ; 1484, ff. 9. 28 6. ; 1550, ff. 73 0. 114 b. Com. Journ. v. 
 6. p. 16. The PetUion of Cap. Will. Booth. York. 4to. 1642. Dedar.of 
 H. of CommonSy in yindicatiou of Divers Members y from a 'pamphlet intituled 
 Pet. of Will. Booth. 4to. Lond. J 642. 
 
98 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 • • • . 
 
 Itm ye Rowd loft taken down and sold to Thorns ..odfrev a 
 
 «ch hath defaced it p„t it to pfane vse v' fyfte verTnf 
 
 • • . . reigne of quene Eliz bv chnstofUr \v {<./•? , 
 
 forrowe church wardens in ye p^seie ofll ' g p [f ^'''''''^ 
 
 Itm wood candlestickes sold to Edwnrd l.nfl,* . ■ a . . 
 
 and are put to pfa,ne vse Robt C^nl 1 ^ K "^ '' ^^^'"'"''^ 
 
 churchwardens ^ *^°''" '"■>■'*"» •^^inge then 
 
 Itnl ij bann^ staves a erosse staff wch were «nl,l t« t i i .1 
 Vyearr >■• and haith ni.tf tho.^ * < " '° ''""" I'ot'' 
 
 Richard fbrrow7&chrtofew^iu'^'^"t^'" "» ^^ P^"'*=« "f 
 yere of her mafys rein 4 "='" ^''""^'''^ "'^'^^'^^^ '" y^ i'>rth 
 
 nobte toll & rh,?:;c idrri:;/. ° ^"^-^ ^'^^^ "-^- ^• 
 
 ali'o\LTwS'^ri,°yf -? ''"°''' ""k'^ ""^"^ -^ J°h->e wt 
 thiuf^ton and ^Charles wpI ' V'f" ^Y""'" '^^ '^'''°™''« ^^or- 
 1561. '*'''' ^^""'^^ churchwardens ther in Anno dni 
 
 Koberte Mvnnctt nson^ f "^' i^. -' '''"''" P'~''"^ *° «? 
 
 the said Pson^e ha^ h m * ' 1°'. " ^'"."le of v" iiij.- wch vaile 
 
 haith^exchaun,e"d L Tt^iV^^^^^^tZ' "'^™^^^"^ ^^ 
 
 wer^buri" by'^.ts wr^'V^'"'' ^."'^'^^ *''" -P^ticion- 
 wardens ther i^^a„rdfiiT5CL"^'"' '"' '"'"'" "'^"^'^ ^''"-''- 
 
 said roode loft and"^;™;;'^;^,';"^^™ '''^ '"''^''^^ ""^ ^'^^ 
 floort'he!' "''''" ^'— -a ar pavid and'laid in the churche 
 
 lea'dlT Jtl'Iwi;;"-^''' ^"" '"^'*«' ^° ^•''^ -^^-i-^- of the 
 
 &UPEBSTTTTON. 
 
 99 
 
 IsaMfZutht?/lVwlr Slw^tn ^n'"' "K'^^i'^^'S'-^'e. bv Lis firs, wife 
 buried in Laughtou Church „nH.r?f° Laugliton. Her elder brother is 
 
 Dallison arn.igfquond viceeomes eT.ti'"'. """''•■ '""'"'^^^ = " «'« i««t Will. 
 
 mensfs Dec. a1. 1546 " H LX.? ^""''- JJ ^ '' "''"' ^""'""^ ""tavo die 
 upper bench in the reign of Q. jtn-.'°" ""' ^^'"""" ^'''"^°°' J"^"«« "f »!'« 
 
 Itm one crose of wood and ij candlestickes of wood and a 
 sepulcre — wch or psonne haitli burned the crose and candlestickes 
 were burned and the sepulcre the said j^sonne haith made a 
 presse of. 
 
 Itm the paxe and a sacringe bell — made awaie and defaced in 
 a° 2 Elizabeth. 
 
 Palace Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer. 
 Geo Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 Harlaxtonne. — Richard Arnold and nicholas Colbie church- 
 wardens y. April 1566. 
 
 In pmis the rode marie and Johnne and all the imagies of 
 pnpistrie — were burnte by a plumer abowte the mendinge of or 
 leades in ao 156 i Jolinne ppointe and Johnne Page churche- 
 Wiirdens. 
 
 Itm one masse booke one graile wi all other bookes of papistrie 
 — were torne in peces some of them fower yeres sens and the 
 rest were defaced vpon middlelent sondaie last. 
 
 Itm the roode loft sold to M^'Blewitt 1565 and he haith made 
 selinge therof for his hall. 
 
 Itni ij vestmentes and ij vestmentes for deacon and subdeacon 
 one erose cloth one olde albe and one sepulcre and one vaile sold 
 to M^ blewitt^ sens candlemas last past 1565 and he haithe de- 
 faced and cut theim in peces and made bed hanginges thereof 
 and cusshinjT-es. 
 
 Itm one pixe broken in peces and defaced. 
 
 Itm one crysmatorie to marke ppointe for ij*^ and he haith 
 made his boye a standish therof as he saieth. 
 
 Itfn handbelles we had none in quene maries daies. 
 
 Itm one crose iiij candlestikes one paire of sensors broken in 
 peces sens candlemas last 1566 and remaynethe in or handes as 
 yet vnsold. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre sold to M"" blewitt and he haith broken yt in 
 peces. 
 
 Itm one alter stone broken and paved in or churche. 
 Itm one halliewater fat of stone broken. 
 
 Itm one erosse clothe sold to Mr. blewitt 1565 and he haith 
 del'aced it. 
 
 * John Blewet of Harlaxton died on 29 Nov. 1587, seised of the manor of 
 llarlaxton. The famil.v had resided there for four or five generations. 
 Arms : Arg. a fess sable, in chief, 3 lozenges gules. 
 They entered their pedigree in the Lincolnshire visitation of 1564. 
 
i 
 
 100 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm sacring belles we had none in quene maries tyme. 
 itm fyve banner clothes sold to niarke ppointe 1565 and he 
 haith^DQade bedd henginges therof'as he saith. 
 
 Itm handbells we had none in quene maries tyme. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 Bishop of* Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar^. 
 
 HARPswELL.-John Walkynson and Robert Harryson church- 
 wardens 1566. 
 
 I ^""^K !l!^ f"""^"^^ ""'^^ ^^' ^^'^ ^^^^^« n^^O'e and Jhon— was 
 burned the first yere off the Reynge of qwene elissabeth by the 
 handes of tbomas\\ elles and wyttm myllner then church e wardens 
 & so they be defaced. 
 
 Itin one vestmentt and all otiier tbynges thereto belonffyno-e— 
 was lente ynto the sayd churche off ha.pswell by the handed off 
 M edward Troughwhytho and so Retorned vnto him agayne in 
 the firste yere of the Keyngne off qwene elissabethe ThonTas welles 
 ana wyllm myllnei- then churche wardens and they be deffaced 
 
 Itni one crosse off woode wth a Image off brasse vpon y tt— was 
 deftacedanno dom. a thoussand five hundrethe thresschore & twoo 
 Ihomas stocke and harye beurdsschawe then churchwardens 
 
 Itm one pare of sensers one pyxe— was defaced the yere aboue 
 named and by the handes off the church wardons Thomas stockes 
 and Jiarye beard.schawe. 
 
 Itm ij Candellstickes-Was deffaced the yere off ourelord o-od 
 a thousand hve hundreth thresschore & five Ihon Wattkinson & 
 Kobert Harrysson then churche wardons and the same put to the 
 pore man^ boxe by the condecentt off the liolle pis. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ^. 
 9. April 1566. 
 
 HELPRiNGHA^.-Edmond Grene and Ilenrie Middelton 
 x,6. April 1506 
 
 ..i^^iK'T,'-' ?r ,^''*"^ '''"' ^^^"« a°d John— defacid A" Pino 
 Ehzabth ^- \yetherall and John Golding churchwardens then! 
 
 Itm a Rood oft— puld downe and pte of it sold to Robt ffarro 
 this yeare and thother pte burnid this year also. 
 
 Itm one yestmt one albe one Amice one stool and a fanell— 
 sold to M^ Simon Hall* of Barton A<> pmo Elizabth by the 
 
 * One of the Halls of Burton Petwardine. 
 
 y 
 
 SUPERSTITION. loi 
 
 forsaid churchwardens and what he did wth theim wee knowe 
 not. 
 
 Itm one crose and a crismatorie — solde to Anthonie Newtone 
 AP pmo Elizabth by the said churchwardens who defaced theim. 
 
 Itm one crwet and one sacring bell — solde to Henrie Mid- 
 delton A^ pmo Elizabth by thaforsaid churchwardens wch is 
 uetacid. 
 
 Itm one holie water fatt ij crose clothes ij banner clothes 
 and a canapie— sold to leonard Seagrave and Robt ffarro 
 this yeare by the churchwardens that now is who have defacid 
 theim. 
 
 Itm one vestmt — sold this yeare by the churchwardens yt 
 nowe is to Robt Kyrk who therof made quishiones & other neces- 
 saries. 
 
 Itm a Mass book and ij pressioners — sold to John Goldinge 
 A° pmo Elizabth wch mass booke this yeare by vs the church- 
 wardens y'now is defacid and the rest (as the said Goldino- said) 
 is defacid. ^ 
 
 Itm one paire of sensors— sold to Tho. Bait A« pmo Elizabth 
 I>y tlie aforesaid churchwardens who defacid it. 
 
 Itm ij altar stones— thone of theim occupied aboute pavino-e 
 of or church, broken and thother of theim bestowed about a bridge 
 defacid. * ^ 
 
 Itm a corporax— this yeare defacid by vs the churchwardens 
 for this yeare firste aboue written. 
 
 Itm a veale— torn in peces and defacid A° pmo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm one pax— defacid A« octauo regine Elizabth by the church- 
 wardens that now is. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth civ^. 
 24. April 1566. 
 
 Hemswell.— John bishoppe"^ and Wittm astroppef church- 
 wardens S. April 1566. 
 
 fyrste the Rodde & all the Images and marye and Ihon— was 
 burned m the fyrste yere off the Ringne off qwene elyssabethe 
 by the handes off Robertt Cod and Rycherd Chippsaye then 
 church wardens. 
 
 > 
 
 r^ 
 
 t In 1616 John Aystrope held upwards of 117 acres of land and William 
 Aistrop near y 15 acres m this township as tenants of the manor of Kirton in 
 Lindsey Ihenameis of frequent occurrence in the parish register.-J/6'. 
 Moore, If. 4, 30. Pub. Lib. Cantab., fol. 24 b. 25. 
 
 * The Bishops of Hemswell were a family that seem to have risen from ob- 
 scurity in the 16th century. Their pedigree entered in the heralds' visitation 
 
102 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm all the lights y* did stande before the Rodd— was deffa.^ed 
 by the foresayd cherche wardens and parte off the same putt to 
 the pore mans boxe & other pte o^ they {sic) to the Reperations 
 off the sayd cherche wth the holle consecentt off the pis the same 
 yeae above named. 
 
 books of U^iHarl. MS. 1550) goes no further back than the fatlier of the 
 cnurchwarden here given. 
 
 Thomas Bishop of Hemswell-, 
 
 Bichard Bishop=Agne8, d. of 
 
 of Hemswell 
 
 John Johnson 
 of Kettlebj, 
 
 Robert 
 liishop 
 of Stur- 
 ton. 
 
 John 
 Bishop 
 of Hems- 
 well. 
 
 r 
 
 Roger 
 
 1. Richard Bishop: 
 Attorney in 
 the King's 
 Bench, 1593 
 
 rEliz. d. of 
 Ric. Sken- 
 dlesby of 
 Stow. 
 
 2. Nicholas: 
 Bishop 
 
 rrDorathy, 
 wid. of 
 Austyn 
 Galews. 
 
 3. John 
 
 4. Thomas 
 
 5. Roger 
 
 6. Christopher. 
 
 Norden and Thorpe's Survey of the Manor and Soke of Kirton in Lindsey 
 of vvhicli Hemswell forms a part, informs us that in 161G Kichard Bushop 
 gent., held in Hemswell 366 acres, 8 roods, 18 perches of arable and pasture 
 land, and that smaller portions were in the possession of his relatives llobert 
 Bushop, sen., John Bushopjun., Thomas, Roger, and Mathew Bushop These 
 surveyors give by no means a Haltering account of the head of the family 
 Ihey say that Bichard Bushop "hath ingrossed nere 400 acres of lande into 
 *♦ his possession, and liolds it by an viiknowne righte, and beinc^ required to 
 " attende tiie service of the survey for the discouery of his oune landes wil- 
 " luUie refused it and disuaded others from the same." It would seem that he 
 not only claimed to hold his own lands in fee simple, but " stru^led to make 
 " himself lorde of the manor, and much and long troubled thetenantes to draw 
 "them into a vsurped court of his oune establishynge." Norden states that 
 this pertinacious lawyer had already been "twice overthrowne by the lawe and 
 committed to the Fleete for his contemptuous arrogance." Yet he did not 
 III the least desist from his evil courses, " but notwithstanding his many former 
 convictions and punishments" still continued obstinate, and withheld his 
 brethren, who like himself had been "amerced, payned, or fined" for contu- 
 macy, from acknowledging the Prince's court. 
 
 From the acid tone in which Mr. Bishop is spoken of by these surveyors 
 
 one may imagine that but " scant courtesy" was shown them at Hemswell bv 
 
 the "atturney." The advice with which they conclude their report must have 
 
 tilled him with unpleasant forebodings if it ever came to his ears "This man 
 
 must necessarily be questioned," say they, for "the whole soke is so con- 
 
 ^ tounded in estates custums pretended and custums omitted, as it hath scarcely 
 
 » ^^e .shadow of the thmge, nor the hundreth part of the benefite likely to come 
 
 to the Prince as de jure it oughte. Therefore fit to begin the reformation 
 
 with the most obstinate."— J/.V. Cant. Moore CoL, Ff. 4. 30, fol 23 b 
 
 1 his advice was probably disregarded, for I have seen no record of any later 
 
 legal proceedings. ^ 
 
 One branch of the family of Bishop merged into that of Young in the latter 
 part of the i/th century. The Hemswell parish register at present extaut, 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 f 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 103 
 
 Itm an obbetf^ geven to ye sayd chirch by John Cod of the 
 same pis— off the valew of three schillyngcs and fowre pence by 
 yere to have bene bestowed off the poie off Sayntt andrew even 
 in bred and alle at the fore named churche & Eetorned vntt^ the 
 pore man box by theConcente off the holle pis & the fore named 
 churdi wardons the same yere above named. 
 
 Itm one qwissino^e one corporax one sanctus bell one a..-nus 
 bell gon^e owtt off the fore sayd churche no man knowethlovv 
 ano dome a thowssand five hundrethe three schore & fowre 
 Koberte aestroppe and oliver waulltum^ then churche wardons. 
 
 Itm ij allter stonnes-The one of they^ broken in peces the 
 other off they^ paved in the churche aiio domi a thowssande five 
 hundrethe throe schore & foure Robertt Aestropp and oliver 
 waulltom'' then cliurche wardons. 
 
 Itfn ij hande belles-solid to Kobertt aestroppe one off the sayd 
 Churche wardons to make a mortar off & they be deffaced the 
 same yere by the condecent off the holle pis. 
 
 Itm one vestmeutt and one cope— solid to Robertt bisschoppe 
 anno domni a thowssand five hundreth three schore and five llion 
 bissehopp and wittm aestroppe then churche wardons Thev be 
 defaced. ^ 
 
 Itm one vale— solid to Rychard headon off the same pis & in 
 the same yere above named Jhon bissehopp and wylliam aestropp 
 then churche wardons and they be defaced. 
 
 Itm one ma.-se boke a manuell and a prossessoner— o-oup in 
 pson norton dayes in the pla-e tyme frome the psona.^e and' no 
 man knoweth liowe anno domni a Thowssand fyve"^ hundreth 
 waK "'"'' """'^ ^'"^^'"^ chippssaye then church 
 
 Itm the hordes of the Rodde loffte-Sold to nicholas Cod of 
 
 begins with the year 1676. The following memoranda relative to this familv 
 with others of more recent date, occur in "ts pa-es ' ' 
 
 Bishop the son of Mr Tho.nas Young, baptised Aprill 7th [16176 
 Mary Bishop, June 12, 16S5 [Buried] F /^» Li"J/o. 
 
 Mr. Bishop Young, buried January ye 7th [17021 
 
 [1718] ^^' '^'"°^''' ""^ ^'""'^^ ^""^ ^"'"'^ ^^'^'^^P' ^^P^'^^^ Oct. ye 2d 
 George Bishop, buried Ausrst 2d [1723] 
 
 16l™t he s^m 'of' 'U/ tr fl' "^' ^'"'"l"' "^T"'^ ^^'^ ^^' ^^"^^ 25 March, 
 io±/, ine sum ol d4/. for delinquency, his offence bpino- tl.nt Ko k„^ ♦ 1 
 
104 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 the same pis ano domi a thovvssand five hundreth threschore and 
 five quiche must^ make a teastron off a bed & be defaced Jhon 
 bisshopp & wyttm aestroppe then churche wardons. 
 
 Itm one crosse — Solid to wyttm astroppe one off the sayd 
 churche wardons the same yere and itt is defaced by the con- 
 decentt off the holle pis. 
 
 Itm ij albes— whereoff* y« made a surplexe for the vicar and a 
 nother for the dark and they be defaced Jhon bisshoppe and 
 wyttm aestroppe churche wardons ano domni a thowssand five 
 hundrethe thre sehore and iyse. 
 
 Itm holye water stone one pare of seneers and one pyxe and 
 ij candellsstickes— Sold to Richard Maultbye off linkcolle ano 
 domni a thowssand five hundrethe thre sschore and five Jhon 
 bisschoppe and wyllm aestroppe churchewardons and they be 
 defaced. 
 
 Itm one olle boxe one Cruett and paxe — gone no man knoweth 
 howe ano domi a thowssand five hundreth thre sehore and thre. 
 John farre and Richard Rawe (?) then church wardons. 
 
 Itfn ij banner clothes— ssold to Robert bisschoppe anno domi a 
 thowssand five hundrethe thre sehore & five Jhon bisschoppe & 
 wyllam aestroppe then church wardons and they be defaced. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelraer Archdeacon of Lincoln 
 Martin Hollingworth 
 9. April 1566. 
 
 Hepam.— Myles Proctor and Thomas Cartnell churchwardens 
 13. April 1566. 
 
 Itm o^ Rood wth Marie & Johnne — was brent in the third 
 yeare of the Rei<?ne of o^ soueraigne Ladie the Quenes Ma*^" 
 yt nowe is by Johne Catly & Christofer brauncbie* church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itfn o^ Roode loft— sold to certaine of the pishe wch is defacid 
 and the monie therof bestowed on the repayrino-e of o'' said 
 church. ^ 
 
 Itfn an alb — cut in peces A« iiij^ Elizabth and geven to poor 
 people. ^ 
 
 Itm a yestfnt — sold to chrofer Jackson and Richard Brauncebie 
 sen A'' iij° Elizabth wch is defacid and the money ymployed to 
 thuse of or churche. 
 
 Itfn masse bookes wth suche lik legendes of Laten appertaynio-e 
 to the hereticall service— or pson S" Henrie EUiz had whols 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 <i 
 
 *r "^}^^f^% Braunceby de hepliara yeoman" was a freeholder here in 1561 
 — Lansd. MS. 5, f. 57 b. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 105 
 
 dead of the plage and what became of theim we know not who 
 were his execut^ we know not. 
 
 Itfn a crose— broken A« iij regni nre regine Elizabth by the 
 said churchwardens who defacid it. 
 
 Itfn a hollie water stock and a holh'e water sprinckl— defacid 
 A° primo Elizabth. 
 
 Itfn or altar stones— broken and defacid A« iij re^nne Eliza^ 
 beth by the said churchwardens. ^ 
 
 Itm one banner cloth— made awaie and defacid the same tyme. 
 
 Itfn a pax— by the said churchwardens in tliesame third yeare 
 was defacid and broken in peces. We had no more wch on o'" 
 othes mst ly wee may affirme ffor the rest of the trash and 
 tromperie wch appertaynid to the popish preist and popish 
 service was brent at the Spittell in Kin-e Edwards tyme wch 
 m Quene Maries tyme wee did not provide, so that nowe it is 
 out of o^ charge, and out of commaundm^ to make therof an 
 accompte. 
 
 HoGHE.— Ihon meansforthe and wittm Pickworthe 26. April 
 1566. ^ 
 
 In primis the Images of the Rood mary and Ihon wth all other 
 Images— burned a** vj*'' Elizabethe. 
 
 Ifn o" masse booke with all other bookes of papistrie— burned 
 smce the last visit^. 
 
 Itfn one vestmet a deaco a corporax and all other thinces 
 belonginge to o^ vestmentes— sold to M^ houghe A« ij do Eliza- 
 bethe beinge defaced. 
 
 Itfn ij crosses iij banners clothes and a payre of censors— sold 
 to Iho bee smce the last visit beinge defaced. 
 
 Itih a vestmet a albe a crosse clothe— sold to Thomas machfh 
 at the same time beinge defaced. 
 
 Itfn ij handbelles ij candlestickes a holy water fatte— sold 
 since Jhe last visit beinge defaced. 
 
 Itfn the rood loft— takne downe and put to proijhaue vses 
 a° quarto Elizabethe. 
 
 Itm a pix a pax— takne away and brokne by M' Larke a° iiii^ 
 i^lizabeth. *^ 
 
 Itm on crismatorie and a sepulchre— takne away by M^ larke 
 the same time. 
 
 Itfn ij alter stones— brokne and put to prophane vse a*> primo 
 
 Itfn a sacringe bell— sold to Austen Earle to put about a 
 calues neck. 
 
 Item j crewette— brokne in peces and made awaie A° iiii^ 
 J^lizabethe. "^ 
 
106 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm a veale and other line^ clothes— cut in peces and painted. 
 Itm a Judasse— brokne and made awaie anno prirao Elizabethe. 
 Itrn a corporax— brokne in peces by M' larke A^ quarto 
 Ehzabethe. ^ 
 
 HoLLYWELL.— vmfraie Chamberlaine churcli warden 21. March 
 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis the imagles of the roode marie and Johnne and all 
 other Ima<ries of papistrie— were burnte by George Jackson and 
 wittin Welles A° 1560 being churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one masse booke one pressessioner and one portes and all 
 other bookes of papistrie were — {sic) were torne and cut in 
 peces by M" harrington A« 1565 vmfraie Chamberlaine church- 
 warden. 
 
 Itm the roode lofte—taken downe in A° 1561 and broken and 
 sold to Stephe^ Walker George Jacksonnc and willm Welles 
 churchwardens. 
 
 It»J ij ci'ose of wood broken and defliced. 
 
 Itm ij handbelles a paire of sensors one pixe ij crewettes a 
 crismatorie two candlestickes a corporaxe one crosse clothe and 
 one cannapie wt one sacringe bell— broken in peces and defaced 
 in A^ 1565 and all the said monuments of bras were sold to 
 Robert vellam of holly well the said vmfrey chamberline churche 
 warden. 
 
 Itm one vestment one albe ij alter clothes and ij stoles— sold 
 to Robert vellame 1565 whoe haith defacid the same and cutt 
 theim in peces. 
 
 Itm lij altar stones — broken and put to prophaine vse. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre of wood — burned. 
 
 Itm one paxe broken and knokte in peces. 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes— made awaie in a° pmo Elizabeth but 
 
 howej knowe {sic) but the pishe saie that thei ar defacid. 
 
 Itm one hallie water stocke of stone — broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one sup altare — broken and defacid. 
 
 Itm one cope and one surplese remayninge in o^ churche at 
 this pnte. 
 
 Itm ij alter clothes— sold to Steven walker and defaced. 
 
 Itm one vale that honge before the rode — broken and defaced. 
 
 Itin one creme boxe— broken and defaced. 
 
 Humfria^ chamberlaine dict^ se vidisse hec oia examinat p 
 luramct. ^ 
 
 HoNlGTON.— Thomas Smithe and wiilm Burbut church- 
 wardens 10. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis the Rood Marie and Johne wth all thother Im 
 
 ageis 
 
 SUPERSTITION, io7 
 
 Ao^*? '^ vi"'1 ^T'\? ""'^ "" °^^" ''°o'^'e« of papistrie was breut 
 A" p^io Elizabeth By m'' Thomas Disney * 
 
 Itm ij candellstiokes one cruet one pax one hole water stock of 
 stone and a can^-broken and defacid Anno pmo Elizabeth the 
 sa.d bmithe and Tomson beinge churchwardens. 
 
 lt.n a crose clothe a vestmt a crose ij bai«er clothes a i>aire of 
 
 foU °vnfo "t^ " T^l 'J ''""'^'^'-■"^ ^ "'^ & - crismatori box- 
 sold vnto Kichard wilkmson the second yeare of the Queene. 
 
 Saced."^'" ^"' "°" " ^^ "'^ '■■'^'^ cLrchwurdens wch is 
 
 Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 10. April 1566. 
 
 HoHBLi>,-GE.-Thinventarie of all suche copes vestmentes and 
 other monumeutes of superstition as remayned at any 
 tyme wt ,n the p.she church of Horblinge sens the deathe 
 ot the lat queue mane made by Thomas Buckmynst® and 
 Ao dM Jlol"' '^^"'•"'^^^'''■'le"^ the xviijth daie of marche 
 
 In pmis the Imagies of the roode mare and Johnne and all 
 other Imag.es of papistrie-one Thomas wrl<.hte had a,"d re 
 
 Br:'rani.7or^,^''^f f ' '''\ '^^ ^'^-^^ -^^ i^^^iz 
 
 i3um^ie and Kobert peile being churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all the mas^^c bookes portases mannuelles lea-endes o-railes 
 cowchrs and a 1 other books of papistrie-were sold 1^/011, me 
 Craile mercer by vs Thomas Bckmynster and Johnne Bur "eis 
 sens the las v.s.tacon^ holden at ancaster the xix'- of ffc^ruar e 
 
 ttttiL'SS tt"'' ''' ^'^"'^ '" '-'-^^ ^-' '-^^ 
 
 Itin the roode lofte—taken downe by Johnne Craile and 
 Johnne Browne whoe sold the same to Robert Gawthorne and 
 Johnne Grade who haith made a weavers lomb therof and mtde 
 windoes and suche like thinges. 
 
 mad?of ihcim. ''"'''-'' ^^'^^''^ ^""^ ^roughes and bridges ar 
 bliil"! ^'Z X^^t-nentes-the one haith Thomas wrighte of hor- 
 
 heTiff '°"'T '"^^ »''^'^" *° ^^''-■'^'^'-'l Colsonne a scoller and 
 he haith made a players cote therof in Ano p^mo Elizabeth. 
 
 * A junior member of the faoiily of Disney, of Norton Di^nev Prnh»hW 
 a younger sou of WiUiam Disney, 'who filled tke office of High Srifl' i^ 153"^ 
 
 H 2 
 
108 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm two Albes— was cut in peces and snrplishes made therof 
 to serve for o churche. 
 
 Itm the sepulcre— was sold to Robert lond and he saith he 
 naith made a presse therof. 
 
 Itm the crosse sensors crismatorie wt two handbelles two can- 
 dlestickes wt crewittes and pax and all other thinges of bras was 
 broken in peces and sold to Johnne Skipp sens Christmas last 
 past. 
 
 Itm a hollle water fatt of stone broken. 
 
 Itm three banner clothes— wch were g-even awaie to childerne 
 to make plaiers cotes of anno pmo Elizabeth. 
 
 Ext apud lincoln in domo M'" Johannis Aelmer, Archni 
 lincoln infra clausum lincoln cora^ Ev^« pre^ dno nicho 
 lincoln Epo John Aelmer Archno lincoln et Georo-io 
 mounsonne generos^ Comi^ss reg-iis &c. xix die Ma?tii 
 1565 luramenf gard^ &c in pn^tia Thome Tailor notarii 
 publici. 
 
 ^"""'"fi'-^^ThT'^PP^'^''"^ ^^^^'^^'^ P^^^^Pe churchwardens 
 10. March 1565. 
 
 In p^mis the rood marie and Johnne and all other Imao-es of 
 superstieion-were burnte by willm Cooke and mathewe bowle 
 churchewardens anno 1560. 
 
 Itm one cope and a vestment— borrowed of M" Elizabeth 
 Ihymelbie a nunne and at the defacinge of all the said monu- 
 mentes of Supsticon the said cope and vestmet were deliuered to 
 M Johnne Thymelbie^ wch haith defacid the same. 
 
 Itm one masse booke a manniiell and a portess at all other 
 latten bookes of papist rie— were burnte by Willim Cooke and 
 Mathew bowle churchwardens ther A'' 1563. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 109 
 
 p 1 i'Vf""tT r^%"''r'^^l\y seated at Poolliam Manor, uear Horncastle 
 Richard Thimbkbj of that place married Elizabeth, sister aud one of the 
 coheiresses of Sir Godfrey Hilton of Irnham. A window in Irnliam church 
 once con amed an mscr^)tion to their memory. «' Orate pro animabus 
 Rieardilhimelby et Elizabethe uxoris ejus, quondam Domini de Irnham et 
 benefactor hujus capell^ anno domini mdxxxi." Elizabeth, the nun wholnt 
 the vestments to the parish church, was their daughter; M . John Thimbleby 
 who received them back from the churchwardens, was hernephew and the son 
 
 a' t lier Ihn T b^T 'f t^ 1 '™'^"^- 7'^ ^^'^ ^^^ eS b the 'dt h 
 Thlt rr^r P'f n 'm/ ""^ ^'"^'^"^' ^•°- ^^^^- ^is heiress, Mary, married 
 Ihomas ChfFord ot Chillington, co. Stafford, a d 1688 "lamea 
 
 Arms : Paly of six, argent and sable, four mullets, in bend, of the second 
 
 fe' T^of fifav'tofr' bl^'l' ' chevron between 'three stone bins, 'able.' 
 riGoiT ot Braytoft, sable, three mill picks, argent. Swinford areent a 
 chevron, gules, between three boars' heads, coupcd, or Hjltox arlent a 
 hon, rampant, or. Swi^ro^, azure, a bend, between 6 martletirirgent ' 
 
 1 
 
 Itm one pixe a crysmatorie and a paxe and a crose— broken 
 all in peces and sold by the said churchwardens A** 1563. 
 
 Itm one halliwater fatte and a pece of saie clothe that hono-e 
 before the altare— sold to Robert drowrie for the some of vij« vi^ 
 by the said churche wardens A° 1563 wch he haith broken and 
 defaced. 
 
 Itm a cross clothe banner Clothes— sold to S'' guye leckill 
 psoniie ther for the some of iij^ iiij^ by the said churchwardens 
 wch he haith painted and made hangiuges for his hall. 
 
 Itm the roode loft taken doune by harrie drowrie and Johne 
 newcome churchwardens ano 156* and was sold to the said 
 harrie drowrie for vj^ vch he haithe broken in peces and put to 
 prophane vse. 
 
 ItiTi one alter stone — paved in the churche vpon the grave of 
 the late wieP of Johnne Thymelbie esquier. 
 Itin one cruett wch be defaced and made awaie. 
 
 Church of 8t Martin Lincoln. 
 Geo Mounson. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ^. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 Kelbie in the PisHE OF Hayuor.— Thomas Wells and 
 Lambert Harrison churchwardens 8. April 1566. 
 
 Itm a vestment a pair of Censers and a Stoole— wch the said 
 rhomas Wells bought this yeare and defacid it. 
 
 Itm on other vest™t_sold to Richard Bull of the said pishe 
 this yeare by the said churchwardens wch is broken in peces and 
 defacid. 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes— solde to william Ponderell of the saide 
 pishe A^ dni 1566 by the said churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 Itm a sepulker clothe— solde to Robt Harrie of the said pishe 
 this yeare by the aboue namid churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 Itm a cope — sold to Thomas Geven this yeare by the aboue 
 namid churchwardens who hath defacid it. 
 
 Itm iij albes— whearof ij made a surples^ and the third a table- 
 clothe this yeare. 
 
 Itm a Rood Loft— sold to Thomas Grene this yeare by the 
 said churchwardens who haith defacid and broken it m peces. 
 
 Itin a sacring bell— solde to Giles Harrie this yeare by the 
 said churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 Itm ij candellstickes a holie water fate a pix a sacringe covering 
 ij crosses & a crismatorie— sold to James Lawe this yeare by the 
 
 f 39^^^^^^^^^' ^^"^^^^'" °^ Chatterton of Wiltshire. -^Harl. MS., 1550, 
 
110 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 rlneTj'^"'^"^ "'■'' '^ '^■•°'^-- - P-- «^efacid and put to 
 
 iJZL'fZ ^dd i.S" '"' '^ r-P?— '<! to Godfraie 
 wC-h is defaced P'^''et'»s yeare by the said churchwardens 
 
 the vi ^p"ti -fiittrS^ t s^'iid'^r^" r^i^^^ ''-«- 
 
 the sa,d churchwardens in the pn^ce^of the p" 1 neT ^^ 
 
 We'ira^d^SUSt-r'^ti ''"""" P~f'-"'^^ *° Thomas 
 abo.,ena,„idchurcSdeus '"'''' "^"'^ "''^ '^'''^'^ ^y the 
 
 Itm ij altar stones— whch is (]pfno\A n„,i t -i • .• , 
 and serveth as brid-es iolLZrt.^A and La,d ni high waies 
 their nowe remaiueth no tr2 . '^""' ^^ ^° *"' «« t^^t 
 
 in oi= said chu "h of Keiillie;"''" "''""P"" ''^ ^^P'^'' P^^^rie 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer, Archdeacon of Lincoln, 
 liobert Mounson ar^ 
 Thomas Saintpoll ar^ 
 George Mounson gen^ 
 Martin Hollingworth clv^. 
 
 other Cr.L.'jSScl'''' ""t """"•■"'' "»"'»"•! ''^ 
 
 wardens. vvaienali and Johnne pame church- 
 
 Itm ij albes-defaced and a surples made thereof 
 
 SUPERSTITION, m 
 
 ^ Itm one corporaxe one crosse clothe— defacid and made awaie 
 in Anno 1559. 
 
 Itih two alterstones— broken and laid in the hie waie. 
 
 As for handbelles sacring bell— we had none in quene maries 
 daies. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre — burned. 
 
 Itm all the bookes that we had in or churche in the tyme of 
 quene mane we borrowed of one psonne Brearley late pson of 
 Kipingale and thei were deliuered to his exequutors at the tyme 
 ot the defacmge of all papistrie. 
 
 Itm one hallie water stock broken in peces. 
 
 Langtoft.— Robt fairflix^ and Michael wric^ht churchwardens 
 21. May 1565. 
 
 Impmis ij copes ij vestmentes and a deacon— sold vnto Robert 
 bever of the said pishe a« dni 1565 by the said fairfax and wrio-ht 
 churchwardens and is broken cut in peces and defacid and also 
 one corporax cut in peces and defaced. 
 
 Itm ij handbells one crosse ij candell stickes a pix Sensors and 
 ty ve towells— sold vnto S'' Robt Greg vicar of the said Lano-toffc 
 and the said Robt bever, A" dni 1565 by Robt ffairfax^'and 
 michaell wright churchwardens and weare defacid in the pii^ce 
 of the substancialest men of the pishe parte thereof in the first 
 yeare of the Reigne of o" soneraigne ladie Elizabeth and parte 
 ot the same A" dni 1565 by the said ffairfax and wright church- 
 wardens weare broken in peces so that nowe it is quite defacid on 
 or othes. 
 
 Itm one Rood cloth and a crose clothe — sold vnto S^ Robt 
 Greg vicar of the said pishe anno dni 1565 by the said Robt 
 lairlax and Michaell wright churchwardens who defacid it and 
 put it to pfane vse. 
 
 Itiii one Cruet — brusid and broken in peces Anno dni 1565 by 
 the said Robt ffairfax and Michaell wright churchwardens. 
 
 Itm iij altar stones— broken and daiacid in the first or second 
 yeare of the Reigne of or soueraigne ladie Elizabth John wright 
 and Thomas Cattell churchwardens, thone solde vnto Thomas 
 
 Robert Fairfax must have been an offshoot from the Fairfaxes of Swarby 
 or those ot Deeping-p^ate, co. Northampton. His name does not occur in 
 either pedigree. Deeping-gate is in the parish of .Maxey, near Peterborough, 
 just on the Lnicolnshire border. The Editor possesses a manuscript kalendar 
 executed on vellum, at some period certainly not later than 1463, in which 
 the lairtaxesol thjs place have recorded the births, baptisms, and raarria-es 
 ot then- family m the loth century. ° 
 
 n.tP''^ of Fairfax of Deeping-gate : Barry of eight, argent and gules, a 
 canton oi the latter. 
 
112 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 aSuttt i*r :?■ i:icT'i 'r^^. ''^''^- --p'^'i 
 
 fire herthe. " '"'^ '''•''" «»'' t^e thirde sett in a 
 
 viif7L:;^l^,f Xo~^^^--" vnto the -icl S^ Robt Greg 
 garJ. ' '^'" ^■'^•^ J"hn Blood and llobt Grome 
 
 J^ one pax-de<aeid throune a Loutet:- churche and „,ade 
 
 ireT::t;rs-':s,,^^f^ 
 
 Itm a rood wt M W a S i i'"'*' "' *'"'"' "°^^« "ndefacid. 
 1502 or in the fi Vvea ^0^0 "^^^^^^ ^'''"''^ A""« <JSi 
 
 Thomas Cattellthe;C;:{,:;r:rSi'''^ Johne .right and 
 
 L.U-OHTOX nx. S™.. .-Riehard Welles churchwarden 9. April 
 
 Geot Htl*°ln.S""' l""**^ "J --^'- J-t past 
 bordc'were sold ^°""» '''^'°° churclnvardes & [bei 
 
 ali'r £';eref la'f ;:r' 5''" rrf "^--^ -'d made awaie 
 chmche waides "^ ' "'*'" ''^" ""^ '^'''o- welles beinte 
 
 Jt^dTLSl^^^^^^^^^^^^ of Papisterie were also 
 
 One vestemet and one handbell wih rln w 
 va^ remayneth :n the handes oFoWge h2 seT'^"^ ^"^ -« 
 
 e.ofh::;tTe^'„P:^; r-^',;f . Pixrcr„etter:;nsers, banner 
 can not learne how th™;: "on "'^""^ "'"'"^'^ churchwarde 
 
 ihe cross was broke^ in peces and «nl,l+„ *• . 
 yeres past wilh.s hall and Tho wel^.. 1 u *"'^''''" ''''°"^« ^'^^^e 
 
 The alter <;tone«, nn! ;1 1 i 9 , ^"'"S churchwardes. 
 
 - laid for a gj^ue stre "" ^""''^ ^'''^ ^''"-'>' ^bother 
 
 Jtm one holie watercan is madeawaiebut wecannot learnehowe. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 ArartifHT^''''''^r°°°f^'"«°l"- 
 ^uartm Hollingworth. 
 
 9. April 15G6. 
 W^yToSs^n"""' "" ^ ^*^^^^^^^- ^-- in the 4th of Elizabeth.- 
 
 SUPERSTITION 113 
 
 LEA.---Robt wilkingson and Georcre Gornell churchwardens 
 8. Aprill566. 
 
 Itm one Mass booke wth the rest of suche papisticall bookes 
 and ij poi-tises--wear burnid A° dni 1562 Lawrence Landaie and 
 Lreorire Garnell churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one cope and vest™^ one albe one stole and one fanell— 
 borrowed ot John hodgson"^ late bayle of Lea in the tyme of Quene 
 Mane to whome at the deathe of the said Quen it was restorid. 
 
 Itm ij candlestickes ij handbelles and one pair of Sensors— Like- 
 wise borowed of the said Hodgson and to him redeliverid the 
 same tyme. 
 
 Itm one sacringe bell and a crwet— borrowed of willm Theaker 
 the said tyme and to him restorid A° pmo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm one altar stone— broken and Laid in o^ church defacid 
 iiij° year ago. 
 
 Itm o'' Rood with the Imageis Marie and John— wear burnid 
 by the churchwardens fyrst above writton A« dni 1566. 
 
 Itm one chrismatorie— made away Ao dni 1502 Lawrence 
 Langlaie and George Garnell churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a Rochet one crose clothe ij banner clothes and one old 
 vestment— Remaynith in o*" Church. 
 
 Itm a pix and a pax— mad awaie and defacid AP diii 1562 by 
 Lawrence Langlaie and Georg Garnell churchwardens. 
 
 Lentox als Levington.— Simon Searson and Johne Barleman 
 churchwardens 22. March 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis one vestment— w^^ Thomas Philips of the said pishe 
 had out of the churche Anno dni 1559 he being then church- 
 warden and Rafe Browne who cut it in peces and defacid it. 
 
 Itm one crose and an old clothe— defacid Anno dni 1565 by 
 Symon Searson and John barleman churchwardens. 
 
 The Hod^sons were long tenants of this manor. Their social position 
 seems to haveheen that of welLlo-do yeomen. A Thomas Hodgeson, perhaps 
 the same, but more probably a son or uepliew of the above, took on lease of 
 the lord of the manor of Lea, in 15S3, certain parcels of land for the term 
 ot twenty.one years, for which he was to pay viij£i. He bad at the same 
 Time a similar lease granted -him for other lauds, for which he was to oav 
 vj£i xiijs. liijd. ^ ^ 
 
 A return made of the tenants of the manor in 1583 furnishes the following 
 n^mes of tenants :-John Gylby, Robert Atkynson, Hverome Wilson, JohS 
 ri"? %1^^^^'L^T-^^'^"''^"' I^'^omas Hodgeson, Richard Quybbe, Thomas 
 Uarke, Tiiomas Pell Thomas Broke, Richard Sykes, Antony Jonson, Rvchard 
 ^oble, Robert bhadforde, Richard Proctor, Christopher Theaker, Robert 
 ^mylhe, Roger Oliver, John Graunt, Thomas Garnet, Martin Boniface, 
 
 p^ fi.^u^"'^^'^' John Cattley, William Bewley, Edward Woodhome, and 
 Edward Robinson. * 
 
lU 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm one rode loft-sold vnto Symon Searson & wittm yonffs A" 
 quiuto regine Ehzabth by whome it is detaeid and put to niane vse. 
 
 v.f!" Tn-r"*"'*'"*. 'J.''«^'-'°"« 0"e albe and an amiss-sold 
 vnto IV Gibson and Simon Searson A" 1565 lor v' viii" bv 
 whom it IS defacid. •' •' 
 
 Itm the mass book the Imag-eis and all such popish peltrie— 
 
 ^^.^ r^v f",'^ ^''■''?'^ '''" ^^■'•^^^ «■• second yeare of the 
 Eeigne of Elizabth in the second yeare Kobt Smvthe* and 
 Ihonias beet churchwardens. 
 
 .~T f "■"■ ^' bell-wch W Edmond Haselwood of Handbie 
 graung had and vsed in h.s house (as he said) to call worck- 
 
 bv^tS !viP''f~7''^ *? ^^'"" ^^''"S^ «f Osgorbie anno dni 1565 
 brasier ^''"'''^''"■'^'•^'ens ^vho also (as he said) sold it to a 
 
 fK^*"!! '^ f"^fr ,!t''nes-wcli ar bestowed aboute the pavino-e of 
 the church A" dm 1559 thone of theim and thother in suclf vse 
 A" tertio regni regme Elizabth. 
 
 Itin a pair of Sensors iiij»^ candelstickes-broken in paces Anno 
 dn. lo6o Symon Searson and John Barleman churchwardens. 
 «o;,] I '^ P'-^-t^'"ced and broken in peces Anno dni 1565 by the 
 said churchwardens. , •' 
 
 Jeml 'T ""'^r ""^ ^^!^,^^^7 ^^^i"^^« ^^'^ordin<. to thininctions 
 -remaineth in o^ said pish church A^ dm 1505 8ymon Searsou 
 and John Earleman churchwardens. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 ^3. March 1565. 
 
 sai? :;u^.Kr^l''"■" '"' J°'— »>■•-* this yeare by the 
 DoniH""''" 'i""'''' 'na^Selles and Legendes wth all such 
 
 the'xth 5 .1?^ T rr' ^- "^"■^ "'^"^'^ ''^^''t yesterdaie being 
 tue xtti ot this instant Aprill. . ^^ 
 
 a illfnn"^''''^/!!'"^''^'?'' ^^'^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ Pt of it made 
 a well post and the rest brent 
 
 a morte'r tfif '"^''^^ '' '^ '^^^^'^ ^^^"' "^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ "^ade 
 
 Eirzabeth!'' ^""''^ """' ' ^^'"^^^ 1^^^^°^^^^ ^ere in the 4th year of Queen 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 115 
 
 Itm a crismatorie and a pix ij crewetes— solde at Grantha^ faire 
 
 last past to a pewterer of Lincoln. ..« t i, 
 
 Itm a crose— sold iij year past at Grantham for ij Johne 
 
 Hixon and John Dawton churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a vestmt— sold to Willm Taller this yeare who hath 
 
 defacid it. x i - tt* ^i • 
 
 Itm ij candelstickes and Sensors— solde to Johne llixon this 
 
 yeare who hath them. 
 
 John hyxon haythe ij candelstickes & sensors vndeiased. 
 
 Itm banner clothes— \vee had none. ^ -cr i -u 
 
 Itm iij altar stones— made awaie A° pnmo regme ±.hzabtli 
 
 and broken in peces. 
 
 Itin one cope— remaynige in or said pishe so that wee haue 
 no monument of supersticon now remaynige. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth civ. 
 11. April 15G6. 
 
 Manton.^— Andrew Sawer and Robertt Hyll churchwardens 
 
 8. April 1566. 
 ffyrste the Rodde and all the Images Marye and Jhon-was 
 buried in the fvrste yere of the Reingne off qwene ehssabeth by 
 the handes off J hon mawdsson and wyllm brunbye then churche 
 
 wardens & so deffaced. . , 
 
 Itm one masse bok a manuell and prossessioner— was burned 
 likewysse the fyrste yere off the Reynge off qwen ehssabeth by 
 the hnnds off the said churchwardens. i ^ j 
 
 Itm the li<-hte v* did stand beffore the Rodde— was deffaced 
 by the savd church wardens in the fyrste yere off the Reyngne 
 off qwene^ elissabeth and pte off the same putt to the pore men 
 ])oxe & the Reste off them to the Reperations oft the saul 
 churche off manton by the holle conccentt off the pis. 
 
 Itm one wudde crosse wth a littell crucifhxe vpon ytt— was 
 deffaced the same yere and by the same Churche wardens. 
 
 Itm one vestmentt off Rud Russells and one au be— was sold 
 to willimbrombe and edward poste anno domi a thowssand hve 
 hundrethe thre sschore and fowre by the concente oft the hoiie 
 
 pis & be deffaced. , . -l ii 
 
 Itm the Woodde off the Rodde lofte-was taken downe by the 
 handes off M"- Rycherd bellynghamt off the sayd pis and therott 
 
 * The monumental inscriptions formerly visible jn this church were printed 
 in the Gealleman's Ma(/azi«e for Sept. 1864, p. 3G/. j„«»™,lpa from 
 
 t The Bellinghams of Manton and Brumby Wood ^'=.'-\?^^;^?=°X^^^ 
 the second son of Sir Robert Bellingham, ot Bellmgham, m ^orthumberland, 
 
116 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 and Eychard wftt^'Xr;;:^:"^ ^'^""^^^ '-"-''>•« 
 Itm a hafhes hiidde and tickynffe belle—solld f^ 11 ~ 
 
 then churche wardens and they I dSed ' "■^*'" '^""^'^^^ 
 
 wardens. *"°° ^''^ "^""^ -"en beinge churche 
 
 Itm one Par^sen^ers-wa^^olldto^^^ ,„j 
 
 table shows the Lincohshlre br^c'h o? ^1^ f^^J Ij^"^'-''- 'l'''^ f°"owm^ 
 
 relict ot William Moriej of Holme. 
 
 Sister and 
 
 heiress of- 
 
 Wasliug of 
 Brunibj AVood, 
 l8t wife. 
 
 ■ Thomas Belhugham: 
 
 -• • . . dau. of 
 Hotham, 2nd 
 wife. 
 
 Kobert, Captain at 
 Berwick. 
 
 Kichard Bellingham== 
 
 •Jane, d. of Robert 
 Evers of Belton, 
 in the Isle of 
 Axholme, 
 
 loot 
 
 Robert and 
 Thomas 
 ob. 8. p. 
 
 -AJice^Robert Oliver. 
 
 John Bellingham: 
 of Brum by W uod. 
 uving 1562. 
 
 ■Alice, d. of 
 Stephen 
 Lodington of 
 ScottoQ. 
 
 2. Robert 
 
 3. Richard 
 
 4. Thomas 
 
 6. Christopher 
 6. Edward 
 
 Catherme 
 Joan 
 Troth 
 Maud 
 
 ^'ic. Barnaby. 
 
 William BeUingham 
 ofManton. 
 
 Frances, d. of Alexander Troth= 
 
 Amcotts, of Aisthorpe, 
 
 J }'\ '^'^■^' ^usan, d. 
 of Richard D'Isney, of 
 Norton D'Isney. 
 
 Troth=Thomas Saunton, 
 „ ^, . of Saunton. 
 
 Catherine= Gannok 
 
 lsabell= Jerome Markham 
 
 I I 
 John 
 Thomas 
 ob. 8. p. 
 
 Susanna 
 
 Sarah 
 
 Judith 
 
 Richard Bellingham 
 
 Joan. iL wife of it fir t R l^d '^^^^^^ ? -' '"""''^ '''' ^°^^ ° 
 
 violence of man havrrendered tt Inf. ?"^''^'^ ^"^^'^°- Tin.e and the 
 preserve what remains of k here « n r r?f '"'' ^"'"'^ '^^'-'^^^' i therefore 
 "a^^s-. • A-r^ent- '/^i^^^^^^^^^^' ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^"^^'^«'- 
 urgent, ihreefenVttr^ur^'''' ^"'"'' '^^^^ ^^""-^^ gules. Quartering 
 first, BuRNisHiBTaod J^^^^^^^^^ of the second, a lion rampant of The 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 117 
 
 edvvard poste the yere off oure lord god a thowssarid five liun- 
 dretlie threschore twoo. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Arch" of Lincoln. 
 Martin HoUini^worth. 
 9. April 1506. 
 
 Makkbie. — Edward Clark and Willim Badg churchwardens 
 25. Appril 1506. 
 
 Imprimis one vestfht one alb one cope one Amis one corporax 
 one cro>e of wood one banner cloth and a crose cloth — Anno pmo 
 Elizabth was solde to Steven Barm who {sic) as o^ Curet saith 
 is defacid. water pinder and wm Baban then churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a sepulker — sold to wm Badge the said tyme who haithe 
 made necessaries thereof for his house. 
 
 Itm a pix — sold the said tyme to wm Swane,"^ who hath made 
 a paire of balance of the same. 
 
 Itm a mass bookes [sic) with the rest belonging to the popish 
 mass — was brent A"* p^mo Elizabth by the foresaid church- 
 wardens. 
 
 ItiTi a handbell — Remayiiig wch thei haue to break afore 
 
 maii iiij. 
 
 Itm one altar stone — defacid the said fyrst yeare by the fore- 
 said churchwardens. 
 
 It fh a Rood Marie and John — gone the said fyrst yeare wee 
 knowe not howe by the foresaid churchwardens. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Nicholas Bp Lincoln. 
 Rob Mounson. 
 25. April 1566. 
 
 MiNTiXGE. — Robart howkar and Jhon banmar churchwardens 
 30. April 1560. 
 
 Imprimis o*" Images of the Rood mary and Jhon and all other 
 Images — burned A"" primo Elizabeth Henry houlton and Thomas 
 halii'ax gard^. 
 
 Itm o"" masse booke and all other bookes of papistrie — were 
 
 burned at the same tyme. 
 
 Itm one vestment— borowed of Jhon Smithe and restored to 
 him againe beinge now cut in peces. 
 
 Itin one cope — yet remaininge. 
 
 * William Swan, yeoman, was a freeholder in this place in Ih^l.—Latisd. 5, 
 f. 55 b. 
 
118 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 hol!f^ one aulbe--defaced and restored to Tho^ Smithe who 
 hathe put it to other vses. 
 
 Itm a crosse of wood and a holy water fatt of Stone— brokne 
 
 and made awaie primo Elizabethe. 
 
 Itm iij altar stones-brokne and pauid in o^ church this yeare 
 Itm jj handbelles a pix a crismatorie a pax a sacrin<>-e bell— 
 
 brokne and sold A^ primo Elizabeth. ^^rm^e oeu 
 
 Itm or Rood Loffc a sepulchre and or clappes with all other 
 Zabetr' "'^"^'^"'^ '"^ ^^' '' i&-- -- P--0 
 other implements we had none since King Edward his days. 
 
 NEWTOXNE.-Wittm Cotta^ and Thomas Eoston church- 
 ^vardens 29. March 1566. 
 
 Impuiis the Imagies of the roods marie and Johnne and all 
 other Imagies of papistrie— burnt in anno prno Elizabeth Thomas 
 Tompson and Kichard ffoster cliurch wardens 
 
 Itm a masse booke wt all other bookes of papistrie— defaced 
 and made awa.e in ano pred^ by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the roode lofte— taken downe ano 1564 and sold wittm 
 
 ZzVlt' '''' ''■'- '-^'^ -" y' '^ P-- -'I put Tf to 
 
 wittm Pell ano 1564 Thomas Boston 'ff^ilir^ttt^htci! 
 wardens whoe liaith broken and cut theim iu paces 
 Itm sensors we had none. 
 
 Itm two handbelles iij banner— sold to Johnne Carre who haith 
 broken them and cutte theim in i)eees. 
 
 Itm one crysmatorie one pixe one sacringe bell-broken in 
 peces and made awaie. "lunen in 
 
 Itm one sepulcre and one Judas candlestick— sold to Adame 
 bas who haith broken the same in peces Aaame 
 
 Itm one vale-sold to Johnne Baston wief who haith painted 
 yt and made a hangmge for her bowse. pamtea 
 
 Itm ij alter stones broken and paved'. 
 Itm crewettes we had none. 
 
 Itin one litle piUowe wch was accustomed to be laid voon the 
 altare wch waiter pell bouo-lue ^ 
 
 yt m"pers.°''^ "'"""" ''""'' '"^^ '° ^""'" P-^" ^^"^^^ l^'^ithe cutt 
 
 Sleford. 
 
 Robert Aelmer Arch*^ of Lincoln 
 Robert Carr ar^. 
 1. April 1566. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 119 
 
 NORMANBIE lUX* OwNBIE. — 19. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis iiij vestmts — sold to hugh Early A° diii 156i Richara 
 Chatterton and Cristopher Eenet Churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all or naperie savinf^e such as serveth at this pnt for the 
 colon and that wee have made surples on for or master, as albes 
 Amis^ fanells stools corporax cases and clothes altar clothes 
 canabie clothes and picture clothes — geven to the poore people A° 
 dni 1561 Thomas Harnis and W°* Robinson churchwardens. 
 
 Itm tables above the altar a crose of Erasse the banner clothes 
 a paire of candelstickes a paire of handbells and a paire of Censors 
 — sold to Georo-e Cartwri^iht 1561 Thomas Harnis and win 
 Robinson churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the Roodloft wth the furniture — solde to George Cart- 
 wright A'' 1561 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all or bookes and pictures — broken and defacid A° pmo 
 regine Elizabth. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 Nicholas Ep Line. 
 Robert Mounson ar^. 
 
 OsBORNBiE. — John Topper and George Pell churchwardens 
 1. April 1566. 
 
 Impmis the Images of the roode marie and John and all other 
 imagies of papistrie — John Audlie^ of the same toun did bie and 
 did deface and burne the^ John Som^cote & John flowers being 
 churchwarde.s. 
 
 Itm the masse bookes and all man^ of bookes of papistrie what 
 soeu^ — were sold by theis churchwardes vnto the said John 
 Audeley and he did painte the^. 
 
 Itiii the roode loft was sold by the said John Somercote & 
 John flowers vnto the said John Audeleye who made a bedde 
 
 of yt. 
 
 Itm the alter stones were broken and laid in the steple. 
 
 Itm two vestmetes sold by theis churchwardes vnto the said 
 John Audley and wttm Pell. 
 
 Itm ij albes sold by Christopher Con & John Som^cote vnto 
 the said John Audley & Witt Pell. 
 
 * The Audleys were an illegitimate branch of the baronial family. Thomas, 
 the first of thi's line, settled at Wellbourne, in Lincolnshire. His grandson, 
 Thomas, married Elizabeth Warren, a Nottinghamshire lady, who bore him 
 many sons and daughters. John, the seventh son, was the person who burned 
 the Osbornby rood-loft. They bore the same arms as their tiUed ancestors 
 within a bordure compony, argent and azure, as a mark of bastardy.— 
 Earl. 1550, f. 20 b. 
 
120 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Jtn^!™i ^}^ ""P"',"'® *:'^*''*' ^'^^ ^y ^^'^ towneshippe to Ric Sodbie 
 &c and the sepulcre is burned. 
 
 Itm two candektiekes sold by Christopher Conne and John 
 de&eed tle^!'""" '^''"''•^''^'^'''^^"^ ^"^° J^^n Topper who hath 
 
 Itm a Crismatorie broken in peces. 
 
 Itm the handbelles sold to Tho Bell and AVittm Pell and tliei 
 have made brase morters wt the^. 
 
 Itm the holie water fatt sold to Ric Con. 
 
 Itm the cruet the viccar haith. 
 
 toJhf^ r ''" ^rr' f''^\'' 'f ^, ^^ ^"^^ Som^cotes and Chris- 
 topher Conne defaced and made hano^ino-es 
 
 Sleford. 
 Robert Aelmer Arch'' Line". 
 1. April 1566. 
 
 OwxEDBiE.-Anthonie home and Robert wilsonne church- 
 wardens 12. April 1566. 
 
 Impmis the roode marie and Johnne and all other Ima-ies 
 
 Koberte Wilson churcliwardeiis. 
 
 Itm the mass bookes and all other popishe and supstieious 
 
 hoJle^ T ''"''"7* f'Jto wittm Bust sens the last visitaeon 
 this S^'^'^^^'S^' lo65 and he haith made eusshings 
 
 Itm one pixe broken in peces in a." pmo Elizabeth 
 
 Itm two candlestickes and two handbelles sold to Anthonie 
 
 home sens the last v.sitacon at gainesboroughe and he hahh 
 
 broken themi in peces. 
 
 Itm two crewettes broken in peces in anno pino Elizabeth and 
 sold and one paxe of wood burte at the same tLe ""''^^'^^ '*'"' 
 
 Itmone old awble geven awaie to poor folkes"in the towne 
 
 ther T" '""^ '^' ''''"' '^^^^ '^'^-''' ^'' their childerne 
 
 Itm one crosse of copper sold and broken in peces to Thomas 
 wrighte sens the last visitaeon at sjainesbrnghe 1565 
 
 Itm ij banner clothes and one crose clothe creven to noor^ 
 oTttti'r ties'" ''- ^'- -' ''^ '-^ ^adrhanV-;:;^ 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 121 
 
 Itm one alter stone sold to Willin Thixton^ and he caused yt 
 to be laide on his grave when he departed. 
 
 Itm the roode lofte taken downe anno 1562 and was burnte 
 sens Christmas last by a plumer that w^e hired to amend o'* 
 
 leades. 
 
 Itm one hally water fat broken in peces and defaced. 
 Itm as for other raonumentes of supsticion we had none w* in 
 the pishe of Ownebie in queue maries tyme and that wee will 
 depose vpon a booke. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Nich Bp of Line. 
 Rob ^lounson ar. 
 Geo !Mounson gen. 
 
 Paunton p^a. — Johnno Aldrie and Johnne lemynge church- 
 wardens 25 March 1566. 
 
 In p^imis the Imagies of the roode marie and Johnne wt all 
 other Imagies of papistrie — burte (-sic) in ao dni 1563. Johnne 
 Alder and Johnne leminge churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one masse {-^ic) one portes wt all other bookes of papistrie — 
 torne in peces and defaced 1562 Crofer Richma^ and myles 
 Atkinson churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one crose of bras two candlestickes one crismatorie one 
 pixe two crewittes one paxe one p (*/c)— broken in peces by 
 the said Crofer Richma^ and myles Atkinsonne churchwardens 
 and sold to a tincker a'' 1562. 
 
 Itm ij vestmentes one crose clothe j streamar clothe one banner 
 cloth one corporaxe clothe and one vale — Cutt in peces and 
 defaced and sold to Johnne Pinder A° 1563 Johnne Alder and 
 Johnne leminge churchw^ardens. 
 
 Itm ij albes— broken in peces and defaced and two surplices 
 made thereof th one lor o"" psonne and th other for of clarke. 
 
 * At the period of the Reforraation, and for many years after, it was cus- 
 tomary to use the altar slabs as gravestones. Hundreds of examples yet 
 remain. In some instances this \Nas certainly done, not from irreverent or 
 economic motives, but from a desire to be associated in death with what had 
 been consecrated to God's service in the highest of the Christian Sacraments. 
 The slab of the high altar of Bottesford church retains portions ot an illegible 
 mortuary inscription. Each end is pierced with two round holes for the 
 insertion of pins to support the curtains. The altar stone of the Holme 
 chantry in the same church covers the remains of one of the Cathohc family of 
 Morlev. A Catholic Monson sleeps within the chancel of Korthorpe under a 
 similar consecrated slab. The high altar of Scotter church forms the grave- 
 stone of William Carrington, a former rector. 
 
 Thomas Thiuon, yeoman, was a freeholder here in 1561. 
 
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 122 
 
 JS^NUMENTS OF 
 
 Itin the roode loft and ij pascall postes^ — sold to Richard 
 Osboroe a pore man of the said Towne of Paimton ano 1564 
 Johnne Alder and Johnne leminge churchwardens whoe haith 
 burnte the same. 
 
 Itin ij alter stones — broken and paved. 
 
 Itin one hande bell — broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one sacringe bell and one handbell— stolen forthe of or 
 churche by theves that robbed o^ said ehurche. 
 
 Itm one hallie water fatte — of lead melted and reserved for the 
 mendinge of o'^ churche. 
 
 Chapter House Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer, Arch" Line. 
 Rob Mounson ar. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ. 
 26 March 1566. 
 
 PiCKWORTH. — Thomas Lompson and Thomas Evereth church- 
 wardens 1 April 1566. 
 
 Itm the Rood the crucifix the Imageis of Marie and Johne & the 
 Image of St Andrew — was geven anno tertio regine Elizabeth to 
 one John Simpson of the said pish a vearie poore man who 
 burnid theim. 
 
 Itm the altar and thaltar stone — was broken Anno dni 156.3 
 John Everington and Thorns Lompson then churchwardens wch 
 is defaced. 
 
 Itm the censers the pix and the crewete — wear gone out of 
 the churche A° dni 1563 John Everington-f and Thomas Lompson 
 then churchwardens and what became of theim wee knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij vestmentes— sold to Thomas Evrod sen^ anno dni 1565 
 by Thomas Lompson and Thomas Everet churchwardens wch is 
 defacid. 
 
 Itm a rood loft — sold Anno iij regine Elizabtli wch is defacid 
 on or othes vnto or psone and Robt Gibson. 
 
 Itm an albe — sold to John Simpson anno dni 1565 by Thomas 
 Lompson and Thomas Everet gard^ wch is defaced. 
 
 * The lofty candlestick in which the paschal candle was burned. It stood 
 in the choir. Dr. Rock ^ives an engraving of a paschal-post and caudle.— 
 Church of our Fathers, v. i. p. 212. 
 
 t Probably a member of the family of Everino:ton of Spaldin"- but I have 
 seen no evidence to prove the connexion. The Everingtons of gpaluiue were 
 origma ly a Leicestershire family. Their singular arras are among the curiosities 
 ot heraldry Azure, on a chevron between three mariners' cross-staves or, five 
 mullets of the first.— 7/^zr/. MS. 1550, f. 159 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 123 
 
 Itm the mass bookes the pressioners and all other popishe 
 bookes belonging to the popes service — was broken and defacid 
 anno tertio regine Elizabth John Everington and Thomas 
 Lompson gard^. 
 
 Itm a sepulker — sold to Robt Cook our pson Anno dni 1565 
 
 who defacid it. 
 
 Itm one holie water fate — sold to Wni Barrande wife of the said 
 pishe Anno dni 1565 by the said churchwardens who defacid it. 
 
 Itm an amiss and a towell — sold to Johne Simpson A° dni 
 1565 by the said churchwardens who defacid theim. 
 
 Itm a chrismatorie — solds to huske wife Anno dni 1565 by the 
 said churchwardens and is defacid. 
 
 Itm one banner and crose clothe — sold to a Tailors wife A° 
 diii 1565 by the said churchwardens who defacid them. 
 
 Itm ij Towells— sold to Thomas Lambsons wife Anno dni 1565 
 by the said churchwardens and put to pfane vse. 
 
 Itm one crose and a candelstick — remaynige in or pish church 
 broken in peces and vnsold. 
 
 Itm a veale — whearof is made a surples Anno dni 1565 by the 
 said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one handbell — ^broken and defacid anno dni 1565 Thomas 
 Lampson and Thomas Everet beingc hurchwardens so that their 
 remainith no popish monuent wthin o'^ said church. 
 
 Sleford. 
 
 John Aelmer Arch" of Line. 
 1 April 1566. 
 
 PiLHAME.— Tho. Wright churchwardens 20 April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis the rood Marie and John — broken and defacid A° \'f 
 Elizabth by James wigellworth and Thomas Wright church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm one cope one albe and a vest™^-— broken and defacid in the 
 same yeare by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one crose of laten ij candelstickes one sacring bell and 
 ij handbells — remaynith. 
 
 Itm iij altar stones a pix a crismatarie — Remaineth. 
 
 Itm a corporax and a canabie— taken away by thold pson who 
 
 is dead. 
 
 Itm un altar clothe-— torn and deuydid emonge the pishuers 
 in A"* sexto Elizabth by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a mass book— taken awaie by thold pson wch was his own 
 Wiltm Parkyn was his exequutor. 
 
 . Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson gen. 
 20 April 1566. 
 
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 124 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Market Reason. — John Rawlinson and Richard Carter 
 24 April 1566.^ 
 
 Imprimis iij vestmtes — sold by thassent of the pishiiers to 
 Richard Rawlinson who sold it afterward to Edward davison of 
 Lincoln w^** whether it be defacid we knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij vestmtes — solde to Nicholas Boldon and Richard Chap- 
 man a year ago w^^ is defacid. 
 
 Itm stooles Amis albes and suche like linnen as appertaynith 
 to the popishe service and pelt^ino^ palate — solde to Isabell Houghe 
 a year ago W°^ Southe & Chrofer Rawlinson beinge then church- 
 wardens which is defacid (as S'^ Tho Marshall oure vicar saithe) 
 by the said Isabel. 
 
 Itm a crosse a pax Sensures crevete and a crismatorie — sold to 
 Thomas Rawlinson the sayd time Wm Southe and Chrofer Raw- 
 linson then beinge churchw^ardens wch whether it be defacid wee 
 knowe not. 
 
 Itm a holie water fatt — sold to Thomas Stavelay a yeare ago 
 by the foresaid Chrofer Rawlinson and w^ittm Southe beinge 
 churchwardens wch (as wee think) is vndefacid. 
 
 Itm the Rood wth Marie and John wth the rest of the 
 Idolatrous Imageis belonging to th^abom^iabt mass — was 
 brent iij yeares ago in or market place in the pnce of the 
 pishners Thomas Rawlinson and Richard Cater being church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itin or Mass booke wth all the rest of the same belong- 
 inge to the popishe sinfuU service — was taken awaie by one 
 South the Queues Ma*^^^ Pursevant A° pmo Elizabth who (as he 
 said) had auctie to take ye same and what he did v,'th it 
 wee knowe not but of one book wch he gave me the said 
 Richard Cater wch was burnid when or towne w^as burnid and 
 some of it I made capp^ papers of before the said m^firtunate 
 hap^. 
 
 Itm or handbell — was gone out of or church (as or vicar 
 saith) by a madd woman a yeare ago. 
 
 Itm a pix — the foresaid South pursevant had the sayd tynne 
 and pmisid to break it and to redeliuer the barres of silver whe^ 
 wth it was bound who hath not accordingly restorid the said 
 siluer barres and whether the pix be defacid wee ar not 
 certain e. 
 
 Itm jj albes — broken this yeare to mak a new surplesof by the 
 churchwardens yt now is. 
 
 Itm a supaltarie — defacid and brokon this yeare. 
 
 Itm iiij banners — gone w^e knowe nob iiowe ly ve year ago and 
 who was churchwardens we know not. 
 
 Itm one cope remaynith. 
 
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SUPERSTITION. 
 
 125 
 
 Itm iij altar stones — whearof S"" ffrauncis Ascough* had one 
 and the rest is pavid in or churche broken & defacid. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson. 
 24 April 1566. 
 
 West Reason. — Ihon Curteise and Marmaduke laminge 
 
 churchwardens 29 April 1566. 
 Imprimis all bookes of papistrie — burned about christmas 
 
 last. 
 
 Itm or Images of the Rood marie & Jho^ and all other Images 
 —burned about ij yeares hence {sic) wittm hill witim Jollan gard . 
 
 Itm a crosse — defaced and sold this yeare. 
 
 Itm ij handbells ij candelstickes— brokne and sold at the same 
 
 time. . . 
 
 Itm iij vestmets an aulbe & an amisse — defacid and sold at 
 
 the same time. 
 
 Itm ij copes — Yet remaininge of the one we entend to make a 
 
 covering for or pulpit of at or returne. 
 
 Itm a front clothe of the altar ij other line alter clothes- 
 defaced and made a covering for the comion table of. 
 
 Itm an olde vestment — wherof is made a coveringe for the 
 co^munio^ table. 
 
 Itm the vail — is Rottne and made awaie. 
 
 Itm iij bannar clothes — defaced & sold this yeare. 
 
 Itm the sepulchre and the clothe— brokne and sold this 
 
 yeare. 
 
 Itm the hordes of the Rood loft— defaced & sold this yeare. 
 
 Itm a crosse of wood — cut in peces. 
 
 Itm a pix a holy water fatt— defaced and restored to S"^ Mar- 
 maduke, f of whom it was borrowed. 
 
 * Sir Trancis Ayscough, of Stallingborough and South Kelsey, Knight. 
 Died 19 Oct., 1564, seised of the manors of Stallingborougli, Upholme, the 
 manor and soke of Caistor, with Houghton, Binbroke, Foderby, Stainton, and 
 the manor of South Kelsey, called Mouuson's manor. He married twice, and 
 left issue bv each wife. His Grst wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heiress 
 of William Hansard of South Kelsey (arms : gu. 3 mullets, arg.) Alter her 
 death he married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Dighton of Sturton (ar»nf.; per 
 pale arg. and gu. an antelope passant, counterchanged), widow ot William 
 Dalyson. one of the justices of the Queen's Bench in the reign of Mary 1. 
 
 t Sir Marmaduke Constable, of West Rasen in this county, and l^veringham 
 in Yorkshire, was son of Sir Robert Constable of Everingham, who died 1558, 
 by Katherine, daughter of George Manners, Lord Roos of Hunlak, and his 
 wife Anne Saint Leger. He was the direct descendant of Ralph Pagane , 
 one of the Normans who accompanied William the Conqueror : the xxxvtli 
 chief tenant in Lincolnshire, in the Domesday record. Ihe present Lord 
 
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126 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm a cruit & crismatorle— brokne and made awaie this 
 yeare. 
 
 Itm or altar stoones— brokne and put to pphane vse. 
 
 J tm a sepulchre-stolle^ out of or church a- primo Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm or clappes— burned a« ijdo Elizabeth. 
 
 North EESTON.-John Holme and Thomas Neale church- 
 ^wardens 18 {sic) April 1566. 
 
 rl.fW^^ "^o^ S^^TV';^^ thimageis Marie and John-brent and 
 aeracid a^ pmo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm mass booke wth all such popish booke— S' Eobte dvon"^ 
 liad, and what he did wth them we knowe not. 
 
 Itm a vestmt--solde to Johne Manners, who hatha defacid it. 
 
 Itm a sacring bell a pix a crismatorie ij crewetes one alb and a 
 stole— b Kob dyon or vicar had and what is become of theim wee 
 iinowe not but John dyon esquier was his executor. 
 
 ma that Mr. dyon be spoken wth all for thes thinges & the 
 bookes of the popishe service. 
 
 Itm one altar stone wch is pavid in the churche unbroken a- 
 ij Ehzabth by the said churchwardens fyrst above writton. 
 wardens ""^ alb— whearof is made a surples by the said church- 
 
 Itm one croseapaire of sensors and ij candelstickes— sold to a 
 Tmckr of Louthe A« 1565 by the said church wardens ffor the 
 rest as banner clothes and such like wear gone in Kinge Edwarde 
 tyme wch wee on or othes affirme. "" 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson. 
 
 16 {sic) April 1566. 
 
 ^^^756^'^''^''''*""'"^''^^^ ^''^^'' """^^ ^''^''^ So^^^ 25 April 
 
 Imprimis one Rood wth Marie and Johne-brent this yeare 
 by the said churchwardens. ^ 
 
 Itm an albe— whearof is a surples in makino-e. 
 Itm or Mass booke grailes Antifoners wth all the rest of suche 
 
 T^-tf ?' M ^'""^i^ }'^^ f^^^^ ^^^ "^^«"ts the blood of its first Norman lords 
 ^tJl^^l^ffV^^ '^^^ ^^ faithful to throirrelgot 
 
 forget thf past ^^' ''' ^'^ ^'^^^^' ^^' Constables of Everingham to 
 
 Arms—Quarterly gules and vaire, over all a bend, or. 
 
 This iX eounled wf R \'^ ^''^1?^ ^T^^' ^^ Pickeringlithe, eo. York, 
 renown amonTbran^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^'"^'^^^ ^^^ ^^^^" other famihes of 
 
 SUPERSTITION 
 
 127 
 
 supsticous Booke^wear solde ao pmo Elizabth John Raie and 
 Tho Metcalfe then churchwardens to wm ffiswick (as or pson 
 saith) wch whether it be defacid wee knowe not. ^ 
 
 Itfii a vestmt— whearof wee have made a covermge for the 
 
 colon table this yeare. , 
 
 Itm an altar stone— broken this yeare by the church wardens 
 
 now beiuije and paved in or church. 
 
 ItiTi a crose of wood and wodden candelstickes— brent this yeare 
 by the said churchwardens. i i • 
 
 Itm a pix a crismatorie and crewete and Sensors -broken in 
 peces and defacid this yeare by the churchward now bemge. 
 
 Itfn a hollie water fatt and a sacring bell-broken and deiacid 
 anno pmo Elizabth the fore said Raie and Metcalf then being 
 
 churchwardens. ^ ^ _,. , --, , mu^ 
 
 Itin or banner clothes-was sold A" pmo Elizabth to Tho 
 
 South who hathe defacid theim. „,.,,,,, j „j„ 
 
 Itfu a corporax-Robt Raie A° piiio Elizabeth had and made 
 
 ^ ^Itffi\°anner staves— geveu awaie the said fyrst yeare to John 
 
 Clark who defacid theim. 
 
 R. Cauffield. 
 
 RipiNGALE.— Crofer Saule and Thomas Leyband churchwardens 
 
 29 ]March 15G6. , „ ^, t • = «f 
 
 In nmis the roode marie and Johnue and all other Imapes ot 
 
 papistrie-were sold to George Clipson a° 1560 Raffe Browne 
 
 and Johnne fflost beinge churchwardens and the said george 
 
 CUpsonne hath burned them. .. 
 
 Itm a crose of latten a hallywater fatt a litell bell ij crewettes 
 a paxe pare sensors and a shipp-sold to Johnne Tounesend of 
 haconbie tincker anno 1560 and were broken. 
 
 Itin the roode loft taken douue and aistroyed and made 
 awaie wt all the tabernacles and all others as the sepulcre and 
 herse* lightes wt all the bookes of papistrie rent and burnea 
 a" 1561. - 
 
 • Hearse Ileniu Lit. Derived through tlie French, &/•«, a harrow ; from 
 UerSurErcim Ericfu, or Kritius, a he°agehog. The word was sometimes 
 S meiapSly ior a kiud of portcullis or woodeu l^ne^rmed^w. h harp 
 spikes : (lirat objectus portis ericeus.-Camr, Com. de fj • J^'"-' ''»• ''saUmtU 
 Emiuebaut in modum mm mUitaris veruta bmum pedum.-C. 6. baUusm 
 
 ^7'^wt^f.Lane occurs sometimes, but very rarely, in its original se^se 
 of harrow. Lord Berners, in his Translation ol Fromart, tells "^ that ■Ihe 
 :el,erth;re stode in maner of a kene, and the men o f^^^^^l^^l^l^i 
 the batayle ;" and in another place he miorms us t^at ^he dence on a certam 
 banner was " a hene golde, standing on a bell [..«-. bed] goules. Ur, as we 
 
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 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm one cope and two tunicles of blew velvit wt bades [sic) of 
 gold vpon theim wt amyses fur them and stoles and phannelles 
 one cope and a vestmente of grene silk a black cope a cliamlett 
 vestmente iij old banner clothes one crose clothe two old altare 
 clothes iiij old towelles iij old kirchers sold to Thomas Shawe and 
 Richard Shawe in aho 1561 the said Thomas Shawe and Richard 
 
 should say in the language of modern heraldry—Gules, a harrow, or.— Berners' 
 Froiss., Edit. 1812, v. i. p. 152, v. ii. p. 501. 
 
 II. 1 he first ecclesiastical use of the word seems to have been to signify the 
 triangular candlestick, made of bars crossing each other like a harrow, in which 
 twenty-four lights were placed for the service of Teuebne, or mattins and lauds 
 for the three latter days of the last week in Lent. Sometimes its shape was 
 that ot a triangular stand upon a foot containing fourteen yellow wax candles 
 and one of white wax in the centre. These candles svm'bolized the elevcD 
 faithful apostles and the three Marys. The white candle representing the 
 Saviour. In the Teuebrse service fourteen psalms were said, and as each was 
 finished a taper was extinguished. The white taper, still lighted, was con- 
 cealed near the altar so as to leave the church in total darkness.— *SV;?o^/^« 
 
 Bxon.aPetroquivU,K.j).im,Qdi^.\\]. In Wilkins, Concil. n.V6Si. HarL 
 Bed. Records, 241. 
 
 III. A light frame of woodwork used to set over the body of the deceased 
 to support the pall while the service for the dead was being said. These frames 
 were i)art of the regular church furniture. They were sometimes attached to 
 the parish bier in which uncoffiued bodies were brouglit to the grave, forming 
 an openwork lid through which the corpse might be seen when the pall was 
 drawn aside. A bier with a lid of this kind existed at Northorpe in this county 
 within the last fifty years, but is now lost. A few specimens remain of similar 
 hearses tabricaied m metal. These are affixed to tombs for the purpose of 
 supporting the rich coverings with which it was formerly customary to deco- 
 rate the mortuary statues of the dead of high rank. A very graceful iron 
 Jbearse of this kind still canopies the alabaster tomb of one of the Marmions in 
 lanfaeld Church, Yorkshire. It has attached to it sconces for holdin^^ seven 
 candles, two on each side and three on the ridge. The effigy of Richard Earl 
 of ^Varwick, who died 1439, possesses one of the frames : it is smaller than 
 tlie lanheld specimen, but executed in brass. The Contract with the makers 
 o °To.^^ **^^^ ^^ ^^^ intended to " beare a covering."— 7?^bo/-/5 of Ass. Arch. 
 ^0^. 18ol, p. 250. Parker, Gloss. Arch. 1850, v. i. p. 250. 
 
 IV. A temporary canopy of timber, decorated with a profusion of tapers, 
 and not unfrequently draped with costly hangings and pennoncels, under which 
 the corpse was placed during that part of the service which was said within 
 tlie church. When the body was brought from afar and had to rest on its wav 
 a similar canopy was prepared for it in each church in which it had to pass the 
 night. Minute accounts of many of these hearses are preserved, showing that 
 they were frequently of the most costly description. They were never in 
 common use, except for the higher nobility, or persons of great distinction. 
 A structure of this kind may be seen engraved in Nichols' Illustrations cf 
 Manners and Expenses in England. 4to. 1797, last leaf. Funeral canopies of 
 this sort have been in use in all European countries. When Wyclif directed 
 his scorching invectives against the rich funeral rites of his own days, the 
 hearse came in for its share of rebuke. " Thei ben buried with many a torche. 
 with grete solempnyte, in tombes corve & peyute gloriously dvzt, portreid 
 tweyne angels to berene here soules in to heven ; with ful rich heerses & grete 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 129 
 
 Shawe bane made cusshinges and bed testers of theim. The said 
 
 Bold to Johnne Cole the yere aboue said by the said cnurca 
 "tffit'vvo corporaxes declared vuto vs-wch roberte Saule had 
 
 Shaw and Thomas leyband churchwardens and. he haith broken 
 them in peces. . . 
 
 SS : 'I::tl^tltrSeTa sarcenett clothe defaced and 
 cove inges made for or colon table and for the iunte 
 l"n ii alter stones broken and paved in or churche. 
 
 John Aelmer. 
 
 1 April 1566. • 
 
 festis after.»-0/ Antichrist and ATT^^^^^^TMSsTl^^of canopies such 
 as these that Chaucer dreamt— 
 
 « And after that about the herses 
 
 Many orisons and verses 
 
 Withouten note full softly 
 
 Said were, and that full heartily, 
 
 That all the night till it was day 
 
 The people in the Church con pray 
 
 Unto the holy Trinity ^^ 
 
 Of those soules to have prty.^^^^_^^^^_ 
 
 V. A funeral chariot or ear. whieli o",Si»f ^ /,' ^ m^ec^slif/S *^^^ 
 
 the word in its modern sense, 
 
 "Gentle lady, may thy grave 
 Peace and quiet ever have ; 
 After this thy travel sore 
 Sweet rest seize thee evermore. 
 ****** 
 Here be tears of perfect mosfi- 
 Wept for thee in Helicon, 
 And some flowers and some bays^^ 
 
 ¥or thv Herse to strew the ways. ^ ^. t * 
 
 lor tny uer ^^.^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^j. j^^^,f,,,ur, 
 
 Yl A dead bodv. This use is almost confined to poetry. 
 
 - Now grew the battell hot, bold Archas pierses ^^ 
 
 Sh the mid-hoast & stre.es the way with^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ y^. 
 Thomas Ueywood's Britam's Troy. 3rd c. st. bt), loi. /^. 
 
130 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 RiSKiNGTON.-James Standish and Eiehard Wilson 26 April 
 
 piccures— clef acid A p^mo Elizabth and Guye Grave and John 
 Chamberlaine was then churchwarden^ ^ 
 
 thre yeat ^go' '''''-^^'^'''' '^^ ^-e pte of it and the rest 
 
 iJ\f\ "T ^T^'' '">'' '"'•''•^ '"^'^ PoP'^h mass bookes (.nc)-de. 
 Ilia "''^' ' ""' '^ ^' '^^'^ «^'^« <^' P-'^ saith A-^o 
 
 <^:^^Z^' ^" ^^-° ^'-'^^'^ V the foresaid 
 Itm ij handbeles-gone A" ij Elizabth wee knowe not howe 
 
 surples."' ""■'' " ^"■°'^'^" ''"' '''' ''^'^^'^ to n^ake of ft a 
 
 Itm one cope — Eemaynith. 
 
 torSf and "such /rf" P'^*"' ^ candlestickes sensors chrisma- 
 
 hexeouut- of s' luT"' 'T^%"^ *° '^^° ^''^"'^ «f Ashbie 
 borntl^ fl -^"j^* ^'■^"'^ A P '"o Elizabeth of whom we 
 
 borowid the same m Quene JVIaries tvme. 
 
 ■Itm ij banner clothes and banner staffe— defaced. 
 
 RoPESLAiK-Thomas Pell and John wright 22 April 1566 
 Itm or Rood Mane and John-brent A" p^mo El zabfh bv 
 Crofer Reynold and Johne browne then churchwrndens ^ 
 
 clotte^oldlt'"w-r °°^', '°' ^'"^^^ '^'^^ ^'^'^ '^'^d « cross 
 sawP^f! -^ to WiUm wright and W Huge Bawde* wch wee 
 
 Sen ' *'"' ^'"•■' ^y '^' churchwardens fyi-st above 
 
 Itm y handbells— wherof one was solde to the said wricht and 
 yeare^also by the said churchwardens that now is 
 
 Ho]£o.wortrT"^i ^"V^ \T''. '^'•'thes-soide to Thomas 
 rv^i D ,, , P'^o Elizabth the said Hollino.worth and 
 Crofer Reynold then churchwardens wch by theim is'defacid. 
 
 lOAnnl IKQ^ • J r /, ^^^^^6S Baude, who was bx)rn a.d 1533 dwA 
 
 Welb^ ' Cotu rMaurL^'R T^^l ^^T^''^ '''"^ lands fnRopesFeV and 
 taken^prisoner at th. . . J^^?dS.°f Somcrby, the cavalier soldier who was 
 
 killed at Naseby 14 JunHfi^ wT"'" ^f'^"' ^^^y- l'^**' ""d ^^^^^^^d 
 Baude. Colon^'jlaurice EanH^C.' ^rT'^f ° ^""^ representative of Charles 
 
 wa. taken prisoner aTZJ^e^btltrhTs ^tW ^' ' "^"^ " "'^ '"^"^ -"'-' 
 Marfyrs7ora\^[J.tTT "Sent.-i/.rZ. i/^. 1550, f. 9 b. Jioj^al 
 Wari-Broadideii%t"^\ W,' 'r,'"'^ Genllemen .... ,laU in the late 
 ^roamae,561. Soc.Ant.Col. Prestwich's RespuUica.im, p. 138. 
 
 I 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 131 
 
 Itm one hollie water stock— broken in peces this yere by the 
 said churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii a Masse book wth all suche booke of supsticon— weare 
 taken awaie A« p^mo Elizabeth by S^ John Clark who defacid 
 
 them. . • Ao 
 
 Itm a pix a cruet and a chrismat one— wear e taken awaie A 
 pmo Elizabth by the said S-" John Clark who defacid it. 
 
 Itm ij altar stones— the said S' Johne Clark had and made a 
 cestrone of Anno p^mo EUzabeth. 
 
 Itm one other alter stone— broken in peces this yeare by the 
 churchwardens that now is. ^ 
 
 Itiii a Hood Loft— sold to Richard Kella^ iiij yeare ago Robt 
 wrio-ht and willm TurnbuU then churchwardens. 
 
 Itm an albe— w4^ge^-^ h av e m ad e a zm fk^ [sic) wch we 
 have defacid this yeare by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one veale— sold to Richard Kella^ A« pmo Elizabeth who 
 hathe made a painted clothe of it. . „ o .o r -cr 
 
 Itm liij"^' candelstickes— sold to the said Kella^ A p mo Eliza^ 
 beth who afterward sold theim to M" Ellis of Lincoln. ^ 
 
 Itm crose staves and banner staves— George Litster o clarck 
 had A** p^mo Elizabeth who defaced theim. 
 
 Itm one corporax cloth wth an albe— Witim Turnbull of 
 Ingolsbie had as wee ar crediblie enformid A" p'mo Elizabeth and 
 what he did wth them wee know not. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 22 April 1566. 
 
 Salebie cu^ Thoristrop.— Robt stooke and Willm Tothebie 
 
 churchwardens. ^ ^ 
 
 Imprimis one cope borowid of M^ Hiltoft the wch cope was 
 geuen to Robt Raster and Richard Read to make theim ij dublete 
 
 of and so vsid. , , ~, i i j 
 
 Itm one vestfht borowid of Robt franck the wch he had agame 
 
 and defacid. . -, « • i i i.u^ 
 
 Itih one Mass book one Manuell borowid of vicar hobson the 
 wch he had againe and what is become of theim wee knowe not 
 but wittm Hobson of Lincoln is his execuutor. 
 
 Itm a pix and a pax defacid. 
 
 Itm the Rood Marie and John brent. 
 
 Itm one handbell a brasier had in exchange. 
 
 Itm a crose clothe and a banner clothe defacid. 
 
 Itm ij candelstickes of wood the wch John Heir had thone 
 and Robt Stocke thother. 
 
 ■ Ji a. ' -.tf pjfc gB±g 
 
f.'' 
 
 132 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 ^ Jtm one corporax clothe geven by mother granger wch she had 
 
 Phihp Grene gard' 1566. 
 Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 
 ScoTTiSE*_Edward Sommereote<! n,,^ w~ -d i , . 
 wardens 9 april 1566 " ^^"^ c\xmcAi. 
 
 Henry Ma^Sdl ^afrTlo^'^^J^'f ^'^"'^''•'^°"«-ht A" 1565 
 hat (L) put^t to ;1 vse ""'''' ^""^ churchwardens who 
 
 Robt'-^ye'te S:e\t'"o7Tr t^^i ^" p'- ^'•-•^^'^ 
 
 buried ^ ^""^ ^^ ^^'^ churchwardens, thother 
 
 thJgwrwShrryt;;^: '- ''-'' ^-^^ ^-^-^'^ ^-^-^^ 
 
 JSS re '^^^tettnd": iT'^'-'^Zfi^S^ --^ of it dcfacid. 
 tore .n pece^ .^d ,eti^ i;Z':Z7^:f,ZT:''''' """^'^*+ 
 
 Jinta the Keformatioa, whenTnXd^fn thil!\P°'''f '?' "^ '''^t >'«"s« 
 
 hands It remained until very recentlvr/ * «"'"'^' "^ "^^^ ^^e- '" "''ose 
 
 Se^pMon, p. 43. ^ fecentlj.-r/,r<,«,ra/. PeUrburoeme. Curante Thomd 
 
 The Gentleman's Magazine of Seoternhpr 1 qnfi ^-< * • • . 
 
 monumental inscriptions in the churoh A n ■ ' ^- '''^',"' "" ""?""' of the 
 a pre-reformation rector, has been nr«i^"f7u'"'"5. °°8 ^'-"^ '^''''"'ed. to 
 vaise HoUes.-^«r/. i/i 6S29 pi g^f ''"'"* ''^ "'^' <l'%ent antiquary Ger- 
 
 " Donate Cinew'bonneh Corpus Nicholai 
 Rector presentis fnit ecclesieq» Ma "ste^ 
 Artibus 6 genetrix sedibus atq» m'S s er 
 Ergo tuum Natum rogito sibiVSum. 
 
 oftee'S^JSS" blter?''"'?^^ Willian, Tyrwhitt 
 widow, firstly of Christonhpr S ^ t^"8''ter of Sir William Ayscough, and 
 
 and second/of WiliMrl ,S stof'sir ftl'^^^.f'^'^'' ^^>^^.Shl). 
 near Brigg. He married S danXf If T 'Pu''"^ °°°''^'°™«''by. 
 CO. York (died 1608), by whom h. l3 ' °f I^'°"« ^ere-sby of ThriburgS, 
 children. '' ^ "*""" ^'^ ^^^ '^sue his heir Kobert and teu other 
 
 tult mSLf^Suloll".^ ^"""^^^^^ "I''-neelIo ad austrum 
 
 William Tyrwhitt, CuC'A^^Z'^l}^' foUowing inscription to sfr 
 tArmsfJgl\:j5J^-!i'^^es qui ob^^ 19; die Martii Ano dui 1541. 
 
 A memorial of M^rmlr^ni ^ ^■' ^^^^' P* 1^^. 
 the chancel. ^^^^^^^uke Tyrwhitt yet remains on the south wall near to 
 
 jacet Mar^aducus T.whit, ar.ig^ quart= fiUas Guliel.i Tirwhit, 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 133 
 
 Itm one crosse — broken in peces and defaced A° pmo Eliza- 
 beth. 
 
 Itin one canabie one holie water can an albe and ij vestmentes 
 — remaynige in or said pishe. 
 
 Itm one cruet — remaynith. 
 
 Itm one pax one crismatorie banner clothes crose clothes and 
 such Like tromperie — Weare made awaie and taken out of the 
 churche in the fyrst or second yeare of the Queenes Maties 
 Eeigne that now is ffor W Brokelsbie of the same bouo-ht all 
 such supsticious monnents and made theim awaie I can not 
 Learne howe but I can see nor miderstand that anie throf re- 
 maynith wth in or church or pishe. 
 
 Itm one handbell — was taken out of or church three yeare ao"oo 
 Thome Luddington then churchwarden by whome we know not. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Arh° Line. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ. 
 9 April 1566. 
 
 ScoTTONE.-^^ — Steven yonge and Thoma&-WiIk4as€ii {sic) 
 churchwardens 8 April 1566. 
 
 « 
 
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 « 
 
 (( 
 
 militis, qui in vxorem cepit Ellenam Jleresby, vnamfiliar^ Lionel Reresby armig'' 
 c[uos vndecim liberis beavit dens & (jui, post quadraginta fere annos foelici con- 
 jugio elapsos 21; die Januarii anno aetatis suae sexagesimo sexto foeliciter 
 mortem obiit. Ano d^n4 1599." 
 
 The following extracts from the Scotter parish register, relating to the Tyr- 
 whitt family have not hitherto been printed : — 
 
 "[1562] Secundo die Sepembris baptizatus fuit Robertus Tirwhitt generosus 
 filius Alarmaduci Tirwhitt armigeri. 
 
 [1563] . .... Tirwhitt baptizat» Novembris filia. . . , . . 
 
 armigeri. 
 1565] Item the viij of October Tristram Tirwhytt sonne of mr raarraaduke 
 
 tirwhitt of Scotter Esquier [baptized]. 
 [1577] Item Jana Tirwhitt the daughter of mr marmaduke Thirwhitt esquier 
 the XXX* of marche [baptized]. 
 " [1590] Item mr Robert Tirwhitt the xix' of October [baptized]. 
 " [1591] Item Elizabethe Tirwhit the xx' of November [baptized]. 
 " [1600] Item Mr marmaduk Tirwhitt esquier the xxij of Januarie [buried]. 
 [1601] Item M"" George Neivell and mistres Jane Tirwhitte the xxiij* of 
 November [married]. 
 " [1608] mistres Ellen Tirwhit gent 6 of Aprill [buried]." 
 
 * The manor of Scotton had been from an early period in the hands of a 
 branch of the family of Neville. In the end of the 14th century the line ter- 
 minated in an heiress, Mabell, daughter of Philip Neville, who married Sir 
 John Bussy, of Hougham, one of the chief favourites of Richard II. He was 
 as unpopular as royal favourites usually are, and expiated his crimes, or mis- 
 fortunes, on the scaffold immediately after the taking of Bristol, a few days 
 before the deposition of his master. The detestation he was held in is evinced 
 by the malignity with which his name is mentioned in the popular ballads of 
 
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 134 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 Imp mis the rode mane and Johnne were burnte in a" 1563 
 Johnne remington and mttm hallaley ehurchvvardens 
 
 Itm one («f) masse book and other latten bookes of papistrie 
 tome m peces ano 1563 by the said churchwardens. ^^P'"'"^ 
 
 the time. His siraame-pronounced, as it was often spelt, Bushey— afforded 
 warnfKarl-"/^^^ ^ ''''' opportunity for panning, ol of t£ 
 
 " Ther is a busch that is forgrowe. 
 Crop hit welle, and hold it lowe,' 
 Or elles it wolle be wilde." 
 Anther, writing in expectation of the arrival of the Duke of Lancaster, tells 
 
 " Fraus latet illorum propter thesaurum, 
 Scrope, Bagge, Ver, dumus tormentorum parat humus 
 l^amnarunt lorti justorum corpora morti, ' 
 
 Sanguis qui quorum vindicta clamat eorum " 
 ■ // riffhVs Political Poems and Songs, 1859, v. i. pp. 363, 367. 
 
 Ihis unfortunate person is several times mentionpd hv flip T^r^of r-^ • l • 
 Tripartite Chronicle' ^.ho held the pTukr and ^^^^ 
 concemm.him Mabell, his wife,L^s buVied irHoulm^ 
 effigy, wit^ hat of her husband, once ornamented the east wkdow here It 
 
 bl,?Sc: ^intrntf ^^^ '''' '' ''' ^-^-^ - Carrie/ rt^LiS 
 
 In a collection of church notes taken in fhp 17fh r.p«f«^ „« j i 
 
 ^gs are given of the heraldic stainedTirinS 
 
 when in their glory, must have been more than ordinarilv soSid %n * 
 poor remains of their former beauty, which fanaticTrd lurttens^h^^^ 
 
 nSbrjcrch^;^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 charfe1:;th%t'iS:: t/^ %bordure azure 
 
 dure engrailed Sr. 111. The same as il IV The same ^J^^^^^ ^f %f ^or- 
 genet. VI. Castile and Leon, quarterly Vll Gules fmir fiSl /' ^^^''^*- 
 within a bordure sable charged with ei^t b^z^^^^^^^^^ TlU r f f ^'^^' 
 embattled, counter embattled, argent, a?anton ^ules IX Tht'' ' '^"'"t? 
 X. Broken. 'A knight, or a barSn kneeW wi?h thi« . ^ i'-°^^ ^' "' 
 
 and his banner behiSd him; hrwife uSel^^^^ fhT '" ^'' ^''°^'°^ 
 
 Felip de Nevile, Dame Maude drNevSe ^ y T ^^i /"""'/T'^ .^^ 
 argent in chief, 3 mullets or * The 2 mvrp Al '' T ^"f ^^' ^^ ^^^^ 
 
 picWs in the like manner but these arLr^^^^^ TJ^^ ^^\^^« 
 
 'In another window of the same chapel on' the to/ If n ""'-'^ bougetsor. 
 Gules four fusils in fess argent, a laW^ pdn'ts azu^^^^ r^'V' 
 
 crusilly or, two hautboys of the second. XVIII Ern^inp Tohtf ' a h ^"^^'' 
 •In the same window, underneath 3 men tn/rj^' -^Vf ^^''*^'^ ^^"^«- 
 others aforesaid. Sir W deCantelow' XIX GnL.f' '^ ^\^ '"'^ ^ ^^^ 
 leopards' faces jessant de lys or. '^ '^r Kic^h^^de ^^ '1^:^,1 IZ'^ '^yT 
 
 ' i\ 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 185 
 
 Itm one handbell and one crosse of bras broken in peces sens 
 the last visitacon holden at Gainesburghe by Thomas Wilkin- 
 sonne and Steven yonge churchwardens. 
 
 Itm two candlestickes broken and sold and the 'money thereof 
 received was paid to a glasier for mendinge or churchwindoes. 
 
 Itm one old vestment w* an old awbe and ij alter clothes cut 
 in peces and geven to the poore people. 
 
 Itm the roode loft taken doune before Christmas last past 
 1565 and a bridge made therof. 
 
 Itm one paire of sensors one pixe one paxe and one crismatorie 
 stoln owte of or churche 1561. 
 
 Itm v alter stones paven in the churche and broken. 
 Itm iiij banner clothes and one crosse clothe broken in peces 
 and rotten. 
 
 Itfh one halliwater fatt of lead melted to mend or lead wt all. 
 
 Lincoln Chapter House 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln 
 George Mounson 
 Martin Hollino worth. 
 
 ScREGiNTON. — W°» Gregg and Tho. Parker churchwardens 
 8 April 1566. 
 
 Itm a canabre a pix a corporax case and iij sujialtaries — was 
 broken and defacid a*^ dni 1564 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one banner cloth one stoole one fanell a Rood cloth an 
 altar cloth a banner staff an old aumbrie — broken defacid and 
 made a waie a*' dni 1564 by the aboue namid being then church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm or Mass booke wt all other appertayninge to the popish 
 
 * Sir Ja. de Nevile.* XXI. The same as XVII. * In another window in the same 
 chapel these armes but no pictures.' XXII. Azure, a fess dancette between 
 seven billets or. XXIII. Gules, a fess compony argent and sable between six 
 crosses flory or. XXIV. Bendy azure aud or. * In another window of the same 
 chappell a man kneeling witli his wife, like a baron as aforesaid, with these 
 armes on them both.' XXV. Argent, four bars gules, a chevron or. * In the 
 lower window in the same chappell these 4 barons kneeling in like manner as 
 afore.' XXVI. Checquy or and azure. XXVII. Or, three chevronels gules. 
 XX VIII. Plantagenet with a label of three points azure, three fleur de lys on each 
 point. XXIX. Purpure a lion rampant or. XXX. The same as XXVII. XXXI. 
 The same as XXVIII. XXXII. . . . A fess, between six cross crosslets or. 
 XXXIII. Gules, three water bougets .. . XXXIV. The same as XIX. XXXV. 
 Azure, three water bougets or, a label of three points, XXXVI. Argent, a fess 
 gules between three birds vert. XXXVII. The same as XXIII. XXXVIII. 
 Quarterly I. and IV., argent, three bars sable. II. and III. Four fusils in fess, 
 a bordure engrailed impalins: gules a chevron argent between nine plates of 
 the latter."— Jrf^. MS. 17,506, 23 b. 
 
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 I; 
 
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 13^ 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 137 
 
 H 
 
 
 Mass — weare gone out of or cliurche iij or iu'f^ yeares ago, how, 
 or who had theim we knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij altar Stones — broken in peces and Laid in or church 
 and paved A° dni 1564 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the Rood Loft wth all the Imageis & Tdolls of meer 
 supsticon — was broken & burnid anno supdco by the said church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson. 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 8 April 1566. 
 
 Sempringha^ — Thorns Bowth and Richard Esington, 8 April 
 1566. 
 
 Imprimis a crose of Laten and a holie water fate — sold to John 
 Tounesend of Haconbie, by Thorns Bowth who was sworn man 
 and Thomas Buckm^ churchwarden A° 1565, wch was defacid. 
 
 Itm a handbell — sold to Edward whitehead A° dni 1565 by 
 the said churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 Itm iiij^'^ banner clothes — geven to John Cotes the Clark of 
 the churche wch on or othes is defacid and put to pfane vse. 
 
 Itm a crose cloth — torne in peces Ao dni 1565 by the said 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itfii a Rowd wth Marie and John and ij candelstickes of wood — 
 in the first or second yeare of the Reigne of Quene Elizabth was 
 burnid and so defacid. 
 
 Itm or Rood loft — is made awaie and defacid. 
 
 Itm or Mass booke with all other of the popish service — was 
 burnid A*^ p^mo Elizabth Thomas foster and John Gie church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm or altar stones — my Lord Admirall"^ had and occupied 
 about buy din ge. 
 
 Itm or crewetes and Sensors — was taken out of or church wee 
 knowe not by whome fibr or chest was broken and thimplementes 
 therin taken and conveid awaie by whome wee cannot learne, 
 Thomas fibster then churchwarden and John Gie sworne man. 
 
 Itm or crismatories — was taken awaie at the same tyme. 
 
 Itm a veal — whearof is made a clothe for the pulpit. 
 
 Itm ij albes — whearof wee haue made clothes for the coion 
 
 table and the funt. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archd" Line. 
 George Mounson. 
 Mart HoUingworth, 
 
 * Edward Lord Clinton and Say, afterwards Earl of Lincoln, was Lord High 
 Admiral from 3 March, 1556 to 16 Jan., 1584-5. 
 
 SiBSAlE. — John ffavknar and Robart bordall churchwardens 
 2. May 1566. 
 
 Imprimis the Rood wythe mary and John wythe all the Rest 
 ofi" the popishe Idols — bornt and mad awaie the second yeare off 
 Quene Elizabethe saundars weste Rychard fiblantyne church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm the Roud lofite — We haue our setes in the church 
 
 (sic) . 
 
 Itm the mase bouke weth all the Reste of the popishe bouks — 
 bornt and mad away the second year of our Quene. 
 
 Itm the vestments albs amesses Cresmitory and all the Reste 
 ofi* the lenyns that belong to the papishe priste— the vesment y' 
 mad a cavarying fibr the comvnyon tabell the Reste mad away 
 we know not. 
 
 Itm the altar stons— on broken and the other layd fi"or a 
 
 brege. 
 
 Itm the pax cruytes and the sensars — gon we know not 
 
 how. 
 
 Itm the candellsticks handbels and sacaryng bels — candell- 
 stecks off" wod are bornt the second year ofi" our Quene the rest 
 we know not how the {sic) be gon. 
 
 Itm banar clothes Crose clothes banar staves and crose staves — 
 ar mad away and gon we know not how. 
 
 Itm the holly watar ffat — broken and mad awaye. 
 
 Itm ij copes — the ar a covar fibr our polpet and the other 
 Re many ng in or churche. 
 
 Skegnes. — John scaflet and Thomas whitin churchwardens 
 30. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis our Rood w* marye and John wt all the Rest of the 
 Images— broke^ and defaced in the second yeare of this quens 
 maie'lties Reagne by John scaflet and wyllm homes church- 
 
 wardyns. 
 
 Itm one albe— wheareof is mad a surples 1563 by John scaflet 
 
 and willm homes churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one crosse and crosse clothe pyx pax cruetes one masse 
 booke wt all other bookes of papestrye iij alter stones one cris- 
 matory wt all other pelfe of papestrie one sacrmgbele ij lettel 
 cadelstickes— broke and defacid in the second yeare of quene 
 Elizabethe by John scaflet and wittm homes churchwardynes. 
 
 Itm a holye water stocke— broke^ and defaced m the second 
 yeare of quene elizabeth by John scaflet and willim homes 
 churchwardyns. . . 
 
 Itm one vestment— where of is made a couermg tor the 
 pulpit 1564 by John Scaflet and thoraas witiin church wardms. 
 
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138 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION 
 
 139 
 
 Skellington. — Geofraie Hunton and Augustin Hawerdyn 
 8. April 1566. 
 
 Impmis the mass bookes pressloners manuells portifers and such 
 like peltrie — were burnid A^ pmo Elizabth by or Vicar and defacid. 
 
 Itfh all or Imageis — weare likewise burnid A*' piiio Elizabth 
 by the said vicar. 
 
 Itfh or Rood loft — sold ij yeare ago to or said vicar who 
 defaced and broke it in peccs. 
 
 Itiii one crose clothe one banner clothe and one streamer — sold 
 to Thomas Hollingworth of the said pishe what he did with theim 
 wee know not. 
 
 Itfh the cros staf ij banner staves one cros of coppar one soket 
 of copper fyve candelstickes one one {sic) pix one canabie one 
 amiss one pix for oyle and creame one sacring bell one handbell 
 one cruet ij corporaxes wth their cases of old silk one vestiht of 
 old satten ij stooles and a veale — sold to Mr. Richard Allen"^ of 
 the said pishe A° diii 1566 by the said churchwardens and what 
 he did with theim wee knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij albes — whearof was made a surples and a table clothe 
 for the coion table. 
 
 Itfh one holie water fatt — sold to or vicar ij yeare ago and is 
 defacid. 
 
 Itm one pax one ship and a tankerd — broken and defacid a° 
 piho Elizabth. 
 
 Itm Clappers ludaces and a sepulker — made awaie and broken 
 in peces A° pfho Elizabeth. 
 
 Itih ij altar stones — wch is defaced and Laid in the church 
 vpon graves. ^^^^ ^^j^^^^ 
 
 Robert Mounson. 
 George Mounson. 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 
 Slepord nova. — Anthonie Robinson and Robert Tymberland 
 7. April 1566. 
 
 In pfhis the roode marie and Johnne and all other Imagies of 
 papistrie and all the antiphoners masse bookes grales pies portises 
 manuelles legendes hymnalles wt crewittes sacring belles Chrys- 
 matories paxes clappers wt suche other trumperie were burned in 
 the markett place of newe sleforthe the xxjth daie of October a** 
 secundo Elizabeth wilim Shearshawe Roberte ffentonne and 
 wittm Cockitt then churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh two vestmentes one cope ij corporases iiij Towelles two 
 
 * Probably Richard, second son of Henry Alleyn of Grantham. — Harl. MS. 
 ]484. 
 
 crosse clothes two albes and one canapie the wch were sold to 
 one dwellinge in london the xvjth daie of June in Anno 3 Eliza- 
 beth as Johnne ffolkingham Nicholas carre"^ and Johnne Jack- 
 sonne churchwardens at that tyme have declared vnto vs but 
 but {sic) whate the mans name was that boughte theim we 
 knowe not. 
 
 Itfh one crosse thre candlestickes sensor one halliewater fatt 
 wt the pixe were sold to wittm dobledaie of newe Sleforthe the 
 vj daie of aprill last past anno 1566 Roberte Boston Roberte 
 Tymberland and anthonie Robinsonne beinge churchwardens. 
 
 Itih the rode lofte taken downe all save the florthe wch re- 
 mayneth standing wch we cannot take doune for y* is a waie 
 frome one house to another so yt we have noe passadge but that 
 waief to y tt but as for all the rest is broken in peces and defaced 
 
 I a 
 
 * Nicholas Carre was one of the Carres of Sleford. They were a branch of 
 the great north country family of Carre, Kerr, Kirr, or Keir, once powerful on 
 each side of the Border. The Duke of Roxburgh represents the chief Scottish 
 house. Cessford Castle, their ancient stronghold, situated at the foot of the 
 Cheviots, is now but a picturesque ruin. The Carrs of Fairnihirst, another 
 powerful line, are represented by the Marquis of Lothian. There were many 
 Carrs on the English side of the Border, but the two chief stocks were those of 
 Newcastle and Hetton. The peel tower of the latter place yet stands, and a 
 remnant of the military service of its former lords still survives in the custom 
 of the township of Hetton supplying a certain number of armed men to appear 
 at Alnwick Castle annually, on the eve of the great Fair, to keep watch and 
 ward over the castle throughout the night. The Lincolnshire branch of this 
 family descend from George Carre, grandson of Sir John Carre, who married 
 Margaret, daughter of Thomas 8th Lord Clifford. George Carre, like many 
 other Lincolnshire gentlemen of good position and pedigree in former days, 
 addicted himself to merchandize, by which means he accumulated a large 
 fortune, which enabled his son and successor Robert Carre to purchase lands 
 in this county to a very great extent. The male line of the family ended by 
 the death of Sir Edward Carr, Baronet, of Sleford, 28 Dec, 1683. 
 
 His sister, and sole heiress, Isabella, married 1 Nov., 1G88, John Hervey of 
 Ick worth Park, co. Suffolk, born 27 Aug., 1605 ; created Lord Hervey of 
 Ickworth 23 March, 1702-3, and Earl of Bristol 19 Oct., 17U. He died 20 Jan., 
 1750-1. The noble family of Hervey are not sprung from this match with the 
 heiress of the Carrs ; she bore her husband one son, Carr Lord Hervey (born 
 17 Sep., 1691), who died at Bath unmarried ] 4 Nov.," 1723, and two daughters- 
 Isabella, who died unmarried, Nov., 1711, and Elizabeth, who died with her 
 mother, a new-born infant. 
 
 " Whether by mischance or blame, 
 
 Atropos for Lucina came. 
 
 And with remorseless cruelty 
 
 Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree." 
 ^Moore Maur. Peter, F.S.A., Collins s Peerage, 1735, v. iii. p. 688. The Fam. 
 of Carr of Sleford. Privately printed. 
 
 t I can suggest no explanation of the above curious entry, unless it means 
 the rood loft gallery was required for reaching chapels at its northern and 
 
 southern ends. 
 
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 140 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 the tymber and bordes thereof is res^ved for raakinge and 
 
 mendinge of the stales in the churche and for other thinges that 
 
 we stand nede of mendinge aboute or said chnrche. 
 
 Itin ij alter stones broken in peces and paved in the church 
 
 florthe. T • 1 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archn Lincoln. 
 
 Robert Mounson ar^. 
 
 Thomas Saintpoll ar^. 
 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 
 8. April 1566. 
 
 SoMEEBiE. — Thomas Toller and Gabriel saywell churchwardens 
 21. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis or Rood w?h Marie and Johne — brent this yeare by 
 the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one vestmt a stole and an albe — soldo to Thomas fflynt 
 this yeare by the said churchwardens wch is defacid. 
 
 Itm iij candellstickes a crose a hollie water fatt censors and a 
 sacring bell — soldo to a puterer of Lincoln at Grantha^ faire this 
 yeare by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a manuell a pressioner a portas wth such other popish 
 mouumentes — was tome in peces this yeare by the said church- 
 wardens and is defaced. 
 
 Itm a Mass book — was gone A°pmo Elizabth when S'" Richard 
 Thirlil was curet ther who in the said yeare departed into 
 Leicesfsh^ where he dyed and what became of the said mass 
 book wee knowe not but the moste of the pishe suspecteth he 
 had it. 
 
 Itm a pix and a crismatorie — solde A° pmo Elizabth to S' 
 Simon Kelham"^ or psoiine at this pn^te who defacid it. 
 
 * Somerby is a little village three miles and a half south-east of Grantham. 
 A family of the name of Kelliam were for a considerable period inhabitants of 
 Grantham and the surrounding villages. Robert Kelham, of Grantham, farmer, 
 was among the persons indicted for high treason at the special assize held at 
 Grantham in April, 1643. Robert Kelham, the learned Lincoln's Inn anti- 
 quary, author of a Dictionary of Norman-Frenchy 8vo, 1779, and Domesday 
 Book illustrated, 8vo, 1788, was of this family. He erected in Gonerby 
 church a monument to his grandparents thus inscribed : — "To the memory of 
 Thomas and Mary Kelham, also of John and Avice Kelham, of this village : 
 persons of probity and piety. 
 
 April, 1699 ) f 60. 
 
 Novr., 1725 [ , J 74. 
 
 Deer., 1723 , ^^^ 1 81. 
 
 Jany., 1714 ) ( 
 
 *' This monument is erected as a testimony of gratitude and affection by 
 
 Thos. 
 Mary 
 John 
 Avice 
 
 died 
 
Flatt IV. !) 
 
 If* 
 
 NAVENBY EASTER SEPULCHRE, AND 
 
 SECTIONS OF THE MOULD/NCS. 
 
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 Scale , One inch to a £00 1. 
 
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 SUPERSTITION. 141 
 
 ^ Itm a canabie— sold this yeare by the churchwardens that now 
 IS to Maistres bawdes^ who hath defacid it. 
 
 Itm a pax and a corporax— made awaie and defacid A° pmo 
 -fcilizaj)eth and who was churchwardens wee know not. 
 
 Itm an old crwet— whearof was made sawder for the fflass 
 wmdowes A« pfho Elizabth as or pson saith. 
 
 Itm or altar stone— or pson that now is defacid theim and made 
 pte ot a paire of staires of theim. 
 
 Itm the holie water stock— defacid ij or thre yeare a^o in the 
 pn^ce of the whole pishe. 
 
 Itm a sepulker— was sold to Henrie Leveret in the fyrst or 
 second yeare of the Queues Matie yt now is who defacid. 
 
 Itm a banner clothe and a crose cloth— defacid in the first 
 yeare of or soueraigne Ladie Elizabth. 
 ' Ao^*~ a Hood loft— soldo to Charles bawds and Gabriel Sawell 
 A<> pmo Elizabth wch is by theim defacid. 
 
 Itm a cope and a chalice— remaynith in o'' said pishe church. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 22. April 1566. 
 
 South Icam.— thomas Jhonson Robart simson and robart cappe 
 churchwardens 26. April 1566. 
 
 Imp^mis the rood mary and John wth all other Images of 
 papistry— burent in the iiijth yere of our suffera^ lady elizabeth 
 nicolas atkmson willm dowe thomas kyell (?) churche wardines. 
 
 Itm iij vestmentes— Sold to nicholas atkynson and he hathe 
 delacid them. 
 
 Itm one crosse ij handbelles a pix of copp a pear off sensors a 
 cnsmatory one cruitt— Sold to M^ scolfild and he hathe defacid 
 them. 
 
 Rxjbert Kelhara, their grandson, son of the late Rev. Robert Kelham, Vicar of 
 BUlingborougb, &c. &c, who died 23 April, 17^2:' ---Turner's Hist. Grantham, 
 
 Robert Kelham, the elder, was also rector of Threckingham and Walcot. in 
 
 V ^k"""^!^- ^' "^''^ ^^ Ap^^» 1752, aged 75 years? His son, Robert 
 Ke ham the antiquary, married Sarah, daughter of Peter and Johanna Gery. 
 ot the tamily of Gery of Bilston. county Leicester. She died 28 Sept., 1774 
 aged Dd. Her husband died at Bush Hill, near Edmonton, 29 March, 1808 in 
 nis yxst year leaving one son and one daughter. The former, also called Roberf 
 was of btaple Inn. He died, unmarried, 11 Nov., 1811, aged 56. A list of 
 his father s works is given in Nichols' Lit. Anec, iii. 264. 
 
 A Richard Kelham, of the late Col. Riche's regiment, was killed fightine on 
 the popular side at the Battle of Worcester.— (7(?««. Jour. v. vii. p. 117 
 
 TT^.K • i ^f^^ of Somerby, bom 1533, died 10 April, 1695, married 
 ii^atherme, daughter of Edmond Bussey of Heyther.— ZTar^. MS. 1550 /. 9* b 
 
■ft 
 
 A 
 
 -A ".fcjwrf 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION 
 
 143 
 
 Itm ij head [hand ?] clothes ij fannelles and other pices of the 
 vestment — Sold to Kic hobelvvhite and he hathe deiacid 
 the^. 
 
 Itm iij albes — Alterid and mad a covering for the table. 
 
 Itm V tovvelles— Remeniuge in the churche an defaced. 
 
 Itm ij alter stones — Brokin and defacid by the foresayd churche 
 wardins. 
 
 Itm one banner cloth — sold to thomas Jhonson and he hath 
 defacid it. 
 
 Itm one masse bok and all othir bookes of supsticion brokin and 
 defacid in the first yere by the handes of edvvard care churche 
 wardin. 
 
 S PRIDLIN GTON 1 558. 
 
 Impimis all the Idolls and popishe bookes belinging to poperie 
 — brent A** pmo Elizabth W" Bettison and Peter Medlaie 
 gard^. 
 
 Itm one handbell — sold and defacid. 
 
 Itm one crose — vvhiche was deliuerid to Tho Searbie"^ the said 
 yeare wch as he said was his fathers. 
 
 Itm all the wood and bourdes wch was of the Rood Loft — solde 
 to James Caluerd Robt Searbie and John Laughlaie wch is defiacid 
 Thomas hall and willm Swaintson churchwardens A° dni 1562. 
 
 Itm the vestmtes one alb one banner clothe and a crose clothe — 
 sold to Thomas hall and defacid A*^ dni 1566 Richard Poel and 
 Robt Simpkinson then being churchwardens. 
 
 Itin one crismatorie — vnsold but defacid. 
 
 Itfii a paire of Sensors — solde to Robt Searbie and defacid. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 27. April 1566. 
 
 Ricu^ Pole et Robtm Simpkinson gard^. 
 
 SpKiNGTHORP.f — Willm Burie and George Swyfte church 
 
 wardens 8. April 1566. 
 Impfhis the images of the roode marie and Johnne and all 
 
 * Thomas Searby was a yeoman freeholder here in 1561. 
 
 f The parish register here contains the following memorandum relating to 
 the destruction of the churchyard cross. It would seem that it was an act of 
 lawless violence, not a sacrilege performed in obedience to authority : — 
 
 [1563] " Rolandus Chambers de Kirton et Mabella Wilson con'-'ubio iu'^cti 
 22 ]Sove'''b. eademq^ nocte crux in eemeterio funditus eversa fuit." 
 
 The same document informs us that " Robertus Smyth occisus fuit a molitore 
 quonda^ 19 decemb." [1562]; and that between 3 August and 12 October, 
 1559, eleven persons died here of the plague. 
 
 i 
 
 other Imagies of papistic — were burnte anno dni 1561 Robert 
 Nailer and Willm androwe churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii all or masse bookes and all other papisticall bokes — were 
 burnte and cutt in peces by S"" Richard robinson or psonne an° 
 1561. 
 
 Itm one vestment sold to willm Burre by roberte Nayler and 
 willm androwe churchwardens aiio 1561 and he haith cut y* in 
 peces and maide cusshinges therof. 
 
 Itm one other vestment of silk cut in peces and a clothe made 
 therof for or comunion table. 
 
 Itm the roode lofte taken downe and the hordes thereof were 
 nailed vp at thest end of the churche to kepe oute raine and 
 vvinde and the beames or postes thereof we haue res^ved to mend 
 a comon house in or towne. 
 
 Itm two candlestickes of wood^ broken and burnt in A° 1561 
 and one crose of woode. 
 
 Itm one pixe broken in peces and made awaie and one cris- 
 matorie. 
 
 Itm one old albe cutt in peces and geven to the poore people. 
 
 Itm ij banner clothes were burnte ano 1561, 
 
 Itm ij alter-stones broken in peces and defaced and paved."*^ 
 
 Itm one paxe burnt 1562. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre burnte 1561. 
 
 Itin one hallywater can^ broken in peces. 
 
 As for other monumentes of sup^sticion we had none in queue 
 maries daies and that we will depose vpon a boke. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen^ {sic) ar^ (sic) . 
 IVIartin HoUingworth. 
 18. April 1566. 
 
 Stallingbrok. — Richard AUenson and Rafe Graunt church- 
 wardens 1. May 1566. 
 
 Imprimis or rood Marie and Jhon — brent A° p^mo Elizabth 
 Hughe Persic and Allen Abotem then gard^. 
 
 Imt of rood Lofte — puld doune and defaced ij or three yeare 
 ago. 
 
 Itfh or mass bookes wth manuels and such popishe books — 
 
 * The Rev. Edwin C. L. Blenkinsopp, the present rector, to whose courtesy 
 I am indebted for the facts contained in the foregoing note, informs me that 
 the fragments of one of the altar slabs were found during recent alterations in 
 Springthorpe church. It is pleasant to be able to add that they have been 
 restored to Christian uses. Tliey now form a credence table. 
 

 144 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Brent torne and defacid the said fyrst yeare savinge pte wch was 
 
 brent on sondaie last. , , , 
 
 Itfh or altar stones— pavid in or churche and broken iij yeare 
 
 ^^Itm a holle waterfatt-solde and defacid A° p^mo Elizabth by 
 the said churchwardens then being. , , ^ ., , u.^ 4^ 
 
 Itm a pix and a crismatorie— sold and defacid and melted to 
 make a bell bouldr the sayd fyrst yeare. .111 f 
 
 Itm or candelstickes crwetes handbels and a sacrmg bell—put 
 awaie an meltid to the casting of bell bethers the said fyrst 
 
 ^Ttfii or vestmentes, albes, amises, stoles, fanels and such like-- 
 Vhearof we have made co^ie clothes for the colon table and pulpit 
 and the rest was geven to a poore woman. 
 
 Itm a crosse and a crosse clothe— the crose was meltid the 
 said fyrst yeare and turnd to thuse y^ the candelstickes wear and 
 the crose clothe was sold to players who defacid it. 
 
 Itm banners banner staves and crosse staves— broken m peces 
 and defacid, pte the fyrst yeare of Elizabth and pte a yeare 
 
 ^ Tt'm a pix— gone wee knowe not ho we nor who was church- 
 wardens but as wee thinck in the said fyrst yeare. 
 
 Itm a sepulker— defacid whearof wee made a bear to cane the 
 dead corps and other thinges. 
 
 Saint Georges in Stamford.— lo65. 
 
 Imp^mis iij altar tables a banner .... a banner clothe 
 thimageis of th . . . . Marie and Johne, Grailes .... masse 
 bookes and certaine .... whose names wee know 
 
 Itm an ij to . . . . candellstickes .... 
 
 Itm a hollywater st . . . . a paire of censers ot .... a pix 
 
 of latine 
 
 Itm a vestment .... . , , , j a 
 
 lofte— Taken doun by the said churchwardens, and 
 
 sold to' Richard Dawson in A« 1565 who brake it in peces and put 
 
 it to ©fane use. , , 
 
 . . lynnen clothes, a velvett pawle .... two surpleshes 
 a chalice- which nowe remaine in the churche and ar occupied 
 
 aboute the coion table th.er. ,. 1 r> v ^ 
 
 . ecclie cath^ lincoln cora^ mris .... hncoln Roberto 
 
 mounson armigero .... generos^ et martino holhngworth 
 .... regiis &c p Robertu^ dixon. 
 
 Saint Johnes in Stamford. — 
 
 Imprmis thimageis of the rood marie and Johne and certaine 
 laten bokes whose names wee knowe not 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 146 
 
 J 
 
 1 
 
 Itm a graile .... 
 
 Itm a albe .... 
 
 Itm a crose a pix a ... . crismatarie .... 
 
 Itm a vestment .... 
 
 Itm a Cope and a , . . . 
 
 lofte — wch was taken downe and put to prophane 
 
 vse by Godfrey dawsonne and Johiie flPout^nne then church- 
 wardens in anno 1564. 
 
 in domo cap^® ecclie cath^ lincoln cora^ magris Johe 
 
 .... Imer archno lincoln Roberte Mounsonne armigero .... 
 orgio mounson generos^ et martino hollingworth .... civitate 
 lincoln Comms regiis &c p gard iurat . . . . ie martii 1565. 
 
 Omnm Sanctor^ in Stamnford. — 
 
 Itm thimageis of the rood Marie and Johne .... 
 
 Itm one vestment, one albe one cope, one crose ij candellstickes 
 one paire of Sensers and one holliewater stock .... 
 
 Itm Cowchers, grailes, and other laten bokes, the oile boxes and 
 certaine altar tables .... 
 
 Itm a pix .... 
 
 The rode loft — wch was taken downe by John Dickonsonne 
 and John Smles (?) then church Wardens and put to prophane 
 vse in a"" 1562. 
 
 Vestmet — wch Gregorie Burton gaue to the church in the late 
 quene maries reigne and take^ yt from the church aeaine in a° 
 1559. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar^. 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 Martin Hollingworth civ. 
 11. March 1565. 
 
 Stevenbie. — John kirchian and Robert Kinge, churchwardens 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 Itm the roode marie and Johnne and all othr Imagies of 
 papistrie — burnte by Robert hutchine and Thomas wyer church- 
 wardens in the psonage house 1563. 
 
 Itm all or mase bookes and portases wt all other bookes of 
 papistrie — burnte by the said churchwardens at the said psonedge 
 house an" 1563. 
 
 Itiii ij wooden candlestickes — burnte at the same tyme by the 
 said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one handbell — remaigninge in o"* churche at this p^nte. 
 
 Itm one crismatorie one pixe one crewitt and one latten crose 
 
146 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 — remayDinge in or churcbe at this pn^te vndefaced and 
 vnbroken. 
 
 Itfh one cope and a vestment one albe and one sepulcre — the 
 cope remaynethe in o'^ churche at this p^nte tyme and also the 
 vestment and albe remaynethe ther nowe and as for the sepulcre 
 is broken and defaced. 
 
 Itfh ij alterstones broken and paved in the churche. 
 Itfh one crosse clothe and ij banner clothes — ar defaced and 
 rotten. 
 
 Itfh the roode loft — taken doune by Thomas wyere and Koberte 
 hutchine a° 156^ and builded the steple therew*. 
 
 Itfh one sacring bell remayninge in or churche at this pn te. 
 Itfh a paire of sensures broken and defaced. 
 
 Lincoln Palace. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 Martm Hollingworth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 Stickford. — Gilbert Jowson churchwarden 30. april 1566. 
 
 Imprimis o"" Rood marie and Jhon — defacid a yeare ago by the 
 said churchwarden. 
 
 Itfh or Rood Loft — puld downe and defacid the said tyme. 
 
 Itfh or mass bookes wth manuels and such popishe books — 
 defacid iiij""* yeare Androw Hobster and Charles Garner then 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh 0? altar stones — pavid in or church and broken at mid- 
 somer. 
 
 Itih a holie water fatt — we had none in Queue Maries tyme. 
 
 Itfh a pix a pax and a crismatarie — we had none in Queue 
 Maries tyme. 
 
 Itfh of candelstickes crewetes handbels and a sacring bell — we 
 had none in Queue Maries tyme. 
 
 Itfh or vestmentes stoels fianels and such like — s old and d^fl;c>i 
 [sic) to Thomas Kyme"^ but what he did wt theim I know not. 
 
 Itm a crosse and a crosse cloth — s old «ii d dcfuoid tb::: [sic) 
 yeare the cross know not howe, the crose cloth sold to S. Ni- 
 cholas Stevensh vica^. 
 
 The banners — one banner cloth or vicar S Stevens5n had and 
 what he did with it wee know not. 
 
 Itfh a sepulker — sold a year a go and defacid by willfh Est. 
 
 * A junior branch of the Kymes of Kyme, settled here in the fifteenth 
 century. Arms of Kyme : Gules, a chevron between ten cross crosslets, or. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. ^^ 
 
 STowR-RafFe Townsende churchwarden 26 March 1 ^ca 
 
 itm one masse booke and all other hAnt„= \e ■ ^ • 
 defaced and broken in oeces aS 1 ^fin ^ / PTf "^-^'^^^ 
 
 inad?the"f " ''"'''-''''^''^ '^^^ o( the church and a bridge 
 
 chuS; vThnn: tTo' Z ^-^--t -eh was lent to or 
 varies dafes and"at"the fef LgTof Si tpttrirhl" hlH 
 ap^me^and haith defaced the same. Ze^l'lfZal^fe 'yt 
 
 valefwf iS'l^T''"'"*^'' "■"^'^ '^'^^^''^ '=°To^'"=e clothes and 
 
 wTnd iri":.ijrdep '"^"^^ '^-^ - '- ^-^^^ - ^ --^ 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 26. March 1566. 
 
 ^''^T565~'^''°™^ '^'■°°^'^ """^ ^"•'^'^^ '^"l"t'«='-e 19- March 
 
 othe^Sn *'" ^T^^^- f- ^^'' '''°'^' '"^"■<' ^^^ Jotnne and all 
 
 all her bfokes nr^"'r- ""' ""'T ^'°''^' '^"'^ ^ P^^esse and 
 ail otner bookes ot papistne— were burnte in a° 4" Elizabeth hv 
 
 rhoms hoidernes and wiliffi Tydd churchwardens at that ty„T 
 
 Itni the rood lofte taken downe the same vere bv the .Tid 
 
 Jl^tl^sltn.^'^'' -^'- -^^ - ^'^ ehurche^Tth'Ltet 
 
 tJ'? iJ.candlestickes of wood broken and defaced. 
 
 Itm iij altar stones broken and paved in or church. 
 to a peXer.""' "'"' ^^^^y^^^torie-broken and defaced and sold 
 
 Itm one crosse of wood broken in peces. 
 .J^'^.''''\'>^^ ^^^osse cloth and the banner clothes broken and 
 aelaced and cut in peces. 
 
 ^nlf' IZ? ^'^^^^^f ^ S'''^^ ^^ two poor folkes but what thei haue 
 done wt theim we knowe not. 
 
148 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 
 
 Itm one vestemente one albe and one stole — sold to Thomas 
 Brannston for ij' vi"* by Thomas holdernes and wittm Tidd church- 
 wardens and the said Thomas Brannstone made Cusshinges and 
 pillowes thereof. 
 
 Itin one pax broken and defaced. 
 
 Bishop^'s Palace Lincoln. 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 19. March 1565. 
 
 SwATON. — Johnne mydletonne & Richard kirke churchwardens 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 In pmis the Images of the rood marie and Johnne — were 
 burnte in anno dni 1563 by Roberte Pell and Richard Bryan 
 churchwardens ther at the same time. 
 
 Itin one masse booke wi a portes and other bookes — ^burnte at 
 the same tyme by the said church wardens 1563. 
 
 Itin one cope — remayninge wt in or churche at this p^nte. 
 
 Itrii one vestmente and one albe — sold to Johnne mydletonne 
 wch he haith defaced and made cusshions therof. 
 
 Itm one handbell one crose and a paxe a crysmatorie and 
 cruuittes — sold to wittm gamble and george alien churchwardens 
 for viij* a° 1563 to a pewterer. 
 
 Itin iij alter stones — wherof ij of them bee broken and lyethe 
 in the churche and thother whole wch liethe in the strete. 
 
 Itin ye rood lofte — taken downe by Richard kirke and willih 
 gamble churchwardens anno 1563 and sold to diuerse men in the 
 pishe wch they haue pute to prophane vses. 
 
 Itin one sepulcre — Burned and defaced and put to prophaine 
 vse. 
 
 Itin one paxe and sensures — wch is broken in peces. 
 
 Church of Saint Martin Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 SwYNESTED. — Johuuc Maxaic and Richard Maxaie church- 
 wardens 18. March 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis the roode marie and Johnne wt all other Imagies of 
 sup^sticion — were burned in a° 1563 by Thomas Ricke and Gef- 
 fraie bull churchwardens at that pn^te. 
 
 Itin old vestment and one canapie — defaced and cutt in peces 
 by Johnne maxaie and Richard maxaie churchwardens vpon 
 thursdaie last ano 1565. 
 
 Tx ~ 149 
 
 Itm one corpas of silke-defaced. 
 
 or ie^ rtt?;Sei;r" ''' -^^i- «to,es-re.a,ni„ge ia 
 
 ""^^B^^"^ -^? ":;,:^ ^^ ^ - V^e for 
 
 ^^^^^^^"1:^^;%:^^^^^^ i^^ of sup..tieion- 
 wardens anno dni 1560 ^^""^^^ Buke churche 
 
 Co^ °"^ '-^^^"-^-^en and in the handes of Johnne 
 
 abourtwo%^tsen^r;lJn"'7'"'''^'^** -'^ ^^^ffrey bull 
 desaced. ^ ^ ^^ '^^^'^"^ Coye and John michelsonne 
 
 ^^^p^S;:^i^:fZ^ ^^« other re.aineth whole 
 Itm old cope_remay„i„g in or churche at this pn^te 
 
 Church of Saint Martin Lincoln. 
 Ijeorge Mounson gen. 
 Martin Holiiny worth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 '"Tori^JrS e''""^ ^'^'^ ^^'^^'' «^^- churchwardens 
 
 Bobt Jarkoe churchwardens'^ '*'' '^'^^'""^ <^™^°e and 
 
 -^^^^rf^^:^ T't''^^^ ^ -h like 
 ^ Itm iij banner cUhes-sold to r. 7"*^''°^- 
 
 Ehzabth by the said chur:hw"rden*s^v?h71ftr'' ^° ^'"" 
 
 thetid chiKaTii" '-''' -' ^iefaced ItSEHzabeth by 
 
 ward^s fyrs. -one ^^^^^ ^^^ 'J^V the .id ^ 
 
 Itm one holie water fate of stone-broken in paces 
 now is wch is defacid. voclff ForZ ' «'"^^«twardens that 
 
 I 
 
150 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 1/ 
 
 Itfh one vestmt a veal and other Linnen— sold to Robert 
 Jarrok ao pmo Elizabth Eobt Jarrok and adam Growe churchward 
 wch IS defacid. 
 
 Itm ij albes—whearof is made a surples ao dni 1565 Edward 
 Moris and Edward Moore churchwardens. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 10. April 1566. 
 
 Tallington.— Johnne wrighte and Thomas androwe church- 
 wardens 18. March 1565. 
 
 Itin the roode Marie and Johnne and all other Imao-ies of 
 sup sticion and all alter tables painted hordes and masse bookes 
 and Cowchers— were burned spoyled and defaced at the queues 
 manes visitacon by Robarte Browne and Robert Ibbes church- 
 wardens at that pn^te time. 
 
 Itm two albes— wch were translated the one made a surplesse 
 lor the prieste the other made a rochet for the clarke. 
 
 Itm two vestmentes— were sold byThomas wharton and Thomas 
 fiorman churchwardens Ano 1560 To Roberte broune and Roberte 
 Ibbes^for the some of xij« wch thei made bed hanginges of" theim 
 
 Itm one cope—sold to Thomas ffrestonne for vij^ and he made 
 cusshions therof A° 1560 by Thomas wharton and Thomas fForman 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the sensers and the pixe— was soldo by the said church- 
 wardens anno 1560 to Johnne wrighte the yonger for xx^ and he 
 sold theim m Stamford faire to a brasier and ij candlestickes sold 
 to Ihomas wharion for ij^ wch he also sold to a brasier. 
 
 Itm ij alter stones— were given to the mending of Taliino-tonne 
 brigge m A° 1560 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre and the roode lofte— burnte by Roberte Broune 
 and Robert Ibbes churchwardens A° 1560. 
 
 Itm one hallywater fatte of stone— and broken three yere sens. 
 
 Itm ij banner clothes and a crosse— sold to Johnne wri-hte 
 wch pamted theim and made clothes for to hange his hall wt and 
 the crose is broken and defaced. 
 
 Itm one crysmatorie and two cruettes— broken and sold to a 
 pewterer. 
 
 Itm one crose clothe— sold to a pore woman in the towne for 
 
 >"J 
 
 Itm one paxe — broken and defaced. 
 
 The Bishop's Palace Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 
 
 SUPERSTITION 
 
 151 
 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 
 Tedforth. — 
 
 ffyrste one cope wch wee have. 
 
 puf t IS^I ^^^^^^^^ -^ y' belongeth to thei. broken and 
 Jtm a pix a crose a crismatorie banner clothes put to other 
 
 Itm Marie and Johne brent & distroyed 
 Itm the Rood & or Bookes is Lackin. 
 Itm one handbell sold & gone. ''' 
 
 Robt Phillpson ) 
 
 PL 1 , Richard Clark 4 churchwardens 
 
 Churchwarden the fvrst vearp c? fV A ^ 
 
 Who . ^, .,„ .^ ih5Ep;rsr:.:?i*°r»'> 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Robert Mounson ar. 
 George Mounson gen^ 
 24. April 1566. 
 
 B.i. John psonne bein^i'cfcwfn"' ^"' ^"* °"*^ ^^ P'"" 
 
 wch wa. defaced hetTuZ^^^^^ST ' "''"^*^ ^^"^ '''' 
 Itm one masse booke burnte'yesterdaie'. 
 Itm one sepu ere defaced and broken in peces 
 
 daredr;r^"'" "^'^'^ ^°^ ^ P- of aSr'windoe was sa.- 
 Itm one crosse of woode burnt. 
 
 chSc'e"' '^'^ '^'^'=^'' ^"'^ - -rpl- -ade therof for or 
 be?.JiId": :K'of ''" ' "^'^ *° ' P-- -0-- wch she made 
 and\^.dTolr,fe7sonL^'^" ^" P^^ ^ «*°'« ^ ^--'1 ^^efaeed 
 
 Jo W ^LSiT ^'" '"^'^ ' P^^ ^-^- - P-s and sold to 
 
 othlf twnSsTflSirr '^"M'^^ °^^^"«*-- - -y 
 
 tyme and that we wnTdeJol " "' ^'^ """^ '" ^"^"^ "-'- 
 
 { 
 
 -aatdKaa. 
 
i 
 
 15« 
 
 MONVMENTS OF 
 
 Itin one superaltare broken and defaced. , , , 
 
 Itin one alter stone paved in the churche florthe and broken. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelraer Archdeacon ol Ijincoln. 
 
 Robert Mounson ar®. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 
 THURLBIE.-Richard Waterfall and John Thekar churchwar- 
 dens 31. March 1566. . „ x , 4 n ..<.»,o. 
 
 Imprimis the Images of the roode mane & J"^" f;fd all other 
 imagies of papistrie-WiUm Harebie and W.llm Eldred brent 
 about two yeres last past thei beinge then church wardes . 
 
 Itin all the masse bookes portasses manuelles legendes couchere 
 and all other bookes of papistrie-were sold vnto Libens Holcutt 
 of thureby (sic) the first wek of this piite lent wch bbens did 
 cut the said bookes in peces before their face. 
 
 Itm the rood loft taken down by the aboue named wittm 
 Harebie and WiUin Eldred about two yeres past and wt the 
 bordes or part thei made seates in the churche & part thei haue 
 still in the vestrie and some be brent. , o ,, . ,•, 
 
 Itm their alter stones are broken and wi the^ theire are stiles 
 in the churchyard made. , . 
 
 Itin two vestfnetes sold the first sondaie of this letbytheis 
 churchwardes vnto Richard Harebie who did deface the before 
 
 *^ Itin'thL albes sold by wiUfh harebie and \Villfh Eldred aboute 
 two yeres pa^t to libens holcut and Thomas Eldred who defaced 
 
 ^'^ iTfii the sepulcre was bre^t for the glasier, by theis church- 
 wardes since this lent. 1 i T)- TJ _„!„•« 
 
 Ittn two candlestickes sold by theis churchwardes to Ric Harebie 
 and thei were iirst broken and an one other candlestick broken 
 and sold by the said churchwardes to Thomas Harebie and two 
 other candelstickes sold by the said "h^-rchwardes^to wittm 
 harwood being first brok^ in pec^ & one other to willm Harebie 
 beinff also first broke^. „ „ 
 
 Itm ij other candelstickes and a crosse stafife & a pare of sensers 
 
 of Chichester (consecrated U May, UJO-d^ed August, ^^^^J^^-fl 
 
 Isabell 
 1550, 
 
 
 sup:erstition. 
 
 IMchesrer (consecrated 21 May, 1570-d.ed August, ^^^^J^^^m 
 eU became the wife of his youn-er brother, James Curtis.-/y«r.. m:^. 
 \ f. 185. Cooper's Ath, Cant. v. i., p. 455. 
 
 itm ij handbelles, the holie watPr f.Vf. 
 
 castingeoftwobelJeUicwedoran/^^^^^^^ at the 
 
 wardes. ' ^^"^ ^^"^ '^^^^"^ barnard being church- 
 
 A cCttZ' rpeJe^ ^""^ "''-^ ^°^-^ l^ad it. 
 Jto the canapie clothe sold to Rio harebies wief bcin. first 
 
 XHar^b- :J-i^ Sr^d ^^££1^^ ^^ '^ 
 
 popish pictures that sarvid to tlfe nn '""^ ^^^ '''' "^ "'« 
 P^mo Elizabth Jolm Selie and Pi! i ^l ^'' Tf ~^'"' '^'^'^'"^ A" 
 Itrh one Rood loft-Llff^ V'^'P"!'*"" ^''"'■^''^vardens. 
 
 defaeid it and put Jt t^S t Tf^^^ ^'^ t° ''^"^! 
 Johne Smithe then churchwardens ^"^""^"i ^''O- Saer and 
 
 Itm one crose clothe one banner rlnfI,o +i 
 — wa^ sold vnto wiUim Smith A° Hi Pr i *''% censors bottome 
 
 John Smith then ch^rcluvardis i^ ''f "' "'"'"'^ '^^""^«^ ^'"^ 
 defacid. aurclnvardcns wch tromperie is torne and 
 
 ther ?f maYf .futr''*^ *° '^'"^ '^-"^ ^ '"j" ^'-bth who 
 
 and'fh^rdbdSdf to\es:[/i\'^7- ^ ''- ^ -™^' ^e» 
 
 third yeare w.h then .^^^S torntan^^^ '''' "^ ^'^ 
 facid it. ^"'^''^''^ns to M George Shefieild* who hathe de- 
 
 Itm or mass bookes wtli all the rc^t of the reliques and supsti- 
 
 but Ws'';Pa::Tthe;Xris bf^r ' ' ''""'"'^!" °f tl-^ B""^™-^!^ family 
 eldest son of Charles Shfffi.U J .™''"'' ';"'*"'• ^e was probably L' 
 n.arried the heket of the Ses^^""'^ ^°" "^ John Sheffield of troxb^fwbo 
 
154 
 
 MONVMENTS OF 
 
 cous bokes — was taken awaie by S'" John Browne or pson ao pmo 
 Elizabth who is dead, and what beca^ of theim wee knowe not. 
 Itm one cope — remayneth. 
 
 Itm one altar stone — broken and defacid ij year ago. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson gen. 
 25. April 1566. 
 
 ^Vffington. — Willm Stringer and Gerard Jonson church- 
 wardens 18. Marcho 1565. 
 
 Imp^mis the Imagies of the roode marie and Johnne and all 
 other Imagies of superstition — were burned and broken in the 
 first yere of the reigne of the queues ma*^® that now is, by Crofer 
 waters and willm stringer churchwardens at that pn^te tyme. 
 
 Itm the masse books and all other bookes of papistrie — were 
 burned and made awaye in the said first yere of the queues ma*^® 
 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a pix and a towell an Alter table and a handbell — the said 
 pixe and towell was sold to one Johnne Barbage for the some of 
 xviijd wch he haith defaced and the alter table and a handbell 
 were sold to willim Hersonne for the some of xiij^ wch he haith 
 
 ties 
 
 reigne. 
 
 broken in the said first yere of the queues ma 
 
 Itm a plain alter table and a cloth a bowte the pixe — solde to 
 Thomas Gilberte by the said churchewardens anno 1559 for the 
 some of xviij** wch he also haith defacid. 
 
 Itm one painted clothe — sold to Richard watson ano 1559 for 
 the some of vd. wch he haith defaced likewise. 
 
 Itni two candlestickes of wood — sold to george grene by the 
 said churchwardens anno 1559 wch he haith made awaie and 
 burned, 
 
 Itm one vestment and one Albe — sold by the said church- 
 w^ardens to Crofer waters for iiij® v*^ in a° 1559 wch he haith cutt 
 in peces. 
 
 Itm a brasen crosse and a handbell — remayninge in or churche 
 at this pnte tyme but thei ar broken and knockt in peces. 
 
 Itm one cope — remayninge in or churche at this pn^te tyme 
 vnde faced. 
 
 Itin ij alter stones and broken {sic) remayninge in the church 
 and paved where the alter stode. 
 
 Itm one banner clothe — lente to or churche bv one willm net- 
 lams wief whoe haith the same againe who dwelleth now in 
 Rutland shere. 
 
 Itm one cruett — wch one Johnne Willoughbie hade and haith 
 defaced the same. 
 
 Itm the rood lofte — taken down by James garforth and John 
 
 SUPERSTITION. jgg 
 
 Burbage and made in stales and seates for folkp<= f. '^^ • --. 
 were made by willm Stringer 1563 "" ''^^ '"^ ^^^ 
 
 Itm one sencer— broken and defaced. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Church of S Martin. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 yLCEBiE.~-Thomas Appleyard and Johnne ffoster. ** 
 
 Inp mis the roode marie and John and all other nom'^h 
 Imageis— were burnt and broken in neces in Aol^ w ?^^^^ 
 Welles and Thomas Smythe churchwardens^ ' " 
 
 Itm all or popishe bookes of latten— were made awaie anri 
 defaced at the same tyme to or knowledges for we knowe n^wW 
 .s ^become of them all but some of them weThtrw b^l 
 
 Itm the roode loft taken downe A° 1563 and was snlrl f^ 
 Thomas apleyard Johnne foster and nicholas ToU ^74/^ haue 
 madejvindoes dores and chestes thereof. ^ ^® 
 
 Itm one vestmente, one cope sold to Thomas aDlevarrl «nr1 1.. 
 wSJ t^^^ST ^^-^^ -^ one atlS: 
 
 thiSf.'-' '"''' ^^"'""^ ^^ ^^""^ '^''^^ y '^o'O'i table clothes 
 ma"e* waL'^"'"' ^''"'''"'' ^"'^ ^""^''^^ ^' "^^''^'^ ^'^^'^ ''"d 
 
 ha^ ywater fatte sold to Roberta moor and Peter douXie and 
 thei haue broken them in peces and exchaunged them ^ 
 
 Itm one crysmatone one pix one paire of sensers one paxe one 
 eacnnp bell one orewett made awaie and gone we know not howe 
 nor what is become of them. 
 
 Itm ij handbelles broken in peces and sold to or Vicare 
 
 «n.lTl *'™/='°'?" «'°t'ies* one crose clothe sold to nichohs ToUe 
 and he made painted clothes therof. 
 
 Itm thre alter stones broken and pavid in or church. 
 
 Itm one hollywater stocke of stone broken in peces. 
 
 n-.t.^*""^"^- ^^'® "^^"^ ^ ^^ "x' processions of the Sledijeval Church Th^, 
 rr,vV"'"r"'°'' "'/^ ''"""^^t weddmg or funeral. The processio^7f 
 the richer religious guilds must have been very maenificent from i h^ir i i 
 
 t::rJ::^ ^"f^^ bam.er.devices. The leier ^ds! s cTaa w"re fo' b^ 
 
 L 2 
 
156 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 
 
 157 
 
 Waddingha^ sainte Maries. — Gregorie oredall and Thomas 
 Edwarde churchwardens. 
 
 Inpins the roode marie and John and all other Imagies of 
 papistrie — were burnte in anno 1562 Robert west and Crofer 
 brombie churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one masse booke and all other bookes of papistrie — were 
 burnt in anno 1562 the same men beinge churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii the rode lofte taken downe pte of the same in ano 1563 
 aifdthother pte at christmas last and is broken in peces and sold to 
 the pisheners and the {sic) haue burnt yt and put it to other vses. 
 
 Itm two vestmentes one amyse a stole a fannell sold to gre- 
 o-orie overdall aiio 1562 and he haith cut and broken them in 
 peces and defaced them. 
 
 Itm one albe wch we have made a clothe of for or colon table. 
 
 Itin one crose clothe cut in peces and defaced. 
 
 Itm one pixe gone we knowe not howe. 
 
 Itm one paire of sensures broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one crosse of wood broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one crysmatorie borrowed of Thomas andrewes in queue 
 maries tyme and at the defacinge of all papistrie yt was restored 
 to him againe but what he did wt yt we knowe not. 
 
 Itm cravettes we had none in queue maries tyme. 
 
 Itm candlestickes we had none. 
 
 Itm one alterstone broken in peces. 
 
 Itm sacringe bell we had none in queue maries tyme. hand 
 bells we had none in queue maries dales. 
 
 Itm one hallywater fatt of stone broken in peces, 
 
 Itm one paxe broken in peces. 
 
 Itm as for other monumentes of supersticion we had none in 
 queue maries dales that we will depose vpon or othes. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 11. April 1566. 
 
 Waddingha^ sancte Peters. — Richard harrison and Thomas 
 Berrer churchwardens 11. April 1566. 
 
 Imp^mis the rode marie and Johnne and all other Imagies of 
 papistrie were burnt in ano 1562 gerratt Brombie and Roger 
 philippe churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all the masse wt all other bookes of papistrie savinge one 
 manuell — were burnte and torn in peces the same yere the same 
 men beinge churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the rood loft taken {sic) pte of yt in ao 1562 and thother 
 pte sens christmas last the hordes and all the reste of the same 
 
 
 1 
 
 .1, 
 
 were sold to nicholas yorke^ and Richard Harrison and thei haue 
 burnte the same. 
 
 Itfii one crosse of latten one handbell a crewitt a paire of sen- 
 sers sold in ao 1563 Roger philipe and geratt Brombie church- 
 wardens to Johnne porter and lie haith broken them in peces. 
 
 Itm one pix of yvorie broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one manuell burned but yesterdaie. 
 
 Itm two vestmentes ij amyses one stole sold to Johnne porter 
 and Thomas philippe ano 1562 and thei haue cutt tbeim in peces 
 and defaced the same. 
 
 Itiii candlestickes we had none in queue maries tyme. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre broken in peces and defaced. 
 
 Itni all the banner clothes and crosse clothes were cutt in 
 peces by S'" Roberte Towne of psonne and made playing cotes 
 for children of them. 
 
 Itm one alter stone— wch S"" ffrauncis askoughe knighte had. 
 
 Itm one sacringe bell wch honge at a may pole toppe and what 
 is become thereof we know not. 
 
 Itm one paxe defaced and made awaie. 
 
 Itfii one hally water fatt of stone broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one albe wch we haue made a surples of. 
 
 Itfn as for other monumentes of supsticon we had none in or 
 churche and that we will depose vpon a booke. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin HoUingworth. 
 11. April 1566. 
 
 Wauphlett Maries.— Richard Ward and Jhon Hobson gard^ 
 26. May 1566. 
 
 Imprimis or Rood mary and Jhon and all other Images — 
 burned A° prime Elizabethe. 
 
 Itm or masse booke — Stollen out on or churche. Iho Coxe and 
 Jhon bullocke gard^ A° primo Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm or processioner a Manuell a portis and all other bookes of 
 papistrie — burned at the said time. 
 
 Itm or Rood loft wth all the hordes and timbar therevnto 
 belonginge — A"" vij Elizabethe was takne downe and put to pro- 
 phane vse. 
 
 Itm one cope — givn to or churche in the raigne of quene marye 
 by M^ Dight5 who hathe nowe takne the same from vs againe. 
 
 * This is probably Nicholas the third son of Thomas Yorke of Ashby, by his 
 wife Margaret, daughter of Hamon Sutton of Washingborough. 1 do not, 
 however, remember to have seen any other evidence of his connexion with tliis 
 village. The Yorkes were not tenants of the Manor and Soke of Kirton-in- 
 Lindsey, in VVaddingham, when Norden's survey was made in 161 G. 
 
 ( V 
 
153 
 
 MONUMJENTS OF 
 
 Jl^uZ. t^'.'^''^^'' ^'\ f}'' li^en clothes-converted into 
 coveringes tor or comunion table. 
 
 or alTbe? 'XV"'"',*'' \^t\ °^ censors and one handbell wth all 
 
 buf J^l /.T;; fo*^ ^'■"'^"^ P^i-t SOW and other part distri- 
 
 buted to the poore A° primo Eiizabethe. 
 
 Tnn7iri'''?*°.?*'''P.¥".'''' f™'^*^^ ''I'd all suche linen ba-a-e- 
 made^avvaie the said time beinge cut in peces. ° ° 
 
 vATtIT^O^ candlestickes a holy water fatt a saeringe bell a 
 -sold o Thn'Tl,"",'' "" **'' '""''^ "^"^^'^ «"•! banner clothes 
 
 werJiteror ':^^\T^^ii':'^'^''^ "-'' -'-''- ''^^ 
 
 holT °°' ^"^"'''torie-gone out of or churche we knowe not 
 beth.^ °^ Sepulchre-brokne in peces and sold A» primo Eliza- 
 Itm or Altar stones-paved in or churche and brokne in peces. 
 Elizabethe':°'^°'''' """^ ^ canapie-defaced and sold A" ^rimo 
 
 ^^""l Ch' A^i^lTee^"'''*"' ^°^ ^''^^^ ^^^^'' churchwardens 
 
 yelTofito '*'"' ^'""""' l^'''' ^ John-wear brent the fyrst 
 yeare ol the Quenes maties Reigne that now is in the nn^ce of 
 the pshners Edward Robson "and win Saunderson 'lurch-' 
 
 Bishe^A? Sri ?^fi W r' f^\^° f °^"^ ^^^''""^ of the said 
 
 f:l\n:2 hai: detid''°"»"'""'^^ '''' ^™^ •^'•°-^ '='^-^- 
 
 inies"'ther^^rL^'^,-Vfi''-'""T?> ^f^ '»"'' P='''"**<^ *« make hang- 
 
 Itm ij handbells-sold to Johne Langlandes this yeare hv the 
 said churchwardens which be defaced and broken ^ ^ 
 
 -waT br'^nri' ' ' PJ^^to^-^V^ege^ds & suche like popishe peltrie 
 was brent Ac pmo Elizabeth at Grantha according to the 
 commandmt of the Quenes highnes visitors that now if Geor'e 
 weston and wittm Kyrton then churchwardens. ° 
 
 nowe'l.'' P'^-'''-°'^^'' ^° dfli 1566 by the churchwardens that 
 
 Itm a pax and ijcrewetes— taken awaie ij yeare a-o by whome 
 wee^knowe not Robt Pearie and John Lon'gfandes theSrc"! 
 
 Humfrai'dark^^f^r^^*, '^'k' '''''^''^ '^"'^ Amises-.old to 
 iiumtraje Clarke of the said pishe Ao dni 1566 bv the cli..r^l, 
 
 ^vardens yt nowe is who hathe defacid theim. ^ 
 
 1» 
 
 4 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 259 
 
 had^llT— ^""-^r^ ^T^'^"""^^^^^"^"^ ^^^"^ (as we think) 
 ^^^ V- .-• f "" ^""^ Ehzabth for wee never saw theim sence. 
 
 An I'^iT^^.p T''.? ""^k"' ^^^ ij/estmentes-sold to Johne Bawle 
 AG dmUQQ by the churchwardens that now is wch be defaced 
 or at or retorn shall be. 
 
 Itm a rood clothe crose clothes and such like linnen bao-ido.— 
 was so d to certaine of the pishe foure yeares ago who'halhe 
 made shirtes smockes and necessarie thinges of for their children 
 so whearby it is defacid. 
 
 Itm ij altar stones— whearof thone is pavid in or church and 
 mother broken in peces iiij'"'" yeares agoo. 
 
 A -^^A^i -KTaT^ ''''.'^ 'J candelstickes-broken in peces and defaced 
 
 -Ljiu 1566 by the churchwardens yt now is. 
 
 Itm ij crose staves and iiij banner staves— soldo to willm 
 
 Moone and John Lee ij or three year ago wch be quite made 
 
 awaie and defaced. -^ & u ^ 
 
 Itrn one cope — remaynith. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 10. April 1566. 
 
 Welton iuxa Lincoln.— Win Paws ... and ... . Smithe 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Imprimis ij hand Belles one holly water fatt and one sacrino-e 
 bell— sold ... the . . then . . . anno . . . churchw . . "^ 
 
 Itm one cope one vestment ij tunacles ij basones one crose, 
 one crose clothe one rood clothe one banner clothe one veale & 
 one Lrisraatorie 
 
 Itm one Pax, candellstickes Rowelles^ Mass bookes Manuells 
 and one portes 
 
 Itm one chalice one cope one surples one font clothe and one 
 table clothe 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar. 
 Edmund Hall ar. 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 11. March lo65. 
 
 1 
 
 Rowels and rowel lights are of frequent occurrence in ecclesiastical m 
 ventories. The rowel (Fr. Romlle, from Roue, a wheel, Lat. Ro^a) was a 
 pulley by which the hghts were let up and down. I beheve it was especially 
 used lor the pulley, bj which the star-hke light was made to move at the 
 -tipiphany, when the coming of the wise men was acted as a religious play. The 
 word rowel is yet retained in our dictionaries and ordinary speech to signify the 
 little spiked wheel in a spur. Farriers apply the term to indicate a small circular 
 
 it 
 
160 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Welton iux LouTH.—Ihon Curtelse and Willm Webstar 
 22. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis ij copes wherof is made of thone a com^ table clothe 
 tbe other is defaced and sold. 
 
 Itm ij albes— wherof one was sold to iiij plaiers^ the other 
 hkewyse made a coveringe for the coinion table. 
 
 Itrn iiij vestments— sold to the same me^ since christmas last. 
 
 Itm all or Images and papisticall bookes— defaced and made 
 awaie smce christmas last. 
 
 Itm one chalice— sold to Rodger stutt of Lawithe since 
 Christmas last beinge brokne in peces. 
 
 Itin all the hordes of the Rood lofte— sold to wittm webstar 
 and cut in peces. » 
 
 Itm one crosse ij handebelles and ij candlestickes a holy water 
 tatt a crismatorie— Remaininge in the handes of the church- 
 wardens jvch were in the yeare last past, not defaced. 
 
 Itm or altar stones— defaced and made awaie. 
 
 Itm one veale— sold to Wilim alisbie since the last vis^ beinge 
 deiaced. 
 
 Itm ij candelstickes— sold to Iho hiberstowe beinge defaced 
 since the last vis . 
 
 Welton in the Marsh.— Richard hudson and Richard 
 Prittork churchwardens 30. April 1566. 
 
 ■Di-'^T^'T,''"^ 1^00^ ^vth Marie and John— defacid A6 pfno 
 iUizabth Robt Ashlaine and Robt Keelbie as we supose wear 
 churchwardens both ded. 
 
 Itm or Rood loft— defacid the said tyme by the said church- 
 wardens. 
 
 Itm or mass bookes a manuell a pressioner a manuel and 
 suche Ilk popishe bookes— Brent this yeare by the church 
 wardens now bein^j-. 
 
 Itm or altar stones — broken in peces a yeare a o-o. 
 
 ^^"^ A.?-^^ ^ P^^ ^^'^ ^ crismatorie— defacid "this said fyrst 
 yeare ot Elizabeth by the churchwardens aforesaid. 
 
 piece of leather with a central hole, which is sometimes inserted under a horse's 
 r V,W /T^f, ^"^^5\°^^^io^ «*■ tlie surface.-i)^. Fresne, Gloss, sub Stellce Feslum; 
 Art!t^^ mt %li'''''''' ^^^ ^^^- P- ^1^ ' ^^^^"^^^ Outlines of the Veterinary 
 
 in th"^^ "^^y .^ot be known by every one that plays continued to be performed 
 n c urches lor some time after the Reformation.' The parishioners of Leverton 
 
 Pnlt ^'^^ ?^f '''■ ^^^^- T^" churchwardens' account book of that village 
 contains the following memoranda :— viudQe 
 
 " Itm pd for playing in the churche iii*. iiijW. 
 
 Itm pd to the apparitor for sufferinge a plaie in the church iiJ5. viiji » 
 
 it 
 
 €t 
 
 V. 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 161 
 
 / Itm a yest^^t albes amis and stools— made awaie and defacid 
 m the said fyrst yeare. 
 
 Itm Sensers cruetes candelstickes wth such lik trash— defacid 
 the said tyrst yeare by the aforesaid churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a sepulker— defacid A° p^fno Elizabih by the aforesaid 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a crose and a crose clothe wth the banner clothes— defacid 
 the said fyrst yeare by the said church warden^. 
 
 Itm a veal— defacid the said fyrst yeare by the said church- 
 wardens. ^ ^ J 
 
 Westboroughe.— Stephen Jackson and Anthonie ffiUindia^ 
 19. April 1566. "^ 
 
 lur^ coram nob N Lincoln. R Mounson. 
 
 Imprimis or Rood wth Marie and Johne— brent Ao dni 1565 
 by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itin mass bookes wth such like— brent Aop^mo Elizabth. 
 
 Itm ij candellstickes— sold to one of or pishe iiii°^ yeare aero 
 wch is defacid. *^ ^ 
 
 ^^^ ?.?.^ crwet — gone wee knowe not how. 
 Itffi iiij or banner clothes— wee made a copull of Jackes of Ao 
 p^'mo Elizabeth. 
 
 Itm one pax — gone we knowe not howe. 
 
 Itm a pix— sold to Thomas Lee who hath defacid it. 
 
 Itm a crismatorie^— sold to Richard Marborne who hathe 
 defacid it. 
 
 Itm one crose- sold to Thomas Lee who defacid it. 
 ? (^. rood Loft — defacid ij yeare ago. 
 ^ Itm iij altar stones — occupied about the mending and repayr- 
 i"ge of or churche iiij*'*' or fyve year ago. 
 
 Itm iij albes — ij of theim gone wee knowe not howe and one 
 of them made a fonte clothe. 
 
 ^ Itm one vestmt— sold to Richard Marborne who hathe deflicid 
 it so that ther is no supsticious moFiuent of mear Idolatrie 
 apptayning to the popish service remayninge in or said pish 
 church. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar^. 
 19. April 1566. 
 
 ♦ The chrismatory was a vessel for holding the consecrated oil blessed on 
 Hol^ Thursday. These oils were of three kinds, " oleum sanctum, oleum chris- 
 matis, et oleum infirmorum;" that is, holy oil, chrism oil, and sick men's oil. 
 Each church was required to possess three bottles for these oils ; they were 
 usually titted into a box with a crested lid like the roof of a hoMse.— Hart, EccL 
 Records, p. 238 ; Rock, Church of our Fathers, v. iii. part ii. p. 79. 
 
162 
 
 MONXTMENTS OF 
 
 Wi^LLERTON.— Win Dilworth andEdward Bemres 8. April 1566. 
 Itm the Rood and the Imagies Marie and John and of St. 
 
 i^alT"^''^ ^"^^^ ''''^^ ^ P^^^ ^^n <^f the said pishe A" Dni 
 15bb by the same church wardens who burnid it. 
 
 Itm a Rood Loft— sold to a servant of M^ Suttons this year 
 by the said churchwardens wch he vsed to make necessaries for 
 ills house. 
 
 Itin a hand bell a cross and a holie water fatt— sold to M'' 
 fcutton^ for iiij« iiijd this yeare by the said churchwardens wch 
 IS broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one cope iij vestmtes and an albe wth a crwet— now 
 remaymth in the house of the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm a Mass book— Ryven and torn in pieces this yeare bv the 
 said churchwardens. 
 
 Itm ij altar stones— wch wear Laid on graves in pr said 
 church and so contyneweth vnbroken so that nowe their re- 
 maymth no more popish peltrie in or pish. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 Robert Mounson ar. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Thomas Saintpoll ar^. 
 Mart^ Hollingworth. 
 
 South Wii^x^i^^GHA^.-Thomas Cocke and alexander Bard 
 oU. April 1566. 
 
 Imp^mis the roode marie and Johnne and all othe^ popishe 
 Imagies-were burnte in ao pimo Ehz Johnne Southwell and 
 lioberte waddesley churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all or bookes of papis trie— were burnte at the same tyme 
 by the said churchwardens. "^ 
 
 Itin the roode lofte-sold to Johnne ffawnte sens crystmas 
 last past and he haith made pte of a chamber ther wt. 
 
 Itm one vestmente one albe two hand belles one paire of 
 sensersj crewett candlestickes one crose of wood laid vvt plaite 
 sold to Johnne Burnett sens Easter last and he haith broken and 
 cut in peces and defaced theim. 
 
 Itm the banner clothes the vaile wt one roode clothe sold to 
 
 hv P r ^' ^"^ w "" of Willoughton, son of Hamon Sutton of Washincrborou-h 
 lllr^^r'h^^^^\ °^ ^- ^'''''^ ^^ ^^^b^^k> ^^« ^ member of^ family wMch 
 merchant^^^ T^ V?P"'^^"^ ^^ ^'^^'^ ^^' ^^^^^er having been J Calais 
 
 HetdGMarrl! TS? ^^^^^^-^s much enriched by grants of church lands! 
 
 years at whosP tJ;f f. ^^ '^^''^ '°^' "^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^d him but three 
 years at whose death the representation of the family fell upon his second son 
 
 Nicholas, who departed 6 Dec 1602 acrpH S<i TKotr oii r t • j • I? i '^' 
 
 of Willoughton Church ' ^ ^^^ ^ ^'^ ^^''''^ "" ^^^ ^^°^ 
 
 
 f 
 
 SUJPHRSTITION, 163 
 
 Thomas Compton gent and Roberte Stevenson A° 1560 and the 
 {sic) haue made hanginges for ther houses therof. 
 
 Itm one pixe and one hallywater fatte gone and convei^hed 
 awaie we know not howe. 
 
 ^ Itm one paxe and one sacringe bell wt one crismatorie broken 
 m peces and defaced. 
 
 Itm one alter stone broken. 
 
 Itin one sepulcre broken in peces and defaced. 
 
 WiLSFORD.— Alexander Orson and Willin Lorton church- 
 wardens 11. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis or Rood wth Marie & Johne — brent in the second 
 yeare of the Reigne of or soveraigne Ladie Elizab by the com- 
 mandmt of Mr Bartew. 
 
 Itm or Masse bookes and manuelle wth all suche laten bookes 
 apjpertaynig to the popishe service— brent and defaced in the 
 third yeare of Elizabth & in the pn^ce of the pisheners and the 
 parritors. 
 
 Itm one grayle— M^ Bartew had out of the churche A° p^mo 
 Elizabth. ^ 
 
 Itm ij altar stones— defacid Ao ij Elizabth Robert Prest and 
 Richard frit he gard^. 
 
 Itm ij crewetes crismatorie and ij crose clothes— p^son Gillerey 
 had out of or churche Ao p^mo Elizabth what he did wth theim 
 wee knowe not. 
 
 Itm ij candellstickes ij handbells— solde to a puterer of Lincoln 
 the iiijth yeare of this Quene her Reigne. 
 . Itm one albe — whereof is made a clothe for the colon table. 
 
 Itin a hollie water fatt— solde & defacid in the iiijth yeare of 
 *^is Quene Alexander Orson and Win Locton churchward^. 
 
 Itm ij banner clothes — James thapparitor had and therof made 
 painted clothes. 
 
 Itm a pix — sold to a pewterer ao iiij° regine Elizabth. 
 
 I^m a pax — James thapparitor had and defacid. 
 
 Itm ij stoolcs— defacid Ao quarto Elizabth. 
 
 Itm a Judace^ James had and Burnid Ao pfho Elizabth. 
 
 * The paschal candle which was blessed on Holy Saturday stood in a seven- 
 branched candlestick made of wood, latten, or brass. From the seventh or up- 
 right branch in the middle there arose a tall wooden imitation of a candle, which 
 frequently reached nearly to the roof of the church. This was called the 
 " Judas of the paschal ;" on the top of this stood the real candle. Both tlie 
 Judas and the candle were sometimes square. In the accounts of the Church 
 of St. Mary at Hill, London, for 1511, we find a memorandum that " the judas 
 of the pastal, i.e. the tymbre that.the wax of the pastel is driven upon, weigeth 
 fJ^''~iNichols'^ Illus. of Manners and Exp. p. 107 ; Rock^ Church of our 
 Fathers, v. iii. part ii. p. 244. 
 
164 
 
 A crose 
 yeare. 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 — sold at Grantha^ faire to a pewterer of Lincoln this 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 11. April 1500. 
 
 WiNTERTONNE.— lohn homscy and lohnflPoster 30. April 1566. 
 
 Imp mis the rood Marie and lohnne and all other popishe 
 Imageis— were burnte in A6 pmo Elizabeth John moreley^ and 
 Thomas wrighte church wardens. 
 
 Itni all the popishe mase bookes — torne in paces and defaced 
 at the same tyme the said men beinge churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh the roode loft taken downe in Ao 1563 and formes and 
 seateJ<9/<?) in or churche made thereof. 
 
 Itfh one pixe and crysmatorie defaced and broken and sold to 
 lohnne moreley in Ao 2^ Eliz. 
 
 Itfh one old vestment one amys one corporaxe one fannel and 
 one stole sold vnto lohnne holland in ao 2^ Eliz he haith defaced 
 them and put them to prophane vse. 
 
 Itm one albe now defaced and a surples made thereof. 
 
 Itfh the lewes Hght the pascall post the sepulcre the may dens 
 lighte were burned in the Ao 2"* Eliz. 
 
 Itfh one crosse of pewter and two crewettes defaced by the 
 churchwardens at that tyme and turned into Sawder. 
 
 Itfh one handbell borrowed of John morelaie Thomas Crowther 
 and Willm Chapma^ the wch the^ had agayne at the puttinge 
 awaie of all papistrie and they have defaced it. 
 
 * A tradition handed down among the connexions of the Morleys of Win- 
 terton affirms that they were a junior branch of the family of that name long 
 settled at Holme, m the parish of Bottesford. The point where they brancU 
 ofl has not been ascertained. I have compiled the following fragment of pedi- 
 gree from titie- deeds, &c., in my own possession. 
 
 Kichard Morley. 
 
 Alexander Morley __ 
 
 John Morley of Winterton: 
 Will proved 2 Apr. Id44, 
 bur. in the chancel of 
 Winterton church. 
 
 Peter Morley, 
 bap. at Winterton 
 12 Sep. 16t)8. 
 
 =EUen 
 
 Alexander Morley, 
 bur in the chancel 
 of Winterton church. 
 Will dat. 20 March. 
 1662. 
 
 Ann Morley, 
 
 mar. John, 2d son of 
 
 John Nevil of Faldingworth, 
 
 by whom he had no issue. 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 
 
 165 
 
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 Itm one sacringe bell defaced. 
 
 Itfh one sepulcre clothe of lynnen wch was sold to Richard 
 Glanforthe and he haith defaced. 
 
 Itiii one alter clothe wch is made a colon table cloth of. 
 
 Itfh one alter stone broken in peces and defaced. 
 
 I tin one hally water fatt of lead melted for the mendinge of or 
 churche leades. 
 
 Itfh one pare of sensors broken and defaced. 
 
 Itfh two candlestickes of wood wt the tapers were broken and 
 burned. 
 
 WiNTHORPE. — Michael Warner and Robert Richardson church- 
 wardens 30. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis or Images the Rood mary & Ihon and all suche 
 Images — brokne in peces and burned Ao primo EHzabth. 
 
 Itm or masse book and all other bookes of papistrie — burned 
 att the same time. 
 
 Itfh a eope {sic) an aulbe & a vestfhet y e t re iasisge — {sic) 
 defaced. 
 
 Itfh crosse {sic) one handbell censors Sacringe bell pix crisma- 
 torie pax — brokne and made awaie since the last vis^. 
 
 Itfh or altar stoones — brokne & pauid in or churche. 
 
 Itfh a bannar cloth a veale and all other line trumpery — rent 
 in peces and give awaie. 
 
 Ithi a cope yet remaninge. 
 
 Itiii a holy water fatt — brokne in peces and burned. 
 
 Itfh ij cruitts — burned the last vis^. 
 
 Itfh a Sepulchre — brokne Ao primo vel ij'^** EHzabethe. 
 
 Itiii ij cadelstickes — brokne and made awaie. 
 
 Itfh the hordes of the Rood loft — takne doune and put to 
 pphane vses. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 George Mounson gen^. 
 30. April 1566. 
 
 WiTHAM. — Richard walpull and lohn Ashewell churchwardens 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 Impfhis thimages of the rode Marie lohn and all other latten 
 bookes — w*^^ were burned in the vicarage in ao 1559 by Richard 
 walpull & lohn Ashewell churchwardens. 
 
 Itfh ij vestmentes three Albes thre amises and Stoles — w*^^ was 
 sold by Richard walpull and lohn Ash well in Ao 1559 to diuers 
 psons wch be broken and defaced, and pte of the money put into 
 the poore mans box the residewe to the repaire of the churche 
 and mendinge of the highe ways. 
 
166 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 Itm a Cope a vestment of whit sarsnet— wch were solde by 
 the aboue named churchewardes in anno 1559 to master har- 
 nngton^ wch he haith defaced. 
 
 Itm a crosse a paire of sensures a Crismatory two candelstickes 
 two handbelles— wch were sold by the aboue named church- 
 wardens m A6 1559 to Martin Smythe a pewterer dwellino-e in 
 Stamford. ^ 
 
 ^^^ ij surples— wch remayne still in the church. 
 
 Itm iiij banner staves iiij banner clothes and a crosse Grales 
 pressioners masse bookes— wch were made away by the aboue 
 named churche wardens in Ao 1559 so that there remaynethe no 
 pcell of them but ar defaced. 
 
 Itm a pix a cruet — sold by the aboue named churche wardens 
 anno 1559 to whom they were sold we knowe not. 
 
 Itm a holliwatr stocke of stone— sold to lohn Gylbert of 
 wytham by the aboue named churchwardes anno 1559 wch was 
 put to profane vse. 
 
 Itm the rod lofte— Taken downe by the said church wardes and 
 sold to M^ lohn Harington before the Rigne of quene Mary. 
 
 Itm on lynnen clothe a velvet quussin and a chalice wch 
 
 nowe remaine in the churche and ar occupied aboute the coion table 
 ther. 
 
 Itm one paxe — defaced and made awaie. 
 
 Itin iij altare stones— lynge in or churche at this pn^te vn- 
 pavid two of them wch shalbe broken and one lieth at W, 
 Harr^gt^ns fier back.f 
 
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 B. 
 
 3 
 
 8. 
 
 2 
 
 * John Harrington of Witham, eldest son of Sir Robert Harrington of the 
 same place, who was a younger son of Sir John Harrington of Exton co 
 Rutland, by his wife, Alice, daughter of Henry Tothill. The Harrinkon 
 pedigree is long and well authenticated. They were originally from Cumber- 
 land, and take their name from the village of Haverington in that county 
 
 t In the Wigtoft churchwarden's accounts, a.d. 1550, we have the following 
 account of the prices for which the altars were sold : — 
 
 " Tryst of Gregory Wolmer, gent, for ye alter in our lady gwerre 
 
 i»^c) ° jg 
 
 ■ Itm of John Walgat for ye alter in nycholas gwerre .... 
 
 £ 8 
 
 ■ Itm of Gorge Atkynson for ye seyd alter o 10 
 
 Itm of Kyrke of Boston, for xxiij stone of leten .... 8 
 [Nichols''] Illus. of Manners and Exp., 4to. 1797, p. * 235. 
 
 As will have been seen by the foregoing pages, the altars were in many cases 
 not merely removed, but put to the meanest domestic uses, for the purpose as 
 it would seem, of wounding the feelings of those whose faith or affections still 
 clung to the fallen religion. Other records of the period support the evidence 
 here given, that the destruction was carried on, in many places, with a mali^^nant 
 and profane zeal hard to excuse, even in the midst of a religious revolution. 
 
 d. 
 
 3 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 d. 
 
 4 
 
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 SUPERSTITION. 167 
 
 Itm one sacringe bell — broken and defaced. 
 
 Nicholas Bishop of Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth, 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 North Witham.— Thomas Ellis churchwarden 18. March 
 1565. 
 
 Impmis the roode marie and lohnne and all other monuments 
 of supsticion as a hollie water pot of bras two banner clothes and 
 a crosse clothe one prosession booke a paire of sensures iij Imageis 
 of ye rood lofte the table of ye hie alter a crosse and ij candle- 
 sticke^ the pictor of or ladie — sold by peter broughton church- 
 warden ther anno 1560 to Roberte drurie for the some of xvi^vj"* 
 but what he did wt theim I knowe not. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre — sold to ffrauncis flower by the whole consent 
 of the whole pishe the said Peter broughton beinge churchwarden 
 at that tyme a° 1560 wch haith made a presse therof. 
 
 Itin the roode loft— sold to Thomas Clarke for the some of 
 xij^ by the consente of the whole pishe abowte ij yers sens who 
 haith burnt the same and made yt awaie. 
 
 And as for masse bookes we had none but one that we borowed 
 of S"" lohnne davie or psonne who had the same againe who haith 
 made y* awaie and defaced the same as he haith declared. i7ig[uu 
 ratur, 
 
 Itm one pax and one cruet — defaced and broken. 
 
 Itin one cope remayninge in or churche at this pn^te. 
 
 Itm one vestment and one albe — wch we borowed of or psonne 
 and he haithe theim againe and haith defaced and cutte theim in 
 peces and haithe made a table clothe for the coion table and the 
 vestmente he haith cutt it in peces. 
 
 The Bishop's Palace, Lincoln. 
 Nicholas Bp. of Lincoln. 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 South W^ham. — harrie hodshon and lohnne Croftes church- 
 wardens 18. March 1565. 
 
 Inpmis the Imagies of the roode and marie and lohnne and 
 all other Imagies of papistrie — were burned by S^ Robte winter 
 or late psonne and lohnne whitehed in anno piho Elizabeth 
 
 I 
 
-"*^^'«'A'^*tf^^- 
 
 ."™««3se«s»iB»-ij!a»»,,,ji«, » 
 
 ' 9 -^ifmm^tT^ 
 
 168 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 u 
 
 Thomas Topper and Richard adcocke beinge churchwardens at 
 that tyme. 
 
 Itm the masse booke and portes wt all other bookes of papistrie 
 —were burnte by the said psonne and W Troughtonne at the 
 same tyme the said Thomas Topper and Richard Adcocke being 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itm one vestmente and one albe—the said M^ Troughton had 
 at the tyme of the defacinge of all suche monumentes of sup- 
 sticon but what he did wt yt we knowe not and as for the albe 
 we m^de a surples for the pson to saie service in. 
 ^Itm one crose of latten wt the crosse ciothe— remayninge in 
 or owne handes as yett vndefaced and vnbroken because we found 
 yt oute not passinge a vj wekes sens. 
 
 Itm iij banner clothes wt a sepulcre clothe and one old vest- 
 mente two handbelles a pix and a paire of sensors and a stoole 
 and a hally water potte— sold to Thomas wymberley for ij« viij*^ 
 aboute a fortuighte sens by harrie hodson and lohnne Croftes 
 churchwardens and he haith broken and defacid the same. 
 
 Itm the rode lofte — was made awaie in kinge Edward the vj 
 daies by reason ne that or chaunsell fell downe and brake downe 
 the said roode lofte. 
 
 Itm a cre\vett and a paxe — broken and defaced. 
 Itiii a hallie water stocke of stone — broken in peces. 
 Itm one sepulcre — broken and defaced. 
 Itm ij wooden Candlcstickes — broken and made awaie. 
 
 The Bishop's Palace, Lincoln. 
 
 John Aelmer Archdeacon of Lincoln. 
 George Mounson gen. 
 Martin Hollingworth. 
 18. March 1565. 
 
 WiTHERN.— Robt Millesant churchwarden 25. April 1566. 
 
 Imprimis all the Imageis— brent A°pmo Elizabth lohn Mad- 
 dison and Robt Marltbie then churchwardens. 
 
 Itm ij old vestm*^^ and a cope— sold and defacid by the said 
 churchwardens. 
 
 Itm or mass bokes— was brent and defacid the said tyme. 
 
 Itm albes amiss and all of linnen made awaie and geven to 
 poor folk the said tyme by the said churchwardens. 
 
 Itin handbells nor sensers wee had none sence Kino- Edwardes 
 tyme. ^ 
 
 Itm the Rood loft solde and the money vsed to the comoditie 
 of the church. ^ . 
 
 Lmcoln. 
 
 George Mounson gen. 
 25. April 1566. 
 
 
 SUPERSTITION. 169 
 
 WoLLESTROP.— Richard Bete and Roberte Tailbote cburch- 
 wardens 1 April 1566. 
 
 In pmis the roode marie and Johnne and all other Ima<ries of 
 papistrie and the rood loft— burnt in the open strete ao"l561 
 Ihomas lempleman Johnne mantle churchwardens. 
 
 Itm all the mase bookes and all other bookes of papistrie— 
 we had none suche but that we borowed of one Mr. button or 
 late^psonne and at the defacinge of all suche bookes of papistrie 
 ne had theim againe. 
 
 Itm iij vestmentes and an albe and iij banner clothes— sold to 
 willm parr a tailor dwellinge in Belver and he haithe made hano-- 
 mges ot theim and cusshinges. * 
 
 Itm the roode loft— taken downe and sold to Johnne Templema^ 
 who haith defaced the same and made a hovell therof. 
 
 Itm two altar stones broken and paved. 
 
 Itm one crose of woode broken in peces. 
 
 Itm two candlcstickes broken and sold to John Brigges. 
 
 Itm one pixe one crysmatorie a paire of sensors one crewett 
 broken wch Sr Crofer graves or late pson deceased but what he 
 did wt theim we knowe not. One handbell stolen forthe of or 
 churche or churche beinge Robbed. 
 
 Itin one hally water fatt one hallie water stocke and one paxe 
 broken in peces. 
 
 Itm one sepulcre broken in peces and defaced by the fall of the 
 steple. 
 
 Itin sacring belles we had none. 
 
 Sleford. 
 
 John Aelmer. 
 1 April 1566. 
 
 Wrought, IN the Isle of Axholme.— Thinven- 
 
 torie of all such popish ornamentes as re- 
 
 lur coram me mayned in the pis he churche of Wroyght 
 
 R. Mounson. at anie tyme sence the deathe of the late 
 
 Queue Marie made by Wilim ffaneley 
 Churchwarden ther xxij of ApU 1566. 
 Imprimis one Rood with Marie and John— weare brent 
 Ao lijo Regno Elizabth by Richard Tompson and Richard lake 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 Itiii an altar stone one sup altarie and linnen clothe for thalter 
 one Amis one albe a stole a Belt^ a ffannell a corporax and a 
 
 * Rosaries were formerly called belts of Paternosters. The belt here spoken 
 ot may have been a string of prayer beads; but it is much more probable that 
 It was a belt belonging to the priestly vestments. 
 
 M 
 
'Wse**«irjM»9«*^ .««j%^^?a^ ^ 
 
 170 
 
 MONUMENTS OF 
 
 vestmt with a mass boke and a portes— Was defaced A6 pmo 
 Ehzabth Richard Tompson and Robt lake Churchwardens. 
 
 Itm the tabernacles whearin the xij Apostles stode with other 
 popish papisticall and supsticons Idolls"^ — Weare brent A6 sexto 
 Elizabth Thomas AVatterlay and Richard Howgh then beino- 
 churchwardens. ° 
 
 I tin the Rood Loft— puld downe this yeare and sold to lohn 
 Tompson who put it to pfane vse. 
 
 Itm one handbell remayneth. 
 
 Itm one crwet— defaced whearof was made wharles for spindels, 
 the Rest of such trifiinge toyes and tromprie apptaynin<^e to the 
 popishe masse and popishe prelate was made awaie and defacid in 
 Kinge Edwardes tyme whearof to make an accompt wee stand 
 not char^ijid. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Robert Mounson ar. 
 23. April 1566. 
 
 Yeastar Kelle. — John Johnson and Willyam smethe church- 
 wardens 1 May 1566. 
 Imprimis the Rood wyth mary and John and the Reste off all 
 suche paynted pictors— bornt and mad awaye in the tferste year 
 of Quene Elsabeth be (sic) thomas bachbar wyllyam salltar church- 
 ward ns that yeare. 
 
 * Tabernacles containing images, sometimes above or near the altars, at 
 others upon the rood screen, were possessed by all but the poorest churches. 
 Many of our old churchwardens' accounts contain very interest! no- memoranda 
 relative to the expenses of the scu'ntures. Their destruction ^^•as"so complete 
 that hardly a single unmutilated specimen has come down to us. It is there- 
 fore the more to be regretted that the very curious alabaster fra'^ments dis- 
 covered at Epworth in 1843 have not been preserved. The late Archdeacon 
 Stonehousfi made drawings of them soon after they were found. These I 
 believe yet exist in the archdeacon's interleaved copy of his "History of the 
 Isle of Axholme," which he left to the library of the Dean and Chapter of 
 Lincoln. Doctor Stonehouse published a short account of these interestino- 
 rehcs, illustrated by woodcuts, in " Willis's Current Notes" for August, 1853! 
 From his account it appears that they had originally been highly illuminated 
 with colour. The heads were carefully executed, but the hands, feet and 
 other portions left in a rough state. It is probable that they had been " buried 
 by some pious member of the old religion, in hopes of preserving them at^ainst 
 the next change." The archdeacon was of opinion, as no tabernacle of imaf^es 
 is mentioned in the Epworth inventory contained in the manuscript now 
 edited, that these sculptures had been removed from the church in the reio-n 
 ot King Edward VL, and that the person who hid them had died before the 
 restoration of the ancient ritual under Mary, and his secret had been buried 
 with him. From the form of the head-dresses and other details, I am led to 
 bchevc that these carvings were executed upon the accession of the Catholic 
 quern. 
 
 • 
 
 SUPERSTITION, 
 
 1/1 
 
 Itm one Roud lofFte- broken and sold to M.,«f^r T i i i 
 man in the fferste year off our Quene "" ^^'^^' 
 
 sold to mastar kerkman the year aboue named. 
 
 Itm our pax sensars handbels sacarynffe bels and supI, Ivto 
 broke^n and sold at horncastell the yeare rboue named " 
 
 Itm our candelstecks crosses cruyts holly watar can— sold fn 
 mastar kerkman and John saultarthe said yeare " 
 
 pave'trm '"'" «*—- ^ to mastar kUman and he hath 
 
 J;2enLtn^^^^^^^^ eros staves 
 
 Itm our vea — we never had any suche. 
 Itm oure hollywater ffat of led-stolne we know not how. 
 
 ^tnrwft" ^" '"^''"tane of all suche ornamentes and pictures 
 
 as did belonge to the churche in the tyme 
 of quene Mane and was put awaie aceord- 
 _ inge to the queues Iniu^ctions. 
 
 char;hw;rd;n;" f ^l''''""^'^'''']' ^"'^ ^'"'"^^d hicksonne 
 to Slrt Gusterd ' ^ «f ^orde that was the roode lofte 
 
 wch monney d d lieVor" " " " f^'' ^f.t^' f""' ^^ ^i^- 
 
 1562 the x^th Sof ; ''"»^°f ^"^^ churche in aBo 
 
 and Johnne was burned by' wiflm kirkbie' .' * '"*^ ""r^ 
 churche was glassened and the churche mended 
 
 wa'rdens 'j!f J'^ ^™°'^'^ Philippe and Johnne Pell church- 
 
 Cresse braser ^Sngein \ l '. l [ iZZe"' '"'' '^' '" '°''''''' 
 the vi'!- ■*■*'' ^^'-'^ Tompsonne by the said churchwardens 
 
 inV^ . : : ioihe foVij-r; ''' '" "'' "p^ ^""^ ^ ^^^*--*« 
 
 rai'e Vic;r; ;f'TJrerkin:h? '^°' " ^"^^ ^'^ 
 
 llin kirkbie 
 
 1 marke G 
 
 T-. ~ Q d Philipp 1 
 
 Extum cora^ magro Johanne aelmer .... mo die mpn« 
 Marc, anno dnx 1565 ro pleno et vero InvrtaHo Ta! 
 
 ""'^"^^ et Johannis Pell gardianor^ &c. 
 
 M 2 
 
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APPEiNi)] X 
 
 ■■ -M i i ' ,.9 ^' -Mmv^m: w i" i m i fl.[» -mmm 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 I. 
 
 De Ornamentis Ecclesi^ qu^ pertinent Rectoribus et qvM 
 Parochianis in Provincia Ebor. [Cotton MS. Ceop. D. iii. 
 191.] ^ 
 
 Decretum domini Walter! Gray,^ arcliiepiscopi Eboracensis, 
 Anghffi primatis, & Apostolica? sedis legati, editiim apud Eboracum 
 tempore visitationis suae, tarn ad honorem Dei & ecclesia? Ebora- 
 censis, ac omnium ecclesiarum per totam nostram provinciam 
 existentium, quam doctrinam prajsentium, informationem & me- 
 moriam omnium futurorum. 
 
 Cum pleruraque inter rectores ecclesiarum seu vicarios, in pro- 
 vincia Eboracensi eonstitutos, eorumdemque parochianos, super 
 variis ornamentis rebusque ecclesiasticis, altercatio non modica 
 sit exorta : & ideo, quanta, qujB, & qualia, ad rectores seu 
 vicarios ecclesiarum, per totam provinciam Eboracensem consti- 
 tutes, sustentationem & reparationem pertineant; quse autem 
 ad parochianos eorundem, de rebus ac ornamentis ecclesiarum re- 
 parandis pertinere noscuntur, per subscripta, sole clarius omnibus 
 elucescat. Et ideo ordinamus & statuimus, ut parochiani nostri 
 onines et sin^-uli existant sic docti in singulis subsequentibus, ut 
 sciant & intelligant atque observent totaliter universi ; videlicet 
 quod calix, missale, vestimentum ipsius ecclesiae principale : vi- 
 delicet casula, alba munda, amictus, stola, manipulus, zona, cum 
 tribus touuellis, corporalia & alia vestimenta, pro diacono et sub- 
 diacono honesta, juxta facultates parochianorum & ecclesiae, cum 
 cappa serica principali pro principalibus festis, & cum duabus aliis 
 pro choris regendis in festis superdictis : crux processionalis & alia 
 
 * Walter Gray, Lord Chancellor 10 of John. Elected Bishop of Worcester 
 20 Jan. 1213-14. Consecrated at Canterbury 5 Oct. 1214. Translated to 
 York 27 March, 3216. Diud 1 May. 1255. Walter Gray purchased York 
 Place in London, now called Whitehall, and annexed it to the Northern Arch- 
 bishopric— Le Neve's Fasa EccL Angl., Ed. Hardy, v. iii. pp. 51, 102, Philpot, 
 Catalogue of Chancellors, Ed. 1636, p. 15. 
 
176 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 crux minor pro mortuis & feretrum^ pro mortuis : vas ad aquam 
 benedictam^ osculatorium, candelabrum ad cereum Paschale, thuri- 
 
 * Feretrum—a bier. Coffins for the dead have been employed from the 
 most r?!note recorded antiquity ; they have, however, been in universal use in 
 this country for but few generations. When old graveyards, where there have 
 been no modern burials, are disturbed, the remains ot* the dead are usually 
 found without any vestige of coffin. Thomas Ilearne, the antiquary, writing 
 in 1724, says, that the habit of burying without coffins was in common use 
 sixty years before that time, but that even then persons of rank were, as a 
 matter of course, interred in coffins unless they specially directed otherwise. — 
 Reliq. UearniancBy ii. 534. 
 
 The manner of enfolding the dead in grave clothes for burial may be seen on 
 several, yet existing, sixteenth century monumental brasses, where children who 
 have died in infancy are represented lying at the feet of their brothers and 
 sisters bound up in mummy-like vestments. The monument of Marmaduke 
 Tyrwhitt (Ob. 21 Jan. 1599) in Scotter church is a good example. 
 
 Such of my readers as are acquainted with the ballad and romance literature 
 of simpler ages, will call to mind many passages illustrating this custom. One 
 beautiiul ballad of the " Gay Goss-Hawk," shows us that it was the custom to 
 rest the bier at each church that the corpse passed on its way to sepulture :— 
 
 " Then up arose her seven brothers, 
 And made for her a bier ; 
 The boards were of the cedar wood. 
 The plates of silver clear. 
 
 " And up arose her seven sisters. 
 And made for her a sark ; 
 The cloth of it was satin fine. 
 
 The steeking silken wark. 
 
 " The first Scots kirk that they cam' to. 
 They gar'd the bells be rung ; 
 The neist Scots kirk that they can/ to. 
 They gar'd the mass be sung. 
 
 " The third Scots kirk that they cam* to. 
 They dealt the gowd for her ; 
 The fourth Scots kirk that they cam' to. 
 Her true love met them there. 
 
 " * Let down, let down the bier,* he said, 
 •Till I look on the dead; 
 The last time that I saw her face 
 Her cheeks were rosy red.* 
 
 " He rent the sheet upon her face, 
 A little abune the chin ; 
 And fast he saw her colour come. 
 
 And sweet she smiled on him.** 
 
 It was the custom of 
 
 " The lordly line of high Saint Clair" 
 
 to bury their dead in "Roslin chapel, clad in their armour as they lived, without 
 coffin or inclosure of any kind. Late in the seventeenth century Sir James 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 177 
 
 Jf 
 
 bulum, lucerna, cum tintlnabulo, velum quadrageslmale duo can- 
 delabra pro ceroferariis. De libris, legenda^ antiphonale, graduale, 
 psalterium, troparium, ordinale, missale, manuale : frontale ad 
 magnum altare, tria superpellicia, pyxis pro corpore Christi 
 honesta: vexillum pro Rogationibus, campanae magnte- cum 
 chordis suis : tons sacer, cum serura, chrismatorium, imagines in 
 ecclesia : reparatio librorum & vestimentorum quotiens contigerint 
 emendari, cum omnibus superdictis luminare in ecclesia. Repa- 
 
 Saint Clair was buried in the family vault in a coffin. He was the first of liis 
 race in whose obsequies the traditions of the house were disregarded. When 
 they opened the cavern for the burial of this Sir James, the body of his prede- 
 cessor, Sir William Saint Clair, was found entire, lying in his armour with a cap 
 of red velvet on his head, the head pillowed upon a flat stone. Nothing had 
 sufi'ered decay except the white fur that surrounded the hinder part of the cup. 
 —•Scott's Im7/ of the Last Minstrel^ note N. 
 
 Until about the year 1818, certain families named Tracey, Doyle, and Daly, 
 of the townland of Craan, near Ennisworthy, in the barony of Scarawalsh in 
 the county of Wexford, were in the tiabit of burying their dead uncoffined in 
 the graveyard attached to the Augustinian Abbey of Saint John. The bodies 
 were brought to the place of sepulture in open coffins with their faces un- 
 covered. The graves were made six or more feet deep and lined with bright 
 green turf from the banks of the river Slaney. In these green chambers were 
 strewn moss, dry grass, and flowers, "and a pillow of the same supported the 
 head of the corpse when laid in its last earthly bed." — Notes and Queries, 2 S. 
 V. i. p. 455. 
 
 Coffins are still only a luxury of the rich in many parts of Italy and Spain. 
 If a person orders in his will that he be buried in a coffin, the desire is of course 
 gratified, but by far the greater number of people make use of the church 
 coffins, which are provided to carry the dead to the margin of the grave only, 
 into which the corpse is lowered inclosed in nothing but a fine cloth. At 
 Simancas there are three very ancient coffins, said to be almost as old as the 
 church, and to have borne to their last resting-place upwards of ten genera- 
 tions. — Athenceum, Dec. 20, 1800, p. 911. 
 
 Modern habits and the prevalent modes of thought on theological subjects 
 have a tendency to make the last parting and its accompaniments, the chamber 
 of death and the grave, so much more gloomy than they were in former times, 
 that there is no reason to hope that this truly Christian practice will be re- 
 vived, at least in our day. Yet there was a solemn poetry about the old 
 funeral customs that we who live in less imaginative times may meditate on 
 with advantage. Exposing the face of the aead,*so that all may see the ma- 
 jestic calm which remains when life is over, is surely better tha^ allowing the 
 survivors to remember only the earth- worn face of the living. It is the last 
 look, whether in life or in death, that rests in the remembrance of those who 
 are parted for ever. It were therefore well that the memory should reproduce 
 the countenances of those who have gone — 
 
 " Behind the veil, and through the solemn night 
 Toward new hopes of glory and new worlds of light, 
 Where law is justice and where beauty right,'* 
 
 as they were when they rested from their labours, rather than the sad and care- 
 furrowed expression that most of us wear now, while passion-stained and sad- 
 dened by the conflict. 
 
178 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 1 
 
 ^tio navis ecclesise & constitutio ejusdem, cum campanili in terms 
 & extenus, scilicet fenestris vitreis, cum clausura ccemeteriorum, 
 cum aliis navis ecclesiaj, & singulis aliis, ad ipsos parochianos per- 
 tinere noscuntur. -f r r 
 
 Ad rectores vero vel vicarios, juxta varias ordinationes, omnia 
 alia pertinebunt : scilicet cancellus principalis, cum ejusdera repa- 
 ratione, tam parietibus quam tecturis & fenestris vitreis eidem 
 pertmentibus, cum descis & scannis, ac aliis ornamentis honestis, 
 ut cum propheta cantare valeant, '^ Domine dilexi decorem 
 domus tu£e/^ &c.^ cum mansio rectoriie & ejus reparatione hinc 
 mde, & aha quae non sunt scripta in libro hoc, noverint se rectores 
 vel vicarios a locorum ordinariis compelH posse, secundum banc 
 constitutionem, et alias in hac parte probatas, &c. 
 
 II. 
 
 De Ornamentis Ecclesi^ qu^ pertinent Rectoribus et qu.^ 
 
 Fakochianis in Provincia Cantuar. [Cotton IVIS. Cleop. D. 
 111. J. y X. I 
 
 Decretum venerabilis magistri Roberti de Wynchelsef misera- 
 
 tione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopi suam provinciam visi- 
 
 tando super varus defectubus inter rectores vicarios & eorum 
 
 parochianos sepius de diversis rebus ad ecclesiam pertinentibus & 
 
 eorum ornamentis, sic datum est ut patet inferius ad doctrinam 
 
 presentium et memoriam futurorum cum plerumque altercationem 
 
 luerit inter rectores ecclesiarum, in provincia Cantuarensi con- 
 
 stitutos et eorum parochianos super variis ornamentis rebusque 
 
 ecclesiasticis qu« quanta & quoraodo ad rectores pertineant in- 
 
 Irascripta. Quae autem ad eorum parochianos qute sequuntur 
 
 teneas pro doctrma ut autem parochiani in singulis subsequenti- 
 
 bus certiores fiant intelligant singuli & observent universi, quod 
 
 calix, missale, principale vestamentum ecclesia?, videlicet casula 
 
 alba, amictus, stola, manipulum cum ij towalHs altaris, crux pro- 
 
 eessionahs & alia crux minor pro mortuis, thuribulum, lucerna, 
 
 cum tintmabuhs, velum quadragesimale, vexillum, campan®, 
 
 manuales, feretrum pro mortuis, vas ad aquam benedictam, 
 
 osculare, candelabrum ad cereum Paschale, magnce campan® cam^ 
 
 179 
 
 «rlnn^fn!ft ]J ^f ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Archdeacon df Essex. The date of his 
 Tpvf SL 1 ^/fu^ '' not known. He seems to have succeeded Roger de 
 T nnl. 9r^ n ? ^oQo^^ archdeaconrj on being preferred to the Deanery of 
 Cantthn^v vx^v l^^-,^^o.^^?r'^t7 ^^' unanimously elected Archbishop of 
 h. h fnw7n i^f -/^^^.l ^l ^i'V^ 0^^°^^ 11 ^^y' 1313, and was buried 
 
 1. v?n ^.''^'^.?? ^^' ^^'^ °^ *^^ same month.-Le Neve, /;r.^t^../. 
 An^i. V. 1. p. 15, 11. 333. 
 
 panilis & cordae ad easdem, fons sacer cum serura* et apparatu ad 
 eundem, Reparatio ecclesise interius & exterius tam altaris quam 
 in ymaginibus, fenestris vitreis, pixis ad hostiam observandam, 
 chrismatorium, clausura cimiterii circumquaque ad parochianos 
 pertinent superdicta. Cetera omnia autem tam in reparacionibus 
 cancelli interius & exterius quam in libris et ceteris ornamentis 
 ejusdem, secundum diversas ordinationes & constitutiones appro- 
 batas habeant a locorum I'ectoribus sen vicariis reparari. 
 
 The foregoing curious decrees were, with some errors of transcription, printed 
 from this manuscript by Spelman. They have since been reprinted from his 
 text in various contmental collections. They are, it is believed, the earliest 
 complete lists of the necessary furniture of an English parish church. Several 
 documents of a similar nature, but later in date, may be seen in the collections 
 of Labbe and Wilkins. 
 
 III. 
 
 Churchwardens' Account of St. Mary's, Stamford, a.d. 1428. 
 [Cotton M.S. Vesp. A. 24, f. 3 b.] 
 
 Compot^ Johis leche Goldsmyth de StanP ppoiti ecclie ad 
 pontem Stanf^ anno sexto Reg Henr^ sexti post conq^ 
 Thoma Basset Johe Whytside Johe leche Robo Smyth et 
 aliis pochianis dee ecce ad fabricam eiusdem ut patet in 
 quondrh rotulo script^ de den^ concess per dcos pochian^ ad 
 fabric^ ecce p^dicte in denar^ rec^ xlvijs. vd. et rem^ denar^ 
 leund^ vt pate^ p dcm rotuP ixs. xd. ob 
 
 Sma xlvijs. vd. 
 
 In emenand campanis vjs. 
 
 P^ m^em^a & ferro xiiijd. 
 
 Et cera ept p ij torch^ faciend^ xvs iiijd. 
 
 Et p cathen^ vijd. 
 
 Et Thos harpmaker p emendacoe de le schaftef xjd. 
 
 Et soP p ij torch^ fac^ xxiid. 
 
 * Fontes sub sera clausi teneantur propter sortilegia. — Co)ic, Dunelm.^ a.d. 
 1220; Wilkins,!. 576. 
 
 f The shaft or May-pole was, in former times, considered part of the public 
 property of the parish, and as such repaired by the churchwardens. Popular 
 amusements were in those days under the patronage of the Church, and had 
 in many cases a half religious character. May games, though much older than 
 the Christian Church, were connected with some of its most pleasing rites. 
 The May-pole at Waddingham had, before the Elizabethan spoliation, a sacring 
 bell hanging from its top (vide ante, p. 157). May-poles seem to have existed 
 in most of our villages until the time of our great civil war. By an ordinance 
 of the Long Parliament, 6 April, 164 i, all May-poles were ordered to be 
 removed, as heathenish vanities, "generally abused to superstition and 
 wickednesse." 
 
 A May-pole still exists at each of the following places : — Aldermaston, co. 
 Berks; Bayton, co. Worcester ; Dean, co. Wilts; Aysgath, Ovington, Naburn, 
 
180 
 
 AFPjENDIX, 
 
 Et soP p glutum xjd. 
 Et soP p plubo rub^ ijd. 
 
 v\ l^^i^P" ^ r'*^^' ^^ le schafte viijd. 
 M soP p J belropp viijd. ^ 
 
 ^t sol p nersis* ad le schafte id. 
 
 Et p cordula ept^ ijd. 
 
 Et sol^ p le plobis iijs iiijd. 
 
 :^t pano ept p le schafte xjd. 
 
 Et p reb3 scribend^ ijd. 
 
 Et m dat^ histrionib3 vjd. 
 
 Et sop p locoe manutV iiiJd. 
 
 Et p emendacoe libror^ xd. 
 
 Et m filo ept p canapeo jd. 
 
 Et p locoe naparie & manut V vd 
 
 Et j1;'^r°' G'asyer p emendand fenestris ecce vs. 
 P, JoHi Hope p J corda capane xjd. 
 EteidmpaPcordaxd. 
 Etm filo ept^p vestment^ jd. 
 
 Et soP Rico Keru^e xxxs. "^ 
 
 :^t sol p vno culo ad capanam iiijd. 
 Jit m cera ept« ad coinune lumen iiijs. 
 
 IV. 
 
 &ehtehSra S o^^'one fA?'^^)/' ^ /W-o-'y- I^ Castle 
 set«n^^rth that " t Jw^feS^^^^^^^^^^ ^ - inscription 
 
 for L laL telesZ,e '"nh ?,'"r"!f' *¥ ^*™'"' ^'^^^Po'^ *» ™ake a support 
 
 Street.-iXrSl/il^ 'm3'i''rQr°'^''°.'^""= ^"' «' Ca'hK 
 i*^;/.. «»rf (2„.„V,. 2S t^ |«r ' • ^^''' ^"^'^'^^'-^-d''^ Book. i. 284; 
 
 J The Cu^berworths were of Somerby, neL Glamford BriSnot Somerby, 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 181 
 
 /.^ 
 
 * 
 
 to liis successors of the Trinitie Chappell in Som^by Kirk 
 
 to the Worship of the holy Trinitie, of o^ Ladie virgine and 
 
 Mother Saint Marie all the holy Saintes of Heaven for my 
 
 saule and my wife Dame Katherine and for all Christiane 
 
 saules and speciallie for those saules that god wald most 
 
 speciallie I did for the yeare of o^ Lord 1440. 
 
 In the first for the highest feast in Holy Kyrke that should 
 
 be ministered in read one whole vestment for Priest Deacon and 
 
 Subdeacon wth a cope thereto a Corpax and the Case and all 
 
 that needes to them to sing and minister in of read velvet vpon 
 
 satyn. 
 
 Itm a whole vestment of read velvet wth trayfoiles for priest 
 deacon and subdeacon and 2 [blank] thereto and 1 Corpax with 
 the case and all that nedes to them to sing and minister in for 
 those feastes that are to be ministred in read next principall 
 feastes. 
 
 Itm one vestment paled of clothe of sylke for priest decon & 
 subdecon and a Corpax of diu^se sylk and all that nedes to a 
 priest to sing and minister for double feastes. 
 
 near Gainsburgh, as Dodsworth inaccurately states. Sir Thomas Cumberworth, 
 who thus magnificently provided for the worship of God in his parish church, 
 was the son and heir of Robert de Cumberworth, of Somerby and Stayne-in- 
 the-Marsb, whose will is dated 15th July, 1404, and proved at Lincoln, 13 
 July, 1405. By that document he provided that he should be buried either at 
 Somerby or Stayne. His wife, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Ergham, 
 of Ergham, co. York, was living when her husband's will was proved. She had 
 license to have mass celebrated in her house at Somerby, in 1405. Their son. 
 Sir Thomas Cumberworth, Knt., served as high sheriff in 1415 and 1431, and 
 represented his county in the parliaments of 1420, 1421, and 1424. The rich 
 dhurch furniture enumerated in the following inventories was only a portion of 
 the gifts that he made to Gt)d's house. An inscription on one of the Somerby 
 bells yet, after four hundred years, keeps in memory another of his good 
 deeds : — 
 
 DNS TOMAS CVMBERWORTH ME FECIT FIERI ANNO DNI M'' CCCO* 
 
 TlGESIIVl° PIM°. 
 
 Sir Thomas's will is a literary curiosity, and testifies strongly to the religious 
 feeling and heartfelt humility of the testator : — 
 
 *' In the name of Gode, and to his loveyng. Amen. I Thomas Cumbyrworth, 
 knyght, the xv day of Feberser, the sere of our lorde m^ cccc and l in clere 
 mynde and hele of body blyssyd be Gode, ordan ray last wyU on this wise 
 folowyng : — Furst, I gyfl' my sawle to Godd, my lorde and my redemptur, and 
 my wreched body to be beryd in a chitte with owte any kiste in the north yle 
 of the parych kyrke of Soraersby be my wyfe, and I wyll my body ly still, my 
 mo wth opyn, untile xxiiij ourys, and after laid on here withowtyn any thyng 
 ther upon to cover it bot a sheit and a blak cloth with a white crose of cloth 
 of gold ; bot I wyl my kyste be made and stande by and at my bereall giff it 
 to hym that fUlis my grave : also 1 gif my blissid Lord God for my mortuary 
 there I am bered my best hors." — Topog. and GeneaL i. 258. Ex.Regist. Dioc, 
 Line, M,S. Uarl. 6952, f. 174. 
 
 I 
 
182 
 
 A PPJENDIX. 
 
 Itm one vestment of whole cloath of Gold and a Corpax wth 
 tlie Case and all that needes the priest to minister in for j?reat 
 doble feastes and p^ncipall ffeastes. 
 
 Itm one vestment of white silke wth a read orferay of cloth of 
 Gold a Corpax wth a Case and all that to a priest needes to sino- 
 & minister in for the feastes of o^ Ladie or for her virgins as fa'r 
 as for theere doble ffeastes yt should be in wliite. 
 
 Itm a vestm^ of Black wosted and a Corpax wth ther Case and 
 all tliat nedes to a Priest to sing in of requiem or of Confessours. 
 
 Itm a vestmt of read Woosted and a Corpax wth the Case and 
 all that a priest nedes to sing in for Martyrs. 
 
 Itiii a vesmt of baudekyn y^ ground black wth grene Werk & 
 a Corpax wth the case and all that nedes to a Priest to sinci- and 
 minister in for holy dales. ^ 
 
 Itm a vestmt of white fustiane wth black mertletes and a 
 Corpax wth the case thereto and all that nedes to a priest to 
 sing in for ferial daies and two surplisses and a surplus for a 
 childe. 
 
 Itiii a vestmt of white demyt for lenten and vio-ils wth 
 corpax and Case and all that a priest singeth wth. '^ 
 
 Itrn a portetife Missall of Salisbery vse\ grayll a aufenere and 
 a dim^ aufenere called de Coi Sanctoru^. 
 
 Itiii 2 p^cessionaries the great psalter and the lesse Portase. 
 
 Itiii a paire of Candlestickes of laton & a Candlestick copper 
 and guilt of the verre frame for the altar. 
 
 Itin a tablet of Copper guilt wth a Crucifix therein and a 
 paire fialls of pewter. 
 
 Itm my trushing challis and my highest guilt chalis and a 
 pax bread Copper and guilt. 
 
 Itm syx alter towelles of lynnen cloth the first with a frounter 
 pailed read white and black pt velvet and cloth of gold the 
 second frounte white cloth of gold the 3 frountere of black velvet 
 the fourth wth a frountere of purple cloth pt gold the 5^^ ^^j^ ^ 
 frountier of burde Alisander the sixt wth out frouuteere. 
 
 Itm 2 pillowes of reade silke wth trayfoiles of gold on the 
 tone side, and of black silk wth starres of gold on the tother 
 side. 
 
 Itm 2 pendant towells of red silk wth trayfoyles of gold and 
 2 black pendant towells of silk wth starres of gold for the corners 
 of the altare and one pillowe of black wth starres of gold for the 
 corners of the altare and one pillowe of black wth starres of gold. 
 
 Itiii 2 stayned clothes for afore the altar beineythe the one 
 betwene (?) wth birds and greyhoundes of gold and the tother 
 wth outen gold and 2 paire of curteines the better paire lawne 
 and the tother stayned. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 183 
 
 Itm all the array for Lenton for the altar both over dose and 
 nether dose"^ wth Curtines and fronturs all of lynnen cloth. 
 Itm an almerie to kepe his vestmentes and bookes in. 
 
 This By 11 indented AVitnes the thinges yt I Thomas 
 Cumberworth knight has given to the high aultare in the 
 kirk of Sommerbie to the pson of the pishen to the wor- 
 shippe of the holy trinitie, of o'^ Ladie virgine & mother 
 S. Marie, and to all the holy Saintes of heaven for my 
 soule and my wife dame Katherine and for all xxen saules 
 & especiallie for those saules y? god wold most speciallie I 
 did for. Whilk I wold were keped vnder 2 lockes the {sic) 
 to kepe in the psons handes & the tother in the Chaunter 
 priest hand whether that my heire of Sommerbie will assigne 
 the yeare of o'" 1440 that it be not dailie noted. 
 In the first a box of copp^ and guilt for the blessed sacrament 
 wth a \\\<j'h forte thereto. 
 
 Itm a litle thing made of syluer and guilt to put relikes in 
 wth a litle Crosse therein of gold and a pece of the Cross 
 therein and St Katherins oylet in a glass & other relikes beside. 
 
 * Black hangings for the choir. 
 
 t The legends say tliat after the murder of Saint Catherine, her body was 
 borne by angels to a sepulchre prepared for it by God on Mount Sinai. Her 
 church there was long a notable place of pilgrimage. Sir John Mandeville's 
 account of it will explain the entry in the text, and amuse my readers : — 
 " There is the chirche of Scynte Kayteryue, in the whiche ben many lampes 
 brennynge. For thei han of oyle of olyves y now, bothe for to brenne on here 
 lampes and to ete also : and that plentee have thei be the myracle of God. Por 
 the ravenes and the crowes and the chou^hes, and other foules of the contree 
 assemblen hem there every j^eer ones, and fleeu thider as in pilgrymage : and 
 every ch of hem bringethe a brauuche of the bayes or of the olyve, in her bekes, 
 in stede of offryug and leven hem there ; of the whiche the monkes maken gret 
 plentee of oyle : and this is a gret marvaylle. And sith that fowles that han no 
 kyndely wytt ne resoun, gon thidre to seche that gloriouse virgine, well more 
 
 oughten men than to seche hire and to worschipen hire 
 
 and besyde the hij^he awtiere 3 degrees of heighte, is the fertre of ala- 
 bastre, where the bones of Seynt Kateryne lysen and the prelate of the 
 monkes schesvethe the relikes to the pilgrimes. And with an instrument of 
 sylver, he frotethe the bones, and thanne ther gothe out a lytylle oyle, as 
 thoughe it were a maner swetynge, that is nouther lyche to oyle ne to bawme ; 
 but it is fulle swete of smelle, and of that thei t;even a litylle to the pilgrymes 
 for there gothe out but litylle quantilee of the likour, and aftre that thei 
 schewen the heed of Seynte Kateryne and the clothe that sche was wrapped 
 inne, that is ^it all blody, and in that sa>nc clothe so y wrapped, the aungeles 
 beren hire body to the mount Synay." — {Edii. 1727, pp. 71-73 ) 
 
 The relics of Saint Valburgis, Saint Demetrius, and Saint Nicholas were 
 believed to have a similar property of exuding a miraculous oil. Erasmus 
 jeered at this superstition, but it continued to htld its place in the worship of 
 the people. The relic treasures of Aachen, Koln, Douai, and Tournai, con- 
 tained each a phial of Saint Catherine's oil until the period of the French 
 Revolution. 
 
184 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 185 
 
 Itm a Crosse wth a crucifix & 3 popis & 3 knoppes to the shaft 
 all (!op^ and guilt. 
 
 Itm a pax brede cop & gilt. 
 
 Itm one paire great hie Candlestickes cop^ and gilt. 
 
 Itm a paire senseres wth a shippe for incense both cop^ & gilt. 
 
 Itm a paire Candlestickes of laton & a paire ffyalls. 
 
 Itm the great Messall and the great aytt {sic)^ of Salisburie 
 vse and a latronarie. 
 
 Itm a gospeler and a epistolere a yere wth a plate on them of 
 Cop^ and gilt. 
 
 Itm thre baners of red silk for 3 Crosses beaten with gold 
 one wth the trinitie another wth the pete of or ladie the therd 
 with a crucifix. 
 
 Itm a stened Clothe wth byrdes of golde for the rood loft. 
 
 Itm three peces of the same for sitting of the priest deken & 
 subdecon. 
 
 Itm a letron Clothe & three Cushins of lynen cloth. 
 
 Itm 4 surples and 2 child surples. 
 
 Itm the black clothe wth the white crosses. 
 
 Itm 2 clothes of gold of read and grene wth all the honourmts 
 for the sepulchre and for o'* obetes & 2 of white cloth of gold. 
 
 Itm 3 Westmentes one of white Worstede for leutyn & virgines 
 another of dime seyf {sic) wth sylk the third of boord Alysaunder 
 for weekdays. 
 
 Itm vj autere towells of lynen Clothe the first wth a frontere 
 paled rede and black of Welvet & cloyth of gold ; the second 
 frountere of white cloyth of gold the third frontire of black 
 welvet the 4th wth a irountere of purple cloyth of gold the vth 
 wth a frountere of boorde Alisandre the vjth wth outen fron- 
 tere. 
 
 Itm 2 poles of red wth sylke wth trayfoiles of gold on the 
 tone side and of black silk wth sterres of gold on ye other 
 side. 
 
 Itm 2 pendant towell of red silke wth trayfoiles of gold and 2 
 black pendant towell of sylke wth sterres of gold for the corners 
 of the autere. 
 
 Itm 2 stened cloths for afore the autere benethe the tone 
 beaten wth byrde, and grehoundes of gold & y* toth^ withouten 
 gold. 
 
 Itm 2 paire of curtens ye better of lawne and ye tother 
 stened. 
 
 * The text is corrupt here ; probably the word meant is grayU^ i.e. Gradale 
 or Gradual : a book containing portions of the Eucharistic services, as the in- 
 vitatories, hymns, and responses. — MaskeUy Mon. Rif. 1, xxvi. 
 
 t The text is probably corrupt. 
 
 lim all the array for lentyn both dose and nether dose wth 
 curtens and frontere and all of lynen clothe. 
 
 [Here follows a rude sketch oY the sonl inscribed 
 
 SIGILLV^ THOfVLC C Vfvl Ei E R WORTH] 
 The amies are qu^tly 1 checqu^ a lion on a chief passt II 
 n A eur 3 m'^tletts. ^ 
 
 Somb^y is within 2 mile of Gainsbrough^ he had landes att 
 Argham by marriadg. 
 
 V. 
 
 Inventory of the Goods op the Guild of the B. V Mary 
 
 OF Boston, taken a.d. 1534.t 
 luentorlu indentatum omi^ et singlm bonorum Gilde bte 
 marie vi-inisjn Boston^ rmn^nfet existenP tarn in Cantaria 
 dic^ glide qm in Capella eiusdem ac domo vocaf saynt 
 mary house facP tempore Roberti Tomlynson mercaioris 
 staple ville Calisie Aldermani die? gilde Thome Sorys 
 et Johis margery Camerarior^ eiusdem secundo die mensis 
 Julii Anno dm mittimo quingentesimo tricesimo [blankl et 
 anno regni Regis Henrici octaui vicesimo quinto ac deliberaf 
 JNicho Robertson Armigero Aldermanno Anno sequenti. 
 
 The Parlor in the ChaUxNtre. 
 
 Ffirst a hyngynge steynyd wt birdis and bestes conteynynge in 
 leynthe fyve quarters di and in depnes too yardis & a quarter. 
 
 Itm a playne table coteynynge thre yardis in lengthe & thre 
 quarters brode. 
 
 Itm ix cusshions of the best wherof be backyd wt 
 
 red lether & wt white wt flowres. 
 
 Itm one olde smaller cusshion wt flowres. 
 
 ItiTi a Counter the biggest of the neist.§ 
 
 . . * Vide ante, p. 180, note, 
 
 t The on^rmal document from which this inventory is printed is preserved 
 among the Boston borough records, is a roll consisting of six skins of vellum-^ 
 tlie length thirteen feet ; its width, ten inches. The writing occupies each side 
 Un the exterior end is the following indorsement in a contemnorarv hand' 
 Inventorm'^ Gilde btS Marie. ^ 
 
 t The Guild of the B. V. Mary, or Gilda Mercatoria, at Boston, was the 
 most important of the sixteen Boston Guilds. A long, but by no means full 
 account of it may be seen in the late Mr. Thompson's history of that borou^-h 
 pp. 134 — 147- ^ * 
 
 ^ § A nest of counters was a set of several counting-boards fitting one with- 
 in the other, like the Chinese toys known as nests of boxes. Nests of boxes 
 of a larjrer kind and made of fir, the bipgest about ten inches long, are fre- 
 quently imported from Germany to Hull. The word nest has been used in 
 
 N 
 
186 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Itfh a peii'e of trestylles to the same belongynge. 
 
 Itm a olde bankard made of an olde carpett. 
 
 Itm thre thrown cheyars. 
 
 Itiii too cheyars bought in the tyme of M Thomas Robertson"'*' 
 
 esquyer beynge alderman. 
 Itm a litill carvid cupboorde. 
 Itm the texte of the first parte of the halfe bible prynted of the 
 
 gift of Sir Robert Wykes. 
 Itm an olde buffett stoole. 
 Itm a fire forke a peire of tonges & a fire stommer. 
 
 connexion with various other articles. We still sometimes hear of a nest of 
 weights ; our ancestors possessed nests of goblets, bowls, and cups. We find 
 from the inventory of Bertram Anderson, a north country gentleman, who died 
 in 1570, that he possessed "a nest of white gobblettes with one cover," and 
 "one nest of bouUes with a cover duble gilte." — Wills, 8fc. of Northern Cos., 
 ii. 339. 
 
 The editor has heard of a nest of coffins, but he believes that the instance is 
 a solitary one. About the beginning of this century there lived at Gainsburgh 
 a certain Mr. Joseph Hornby, a gentleman of good family, who had lost his 
 property by the failure of a bank in which it was invested, a reverse of fortune 
 which had preyed upon his mind and produced an amount of eccentricity that 
 eventually aevdoped into hopeless insanity. Before this sad decay of intellect 
 had become complete, but at a time when Mr. Hornby was noted for singu- 
 larity of behaviour, he happened to be sitting in the commercial room of the 
 White Hart Inn of his native town, reading the Stamford Mercury, when he 
 was interrupted by certain bagmen, who demanded to know why he had ven- 
 tured to intrude into an apartment set aside for their special use. Mr. Hornby 
 said he was one of their calling, and resumed his newspaper only to be again 
 disturbed by the rudeness of the bagmen, who loudly declared their disbelief iu 
 his statement. Mr. Hornby's good temper, however, did not fail him ; he laid 
 down the newspaper, and drawing forth a large Constantinople pocket-book, 
 said, "Gentlemen, I assure you I am engaged in trade, and am my own 
 traveller. I shall be glad to take any orders you may favour me with, as I am 
 a general dealer." One of the commercial gentlemen — not more sceptical, but 
 somewhat rasher than his companions — at once replied, "Oh then, as you deal 
 in everything, I will give you an order for a gross of coffins to be delivered at 
 my house in Manchester this day mouth." Hornby made a memorandum of 
 the transaction in his note-book, which the traveller, by way of jest, signed in 
 due form. On the morrow four or five carpenters in the town received orders 
 to make what Mr. Hornby called twelve nests of coffins. That is twelve 
 large coffins with eleven others fitting inside each of them. The goods were 
 made accordingly, forwarded by stage waggon and delivered punctually at the 
 purchaser's house on the day named in the agreement. The bagman at first 
 refused to receive the consignment, and threatened to contest the legality of 
 the transaction; as there could be no doubt whatever as to the justice of Mr. 
 Hornby's claim, after some delay and many bitter words, the nests of coffins 
 were paid for. Their owner, it is said, never ventured into Lincolnshire 
 afterwards. 
 
 * Thomas Robertson, merchant of the Staple of Calais, and Elizabeth, his 
 wife, were admitted members of the Guild of Corpus Christi at Boston, in 
 the decade between 1491, 1500. — Thompson's Boston, p. 121. 
 
 1 
 
 
 APPENDIX. 187 
 
 Itin thre racons wt a peire of galows of yron.-^ 
 
 Itm a new foldon table of waynescotte wt cofers lockyd in it. 
 
 The Buttee. 
 
 Itm a playne awmery wt ij litill chambers wyhi wt too lockes. 
 
 Itm an aumery of here. 
 
 Itm a spruce chist wt a lok. 
 
 Itm thre great stondis. 
 
 Itm a great stond & thre small stondis. 
 
 Itm a brake to make verioyce wt.f 
 
 Itm a litill forme & a bynche to set ale pottes on. 
 
 Itm a litill shelfe to sett vessell (sic) on. 
 
 Itm iij ale pottes. 
 
 Itm a brason mortar wt a pestell of yron conteynynge bothe in 
 
 weight XV li 
 
 Itm a salte of tyn wt a coverynge. 
 Itm an olde salte of tyn. 
 Itm a feire chafynge disshe of laten wt a foote. 
 Itfh a lesse chafynge disshe of laten. 
 Itm too bell candillstickes. 
 Itm one lesse candillstick of bell fasshion. 
 Itm a candillstik wt iiij flowres. 
 Itm too pewter basyns weynge vij li a quarter less. 
 Itfh a chafynge disshe of pewter weynge iiij li di. 
 Itih ij table clothes conteynynge in length iiij yarde iij quarters 
 
 the pec^. 
 Itm ij other table clothes at iiij yardes the pece. 
 Itfh xxiij napkyns. 
 Itih iiij towelles whereof ij be of iiij yardes the pece & other ij 
 
 of iij yardes the pec^. 
 Itfh an old brode towels 
 
 Itfh xiij platers weynge xlj li. 
 
 Itfh xij disshes weynge xviij li di^ 
 
 Itfh ix sawcers weynge vj li di. 
 
 Itfh iij holies of wood great? & smaller. 
 Itfh a great tray of wood. 
 Itm a dosin trenchars. 
 
 The Hawle. 
 
 Itfh a haugynge at the deice coteynynge in lengthe xj yardis & 
 in brede ij yardis di. 
 
 (C 
 
 * The hooks and bar for holding pots over the fire. They are still called 
 recking hooks and gallows " by the common people of Lincolnshire. 
 t A quern or mill for crushing crabs to make into verjuice. 
 
 N 2 
 
188 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 Itm a counter wt a lok the biggest of the neist. 
 Itin a hyngynge laver of latteii hyngynge wt a cheyne of yron. 
 Itm a nother steynyd hyngynge conteynynge in lengthe ix 
 yardes di & in depnes ij yardes di. 
 
 The Kechyn. 
 
 Itm a hen cage wt a shelf wy*n it coteynynge in leynthe ij yardis 
 Itm Ij litill sowes a great boll & a lesse boll. 
 Itm a hoggeshed to putt in salte. 
 Itm a markett maunde wt a coveringe. 
 Itm a dressynge boorde. 
 Itin an olde choppynge stok. 
 Itm ij olde capon stockes.^ 
 
 Itm a great pan wt ij handelles bound abowte wt yron coteynynge 
 in weight xiiij li. 
 
 Itm a litill pan wt a stele. 
 
 Itm a great brasse pott wt longe feitt weynge xxvij li. 
 
 Itm a nother great pott wt shorte ffeitt weynge xxi li. 
 
 * Coops or hutches for confining capons and the young birds for whom they 
 were retained as foster-parents. Gervase Markham, in his highly curious 
 " Way to Get "Wealth," tells us that the capon was used " to lead chickens, 
 ducklings, young turkies, peahens, pheasants, and partriges, which he will do 
 altogether, both naturally and kindly, and through the largeness of his body, 
 will brood or cover easily thirty or five-and-thirty ; hee will lead them forth 
 safely, and defend them against kites or buzzards, more better than the hens ; 
 therefore the way to make him to take care unto them is, with a fine small 
 brier, or else sharp nettles, at night to beat and sting all his breasts and nether 
 parts, and then in the dark to set the chickens under him, whose warmth taketh 
 away the smart ; he will fall much in love with them, and whensoever he 
 proveth unkind, you must sting or beat him again, and this will make him he 
 will never forsake them."— Eighth Edit., 1653, p. 148. 
 
 Our ancestors could seldom make use of any animal without being guilty of 
 atrocious cruelty. This revolting side of their character has not been dwelt 
 on as it might be by those who delight in depreciating the past and lauding 
 the present. The Editor is very far from sympathizing with that senseless 
 egotism which sees in the mechanical inventions of the last fifty years an evi- 
 dence of the superiority of the nineteenth century over more poetical and 
 imaginative ages. He does, however, believe that we are far less brutal in our 
 dealings with God's lower creatures than our forefathers were. Bear-baiting, bull- 
 baiting, and cock-fighting are not now among the recognised sports of an English 
 gentleman. The amendment has, however, been very slow. Few of us realize 
 how savage we are in this particular ; how much below, not the standard of 
 justice only, but the thoughts of the higher minds of past ages. The Roman 
 poet, whose heart told hiin that hunters were but robbers under another 
 name — 
 
 " fixumque latronis 
 Impavidus frangit telum — " 
 
 had surely higher thoughts on nature and man than the English squire who 
 imports foxes. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 189 
 
 Itm a mydlynge pott weynge xviij li. 
 
 Itin a litill brasse pott weynge x li. 
 
 Itm a nother litill brasse pot weynge viij li. 
 
 Itm a chafer of brasse weynge xxj li. 
 
 Itm a ketill of brasse weynge xxj li. 
 Itm a lesse ketill of brasse weynge xjli i qrter. 
 
 Itm a peire of cobbardis of yron weynge xxiij li. 
 
 Itin y great spitt weynge xiiij li. 
 
 Itin a myddill spitt weynge ' viij li. 
 
 Itin a litill spitt weynge iiij li. 
 
 Itin a droppynge pan weynge vj li. 
 
 Itm a fryynge pan weynge vj li. 
 
 Itin a rostynge yron weynge vj li di. 
 
 Itm a brandrate weynge x li di. 
 
 Itm ij yron wegges weynge ij li. 
 Itm an olde axe. 
 Itm ij peire of pothokes. 
 Itm a galows of yron. 
 It in a great yron racon. 
 Itm a flesshe hooke a birde spitt & a broylynge hooke. 
 
 The Larder Howse. 
 
 Itin a bultynge pipe coverid w^t a yarde of canvesse. 
 
 Itm ij bultynge clothes. 
 
 Itfii a knedynge sheit of canves conteynynge iij elles. 
 
 Itm a knedynge tubb wt a coverynge. 
 
 Itm a mele seve a moldynge boorde. 
 
 Itm ij tubbes to put in mele. 
 
 Itm ij pokes coteynynge a busshell eu^y of them. 
 
 Itm a powtheringe tubb w? a coverynge. 
 
 Itm ij verioice barelles a bigger & a lesse. 
 
 Itin a skepp. 
 
 The Chambers. 
 
 Itin in the chambr ovir the kechyn a peire of bedstockes wt a 
 
 bothom wt boordis. 
 Itm a forme a presse of waynescott wt diverse shelffes & a bynk 
 
 to put in colis. 
 Itm in the chambr over the krder howse a peire of bedstockes & 
 
 an olde presse. 
 Itm in the chambr over the thak howse a peire of bedstockes 
 
 therunto nailed. 
 Itm a chambr over the botre a peire of bedstockes & an olde 
 
 presse. 
 
190 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Itm in the whete chambr a ladder of viij stavirs & an old 
 strike. 
 
 Itm in the chambr over the woodhowse a peire of bedstockes an 
 
 olde presse & a litill chist. 
 Itm a chambr betwixt the dores vppon the est side a peire of 
 
 bedstockes a presse a forme & a bynke to ley cob's in. 
 Itm a parlor on the west side a peire of bedstockes a forme a 
 
 presse & a chist wt certen shelfis. 
 
 Itm a chambr over that a peire of bedstockes a forme & a close 
 presse. 
 
 The Re vestry. 
 Ffirst there is a relikc of parte of the fyng^ of saynt An* closid 
 in a hand of Sylver & gilde the whiche hand of sylver wt the 
 forseide parte of the fyng^ is set in a certeyn pece of Sylver 
 & gilte to tte lawde & praise of allmyghti god whiche hand 
 wt parte of the fyng^ aforseide & sylver & golde thereunto 
 anexed was of the gift of Thomas awbre & weys in the 
 whole • •^.. a 
 
 Itm a nother relike honowred wt silver & gilte w! a certeyn 
 bone of saynt Cristynet wt certeyn other relikes wt the same 
 
 ^rjT '''"" °'" ^""^ ^'^* °^ ^'^ ^°''"* ^"^'^ P^<^'^* 
 
 Itrirefke ynclusyd in Sylu^ & pcell gilte thaUsTsly 'a Joynt 
 
 weyng?in^he7hofe^'^ "' "^'^^"^ '^""^^ °' '""^ ~%. 
 
 . . • JJejeWinek, lAeat. Vila Humana, t. it. p. 1162 c "A hnno r>f 
 ?5 ^Tk "Ti." V^" " I°™°t°rie of the Reliques off S e howss'e off Redvnl " 
 H Z VIII ^ ?h- W ■ t" *°,7''°"n Cromwell, the viear general of\fng 
 
 J oamt Ulmstina was a virem martyr who snffprpH fnr f i,o foiu, a ■ A 
 persecution of Dioclesian. He'r feast is celebrated "u 24 July ^Her S 1' 
 
 fee p°419P'jrf 1 M.?™o-Jac. a Voragine, 4. J/i^ ^ ^* 
 uraesse, p. 419 ; Acta Sanct., JuJn, t. v. pp. 495-531. An interesting hTmn !n 
 
 t. [ p°Too. °"' ''' '''" '"^ '^'™- ^^""^'^ ^^°''=''^ TkiaT:f;;z^j,^^i 
 
 nnlJ''^ churches of England and tlie Continent formerly contained vast 
 numbers of reputed relics of tbis nature. Among other places K6ln ratheZl 
 
 „n» Af fl ■% .If}^^, ^^'"^ '^^' aid probably is still shown "the bodv of 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 191 
 
 Itm a cace of syluer & pcell gilte in the whiche is coteyned 
 parte of the stone of the mownte of calvery & parte of the 
 stone from the whiche criste ascended a nother pte of the 
 stone of the sepulcre of criste"^ weynge in the whole 
 
 iiij. vnces di. 
 
 Itm a nother case of Silu^ p gilte wt an ymage of our lady 
 standynge above wt her childe on her hand of silver & gilte in 
 the whiche is conteyned parte of the mylke of our lady f weynge 
 in the whole iiij vnces di. 
 
 JOCALIA. 
 
 Itm a crosse of Sylu^ & gilte wt ij branch is & ymages ther- 
 uppon standgynge that is to sey the ymage of our blessid lady 
 & the ymage of seynt John gilte and enamelyd wt a sufferayn 
 of golde thereto nailed & oiferyd by John Reede weynge in 
 the whole ix** iiij vnces. 
 
 Itm a shaft of silu^ for the same crosse wt a roll gilte & iij knottes 
 gilte of the whiche knottes eu^y one hath vj roses enamelid w? 
 asure the whiche shaft coteyneth in leynthe ij yardis di^ & it 
 is fillid wt asshe & weys in the whole vij** vj vnces iij qrters. 
 
 Itm the best chalice of sylu^ & gilte wt a paten thereto belong- 
 inge of silu^ gilte of the gift of Thomas Awbre weynge 
 
 % V vnces iij qrters. 
 
 * The abbey church of St. Bertin, at St. Omer, possessed in the month of 
 September, 1465, among countless otlier objects of a kindred character, two 
 fragments of the sepulchre of our Lord, a stone from Calvary, and a portion of 
 the earth, " in qua Dominus stetit cum ad celos ascendit." 
 
 Portions of this inventory of the wonderful collection of relics were published 
 in the Gentleman! s Magazine for November, 1842, pp. 492-496. From the 
 specimens given the document seems to be one of the most curious of the kind 
 in existence. It is much to be wished that it were printed without abridg- 
 ment. Its owner in 1842 was E. J. Curling, Esq., Consul of the Nether- 
 lands at Deal. 
 
 t " The milke of our lady" was shown in great quantities all over Europe ; 
 Calvin said that there was hardly a town, convent, or nunnery where some of 
 it might not be seen. — Treatise on Relics^ Eng. trans., Edin., 1854, p. 209. It 
 is stated that at the suppression of the monasteries there were eight places in 
 the town of Leicester where our Lady's milk was shown. — Brands Antiqui- 
 ties, edit. 1813, v. ii. p. 5. Among the plate in the royal chapel at Windsor 
 Castle was preserved ** salutatio beatse Marise Virginis argentea et deaurata, 
 stans in pede argenteo deaurato et aymellato de viridi, cum una olla in medio, 
 cujus medium est de christallo, in quS, continetur pars lactis beatae Marise 
 Virginis. In cujus ollse suinmitate sunt frondes lilliorum viridum in pede 
 
 cujus supportantur, et unus flos deficit." — Ex quond. Rotul. in Bibl. 
 
 Ashmol. in Monast. Anglic, t. vi. part iii. p. 1364. The church of our Lady at 
 Walsingham counted the milk of the B. V. M. among its chiefest treasures. 
 Erasmus saw it there shortly before the spoliation. He tells us that the object 
 shown to him was a substance inclosed in a glass vessel, like powdered chalk 
 tempered with white of egg. — Erasmi Coll. Peregrin. Religionis ergo. 
 
193 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Z^.^f % "?1^,^^^ ^ Pate^ thereto belongynge of silu^ and 
 
 Itl . i'V ""^ daies weynge xxiij vn?es iij quarters. 
 
 ^ilt ? 'T f P^^"? ^^'^"^^ belongynge of silu^& pcell 
 
 gate vvt a gilte knopp havynge vj roses weynge in the whole 
 
 T^~ ••• n 1 1. ^ vnces iij quarters, 
 
 Itm iij small chal.ces wt patens to the^ belongynjje of silu^ & 
 peel y,lte euy of them a kaopp gilt weynge in the whole [on 
 sola ol xij oz.^] 1 • "js 
 
 ^^^vJi "f"!!.''' "^IMt,^ P"'^ "'"" ^^■'"^^^''f °n« «f the^ hckes his 
 
 Itm a pax of sjlu^ & g.lte & enamelid of the gift of the foreside 
 1 nomas Awbre weyno-e ^ •••• 
 
 ItSi another litill pax V silu^ & parcell gilte boug', e o7 th^ 
 cost of the glide weynge ^j vnces'iij .j-rters! 
 
 Itmabasen of silu^ wt a rose in the myddes gilt JlvsSsn. 
 hedis of the gift of Tliomas Awbre weynge ^ 
 
 Itm a nother basen of silu^ w! a rose in the mydTgilfw? 
 
 we^n<r"^ ""'■ ^^ "^" ^''*^^" ^ enamelid wt asure 
 ta~ • n ^''^ vnces iii a^rters 
 
 ■^if^r/Tl "'T\^ ^ ''^'PP ''^ ^''"' & P^rcell giltelf the 
 gilt oi Thomas Awbre weynge to gether Iij vuces i q«ter. 
 
 T* ~ „ . S^ "^^y^ °^ sensers sold weyn^ xxxvi oz *1 
 
 Itin a nother pane of sensars & a shipp of silu^ & pcell p.,ite 
 bought of the cost of the gilde weynge 1 vnces arter 
 
 Itin the best candeUstik of silu^ & pCellgilte weynge ^ 
 
 Itm one great moss wt a fote w! the ymage of"'the"°aseeLlon of 
 our lord of silu^ & gilte of the gift of harmond Staynford 
 weynge m the whole ,];:; vnno " * 
 
 Itm a cace of the gospell booke of sylu^ & gilte-" ^^^ certeyn 
 ymages thereon gravyn of the gift of m^^John BevellTf 
 iiondon weynge .• 
 
 Itin one litill candelstik wt iij feit all of silu^ of the ^^k oflL 
 John Grayne one of the chaplaynes of this gilde weynge 
 
 'ts4?°w:ynr' "" "^" ^"^^ °f 'l^^giftof Johnyob;'n^oa 
 
 '* wl"e' "' ^''''' ^^' "^ '^' S'f' «*■ '^' ^-^^.^.^"'^h^Lt 
 T* ~ -^^ 1 xxxiiii vnces i arfpr 
 
 gift'wtS"^' '""'" "' " cou^ & shell wt all of the Ime 
 Itin a sponeVlte of the gift of the seide m^ Roby'^sl'weyng; 
 
 — __.^___ ^ vnce. 
 
 * Interlined in a later band. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 193 
 
 M 
 
 v\ 
 
 \\ 
 
 Itm a vestymet of red bawdkyn \\l a blew crosse set full of 
 
 sterres wt albe & amysse to the same. 
 Itm a corporas cloth wt the cace of red & grene velvett purlyd 
 
 wt golde of Damaske. 
 Itm an altar cloth of diap^ conteynynge iij yerdes. 
 Itm a chalice gilt wt patan & spone weynge xxiiij vnces. 
 
 Itm a pax gilt weynge v vnces i q*rt di. 
 
 Itm a bell of silu^ weynge besides the clapper ij vnces i qu*ter. 
 Itm ij cruetts pcell gilte weynge of the same gift 
 
 iij vnces i qrter. 
 Itm one peire of sensars of silu^ pcell gilte bought of the cost of 
 
 the gilde weynge Hiij vnces. 
 
 Itm one other paire of sensars of silu^ & pcell gilte bought of 
 
 the cost of the seide gilde weynge liij vnQes. 
 
 Itm ij shippes of sylu^ & pcell gilte to the same belongynge 
 
 ^^y^gQ xxxvj vnces di. 
 
 Itm one pax of sylu^ & gilt pcell delyu^yd by John Reede 
 
 ^^y^gQ vij vnces scant. 
 
 Itm an A & S of golde ioyned to gether wt a stone in it delyu^yd 
 
 to this gilde bi m^ Malyvery in payment of his brotherhood. 
 Itm one stondynge cupp wt the cou^ of silu^ & pcell gilte beynge 
 
 in pawne for the white friers weynge^ xj vnces. 
 
 Itm one flat boll wt a cou^ of silu^ in pawne for the same freirs 
 
 wemge ^ xxxviij vnces. 
 
 Itin a claspe of a booke of sylu^ wt Jhiis pry ted in fe a dowble 
 
 trulove & j pynn for booke claspis of silu^ weynge ij vnces. 
 Itm ij verges paynted made for the chauiberlaynes harnesid at 
 
 bothe endes wt sylu^ gravyn at eu^y end wt this lett^ M 
 
 coteynynge in ley nth a yarde di^ & a quarter. 
 Itm a huntynge home harnesid wt silu^ wt a bukkill & xviii 
 
 barres & a synkfoile wt a littill chayne & a pendet of silu^ of 
 
 the gift of davy wragby sometyme baylyff* of wragby & one of 
 
 the brethren of this gilde valuyd by estymacion. 
 Itm j peire of candelstickes of silu^ & pcell gilte weynge 
 
 iiij" xvj vnces di. 
 
 * The Carmelite house at Boston is believed to have been founded about 
 1301 by a knight of the name of Orrebv. Not a single vestige of its buildings 
 is now standing above ground, but sculptured stones have been found on that 
 spot which the more certain evidence of records points out as the site of this 
 priory. 
 
 John de Vinde, a friar of this house, who became the twenty-eighth provincial 
 of his order in 1482, was buried here in 1496. George Kipley, the noted 
 alchemist, was also a member of this fraternity, and found a sepulchre within 
 Its sacred precincts. On the dissolution of the monasteries the site was granted 
 to the mayor and burgesses of Boston.— Thompson's Hist. Boston, p. 109. 
 
194 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 195 
 
 Itm one mose of silver & gilt & enamelid vvt an ymage of our 
 lady & a nother ymage knelynge before her weynge 
 
 T+~ .1 „ vi vnce & a art. 
 
 Itm an other mose of cop & gilt wt a womans face therou & on 
 the bakside a crowne. 
 
 Itm a litill box of Ivery bo.md wt gyffies of silu^ & wtyn the 
 same xxxhj small perles. 1 '- 
 
 Itrn a litill longe box of yvery wt an ymage of our lady of y very 
 theryn closid wt a cou^ynge therto belongynge enclosid in a 
 purse 01 neilde werk. 
 
 Itm one great Maser* wt a sengle band wt a prynt in the bothora 
 
 of thJmanrP w !'• T '^ "'f''' ""f"' * ^^'^ <"^ goblet made of the wood 
 sometimeTl„ Lh n. "" ^^^^|,'^,'"''de of walnut, ash, and other woods were 
 
 the fifrcanto of riff '^ ^J.'.f *,","■ ^?"' '° ""'^ °°'^ ♦" "'« "^^t ^'^i^* of 
 dants to brh^r '''"•'^°/«« I^les, where the Bruce commands his atten- 
 
 " the mazers four, 
 Mj noble fathers loved of yore," 
 
 defines raazer as "lar^sre drinkiao- cuns or o.nhlpf« " Q,^^„ ii. 
 
 " Then lo, Pengot, the pledge which I plight. 
 A mazar ^wrought of the maple ware, 
 VV berein is enchased many a fair sight 
 Ut bears and tigers that make fierce war " 
 
 mifdi:'4rL7"w"rateracLd mtr f ''' %""""" f^ <'"-S '•"« '»"- 
 with in old'in.elries and wills they m-"?'!-- h"" "'' '*™°"'"^ "" ™^^' 
 highly ornamented. MT^veuTvhmlSl^l ^^i^J"'^" '° "'^u^J cases very 
 kiSd of the time of Ri^iard I? Tt k^f v i P' *{.-^-' Possesses a cup of this 
 silver-gilt, richly emttS' 'L tt^ta^etit!:. ''' """ '^ "^ 
 
 ** En t^e name of t'i)t Crinittc 
 JFiUc tf)f feup antj Irrinfec to mc." 
 
 .ilvi!'^lt'rt'i'sTas7,bed- '""' ''^'"''=' '° '"« ironmongers' Company. Its 
 
 gilt wt an ymage of Allmyghti god sittynge at the iugement 
 in the myddes of iiij evangelistes of the gift of Jamys harbor 
 weynge xlix vnces di. 
 
 Itin an other maser \vt a double band wt a prynt in the myddes 
 wt a plate of silu^ & gilte written wt these wordes ^' deum nrm'' 
 weynge xij vnces. 
 
 Itm a masar wt a sengle band wt a prynt in the bothom of the 
 passion of saynt Thomas the martir & a plate of sylu^ & gilte 
 wt an Ape lokynge in an vrynall written wt these woordes 
 '* this wat^ is polows" weynge xv vnces di. 
 
 Itm a masar wt a dowble band & a prynt in the bothom of sylu^ 
 & gilte w^t a rose in the same prynt of the gift of John lawes 
 mchaunt weynge xiiij vnces iij qrters 
 
 Itm X bedes of lambr^ & ij cassildens wt a stryg of silk & j tas- 
 shell & iij silu^ gymes & j rynge of silu^ gilte hangynge by the 
 same. 
 
 of Scotland contained " Four Masaris, called King Robert Broci*s, with a 
 cover." Among the church goods which belonged to the parish of Saint 
 Olave, in Southwark, in 1558, was a " massar, garnyssechyed with a band 
 of sylvar and gyltt, which weyed by estymacon v oz." 
 
 Wassail bowls were sometimes called mazars or mazards. Some of my 
 readers will remember the old harvest song which says — 
 
 (( 
 
 Our bowl is made of the maplin tree. 
 
 }) 
 
 The mazer figured also in many of those strange practices, half religious, 
 half magical, which lingered among our rural poor until quite recent times. 
 Aubrey gives an account of a rite of this nature, the performance of which he 
 had probably himself witnessed : — " In the county of Hereford was an old 
 Custome at Funeralls to hire poor People, who were to take upon them the 
 Sinues of the Party deceased. One of them (he was a long, lean, ugly, 
 lamentable poor Raskell), I remember, lived in a Cottage on Rosse high-waj. 
 The manner was that when the Corps was brought out of the House and laid 
 on the Biere, a Loafe of Bread was brought out and delivered to the Sinne- 
 Eater over the Corps, as also a Mazar Bowie, in consideration whereof he took 
 upon him, ipso facto, all the Sinnes of the defunct, and freed him or her from 
 
 walking after they were dead This custome (though rarely used in our 
 
 dayes) yet by some people was observed, even in the strictest time of the 
 Presbyterian Government, as at Dynder (volens nolens the Parson of the 
 Parish), the kindred of a woman deceased there had the ceremonie punctually 
 performed, according to her Will ; and also the like was done at the City of 
 Hereford in those times, where a woman kept, many years before her deatn, a 
 Hazard Bowie for the Sinne-Eater ; and the like in other places in this Countie, 
 as also in Brecon. I believe this custom was heretofore used all over 
 Wales." 
 
 See Proceedings of Soc. Ant. 2 S. v. i. p. 194. Parker, J. H., Domestic 
 Arch., v. i. p. 144; v. ii. 61 ; v. iii. 131, n. Virgil, iii. Eclog. Scott's Poet. 
 Works, Ed. 1855, p. 488. Gent. Mag. 1837, pt. i. p. 489. Du Fresne, Gloss, 
 sub roc. Ijurisd. MS. 220, f. 116, as quoted in Ellis's Brand's Popular 
 Antiq. V. ii. p. 156. 
 
 \ 
 
196 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 '*?K<f K^f ^^ "^l ^.'^"^'^ '"'"^ ^^ * P^ynt of the v^nacle* in 
 the bothom of the gifte of John welles of lyn weynge 
 
 vij vnces iij qrters & di^ quarter. 
 
 Ve*nLt'^"&e^U'f if T r'H^ t''^^P«^ch of the common people, the 
 served at'EomP ITT ""^ ^'""' °/ ""^"^ ^''^'''"'' ™ « li^^" '=lotb still pre- 
 vWtlTf i J -^-^ ■" *° "^y o"'" instances relating to earlv times the 
 var e y of legends connected with it cannot be harmonized One account is 
 
 Kbud'" "''r^ ""P^f •^d.'.pon a cloth which ser^^d a^ a bandage a? the 
 
 homme de bon sens croif^fnnl ''''°^''>' ^.^'.' }"" ^^^"^^ ^^ bien, un 
 escript." ' '"'"'^ tousjours ce qu*on lui diet et qu'il trouve par 
 
 bu?l%'etro?the'uSsl oo'f ^'? antieipated, never mentioned this legend 
 delight in Tdolatrv»anTfLrf''"^V^^^ 'h "^^^^ ^'"^ ^^' ^^^h swine as 
 
 thus if Thad been hin^H^^^^ ^^^"^c'l ^^^^^ hardly have written 
 
 amount of s^tiL^hf co^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ '' '^ '^' ^°^ ^^"^^^' ^^ ^^^^ 
 
 " ^^& ^^°^ ^^^''^ ^ode a gentle Pardonere 
 Of Rouncevall, his friend and his compere, 
 lliat late was come from the court of Rome 
 * * * ♦ ♦ 
 
 A Vernacle had he sowed upon his cappe. 
 
 His wallet before him on his lappe, 
 
 Bret-full of pardon come from Kome al hote " 
 
 relfgt! 'TjZ^::iZ''^^^^:^,:^l^''^^''^'^'^' -- ^^ ^^^ popmar 
 
 " Quale e colui, che forse di Croazia 
 Viene a veder la Veronica nostra 
 Che per I'antica fama non si sazia, 
 Ma dice nel pensier, fin che si nostra : 
 Signor mio Gesii Cristo Dio verace j 
 Or fu si fatta la sembianza vostra ?'* 
 
 dayt h^dTdtbt' ttt o'J?\tdldTf^^?'T^r ^^^^^^"^ '' '^^ °ld 
 imageof hisblSvsa^e^atnkl^^ ^.^^^^o^J vernacle, the express 
 him^ from th^tirnp Jf f ^t'ff ^^°* ^? -^^"^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ among such as loved 
 
 cu uoiy nana expressed and left in the sudary, so hath it been by 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 197 
 
 Itm a masar wt a syngle band wt a pryiit in the bothom of silu^ 
 & gilte of the salutacion of ovr lady wt a lili pott wt a plate of 
 
 silu & gilte weynge 
 
 vij vnces j qrtres. 
 
 Itm a masar w? a litill band wt no prynte in the bothom of the 
 gift of John Smyth beidman weynge vij vnces di^. 
 
 like miracle, in that thin corrupttible cloth kept and preserved this xv hundred 
 year fresh and well perceived." 
 
 A Dutch prayer in honour of the Veronica, to which Pope Innocent II. attached 
 three years' indulgence, may be seen among the Harleian Manuscripts^ v. 914, 
 f . 86 b. A figure of the saint holding the handkerchief in her hands is represented 
 in the Acta Sanctorum, Maii, v. i. p. 39. See Mat. Westminster, a.d. 37. 
 Acta SS., Maii, vol. vii. p. 350. Butler's Lives of Saints, Jan. xiii., note. Char- 
 lotte Eaton's Ro/ne in Nineteenth Cent., 5th Edit. vol. ii. p. 189. Sir George 
 Head's Rome, vol. iii. p. 329. Will. Fulke's Stapleton's Fortress Overthrown, 
 Chaucer's Prologue to Canterburr/ Tales. Sir Thomas More's Eng. Workes, 
 p. 113, as quoted by Hen. Walter in his edition of Tindall's Answer to More's 
 Dialogue, \i, 79. Dante, Paradiso, cant. xxxi. Gibbon, Decl. and Fall of Rom. 
 Emp. c. xlix. Goodwin's Anglo-Saxon Legends of St. Andrew and St. Veronica. 
 
 An ancient Latin hymn in honour of the Veronica has been several times 
 printed, but it has become so nearly unknown in modern days that its existence 
 has been doubted, if not confidently denied, by those who have been reputed 
 to hold a high rank in literature. The editor quotes from the Bollandist Col- 
 lection, Feb. V. i. p. 449 — 
 
 " Salve sancta facies 
 
 Nostri Redemptoris 
 In qua nitet species 
 
 Divini splendoris, 
 Impressa panniculo 
 
 Nivei candoris, 
 Dataque Veronicse 
 
 Ob signum amoris. 
 Salve decus seculi. 
 
 Speculum sanctorum, 
 Quod videre cupiunt 
 
 Spiritus coelorum ; 
 Nos ab omni macula 
 
 Purga vitiorum, 
 Atque nos consortio 
 
 Junge beatorum. 
 
 Salve nostra gloria 
 
 In hac vita dura 
 Labili et fragili 
 
 Cito transitura, 
 Nos perdue ad patriam, 
 
 O felix figura, 
 Ad videndum faciem 
 
 Quae est Christi pura. 
 Esto nobis quaesumus 
 
 Tutum adjuvamen 
 Dulce refrigerium 
 
 Atque consolamen, 
 Ut noois non noceat 
 
 Hostile gravamen ; 
 Sed fruamur requie 
 
 Cum beatis. Amen. 
 
 Vers. Signatum est super nos lumen vultus tui Domine. 
 Resp. Dedisti laetitiam in corde meo." 
 
 ' With the Saint Veronica of early Christian days must not be confounded 
 Saint Veronica de Binasco, a nun who died in the odour of sanctity a.d. 1497. 
 See Vita BeatcB Veronica Monasterii S. Martha .... per F. Isiodorum de 
 Isolanis, 4to, Mediol. 1518. A curious work, illustrated with most interesting 
 woodcuts representing the saint's miracles. There is a copy in the British 
 Museum. Press-mark, 1367 f. .^ , , . ., - r • j 
 
 The Veronica, or Speedwell, is said to derive its name from some fancied 
 likeness between its flowers and the vera icon. 
 
198 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 |i 
 
 Itm an other masar w? a double band wt a prynt in the bothom 
 ±.manuel gilt & grayvn wt Jhus weynge xj vnces dP. 
 
 Itm a gi;eat standinge cupp of silu^ & gilte wt a cou^nee to the 
 same belongynge standinge vppon thre angelles wt a ffreat 
 linopp above enamelid wt asure weynge in the whole 
 
 xlvi vnces di 
 Itma drynkynge home ornate wt silu^ & gilte in thre ntes of it 
 wt ij feit of silu^ & gilte w? a stone sett in silu^ & gilte wevno.e 
 in the whole •■•• ?• 
 
 Itm a dosen silu^ spones havinge this Ire M in the end of the 
 stele of them weynge ^j ^^^^^ j; 
 
 Itm a pece of silu^ wt a prynt of the ymage of oure lady in the 
 bothom of the gift of William aston of caster whiche pece is 
 delyu yd to the chaplaynes of the gild weynge 
 
 Ti~ 3 <. •• ^ ^ij vnces iij q'rters. 
 
 Itrn a dosen of silu^ spones havynge this Ire m in the ende of the 
 
 stele of them weynge xj vnce di. 
 
 TV hichexij spones be delyu^ to the chaplaynes of the gilde. 
 
 Itm one chaplett of red velvett for the alderman wt one great 
 owche m the fronte of the same of pure gold & in the iame 
 be sett iij great pies wt vj turkaces. Itin vppon the same 
 chaplett viij great owches of pure gold wt viij balesez set in 
 the myddes ot eu^ of them & garneshid wt ij chesses of pie 
 abowte eu-y of them. Itin x owches of silu^ & gilte cotevn- 
 ynge m eu y of them v stones. Itm xv^ other owches but 
 
 iti f1l?^'^ ^ ^'^''r- ^*^ "'^'^"-'^^ '"^ the hyndermore 
 parte ot the seide chaplett one great owche of silu^ & gilte 
 
 garnyshid wt perle in the circute weynge in the .whole 
 
 • • • 
 
 Itm jj chaplettes for ij chambrlaynes of blew velvett powde^^^^^^ 
 wt sterres of gold wt letters M & lilies of pie weynge in the 
 whole by trory weight ^ ^ ^^ ^^7 
 
 Itm one verge paynted & harnesid at bothe endes wt silu^ ordenvd 
 for the kep or v^g^ of the gilde. umtnya 
 
 LiBRI PRO GiLDA. 
 
 Hirst the principall masse booke wt ii claspis of silu^ & mite 
 gravyn wt ij roses wt pynnes of silu^ p gilte 
 
 Itm a great masse booke wt ij claspis of silu^ p gilte whereof 
 the higher had a crowned M and the other hath a crown vd 
 J bus. ^ 
 
 Itm one cowcher wt ij claspis of silu^ & gilte whereof the higher 
 was gravyn wt Jhus & the other is gravyn wt this Ire M.'' 
 
 * Verger. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 199 
 
 Itm an other cowcher wt ij claspis of silu^ & pynnes of the same 
 
 of the gifte of Sir John Hardy preist. 
 Itm an other cowcher wt ij claspis of latteh. 
 Itm an other cowcher wt ij claspis of silu^ bought in the tyme 
 
 of M. John Robynson beynge alderman. 
 Itm a litill portues cou^yd wt red wt ij claspis of silu^. 
 Itm a booke called a Manuale. 
 Itm a dirige booke & a buriall booke vnbound. 
 Itm a booke of law called Codex of the gift John ffleit & thorns. 
 Itm iiij prynted masse bookes of velom large. 
 Itm a prynted masse booke of paper. 
 Itm ij portuas wt chaynes lyynge on the stalls in our ladies 
 
 queyr. 
 Itm an englishe booke called liber de diuinis v~tutib3 of the gift 
 
 of dame Johan Grymyscroft sometyme Nunne of Staynfeild. 
 Itm a dirige booke lyynge bound in cheynes on the south side of 
 
 the queir. 
 Itm a booke callyd scholastica historia"*^ of the gift of M^ John 
 
 ffisher & M^ william mason preistes. 
 Itm a portuas which Sir Otuell toke awey. 
 Itm a booke callid the costitucions provinciall.f 
 Itm a psalter of parchement wt a cheyne. 
 Itm a booke unbound callid breuiariu^ sup^ toto corpe decret^. 
 Itm an old Manuale bound. Itm an olde graele. 
 Itm a great Egle of latten standinge on thre lions of latten in 
 
 the myddes of the queyr. 
 
 * The Scolastica Historia super Novum Testamentum of Peter Comestor was 
 one of the most popular books in the middle ages. It went through many 
 editions soon after tne invention of printing. A French translation by Guyart 
 des Moulins, dedicated to Charles VIII., was published about the close of the 
 15th century. See Brunet, sub mm. Biographie Generale^ sub mm. Papillon, 
 BibJ. des Auteurs d€ Bourgogne. Dom Cellier, Ilisioire des Autenrs Sacres et 
 EccUsiastiqueSy xxiii. 305. 
 
 f The Provinciale, seu Const itutiones Anglia of William Lyndwode, LL.D. 
 
 But few biographical particulars have come down to us relative to this 
 learned canonist further than that he was born at Linwood, in this countv ; 
 was for some time Keeper of the Privy Seal to Henry VI. ; that he filled the 
 otfice of Dean of the Court of Arches, and that he was appointed by the Pope 
 to the Bishopric of St. David's. He was consecrated in St. Stephen's Chapel, 
 Westminster, in 1442. He died October 21, 1446, and received sepulture in 
 the same place. A body which there is much reason for believing to be that 
 of Bishop Lyndwode, was found in January, 1852, enclosed in a cavity in the 
 wall of the crypt of St. Stephen's Chapel. The figure was swathed in cere- 
 ments of thick and strong waxed canvas; across the body lay a wooden 
 
 crosier. 
 
 Le Neve, Fasti EccL Angl., v. i. p. 297. Archaologia, v. xxxiv. p. 406 — 
 430. Proceedings Soc. Ant., v. ii. p. 208. 
 
 S 
 
 \ 
 
900 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 J 
 
 Itm a great lecfone of latten standynge where masse & Antemp^ 
 
 be songe bouglit in the tyme of m John Robynson beynge 
 
 alderman. * 
 
 Itm ij great candelstickes of latten. 
 Itm ij secondary candelstickes of latten. 
 
 Itm ij lesser candelstickes of latten standing at the altar ende. 
 Itm a litill candelstick of latten standynge of iij lions. 
 Itm an other lesse candelstyk standynge afore owr lady. 
 Itm ij litill candillstickes of latten standynge on the high altar 
 
 of owr lady, 
 Itm a candelstik of latten wt ij flowres for the morow masse. 
 Itm an other litill candelstik of latten wt ij flowres for one of the 
 
 side altars. 
 Itm ij other litill candelstickes of latten wt ij pynnes. 
 Itm ij laten candelstickes standinge vppon the altar bowght of 
 
 Stephyn wodows. 
 Itm a carpett wt ij cusshions of fustian"'*' in naples to ley before 
 
 the Alderman. 
 
 • A kind of fustian which took its name from the City of Naples, where it 
 was probably first manufactured. The Book of DraperyCy a MS. in the Dutch 
 language which once belonged to the Dutch refugees at Norwich, " contained 
 excellent orders and rules about making of bayes, fustians of Naples, &c." 
 J. S. Bum, Hist. ofForeign Protestant Refugees, p. 200. 
 
 The earliest instance of this word that the Editor remembers to have seen, 
 occurs in the inventory of the household goods and stock in trade of Robert 
 Abraham, a shopkeeper of Kirton-in-Lindsey, " qui voluntarie se submersit in 
 quodam fonte," on tiie first of May, 1519. The poor suicide seems to have 
 been a general dealer ; his shop contained not only " ij yerds & a halfp of 
 fuschan in appules," "v remblands of buckram," "iij dosan Wajncloutts," 
 '* sex yerds of camies," and other matters of the like kind, such as one would 
 expect to find in an ancient drapery establishment, but a collection of almost 
 everything which his simple-minded neighbours regarded as necessaries of 
 their state and condition of life. Some of the items are very curious ; thus, 
 although parchment or writing-paper are not found in the list, we meet with 
 "halff a bundy of blottyn^ paup [er]," a material which grave historians have 
 assured us was unknown in the middle of the succeeding century. The only 
 objects connected with the religious customs of our forefathers, are "beds'* 
 [beads] and syngyngbread [altar breads], but the record contains among the 
 memoranda of expenses, at the end, a pleasing instance of the manner in which 
 one of the Church's most questionable practices was used to counteract the 
 barbarism of ecclesiastical law and traditional custom. As Robert Abraham 
 had wilfully put an end to his own life, he would, under ordinary circum- 
 stances, have been denied christian burial, and his body have been subject to 
 the cruel indignities with which society visited that offence. The ecclesiastical 
 and the common law werf^, however, set on one side in this instance, and the 
 dead man buried with the rites of the Church, because during life he had 
 possessed himself of an indulgence. " Sepultus fuit racione indulgencie beate 
 Marie Virginis de Boston," is the memorandum attached to a note of the pay- 
 ment of twenty pence for burial fees. The indulgence possessed by the de- 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 201 
 
 Vestimenta. 
 
 ffirst a whole yestmet for a preist wt deaoon & subdeacon of white 
 damaske wt Egles of golde standinge on bookes berynge scrip- 
 tures on their hedes & orfrays of a story of owr ladie wt all 
 other thinges to the seide vestymet belongynge. 
 
 Itm a whole vestymet for preist deacon & subdeacon of white 
 damaske powderyd wt flowres of silke & gold wt orfraies of 
 red velvett powderyd wt silke & gold wt all other thinges to 
 the seide vestyment belongynge. 
 
 Itm a whole vestyment of blak velvett for preist deacon & sub- 
 deacon w t orfraies of tent werk wt the scripture written on 
 them wt the names of John cowell & Johan his wife & of their 
 gifte. 
 
 Itm a whole vestyment for preist deacon & subdeacon of blak 
 
 ceased was no doubt plenary at the hour of death, and he had probably a 
 written document on parchment, like a charter setting forth its conditions at 
 length. These pardonSj as they "were called, were very common at the period 
 immediately before the Reformation. When the Protector Somerset pulled 
 down various churches in London for the purpose of building his palace in the 
 Strand, the graves of the dead were violated in a manner that reminds one of 
 the shameless doings of railway companies and City improvers of the present 
 day. In many of the graves thus disturbed little caskets were found contain- 
 ing pardons carefully folded together. This foolish practice furnished the 
 reformers with a never-failing subject for sarcasm. Archbishop Grindall had 
 himself seen these indulgences buried with the dead. In his funeral sermon 
 for the Emperor Ferdinand, he told his hearers that, " In times past men made 
 preparations afore death, but, God knoweth, far out of square. Some redeemed 
 for money great plenty of indulgences from Rome ; and he that had the greatest 
 plenty of them, to be cast with him into his grave when he was buried (which 
 I myself have seen done) was counted the best prepared for death."— i^^- 
 maifis, p. 29. 
 
 The practice of burying self-murderers at cross-roads, with a stake driven 
 through their bodies, was of immemorial antiquity in England. It was abo- 
 lished by statute in 1823, 4 Geo. IV., c. 52. Stones commemorating the more 
 recent burials of this kind may be seen in one or two places in this county ; 
 but tradition points out in almost every neighbourhood numerous unregarded 
 spots where suicides are buried. Even when the popular voice is silent as to 
 the cause, such places often have an evil name for being haunted by a ghost or 
 barguest. Such a tradition had long clung to a place on the top of "laddie- 
 thorpe-hill, in this parish. The reason for it was made plain in the year 1854, 
 when the hill was lowered, by the discovery of a human skeleton buried at the 
 south side of the highway, about a foot under the surface. An oak stake had 
 been driven through the chest. The remains were carefully gathered together 
 and re-interred in Bottesford churchyard. 
 
 The last suicide buried at a cross road, is believed to have been Abel 
 Griffiths. He was interred in June, 1823, at the crossing formed by Eaton 
 Street, Grosvenor Place, and the King's Road. The body was brought to the 
 grave wrapped in a piece of matting, but no stake was driven through it. It 
 was afterwards surreptitiously removed and buried in hallowed ground"— 
 Gent. Mag. v. 93, pt. I., p. 642. 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 1 
 
ATFENBIX. 
 
 worsted wt orfraies of red worsted wt garters & scripture^ wt 
 all other thynges thereto belongynge. 
 Itm a vestyment of tawny damaske wt Egles standinge on bookes 
 w^t this Ire M crowned wt a orfray of red velvett of the gift 
 of m^ John Robynson & havinge his armes vppon it wt all 
 other thinges to the same belonginge. 
 Itm a vestymet of blew wt goldon bores & angels wrought on 
 the same of the gift of Thomas awbre wt a orfray of ymages 
 wrought wt coper & gold wt all other thynges to the seide 
 vestyment belongynge. 
 Itm a vestyment of greene velvett & white daioaske wt a orfray 
 ot greene velvett wt a rose of gold in the myddes of the crosse 
 bought in the tyme of m^ Thomas Robertson then beynge 
 alderniaii, 
 Itm a vestyment of white satten of brigges powthered wt flowres 
 A\ t a orfray of blak velvett & greene satten of brigges bought 
 in the tyme of the seide M Thomas Robertson. 
 Itm a vestyment of white satten of brigges wt a crosse of red 
 
 satten of brigges powtherid wt flowres. 
 Itm a vestymet of white satten of brigges wt a crosse of viuiett 
 satten of brigges powtheryd wt flowres whiche is at saynt 
 Mary-house."^ 
 Itm a vestymet of white satten of brigges wt a crosse of greene 
 
 satten of brigges powtheryd wt flowres. 
 Itm a vestymet of violett satten of brigges wt a crosse of green 
 
 satten of brigges powtheryd wt flowres. 
 Itm a vestymet of green satten of brigges wt a red crosse of satten 
 
 of brigges powthered wt flowres. 
 Itm a vestymet of red satten of brigges wt a crosse of {sic) wt a 
 
 crosse of greene satten of brigges powtheryd wt flowres. 
 Itm a vestyment of white velvet wt deacon & subdeacon & all 
 other thynges to the same belonginge bought in the tymo of 
 111" Coplay beynge alderma. 
 Itm a crosse cloth of white sarcynett wt an ^-mage of our ladye 
 w? divers angelle? & pictures. 
 
 * Saint Mary's house yet stands, but in a pitifully modernized condition. 
 The west front preserves much of its original character, and shows that it has 
 once been a Perpendicular building of graceful proportions. The large western 
 window remains unmutilated. It is of five lights, the centre one nearly wholly 
 occupied by a niche, which has doubtless once contained a figure of her to 
 whom the guild was dedicated. This hall passed with the other possessions 
 of the guild, by charter of Philip and Mary, into the possession of the corpo- 
 ration. Prom that time to the year 1835, it was used as a meeting-room for 
 the borough. The town council now assemble there, and it is employed for 
 other public purposes. Thompson's Boston, p. 235. 
 
 APPENDIX. 203 
 
 Itm ix Egles of silke & gold standynge vppon bookes to sett 
 vppon a cope wherof one of the bookes is garneshid wt pies & 
 an other w antes a booke. 
 
 ItiTi vi copes of white damaske all of a makynge wt birdes 
 standynge on bookes of the whiche v of them haue eu^y of the 
 XXI birdes and the vj*^ hath but xiij birdes wt orfrayes of gold 
 & ymages thereon wrought of gold & silke. 
 
 Itm ij white copes of damaske wt flowres & orfraies of red 
 velvett, 
 
 Itm iij copes of blak velvett \\l orfraies of silk and gold wt 
 ymages thereon wrought of the gift of John Cowell & Johan 
 his wife. 
 
 Itm a cope of crymysn velvett wt the orfrary £?omtyme of 
 the best white cope of our lady of the gift of lorde william 
 willughby.^ 
 
 Itm a cope of red wt pecockes of gold wrought in the same. 
 Itm an other cope of red wt svvannes of gold wrouo-ht in the 
 same. ° 
 
 ^^^ U copes of blew wrought wt bores of gold & maydens hedes. 
 Itm iij blak copes of woorsted wt orfraies of red woorsted wt 
 
 garters & scriptures. 
 Itm a hole vestyment for preist deacon & subdeacon of count%tt 
 
 cloth of gold wt gryffyns & dogges wt orfraies checkar wyse. 
 Itni iij orfraies of neilde worke for preist deacon & subdeacon. 
 
 Altar Clothes. 
 
 ff*irst an altar cloth of white damaske wt Egles standynge vppon 
 bookes wt scripture on there hedes wt a frontell of The same 
 therto belong) nge. 
 
 Itm an altar cloth of tawny damask wt Egles stand Mio-e on 
 bookes wt this Ire M crowned of the gift of m^ John Robynson 
 esquyer wt the armes of the said m^ Robynson in the myddes 
 of the altar cloth wt a frontell of the same therto beloiigini^^o 
 havynge the seide armes at eu^y end of the seide frontelir 
 
 Itm an altar cloth of blak damask of the gift of the seid m^ 
 John Robynson wt his armes standing in the myddes thereof 
 wt a frontell thereunto belonging havynge the seid nrmes at 
 eu^y ende of the seide frontell. 
 
 Itiri an altar cloth of blew damaske wt this Ire M crowned wt a 
 frontell of the same thereunto belouirinire. 
 
 Itm an altar cloth of red silke powtheryd wt flowres called boston 
 wt a front(jll of red powtheryd wt pehennes. 
 
 ♦ William Willoughby, viij Baron Willoughby d'Eresby. Died 1525. 
 
 o 2 
 
204 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Itm an altar cloth of blew woorsted wt this Ire M crowned w? a 
 
 frontell of the same. 
 Itm an other altar cloth of bukram of white & red in panes wt 
 
 a frontell of the same. 
 Itiii iij altar clothes of the same for the side altars. 
 
 CURTEYNES. 
 
 Itm a peire of curteynes of white sarcynett steyned wt ij ymao-es 
 
 the one of our lady & the other of gabriell wt birdes stand- 
 
 yno^e on bookes. 
 Itm ij curteynes of blew sarcynett wt this Ire M crowned. 
 Itin ij curteynes of red sarcynett. 
 Itin a care cloth of silke dornex conteynynge in leynth iij yardes 
 
 & a quart^ and in brede one yarde. 
 Itin a sudary of red sarcynett coteynynge in leynth ij yardes di^ 
 
 &■ in brede a quart^ di^. 
 
 Altar Clothes of Lynen. 
 
 Itrn iij new altar clothes bought in the tyme of m^ Thorns Ro- 
 bertson beynge alderman eu^y one of them conteynynge in 
 Jeynthe iiij elles. 
 
 Itm an altar cloth made of shryvynge clothes coteynyno-e in 
 leynth ^ ij yard'^s di. 
 
 Itm an altar cloth coteynynge in leynth iiij elles. 
 
 Itm an altar cloth of diapor coteynynge in leynth iiij elles. 
 
 Itm iij litill altar clothes made of the forseide shryvynge clothes 
 for the litill altars coteynynge eu^ry of them in leynth 
 
 ^ ... ij yardes. 
 
 Itm iij other altar clothes for the same altares of diapor made of 
 
 an old altar cloth somtyme belongynge to the high altar of our 
 
 lady coteynynge eu^y of the in leynthe ^ ij yardes. 
 
 Itm V altar clothes to the seide altares belongynge eu^y one of 
 
 them coteynynge in leynth ij yardes & a quarter. 
 
 Caret iij* 
 
 To WELLES. 
 
 Itm iij new towelles conteynynge in leyngth eu^y one of the ij 
 
 yardes & a quart^ and in brede half a yard. 
 Itm iij other new towelles coteynynge in leynth eu^y one of them 
 
 a yarde & iij quarters & iij brede a quart di^. 
 Itm iij new towelles conteynynge in leynthe eu^y of them ij 
 
 yardes. 
 Caret iiij,* 
 
 * Added in auother hand. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 Sup^R Altaria. 
 
 205 
 
 I 
 
 Itm V sup altares wherof foure of them be closyd in wood & one 
 of them is larger then the other & the vth is wt owte wood. 
 
 Itm iij v^nacles to the iij altares belongynge set in wood, wherof 
 the one of them is larg^ then the other. 
 
 Itm vj small albes for childer wt parres of white bustian 
 
 to the belongynge — Caret ij.* 
 
 Itm XV sirplesis of lynyn cloth for torche berars. 
 
 Caret v.* 
 
 CORPORALIA. 
 
 Itm xiiij corporax clothes good & bad. 
 
 Itin xij caces for the corporaxes wherof the first is of blew velvett 
 of the one side wt wat^ lilies of gold & silu^ wt knottes & scrip- 
 tures of gold, the other side is of greene damaske of the gift 
 of Nicholas Castell esquyer. 
 
 Itm ij*^*' is of red velvett brotherid abowte wt xxxij belles of 
 silu & gilt of the gift of Elizabeth Ayland. 
 
 The iij*^^ is of cloth of gold of blew on the one side & on the 
 other side of blak & greene of the gift of william Brasbrigge 
 m^chaunt of london for the sowle of John Crosby knyght 
 somtyme alderman of the cite of london. 
 
 The iiij*^ is of white damaske wt an egle standynge on a booke 
 wt a scripture above the hed. 
 
 The vth is of greene and red colored velvett on the one side, bro- 
 therid wt flovvres of gold & silu^ & the armes of fraunce & the 
 otherside of blew velvett of the gift of Thomas Cokes of bristow. 
 
 The vjth of blak velvett wt xij flowres of gold & iiij knoppes wt 
 vj pies. 
 
 The vijth is of red velvett on the one side powtherid wt gold 
 checker wise wt v knoppes of silke & a button of gold the 
 other side of blak velvett of the gift of Isabell Gilliett of 
 Lecetr somtyme the wife of Robert Shirwyn. 
 
 The viijth is of damaske gold & blak velvett of the gift of John 
 
 Robynson. 
 The ixth is of white cloth of tissew w? iiij knoppes of gold silke. 
 The xth is of red velvett powtheryd wt a flowre de luce on the 
 
 one side and greene velvett wt a flowre of silk & gold on the 
 
 other side. 
 The xjth is of blak & Red velvett powtherid wt gold of damaske 
 
 & the other side of rawed satten of brigges. 
 The xijth is of greene velvett wt a barre of cloth of gold & the 
 
 other side of Russett velvett. 
 
 ( 
 
 * Added in another hand. 
 
206 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Itm iij cotldian course caces wt iij clothes. 
 
 Itm^iy quartars of a yard of blak sarcnett hangynge before the 
 
 'TnitS:f\retb;L%"pp°'^^'^^'"^^ '^^"^-^ *^^ ^-t- 
 
 ^''T„hvl<.^T'"'f *°-^'*°/', ''^°'^*'' ^^^ ''Itars in the tyme of the 
 kynSrarLl""' ''^ *'' ^^ "' ''-^ P-'P^^ =*™- ^ « -^ ^he 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 hundredth vP«;f>.-* ^^'"r ^^^^^^^^s^^ed, it was intended to hold it every 
 
 such as may nowfe seen at tL Vnt f'^^^^Tu. ^'?'^' ^'"^'^ ^^^^ ^^^es 
 the purpose of raLn' ^hf offerifr^ f A^^r tables in gaming-houses, for 
 cap., ^xxji in MuSi/lf ^^^^^^^^ ^^^nse. 
 
 Clement YIllsTp1?r^^ ^'^^<^ celebrated in 1525 by 
 
 followinV-'coT^^l^^^^^^^^^ '^^:;^S^^ii^ ^^^3' P- ^^' ^- '^^^^^ the 
 
 Boniface VIII ' ,„^^ 
 
 Clement VI. . J^^^ 
 
 Urban VI. . ^^^^ 
 
 Nicholas V. -^2^0 
 
 Paul II. . .' * 1450 
 
 Alexander VI. .' l^H 
 
 Clement VII. . Jf^? 
 
 Julius III. 1525 
 
 Gregory XIII.' ::::;; ]iii 
 
 Clement VIII ^^'^ 
 
 Urban VIII. '. 1^00 
 
 Innocent X. J^^^ 
 
 Clement X. l^^O 
 
 Innocent XIL* *. \^li 
 
 Benedict XIII 1'^^ 
 
 Benedict XIV 1^25 
 
 Pius VI. 1750 
 
 Leo XII. 1776 
 
 18?6 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ' 
 
 207 
 
 Itm an olde crosse cloth of sarcynett w? the ymage of owr lady 
 
 theron steyned. 
 Itm a steyned bannar cloth of lynyn cloth wt the yraao-e of owr 
 
 lady & certeyn ymages of men & women knelyng before her. 
 Itm a steyad streamar of lynyn cloth. 
 Itin dyverce other paynted clothes wt stories' & bataiPes hang- 
 
 ynge aboute the queyr of our lady. 
 Itm a mantell for our lady of cloth of tysseu p^fild aboute wt 
 
 powther armyn of the gift of maistres thorneborow. 
 Itm an other mantell of red & p^ple velvett wt the armes of eng- 
 
 land thereon of the gift of Thomas Beynold al^ Clarenci^ 
 
 bayly of this towne.^ 
 Itm a torche hed of wood gilte vvt gold burnyd wt a shaft for 
 
 the same paynted wt yalow of the gift of Robert Bellgreve of 
 
 London. 
 Itm an other torche hed of wood gilte wt sett gold w? a shaft 
 
 for the same paynted wt yalaw. 
 Itm a principall herse cloth of red tyssew wt valance of blew 
 
 velvett brotheryd wt venys gold and y mages of the resurrexion 
 
 frynged wt silke & lyned wt blew bukram. 
 Itm an other herscloth of cloth of bawdkyn wt ymages of the 
 
 assumpcion of our lady wt lile pottes wt valance of blak 
 
 woorsted. 
 Itm a herse cloth of blak woorsted wt a crosse of white ffustian 
 
 wt this Ire M crowned at the iiij corners. 
 Itm one cover of wood for a masar wt a knopp of silu^ & gilte. 
 Itm a pomaunder enclosyd wt nedillworke & a strynge to 
 
 hynge by. 
 Itm a new cusshion of fustian in naples wt knoppes of blak silke. 
 
 * Thomas Benolte, who is said to have been a foreigner, married Mary, 
 daughter of Laurence Richards, alias Permour, of Minster Lovel, in Oxford- 
 shire, the ancestor of the Earls of Pontefract, by whom he had two coheiresses 
 —Eleanor, who married .... Jones of Caerlion, co. Monmouth, and Anne, 
 who married, 1st, Sir John Ratcliffe, and 2nd, Richard Buckland, by whom 
 she had several children. He lies buried in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, 
 London, where " is or lately was,'* according to Maitland, a gravestone, bear- 
 ing his effigy and that of his two wives, with this inscription : — 
 
 " Here uuderlieth the Bodi of Thomas Benolte, Squyer, sometyrae Servant 
 and Offycer of Armes, by the name of Windsore Herault, unto the right high 
 and mighty Prince of ... . most drade Souerayne Lord Kyn» Henry the viij ; 
 which Thomas Benolt, otherwise namyd Clareuceux Kyng of Armes, decesid 
 the viij dave of May, in the Yere of our Lord God mv*=xxxiuj, in the xivj yere 
 of our saici Soueraye Lord." 
 
 His arms were — Argent, a Chevron invecked, Sable, between three Torteaux ; 
 on a Chief Azure, a Lion passant guardant. — Mark Noble, Hist. Coll. of Arms y 
 p. 111-115. Maitland's Hist. London, 1756, v. ii. p. 1107. 
 
 ^1 
 
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* h 
 
 208 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 ^^ v.rlf ^^'' t*\^ ^'^ ^PP^" *^^ ^^^^^^ "^ «^e vestre of iij 
 yardes di^ in ley nth. '^ 
 
 Itm a great flat candelstik gevyn by m^ Williamson, 
 itm a great standynge presse. 
 Itm a frame for copes. 
 Itm a chist bound wt yron. 
 
 '^^fvidence^*^''^^ awmery wt dyvers boxes to shote in & owte wt 
 
 Itm a chist carvid wt xij apostelles. 
 
 Itm a spruce chist. 
 
 Itm ij awmbreis wtyn the vestry (lore. 
 
 Tf ~ ' ; ;r ^^^"^y^ge fiat awmbreis like chistes. 
 
 Itm a table a herse, boord & ij peire of trestilles. 
 
 cnrtPvnl f ^^' '^''"''^ ^"^'^'"^ ^^' ^^^^^ ^^^^^ i^ ^^«ton & ij 
 ciirteynes lor the same. ^ 
 
 Itm a crosse staff for feriall dales wt a sokett of latten. 
 
 1 m a fote of wood gilte for the crosse to stand vpnon. 
 
 ■Itm IJ paire of orgaynys. ' 
 
 Itm a longe small chist standyg by saynt an qaevr. 
 
 Itm a onge clust of ffurre standynge at the hlh cieyr dore 
 
 Itm ,j ladders a long^ & a shorter." ° ^ ^ "''"'• 
 
 i'™ 'J P'.' 0"'s to stand vpon the altares. 
 
 Itffi ^ r^Li: ' f ■■>"1 T'^^y" ^h'"8«^ supposid to be relikes. 
 ether end! ' °^°°' "" ^ ^"''^ ''' ''^ ^'^°''^e "^ 
 
 Itm a too of a chalos of silu^ and gilte 
 
 Itm a htell pece of a crosse of sylu^ 
 
 delL**"" *^'"^''i"J P'^'^f °^ y'"'' ^°' tJie I'^torne to sett can- 
 delles vpon in the wynt^ season. 
 
 Say.nt Mary House. 
 
 THE CHAPELL. 
 
 ''in reySifyatesIr^^ ^" ^'^ '"""^ ^^ ''' ^°- ^^^'^y^y^^^ 
 
 'th:"sat;?rfry:;'g^^of1i,t" '' ""--''y^ - ^ ^-^^" <>f 
 
 ^'ya'desd?" "^"'^ "^^'''^■"'^ '^''^ conteynynge in leynth ij 
 'trelt;it?' '^•''l— tO-nynge in leynth ij yards & in 
 Itm a vestymet of blew worsted « t this Ire M crownyd. 
 
 l^&7::in,Ton! ''''' ^vt the masse of sayu't botnlphe 
 Itm a candilstik of latten wl one flowre. 
 Itm IJ platers of pewter. 
 
 ■ 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 209 
 
 Itm a pax. 
 
 Itm a litiil bell of brasse. 
 
 Itm a spruce chist wt a lok & a key 
 
 Itm an y mage of our lady of wood standynge in a tabernacle 
 
 Itm a htiU ymage of our lady of alablaster." ^^^^''^^cle. 
 
 Itm a pjiynted cloth of beyond see werk 
 
 I l^Ts! '" ^"^ "'' ^^'" '^^'' "^ ^^^^^ conteynyng in leynth 
 
 The Buttre. 
 
 Itm ij table clothes renewyd in the tyme of m^ Tomlvnsou 
 a derman whereof one is x yardes scant. The ijde ix yS 
 
 tie ;jt Ja^'ef '' ''^ '"^''' "" ''"'''' ''' ^''^ ^^'^ ^'j >-J- 
 Itih V table clothes conteynynge in leynth en^ one of them 
 
 V yardes di^ & m brede j yarde mark/d wt this letter M. 
 Itm ij shorte table c othes conteynynge in leynthe iiij yardes & a 
 
 quart^ and ,n brede j yarde lackyn|e a litiil. ^^ 
 
 Itm a tab e cloth coteynynge in leynth v yardes di^. 
 itm a table cloth conteynynge in leynth v yardes d^ & in brede 
 
 a yarde. 
 
 Itm a table cloth conteynynge in leynth ix yardes iij quarters 
 & in brede a yarde. 
 
 Itm a table cloth conteynynge in leynth v yardes iij quarters 
 
 & 111 brede a yarde & di^ quart^. 
 Itm iij table clothes coteynynge in leynth eu^y one of them 
 
 V yardes di & m brede a yarde somewhat lackvnge. 
 Itm ij towelles coteynynge in leynth eu^y one of the'v yardes di^ 
 
 and in brede half a yarde scant. 
 Itiii a towell of Diapor conteynynge in leynth a yard & di^ & 
 
 lu brede half a yarde. 
 Itm^ix table napkins of playne cloth conteynynge in leynth 
 
 eu y one of the a yarde lackynge the half naile & in brede 
 
 halt a yard scant. 
 
 The Over Kechyn. 
 
 BEGIxXNYNGE ON THE NORTH SIDE. 
 
 ffirst the grcattist pott of Brasse conteynyno-e in weio-ht cli 
 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge ate xxxv li^' 
 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge ^^jj^ Ip 
 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge ^lix li^* 
 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge j^,^ i'^ ^^ 
 
 the gitt of William Angell. 
 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge i^ ks 
 
 
 I i 
 
210 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge 
 Itm a brasse pott weynSe 
 I m a brasse pott weynie 
 itm a brasse pott weynge 
 itm a brasse pott weynge 
 Itm a brasse pott weynge 
 Itm a littill ketil] weynte 
 Itm a great pan weynge" 
 
 «m a litill posnett weynsje 
 
 ^tm a great pan wt eris weynge 
 
 -Itm an other erpnf ,^o^ -•^. &^ 
 
 Itm a Ifttil paf wX "' '•> ^^^^ "^^"8'' 
 
 Itm an other litillpa,r weynge 
 
 Ixix li^. 
 xxxvij Jp. 
 
 xlvj JP. 
 xxiiij ti^ 
 
 xvj Yi'>. 
 
 iiij ti^ 
 
 xix ti^. 
 
 viij ti^. 
 iiij tP. 
 
 xliij li^. 
 
 vij li^. 
 
 vJP. 
 
 Itm a 
 Itm a 
 Itm a 
 Itm a 
 Itm a 
 Itm a 
 Itm a 
 Itiii a 
 Itm a 
 Itiii a 
 
 ir;:.fz:,r""" °™ - ''™- 
 
 brasse pott wejnge 
 brasse pott wejnge 
 brasse pott weynge 
 brasse pott weynge 
 brasse pott weynge 
 brasse pott weynge 
 brasse pott weynge 
 brasse pott weynge 
 brasse pott weyn|e 
 brasse pott weynge 
 
 ige 
 
 Tf- ... , PEWTER AND LaTTE\ 
 
 Jtm uj chargers of pewter weynge 
 Jtm XV platters weynge ^^ 
 I m IX platters weynge 
 Itm xxxiij disshes weynce 
 
 Itm xvK.^ ofl°T"*'^ ^«^°&« 
 Tf~ •••^1 ^^ pewter we vno«e 
 
 Sf"^- -« PWs & . saweers of lay n:eta]I 
 Itm nj disshes weynge 
 Itm SiS'r^'^?^"^^*^" weynge 
 
 J platers &y,d.sshes of ]ayltailweyn-.c 
 
 XXX li^, 
 
 xliij li^ 
 
 xxxii li^. 
 
 xxxiij li^. 
 
 XXV IP. 
 
 XXV ]p. 
 xxvij IP. 
 xxvij IP. 
 xxiiij li^. 
 
 xxj IP. 
 
 -^vj Ii^ 
 
 lij li^ 
 xxvj \i^, 
 
 Ivij li^. 
 
 xxj ti^. 
 
 xviij ti^ 
 
 xvli dp. 
 
 xxiij IP. 
 
 new bought 
 
 iij ti. 
 
 iiij ri\ 
 di c ti^. 
 
 di c li^ 
 
 y tP. 
 
 211 
 Ixti. 
 
 vlP. 
 
 vj ti^ 
 
 vli. 
 
 1"J tP. 
 
 "^'^i tP. 
 
 vij IP. 
 
 vli. 
 • • • < . 
 
 iij li. 
 
 ij ti. 
 
 xiiij ti. 
 
 vli. 
 
 lllj ll. 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 Atm an other baspn nf lo+f^ ~ '^; '^^J"&^ 
 Itm a holow btrc^SXnl"'^ ^"^"»^ 
 
 Itm a sauarVCr:v,:rn;tutre:S:^iv^^^^^^^ 
 
 Itm iij longe pe^t:!' pltteVwe^te" "" ""^"^ "^^"»"^ 
 itm a charger weyn<re " 
 
 Itm a basen of pewter weynge 
 Itm UJ small candelstickes of lattea 
 Itm a salte of latten. 
 Itin a gill pott. 
 
 Itm a chafynge disshe of latten wtowte erU 
 
 ^^C^^^^' y- -^^^^ leynth eu^ 
 S^ --^r' •?'*''■•' of eobbardes of yron 
 
 wevs dT^ cih^-T J ^eightes of ledd wherof the 
 
 Itm a peire of tonges. 
 Itm nj furgons of yron. 
 
 Itm X holies. 
 
 Itm a litill table wt ij trestilles. 
 
 Itm xij dosen trenchars. 
 
 The Hawle. 
 
 Itm one throwen eheiar. 
 
 Itm a litill spruce chist to ley table clothes in. 
 
 V one of 
 
 biggest 
 the iijd 
 
212 
 
 ^I'PJENDIX. 
 
 ItiR vij tables on the r,Lh„ T '"' °^°'^''' ^ ^ °f ff""e. 
 
 whereof v, of tht b wV^L^lfe^lt*'' '^^ *^t*'"- 
 Itm VIJ formes on the «m<. !• i [ , f "^""^^ '•"'l esshe. 
 the other of esshe '"'" whereof iy of the be of oke & 
 
 *ie.o'ig;fJe" " ''^^ ^^^^^" ^t-br wt trestilles to them 
 Itm lij formes in the same chapell. 
 
 The Lower Kechyn. 
 Itmiylongbroehesofyron. 
 
 itmapaireofcobbardesofyron 
 Itm a great vessell of leidd. ' 
 ltmape,reofga]o^vsofyron. 
 
 itm a playne avvmbrey. 
 itm vuj tubbis. 
 Itm a sowe. 
 
 ''wlLteltttel:^^^^ T^ V. *-«"- therto belon.ynoe 
 
 Itm xi,j ale tubS. ^""''^ ^" ^'^^'^''^ ^ -gardes d,^ & in bred af ard 
 Itm XX ale pottes. 
 
 itS :n oS ::^bt;'^°»"^ - ^^^ ^^'^ ^o-. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Documents relating to twp r^^x- 
 
 IN LiNCOENSHiL, TEMP E W vf '?t>7 *^''™''« ^OODS ' 
 
 E«h- Q. R. Sh: 3 parcel 33' ^ ^^"^' ^^'^^^'^ O^^e, 
 
 LiNcoLN._CostesandexDence<)nf+l,. . _ 
 
 « , , Holland for the sa e of n '"T''"''^' '"^ ^^' ^^^ °f 
 
 ffirst for the charffis of th« ! of Church goodes. . 
 
 Sytting in thf Count'e bv "iT'"" ' ^ 'l"'" ^""*« ^^'^J'^g & 
 a daye" ''°"°''" ''3^ the space of x days xviys itjd. 
 
 Srn t rsrfe? ^- *^« -'^-<- of thits '1^' J- 
 
 & ou. charges C ''"°^'°- ^^ ''f ^^^ ^oney and plate 
 
 for the hole »ijli vjs viijd. 
 
 The costes & exnenoe. nf tv,^'"' ''^^ "'"J^' 
 for thA PK , P^^'l^s of the comission^s 
 
 &^s liying at boston i,j days xvjs a daye xlviijs. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 Itiii for the bring vs of the money 
 
 S 
 
 m 
 
 213 
 
 xls. 
 
 lllj II VllJS. 
 
 The CERTIFICAT OF p^ATE JeWELLS BELLES &C. IN LYINCOLSHIRE 
 
 x"'^ Ap^Lis 1549. 
 
 Plesyth yt yower grace wyth the Rest of the Kynges maiestye 
 most horable councell to be aduertyssed that accordyng to yower 
 letter to vs addressyd wee haue taken parfyt and trewe Invyt6res 
 of all chalyces Jewelles playtes and belles wythin evyre churche and 
 chappell in the countye of lyncoln, excepte the wappentak of 
 kirkton in holland, wyche was allottyd to Thomas holland^ Blayse 
 holland and John Bollesf esquyers of whose pcedyngs hythert^ 
 wee haue not hard. The nombre of wyche chalyces arre vj° 
 Ixxxviijth Crosses viij pyxes xxvij paxes v Crewettes ij Crysma- 
 tores viij Sensers vj kandylstyckes ij Baysens j bolle and a dyshe 
 of Sylver. Greate Belles m^ vii*^ liij Sanctus belles iiij° Ixxv after 
 the computacyon of v^^ to the hundreth, as it doythe appere 
 more playnely and p^tyculerly in the sayd sevyrall Invytories 
 delyverd to the sevyrall custos Rotulor^ wythin the sayd countye 
 thereto be Safely kepte to the knynges maiestye plesare and 
 yowere be therein further knowne, and lykewyse delyverd to the 
 wardens parson or curate of evyre paryshe churche the counter 
 payne of the sayde Sevyrall Invytores, wyth lyke charge as was 
 
 * Thomas Holland, of Swinestead, sou and heir of Sir Thomas Holland, 
 
 Knight, by his wife daughter of ... . Suttou, of Burton. ^Thomas 
 
 Holland was twice wedded : — 1, to Jane, daughter of William Harvy, of 
 Evedon. 2, to Jane, daughter of Henry Smith, of Walpole. He had issue 
 by each of his spouses. — MS. Queen's Coll. Oxford, F. '^^l^f. 17 b. 
 
 f John Bolle was the eldest son of Richard Bolle, of Gosberton and Haugh, 
 the representative of the old family of Bolle or Bolles, of Swinestead, by his 
 wife Marian, daughter and heiress of John Fitzwilliam, of Mablethorpe. He 
 married Katherine, daughter and heiress of Sir William Tyrwhitt, of Kettilby, 
 Knight and Banneret (Ob. 9 Apr. 1522), but died issueless. His younger 
 brother, Richard Bolle, whose name occurs hereafter, married thrice : — 
 
 I. Jane, daughter of Sir William Skipwith, of Ormesby. II 
 
 daughter of .... Riseley. HI. ...... daughter of Button. 
 
 Sir John Bolle, Knight, grandson of this Richard, signalized himself for his 
 bravery and activity in the Irish wars, and in the expedition against Cadiz, in 
 1596. When in Spain his gallant bearing is said to have captivated the heart 
 of a noble lady whom the fortune of war made his prisoner. He could not, 
 however, respond to her ardent passion, as he was already bound to another by 
 double tie of wedlock and love. The lady, therefore — so runs the tale — re- 
 tired to a convent, but ere she did so presented Lady Bolle with many rich 
 jewels and valuable hangings of tapestry wrought by her own hands. Whether 
 the legend be historical or not, many readers of the beautiful ballad of ** The 
 Spanish Lady's Love," of which some say it is the source, will be glad to 
 believe it. — Illingsworth's Scamptorif p. 52 ; Percy's ReliqueSj 1794-, v. ii. 
 p. 234. 
 
 ^.^. _ — ■ X . 
 
214 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 to the tuvscyon of the Lpr K, ^ j °'* honorable councell 
 
 ^' day of ajrvll 1549 v/Iff ^°''' '"^"*^" '"^ l>'"<=oln t^e 
 sytvfvcate th?5L;i!l ■ I- ""'Vver and besydes this ower 
 
 eVu/er of Kclo'n'r^T^^i^d^^tie'aiT'r "^ ^^'='"^1 ^-^''^^^ 
 churchegoodesoflSirfll V^ '^''^ vncys of plate of 
 Intent to purchasle rtf^ i'''^,'^ couutye of lyncoln to the 
 
 Bylyfe of th^e pore peop e a^TothTr n': '' ^' ^"P'°>"'^ ''^^ ^''^ 
 apperythe in the Invento.ve of th» '^"? '^ "^^^ P'^'^'^^'j^ 
 custody of the custos Rotulor' . '""' *""'"^ ^^'"'^ '» *'>« 
 
 Thomas hennege* Job„ henneget 
 
 John copledykell Richard OHe 
 
 Richard bollys^ ^illffi Thorold 
 
 George Sayntpoll ^''^''''^ P''^'^^"'^ 
 
 ivillm metemly. 
 
 '"'^^^^^^Z^t^^H::^ tr ^-e and other 
 ^ ^"'^ '"'^^'^ houor ablepryvey counsale. 
 
 wa:th^PpreTntSiveTaltii;?Lttad'b.7' -^^Iri^^lf^^- ^^ Hainton, 
 time of Henry III. He marrT/r^fL • a f "''^'^ «' Hainton from the 
 Knt., of Utteriy, bvwhom he had ™e InT' t"^''i"' °f ^'^ J"'"' Skip^itb! 
 
 ton The^iptionoS-h^i^^Ltir-i^^^^^^^ 
 
 ccleit ?rr&^^t;;tf '^S°2n^ t'^ -^f"'^" ^-' "-g'-'erand 
 1587, and was buried with'^Hs kin at Son ^„f '''"''''°"- ^e died a.d. 
 h.s direct descendant. Arms Or f ^1^?^?, '^ ^'"' P'"'="' ^^'- H'^'^e^ge is 
 leo|,«ds- heads, azure, a bordl j;;gSti:s' """"^^ ^''"'' ''"''««" ^l-f^e 
 
 re4SeVrSS C„tfe!ff ^^ ^ "^ ^^^' ^'-^''t- ^l-e 
 nectedwith the count? o! lSu for nnlf/^T!"'' ^^° ^^^ been con- 
 
 dagKinr^f S^^^^ a^^^^-^^"^'^^^^ --^ed Mar^re, 
 
 dagfe^'.?''^^^^^^^^^^ to wife Elizabeth. 
 
 MS. Queen's Coll. Ox/. F. 22 f j^^^^^^^^^' ^^^ bore liim numerous issue — 
 
 tbal ^\^r%:L^^^^l^ ^f^%^^ Jo"-' Payneli. of 
 Wjmondham. Richard Pajnell married I Ik l^j ^?""<=^ Berlcelej, of 
 Sir Richard Bozun, Knight.^ iim3^Guli'f^''''^u' ^^''^^^^ «"J beires of 
 
 » 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 215 
 
 [1552] 
 Boston in 
 the Counti 
 of Lincoln 
 
 Petitions of the mayer and Burgesses of tlie Tovvne 
 of Boston and Robartbryane John Ro why nson"^ and 
 Robarte Dytton churchwardens of the church there 
 in the sixt yere of the reigne of or sofferaigne Lorde 
 
 recorded. The accompanying table from the Herald's Visitation of 1564. 
 {Harl. MS. 1550, f. 13 b) embodies their genealogy during the 16th century : 
 
 John Tumey ; 
 
 I 
 
 William Tumey of Csvenbie in com. Linc.^Elizabeth, d. of 
 
 Hamon Sutton 
 of Washingburgh 
 in com. Line, 
 
 Sisley, d. of Sr. 
 George, Talboyes, 
 sister to the Lady 
 Dymoke, Ist wife. 
 [She was] relict 
 fof] Wm. Ingleby. 
 Aunt and coheiress 
 of George Lord 
 Talboys. 
 
 = John Tumey := Jane, d. of William. 
 ofCavenbie. I ... St. Paul. 
 
 Christopher. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 "I 
 
 Anthony Tumey of Cavenbie = Mary, d. of Eic. Bolls of 
 
 I Haugh in com. Line. 
 
 John Tumey ofCavenbie: 
 
 Dorothye, d. 
 of John Vava- 
 sor of Coven- 
 thorpe in 
 com. York. 
 
 William Tristram. 
 
 Catheryn, 
 ui. Silves- 
 ter Bou- 
 rough of 
 Kir ton in 
 Lindsey, 
 
 I 
 
 Margaret. 
 
 Isabell. 
 
 Uonore. 
 
 I 
 
 Anne. Margarett. Catheryn. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms — Argent, a chevron between three bulls sable attired or. 
 
 The Tourneys were loyal during the great Civil War, and suffered much in 
 the cause of their sovereign. Edward Tourney, of Cainby, was one of the 
 Lincolnshire gentlemen who, at the beginning of the troubles, subscribed 
 horses for the king's use {Soc. Ant. Broadsides, 1642). He was fined for his 
 " delinquency" the large sum of 409/. (Dring's Compounders.) 
 
 The Tourneys buried their dead in their own chantry on the north side of 
 Glentham church, some of them also lie in choir adjoining. The monuments 
 that once recorded their names have many of them perislied. The following 
 are notes of all that remain : — 
 
 In the chantry, a brass-plate representing a small half-length female figure, 
 the engraving on which is quite effaced. Inscription on a brass hand 
 below : — 
 
 "Hie jacet Elizabeth Toumay quondam s'c'da vxor Johis Toumay armigeri 
 et filia Joh'is Andrewle Armigeri que obiit xx*' die me'sis Nouembris A'o d'ni 
 MCCCCLIJ cuj's a'i'e p'piciet' deus Amen." 
 
 There are two places for shields above the head of the figure, but the brasses 
 are gone. The inscription runs great risk of being lost, as it is only attached 
 to the stone by a single rivet. 
 
 On a brass plate on the north wall of the north aisle — 
 
 •*Hic sunt ossa Annse Tourney vidvse (Nup' vx'is Joh'is Tourney Armi- 
 geri defuncti) tempore vitse suae servitio dei diligentis, indigentib' chara- 
 tivse administricis libero' educac'one p'sedulw viduam vixit triginta quinq' 
 
216 
 
 ^PPJEKDIX. 
 
 Edward the «?ivf Krr *i, 
 
 the suprnie Hede of and for n f °^^''''°"''-" e-'tbe 
 «Stes of the said chmche d J'*'" ?'?'' ''"^ '^'^^■ 
 V Richard Oo-let esnn 1 T •'^r'''''^'^ ^^^ Indenture 
 
 comissioners untl Te hanl "a 'T *''^'''"»'' -"*'- 
 said churchwardens & hv?K "^ C'stodye of the 
 
 the said Towne .^SySe ^nrr"" ?'? ^"«-^-« of 
 the kynges maiestif aCs a„dTh"' '" ""'' ^PP"" 
 nate charges by them sltelS ; .T^' ''"P°''*"- 
 ot the ehurche Brydo-e a Jl " i ^' *'"' reparacion 
 ffi , , Preservacion of the ,^rl + "'^"»''ffes ther, for the 
 
 ffirst expendyde in and aboute th. R °' ^^ ®''"it''- 
 
 of the church witlx Ct f^J'^^'^^'Tr °^ ^he north side 
 
 -o«ptesofEobrt.arde%rdSrTlchuilrr ''^ *''« 
 t sve the t.ng vnder the forde :XX:tZ 
 
 Their estates are now . "''''^* ^^ ^^^^bj, 
 
 ' oXoJ^r^^ I^^^^^^^^^^ '' ''' ''-'- ---- ---. or BeC 
 
 John Eobinsonw«aTde™/'\'!r''°f Boston "''"= '"■""" ''"'^^ ""<' 
 jears 1520, 1521 ]522 t, ° "'^ ^"''d of s" Mar. • -d 
 ^ t Richari Ogle 3on7n3 ?"P'T'' ^''''<»». PP 139 1^7 '" ^°'*°°' ''o'' the 
 house of the Bafon ol "°k'' u ?"^ °f K'cbard O^le •' del/'j . . 
 
 countj to assist in quelling 
 
 •f 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 217 
 
 tyme of the Comocon^ ther and for gunne powder and othor 
 
 municions for the warre 1550 xU^ 
 
 Itm for ye repairacon of ye brydge Ao 1546 xij". 
 
 Itm for mendyng the ehurche stathe or wharfe xx^^ x^. 
 
 Itm for mendyng and repayring the Brydge by John Tupholrne 
 
 maier ao 1547 xiiij^^ 
 
 Itm expendyde in and aboute the cou^yng and newe layino- the 
 
 steple with leade by John Bucton and other churchwardens 
 
 li 
 
 yt yere 
 
 Itm expencis in and aboute the repayring and amending of the 
 grownde worke of ye ehurche and of certen wydowes of the 
 Same and ye walles by Goodlak Chapma^ and other church - 
 
 xiii.i 
 xiiji 
 
 xj^^ xviij^ 
 
 wardens ao 1549. 
 Itm for reparacon of the brydge ye same yere^ 
 Itm for mendyng ye ehurche stathe or wharfFe 
 Itm for mendyng of the South side of the ehurche and leade 
 
 for the same by xpofer Walker and other churchwardens 
 
 ao 1550 xiij" viij*^. 
 
 Itm for making and amending of ye brydge yt yere ix** xvj*. 
 Itm for mending and repairing of the ehurche stathe or wharlie 
 
 yt same yere 
 
 Suma total^ 
 
 vnj^^ xix^ x'^. 
 
 clxxxxij^' xiij*« 
 
 Robert dobe meyr. 
 John Tupholme.f 
 Nycolys Sorsby. 
 Laureue palm, 
 henry head. 
 Thomas Suthen. 
 Robert Brian, 
 by me Willam Kyd. 
 John Parowe. 
 harye ffox. 
 
 the insurgents. A letter from Thomas Hussey to Sir William Cecil (quoted in 
 Mr. Russell's History of Kelt's Rebellion, \). 120, from State Papers, Domestic, 
 Edw. VI., V. viii. 45 a) says, " I think he shall be able to cary with hime well 
 armed footmen out of Lincoln-shyre xj hundreth men.'* It would seem that 
 each parish in the shire contributed its quota. KirtoninLindsey supplied 
 seven men to this suddenly raised force. — Chwdns. Account, MS., p. 11. 
 
 * In 1546 Queen Mary endowed the Corporation of Boston Mith certain 
 lands, late the property of the Guilds of St. Mary, St. Peter, and St. Paul, in 
 order that they might the better support the bridge and port of Boston. — 
 Thompson's Hist. Boston, 66. 
 
 t John Tupholme's goods were valued at 100/. for the subsidy of 1547. — 
 Thompson's Boston^ 65. 
 
218 
 
 AVPHNDIX. 
 
 [20 Aug. 1552] The Certificate of the lacke of sondere 
 bom imcoln. ^^^u^g of vestfhtes Copes and other ornamts 
 
 The Certificat upon of the late Guildes of the towne of boston 
 tue com"^ission datide • xi^ -i l '^x, t xi. t 
 
 a° 51 vi« E vj ''"^ ^''^^^ coimte wch were In the In- 
 
 ventory made by John Luad then com^is- 
 sare to the bysshope of Lincohi wth the 
 goodes of the church of the said Towne of 
 Boston and deliverede to the church e 
 wardens of the said Towne by Indenture 
 and after upon the veiue and Inventore of 
 the said goodes taken before Richard Og-le 
 Esquier and other comissioners in that 
 behalfe in the iij*^ yere of the Reingne of 
 o sou^aingne lorde the kinges mageste 
 that nowe is beinge wythdrawen, 
 Goodes solde bye tbe Imprimis tooe copes of Redd Tyshewe vi» 
 
 rCon ^*"^ ^^^^ ^^P^« ^f cremesyne braunshid 
 
 _ ' veluett pyckide wth golde iiij". 
 
 Itm tooe olde whyte daraaske Copes with Egles of the same xl^. 
 Itm tooe copes of Blewe veluet wth fflowers of gold xK 
 
 Itm tooe Copes of blewe Tysshewe viij^^ 
 
 Itm a vestment decon & subdecon of blewe veluett and fflowers 
 of gold xP. 
 
 Itm tooe copes of Blewe veluett xl^. 
 
 Itm tooe copes of Tawney veluett wth aungelles of theime xl^ 
 Itm iij Copes of grene Tysshewe vj^^ 
 
 Itm tooe copes of Redd veluett . xP. 
 
 Itm iij Copes of veluett a blewe a Tawney and a grene iiji*. 
 
 Itm a sute of Redd damaske wth Chalices & fflowers of yett 
 
 xxvj^. viii<^. 
 Itm a sute of whyte damaske with Eagles and Lylle pottes iiij". 
 Itm iij crosse clothes x^ 
 
 Sum xliiij^^ v^ viij^. 
 Com'; infra The certificate of such pcelles of goodes 
 
 script . pjj^^Q Jewelles & vestmentes and other 
 
 ornamentes w*^in the pishe Churche of 
 boston in the Inventorie taken before the 
 w^'^in namyde Richard Ogle Esquier and 
 other the kinges matie comissioners in 
 the said iijd yere of his highnes Reingne 
 and deliuered by Inventory Indentide to 
 Christofer hyckes Guthlacke Chapman and 
 Thorns marre Church wardens of the said 
 Churche of Boston and nowe Lackinge at 
 thes pnte xxte daye of August in the%jth 
 
 A PPMNDIX. 
 
 219 
 
 xx^. 
 
 xxvi'' viij<*. 
 
 yere of the Reingn of or souaingne lord 
 Edward the vjth by the grace of god of 
 England flTrance and Irelande kinge de- 
 fender of the faithe and in earthe of the 
 Churche of England and Ireland suppme 
 
 towne of Boston. ^ 1^^^^ ^^^ ^"^ decon & nij or copes liij« iiij^. 
 
 Itm a sute of Grene veluet preest decon & 
 subdecon & tooe copes. v^' 
 
 Itm a sute of Redde veluett Imbrotheride wth gold & flowers of 
 grene veluett preest decon and subdecon & iiijo^ copes to the 
 same tooe of theime of Red Tys.^hewe and thother tooe of 
 blake Tysshewe -u 
 
 Itm a hanginge for the altar of Redd veluett Imbrotherede'wtli 
 gold and fflowerde veluett grene and tooe copes of the same v'f 
 
 Itm a hanginge of grene veluett Imbrothered wth p-oMq for the 
 alter 
 
 Itm a Sepulchre wth the appurt^ 
 
 Itm tooe white damaske Copes wth garters of theime xni" iiii 
 
 Itm IX coporaxe Cases wth tlie Clothes tooe holly water stockes 
 
 of Latten ij Chaires and Certen books wch was after burnid bv 
 
 the comandment of the ordinare xx« 
 
 Itm ij olde copes of Redd veluett wth fflowers xxx''* 
 
 Itm a hanginge for thalter of Redd veluett Imbrotheride wth 
 
 gold and ffloweride veluett grene and tooe copes of the same vj". 
 Itm a hanginge for thalter of white damaske viij«.' 
 
 Item tooe crosse clothes ^s* 
 
 Itm tooe blew Curtens for the alter end 
 Itm iiij buttall Clothes 
 
 Sufn xxxvj^^ xvij''. 
 Plate Lackinge and solde by the mayer and buriesses of boston. 
 Imprimis a lyttell pyxe gylte x ounces. 
 Itm a Lyttell chresmetore white 1 ounce. 
 Itm too syluer candellstickes pshall gyllte iiij^'^ ounces. 
 Itm a crosse of siluer gylte Ixxiiij ounces. 
 Itm a paxe pshall gyllte v ounces iij qters. 
 Itm a basen and a verge pshall gyllte xxxvj ounce. 
 Itm a Tablet and a peese of a Tabernacle syluer and o-yllte 
 
 vj ounces. *^ 
 
 Itni a Sylver belle xviij ounces. 
 Itm a paire of Sencers of sylver xxviij ounces. 
 Itm an Assett of Syluer xx ounces. 
 Itm a Gospell booke wth the couer of wood pcell of the same 
 
 couer being of Syluer altogether beinge weyede as appearethe 
 
 p 2 
 
 • • • • a 
 
220 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 by the Inventorie taken by the said John Lund and by the 
 sayd Richard Ogle Esquier & other Comissioners vnto xlij 
 ounces the Syluer beinge deuydide ffrome the wood the said 
 siluer conteininc^e but viij ounces as it is testefyed before vs 
 by the othes of the said church wardens, viij ounces. 
 The noumber of all the ounces cclxxxvj & iij q^ terns. 
 Itm a Crysmetorie of siluer gylde xxxij ounces more then the 
 pcell aboue wrytten whereof cryllte plate Ixxxx ounces at 
 111/ viijd the ounce sm xxxvij" x^ pshall gyllt and whyte at 
 liij^ the ounce clxxxxvj & iij qterns. 
 The cause of the Raisinge Suma xxxix" vij^ 
 of this booke in the somes Sum of the plate Ixvij^^ xvj^ iiijd 
 
 [:re'°o'f xxxii tnc^rr; ^"* *°'^"^ °f thoruamentes & pkte dxlixH. 
 lackinge and gone and at -Kobert dobe mayre 
 
 the writinge thereof then George Seyntpoll"^ 
 
 to vs unknown. 
 
 by me John Tupholme p Ricum Ogle 
 
 p me Thomas Brown. 
 
 The Inventory of all ye goodes luell plate and orna- 
 mentes pteynmg to ye pishe churche of boston in thecountie 
 of Lyncoln taken and viewede the xvij day of Auguste in 
 the sixt yere of the reigne of or Sofferaigne Lord Edwarde 
 the sixt by the grace of God kyng of Englonde fraunce and 
 Irelonde defender of the fayth and of the churche of Englonde 
 and also of Irelonde in erthe tlie supreme hede By Robart 
 Bryane John Rowbynson and Robart Dytton church wardens 
 of the same by the comaundemente of Henry Hoode Maier 
 of boston aforesaid and other the kynges mati Commy- 
 sioners appoyntede in yt behalfe by vertue of his hignes 
 Comyssion to them dyrectede. 
 In pfhis v old copis for childrene ^js —a 
 
 Itm a vestment decon and subdecon of olde black worsted wt iij 
 copis of ye same ^^s 
 
 Itm a vestment decon and subdecon of olde black worsted wt iij 
 
 copis of ye same ^^» 
 
 Itm a vestment decon and subdecon of olde red bawdekin wt a 
 
 red cope wt tawbuttes of it yj^ viij^ 
 
 Itm an other sute of rede bawdkyn p^st decon and subdecon and 
 
 iiij olde red copis wt garters of it xiij^ iiij^ 
 
 Itm a sute of white bustion prst decon and subdecon wt v copies 
 
 iij whit chamlet and ij of bustion xv^ 
 
 nl«*pp^hvT ^^'""^ ?^"-r°^^M^'^'^' was a son of John Saint Paul of the same 
 
 / 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 221 
 
 Itm a hole sute of blue silk prst decon & subdecon and ij olde 
 blue bawdkin copis ij olde blue silke and ij olde blwe velvet wt 
 a blwe bawdkin cope wt vnicornes of it xxiiij^ iiij^. 
 
 Itm ij old blwe worstede copis and an old rede silk cope wt half 
 monys yj^ viijd. 
 
 Itm a vestment of grene silke wt byrdes of it and an other grene 
 vestment wt a rede crosse and ii white vestmentes wt hanir- 
 ynges for letterns and other necessary s viij^ 
 
 Itm clothes to hang before ye aulter one of red silk with garters 
 an other of old rede bawdkyn an other of white bustyan wt 
 faces of it, and an other of blue silke wt vnicornes of it and 
 one of black velvet and an other of barde silke, and one of 
 blwe silke wt swannys of yt xxvj^ viij*^. 
 
 Itm a suyt of Sattyn of Brydges decon and subdecon and ij 
 copis with garters xiij^ iiij^. 
 
 Itm a sute of barde silke wt pellycanes of it ps^te, decon, and 
 subdecon x*. 
 
 Itm a sute of rede silke wt byrdes of it p^ste decon and sub- 
 decon & iij copes xx^. 
 
 Itm a sute of blake silke wt swanes of it p^st decon and subdecon 
 
 x». 
 
 Itm an aultere hanging of dusket silk with redde barres iij^ iiij^. 
 Itm ij aulter hanginges of red silke with byrdes and lyons of 
 
 them 
 
 XlllJ lllj^ 
 
 Itm an aulter hanging of grene silk wt garlands and sterres of 
 
 it 
 
 
 Itiii ij copis of Red veluet imbroderyde with splede egles and 
 
 flowers of gold 
 Itm iij crosse clothes 
 Itm XXV aulterclothes 
 Itin ij pell^ to lye afore or aulter 
 Itm a picture of an egle for xP, 
 
 xxx^. 
 
 xl^ 
 
 xiij- UIJ**. 
 
 . TON IN Com. LINCOLN. — Sales made of the vestmentes 
 copes and other ornamentes of the church of 
 Boston the xxvj day of May in the seventh yere 
 of the reign of or Sou^aigne lord kyng Edward 
 the sixte by the grace of god of England 
 ffraunce & Irelond kyng defendour of the ffaith 
 & in erth of the church of England & also of 
 Ireland the sup^me head by Robt dobbes maio*" 
 of the Brugh & Borowe of Boston in the 
 Countie of lincoln George SeyntpoU Richerd 
 Ogle Thomas Browne Esquiers & John Tupholme 
 Gent Comission^ assigned by the kinges high- 
 nes Comission to the seid Comission^ directed 
 
^^^ * APPENDIX. 
 
 bering date the third day of marche in the 
 seuenth yere of the reign of or said Sou^aign 
 lord kyng Edward the sixte. 
 
 ffirst sold to Thomas Soresby one vestment deacon & subdeaeon 
 
 ot bJaeke worsted wt thre Copes of the same colo' to ye same xx». 
 
 Itm to John Dobe v old Copes for Children vj' viii^. 
 
 Itni to John Dobe for a vestment decon & subdecon of redde 
 Cortia in the Inventorie named Borwdekyn wt a redde cope 
 sette or wrought with Talbottes xiij« iiif. 
 
 itm to Ihomas Browne a sute of redde Bawdekyn decon & sub- 
 decon wt one old redde cope wt garters xiij^ iiij^ 
 
 Itm a sute of Blewe silk, a blevve bawdkyn cope ij oMe blewe' 
 veluet copes wt a blewe bawdekyn copes {sic) wt vnicorns to 
 laur^palm^ xxiii« iiii<^ 
 
 Itm to Hilhn Crowe a cope of ble^Ve worsted & an ov cope of 
 redde silk wt half mones \[[j^ 
 
 Itm to John kyrkeman one olde Cope of blewe veluett wt flowers 
 ot silk bare & olde ^s 
 
 Itm to leon^d Cother a sute of satten Bridges decon & subdecon 
 & two copes wt garters ^j^^js 
 
 Itm to Kobt Dobbes one sute of barred silk w? pellycanes in it 
 prest decon & subdecon ^.s 
 
 Itm to ye seid llobt one alter clothe of damaske silke wt redde 
 barres •••s ••••h 
 
 Itm to ihomas Browne ij copes of redde veluett embrodered wt 
 
 T i^^^^^ xxx« 
 
 Itni to wiltm Crowe iij vestmtes of redde sylke wt moun^ & 
 
 T ^}^'''^^ y'f viii^ 
 
 itm to Robt Dytton one aut^ Cloth of Grene sylk wt -adandes 
 
 ^ sterres ^ -'l-s 
 
 Itm to Thorns Southen one vestint grene sylke wt birds on it 
 one oy grene vestmt wt a redde crosse ij white vestmtes w? 
 mj hangmge ffor letterns one sute of grene sylke prest decon 
 & subdecon -^ ^^^s 
 
 Itni to hugh middleton one alter clothe of white Cheker sylk ii 
 itm to xpofer Neffe one alter clothe of blake worsted wt garters 
 on it ^ .-8 
 
 Itm to George halywell iij olde vestmtes of blewe & one olde* 
 cope 's '*'d 
 
 ^^^ed'li"^''^^ dytton iij vestmtes decon, subdecon & a copt lolov 
 
 dothe^^'^"" borcastle iiij copes ij blewe & ij duskett sake 
 
 t!^ !"" wm!' ^""^'^ ^'J ^^'^sse Clothes olde iii« iiitd* 
 
 itm to W illm horcastle ij white Copes of Bustion VJ^' 
 
 s 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 223 
 
 crosse of 
 xij'i 
 
 Itin to hugh middleton one vestmt of thredde wt a 
 
 ffustion 
 Itm to Bicherd Grebe a sute of white Bustion prest decon & 
 
 11 »«j»«»« • ^ 
 
 " ^ XJ^ 
 
 xP. 
 
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 subdecon wt iiij copes 
 Itm to Robt Dobbes one Egle for a lettern 
 Itm to Robt Dytton vj alter clothes of sylke sundrie colo" 
 Itfh to Robt Dobbes ij pelles to lay before the alter xiij® luj 
 
 Sm of the redy mony receyued ) .^i g 
 
 sixtyne poundes ^yiiyuQ shillings J ^^^ ^^ * 
 Itm XXV alter clothes & Towelles of old lynnen praisde in ye 
 Inuentorie at xlv* wherof pte delyu^ed for the mynestracon 
 and the residue destributed to the pore according to the 
 vntente oF the said comission. 
 
 All the residue of ye plate copes vestmtes & oy ornamentes of 
 ye churche of Boston by vs not solde or conteyned & especified 
 in or certificate & aunswer vppon a comission to vs directed the 
 xvj of may in the vjth yere of the reign of o^ seid Sou^aigu lord 
 which residue of plate & goods was taken and solde by ye maior 
 & Burgesses of the seid Towne of Boston as by o' seid Certificat 
 it appereth and for thanswer of the said goodes so by them solde 
 we haue taken bondes to appere before you which be hereunto 
 annexed. 
 
 Itfii the kinges matie is to be aunswered on this certificat of one 
 Crismatorie or pixe of syluer & gilte weying xij ounc3. 
 The Crismatorie of Syluer & gylte in the tformer Inuentorie 
 Conteyned, weyng xxxij ounce3 at iiij^ viij'^ the ounce argent 
 vij^ ix^ iiij*^ is at this tyme wanting & it is to be aunswered by 
 the maior & Burgesses of Boston tfor it was by them sold as 
 apperith by or certificat vppon the fformer comission. We have 
 receyued a bill of pticons to be exhibited by the Burgesses of the 
 seid Towne herein enclosed 
 
 by me Robert dobe meyr. 
 George Seyntpoll. 
 p me Ricum Ogle, 
 p me Thomas Brown, 
 p me John Tupholme. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Draft of a LErxEii from the Cou^'clL relative to the 
 Alienation and Destruction of Church goods temp. 
 Edw. vj. [State Papers. Domestic. Edw. VI. v. 0. no. 25.] 
 
 After or most hartie comendacons where the kinges ma?ie 
 hath byn advertised that a grete nomber of his maties sub- 
 jectes forgetting their bounden duties of obedience have presumed 
 
221 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 contrary to his liio-hnes most drad comaundmentes to allien & 
 sell away both the vestiraents plate Jwelles & ornamentes and in 
 many places the bells & lead also of their churches & chapeles ap- 
 plying the money therof cither to their own vses or to such other 
 private vses as themselfes listed by occasion wherof moche con- 
 tention & variance hath & daily doth graw & arrise in sundry 
 places amonges his mates loving subiects his highnes mynding 
 to^have a spedy order & stay set herin in all places of his maties 
 dm ins hath by thadvice & consent of vs the lord protector & 
 connsell appointed you all iointly & sewerally to be his maties 
 comission^s wtin the countie of [blank] for this purpose on this 
 behalf for the better doing whereof his maties pleasure is that as- 
 sembling yorselfes to gither in some convenient place wtin the 
 said shere & considering well thoffect of thies or Ires you do even 
 thene out of hand take order for yo^ diuision in to such seweral 
 hundredes ptes & quarters of the shere as bothe for yor own 
 comoJities & the spedier executing of the charge now cofnitted 
 vnto you shal be thought most mete and being so diuided you 
 shall seurally euery nomber of you according to yo'' allotmentes 
 call before you the pson or vicar if he be resident orelles the 
 curate & churchewardens wt iij or iiij other of the discretest & 
 most substan^allist men of euery pishe wthin the circuite ap- 
 pointed vnto yo^ and making a true pfyt Inventory of all maner 
 of vestmentes ornamentes plate Juelles & belles belonging to eu^y 
 churche or chapell wtin yo"" seuerall p^cinctes you shall leave in 
 t'U y of the said pishos one Inventory so made subscribed both wt 
 thandes of the comission^s for that pt of the shere and also wt 
 th handes of the said psons vicars or in their absence wt the 
 curates churchwardens & other the honest men of eu^y pishe as 
 above, and one other like inventary subscribed bothe by the said 
 comission s & also the said pson vicar or curate & the church- 
 wardens & other thoncst men to leave In the keeping of the custos 
 Rotulor^ of the shere. After the making of sch inventaries his 
 mates further pleasr is that you shall give in charge on his hignes 
 behalf to the said psons curates & pisshioners of every suche 
 churche that they presume not to allien sell or otherwise put 
 away or give ther assent to any suche sale alienacon or putting 
 away of any of the said vestmentes, plate Jwelles belles or other 
 ornamentes in any wise but to se that the same be savely kept & 
 p served as they will aunswer for the contrary at their vttermost 
 pilles and incase aythar any of them or any other of the pishiones 
 of any suche pishe shall after knowleg of his mates pleas^ in this 
 behalf attempt any sale gift or alienacon of any of the p^misses, 
 that m that case the said pson curate churchwardens & other 
 honest men do give notice thereof to suche of you th^ Justices 
 ot peace as dwell nyar the said pishe vpon complaynt or know- 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 225 
 
 ' 
 
 lege whereof by any other means his maties pleas'" is you the said. 
 Justices & cu^y of you shall take vndelayd order for the stay of 
 any such sale or alienacon & comit the chief attemptors thereof 
 to prison for suche tyme as ye shall think convenient & for such 
 plate Juelles ornamentes belles or leadd as haue byn alienated con- 
 trary to his maties sayd comandments att any tyme wtin one 
 yer afore the dat herof except the sayd alienation was mad by the 
 comen assent of the parish and ye money therof applied to any 
 comen good vse by the lyk assent. His mats plesur is you shall 
 cause the sayed goods plat belles &c or the valu therof to be re- 
 stored and such as shall refuse to abyd ye order therin to signefy 
 ther names to vs wher uppo^ we shall give such furthar order as 
 shall appteyn. And for ye better instruction herein you may 
 require of the byshopes offecers a copie of ynventaries heretofore 
 mad for evy parish in yatt shire. ffinally his Mats pleasure is 
 that after th^ making of the sayd inventaries yee shall make one 
 short extract or abrydgement only of y^ plat and belles of eiiy 
 pish jind th^ same gathered to gather for th^ hoi shyre send to 
 vs wt a further declaration of yor doing in ys behalf. 
 
 YIII. 
 
 Inventories of Church Bells and Plate, dated 19th op 
 May, 1553. [Public Record Office, Exch. Q. R. Ch. 
 Goods Line. Parcel 3. B. 9.] 
 
 Grayingham. — This Inventory Indentyd and mayd the xix day 
 
 of may in ye vij yere of the Rayne of or sourayne 
 lord Edward the vjth by the grace of god of 
 Ingland fraunce and Ireland kynge wytnessyth 
 that we thorns hennege Edward dymok"^ Robertt 
 tyrwhitt IFraunces ascuyghe knyohtes and wyllfn 
 monson esquier comissioners of or sayd sourayn 
 lord the kinge for order ... of the church 
 goodes In the pt} se of lynsay in the county e of 
 Lyncoln haue delyveryd to Gorge arnold curate 
 of Grayngm John hall John barnard church- 
 wardenes of the saym iij greatt belles, i sanctus 
 bell i chalis cover gy It Sawly to be kept by the 
 sayd Curate church wardens and their succes- 
 sores for and aboutt the administracion of the 
 holye communion and other devyn svys wt in 
 the church to be doyn to suche tyme as the 
 
 * Sir Edward Djmok of Scrivelsbj, Knight, Champion of England, married 
 Anne, si^ter and eventually co- heiress of George Talboys, who died sine prole^ 
 6 Sep. 
 
 1539. 
 
North ORPE.— 
 
 ATFUNDIX. 
 
 kyng his maiestes pleassure be therin further 
 knowne Id wytnesse wherof to thes Inventorys 
 Indentyd as well the forsayd comissionres as the 
 ceurat and churchwardens have sette their 
 handes the day and yer aboue WTyttyn. 
 
 John barnard. 
 
 John hall. 
 
 This inyentorye indented made the xixth day of 
 
 may^in the seven the yer of the reynge of or 
 
 bou eyne lord kyng edward the sext by the 
 
 Cxrace of god &c Wytnessythe yt Thomas 
 
 hennage Edward Dymoke Robert Tyrwhytt^ ye 
 
 young^ ffraunces ayscoughe knightes & willm 
 
 mounson esquyer comyssyonrs of or sayd 
 
 boueyrige lord the kynge for orderynge of all 
 
 the church goods in the pts of lyndsey in the 
 
 countye of Imcoln have delyuerd vnto S^ wyllm 
 
 Ihompsone curate of the pyshe churche of 
 
 iorwarding the Heformation ^^^ Lincolnshire aristocracy in 
 
 Among the secularized church property that fell in «5,V T?«k^ *• i, 
 
 I. aai IV. gules,rS^da'„c;Tte 'o"' thllT''T^:^:^ l7 J^"^^'"". • 
 argent borne by him as a difference ii Z fate\ liniTimr Tl.„ r"i?°'"'' 
 supported by "twowilHp mBnr.f i., iJ "'» '""lers i letitne. Ihe shield was 
 
 in their hanVs '^ The crest wL a tewit^s h7L''''r '''l'''''°"i '"'^ ^^"''''" 
 fa>^lyM°'""'"P''P'''^'^'' "g'^**-- =°-t«i»= the following entries relative to this 
 
 Thp Ur^4f^o^ J -t^yueru iirwmtt erat baptizat^ vij die Januri rHQS1 
 member rfthl'^^^ilf"^" ^^S'^*" -=-J^ *!■« birth ind death oranolher 
 
 rje^^lt'rf '''^ ''^"°'"^^ °f ^^^- Tl'omas Tirwhjtt. was bapt.ye 12 of Jaaua- 
 daj^'ofl^'mtrtesf °' ^'^""^^ ''''""''^"' e^''"^""'". *<« Juried the 12 
 
 BorrEswoRT^. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 227 
 
 northorpe in the sayd ptes & countye & Robert 
 ffarr & thomas browne churchwardenes of the 
 same ij gret belles one Sunctus bell & one 
 challys gylt weynge x auncies wt leyd saffly to 
 be kept by them & ther successors in & aboot 
 the admynystracon of the holly com^unyon & 
 oy devyne servys wtin the sayd pyshe church to 
 be done vntyll the kyng maties pleasure be 
 heria further knawen In wytness wherof the 
 sayd comyssyonrs haue Sette ther handes. 
 p me wiitm thomson ministrator^. 
 
 -This inventorie indented made the xix day of 
 May on the vij yer of the regn of our Sou^eynge 
 lord kyng Edward the sixt between S^' Thomas 
 Hennage S"^ Edward Dymocke S'" Robert Ter- 
 witt the younger S^ Francis Ayscough & William 
 Monson"^ Esquire comissioners of or soiieynge 
 lord the king for the ordering of all the church 
 goods in the pey tes of Lyndsey in the county of 
 Lincoln of the on^ peyt And John Heyllay 
 Vicar of the Town & Parish of the sayd County 
 Rychard Heyllay Thomas Atkynson chur^- 
 wardens of the other pte Weytnesythe that the 
 affor sayde coinissioners haue delivered vnto the 
 sayd persons one challys off Sylver weying 
 xxiiij unces to be kept & usyed for the admyn- 
 istracon of the holy comfiion and other devine 
 services within the church. And also have 
 delivered unto the sayd John Heyllay and 
 churc^ w^ardens & ther successors iij gret belles 
 on sanctus belle saffely saffely {sic) to be kept to 
 the kings Maj vse & plesur^ In wytness whereof 
 the sayde coinissioners to these presents there- 
 unto to remain with the sayde parties & their 
 successors haue sette ther hande the day & yer 
 above sayde. 
 
 Jolm Helay cler^ 
 Rchard helayf 
 Thomas atkyns , . , . 
 
 * William, eldest son and heir of Sir John Monson, Kt., of South Carlton. 
 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert T^^rwhitt of Kettilbj. His death 
 took place 15 Oct., 1588. — CoUins's Peerage^ sub tit. Monson. 
 
 t The Healers have been settled from time immemorial at Burringham in 
 this parish, but their pedigree is not entered in the early Herald's Visita- 
 
228 
 
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 APPENDIX, 
 
 IX. 
 
 Table, of Church Bells and Plate remaining in certain 
 Lincolnshire Churches, a.d. 1553.^ 
 
 Parish Churches. 
 
 Althokpb. 
 
 ASGBSBX. 
 AtJCKBABBOW. 
 
 Bblton.J 
 
 Blttok. 
 Boston. 
 
 Bellg. 
 
 1 great bell. 
 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 2 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell, 
 
 3 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells. 
 
 3 great bells. 
 1 sanctas bell. 
 
 5 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 Bbattwohton. 
 
 BFlLTlfGBBOKE, 
 BUBTON Olf TB 
 
 Htll, 
 
 COBBTjrGHAM. 
 
 Enndlebt. 
 Epwobth. 
 
 2 great bells. 
 
 1 sanctus bell, 
 
 3 great bells,' 
 1 sanctus bell, 
 
 3 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell, 
 
 3 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 4 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 
 10 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing i 
 
 8^ oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 13 oz. ^ 
 
 2 chalices parcel 
 gilt, weigbing 34 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 
 11 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weiffhine 
 24 oz. 
 
 Churchvarden*, 
 
 Richard Maude, 
 curate. t 
 
 John Benton. 
 
 Richard Sharp- 
 pnls, curate. 
 
 Robert Walsan, 
 curate. 
 
 John Berrege, 
 curate. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 13 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 8 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 16 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing lOJ 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 14i oz. 
 
 George Tode, 
 curate. 
 
 Robert Froste, 
 Ticar. 
 
 Bychard Wright. 
 
 j Richard Sawer, 
 vicar. 
 
 Robert Dawson. 
 
 John Pope, 
 parson. 
 
 WiUiam Romton. 
 ...m Robinson. 
 
 William Sraythe, 
 Richard Maye. 
 
 Thomas Bell. 
 Thomas Dekeo. 
 
 John Stonye. 
 Robert Ceayster, 
 
 ... Wygett. 
 Rychard CraBe.§ 
 
 Morton Bradley, 
 merchant of the 
 Staple at Calais. 
 William Wessnara, 
 butcher. 
 
 Christopher Nesse, 
 cordwamer. 
 
 John Stampe. 
 Robert Huggett. 
 
 Arthur Thymylbe. 
 William Gudoryle. 
 
 Henry Cor>ke, 
 Wylliam Nedham. 
 
 Bryan Morwood. 
 John Ayshwell. 
 
 ThoBias 
 
 John Sutton. 
 
 Thomas Tong. 
 Geffray Medlay. 
 
 * These returns exist for but a few parishes only. The three foresoin" have 
 
 T i!" ''^^^"g'lt of presentation to this rectory was Tested in the Kniehts of St 
 John of Jerusa em and the Hospital of St. Leonard's, York. RicB Maude 
 
 Ho'sS'of si '^l^'V'^r *l"""^^ ^r'"'"^' ^'-^^ --mt«m of "h^ 
 
 Hospital ot bt. Leonard.—Stonebouse's Axholme, 371 
 
 iv\ • memorandum in the Scotter Parish Register (vol. i. p 80) informs n<; ' 
 that in the year 640 or 1641, the following inhabitant of the PaHsh of Selton 
 suffered the nena ty of excommunication :-Nathaniel BrowneleV-ent Edward 
 Chapman Francis Brookes, William Sawer, Gartrid Birki t, ^Sal FoW^^^^ 
 conform'isir^''"' '"^ ^^"'^^ ^^°^'"^^- ^^^^ ^^'^ P^^babiy PuritanS: 
 § In 1616, when Norden and Thorpe surveyed r.he Manor and SoI-p of 
 Kirton^in-Lindsey, Robert and Thomas Crane w^ere landowner in Bfyton ^ 
 MSS. Moore, Pub. Lib. Cantab., Ff. 4, 30, fol. 40 b, 41 b. ^ 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 231 
 
 Pariih Churches. 
 
 Est Ebbkby, 
 Est Kbh, 
 Fliibbuoh. 
 Fbothtkhaic. 
 
 Oatnsbbuo, 
 Haokabt. 
 
 Habbt. 
 
 Haibt, 
 
 Hbapom. 
 
 Hbbbbstow. 
 
 KrBTOir.t 
 
 Bells. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell, 
 
 3 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell, 
 
 3 great bells. 
 3 great bells. 
 
 ...great bells. 
 
 1 eanctus bell. 
 
 2 great bells. 
 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 2 great bells, 
 1 sanctu- bell. 
 
 5 great bells. 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 Ckurckvardens. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 9oz, 
 
 John Parker, 
 parson. 
 
 Lyon Goodbyrce, 
 Robert Pegge. 
 
 1 chalice 13| oz. 
 
 Peter Tayler, 
 parson. 
 
 Thomas Tayler. 
 Hodgesoa. 
 
 I chalice weighing 
 
 II oz. 
 
 Alane Thorald, 
 curate. 
 
 sake, 
 
 James Wood. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 141 oz. ^ 
 
 Laurence Rydar. 
 
 Thomas Stamp.* 
 Edward Godson. 
 
 Johnson, 
 
 Chrystofer Watsone. 
 
 2 chalices. 
 
 Nycholas Stock, 
 vicar. 
 
 George Vosin. 
 John Noble. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gUt, weighing 10^ 
 oz. 
 
 Rychard Dynnys, 
 vicar. 
 
 Thomas Wayth. 
 John Salter. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 7 oz. 
 
 Thomas Bryan. 
 
 Sir Wylliam Tiryght. 
 William Farrer, 
 
 2 chalices parcel 
 gilt. 
 
 William Codd, 
 curate. 
 
 Wylliam Cooke, 
 Robert Cayley. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 7^ oz. 
 
 Herrie Tomson, 
 curate. 
 
 Rychard Bransbye, 
 William Firbye. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 12 oz. 
 
 Robert Layke, 
 vicar. 
 
 Robert Sledra«n. 
 Thomas Corbryg. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 10 oz. 
 
 Thomas Seraud, 
 curate. 
 
 Robert Wenslay. 
 Lawrence Cbypman, 
 
 * The record above quoted states tliat at the time of its compilation Richard 
 Stampe held lands, &c., of forty shillings' value in Frodingham. The Stampes 
 have, from at least as early as the fifteenth century until recent times, always 
 been in the position of small but independent yeomen. The editor has several 
 of their early title-deeds in his possession. 
 
 t Almost all the books of popular reference say that the parish church of 
 this town is dedicated to St, Peter and St. Paul. . The truth is not so, how- 
 ever. The churchwardens' account-book for 1484, and every other ancient 
 document that has occasion to mention the dedication, speaks of St. Andrew 
 as the patron. The error has perhaps arisen by confounding this town with 
 Kirton in Holland, the church of which is dedicated to the above-named saints. 
 I have not succeeded in tracing the blunder to an earlier person than Browne 
 Willis, but I should be sorry to believe that that industrious antiquary was its 
 originator. 
 
 The Kirton-in-Lindsey churchwardens' account-book contains the following 
 list "of the churchez implemetz" for the year 1529: — 
 
 " Impmez o'on coope of kreme sup^ velvet ; also on vestmt for ye prest 
 dekyn & stdekeyn. 
 
 " It oon koope of blayk worstede ; a vestmt of the saym for peyst dekeyn & 
 stdekn, 
 
 " It oon koope of whytte sylk. 
 
 " It iij vestemetez oon of whyt damask, on oder whyt chamelet, the therd 
 whyte quyllte. 
 
 "It ij vestemetes of greyn sylk & a vestemet of blewe damask wt ye 
 aptenetez. 
 
 " It oon vestemet of blayk chamelete & on oder of greyne croylle [worsted] 
 wt ye aptenetez. 
 
232 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Parish Churches. 
 
 Bell$. 
 
 Flate. 
 
 Clergy. Churchvardent. 
 
 Laitghtok. 
 
 3 gwat bells. 
 1 sanctus boll. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 9oz. 
 
 Thomas Beines, 
 curate. 
 
 WiUiam Hall. 
 Thomas Welles. 
 Wylliam Bimaud. 
 
 " It ij redde vestementes, on of saten of bregez, the oder of worsted wt the 
 aptenetez. 
 
 " It on vestemet the grownd blewe wroght wt byrddes of grejn sjlk. 
 
 "It ij cov^lettes of redd & yalowe. 
 
 " It iij auterclothez, on pained wt redd & greyne satonjof bregez, the oder the 
 grownd blew paynted wt ymages, ye therd wht sylk. 
 " Napre wayr. 
 
 " Imp^ims vij twylle towelz & viij towellez of lyne iij autr clothez of twylle 
 & yj of leyne." 
 
 In 1565 Richard Lacye and Thomas Bays, churchwardens, sold various 
 articles of church furniture. " For the table case, the beame and hordes of 
 the rood loft," they received lO^., and "for certeyne brasse and candlestykes" 
 20.9. Richard Brokylsbee was the largest purchaser ; he bought for 1/. 135. 4:d. 
 "j vestyment and certeyne canddylstykes." 
 
 This church was one of the places visited in the seventeenth century by 
 Gervaise Hollis. Something of what he saw he has recorded in his beautiful 
 volume of church notes, now in the Harleian Collection (G329, f. 149). The 
 church does not seem to have been very rich in stained glass or monuments. 
 Perhaps before his time the work of destruction had advanced far. The only 
 arms he records are — Azure, a mace [or sceptre'] in pale or, in the east window 
 of the chancel, and Barrj/ of six, argent and gules ; three crescents, sable, in a 
 window not identified. This latter bearing was probably Watebton, wrongly 
 tinctured or mistakenlv described. In another window Mr. Hollis saw a me- 
 raorial of Robert Hardenly and Agnes his wife, and near it the efl5gy of a knight 
 in armour. This monument was discovered a few years ago buried beneath the 
 floor. It is sadly mutilated, but is, even in its present wrecked condition, a 
 singularly fine example of mediaeval sculpture. It is preserved at the eastern 
 end of the south aisle, just above the place where it was found. Its base is 
 now formed of an ancient altar slab. 
 
 When the fabric of this church was repaired and the internal arrangements 
 altered about six years a^o, the skreen was removed from its ancient place at 
 the western end of the chancel. It was a good work, of late Perpendicular 
 character. The sepulchral slabs which occupied a great part of the floor of 
 the aisles were at the same time almost all destroyed or hidden from view. I 
 succeeded in transcribing many of them, but others existed of which I have no 
 notes. As it is highly important that no evidences of this nature should be 
 permitted to perish, I make no apology for preserving them here. 
 
 " Anno 16 . . 7 Vpon Ascention day the sovle of Christofer Pickerin as- 
 cended to Heauen and left his body to rest in this earth vntill God have it vp 
 again to glory." 
 In the N. aisle. 
 
 " William Tr(evor) thirty-six years vicar of parish, changed this state 
 
 of Probation for that of Retribution the 22 of January, 1764. Aged 71 years. 
 
 " Ann wife of the said William Trevor, the 24th of March, 1757. Aged 73 
 years." 
 
 In the nave. 
 
 "Here lieth the body of Jabez the son of Jabez and Elizabeth Bethel, who 
 
 233 
 
 
 Parish Churches. 
 
 Lbb. 
 
 LODTNGTON. 
 LUSBT. 
 
 Bells. 
 
 3 great bells. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctxis beU. 
 
 2 great bells, 
 1 sanctoB bell. 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 10^ 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 4 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighiDg 7i 
 oz. 
 
 Ambrose Baynes, 
 curate.* 
 
 Thomas Geyn, 
 
 Thomas Cartas, 
 parson. 
 
 Churchicardois. 
 
 Wylliam Thaoker. 
 Robert Cocksone. 
 
 Robert Gyllyett. 
 William Park, * 
 
 Thomas Taylyar. 
 Thomas Wadyngham 
 
 departed this life the 18th of December, 1768, in the 10th year of his 
 age. 
 
 " Here lieth the body of Elizabeth the wife of John Bethel and daughter of 
 John and Elizabeth Bullock who departed this life the 11th of April, 1785. 
 Agyd 59 years. 
 
 " Here lieth the body of John Bethel who departed this life the 12 of De- 
 cember, 1786. Aged 64 years. 
 
 "Here lieth the body of Robert Stow who departed this life Janvary 31st 
 1738 aged 29 years." 
 
 South aisle. 
 
 " Near this place lie the bodies of Christopher son of Peter & Dorothy 
 Baldwin who departed this life the second of October, 1687, in the first year 
 of his age. 
 
 " Peter son of Peter and Dorothy Baldwin departed this life the 30 of march, 
 1089, in the first year of his age. 
 
 " Peter son of Peter and Dorothy Baldwin departed this life the 26th of 
 June, 1 692, in ye 2d year of his age. 
 
 " Nicholas son of Peter and Dorothy Baldwin departed this life the 19th of 
 January, 1694, in ye first year of his age. 
 
 " Dorothy wife of Peter Baldwin departed this life the 24th of October, 1695, 
 in the 39th year of her age. 
 
 " Dorothy daughter of Peter and Dorothy Baldwin departed this life the 1st 
 of November, 1695, in the fourth year of her age. 
 
 " Henry son of Peter and Dorothy Baldwin, who departed this life the 24th 
 day of January, 1695, in the third year of his age. 
 
 " Here lieth the body of Mrs. Margaret Hunt, widdow, who departed this 
 life ye 23 June, 1707, in the seventy-third year of her age." 
 
 A board was at the same time removed from the wall of the north aisle, on 
 which the following inscription was painted : — 
 
 " Benefactor to ye poor of Kirton Mr. Joseph Turner, who died December 9, 
 1743. He left to ye poor of Kirtou three pounds a year for ever ; one moiety 
 to be paid on Good Friday and the other on the festival of St. Thomas, to be 
 disposed of by ye minister and churchwardens for ye time being. He likewise 
 gave a silver flaggon for ye use of ye altar." 
 
 The bells now in this church are not those mentioned in the text. The pre- 
 sent beautiful peal were cast by J. Harrison of Barton-upon-Humber. They 
 were rung for the first time on the 1st Oct., 1798. — YorA Courant, October 1, 
 1798. . 
 
 * On 23 June, 1534, Ambrose Baynes was presented to this rectory by 
 Christopher Baynes of Forcett, in Richmondshire, in right of the advowson 
 granted by the Prior and Convent of Spalding. — Ei&t. of Lea, p. 38. 
 
 Q 
 

 
 ■A^-L U. JLH^JJ^j 
 
 ^U^t 
 
 
 Parish Churches. 
 
 Bells. 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 Malmsbitdlt. 
 
 Mawktoit. 
 > 
 
 3 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 2 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 
 8 oz. 
 
 George Legburne" 
 parson. 
 
 William Mattjns, 
 curate. 
 
 Benold Bering. 
 Thomas Woyght. 
 
 William Brombye. 
 Robert Maddisone. 
 
 Mbsstxgham. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 11 
 
 OS. 
 
 Bartylmewe Hal- 
 ley, curate. 
 
 Robert Vrrey.* 
 By chard Mortymer. 
 
 Mtnigslt. 
 
 
 
 William Clarke, 
 parson. 
 
 Bobert Keile. 
 
 OwsToir. 
 Ptllamb. 
 
 4 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus belL. 
 
 2 chalices weigh- 
 ing 31^ oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 8 
 oz. 
 
 William Saint- 
 Paulle, curate. 
 
 Bobert Atkinson, 
 curate. 
 
 Robert Eymyng. 
 Thomas Burton. 
 William KaylL 
 John Coyke. 
 
 George Wolshugh. 
 Thomas Storr. 
 
 BssBontxB. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 1 chalice. 
 
 Antony Forsette, 
 vicar. 
 
 Stevyn Scott. 
 Wylliam Hall. 
 
 BXTSBTS. 
 
 2 great bells. 
 
 
 Bobert Bakster, 
 vicar. 
 
 Austyn Herryson. 
 Hew Baynton. 
 
 BOWT. 
 
 
 
 Thomas Worslaye, 
 vicar. 
 
 ... Tynklare. 
 John Stevynson. 
 
 BOXBT. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus beU. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 12 oz. 
 
 Antony Mason, 
 curate. 
 
 John Porter. 
 Thomas Smith. 
 
 SCiXBTB. 
 SCOTTBB.t 
 
 3 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 2 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctus bell, j 
 
 1 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 
 m oz. ^ ^ 
 
 1 chaUce weighing 
 10 oz. 
 
 Thomas Bysshope, 
 vicar. 
 
 Henrye Grene, 
 curate. 
 
 John Lauder. 
 Wylliam SwyndaU. 
 
 Robert Dobbney. 
 Thomas Luddington 
 
 * The family of Urry held considerable property at Messingham in the 
 16th century. On 30 Oct. 1568, Agnes Urry, of that place, married William 
 Shawe, of Ashby, gent., son and heir of Peter Shawe, of Frodingham. On 
 20 Sept., 1595, William Shawe and Thomas Urry, gents., purchased the manor 
 of Bottesford of Marmaduke Tyrwhitt, Esq-., and Robert Tirwhitt, his son and 
 heir. William Shawe's eldest son and heir, John Shawe, married 23 Sep , 1597 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Silvester Burgh, or Borowe, of Kiiton-on-Lindsey.~ 
 Bottesf. Manor Records. Messing. Par. Reg. 
 
 t The register of this parish contains several memoranda illustrative of the 
 unhappy working of the old religious penal laws. The first entry of tiiis 
 nature is a list of persons who were declared excommunicate in this parish in 
 1640 and the succeeding year ; their names were Marmaduke Mawmell and 
 Mary, his wife, Widdow Hornbie, Widdow Somercoats, William Penithorne 
 and his wife, Richard Walker and his wife, Henry Horneby and Ann Hornby 
 As might be anticipated, there are none during the Commonwealth era but 
 they are frequent in the reign of Charles II. ' 
 
 *' May 27, 1677. Joanna Johnson absolved from the sentence of excomu- 
 mcation, and did her penence yt day, and the 29th of May following for comit- 
 ting fornication with one Robert Knight, of Morton, in the parish of Gains- 
 burgh. 
 
 " Excomunicated Jan. 25, 1677, these following :— Mary Hornby, Ann 
 iaylor, Eliz. Robinson Eran. Drury, Mary Drurv, sen., Mary Drury, jun.. 
 Thomas Hornby, Wm. Robinson, jun., Sarah Lealand, Ann Tenant, Robert 
 Uoole jun. Anne Storr, Robert Hering, John Brumby, Rebecca Brumbv. 
 WiL c;r f' ^^tl Fowler, Robert Pye, Mary Pye. John Robinson, sen. 
 Wiilm. Stocks and his wife, Joanna Brookhouse, William Soulby, Geor<^e 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 235 
 
 Shadforth, Sarah Shadforth, James Herring, Alice Herring, Robert Fowler, 
 sen., Xtobell Fowler, Ruth Herring; all these were presented by Mr. Smith 
 When he was church-warden, att that visitation when every parish were 
 enjoy ned to give in the number of conformists and non -conformists." 
 
 "Mathew Whalley, of Scawthorp, was excomunicated March 24, 1667 
 p non solvendo taxat^ ecclia.'* * 
 
 " William Atkinson, of Scawthorp, was excomunicated May 31, 1668, p 
 eod^. Mathew Whalley, of Scawthorp, was absolved June 21, 1668." 
 
 " Franciscus Drury absolutus fuit a sententia excomunicationis Aprilis nono 
 Anno Domini 1672." ^ 
 
 " Richardus Dawbney absolutus fuit a sententia excomunicationis, AprilP21, 
 JLd/ o. 
 
 " Excomunicated on Sunday, March 14, 1674, these following :— Johanna 
 Johnson, p incontinentia; Georgius Shadforth, et uxor ejus; William 
 Robinson and his wife ; John Brumby and Mary his wife ; Robert Pye, of 
 Scawthorp, and his wife." 
 
 "Excomuuicatedjn the parish of Scotter,_on Sunday, Mail 6, 1666, George 
 Shadford, Mary Dams, his howskeeper; Wm. Robinson, alias Shoemaker, and 
 his wife; Elizabeth Robinson; Anne, ye wife of George Tayler; Jone Brock- 
 house, servant to Mr. Williamson ; Frances Drury, jun., and his wife. Schis^ 
 matici. By order of Sir Edward Lake, Chancellour of ye Court ; and Samuel 
 Lawson, Register ; William Carrington, Rector there. 
 
 "October 7th, 1666, excomunicated in the parish of Scotter, these follow- 
 mg—viz., William Snowdale, Richard Johnson, Thomas Stevens, Richard 
 Dawbney, and John Watson." 
 
 The Puritan spirit of the people is illustrated by the following note, which 
 in slightly different language Mr. Carrington, the rector, felt it his duty to 
 add to the yearly record of Baptisms. I quote that for 1666 :— • 
 
 *' Multi hoc anno in parochia nati sed non baptizati, per haereticam sacra- 
 menti baptismatis denegationem apud parentes suos, ideoque, secundum 
 laudabilem Ecclesise Anglicanse constitutionem non registrantur." 
 
 The appointment of the Parliamentarian Registrar of Births and Deaths is 
 thus recorded : — 
 
 •* October the first, 1653. Edmund Norris was then approved & sworne 
 Register for the pish of Scotter, by Michaell Monkton, of Tliornholme, 
 Esq., one of the Justices of the peace for ye pts of Lindsey & county of 
 Lincoln, as is testified under his hand. 
 
 "Mich. Monkton." 
 Near to the worthy justice's si^ature some one in later times lias scribbled 
 " Quaker." I have, however, failed to find evidence that Mr. Monkton was 
 at any period of his life a member of the Society of Friends. He dwelt at 
 Thomholm Priory in the parish of Appleby, an Au^ustinian house founded by 
 King Stephen. He was an active magistrate during the stormy times of the 
 Commonwealth, and seems to have been much trusted by those in authority. 
 A letter of his is preserved among the Thurloe papers in the Bodleian. 
 It was printed in the last century in the selection from those documents 
 published by Thomas Birch, the eminent antiquary. Of this abode not a 
 vestige remains above ground except a few sculptured stones that have been 
 discovered in recent times. The site is now the property of Charles Winn, 
 Esq., of Nostel Priory. 
 
 The register book contains two other memorials of the theological strife of 
 that period, which it is better to record briefly. The first is a memorandum 
 signed by Mr. Carrington, the rector, dated 18 May, 1667, stating that on that 
 day the pulpit and reading-desk were put up again'in their ancient places, they 
 having been removed "in the time of the vsurper Oliver, by order of one Mr. 
 
 Q 2 
 
236 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Pariah Churches. 
 
 Bxonos.* 
 SPEYSGTHOBPBt 
 
 Stepyitg-paeva, 
 
 Styckneyb. 
 Sybseyb. 
 
 toiittoit. 
 
 Bells. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus beU. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus beU. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 Plate. 
 
 1 chalice. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 10 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 10^ 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 13 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 10 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 12 
 oz. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 John Stevynsoii, 
 parson. 
 
 Richard Robyn- 
 son, curate. 
 
 John Frank. 
 
 John Puteryll. 
 Thomas Slaydone. 
 
 Robert Brand- 
 whyt, curate. 
 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 ea- 
 am 
 
 ... Farmerye, 
 William Smythe. 
 
 Henry Wyegl 
 worth, Wiilia: 
 Harsone. 
 
 Robert Arofyn. 
 Thomas Lee. 
 
 Richard Chapman. 
 John Holde. 
 
 Robert Porter, 
 William Mayson. 
 
 Symon Huwhyt. 
 Robert Ted. 
 
 Basenge and Mr. Torksey, then rector of Scotter; and the pavement of th^ 
 quire, where the altar stood, plucked up to be the foundation Ter^of" ^ 
 
 gesk^Zday mi' t2l 'd " ^™^^^"' ^'^^^^"^^"^ ^ ^^^ "^' ^eptua- 
 gesima ounday ibfa^ irancis Drurj, an excommun cate person camp tr. 
 
 church during diTine service, in the morning, and being admoSed bv thr 
 
 ever was prevented by an appeal to thi justices of pe^e '°°''=^"'"°°' ^ow- 
 oJJdocuS:- "" ''' "'■"""''"' '' '° "°"^""°- ""^^ --' -ong the 
 "Upon the 21st of August [1653], was coUected in the Parish of Scotter 
 for the towne of Marlborough, in the oouutey of Wilts (where 224 
 
 ^^e^t^Xllt?"'' '° '''' '^"'^ °f ''""•^'=°^'' *''°"'^'i pounds^fo^^-and* 
 "'so^nfe\ffiXtgS;i^;et^^f^ "-^^ ""^ for Brigthnorth, the 
 "^tf foi^e :Lut;^^'"' ''"■ '"' ''" "-^^^o- of ^^^-^^ tbe some 
 " '^Jennt."°^ ^'"™"''''' ^^"' ^°' ^'°'^- '^' ^<""« "^ ^''° shillings and a 
 
 " '^t "f " ?e I''^<=^"ber, 1661, for the Brief that was for Condoure in the 
 ,. ,PL'"'"°'y "^ ^*'°P' *-^^ soiHS of one shilling." v^ouaoure, in tne 
 
 thilli'lg ■■ "' ^''""'"'■' ^^'^^' ^°' *''' "'y °^ ^^'''''- *^' ^"-"^ of one 
 
 "The eight of December, 1661, for William Jenkinson, of Farleton in the 
 
 ^e'nee " ^'""^' '" *'" '°""*^ ^^'^""^^ "^ ^'^«-'-. thf some'of ten! 
 
 Anlh^n-yfuSc.'Mifannu'rgre- anTcVel^tead ^t * '''^' 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 287 
 
 Parish Churches. 
 
 BeUs. 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 Churchtoardens. 
 
 Wadyngham 
 Maeye. 
 
 Wadykgham 
 Peieb. 
 
 West Haltoit. 
 West Keyle. 
 
 Wbottb. 
 
 Wyntbetok. 
 
 Wtktbtng- 
 
 HAM. 
 
 3 great beUs, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 1 sanctos bell. 
 
 3 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctus beU. 
 
 2 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 2 great beUs. 
 
 4 great bells, 
 
 1 sanctus beU. 
 
 2 great bells, 
 1 sanctus bell. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 11 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 15 oz. ^ ^ 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 15 oz. 
 
 1 chalice parcel 
 gilt, weighing 13| 
 oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 7 oz. 
 
 1 chaUce weighing 
 8oz. 
 
 1 chalice weighing 
 10 oz. 
 
 Wylliam Johne- 
 sone, curate. 
 
 Thomas Claton, 
 curate. 
 
 Robert Forman, 
 curate. 
 
 John Grace, 
 curate. 
 
 Robt. Chaplyn, 
 curate. 
 
 Wilhelm Morley, 
 curate. 
 
 Milon Wetherol. 
 
 Thomas Andre w, j on. 
 Thomas Atkynson. 
 
 Thomas Andrew. 
 Gerret Brunbye. 
 
 Ronauld Wold. 
 Edward Heryson. 
 
 William Grave. 
 James Har... 
 
 Rvchard Tomson. 
 Thomas Haryson. 
 
 WiUiam Aby. 
 John Cowper. 
 
 Edward Leydes. 
 Christopher Baw- 
 dyng. 
 
 X. 
 
 A BOAKE OF THE StUPFE IN THE ChEYRCHE OF HoLBEACH, 
 
 sowLD BY Churchward YNS of the same, according to the 
 INJUN CTYONs OF THE Kyngs Magyste. [Marrat, Hist. Line, 
 1814, V. 2, p. 104.]^ 
 
 An dni M. ccccc. xlvij°. Fyrst to Antony Heydon, the trynite 
 
 with the tabernacle ij" iiij"*. 
 
 It. to W. Calow thelder the tabernacle of Nicholas and 
 
 Jamys vj viij. 
 
 It. to Wm Davy on tabernacle of our lady of pytye iiij. 
 It. to Wm Calow the younger on other tabernacle of our 
 
 lady iij iiij. 
 
 It. to Anthony Heydon the ymage of the Anthony xx. 
 
 It. to Humphrey Hornsey on sygnef vj. 
 
 It. Anthony Heydon on other sygue and a lytyl tabernacle xx. 
 It. to Wm. Calow the younger the tabernacle of Thomas 
 
 Bekete iiij viij. 
 
 It to Wm. Davy the sygne whereon the plowghe did stond xvj. 
 It. to John Thorpe a chyste in St. Jamys Chapell ij. 
 
 It. to Lincone, howld woode iiij. 
 
 It. to Nicholas Foster the banke that the George stoode on iiij. 
 It. to Anthony Heydon ij alters ij viij. 
 
 It. to Wm Stowe ij lytyll tabernacles ij. 
 
 It. to Henry Elman on lytyll tabernacle ' ij. 
 
 * I have not been able to ascertain where the original of the inventory here 
 printed is at the present time. 
 
 f These sjgnes were probably the arms or badges of guilds. 
 
238 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 It. to John Thorpe for Harod^s coate* xviii 
 
 It. to Wm. Calow the younger all th^ Apostyls' coats and other 
 raggs '' 
 
 It. to Henry Elman for vij baner clothes ^ix iiii* 
 
 It. to Anthony Heydon on blewe clothe {^ 
 
 It. to Smithes on pece of howlde saye jij 
 
 It. to Richard Richerson the crosse and other ^ydys ii iii' 
 
 ! • to r Y'^''^' 't'^'^^ ^^' 
 
 Colo ^n " ^"^' ^^ ^^^ '''''^' ""' *^^ "J ^'^°-' ^^ 
 
 It. to Humphrey Hornsey the canypye that was born over the 
 sacrament 
 
 cbt^ °^* ^^ow t^^lder and John Thorpe iiij owlde pantyd 
 
 It. to Anthony Heydon on wood candlestyke ^ liif 
 
 It. to A\ m. Callow the younger on lytyll bell vi 
 
 It. to Anthony Heydon on other lytyll beU yi 
 
 h altaT ^""''^^ ^""'^ ^^^ tabernacle that stood at the end of the 
 
 viij. 
 Sm. iiii^i. ii^ iii^. 
 A.D. Mccccc. xlvij. 
 
 nij' 
 
 It. to Wm. Calow the younger on rod of iyron 
 
 It. to Robt. Gjrffon for ij barrs of iyron y" 
 
 It. to Antony Heydon xx score and x hund. of latyn at if and 
 
 ^f the score lb 
 
 It. to Richerd Richerson ij lytyll tabernacles ^^ '^Hi' 
 
 It. to John Suger for the Chyrche lond ii viii 
 
 It. to the burial of Mr. Byllvsby jii ijif 
 
 It. to John Mays wyffe for the Dracon ^ iii 
 
 It. of Alys Boyds debt to xps copys gilde ii 
 
 It. for on bell ^^-j-ii .•^.* 
 
 It. for seyten vestments and trashe in the chest in trinete'^quere 
 
 sold to Davy ...s^...*j 
 
 It. of Wm Burnit for pilows ^^''^ ''^^ 
 
 It. of ^A'm. Calow the younger for eyrne xx. 
 
 Sm totalis xxviij^^ iiij^ iiijd ob. 
 More superstitious ornaments of the church were sold in queen 
 
 -Elizabeth's time, 1560. ^ 
 
 A dress used by the man who personated Herod in a mystery play. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 XI. 
 
 239 
 
 Briefs read in Bottesford Church, A.D. 1660-1677. [Par. 
 
 Reg.] 
 
 A note of Breifes collected in our pish church of Botesford, 
 wth the seu^all summes of mony. 
 Vpon the breife for Pontefract^ May 5th 1661 3" 10^ 
 
 by Rich Hilbert churchwarden. 
 Vpon the breife of ffolkenham in Norfolke Octo 7 1660 we 
 
 gathered 2' 6^ & deliuered May 24th 1661 to George Wils- 
 
 worth, as appeares by his receit giuen me. 
 \V™ Parkinson, Vic. 
 Deliu^d to M' Geo Hurd bailiffe of the wap^sake of Manley 
 
 3^ lO'^ with the breefe for Poutefract in the County of Yorke, 
 
 July 14th 1661. 
 On the same day deliu^d to the said ]\I' Geo Hurd 3' 3* gatherd 
 
 vpon the breefe of Milton Abbas in ye County of Dorset. 
 Vpon Bollingbrooke breefe in County of Lincoln Sept ** "*' 
 
 15th 1661 1 10 
 
 For South Birlingha^ in Norfolk June 23, 1661 • 19 
 
 For Little Melton in Norfolke June 30, 1661 2 6 
 
 For distressed ptestants of Lithuania^ their breefe Nouem^ 
 
 3d 1661. 1 6 
 
 Vpon Oxford breefe October 28th 1661 1 6 
 
 For W°^ JenkinsoQ of ffarleton in Lancashire Nou^ 10th 
 
 1661 1 3 
 
 Vpon breefe for great Drayton in co of Sallop Octo^ 6th 
 
 1661 2 2 
 
 Vpon Scarborough Breefe decemb^ 15th 1661 18 
 
 For Chri^ Greene of Beighton within darbysh^ decemb^ 
 
 22d 1661 1 
 
 Vpon Bridgenorth breefe Septe^ 30th 1661 18 
 
 For Market Harborough & Little Bowden Leicestershire 
 
 June 20th 1662 ii 9 
 
 For John Woolrich of Creswell, Staffordshire deliu^ed to 
 
 Henry Crowther with the breefe July 14th 1662 1 9 
 
 * The Church of All-Saints or All-Hallows, Pontefract, was very much in- 
 jured during the sieges of Pontefract Castle, 1G44— 164y. The Parliament 
 allotted a thousand pounds out of the money arising from the sale of the ma- 
 terials belonging to the castle towards its repair. It is said' that this church 
 once had twelve bells. If this be true eleven of them were removed many 
 years ago. The one which remains is dated 1598, and inscribed, " Haec cam- 
 
 PAXA BEATA SACRA TrINITATI FIAT. HaEC EST TUBA DeI IHE NOMEN EI." 
 
 The E is undoubtedljr a mistake for C, the last letter of the sacred mono- 
 gram. If indeed the inscription has been read correctly. — Boolhrojd, Hist. 
 Pontefract, p. 347. 
 
240 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 2 2 
 
 Ffor hexam in Northumberland August 2d 1663 
 tior grimsby Haaen in Lincolnshire Octo 18th 1663 
 
 UtI 166^'^'^^ ^" ■" ""^ ^^''^''''" ^"^ ^''^ "^^ ^^'^'''^ ^'^ 
 
 For witheham church in Sussex, repaireing apr. 10th 1664 
 deP to Roht Bewley r & i 
 
 ^""irlt'] if l^'i?^^^l!^^i^ ^" Cambridgeshire, Mar 20th 
 1663, deP to Robt Bewley 
 
 ^^A S'"'^'^'^!'.^^"':^^ repairing in Kent, apr^ 17, 1664, 
 deP to Robt Bewley 
 
 For divers Inhabitants of grantham June 5. 1664 deliuered 
 
 to M'- \^ ilhams of Lincoln, Sadler, June 1664 
 i^^ u 9 ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^l^^^i* in Ef^sex ffeb" 19th 1664 
 for Hen Lisle of gisbrough in Yorkshire, fFeb 12th 1664 
 ±or John TVayles of Ilford in Essex, ffeb 26th 1664 
 
 i^'n?/'^ .^^"'*''^' of Busingm Southamptonshire march 
 lyth 1664 
 
 For p^ish of St Maries in Chester may 14th 1665 
 For Bydford in Warwickshire July 30 1665 
 
 For Jan worth in Lancashire, deliu^ to App^ Markha^ Oct 
 1dd5 ' 
 
 For Inhabitants of fflootburgh [?] in Lancashire nou^ 12 
 loo5 
 
 For the pish of Clun in county of Sallop Apr 8th 66 
 lor hartly poole in Durham Apr 15th 66 
 For Bishopp Norton L^ of request Octobr 21th 6Q 
 ror Binbrook let^ of Request Nou^ 11th 66 
 
 22^1^677'^^' '"^ Northampton a letter of Request July 
 Ffor Bithbur in ye County of Suffolk Septem 2d 77 
 
 n ^''ut'^^T. '" ^^ ''''''''^y ^^ Cambridge, a letter patent 
 Uctob 21 77 
 
 XII. 
 
 Excommunications and other Parochial Memoranda re 
 
 LATING TO BOTTESFORD. [Par. Reg.] 
 John Wadforth and Edward Wad forth, both ""of Yaddlethorp 
 
 22d I'fisr ''^T.^w'^l^?!'^ ^T^^''i excomunicate, August 
 ZZd J 680 p me Robtu^ Hornsby vic^ ibid^ 
 
 Wdham Longbotham, Thomas Richison, John Willson 
 Richard Williamson, and John Dolman^ were declared 
 
 noi! •^^^^,^ol"^an was a Roman Catholic, and no doubt incurred excommnni 
 J^rom a list of the Catholics of lorkshire taken in 1C04, now preserved 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 9 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 241 
 
 excomunicate Feb 11th, 1681 p me Robtu^ Hornsby Vic^ 
 ibid^ 
 Faith Holdsworth, David Blow, senior, An the wife of Dan. 
 Rands, Richard Williamson, Mary ^lorley, wid^ Frances 
 Wadford, Edward Balderston — were declared excomunicate 
 the 7th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1684, by 
 me Ro. Hornsby, Vic^ ibid. 
 
 among the Rawlinso/i MSS. (B. 452, fol. 65, ^.), it seems that this gentleman's 
 great-uncle, William Doullman, of Pocklington, Gent., and one Richard, his 
 servant, were returned as recusants. "Elizabeth Doullman, widdow," of that 
 place, appears on the same catalogue. 
 
 The Dolmans became connected with Bottesford by the marriage of Marma- 
 duke Dolman of Pocklington, with Anne, daughter of John Shawe, lord of 
 the Manor of Bottesford. 
 
 This John Dolman's grandfather, Marmaduke Dolman of Pocklington, and of 
 Messingham, co. Lincoln, is said to have been in arms for the king, and to have 
 lost his life at Marston Moor. His son Marmaduke, the father of the person 
 named above, dwelt at Bottesford ; he, too, was a devoted loyalist. In June, 
 1648, when all hope for the royal cause on the field of battle was over, he and 
 his following formed a portion of the four hundred horse and two hundred foot 
 who attacked Lincoln Castle and released therefrom all the prisoners who were 
 confined for murder, felony, and debt, among whom were some women who 
 were in custody for killing their bastard children. After this exploit they 
 marched to Gainsburgh, where they arrived on Saturday, 1 July. 
 
 Mr. Edward Kosseter of Somerby, near Brigg, a distinguishe(i Parliamentary 
 officer, and Mr. Dolman's near neighbour, was at Belvoir Castle when these 
 events occurred. He at once gave the alarm to the commanders at Northampton, 
 Leicester, Nottingham, and Derby, and requested them to send what forces 
 they could spare to join with the men under his command in Rutlandshire. 
 These troops when united on Sunday evening amounted to about five hundred 
 and fifty men. With them Colonel Rosseter marched on Monday in the direc- 
 tion of Gainsburgh. When about half way there he fell in with a troop of 
 horse from Lynn, under the command of Captain Tailor. These he retained 
 with his own men. They slept on Monday night in Waddington fields near 
 Lincoln, and at three o'clock the next morning marched through that city, 
 where their commander understood from a person who had been a prisoner 
 with the Cavaliers that they had drawn off from Gainsburgh on Monday even- 
 ing in the direction of Newark. Colonel Rosseter at once gave chase, and 
 arrived at Newark that evening, where he received intelligence that the royalists 
 were quartered at the village of Bingham, about six miles ofiF. Early on Wed- 
 nesday morning the Parliamentary forces were again in motion. They at 
 last came up with the enemy in a large bean-field in the parish of Willoughby, 
 about seven miles from Nottingham. Colonel Ilosseter immediately gave 
 them battle, and after a very stubborn engagement entirely routed them. 
 In this fight Mr. Marmaduke Dolman and many others of the Cavalier 
 gentry of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire were made prisoners. For joining in 
 this wild escapade all Mr, Dolman's property became forfeited to the state, and 
 was sold in consequence. This gallant gentleman had not the pleasure of seeing 
 the restoration, and was spared the pain of witnessing the country's degrada- 
 tion under the influence of the harlots, " and lackies, and panders," who formed 
 the court of the third Stuart. He died at Bottesford 20 December, 1654. 
 His son, John Dolman, was buried there 28 October, 1694. 
 
 The arms of Dolman, as given by pugdale, are — Azure, a fess dancettee or. 
 
242 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Jane Hall servant to Mr. John Morley, of Holme, in the 
 parish of Bottisford^ was Declared absolved from the sen- 
 tence of Excommunication on the 9th day of march in the 
 
 between eight garbs of the second, banded gules. According to Yorke the 
 
 dPPd^rfh '^H'/^^^'^' "^^^^ ^^^" '^^^^ «^" ^^« ^'^^ily attached to title. 
 
 deeds in the editor s possession, give the arms a chevron between six 
 
 garos . • .—An Impartial .... Relation of the Great Victory of Colonel 
 Edw Rosseter, 4to 1(348. Dugdale, Visit. Eboi, Surtees Soc, p.l^S."^ Yorkt 
 VM0710J Honour, Line, p. 31. Bottesf. Par. Reg. 
 
 thp llrn •'^'/^ ""^ H^/u'^' °^ ^°^°^' ^^^^' i^ t^^^ P^"sh, was a sapling from 
 Un^7 •?K'^^^''•'''^ ""^ ^^^^ ""^"'f- T^^ ^^^^^ys «^ fioi°^« onlj alienatel their 
 vpT. J. • K "u^ '^^"''^'^i ^"? '"^^'■^^ °^ ^^^^^ descendants, in the male line, 
 yet exist m humble life As the family documents are lost, or dispersed, the 
 
 leneJ^L^ Tf '"'^T' i'T ^!^^'^ *^ ^°^Pi^^ a pedigree ot the later 
 Larken Fsn' ' Tl % T') "J Tr^'* ^^ ^'^? ^^^^^ ^^^ is indebted to Arthur 
 if/.fpr'i .^' f .1 ^^"esford xManor title-deeds prove the descent during the 
 greater part ot the seventeenth century. 
 
 The earliest settlement of the Morfeys at Holme has not been ascertained 
 lt27"Zr^T'^^-^^''' ""'^r ^'^^ ^^ '^'"^ ^^^ied the heiress of the old 
 hf/;c WI Uq/ T f ^'r ^T ^^'^ ^^^^- ^^ ^^^« ^east of S. Michael 
 
 John R^r.t^fiv H ' 1^''^'' ?^^:^^^' '^^ °^ ^^o^ley did homage to Sir 
 
 John Eussey of Hougham, Knt., lor certain lands in Holme (Harl USS 1756 
 
 paid a^ W'e of'y'\' ""''- f ^.^^^? ''^' ^^^ ^^^« ^*" wkm MorL^ 
 Ashby ^ "^""^^ ^^ ^^' ^^^°' ^^ Kirton-on-Lindsey held at 
 
 the Mlltl^Y'ilT Pi^'^' gentleman, served upon the jury of the court of 
 mak^' fn ! ^" l^^^^^d' ^^d the same year he, or a namesake, was fined for 
 MnHpf assault upon and wounding Grace Hoden. In 1552, Anthony 
 fiiedTn'r'"^ as ajuror; and in the next year but one Lancelot Motley was 
 Botilf ^''°^^^^^^S ^^^^eows to stray about in the sown fields.-i.?./ C«r 
 
 Mi'l^riw^^^^^ ^*- ^^"il ""^ ^^^^°'^' '^^"^^ed the names of John and 
 S^' M^/" ^fT'^l^ ^^' persons in this county - indited for hearing of 
 
 ">mi^ N^^^^a^^l^^ ^--^ ^^^«> --d« t^e interment of 
 
 whl!h i^''stli'p.^lll!f O '^t '^r^r^/' '^'.^"'^^ ^^"^^ept of Bottesford church, 
 wmcn is still called the Morley Chance^ or Papist Quire Thev like n^ani 
 
 eX\ ofr hp'^H^H ^^^„r ^-> <i^d -t mark'lTgraver^^'h'^^^^^^^^ 
 ep aph, or it they did so aU but one of the slabs have peiished. The late Mr 
 
 eLf oTf^lnL? r WMi^' ^^i'^t^^' ^' Nov.,^791, in tbellrmhouse 
 BnLf 19 Jur^^^^ ^^^^^^ "°^ ii^es,and died at Glamford 
 
 Srkl niZ 'hp ' ^ ^^X^^^^ ^^' ^^^ ^^" ^^e race who will sleep in the 
 T^e Iravetdd ^nf T^'T^ ^^' '\''^^''^ ^''''' ^^ ^^^ ^°^«^g 1"^ ^^^estors. 
 nearf. nn-^hf K T .k'^ '"^ ^^^ ^^^'f,^' ^"^ ^^ was buried in the churchyard as 
 near as might be to the eastern wall of the transept. 
 
 ** 'Tis little— but it looks in truth. 
 As if the quiet bones were blest 
 Among familiar names to rest. 
 And in the places of his youth." 
 
 The Morleys were Roman Catholics, and many of their lineage still adhere to 
 
 I 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 243 
 
 yeare of our lord 1706 by me, Robert Hornsby Vicar of 
 Bottesford. 
 
 Septebr 17th, 1653. 
 "Will Caister of Botesford was approued and sworne Register 
 of ye parish by Mich^ Monkton, Esqr, one of ye Justices of 
 ye peace for ye p^ts of Lindsey in ye county of Lincolne, as 
 is witnessed under his hand ye day and yeare above set. 
 
 MlCH^ MONKTON. 
 
 Stephen Caister. 
 Elizabeth Sales & Elizabeth her dauo:hter taken as vao^rants 
 bepte 26, 1665 & thei punished according to law & 
 Registered the same by me. 
 
 WiLLiM Parkinson, Minister de Bottesford. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Inventories of Church Goods in the Churches of 
 
 HeaLAUGHj BiSUOPTHORPE, RuFFORTH, and AcOMB, CO. 
 
 York. a.d. 1549. [Lambeth MS. 696.^] 
 
 Helaugh. 
 
 The Inventorie of all the plate and bells and other orna- 
 ments within the parish churche of Helaughe maide the 
 iijd daye of Marche for the Kings Majesties Commissioners 
 Sir Willfh Farefaxe knight, Sir Robert Stapleton knight, 
 Willm Bacheler and Thomas Yndrew preste of the citie of 
 Yorke by Rych^ Straw Yicar, Willm Walcar and Robert 
 fx churchwardens. 
 
 Item primis a chales ungylt. 
 
 Item ij bells, a lyttell bell with a sacryn bell. 
 
 Item ij vestments with Albes. 
 
 Item ij withoute albes. 
 
 Item a cope, ij aultr clothes. 
 
 Item'ij laten candelstycks. 
 
 Item a pyks of lattyn. 
 
 Item a payr of lattyn sensors. 
 
 Item ij crewetts of pewter. 
 
 Item ij corporaxes. 
 
 that religion. They threw themselves heart, hand, and estate into the royal 
 cause during the wars between Charles I. and his Parliament. Similar feelings 
 animated the family in after-times. No Morley of Holme ever took the oath 
 to the present royal house, while a representative of the disinherited line 
 continued to claim allegiance. (See Pedigree, pp. 244, 245.) 
 
 * The editor is indebted to the Reverend VVilliam Stubbs, Librarian to his 
 Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, for the transcript from which the follow- 
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^^ APPENDIX. 
 
 Bysshopthorpe. 
 
 unS^'flfr'^^^'if ""^ ^i^ *^^ ^^"^^ ^^^ ornaments belonging 
 Wrvtni V 'V/ Bysshopthorp made by us WilHam 
 
 Sens m''I^ P^'T ^''^^* ^^^™^^ ^>^^^«^ ^^^^^^h. 
 waidens Master Gye Jacson, Eichard Elwood the ijth daye 
 
 of Marche in the lyth yer of the raigne of Edward the sexte. 
 
 Item on .>1P''7q^^"^ of England France & Ireland King &c 
 Item on chalis of Sylver not gylt. 
 
 Item onpyxe oflatton. 
 
 Item a pay re of of lattn. 
 
 Item ij bells hanging in the steeple. 
 
 Item one lyttell sacring bell. 
 
 Item one holly waterfatt of tynne. 
 
 Item one cruett of pewter. 
 
 Item one Crismatory of pewter. 
 
 Item one Vellvy Cope 
 
 '*' Verging. ^"'*^" ^''^'^'''' ^'''^ " ''^^ «^°- to the Albe 
 
 Item an old vestment without albe 
 
 Item iiij old alter clothes. 
 
 Item ij old towells. 
 
 Item on corporaxe cloth & ij tasslys. 
 
 Item one lyttell frountlett of ffustyan 
 
 Item on greyne vestment with albe. 
 
 RUFFORTH. 
 
 S'" Robert More — Vicar. 
 
 P^ L^] Wright, Thomas peyton-honest men. 
 
 n.a^S\v ^hXalh" ^'^ ^^^'^ ^" ^"^^^^^ ^^^^^ 
 Ffirst a chales. 
 
 Item a bell in the steppell. 
 
 Item a bell that the parish hathe for the wch bell they have to 
 make payment for the same. ^ ^ 
 
 Item a handbell and a sacryng bell 
 Item iij vestments. 
 Item iij ault^ clothes. 
 Item ij towells. 
 Item a coppe. 
 Item a payre of sensors [?] 
 Item too candelstyckes. 
 Item a cruett. 
 Item ye qwere is covered with lede. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 ACAM. 
 
 247 
 
 The Inventorie of all the goods of Acam Churche maide 
 the thirde daye of Marche in the thirde yer of the raio-ne of 
 our soveraign Lord King Edward the sixte of all the'' plate 
 bells & other ornaments within the said church as well doth 
 appere in particulers as hereafter folio weth. 
 Sir Adam Squyer Vicar of the same Church, Rychard holgayte, 
 John Cowper, John Welston, Thomas Tayler, the Church- 
 wardens. Peter Newark, Willm Newark Robert Newton, 
 Rg^ Padlocke [?] parysenors. 
 
t«««WI9-«<™«*.-."' 
 
 Hfi^r^-i *'^3»»,i*'»»-«M»Si(|?!^o*~..-m.., 
 
 roLx ^)i 
 
 "X 
 
 I, 
 
 }. Wvi > IV ,\ K 1 , 
 
 N.YOE.K, GLOSSARY. 
 
 y 
 
 Agnus Bell, 103. A sacring bell. 
 All Hallowes, 45. A representation of 
 
 All Saints. 
 Altar Front, 56. An antependium : an 
 
 oblong cloth which was suspended in 
 
 front of the altar, 
 Amys, 33, 56, 114. A linen vestment 
 
 worn by the priest at mass. 
 Apostyls' Coats, 238. Probably garments 
 
 for mystery plays. 
 
 tlZT \ 7«. 126, 138, 182. 
 
 Antiphonarium, Lat. A book contain- 
 ing the antiphons which were sung at 
 the canonical hours, arranged under 
 their respective hours and days. 
 
 ASSETT, 219. 
 
 AUMBRIE ) 
 
 AuMERY > 212. A cupboard or closet. 
 
 Almery ) 
 
 AcMERY OF here, 187. A cupboard 
 with hair-cloth sides for ventilation. 
 A meat safe. — '* Item an ambrey of 
 heare xijd." Inv. Joh. Nevell of Fal- 
 dinqworthy A.D. 1553. MS. penes 
 E.P. 
 
 Bankard, 186. Banquier, Fr. A carpet 
 or cloth covering for a table, fotm, or 
 bench. 
 
 Bales, 198. Balascus, Lat. Balais, 
 Fr. An inferior kind of ruby. — " A 
 Balace wt oon Emawraude oon Ruble, 
 and oon Diamonde crowned, wt a great 
 perle pendant at the same wt iij small 
 stones on the backside." Inv. of 
 Jewels belonging to the Lady Mary, 
 1542-1546. 
 
 Banner Cloth. A processional flag. 
 
 Barde ) 221, 222. In horizontal 
 
 Barred ) stripes. 
 
 Bason and Ewre, 67. 
 
 Bacdekyn, 182, 193. Baldakinus, Bal- 
 dekinus, Lat. Cloth of gold, brocade. 
 "Pannus omnium ditissimus, cujus 
 utpote stamen ex filo auri, subtemen 
 ex serico tegitur, plumario opere inter- 
 
 textus, sic dictus quod Baldacco, sen 
 Babylone in Perside, in Occidentales 
 provincias deferretur." — Du Fresne, 
 Gloss., sub voc. 
 
 * * De vij marcis . . . pro ij pannis 
 baudkyns viridis colons." Fabric 
 Rolls of York Minster, 128. 
 By statute 12 Edw. IV. " all cloth of 
 Gold, Sylver, BawdeTcyn, Velvet, 
 Damaske, Saten, Sarcenet, Tarteron, 
 Chamlette," &c., should be sealed 
 with the seals of the collectors of the 
 Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage. 
 Rot. Pari. vj. 154. 
 
 Baudryk, 180. The Baudrick or Eal- 
 drock of a church bell was a whit- 
 leather strap by which the clapper was 
 suspended from the staple in the crown 
 of the bell. 
 
 Belt, 169. A girdle used to fasten the 
 alb at the waist. A Rosary was some- 
 times called a Belt of Beads. 
 
 Bishop of Rome's Hat, 71. 
 
 Blotting Pauper, 200. 
 
 BooRD Alysaunder, 182. An eastern 
 fabric frequently used for ecclesiastical 
 vestments. It probably took its name 
 from the city of Alexandria. Vide 
 Fabric Rolls of York Minster, 338. 
 
 Boston, 203. A flower so called. 
 
 Brake, 187. A quern or hand-mill. 
 
 Brandrate, 189, 211. An iron tripod 
 fixed over the fire on which to set a 
 pot or kettle. — ** Item ij brandrethes 
 and an apple iron, iijs." Invent. Joh, 
 Nevill de Faldingworth, 1590. MS. 
 penes E. P. 
 
 Braunshid, 218, wrought with a branch- 
 like pattern. 
 
 Bridges, 94. Satten : a material manu- 
 factured at Brugge [Bruges] in Flan- 
 ders. 
 
 Broch, 211, 212. A spit. Sharp-pointed 
 objects of all kinds have been called 
 broaches. Church spires are yet some- 
 times so named. The beautiful spire 
 of Louth is called the broach in the old 
 
 GLOSSARY. 
 
 y 
 
 churchwardens' accounts; e. g., 1501- 
 1521, -Paid to VVillia; Nettleton, 
 ndmg to the quarrell for to buy stone 
 to the broach."— AWjV/cc Ludce, 153 
 
 BuDEs 128. Probably a scribe's errJr 
 lorburdes, i.e. birds; cf. 184. Biids 
 were a very frequent ornament on 
 ecclesiastical vestments ; e. g «' On 
 vestment, the grouud blewe'wroght 
 with byrddes of greyn sylk."— A7r/ow. 
 on-LindseyCh. Wdns. Accts. 1529 
 
 Buffett Stoole, 186. A stool with three 
 legH.~Pro)npt. Pan: 1. 41 
 
 BULTYNGE-PIPE, ) 189. Cloths USCd 
 
 Bultya'ge-clothes, ( in sifting meal. 
 On the title puge of Artachthos, or a 
 new booke declaring the assise or 
 weight of Bread, 4to, 1638, is an en- 
 graving of a man sifting meal. From 
 his mouth issues a label inscribed 
 / bolt. ' 
 
 Bustian, 43, 90, 205, 222. A kind of 
 tissue, probably the same as fustian. 
 In Ayrshire, fustian is still called bus- 
 tiao.— 5wrj/ Wdh^ 240. 
 
 Buttall clothes, 219. 
 
 Camies, 200. A light thin material, pro- 
 bably of silken texture. 
 
 Canopy, 45, 74, 94, 106. A hood or 
 tabernacle suspended over the altar, 
 under the shadow of which the vessel 
 containing the blessed eucharist was 
 suspended.— /2od-, iii. pt. ii. p. 205. 
 
 Carh Cloth, 204. The cloth held over 
 the bride and bridegroom's head at a 
 wedding. 
 
 Cassilden, 195. Chalcedony. 
 
 Capon Stock, 188. A hutch in which 
 to confine capons. 
 
 Cathena, Lax., 179, otherwise Catena, 
 a chain. 
 
 Chamlet, 220, 231. Camlet, a material 
 made, in the first instance, of an admix- 
 ture of the hair of the goat and the 
 
 camel interwoven.— Richardson, Diet., 
 sub voc. Camel. 
 
 Chksse, ] 98. Chasse, Fr. A border, a 
 circlet. 
 
 A sheet. 
 36, 161, 145. A box 
 containing the vessels 
 which held the conse- 
 - - -- , ci-ated oils. 
 
 Clappf. ; Clapper, 42, 118, 126, 138. A 
 wooden rattle, or trick-track, used to 
 summon people to church on the last 
 three days of Holy- week, when the bells 
 were not rung. 
 Cobbards, 189, 211. The irons which 
 
 219 
 
 Cbitte, 181. 
 Chrismatory, 
 Creme-box, 
 Oyntino-box, 
 
 O ILK -BOX 
 
 supported the spit.-^ar^ Wills, 100, 
 
 ^""^Zt' ^f ^''^^^' ^ ^'^'^^^ error for 
 corse. A corse of silk seems to have 
 been woven or plaited silk of the nature 
 of a ribbon These vestments mav 
 
 of 7ii\'Trf ;r'"^"^^^^p^-^- ^--« 
 
 ot silk were often mingled with gold 
 tifhT/'iw"' ^ ^''^y confounded 
 St^Atp"24l"^"^"^^^ ^— ^ 
 CoRPORAx, 34, 62, 181. Corporale Lat 
 A l.nen cloth used in the Mkss -I 
 Prompt. Parv. i. 93. 
 
 COTIDIAN COURSE CASE, 206 
 
 Counter, 185. 
 
 coun mg.board and counters of base 
 h^fr^; v^"^ c<;°»monly called Nurem- 
 cZt,^ r* i* ^""^^ ^^^'"^ th^t these 
 m^sets fitting mto each other, called 
 
 In 1553. John Nevill, of Faldingworth. 
 had m his hall "oon counter " 
 Coccher, 49 94, 152, 198. A book 
 kept couched, or lying on a desk-a 
 
 Probably in these cases the volumes 
 contained parts of the church ser^ce 
 or legends of saints. ^^ 
 
 Creme-box, 106. A chrismatory 
 
 vvorsted. The great chamber at Holv 
 Island was in 1553 hung «*cum le red 
 ..o^^^et^b.ders.''-Rain!,^Vr.V.:f 
 
 ^""iriJ""': ^''"'- ^^^- ^«ed here 
 fear ^^ ''""' ^^'^ ^^ ^^^ ^H' 
 
 Beacon, 67 114. A deacon's vest-nent 
 I.e., a dalmatic or an alb ^''^cnt, 
 
 Deice, 187. The dais, deas, or deis, was 
 the upper end of the hall, where the 
 h.gh table stood. The deriv'ation of he 
 word IS doubtful.-See Richard on's 
 
 ^"^:^L:5v4^'^^^^'«^^ 
 
 ^Sch "'' '''• ^ «^" or desk in a 
 Demyt. 182. Dimity, a kind of fustian 
 Perhaps so called because first manu'- 
 factured at Damietta. -Richardson, 
 JJtct., sub roc. * 
 
 DoRNEX, 204. An inferior kind of da- 
 mask originally manufactured at Door- 
 nick [Tournai], in Flanders. 
 
 Dose, 183. Borsale, Lat. -Dorsalia 
 
 R 
 
250 
 
 GLOSSARY, 
 
 sunt panni in choro pendentia a dorso 
 clericorum." — Du Fresne, Cdoss., sub 
 voc. A dosall of tapestry exists still, 
 or recently did exist, in the church of 
 Denbigh. It is inscribed Spes mea in 
 I)eo est, 1530. An engraving of this 
 beautiful piece of needlework may be 
 seen in Gent. Mag., v. 116, pt. i. 
 p. 247. 
 
 DouBYCKE, 49. Probably the text is 
 corrupt. It may be a scribe's error 
 for Dornyks. — See Domex. 
 
 DusKET, 221, 222. A colour. 
 
 PhInnel, } 29. the Fanon or Maniple. 
 
 Fertre, 183. See Feretrum. 
 
 Feretrum, Lat. 176, 178. A bier. 
 Sometimes a shrine. — In the Society 
 of Antiquaries' collection of broadsides 
 (No. 75) is preserved *' An epitaph upon 
 the death of the Worshipful Master Bene- 
 dict Spinola . . . who dyed on Tuesday, 
 the 12th of Julie, 1580." At the bottom 
 of this is a woodcut representing an 
 uncoflBned body laid over a grave, 
 wrapped in a shroud, which extends 
 far beyond the head and the feet, and 
 is tied at each end with a piece of 
 string as we now tie the mouth of a 
 sack. This is no doubt a thoroughly 
 accurate representation of the body as 
 it was deposited in the bier in days 
 when coffins were uncommon. — See 
 Cat. Soc. Antiq. Broach'ules, p. 25, 
 for a reproduction of this curious en- 
 graving. 
 
 Flowrks called Boston, 203. 
 
 Fire Stommer, 186. A fire poker. 
 
 Font Cloth, 68. The hanging with 
 which the font was ornamented. (See 
 p. 56.) It may possibly indicate the 
 Chrismale or white linen cloth put 
 upon the child's head in baptism. 
 
 Frote, 183. To rub— to stir. 
 
 Frountere, 184. An altar frontal. 
 
 Furgon, 211. Fouryon, Fr. A fire 
 fork. The fork with which sticks are 
 put into a brick oven is called in this 
 county &fruggin. 
 
 FuscHAN IN APPDLES, 200, 207. Naples 
 fustian. 
 
 Galows, 186, 189, 212. An iron bar 
 called a gallows, fastened inside an 
 open chimney. On this bar the reaking- 
 hook was hung, and from it the cooking 
 vessels were suspended over the fire— 
 "j gallowbalk with crookes" was 
 among the furniture of the hall-house 
 
 of Thomas Teanby, yeoman, of Barton- 
 upon-Humber, in 1562.— Gent. Mag. 
 Nov. 1861. 
 
 Graffe, 19. To graft. 
 
 Graile, 40, 47, 182. Gradale, Lat. A 
 book which contained the graduals 
 and some other portions of the eucha- 
 ristic service. — Maskell, Mori. Rit. i. 
 p. xxxij. 
 
 Qrtse, 81. A step — a flight of stairs. 
 •' Grece, or tred^^l, or steyre, Gradu^." 
 —Prompt. Parv. i. 209. 
 
 "The lady 
 
 " Glydes doun by the grece, & gos to 
 the kyng." — Early Eng. AlUt. Poems. 
 E.E. Text Soc, p. 85. 
 *'The litil botrie undir the gresi/s." — 
 Will of John Barret of Bury, 1463. 
 Quoted in [Parker's] Domestic Architec. 
 V. iii. p. 37. 
 
 In Norfolk stairs are still called 
 grissens. There is a flight of steps in 
 the city of Lincoln called the Greet- 
 stone, or Grecian stairs, which, s^ome 
 think, took its name from this word. 
 
 GwERRE, 166. The choir of a church. 
 
 Gymmers, 194. Hinges.— The word is 
 still used. 
 
 Halling, 94. Tapestry. 
 
 Ham'es Hudde, 116.— a learned corre- 
 spondent suggests that this may signify 
 the block of wood to which small bells 
 are usually attached. 
 
 Harod's coatb. a player's garment. 
 
 Hearse, 36, 118, 127. 
 
 Holy-Bread-Bc-x, ) 
 
 Holy-Brevd-Skep, \ ^^' ^^' 
 
 Vessels used for containing the Eulogla 
 or blessed bread.— In 1531, the wardens 
 of the church of St. James, Louth, ex- 
 pended ijd. "For a basket for holy 
 brede;" and in 1546 the churchwardens 
 of Kirton-on-Lindsey laid out a like 
 sum ♦* For a mand ff"or hallybred."— 
 NotiticB Ludce, 49. Proceedings of 
 Soc. Ant., 14 Apr., 1864.* 
 
 Howslinge Bell, 86. The bell which 
 was rung before the holy Eucharist 
 when taken to the sick. 
 
 Jackes, 161. Towels.— A jack towel 
 is a long and narrow piece of coarse 
 linen stitched together at the ends. 
 It is slipped over a wooden roller, 
 round which it revolves. The name 
 and thing are still very common in 
 farm houses. The roller for winding 
 the rope in a draw-well is called a 
 jack roll in the North of England 
 
 \ 
 
 glossahy. 
 
 251 
 
 (Halliw., Diet., sub voc). These 
 articles are probably called jack 
 towels from winding round a similar 
 but smaller piece of wood. 
 I Im broth ere I), 219. Embroidered. 
 Jubilee, The, 206. 
 
 Judas Lionr; Judas Candlestick ; 
 Jkwes Light, 77, 106, 163,164. The 
 wooden imitation of a candle which held 
 the Paschal candle on Holy Satur- 
 day. 
 
 KiRCHER, ) n/» ■•«« 
 
 KiRCHowE, ( ^^' ^28. A kerchief. 
 
 Here used to indicate a sacrament 
 
 cloth. See p. 70, note 
 Kiste, 181. A chest. 
 Knedynge Sheit, 189. The kneading 
 
 sheet enclosed the dough while it was 
 
 being kneaded in the kneading trough. 
 Koope. 231. A cope. 
 Kynos of Cologne, Coats of. Players' 
 
 garments. 
 
 Lambr', 195. Query, Amber. 
 
 Latten. Laiton, Fr. A hard mixed 
 metal ^ nearly similar to brass, much 
 used in fonner times for sepulchral 
 memorials. It was probably obtained 
 from Germany. In a document of the 
 year 1454 it is called "latten" or 
 •* Cullen phte:'— Prompt. Parv. 289. 
 
 Little Jack, 46. 
 
 Locio, La^. ISO. For Lotio. 
 
 Maydens-lighte, 164. 
 
 Manuell, 32, 61. Manuale, Lat. A 
 book containing the occasional offices 
 which a priest was bound to perform, 
 such as baptism, extreme unct on, and 
 the processtonal services, — Maskell, 
 Mo7i. Bit. i. Ixxvij. 
 
 Maunde, 188. A basket. 
 
 Maser, 194. A bowl of maple wood. 
 
 Meremium, Lat., 179. Timber. 
 
 Morrow-mass, 200. 
 
 MosE, 192, 194. Probably a dish. 
 "Dyschmete," made of apples, was 
 called ''Appulmoce." — Prompt. Parv. 
 i. 13. 
 
 MosB, 206. A Morse ; Morsus, Lat. A 
 clasp by which the cope was fastened. 
 — Kock, Ch. of our Fathers, ii. 37. 
 
 Navette, Fr. 81. A vessel for holding 
 incense.—" Item a navett with a spone 
 all gylt, weying xxij unc. of Ilol)ert 
 Alchurch's gyft."_Inv. of Plate be- 
 longing to Worcester Priory, 1540, 
 in Green's Worcester, v. ii, Appen. p. y. 
 
 Nersis, Lat., 180. For Nervis. 
 
 Obbett, 103, 184. An Obit. The ser- 
 vice performed on the anniversary of a 
 person's death. 
 
 Oile Box, 145. A chrismatory. 
 
 Ordinale, Lat., or Directorium Sacer- 
 dotum, was a book of rubrical directions 
 for saying the divine offices. 
 
 Orfray, 182, 201. Orphrevs were 
 bands of embroidery attached to eccle- 
 siastical vestments, especially to the 
 chasuble and the cope.— Rock, Ch. of 
 our Fathers, ii. 36. 
 
 Osculare ; j 
 
 OscuLATORiuM ; ( ^*^-' ^'le Pax. 
 
 Oyntinq box. a chrismatory. 
 
 Pailei), 182. In perpendicular stripes. 
 — ''Acurtyne of paled verdour rede 
 and blue with riban of grene threde 
 and rynges of htone.''— Wardrobe 
 Accfs. of Edw. IV., 140. 
 Parres, Apparels. Small embroidered 
 
 ornaments stitched upon the alb 
 Pascal Post, 96, 122. The post on 
 
 which the Paschal candle stood. 
 Pax, 32, 36, 42. Otherwise Pa.rboard, 
 or Osculatory. Osculare and Oscula- 
 tonum, Lat. La Paix, Fr. A piece 
 of wood, or metal, with a han.lle at 
 the back, usually in shape something 
 like a housewife's flat-iron. On the 
 front was represented the Lord's pas- 
 sion. This object was kissed by the 
 priest in the mass at the words Pax 
 Domini sit semper vobiscum, and after- 
 wards passed round to be kissed by the 
 congregation. This practice super- 
 seded the ancient kiss of charity in use 
 among the early Christians.— Du 
 Fresne, Gloss.; sub voc. Osculatorium 
 et Osculum pads. 
 Pax bread, 184. A Pax. 
 Pell', 221. Query, Pillows. 
 Peltrei, 32, 53, 110. Peltry means the 
 hides or hair of animals, from the Latin 
 Pellis. The word is frequently used in 
 this county to denote anything that is 
 quite worthless. 
 PILL..W beier, 81. A pillow case.— 
 **Jane, wife to Thomas Savage, of 
 Bransby, sayth that .... a woman 
 
 told her shee would helpe 
 
 her to 60£, three silver spoones, and 
 two gold rings, if she might have 
 halfe, and one shilling, fouer pence, 
 one linning sherte, and one linniug 
 pillow beare." \Q50. ~ Depositions 
 from 1 ork Castle Surtees Soc p. 27. 
 
 I 
 
25*3 
 
 GLOSSARY. 
 
 Pix, 90. — A box to keep the unconse- 
 crated altar breads in. The vessel in 
 which the holy eucharist was sus- 
 pended over the altar was also called a 
 Pix. 
 
 PoMAUNDER, 207. A sccnt-box. 
 
 Popis, 184. Poppyheads. The finials 
 at the end of a bench, or of the arms 
 of a cross, 
 
 PoRTES, 38, 52, 61, 83, 90, 199. For- 
 tiforium, Lat. A breviary. 
 
 PosNETT, 210. A little pot. — "Item a 
 cha^'ron six pence, a Posnett vj*^., a 
 little posnett four pence, a skymmer 
 twelue pence — ij*. WVf.— Invent. Geo. 
 Cope, of Copes Asliby, co. Northampt. 
 in Midi. Count. Hist. Coll. ij. 330. 
 
 POWTHERINGE TUBE, 189. A tub in 
 which to salt Oieat. We use the word 
 yet. 
 
 Processioner, 32, 34, 90, 182. Proces- 
 sionale, Lat. A book containing those 
 parts of the church service which per- 
 tained to processions. — Maskell, Mon. 
 Rit. i. p. cxi. 
 
 Queued, 220. Tailed. 
 
 QUISHWINE, ) 
 
 QuussoN, [ 53, 103, 166. A cushion. 
 
 QWISSINGE, ) 
 
 Racon, 186, 189. The RecUng-hooh, 
 Racking crook^ or Reckon- creeak. The 
 pot-hook, by which cooking vessels are 
 suspended from the gallows. 
 
 Rawed satten, 205. Rowed, i.e. ribbed 
 satin. 
 
 Rocket, 53, 57, 113. A surplice without 
 sleeves. — Rochetum ditfert a superpel- 
 licio quia superpellicium habet manicas 
 pendulas, sed rochetum est sine mani- 
 cis. — Lynd wood. Pronwm/e, 252, n., 
 as cited by Rock, Ch. of our Fathers, 
 ii. 17. 
 
 Rood cloth, 38, 159. The vail by which 
 the large crucifix, or rood, was shrouded 
 during Lent. 
 
 ROWELL, 159. 
 
 RuD, 115. Red. 
 
 RussELLS, 115. A kind of satin. 
 
 Sacrino Bell, 34. A hand-bell rung at 
 the elevation of the host. Rock, iii. 
 pt. ii. p. 157. 
 "Her eye was as bright as the merry 
 sunlight, 
 When it shines on the dewy grass, 
 And her voice was as clear as the 
 sacring bell 
 That is rung at the holy mass." 
 
 Saint Katherin Oylk, 183. 
 Sanctus Bell, 49. The bell rang at the 
 elevation of the host at the parish 
 mass. It was fixed outside the church, 
 frequently on the apex of the eastern 
 gable of the nave. Bell-cotes made to 
 contain the sanctus bell yet remain at 
 Goxhill and at Boston. 
 8aie, 109. A delicate serge or woollen 
 
 cloth. — Halliw., Diet. 
 ScANNUM, Lat., 178 ; otherwise Scam- 
 
 num, a bench. 
 ScHAPTE, 179. A Maypole. 
 Serura, Lat. 177, 179. A lock. 
 Ship, 48, 80, 96, 138, 184, 193. A 
 
 vessel for holding incense. 
 Shryvinq cloth, 204. Possibly the veil 
 which was hung before the rood-loft 
 in Lent. 
 SowE, 188, 212. A brewing tub, still 
 called a iS^oc in Lincolnshire.— "Mar. 
 7, 1679-80. Anne, dau. Mr. Anthony 
 Wilkinson, of North Shields, bur. The 
 child was drownd in a little water in 
 ye bottom of a soa standing on ye 
 backside, being ye first burial at 
 Christ's church after Nichs. Waids." 
 — Tynemouth Par. Reg., quoted 
 in Fabric Rolls of York Mitfs., 
 352. 
 Splede Egles, 221. Spread eagles. 
 Sprinckle, 38, 91, 105. Aspergillum, 
 Lat. a small brush fixed upon a 
 handle for the purpose of sprinkling 
 the holy water. 
 Spurn, 180. A piece of stone, or wood, 
 nsed to protect a gate-post or the 
 comer of a building from wheels, or 
 to render it support ; one end of the 
 spurn is inserted in the ground, the 
 other is attache<l at an angle to the 
 post or wall. 
 Standish, 99. An inkstand. 
 Start, 33. A straight handle, as the 
 shaft of a fire-shovel or the handle of a 
 saucepan or old-fashioned porringer. 
 Stool, | . , , 
 Stoyle, j ^ «^1«- 
 Stele. A stem, stalk, or handle. 
 SuFFERAYN, 191. Querv, sovereign. The 
 coin so called was first struck by 
 Henry VII. 
 Super altar, 29, 81, 106, 142, 159, 
 169, 205. A small portable altar.— 
 Gloss, of Arc, v. i. p. 19. 
 Superpellicium, Lat. Surplice. 
 Sygne, 237. 
 
 Synoyno Bread, 200. The larger altar 
 breads used in the mass were called sing- 
 ing bread, the smaller ones consecrated 
 
 GLOSSARY. 
 
 253 
 
 for the people were known as houseling 
 bread.— Rock, i. 157. 
 
 Tabernacle, 44, 209. A recess, or niche, 
 containing images. 
 
 Tawbutte, 220. A talbot, i.e., a hunt- 
 ing dog. 
 
 Teastron, 104. A tester. 
 
 Throwen chairs, 186, 211. Chairs 
 turned in a lathe. 
 
 Troparium, Lat. 117 ; otherwise Tro- 
 parium, or Troponarium, in English 
 Troper ; a hymnal or book of se- 
 quences. 
 
 Trusshinq, 182. Trnssing.—'lQ truss 
 means to pack close. A trussing- 
 chalice is a cup set apart for taking 
 on journeys. 
 
 Tunicle, 88, 128, 159. Tunicella, Sub- 
 tile, Lat. The vestment of the sub- 
 
 deacon. It resembled the dalmatic, 
 but had tight sleeves. 
 TuRKACE, 198. A turquoise. 
 
 Vail, 40, 44, 56, 60. The curtains 
 which, during Lent, were suspended 
 before the altar and before the rood. 
 
 Verge, 193, 219. A rod. 
 
 Vernacle, 196. Veronica. 
 
 Verioyce. Verjus, Fr. A sour liquid, 
 similar to vinegar, made from the 
 juice of crabs. 
 
 Vestment. This word is here always 
 used to indicate the chasuble or chief 
 sacrificial vestment of the church 
 
 ViGARius, Lat. 180. Probably an error 
 for vicarius, a deputy. 
 
 Wayncloutt, 200. A waggon cloth. 
 Wharle, 170. A whirl for a spindle. 
 
i 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 255 
 
 Abbrall, Mary, 228 
 Abbrall, Oliver, 228 
 Abel, John, 62 
 Abotem, Allen, 143 
 Abraham, Kobert, 200 
 Abj, William, 237 
 Adcocke, Richard, 168 
 Aelmer, John, 54 
 Aestroppe, Robert, 103 
 Affen, William, QS, 69 
 Alcock, Isabell, 152, 
 ,, Libens, 152, 153 
 ,, Ursula, 152 
 Alder, John, 121, 122 
 Aldrie, John, 121 
 Aleu, William, 56 
 Alixander, the apparitor, 130 
 Alisbie, William, 160 
 Allaice, John, 50 
 
 ,, Thomas, 50 
 Alien, George, 148 
 ., Richard, 138 
 Allenson, Richard. 143 
 Aliejn, Heniy, 86, 138 
 
 ,, Richard, 86, 138 
 AUiu, George, ^Q 
 Almon, Austin, 80 
 Amcotts, Alexander, 64, 116 
 ,, Dorothy, 64 
 „ Frances, 116 
 Amoore, William, Q% 
 Anderson, Bertram, 185 
 Andrew, Thomas, 237 
 Andrewes, Thomas, 156 
 Androwe, Laurence, 83 
 >» Richard, 82 
 » Thomas, 150 
 f> William, 143 
 Angell, William, 209 
 Ann, St., 190 
 Appleyard, Thomas, 155 
 Armeston, John, 86 
 
 ,, Richard, 86 
 Armestrong, Francis, 61 
 Arnold, George, 225 
 M Richard, 99 
 » Thomas, 147 
 
 Arofyn, Robert, 236 
 Asc(J\jgh, see Ayscough 
 Ashlaiue, Robert, 160 
 Ashton, Robert, 56 
 ,, William, 44 
 „ W. S., 79 
 Ash well, John, 165 
 ,, Harry, 59 
 Aske, William, 48 
 Askewe, Anthony, 60 
 Askoughe, «ee Ayscough 
 Asterby, Johanna, 64 
 
 ,, Roger, 64 
 Astocke, Augustine, 47 
 Aston, William, 198 
 Astroppe, William, 101, 103, 104 
 Atkinson, Christopher, Qo 
 Dorothy, 236 
 George, 166 
 Haman, 32 
 Miles, 121 
 Nicholas, 141 
 Robert, 56, 113, 234 
 Thomas, 227, 237 
 William, 235 
 Audley, John, 119 
 
 „ Thomas, 119 
 Awbre, Thomas, 190, 191, 192, 202. 
 Awdeis, William, 44 
 Awkland, Edmund, 77 
 Ayland, Elizabeth, 205 
 Aylmer, John, 87 
 Ayshwell, John, 230 
 
 Ayscough, Francis, 125, 157. 214 225 
 226, 227 ' ' » ^^^y 
 
 Jane, 220 
 Isabella, 132 
 William, 132, 220 
 
 Baban, William, 117 
 Bachbar, Thomas, 170 
 Bacheler, William, 243 
 Backhouse, George, 56 
 
 „ Nichohis, Qo 
 
 Badg, WiUiam, 117 
 Baile, Thomas, 30 
 BaUey, Henry Vincent, 134 
 
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 Bait, Thomas, 101 
 
 Bakster, Robert, 234 
 
 Balderston, Edward, 241 
 ,, John, 37 
 
 Baldwin, Christopher, 233 
 ,, Dorothy, 233 
 „ Henry, 233 
 ,, Nicholas, 233 
 ,, Peter, 233 
 
 Bancroft, James, 83 
 
 Banister, Henry, 91 
 
 Baumar, John, 117 
 
 Banton, John, 36 
 
 Barbor, James, 195 
 
 Barbage, John, 154 
 
 Bard; Alexander, 162 
 
 Barker, John, 30 
 
 „ Robert, QQ, 67 
 „ William, 58 
 
 Barleman, John, 113 
 
 Barlie, Richard, 86 
 
 Barly, Hugh, 119 
 
 Barm, Stephen, 117 
 
 Barnaby, Nicholas, 116 
 
 Barrand, William, 123 
 
 Barnard, John, 65, 225 
 „ William, 153 
 
 Barterton, Richard, 42, 43 
 
 Bartew, 163 
 
 Barwick, John, 40 
 
 Barwick, Peter, 40 
 
 Bas, Adam, 118 
 
 Basenge, 236 
 
 Basse, Thomas, 180 
 Basset, Thomas, 179 
 
 Baster, Robert, 131 
 Baston, John, 118 
 Battle, Brian, 39 
 Baude, Charles, 141, 130 
 „ Hugh, 130 
 ,, John, 130 
 ,, Maurice, 130 
 Baud wine, Christopher, 35, 36 
 Bautry, Melicent, 78 
 Bawdyng, Christopher, 237 
 Bawle, John, 159 
 Bawman, Nicholas, 54 
 Bawne, Nicholas, 54 
 Baynes, Ambrose, 233 
 
 ,, Christopher, 233 
 Baynt<)n, Hew, 234 
 Bays, Thomas, 232 
 Beardsschawe, Harry, 100 
 Beare, John, 68 
 Beaver, Sir Francis, 43 
 Becham, Christopher, 52 
 Beck, William, 132 
 Beete, Thomas, 114 
 Beines, Thomas, 232 
 Bell, Robert, 32 
 
 Bell, Thomas, 120 
 Bellamee, Robert, 56, 57 
 Bellgrave, Robert, 207 
 Bellingham, Alice, 116 
 
 „ Catherine, 116 
 
 „ Christopher, 116 
 
 „ Edward, 116 
 
 „ Joan, 116 
 
 „ John, 116 
 
 „ Isabell, 116 
 
 „ Judith, 116 
 
 „ Maud, 116 
 
 „ Richard, 115, 116 
 
 „ Robert, 115, 116 
 
 „ Sarah, 116 
 
 }, Susanna, 116 
 
 „ Thomas, 116 
 
 „ Troth, 116 
 
 „ William, 116 
 
 Bell, Thomas, 230 
 Bellow, John, 39 
 Bemres, Edward, 162 
 Bennett, .... 229 
 Benet, Christopher, 119 
 Benolte, Thomas, 207 
 Bentham, .... 87 
 Bentley, John, 72 
 
 ,, Robert, 57 
 Benton, John, 230 
 Berkeley, Elizabeth, 214 
 
 ,, Maurice, 214 
 Beruake, .... 92 
 Berners, Lord, 127 
 Berrege, John, 230 
 Berrer, Thomas, 156 
 Berry, .... 62 
 „ Anne, 228 
 „ William, 228 
 Bertie, Catherine, 74 
 „ Peregrine, 74 
 ,, Richard, 74 
 ,, Robert, 75- 
 „ Thomas, 74 
 Bete, John, 94 
 
 „ Richard, 169 
 Bethel, Elizabeth, 233 
 „ Jabez, 233 
 ,, John, 233 
 Bettison, William, 142 
 Bevel, John, 192 
 Bever, Elizabeth, 112 
 
 ,, Robert, 111 
 Bevercotes, Alice, 92 
 
 „ Richard, 92 
 Bewley, Robert, 240 
 
 „ William, 113 
 Billingworth, William, 60 
 Birch, Thomas, 235 
 Birkit, Gertrude, 230 
 Birnaud, .... 232 
 
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 Bishop, Christopher, 102 
 „ Dorothy, 102 
 ,, George, 103 
 ,, John, 101, 102, 104 
 ,, Mary, 103 
 Mathew, 102 
 Nicholas, 102 
 Richard, 102 
 Robert, 102 
 Roger, 102 
 Sarah, 103 
 Thomas, 102, 234 
 ,, William, 36, 103 
 Blackburn, Francis, 59 
 
 „ Jane, 59 
 Blenkinsopp, Edwin C. L., 143 
 Blesby, Jane, 34 
 
 ,, William, 34 
 Blewitt, John, 99 
 Blissit, Thomas, 51, 52 
 Blood, John, 112 
 Blow, David, 241 
 Boldon, Nicholas, 124 
 Bolles, John, 213 
 „ Mary, 215 
 Bolle, Richard, 213, 214, 215 
 Bond, Stephen, 90 
 Boniface VIII. Pope, 206 
 
 ,, Martin, 113 
 Bonner, Nicholas, 132 
 Boothe, Edward, 98 
 Henry, 97 
 John, 97, 98 
 Kilham, 97 
 „ William, 97 
 Bordall, Robert, 137 
 Borough, Catherine, 215 
 
 Borowt' ] Silvester, 215, 234 
 
 Boroughe, William, 48 
 
 Bostonne, John, 93 
 
 Boston, Thomas, 118 
 
 Both, see Boothe 
 
 Bowghe, John, 30 
 
 Bowie, Mathew, 103 
 
 Bowl, Robert, 114 
 
 Bowth, Thomas, 136 
 
 Bowyer, Henry, 244 
 ,, John, 244 
 
 Boyds, Alic3, 238 
 
 Boyes, John, 44 
 
 Boys, George, 80, 81 
 Bozon, Elizabeth, 214 
 
 ,, Richard, 214 
 Bracebrigge, Robert, 66 
 Brackelesbie, William, 39 
 Braekilbie, William, 39 
 Bradley, Morton, 230 
 Bradshaw, .... 93 
 Braadwhyt, Robert, 236 
 
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 Bransbye, Richard, 231 
 Brannston, Thomas, 148 
 Brasbrigge, W-lliam, 205 
 Brathericke, Edward, 69 
 Bra-incehie, Richard, 104 
 Brauiicbie, Christopher, 104 
 
 Breariey ill 
 
 Brewer, Mary, 245 
 Brian, Robert, 217 
 Brigges, John, 169 
 Brinckill, Roger, 56 
 
 „ William, 56 
 Bristol, Earl of, 139 
 Bristowe, Gervaise, 228 
 Brocklesbie, Mr., 133 
 Brockhouse, Jone, 235 
 Broholme, Thomas, 62 
 Broke, Thomas, 113 
 Brokylsbie, Richard, 232 
 
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 Bromley, Nathaniel, 230 
 Brooke, Francis, 230 
 Brookhouse, Johanna, 234 
 Broughill, Lord, 63 
 Brougbton, Peter, 167 
 Browghton, William, 44 
 Browne, Heurv, 60 
 
 William, 158 
 John, 107, 154, 130 
 Rafe, 113, 127, 129 
 „ Robert, 90, 150 
 Broun, Thomas, 220, 221, 222 
 Bruce, Robert, 126, 194 
 Brumby, Christopher, 156 
 
 Gerratt, 156, 157, 237 
 John, 234, 235 
 Mary, 235 
 Rebecca, 234 
 Brunby, William, 115, 117, 234 
 Brunyee, N., 44 
 Bryan, Richard, 148 
 ,, Thomas, 231 
 Bryane, Robert, 216, 220 
 Bryar, Thomas, 44 
 Buckberie, Robert, 49 
 Buckburie, John, 49 
 Buckland, Richard, 207 
 Buckmynster, Thomas, 107, 136 
 Bucton, John, 217 
 Buds, John, 60 
 Buke, Thomas, 149 
 Burbage, John, 155 
 Burbut, William, 106 
 Burdew, Nicholas, 113 
 Bull, Geoffrey, 148, 149 
 
 „ Richard, 109 
 Bullingham, Elizabeth, 244 
 „ Francis, 244 
 
 I Bullinger, Henry, 62 
 
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 Bullock, Elizabeth, 233 
 
 „ John, 157, 158, 233 
 
 Bulmer, 126 
 
 Burnett, John, 162 
 Burnit, William, 238 
 Burgh, .... 52 
 Burgh, Sylvester, 234 
 Burgles, John, 107 
 Burie, William, 142 
 Burley, Robert, 49 
 Burre, William, 143 
 Burton, Gregorie, 145 
 
 „ John, 48 
 
 „ Thomas, 67 
 William, 234 
 Bushe, Hugh, 67, 68 
 
 ,, John, 68 
 Bushop, see Bishop 
 Bussey, Edmond, 96, 141 
 
 „ John, m, 133, 242 
 
 „ Katherine, 141 
 
 ,, Maud, 96 
 Busshey, see Bussey 
 Bust, Christopher, 56 
 
 „ William, 120 
 Byllesby, .... 238 
 Bysshope, see Bishop 
 
 Cadman, Mary, 79 
 Caister, William, 243 
 
 Calys,'' I ''' ^*^^^' 
 Callis, Agnes, 32 
 
 „ Alison, 31 
 
 „ Bridgett, 32 
 
 „ Elizabeth, 31 
 
 „ Henry, 30, 32 
 
 ,, John, 32 
 
 „ Isabell, 32 
 
 ,, Mercy, 31 
 
 „ Robert, 30, 31, 32 
 
 ,, Susan, 31 
 
 ,, Thomas, 31, 32 
 
 ,, William, 30, 32 
 Calow, William, 237, 238 
 Calvin, John, 191 
 Caluerd, James, 142 
 Camden, William, 46 
 Cambi-ige, Robert, 37 
 Candy she, .... 64 
 Cantelow, W., 134 
 Cappe, Robert, 73, 141 
 Caresby, Robert, 57 
 Carnell, Thomas, 77 
 Camwell, Robert, 29 
 Carre, Edward, 139 
 
 „ George, 139 
 
 „ John, 118, 139 
 
 „ Isabella, 139 
 
 „ Nicholas, 139 
 
 Carre, Robert, 139 
 Carrington, William, 121, 235 
 Carter, Richard, 124 
 
 ,, Thomas, 95 
 Cartnell, Thomas, 104 
 Cart Wright, George, 119 
 Castell, Nicholas, 205 
 Caster, Robert, 44 
 
 „ William, 46 
 Cater, Richard, 124 
 Catherine, Saint, 183 
 Catly, John, 104 
 Cattell, Thomas, 111, 112 
 Catley, John, 113 
 Cayley, Robert, 231 
 Ceayster, Robert, 230 
 Cecill, William, 217 
 Chamberlaine, Humphrey, 106 
 
 „ 33, 95, 130 
 
 Chambers, Johnne, 41 
 ,, Roland, 142 
 Chapljm, Robert, 237 
 Chapman, Edward, 230 
 
 Guthlack, 217, 218 
 Richard, 124, 236 
 Thomas, 98 
 William, 164 
 Charles, Robert, 86 
 Chatterton, Elizabeth, 109 
 
 ,, Richard, 119 
 
 Cheesbro, Joseph, 79 
 Chelles, Christopher, 63 
 Chippsaye, Rychard, 101 
 Cholmeley, Sir Montague John, 50 
 Cholmondley, Henry, 50 
 ,, Robert, 50 
 
 Chomley, Robert, 50, 51 
 Christina, St., 190 
 Chypman, Laurence, 231 
 Clapham, Thomas, 58 
 Clarke, Edward, 117 
 Clark, Geoffry, 48 
 ,, George, 44 
 Clarke, John, 32, 127 
 Clark, Richard, 151 
 Clarke, Robert, 69 
 
 „ Thomas, 41, 113, 167 
 „ William, 94, 234 
 Claton, Thomas, 237 
 Clatton, Laurence, 240 
 Cleisbie, Tho., 47 
 Clement VI., Pope, 206 
 Clepole, Thomas, 73, 74 
 Cleye, Thomas, 62 
 Clifford, Margaret, 139 
 
 „ Thomas, 108, 139 
 Clinton & Say, Lord, 136 
 Clipson, George, 127 
 Close, Thomas, 68 
 Cocke, Thomas, 162 
 
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 Cockitt, William, 138 
 Cocksone, Robert, 233 
 Cod, Nicholas, 103 
 Codd, Robert, 101, 103 
 
 M William, 231 
 Cokes, Robert, 190 
 y, Thomas, 205 
 Colbie, Nicholas, 99 
 Cole, John, 129 
 Collinwode, Robert, 62, 63 
 Colsonne, Richard, 107 
 Comestor, Peter, 199 
 Compton, Thomas, 163 
 Coney, Richard, 50, 51 
 » Sutton, 51 
 I) Thomas, 50, 51 
 >i William, 51 
 Conin, Rol)ert, 50 
 Conne, Christopher, 119, 120 
 
 », Richard, 120 
 Constable, Marmaduke, 125 
 
 M Robert, 125 
 
 Cooper, Richard, 216 
 Cooke, Henry, 80, 230 
 Cook, Robert, 123 
 Cooke, Thomas, 36, 41 
 
 ,i William, 108, 231 
 Cope, William, 42 
 Corbryg, Thomas, 231 
 Cotes, John, 136 
 Cott, Robert, 98 
 Cotton, John, 51 
 „ Mary, 51 
 Coverdale, Miles, 46 
 Coye, John, 149 
 Coyke, John, 234 
 Cope, Edward, 214 
 
 M Anne, 214 
 Coplay, .... 202 
 Copledick, John, 214 
 Copley, Anne, 229 
 ), John, 229 
 Cother, Leonard, 222 
 Cottam, William, 118 
 Coupledyke, John, 34 
 
 >, Elizabeth, 34 
 
 Coventry, Anne, 40 
 
 ,, Thomas, 40 
 Cowell, Johanna, 201, 203 
 Cowell, John, 201, 203 
 Cowper, John, 237, 247 
 Coxe, John, 157 
 Craile, John, 107 
 Craine, William, 59 
 Crane, Richard, 230 
 » Robert, 230 
 „ Thomas, 230 
 Crashe, John, 46, 47 
 Cresse, John, 171 
 Cressie, William, 151 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Cressey, John, 80 
 Croftes, John, 167, 168 
 Cromwell, Thomas, 190 
 Crosbie, William, 151 
 Crosby, John, 205 
 Crowder, 'J'homas, 65 
 Crowe, William, 222 
 Cfowther, Henry, 239 
 
 » Thomas, 164 
 Croxton, John, 63 
 Cumberworth, Katharine, 181 
 „ Robert, 181 
 
 ,, Thomas, 181, 185 
 
 Cnrlmg, E. J., 191 
 Curtas, Thomas, 233 
 Curteise, John, 125, 160 
 Curtis, James, 152 
 
 ,, William, 152 
 
 ,, Richard, 152 
 Cuthbert, St., 87 
 Cuthbert . . . SO 
 
 Daoleise, Thomas, 93 
 Daile, William, 70 
 I>aJy, .... 177 
 Dalyson, Barbara, 34 
 „ Isabell, 98 
 ,, William, 34, 98, 125 
 Dams, Mary, 235 
 Barbie, Miles, 60 
 Darcy, Lord, 29 
 Darley, Thomas, 147 
 Darfild, John, 77 
 Darwin, William, 228 
 Daubeneye, John, 78 
 
 „ William, 78 
 Daunce, William, 29 
 Davie, John, 167 
 Davison, Edward, 124 
 Davissone, William, 39 
 Davy, William, 237, 238 
 Dawbe, Thomas, ] 32 
 Dawbney, Richard, 235 
 Dawes, Henry, 74 
 Dawnte, Edmond, 96 
 Dawson, Edward, 39 
 „ Godfrey, 145 
 »y Richard, 144 
 „ Robert, 230 
 Dawton, John, 115 
 Daye, Robert, 61 
 Deane, James, 40 
 
 „ Thomasine, 40 
 Deighton, Elizabeth, 34 
 
 „ Robert, 34 
 Deken, Thomas, 230 
 Demetrius, Saint, 183 
 Dent, Peter, 55 
 Dente, Robert, 61 
 Derick, Anthony, 61 
 
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 Dicons, Richard, 50 
 Diconson, George, 149 
 
 ,, James, 83 
 Diconsonne, John, 145 
 
 Walter, 49 
 Digby, Everard, 34 
 
 „ Katherine, 34 
 Dighton, .... 157 
 
 Elizabeth, 125 
 Robert, 125 
 Dil worth, WUliam, 162 
 Disney, .... 29 
 
 Daniel, 58 
 
 Emiline, 162 
 
 Gervase, 59 
 
 Guido, 58 
 
 Joane, 58 
 
 John, 58 
 
 Molineux, 58 
 
 R., 162 
 
 Richard, 116, 214 
 
 Susan, 116 
 
 Thomas, -^8, 107 
 
 William, 214 
 Dobbes, Robert, 222 
 Dobbney, Robert, 234 
 Dobe, Robert, 217, 221, 222, 223 * 
 Dodds, Simon, 42 
 Dolbyn, William, 35 
 Dolman, Elizabeth, 241, 245 
 John, 240, 241. 
 ,, Marmaduke, 241, 245 
 ,, William, 241 
 Doughtie, Peter, 155 
 Dover, Robert, 126 
 Dowe, William, 141 
 Doughtie, George, 97 
 Doughty, John, 31 
 Dowtie, Thomas, 96, 97 
 Dowsan, Nicholas, 64 
 Doyle, .... 177 
 Drabery, Thomas, 62 
 Draper, William, 82 
 Di-aunt, Thomas, 95 
 Drewery, Thomas, 63 
 Drewrie, William, 82 
 Drope, Philip, 153 
 Drowrie, Robert, 109 
 Drury, Francis, 234, 235, 236 
 
 „ Mary, 234 
 Drurie, Robert, 167 
 Dudley, Ambrose, 69 
 Dymoke, . . . .215 
 Dymok, Edward, 225, 226, 227 
 Dynnys, Richard, 231 
 Dyon, John, 126 
 Dyon, Robert, 126 
 Dytton, Robert, 216, 220, 222, 223 
 
 Earlk, Austin, 105 
 
 Edmonde, .... 57 
 Edolphe, Symon, 34 
 ,, Thomas, 34 
 Edward the Confessor, 132 
 Edwards, Thomas, 156 
 Eland, William, 49, 50, 51 
 Eldred, William, 152, 153 
 Ellis, .... 131 
 
 ,, Alexander, 47 
 
 ,, Jane, 50 
 
 ,, John, 240 
 
 ,, Thomas, 50, 167 
 EUiz, Henry, 104 
 Elman, Henry, 238 
 Elmer, William, 110 
 Elsaie, John, 110 
 El wood, Richard, 246 
 Emesou, William, 65 
 Erasmus, Desiderius,191 
 Ergbam, William, 181 
 Esington, Richard, 136 
 Est, William, 146 
 Eueryngtpn, .... 87 
 
 Evereth, j ,c)o 
 Everet, \ ^^-^ 
 
 Everington, John, 122, 123 
 Evers, Jane, 116 
 
 ,, Peter, 34 
 
 ,, Robert, 116 
 
 ,, William, 70 
 Evrod, Thomas, 122 
 Eyre, Richard, 49 
 
 Fairfax, .... 62 
 Farefax, Robert, 111, 112 
 Fairfaxe, William, 243 
 Faneley, William, 169 
 Far, John, 76, 104 
 Farr, Robert, 227 
 Farmerie, .... 236 
 Farrer, William, 231 
 Farro, Robert, 100, 101 
 Favknar, John, 137 
 Fawcette, George, 70 
 Fawnte, John, 162 
 Fearnes, William, 4 
 Fen, Andrew, 84 
 Fenne, Thomas, 72 
 Fen, William, 67 
 Fentonne, Robert, 138 
 Fenwycke, Christopher, 96 
 Ferdinand, The Emperor, 201 
 Fermour, Laurence, 207 
 Feme, Douglas, 45 
 
 ,, Henry, 45 
 
 „ John, 45 
 
 ,, William, 45 
 Fillingham, Authonv, 161 
 Firby, William, 231 
 Fisher, John, 199 
 Fiswick, WUliam, 127 
 
 259 
 
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 260 
 
 Fitz Rannlf, 92 
 Fitzwilliam ... 29, 92 
 „ Eleanor, 97 
 
 yy Marian, 213 
 
 „ Mary, 216 
 
 )> John, 213 
 
 >, William, 216 
 
 Fleetwood, . . . . 87 
 Fleit, John, 199 
 
 „ Thomas, 199 
 Fletcher, Robert, 43 
 Flower, Francis, 167 
 Flowers, John, 119 
 Fijnt. Thomas, 140 
 Folantyne, Richard, 137 
 Folgeum, Sara, 230 
 Folkingham, John, 139 
 Porgame, William, 67 
 Forman, Richard, 53, 54 
 „ Kobert, 237 
 V Thomas, 150 
 Forrow, Richard, 93 
 Forsette, Anthony, 234 
 Foster, John, 40*76, 155, 164 
 n Nicholas, 237 
 „ Richard. 113 
 „ Thomas, 136 
 Fotherby, William, SO 
 Fountainne, John, 145 
 Fowler, Christopher, 235 
 „ Helen, 234 
 „ Robert, 37, 234, 235 
 Fowster, William, 44 
 Fox, John, 39 
 „ Harry, 217 
 „ Rebecca, 73 
 „ Robert, 243 
 Frank, John, 236 
 Franck, Robert, 131 
 Frauncis, .... 61 
 Frestoune, Thomas, 150 
 Frithe, Richard, 163 
 Frwt, Edward SI 
 
 „ John, 127, 129 
 Froste, Robert, 230 
 Folke, 64 
 
 Gal£ws. Austin, 102 
 Gammon, Thomas, SO, 81 
 Gamble, William, 148 
 (lannok, .... 116 
 Gamell, Geonre, 113 
 Gamer, Charfes, 146 
 Garnet, Thomas, 113 
 Garforth, James, 154 
 Garwall, Susannah, 32 
 Garwell. Bartholomew, 32 
 Gaskerike, Elizabeth, 97 
 
 »» William, 97 
 
 Gawthome, Robert, 107 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Gee, Elizabeth, 228 
 „ Katherine, 218 
 „ Thomas, 70, 228 
 Gell, Thomas, 50 
 GeUyatt, Robert, 233 
 Gery, Johanna, 141 
 
 „ Peter, 141 
 Geven, Thomas, 109 
 Geyn, Thomas, 233 
 Gibson, Robert, 122 
 ,, William, 114 
 Gie, John, 136 
 Gilbert, George, 57 
 „ Thomas, 1.54 
 
 Gllbie, 75 
 
 GiUerey, 163 
 
 Gilliett, Isabell, 205 
 GirlingtoD, Ann, 85 
 ,, Robert, 132 
 
 yy Nicholas, 85 
 
 William, 132 
 Glanforth, Richard, 165 
 Glasyer, Thomas, 180 
 Glew, Henry, 44 
 Godfrey, Thomas, 98 
 Godson, Edward, 231 
 Good, Robert, 75 
 Goodall, John, 73, 75 
 Gblding, John, 100, 101 
 Goodbiyce, Lyon, 231 
 Goodcher, Thomas, 30 
 Gomell Greorge, 113 
 Gower, the Poet, 134 
 Grace, John, 237 
 ,, Robert, 90 
 Graue, Robert, 130 
 „ Thomas, 130 
 Graunger, Thomas, QS 
 Graunt, John, 113 
 ,, Rase, 143 
 Graves, Christopher, 169 
 Gray, Walter, Archbishop of York, 175 
 Graye, Guy, 130 
 
 „ Thomas, 130 
 Grayme, William, 47 
 Grayne, John, 192 
 Grare, William, 237 
 Grebe, Richard, 223 
 Green, Christopher, 239 
 Bdward, 100 
 Geoi^, 154 
 GUbert, 30, 31 
 Henry, 234 
 John, 27, 93 
 Thomaa, 109 
 William, 67 
 Chn^, Robert, 111, 112 
 Gregg, William, 135 
 Grene, see Green 
 Grenehan, John, SO 
 
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 261 
 
 Grenewod, John, 56 
 Greyne, .... 73 
 Griffiths, Abel, 201 
 Griffyth, .... 36 
 Grindall, Archbishop, 201 
 Grome, Robert, 112 
 Growe, Adam, 149, 150 
 Gryme, Edward, 149 
 Grymyscroft, Joanna, 199 
 Gnduryle, William, 230 
 Gunnora, 68 
 GusterJ, Robert, 171 
 Gutterson, Cuthbert, 91 
 Gjflfon, Robert, 238 
 Gylbert, John, 166 
 Gylby, John, 113 
 vjylman, Giles, 110 
 
 Halixgworthe, Thomas, 39 
 Haire, Robert, 94 
 Hall, .... 37 
 
 ,, George, 112 
 
 ,, James, 93 
 
 „ Jane, 229, 242 
 
 „ John, 225 
 
 „ Robert, 77 
 
 „ Simon, 67, 100 
 
 ,, Thomas, 70, 142 
 
 „ William, 81, 112, 232, 234 
 Hallaley, WHliam, 134 
 Halley, see Heally 
 Hake. Mayhave, 216 
 HaUfax, Thomas, 117 
 Halton, James, 29 
 Halywell, George, 222 
 Hamers, Richard, 42, 43 
 Hammer, Edmund, 61 
 Hansard, Elizabeth, 125 
 ,, William, 125 
 Harbar, Thomas, 41 
 H&rbert, Joan, 116 
 ,, Juhn, 116 
 Harbie, Thomas, 69 
 Harbotell, John, 42 
 Hardenby, Agnes, 232 
 „ R-jbert, 232 
 Hardy, John, 199 
 Harebie, Richard, 152, 153 
 ,, Thomas, 152, 153 
 ,, William, 152 
 Harling, John, 58 
 Hamia, Thomas, 119 
 Harpmaker, Thomas, 179 
 Harrie, Giles, 109 
 
 „ Robert, 109 
 Harrington, .... 106 
 John, 166 
 Robert, 166 
 Thomas, 34 
 
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 Harry, Jane, 213 
 
 Harvy, William, 67, 68, 69, 213 
 Harsone, William, 236 
 Harwood, Robert, 93, 95 
 Harrison, Alexander, 32 
 I., 233 
 Lambert, 109 
 Richard, 156, 157 
 Robert, 100 
 Thomas, 237 
 WiUiam, 90 
 HarysoK, ) „ 
 Harryson, j ^^ ^^'"^'^^" 
 Haselwood, Edraond, 114 
 Hatcher, Sir John, 35 
 
 ,, Faith, 35 
 Hawet, Thomas, 48 
 Hawks worth, Christopher, 71 
 Hawkyne, Christopher, 77 
 Hawrerdyn, Augustine, 137 
 Hay, Allen, 43 
 Head, Henry, 217 
 Healey, Arnold, 174 
 
 ,, Bartholomew, 234 
 ,, Charles, 228 
 ,, Elizabeth, 228, 229 
 „ Allen, 228 
 „ George, 228, 229 
 Mary, 228 
 Francis, 229 
 Henry, 229 
 John, 227, 223, 229 
 Richard, 227, 228 
 Thomas, 228, 229 
 Ursula, 229 
 „ WUliam, 228 
 Heaton, Peter, 61 
 Hellay, see Healey 
 Helye, Arnold, 74 
 Held, Richard, 55 
 Helye, see Healey 
 Heire, John, 131 
 Hempreingham, William, 52 
 Heneage, Elizabeth, 214 
 ,, John, 214 
 
 Thomas, 214, 225, 226, 227 
 Here ward, 68 
 Hering, Robert, 234 
 Herries, Lord, 126 
 Herring, Alice, 235 
 ,, James, 235 
 ,, Ruth, 235 
 Herryson, Austin, 234 
 Hersonne, William, 154 
 Hervey Carr, Lord, 139 
 
 Elizabeth, 139 
 
 Isabella, 139 
 
 John, 139 
 Heryson, Edward, 237 
 Hewyck, .... 126 
 Heydon, Anthony, 237, 23S 
 
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 Hiberstowe, John, 160 
 Hicksonne, Richard, 171 
 Hilbert, Richard, 239 
 Hill, Mary, 78 
 ,, Robert, 236 
 ,, Thomas, 77 
 Hiltoft, .... 131 
 Hilton, Elizabeth, 108 
 
 Godfrey, 128 
 Hirst, John, 147 
 Hixon, John, 115 
 Hobson, John, 157 
 
 „ William, 131 
 Hobster, Andrew, 146 
 Hodgekyn, Thomas, 75 
 Hodgson, John, 113 
 Hodgeson, .... 231 
 ,, Thomas, 113 
 Hod en, Grace, 242 
 Hodshon, Harry, 167 
 Hog, John, 93 
 Holcutt, see Alcock 
 Holde, John, 236 
 Holdemesse, Thomas, 147, 148 
 Holdinge, Raflfe, 90 
 HoJdsworth, Faith, 241 
 Holgate, Elizabeth Mary, 229 
 „ Edward, 229 
 ,, George, 229 
 ,, Henry, 229 
 „ Patterson, 229 
 „ Richard, 247 
 ,, Robert, 229 
 Holgayte, see Holgate 
 Holland, Blaise, 213 
 ,, John, 164 
 „ Thomas, 213 
 Hollingworth, Thomas, 130, 138 
 Hollis, Gervaise, 39, 88, 132 
 Holme, .... 244 
 
 ,, John, 126 
 Home, Anthony, 120 
 Holmes, George, 33 
 Homer, William, 137 
 Hood, Henry, 220 
 Hoole, Robert, 234 
 Hopkinson, Robert, 244 
 Horcastle, William, 221 
 Hornby, Ann, 234 
 „ Mary, 234 
 ), Joseph, 186 
 ,, Thomas, 234 
 Homeby, Henry, 234 
 Hornsaie, William, 53 
 Hornsby, Robert, 240, 241, 243 
 Homsey, Humphrey, 237, 238 
 
 ,, John, 164 
 Hotham, .... 116 
 
 Hough, 105 
 
 Houghe, Isabell, 124 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 263 
 
 Houlton, Henry, 117 
 Howard, Douglas, 45 
 
 „ William, 45 
 Howe, Henry, 90 
 Howgh, Richard, 170 
 Howkar, Robert, 117 
 Hoyle, Mary, 79 
 Huck, John, 73 
 Hudson, Richard, 160 
 
 M Thomas, 245 
 Huggete, Richard, 78 
 Huggett, Robert, 230 
 Hundson, Alexander, 69 
 Hunt, Margaret, 233 
 Hunton, GeoflFrey, 137 
 Huntonne, Richard, 90 
 Hard, George, 239 
 Hussey, .... 92 
 
 M ThomaSr217 
 Hutchine, Robert, 145 
 
 Hutton, 169, 213 
 
 Huwhyt, Simon, 236 
 Hyckes, Christopher, 218 
 Hyll, see Hill 
 Hynd, John, 42 
 Hyndemarshe, Robert, 34 
 
 Ibbes, Robert, 150 
 Inchquine, Lord, 63 
 Ingleby, William, 215 
 Inman, Harry, 59 
 
 „ Thomas, 59, 60 
 Ireland, Anthony, 82 
 Isabella, Queen, 50 
 
 Jake, Richard, 169 
 Jakson, Bridget, 236 
 Jackson, Christopher, 95, 104 
 
 ,, Dorothy, 230 
 
 M George, 106 
 
 ,t Joan, 84 
 
 ,, Robert, 42, 84 
 
 ,t Stephen, 161 
 Jacson, Guy, 246 
 Jarkeek, ) 
 
 Jarkoe, [ Robert, 149, 150 
 Jarrok, ) 
 Jeckell, Guy, 109 
 Jelowes, Richard, 67 
 Jenkinsonne, Edmond, 95 
 Jenkinson, Godfrey, 110 
 ,, Symon, 96 
 ,. William, 236, 239 
 Jonson, Anthony, 113 
 
 ,, Gerard, 154 
 Johnson, .... 231 
 
 ,, Apes, 102 
 
 „ Giles, 30 
 
 )) Johanna, 234 
 
 John, 102, 103, 170 
 
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 „ Thomas, 141, 142 
 Johnesone, William, 237 
 Jollan, William, 125 
 Jones, .... 207 
 Joson, Thomas, 55 
 Jowson, Gilk)ert, 146 
 
 Katll, William, 234 
 Kead, Thomas, 46, 47 
 Keble, Thomas, 94 
 Keelbie, Robert, 160 
 Keile, Robert, 234 
 Kelham, Avice, 140 
 „ Mary, 140 
 „ Robert, 140, 141 
 ,, Simon, 140 
 „ Thomas, 140 
 ,, John, 140 
 Kell, Edward, QQ 
 Kelk, Christopher, 82, 132 
 Kelke, Roger, 82 
 Kellam, Richard, 131 
 Kelsay, Robert, 76 
 Kerkeman, John, 171 
 Kirkbie, William, 171 
 Keruer, Richard, 180 
 Kichinge, John, 44 
 King, Robert, 50, 145 
 Kinge, William, 93 
 Kirchian, John, 145 
 Kirke, Richard, 148 
 Kirkton, .... 36 
 Knapton, Richard, 246 
 Knight, Robert, 234 
 Knott, Thomas, 86 
 Knowell, Richard, 37 
 KnowUes, Richard, 37, 68 
 Kyell, Thomas, 141 
 Kyd, William, 217 
 Kyme, .... 92 
 
 ,, Thomas, 146 
 Kyrke, .... 166 
 Kyrk, Robert, 101 
 Kyrkeman, John, 222 
 Kyrton, William, 158 
 
 Lacon, ... . 244 
 Jjacy, Alice, 50 
 Lacye, Richard, 232 
 Lacy, William, 50 
 Lake, Edward, 235 
 Lambe, John, 41 
 Lambson, Thomas, 123 
 Laminge, Marmaduke, 125 
 Lancaster, Duke of, 134 
 Langlaie, Laurence, 113 
 Lansdeale, Thomas, 34 
 Larke, Mr., 105 
 Larken, Arthur, 241 
 
 Lauder, John, 234 
 
 Laughlaie, John, 142 
 
 Laughton, Peter, 80 
 
 ,, Thomas, 30, 32 
 
 Law, Edward, 59 
 
 Lawe, James, 109 
 ,, John, 53 
 
 Lawes, John, 195 
 
 Lawcock, Leonard^ 73 
 
 Lawson, Samuel, 235 
 ,, Symon, 42, 43 
 
 Layke, Robert, 231 
 
 Laxon, Nicholas, 37 
 
 Laxon, Robert, 37, 38 
 
 Lealand, Sarah, 234 
 
 Leche, John, 179 
 
 Lednam, Thomas, 41 
 
 Lee, John, 159 
 „ Thomas, 161, 236 
 
 Leeds, Elizabeth, 228 
 ,, Thomas, 246 
 
 Legburn, George, 234 
 
 Legh, Alice, 50 
 
 Legh, Thomas, 50 
 
 Leget, William, 55 
 
 Leight, Robert, 55 
 
 Leis, John, 73 
 
 Lenton, Henry, 49, 51 
 
 Lemynge, John, 121, 122 
 
 Leveret, Henry, 141 
 
 Lewick, Thomas, 42, 43 
 
 Lewis of Granada, 35 
 
 Ley band, Thomas, 127, 129 
 
 Lendes, Edward, 237 
 
 Leye, Roger, 178 
 
 Lichen, Peter, 48 
 
 Lightfoot, Robert, 55 
 
 Lile, Henry, 240 
 
 Lincone, .... 237 
 
 Lindsey, Theophilus, 59 
 
 Litster, George, 131 
 
 Littlebury, Elizabeth, 214 
 ,, Richard, 214 
 
 Lobley, Nicholas, 98 
 
 Locke, Roger, 90 
 
 Locton, William, 163 
 
 Lodinton, see Luddington 
 
 Lompson, Thomas, 122, 123 
 
 Lond, Robert, 108 
 
 London, Dr., 190 
 
 Longbotham, William, 240 
 
 Longland, Richard, 53, 54 
 
 Longlandes, John, 158 
 
 Lorton, William, 162 
 
 Lothian, Marquis of, 139 
 
 Lowe, Robert, 53 
 
 Luad, John, 218 
 
 Luddington, Alice 116 
 
 Stephen, 116 
 Thomas, 133, 234 
 
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 Lund, John, 218 
 Lustbie, William, 55 
 Lyndwode, William, 199 
 Lynne, Elizabeth, 42 
 
 Macherm, Thomas, 105 
 Maddison, John, 168 
 Maddisone, Robert, 234 
 Malyvery, . . . . 193 
 Mamynge, William, 67 
 Manners, George, 3 25 
 ,, John, 126 
 ,, Katherine, 125 
 Mantle, John, 169 
 Marborne, Richard, 161 
 Martlet, Roger, 55 
 Margery, John, 185 
 Markham, .... 240 
 Markarles, John, 75 
 Markham, Jerome, 116 
 Marlbie, Robert, 168 
 Marraion, .... 128 
 Marrall, Stephen, 66 
 Marre, Thomas, 218 
 Marshall, Margaret, 126 
 
 ,, Thomas, 124 
 Marshall, William, 126 
 Martin, Henry, 32 
 
 ,, Saint, 37 
 Mason, Anthony, 234 
 
 „ William, 199 
 Masserd, Richard, 98 
 Massingberd, Augustus, 92 
 Christopher, 92 
 Drajner, 92 
 Henry, 92 
 ,, Thomas, 91, 92 
 
 Matthewman, Richard, 69 
 Mattyns, William, 234 
 Maude, Richard, 230 
 Mauleverer, Joan, 29 
 Maultbye, Richard, 104 
 Maund, John, 6S 
 Maver, John, 62, 63 
 
 „ Philip, 63 
 Maw, John, 76 
 ,, Leonard, 76 
 ,, William, 76 
 Mawe, Margery, 76 
 
 ,, Simon, 71 
 
 ,, Thomas, 76 
 Mawde, Christopher, 71 
 Mawdsson, John, 115 
 Mawmell, Henrv, 132 
 
 ,, Mary, 234 
 
 ,, Marmaduke, 234 
 Maxaie, John, 148 
 
 „ Richard, 148 
 May, John, 238 
 Maye, Richard, 230 
 
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 Meansforthe, John, 105 
 Mearse, see Meeres 
 Medlaie, Peter, 142 
 Medlay, Geffray, 230 
 Medley, Richard, 44 
 Meeres, .... 34, 35, 36 
 „ Alice, 34 
 „ Anthony, 34, 35, 214 
 Anne, 34 
 Barbara, 34 
 Edward, 34 
 Elizabeth, 34 
 Francis, 35 
 Gertrude, 34 
 „ Jane, 34 
 „ John, 34 
 „ Joseph, 34 
 „ Katherine, 34 
 „ Kenelin, 34 
 „ Laurence, 35 
 „ Mary, 34 
 
 Margaret, 214 
 Robert, 35 
 Roger, 34 
 Simon, 60 
 Thomas, 34, 35 
 „ William, 34 
 Melton, John, 44 
 Menalcas, 194 
 Mercer, William, 44 
 Metcalfe, Thomas, 127 
 Metemly, William, 214 
 Michelsonne, John, 149 
 Michill, John, 53 
 Middelbrok, William, 92, 93 
 Middleton, Hugh, 222, 223 
 Middleton, Henry, 100, 101 
 Mil borough, Helen, 53 
 Millesant, Robert, 168 
 Milton, John, 129 
 Milward, Philize, 45 
 ,, Robert, 45 
 Molineux, Richard, 58 
 Monck, Charles, 216 
 Mone, William, 158 
 Monkton, Michael, 235, 243 
 Monson, .... 121 
 ,, John, 47, 227 
 
 William, 225, 226, 2£7 
 Moore, Edward, 150 
 Moor, Robert, 155 
 More, Christopher, 68 
 ,, Robert, 246 
 ,, Thomas, 196 
 Moris, William, 82 
 Morris, Edward, 149, 150 
 Moreley, see Morley 
 Morley, .... 121 
 
 Alexander, 164 
 
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 Anthony, 242 
 Augustus, 244 
 Beatrice, 245 
 Edmund, 244, 245 
 Elizabeth, 245 
 Frances, 245 
 Jane, 245 
 Lancelot, 242 
 Margaret, 242 
 Mary, 241, 245 
 Henry, 244, 245 
 John, 164, 242, 244, 245 
 James, 242 
 Magdalen, 245 
 Marmaduke, 245 
 Peter, 164 
 Richard, 164 
 Susanna, 245 
 Thomas, 242, 245 
 William, 116, 237, 242, 244, 
 
 Mortymer, Richard, 234 
 Morwood, Brian, 230 
 Moulins, Guyart de, 199 
 Mounson, see Monson 
 Mullymer, William, 59 
 Murfine, George, 77 
 Muston, Robert, 53 
 Mydletonne, John, 148 
 Myllner, William, 100 
 Wynnett, Robert, 98 
 
 Nailer, Robert, 143 
 Nailor, Nicholas, 51 
 ,, William, 58 
 Neal, John, 95 
 Neall, Thomas, 126 
 Nedham, William, 230 
 Neffe, Christopher, 222 
 Neivell, George, 133 
 Nelson, Richard, 77 
 Neville, Barbara, 34 
 ,, James, 135 
 ,, John, 34, 164 
 „ Mabell, 133 
 ,, Maud, 134 
 „ Philip, 133, 134 
 ,, Richard, 134 
 Nelihorpe, Edward, 228 
 
 ,, Ursula, 228 
 
 Nesse, Christopher, 230 
 Newark, Peter, 247 
 
 WiUiam, 247 
 Newcom, .... 53 ^ 
 
 Newcome, John, 109, 158 
 Newtone, Anthonie, 101 
 Newton, Isaac, 180 
 
 ,, Robert, 247 
 Nicholas, Saint, 183 
 
 Nicholson, William, 48 
 Nicoll, Richard, 61 
 Nicull, William, 61 
 Nixe, John, 50 
 Noble, John, 231 
 
 ,, Richard, 113 
 Normanton, John, 42, 43 
 Norris, Edward, 235 
 Nurse, William, 242 
 Nyxe, George, 50 
 
 OoLE, Richard, 214, 216, 218, 220, 221 
 Okley, John, 93, 95 
 Oliver, Robert, 116 
 „ Roger, 113 
 Olsbie, John, 44 
 Ordall, Gregory, 156 
 Orreby, .... 193 
 Orson, Alexander, 163 
 
 ,, John, 67 
 
 ,, Robert, 67 
 Osboroe, Richard, 122 
 Otwell, . . . . 199 
 Overdall, Gregory, 156 
 
 Pac'^cke, ) Ti 
 Paycock, j*^^ Peacock ^ 
 
 Padlocke, Roger, 247 
 Paganel, Ralph, 125 
 Page, John, 99 
 Paine, John, 110 
 Palm, Laurence, 217 
 Pane, Laurence, 56 
 Pank, Thomas, 42, 43 
 Parish, Robert, 132 
 Park, William, 233 
 Parker, John, 231 
 
 ,, Thomas, 135 
 Parkhurst, John, 62 
 Parkins, William, 245 
 Parkinson, William, 239, 243 
 Parkyn, William, 123 
 Parowe, John, 217 
 Parson, John, 73 
 Patcher, Richard, 158 
 Patton, Robert, 236 
 Paveley, John, 83 
 Paynell, John, 214 
 
 ,, Richard, 214 
 Payton, John, 34 
 
 ,, Mary, 34 
 Peacock, Agnes, 78 
 
 ,, Alyson, 78 
 
 „ Edward, 79 
 
 ,, Etlward Shaw, 79 
 Ellen, 78 
 Eliza Abigail, 79 
 Elizabeth. 78, 79 
 George, 79 
 
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 Jennet, 78 
 John, 78, 79 
 Lavinia, 79 
 Martha Emily, 79 
 Maria, 79 
 Mary, 78, 79 
 Mary Anne, 79 
 Rebecca, 79 
 Richard, 78, 79 
 Robert, 78 
 Sarah, 79 
 Sarai, 78 
 Sophia, 79 
 Thomas, 78, 79 
 Thomas Cornelius, 79 
 William, 76, 78, 79 
 Peake, Anne, 86 
 ,, John, 86 
 ,, Richard, %Q 
 Pearie, Robert, 158 
 Pegge, Robert, 231 
 Peile, Robert, 107 
 Pell, George, 119 
 ,, John, 54, 77, 171 
 ,, Richard, 59, 60 
 „ Robert, 148 
 „ Thomas, 113, 130 
 „ Walter, 118 
 „ WiUiara, 118, 119, 120 
 Penithorne, William, 234 
 Pennell, Richard, 54 
 Pering, Renold, 234 
 Perpointe, John, 99 
 Persie, Hugh, 143 
 Personne, John, 151 
 
 William, 38 
 Peter, Saint, 41 
 Peyton, Thomas, 246 
 Philip, John, 151 
 Philipe, Richard, 108 
 Philippe, Roger, 156, 157 
 ,, Simond, 171 
 ,, Thomas, 157 
 Philips, Thomas, 113 
 Philipson, Robert, 93, 151 
 Pickering, Christopher, 232 
 Pickworthe, William, 105 
 Pilsworth, Thomas, 77 
 Pinder, John, 121 
 Fke, Edmond, 42 
 Pljomton, John, 246 
 Poel, Richard, 142 
 Pollard, John, 66 
 Ponderell, William, 109 
 Pope, John, 230 
 Popple, Anne, 228 
 ,, Humphrey, 228 
 ,, Thomas, 228 
 Porter, Augustine, 39, 58, 149 
 
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 Giles, 39 
 
 Helen, 39 
 
 Katherine, 58 
 
 John, 157, 234 
 
 Robert, 236 
 
 William, 39, 88 
 Poste, Edward, 115, 117 
 Prest, Robert, 163 
 Preston, Thomas, 56, 83 
 Prittock, Richard, 160 
 Proctor, Miles, 104 
 Proctor, Richard, 113 
 Puteryll, John, 236 
 Pye, Mary, 234 
 
 „ Robert, 234, 235 
 Pynnell, William, 209 
 
 QuYBBE, Kichard, 113 
 
 Rate, John, 127 
 Railor, William, 95 
 Rands, Anne, 241 
 
 Dan, 241 
 RatcliflFe, John, 207 
 Rathbod, .... 88 
 Rawe, Richard, 104 
 Rawlinson, Christopher, 124 
 
 John, 124 
 
 Richard, 124 
 
 Thomas, 124 
 Read, Catherine, 236 
 Read, Richard, 131 
 Rede, .... 61 
 Reede, John, 191, 193 
 Remington, John, 134 
 Reresby, Ellen, 132 
 ,, Lionel, 132 
 Reynold, Christopher, 130 
 Richards, Anne, 207 
 ,, Eleanor, 207 
 
 ,, Laurence, 207 
 Richardson, Robert, 165 
 Richdall, William, 120 
 Richerson, Richard, 238 
 Richison, Thomas, 240 
 Richman, Christopher, 121 
 Riche, Thomas, 148 
 Ridley, Nicholas, 46 
 Rigate, Richard, 62, 63 
 Ripley, George, 193 
 Riselly, .... 213 
 Risley, John, 30 
 Robertson, Nicholas, 185 
 
 ,, Thomas, 186, 202, 204 
 Robinson, . . . 230 
 
 Anthony, 138 
 
 Edward, 113 
 
 Elizabeth, 234, 235 
 
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 203, 205, 216, 220, 234 ' 
 Matthew, 61 
 Michael, 35, 36 
 Richard, 143, 236 
 
 T, u - ^,Wi^lJara. n9, 234, 235 
 Kobson, Edward, 158 
 
 RobynsoD, see Robinson 
 Rokeby, Ralf, 45 
 Roos, Lord, 125 
 Rope, John, 180 
 Roper, John, 77 
 Ros, le, Eustace, 134 
 Ross, Mr., 41 
 Rosseter, Edward, 241 
 Rowbinson, see Robinson 
 Roxburgh, Duke of, 139 
 Rumton, William, 230 
 Rushton, Robert, 52 
 ,, Thomas, 52 
 Russell, Harrie, 48 
 Rydar, Laurence, 231 
 Ryming, Robert, 234 
 
 Saer, Thomas, 153 
 Saint Clair, James, 177 
 
 ,, William, 177 
 
 Saint George, Richard, 30 
 Saint Leger, Anne, 125 
 Saint Paul, George, 214, 220 
 ,, Jane, 215 
 
 ,, John, 220, 221 
 
 ,, Thomas, 242 
 
 ,, William, 234 
 
 Sales, Elizabeth, 243 
 Salltar, William, 170 
 Salter, John, 231 
 Saltmarsh, Sir William, 34 
 Sandes, Robert, 86 
 Sandoll, William, 45, 47 
 Sanwell, William, 240 
 Saule, Christopher, 127 
 
 ,, Robert, 129 
 Saultar, John, 171 
 Saunderson, Robert, 52 
 i» Thomas, 52 
 
 „ William, 58, 59, 91, 158 
 
 Sannton, Thomas, 116 
 Saville, Sir George, 40 
 ,, Henry, 40 
 William, 40 
 Sawer, Andrew, 115 
 ,, Richard, 230 
 
 ,, William, 230 • 
 
 Sayntpoll, see Saint Paul 
 Say well, Gabriel, 140, 141 
 Scaflet, John, 137 
 Scales, Aaron, 79 
 „ Abigail, 79 
 ,, Keturab, 79 
 
 267 
 
 Schott, John, 47 
 Scolfield, Mr., 141 
 Scott, Stevyn, 234 
 ,, Robert, 82 
 M Walter, 194 
 Seagrave, Leonard, 101 
 Searbie, Thomas, 142 
 
 ,, Robert, 142 
 Searson, Simon, 113, 114 
 Selie, John, 153 
 Semkinson, Richard, 32 
 Senton, Nicholas, 42 
 Seraud, Thomas, 231 
 Shadforde, Robert, 113 
 Shadforth, Faith, 78 
 M George, 235 
 ), Sarah, 235 
 Sharpe, William, 74 
 Sharpeney, Thomas, 75 
 Sharpuls, Richard, 230 
 Shaw, Martha, 79 
 ,, Robert, 79 
 ,, William, 234 
 Shawe, Agnes, 93 
 ,, Anne, 241 
 
 John, 234, 241, 245 
 „ Peter, 234 
 ,, Richard, 128 
 ,, Thomas, 128 
 Shearshawe, William, 138 
 Sheffield, Charles, 153 
 ,, Christopher, 64 
 ,, Edmond, 45, 04 
 M George, 153 
 ,, John, 45, 64, 153 
 ,, Robert, 64, 65 
 Shippe, Richard, 57 
 ,, Rol>ert, 37 
 William, 37 
 Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 194 
 Shirwyn, Robert, 205 
 Shoemaker, William, 235 
 Simpkinson, Robert, 142 
 Simpson, John, 114, 122, 123 
 
 ,, Rate, 83 
 Simson, Robert, 141 
 Singleton, John, 47 
 Skelt)n, .... 33 
 Skendlesby, Elizabeth, 102 
 
 ,, Richard, 102 
 
 Skipp', John, 108, 214 
 Skipwith, Catherine, 214 
 Edward, 244 
 Eleanor, 244 
 Jane, 212 
 Richard, 83 
 ,, William, 213 
 Sknowe, William, 72 
 Skynnar, Thomas, 84 
 Skynner, William, 63 
 
 
 
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 Slaydone, Thomas, 236 
 Sledman, Robert, 231 
 Slefford, John, 48 
 Smith, 159, 235, 238 
 
 „ E, 91 
 
 „ Henry, 213 
 
 ,, Jane, 213 
 
 S«>ith' ) j^^ 51^ 117, 153, 19^ 
 
 Smyth, S 
 
 Smith, Eichard, 81 
 
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 sSfth,' (Thomas, 106, 107, 118, 
 
 Smvthe. \ 234 
 
 Smjth, William, 94, 96, 151, 170, 
 
 Smethe, J 236 
 Smythe, James, 40 
 
 ,, Martin, 166 
 Smles, John, 145 
 Snowdall, William, 235 
 Sodbie, Richard, 120 
 Sole, Christopher, 49 
 Somerbie, Simon, 67 
 Somer coats, .... 234 
 Sommercotes, Edward, 132 
 Soraercote, John, 119, 120 
 Soresby, Thomas, 222 
 Sorsby, Nicholas, 217 
 Sorys..., Thomas, 185 
 Soulby, William, 234 
 South, Francis, 34 
 „ Robert, 63 
 „ Thomas, 126 
 Southe, William, 124 
 Southen, Thomas, 222 
 Southwell, Edward, 72 
 
 John, 162 
 Spaine, George, 84 
 Spencer, Edmund, 194 
 Spayinge, Francis, 29 
 Squyer, Adam, 247 
 Stamp, Thomas, 231 
 Stampe, John, 230 
 Standish, James, 130 
 Stapleton, Robert, 243 
 Stavelay, Thomas, 124 
 Staynford, Hamond, 192 
 Steel, Thomas, 91 
 Stennyd, William, 77 
 Stevens, Thomas, 235 
 Stevenson, Nicholas, 146 
 
 Robert, 33, 163 
 Thomas, 33, 42, 43 
 Stevynson, John, 234, 236 
 Stock, Nicholas, 231 
 Stocke, Robert, 131 
 Stocks, William, 234, 242 
 Stockes, Thomas, 100 
 Stockdale, George, 66 
 Stooke, Rvjbert, 131 
 
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 Stonye, John, 230 
 Storie, .... 95 
 Stor, John, 55, 57 
 Storr, Anne, 234 
 
 ,, Thomas, 234 
 Storre, William, 73 
 Stothard, Jane, 78 
 Stoviug, James, 112 
 Stow, Robert, 233 
 Stowe, William, 238 
 Straw, Richard, 243 
 Stringar, Mrs., 30 
 Stringer, William, 154 
 Strugle, Robert, 72 
 Stubbs, William, 243 
 Stubbes, Leonard, 70 
 Stutt, Roger, 160 
 Stutting, Jane, 79 
 „ Mary, 79 
 Suddaby, Thomas, 96, 97 
 Suger, John, 238 
 Suthen, Thomas, 217 
 Sutton, .... 213 
 
 Elizabeth, 215 
 Hamon, 29, 157, 162, 215 
 John, 162, 230 
 Margaret, 157 
 Mary, 29 
 ,, Nicholas, 162 
 Swainston, William, 142 
 Swallowe, Robert, 63 
 Swane, William, 117 
 Swyete, George, 142 
 Swyndall, William, 234 
 Syler, .... 58 
 Sykes, Richard, 113 
 
 Tailbote, Robert, 169 
 Tailer, John, 44 
 Tailor, .... 241 
 Taylor, Ann, 234 
 Tailor, Robert, 58 
 
 ,, Thomas, 65, Q6 
 Tailor, William, 59 
 Talboys, Anne, 225 
 „ Robert, 226 
 Anne, 226 
 Talboyes, George, 215, 225 
 
 Sisley, 215 
 Tadil, Richard, 57 
 Tason, Thomas, 62 
 Tawke, John, 84 
 Taylyer, John, 87 
 Tayler, Anne, 235 
 ,, George, 235 
 „ Peter, 231 
 ,, Thomas, 231, 247 
 Taylyar, Thomas, 233 
 Tebbe, Edward, 74 
 
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 Tebbe, Simond, 73, 75 
 Ted, Robert, 236 
 Templeman, John, 57, 169 
 ,, Roger, 57 
 
 ,, Thomas, 169 
 
 Tenant, Ann, 234 
 Thacker, Wylliam, 233 
 Theaker, Christopher, 113 
 
 William, 113 
 Thekar, John, 152 
 Thirlil, Richard, 140 
 Thixton, Thomas, 121 
 ,, William, 121 
 Thompsone, William, 226 
 Thomson, Harry, 231 
 Tompson, John, 81 
 Thoralde, Alane, 231 
 
 Thoresby, 153 
 
 ,, Johanna, 64 
 
 ,, John, 64 
 
 Thorneborow, 207 
 
 Thornton, Richard, 77 
 Tborold, Richard, 56 
 
 ,, William, 214 
 Thorpe, John, 237, 238 
 Thoryld, see Thorold 
 Thurswell, William, 56 
 
 Thymelby, 41 
 
 Thymylby, Arthur, 230 
 Thirableby, Elizabeth, 108 
 Ellen, 220 
 John, 108, 109 
 Marv, 108 
 Richard, 108, 220 
 Thymelbie, see Thimbleby 
 Tidd, John, 60 
 
 ,, Thomas, 60 
 Tighe, John, 69 
 
 ,, Robert, 69 
 Tiler, William, 115 
 Tiryght, William, 231 
 Tode, George, 230 
 Tokke, Edward, 73 
 Toll, Nicholas, 155 
 ,, Robert, 97, 98 
 Toller, Thomas, 140 
 
 Tomlynson, 209 
 
 „ Robert, 185 
 
 ,, Thomas, 118 
 
 Tomson, Richard, 107, 169, 237 
 
 ,, John, 43 
 Tomsonne, Robert, 171 
 Tong, Thomas, 230 
 
 Topcliffe, 62 
 
 ,, Richard, 62 
 ,, Walter, 62 
 
 Topper, Harvy, 108 
 
 John, 119, 120 
 Thomas, 168 
 Torksev, 226 
 
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 Tothill, Alice, 166 
 
 ,, Henry, 166 
 Totter, James, 53 
 
 Townesend, John, 80, 94, 127, 136 
 Tournay, Anne, 215 
 ,, Anthony, 215 
 ,, Catherine, 215 
 ,, Christopher, 215 
 ,, Edward, 215, 216 
 Elizabeth, 215 
 Honore, 215 
 John, 214, 215 
 Isabell, 215 
 ,, Margaret, 215 
 ,, Tresham, 215 
 „ William, 215 
 Towers, Elizabeth, 62 
 
 ,, John, 62 
 Towne, Leonard, 96 
 ,, Robert, 157 
 Townsend, Ralf, 147 
 Toyne, Robert, 82 
 Tracey, .... 177 
 Trevor, Anne, 232 
 
 „ William, 232 
 Trote, Peter, 84 
 Troughtonne, .... 168 
 Trough whythe, Edward, 100 
 Tunstall, Elizabeth, 116 
 
 ,, Richard, 116 
 Tupholme, John, 217, 221 
 Turgoose, Anthony, 236 
 ,, Millesant, 236 
 Turnbull, William, 231 
 Turner, Joseph, 233 
 
 ,, John, 153 
 Turnor, Edmund, 50 
 Turribus, De .... 62 
 Turwhit, see Tyrwhitt 
 Tydd, William, 147, 148 
 Tymberland, John, 96 
 
 ,, Robert, 138 
 
 Tyngle, Hugh, 49 
 Tynklare, .... 234 
 Tyrwhitt, Duglas, 226 
 
 ,, Elizabeth, 133, 227 
 Ellen, 133 
 Francis, 226 
 Helen, 226 
 Jane, 133 
 Katherine, 213 
 Marmaduke, 132, 176, 234 
 Robert, 132, 133, 225, 226, 
 
 227, 234, 237 
 Thomas, 226, 230 
 Tristram, 133 
 William, 132 
 Tyson, John, 80 
 
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 Vavasour, Dorothye, 215 
 
 „ John, 215 
 Veal, William, 43 
 Vellam, Robert, 106 
 Veronica of Binasco, St., 197 
 
 „ St., 196 
 Vernon, George, 40, 41 
 
 „ William, 40 
 
 ,, Joan, 40 
 Vinde, John de, 193 
 Viyars, Thomas, 246 
 Vosin, George, 231 
 
 Waddesley, Robert, 162 
 Wadferth, Edward, 240 
 
 John, 240 
 Wadford, Francis, 241 
 Wadyngham, Thomas, 233 
 Waite, Thomas, 33 
 Wake, Robert, 68 
 ,, Thomas, 68 
 Walcar, William, 243 
 Walgat, John, 166 
 Walker, Christopher, 217 
 „ Richard, 234 
 „ Stephen, 106 
 Walkynson, John, 100 
 Wallice, William, 51, 52 
 Walpull, Richard, 165 
 Walsan, Robert, 230 
 Walter, .... 229 
 
 „ J. C, 79 
 Walton, William, 53, 54 
 Walweu, Henry, 81 
 Ward, Richard, 157 
 Warde, Henry, 90 
 Warde, Robert, 216 
 Warner, Michael, 165 
 Warren, Elizabeth, 119 
 ,, Robert, 70, 71 
 Warwick, Richard, Earl of, 128 
 Wasling, .... 116 
 Waterfall, Richard, 152 
 William, 110 
 Waterton, .... 52, 62 
 Waters, Christopher, 154 
 Watkinson, William, 72 
 Watres, Reginald, 57 
 Watsun, John, 235 
 ,, Richard, 154 
 „ Thomas, 42 
 ,, William, 55 
 Watsone, Christopher, 231 
 Watterlay, Thomas, 170 
 Wattes, John, 55, 56 
 
 
 Wattkinson, John, 100 
 Watures, 70 
 Waultum, Oliver, 103 
 Wayler, John, 240 
 Wayth, Thomas, 231 
 Webstar, John, 93 
 
 William, 160 
 Welby, .... 39 
 ,, Simon, 39 
 Weldon, John, 70 
 
 ,, Richard, 153 
 WeUes, Charles, 98 
 
 John, 155, 190 
 Nicholas, 73 
 „ Richard, 112 
 „ Thomas, 100, 109, 110, 112, 232 
 „ William, 106 
 Wellwen, Robert, 57 
 Welston, John, 247 
 Wenslay, Robert, 231 
 Wessnam, William, 230 
 West, John, 95 
 
 ,, Robert, 156 
 Westaby, Anne, 78 
 ,, John, 78 
 Weston, Bartill, 5Q 
 
 ,, George, 158 
 Wetherall, William, 100 
 Wetherell, Lucy Ann, 79 
 Wetherel, Milon, 237 
 Wetherell, John Swift, 79 
 Whalley, Matthew, 235 
 Wharton, Thomas, 150 
 Whitacre, Robert, 147 
 Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 45 
 White, William, 72 
 Whitehead, John, 71, 167 
 ,, Robert, 70, 71 
 
 Whitin, Thomas, 137 
 Whytside, John, 179, 180 
 Wigellworth, James, 123 
 Williamson, Robert, 63 
 ,, Thomas, 92 
 
 Wilkinson, John, 86 
 
 Richard, 107 
 Robert, 113 
 Thomas, 91, 133, 135 
 William, 73 
 Willerton, Henry, 83 
 
 ,, Thomas, 47 
 Williams, .... 240 
 „ Archbishop, 35 
 „ William, 35 
 Williamson, .... 235 
 
 ,, Richard, 240, 241 
 
 Willin, Thomas, 137 
 Willis, Browne, 231 . 
 
 Willoughby, Edward, 62 ^ 
 
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 John, 154 
 
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 Willoughby, William, 203, 214, 216 
 Willson, John, 240 
 Wilson, Ambrose, 77 
 
 Arthur, 41 
 
 Hierom, 113 
 
 Mabella, 142 
 
 Richard, 130 
 
 William, QQ 
 Wilsonne, Robert, 120 
 Wilsworth, George, 239 
 Wimber, Nicholas, 30 
 Winchelsey, Robert, Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, 178 
 Winn, Charles, 235 
 Winter, Robert, 167 
 Wold, John, 72 
 
 ,, Ronald, 237 
 Wolmer, Gregory, 166 
 Wolsbugh, George, 234 
 Wood, James, 231 
 Woodcock, Catherine, 79 
 
 ,, Michael, 79 
 
 Woodcroft, Thomas, 112 
 Woodhome, Edward, 113 
 Woodliffe, Mathew, 236 
 Woodruffe, Elizabeth, 79 
 
 ,, Samuel, 79 
 
 Woolrich, John, 239 
 Worthington, Thomas, 98 
 Worslaye, Thomas, 234 
 Wothom, Edward, 230 
 Woyght, Thomas, 234 
 Wragby, Davy, 193 
 Wray, Thomas, 84 
 
 Wray, Christopher, 84 
 Wright, Christopher, 246 
 
 „ John, 111, 113, 130, 150 
 
 „ Michael, 111, 112 
 
 ,, Robert, 131 
 
 „ Thomas, 63, 107, 120, 123, 164 
 
 ,, William, 39, 130 
 Wrighte, Richard, 40, 230 
 Wryght, Christopher, 98 
 Wulfran, St., 88, 89 
 Wyclif, John, 83, 128 
 Wyer, Thomas, 50, 145, 146 
 
 Wygett, 230 
 
 Wygglesworth, Henry, 236 
 Wykes, Robert, 186 
 Wylkinson, Robci-t, 113 
 Wylson, John, 97, 98 
 Wyllobye, John, 77 
 Wylson, John, 98 
 Wymberley, Thomas, 168 
 Wyrton, William, 246 
 
 Yndrew, Thomas, 243 
 Yonge, Stephen, 133, 135 
 
 „ William, 114 
 Yorke, Nicholas, 157 
 York, Richard, 29 
 
 ,, Thomas, 29, 157 
 Young, Bishop, 103 
 
 ,, Thomas, 103 
 
 ZoNGE, Agnes, 180 
 Zouch, Margaret, 64 
 ,, John, 64 
 
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