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Miscellaneous: Dunham Bridge, 1 item, 1829; Boston Deeps (sea
chart), 1 item, 1829; Boston Water Supply, 1 item, 1836.
Third Schedule : -
Miscellaneous bundle of plans for rivers, and a railway, 6 items,
1792-1842; sale plans for estates in Wildmore Fen, 1804-08; Plans
and Surveys of estates at Saltfleetby, Skidbrook, and Somercotes,
18 18; Hemingby Bridges, 1852; plans of detached areas of Boston,
Horncastle and Spilsby in the Fens, 1881.
Fourth Schedule : -
Belvoir Castle and part of Lines. and Rutland, 1804-06; Spilsby
town and parts adj. (Gwydir estate), 1825; Brackenbury estates
in East Keal, Welton le Marsh, Cumberworth and Ingoldmells,
1865; Ordnance Survey sheets 1” and 6”, various places, 1st and
2nd eds.; Lindsey CC. Planning Office Advertising Control Map,
1965; Witham Banks, 1934; Louthesk and Ludborough Sewers,
1863.
DEPOSITED RECORDS
4 BROWNLOW
We are grateful to Lord Brownlow for his deposit with us, on
permanent loan, of a further instalment of records from the Belton
muniments. It consists of the papers of the first earl Brownlow as
lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the county of Lincoln between
1809 and 1852. There is no detailed list of the collection as yet, but
the papers have been sorted and boxed, and are available for use by
readers. They corn rise over four thousand items, and cover most of
the public and oPcial business transacted by Brownlow during his
long tenure of office. Little evidence survives in the Ancaster deposits
for the lieutenancies of the dukes of Ancaster in the eighteenth
century, and we have no lieutenancy papers for the period after 1852.
We are all the more pleased, therefore, to welcome this important
source for the history of county society and administration.
John Cust was born in 1779, and succeeded his father as second
baron Brownlow in 1807. He was appointed to the lieutenancy of
the county in 1809, on the death of the fifth duke of Ancaster, and
was immediately plunged into the complexities of war-time militia
legislation. Not content with his lieutenancy duties, he appointed
himself colonel of the southern battalion of the county militia in
I 811, a post he held until his death. And he also took on the command
of the Stamford regiment of local militia, an additional war-time
force created under the Local Militia Act of 1808. The lord lieutenant
was the intermediary between the Crown and the local regiments. He
received innumerable letters and circulars from Whitehall, and
recommended to the Crown those he wished to be made officers and
deputy-lieutenants. Brownlow relied a good deal on the clerk of
lieutenancy, an office held at that period with the Kesteven clerkship
of the peace, and this collection has many letters from Benjamin
Cheales, William Forbes and M. P. Moore.
The various troops of yeomanry and volunteer infantry formed in
the county also came under the lord lieutenant, and the appointment
of officers to these bodies sometimes gave rise to interesting and
informative exchanges of letters.
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and also forwarded names to the lord chancellor for inclusion in the
commission of the peace. The appointment of magistrates gave rise
to a good deal of correspondence, and it was through this aspect of
his office that Brownlow exercised most influence on the life of the
county. He was, it must be confessed, a man of rigid social outlook
and partisan political views. He would have liked to see the bench
comprised entirely of tory clergymen and county gentlemen, but the
acute shortage of magistrates in some parts of Lincolnshire forced
him to compromise his principles to a small extent. His correspondence
relating to the magistracy sheds light on problems of law and order
in the rural districts of England at this period, and there are several
items dealing with, for instance, the riots provoked by the use of
Irish harvest labour in the Fens.
As lieutenant of a very large county, and one from which he was
increasingly absent towards the end of his life, Brownlow was not
erhaps as powerful an influence on local affairs as some of his fellow
Pieutenants
in other counties. But, especially in the period before
1832, he was frequently asked to give a lead in county movements
and associations. He gave his blessing to the Lincolnshire Agricultural
Society in 1819, and to the Lincolnshire Coast Association, for saving
lives and property from shipwreck, in the 1820s. (Of this latter body
he was, as vice-admiral of Lincolnshire, the natural patron.) He also
encouraged the movement to speed up the preparation of the first
Ordnance Survey map of the county. The bundle of correspondence
on this subject includes several hitherto unknown letters from Sir
Joseph Banks.
Summary
Commission of the Peace: copies of commissions, 1806-30; bundles
of correspondence concerning additions to the commissions, 1820
and 1832-8; corres ondence and papers, including appointment
of magistrates ancf clerks of the eace, riots, county meetings,
commissions of sewers, etc., 14 bun$ es, 1809-50.
Militia and volunteers :
bundles about the defence of the country,
1794, 1798 and 1803; -militia acts (printed), 1803-30; general
militia papers and returns, 4 bundles, 1810-52; papers about the
appointment of deputy lieutenants, 1803-47; papers and returns
for Royal North Lincoln Militia, 1804-38; Local Militia, 5
bundles, 1809-16; yeomanry and volunteers, 4 bundles, 1809-46;
Brownlow as Colonel Commandant, Royal South Lincoln Militia,
accounts, returns and correspondence, 25 bundles, 1811-53;
Brownlow as commandant of Stamford regiment of Local Militia,
4 bundles, 1810-23.
Various county affairs (papers and correspondence) : county hall, 1823-
8; agricultural affairs, 1815-19; county map, 1817-25; viceadmiralty,
1809-47; Lincolnshire Coast Association, 1825-8; Conservative
registration fund, 1835-6; cases and opinions on county
business, 1820-37; various returns, reports, acts of parliament, and
printed matter.
2 BURTON AND DYSON
In 1965 the Gainsborough solicitors, Burton and Dyson, made the
first deposit of their records, consisting rincipally of the firm’s
letter books, bundles of letters to the firm, dprafts
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etc., and miscellaneous correspondence; In 1968 a visit was made to
the firm’s office at Kirton Lindsey, where the old-established practice
of B. Howlett had been acquired in 1924, and the letter books, dating
from 1837, were listed. A further very large deposit (given the
reference 2 B.D.) was received from the Gainsborough office in 1971
and this year this second deposit has been cleaned and sorted, and is
being listed. The greater part of it consists of clients’ bundles, mainly
dating from 1860 to the late 1g3os, though a small proportion contain
earlier and later material. These bundles have been weeded fairly
severely and much ephemeral material destroyed, nevertheless about
a thousand remain. They have been sorted alphabetically and about
two-thirds of them have now been listed. In the main they relate to
executorships, administrations and trusts, conveyances, leases, mortgages,
claims for damages and suits for debt, with a few divorce cases.
The bundles contain ractically no original deeds or probate copies
of wills, but only dra!!ts or copies, letters and papers. Some contain
rinted sale particulars of properties and occasionally plans. These
gundles
will be subject to a thiry years’ restriction on use.
In addition, in this second deposit there are a number of boxes
representing the firm’s clerkship to various institutions, public undertakings
and companies, some records relating to offices held by the
firm, such as the registrarship of the County Court and the Clerkship
to the Income Tax Commissioners, some of the firm’s own records,
and a good collection of printed sale particulars of landed properties.
It is hoped to describe these records later.
Frederick Merryweather Burton (182g-1g12), the founder of the
firm, was a son of the Lincoln solicitor, Frederick Burton, who
educated him at Rugby. He spent the first six years of his professional
life in practice at Uppingham. He left in 1860 to set up practice
at Gainsborough, taking with him a testimonial, preserved in this
deposit, from his friend and next-door neighbour, the eminent headmaster
Edward Thring. Thring testified not only to his high character,
position as a gentleman, and general ability, but added that he had
managed, to their full satisfaction, all the business connected with the
re-establishment of the school. Another testimonial, from the Sub-
Warden of the school, was addressed to the Lord Chancellor, in
support of Burton’s application for the registrarship of the County
Court, to which he was appointed. He quickly established himself
in local society and before 1872 had acquired the impressive mansion,
Highfield House, Summerhill. A man of wide scientific interests, he
was a fellow of the Geological Society, the Linnean Society and the
Royal Horticultural Society, a life member of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science and a founder of the Lincolnshire
Naturalists’ Union (Lincolnshire at the Opening of the Twentieth
Century, ed. W. T. Pike (1go7), p.142). The page proofs, printed in
1903, of his article on the geology of the county for the Victoria
County History of Lincolnshire, with various addenda and corrigenda,
are preserved with his executorshi papers (2 B.D. 1B/123), with
instructions that his executors shou Pd
send them to the editor. But
that volume was never published. With these papers also are reserved
four rough account books covering the years 1894-1902 ana 1go8-10
in which Burton noted down his personal disbursements, with monthly
and annual totals of income and expenditure. He distinguished
between private income, income from office, and income from the
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proportion of his total income which was mainly private. In part
this may perhaps be explained by the fact that in 1894 he was already
sixty-five and may have been in semi or complete retirement. The
evidence from his dealings with clients, however, suggests that from
the earliest years he was able to use his practice to find investments
for himself. I-Ie acted as a mortgage broker, and he himself sometimes
made the advances required or bought real estate from his clients.
He even considered lending E12,ooo to Captain Henry John Fane
in 1873 when he was attempting to mortgage a base fee (see Report
18, p.14), but abandoned the idea after getting a legal opinion on the
security (2 B.D. IF/~).
T. A. Dyson (d.1926) was working in the firm by 1880 and became
a partner at some date between 1882 and 1885. He was the son of
Thomas Dyson, schoolmaster, who when he died in 1894 was of
Beverley, and who may perhaps be identified with or related to the
Thomas Dyson, schoolmaster, who ap ears in the Post Ofice Directory
of 1861 as keeping a day and boar 1ing
school in Gainsborough at
Belmont House. T. A. Dyson’s uncle, William Dyson, B.A., LL.D.
(d. 18gr), was also a schoolmaster, at Bradford, and the nephew
executed the trust under his will for the benefit of his step-children,
William Henry Dyson, farmer, and Mary Annie Dyson, both of Drax,
Yorks. The papers include an inventory of his school house in
Bradford (2 B.D. 1D/53-59).
There was enormous variety in the firm’s business, but its records
are perhaps most valuable for the picture they give of the development
of Gainsborough and of many facets of life there in the second half
of the 19th and first decades of this century. In the years 1863-70
F. M. Burton was active in the attempt to form a company and
obtain an Act for a proposed railway from Gainsborough to Louth
via Market Rasen. Burton at Gainsborough and J. W. Wilson at
Louth were the two solicitors and agents for the project, and Burton
undertook to prepare trial sections from Gainsborough to Market
Rasen at the expense of the inhabitants of Gainsborough. Letters
from local gentry reveal their reactions (2 B.D. 1G/18). He supported
efforts to erect a free bridge over the Trent near Gainsborough Market
place in 1884, and this bundle includes records of earlier attempts
to extinguish the tolls at Gainsborough bridge (2 B.D. 1G/5). There
are letters and papers concerning the purchase of land and the formation
of a company for a proposed Corn Exchange, 1882-84 (2 B.D. )
1G/g). The Gainsborough United Steam Packet Company Ltd.,
established in 1819, and formed into a limited liability company in
1860, was not very flourishing when attempts were made to increase
the Company’s capital in 1879-82 (2 B.D. 1G/23, 24). The Gainsborough
Constitutional Club had been founded in 1889, and there
are papers concerning the regularization of its legal position and
finances in 1904, when new trustees were elected and new premises
were bought for an additional club house (2 B.D. 1G/8). A bundle
about the purchase of houses called Blackburns Buildings and
property in Victoria Street for the Gainsborough Working Men’s
Club, in 1919, includes the Club’s rules dated 1914. Five bundles
relate to the introduction of electric lighting in the town. The provisional
order was granted to Marshall Sons and Co. Ltd. in respect
of Gainsborough Urban District in 1918 and was a direct result of
the firm’s wartime effort. Their power plant had proved insufficient
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an electric power plant on ground near the river, some distance from
the works, only to find that when they wished to connect it to their
works by cables under streets, they met with opposition from Sir
Hickman Beckett Bacon who claimed to own the subsoil (2 B.D.
1 G / 1 I - 15). In 1g 18 the vicar of Holy Trinity agreed to let the vicarage
to Marshalls for a hostel for women working in the Company’s aircraft
works, and to let part of Holy Trinity Institute for a place of
recreation for the employees at the Carr House Aircraft Works (2 B.D.
1G/ 17). For the eriod after the first World War, there are documents
about the estab Pishment
of the Gainsborough and District United
Services Club, opened in 1921, which include its rules (2 B.D. 1G/22).
Other bundles provide brief, unexpected glimpses into three unrelated
aspects of life in Gainsborough: medical services, Roman
Catholicism and a general election. In 1884 the firm acted for George
Fyfe, M.D., who had recently bought a medical practice in the town,
in a suit brought against him’ by another doctor, Theodore Cassan,
who was Medical Officer to Marshalls’ Works Club, besides having
a small private practice. George Howard’s malady, described in
intimate detail by his wife and other women eye-witnesses, had not
been relieved by Cassan, who had left him without medical attention
until he could go into hospital. The distraught wife sought the aid
of Dr. Fyfe, who gave the requisite treatment unaware that the patient
was Cassan’s. The treatment, however, came too late and the patient
died. Cassan’s claim that Fyfe had spoken slanderous words about his
treatment of this case and his claim for damages failed. The records
include extracts from Marshalls’ Club Minute Book about unsatisfactory
treatment of other cases. Dr. Fyfe, it was revealed, gave advice
gratis on Tuesdays (2 B.D. ‘F/30).
The grandiose schemes and lack of financial sense of the Revd.
Michael J. Gorman, Roman Catholic priest at Gainsborough, which
brought the Catholics in the town into serious financial trouble, have
served to afford a glimpse into their affairs in the 1880s. In 1881
Gorman and the Revd. H. P. Cafferata, another priest, and the
Sisters of the Convent of Mercy, who had been at Gainsborough since
1877, contracted to buy the house belonging to W. H. Caldicott
called the Old Rectory, but subsequently they decided merely to take
a lease of it (2 B.D. 1C/2). An iron church was bought and erected
in the rectory garden. For El505 a large site was urchased for schools
to be run by the sisters, St. Joseph’s Collegiate Heminary,
and L2,300
‘was spent on the building. In 1880 the Duke of Norfolk had made
a loan to the Convent, and in 1882 Mrs. Anna Maria Grainger, sister
of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, lent ,E49000 on a
mortgage of the land and schools. In 1886 Gorman, Cafferata and
the former Mother Superior went bankru t and an assignment was
made for the benefit of their creditors. TKe Duke was pressing for
repayment of his loan and Mrs. Grainger was suing Gorman for her
rincipal and interest. Though a well-wisher gave E1ooo to be used
For
the benefit of the creditors, Mrs. Grainger had no chance of
recovering all her debt. In order, however, that she should recoup
as much as possible, before she exercised her power of sale as mortgagee,
in 1887, through the agency of Burton and Dyson, the land
was developed and built on and new streets-Spital Terrace and
Tennyson Street-were laid out. The iron church had been sold in
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The apers include inventories of the Convent, Rectory and St.
Josepl!‘s Collegiate Seminary (2 B.D. ‘G/41-43).
Another bundle relates to the general election of 1906 in Gainsborough.
C. A. Moreing, of Gate Burton Hall, the Conservative
candidate, issued a writ for libel against his rival, the Liberal Major
Leslie Renton, for his assertion in his canvassing card that Morelng
had advocated a tax on bread. Moreing lost the election and withdrew
his action (2 B.D. 1M/g7).
On the subject of the businesses and trades of Gainsborough, these
bundles are very informative. There are a few records of the engineering
firm of Marshall Son and Co. Ltd. of Britannia Works. They are
mainly of the 1g3os, before the take-over by Messrs. T. Ward in 1935,
and they include a file about the English firm’s relations with
Marshall, Sons & Co. (India), and pa ers concerning dealings
with foreign agents. They were founz with files about the
private finances of the ’ Marshall thFmily (2 B.D. 1M/12-61).
There are concerning incorporation in 1905
of J. B. E BlFfit:n
of Phoenix Iron Works, Gainsborough,
and Victoria Ironworks, Brigg, iron and brass founders, engineers,
millwrights and machinists. The Company took over the business of
John Butler Edlington, agricultural engineer, which had been founded
by him and his brother in 1865, and there are some papers about the
firm’s early history (2 B.D. 1E/6-g and 11). Other bundles concern
the Gainsborough drapers, J. and J. F. Dixon. By 1902 John Dixon
had taken over the business “late Emerson, Cook & Co.” in Gainsborough
and in this year took a lease of another business in Stoke
Newington and bought the goodwill. The son, J. F. Dixon, carried
on his own drapery business at Southend-on-Sea until 1932 when he
bought his father’s Gainsborough business (2 B.D. 1D/17-20). Burton
and Dyson were solicitors to the furniture dealers and undertakers,
J. W. Marsh Ltd., and there are papers concerning the conversion
of the business into a Company in 1920 when E2,500 of F. M. Burton’s
settlement trust was invested in it. J. W. Marsh died in 1933 and the
Company went into voluntary liquidation in 1956 (2 B.D. 1M/8-10).
Some bundles relate to businesses outside Gainsborough. Examples
are the formation of a new Company in 1939 for Aldam (Misterton)
Ltd., engineers and ironfounders (2 B.D. IA/~) and papers about
purchases of property, a artnership agreement, and accounts for the
Carnation Specialists, Al Pwood Brothers of Wivelsfield, Sussex, 1g11-
16. The partners included Edward Allwood of Gainsborough,
maltster’s manager (2 B.D. IA/g).
There are numerous partnership agreements, very informative
records, scattered through the bundles. They include dentists, doctors
of medicine, drapers, dry-cleaners, motor engineers, auctioneers and
valuers, artesian-well and umping engineers, wholesale potato and
carrot merchants, and builBers.
The fortunes of several builders can be traced in these bundles and
throw some light on the housing development of Gainsborough in
the late 19th and early 20th century. Land was cheap, but very cheap
houses were required in Gainsborough, and C. M. Greenwood, who
built houses in Morton Terrace, Carlisle Street, Charles Street and
Gray Street, 1904-07, was one who could not discharge his mortgages
and went bankrupt (2 B.D. 1G/48,4g; 1N/1g).
These bundles show, however, that it was among farmers that
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1874-99. Farmers who had mortgaged their farms found themselves
unable to pay the mortgage interest and the mortgagee let the lands,
received the rents, and eventually sold the property. Such was the
lot of John Charles of North Kelsey, builder, farmer and coal merchant,
of William Coulbeck, farmer, of Broughton and of Thomas
Cooper Croudson of Blyton, miller, who farmed land at Bottesford
and Blyton, (2 B.D. 1C/13-18, 56, 57, 74; 1B/43).
In a very large proportion of the bundles relating to mortgages,
the mortgagee is revealed as Miss Mary Beckett of Somerby Park,
Corringham. She was one of the two daughters and coheirs of Sir
Thomas Beckett, the 3rd Baronet. Her sister Elizabeth married Sir
Henry Hickman Bacon in 1853, and after his death in 1872 her
nephew, Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon, attempted to look after her
financial interests. Her wealth was largely invested in mortgages (see
2 B.D. 1B/58 for schedules of her mortgages with observations and
memoranda), and her affairs took up a large part of Burton and
Dyson’s time and energy. Properties on which she had mortgages
were not confined to Lincolnshire, but included Doncaster, Lofthouse,
and Saltburn in Yorkshire, Crich in Derbyshire, Gringley, Nottinghamshire,
and Stockton-on-Tees, Durham. Some of these mortgages
had been inherited from her father, others had been negotiated by
Mr. Burton and some of them were second mortgages. Such was her
mortgage of property in Minting belonging to William Cropper, who
went bankru t in 1881 (2 B.D. 1C/63-67), and her mortgage on
William Cou Pbeck’s
Broughton farm. The first mortgage on Coul-
beck’s property was held by the Rev. J. Clements, Subdean of Lincoln,
and Sir Thomas Erskine May as trustees for Mrs. Julia Pollock, and
Clements complained of the mortgage Burton had found them as it
only yielded 3 per cent. In 1881 Coulbeck made an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors. In many of Miss Beckett’s mortgages the
mortgagor failed to pay the interest, and Burton and Dyson collected
the rents for her and managed the property, sometimes for a considerable
time until a suitable sale could be made, perhaps in lots.
Where there were bankru tcy proceedings, there were often com-
plicated negotiations over tl! e claims of other creditors. Her mortgage
to the Moorwood Moor Coal, Ironstone, and Fire Clay Company Ltd.
of Crich, Derbys., which failed and was liquidated, involved the firm
in the work of selling the colliery and plant and letting the adjoining
manor house farm, arriving at a settlement with the liquidator’s
solicitor, and meeting the objections of other creditors in the years
1875-85. It also resulted in a protracted suit in Chancery (2 B.D.
1B/40; IM/ loo).
Some bundles relate to F. M. Burton’s own relatives, none of whom
presented more problems than the Revd. Thomas Cooper Lewty,
vicar of Rowston from 1862 to 1900, who had married Harriette,
sister of F. M. Burton’s first wife, Kate. The two were daughters of
Darwin Chawner of Newark, M.D., and of Mary Charlotte, daughter
of John Milnes of Beckingham. F. M. Burton and the Revd. R. J.
Hodgkinson were trustees of Mrs. Chawner’s will of 1879 under
which a small income from the Beckingham estate was left for the
education and maintenance of the Revd. T. C. Lewty’s four children,
since their mother had died. The correspondence provides an
intensely vivid picture of the family’s vicissitudes in the years 1881-
1901 (2 B.D. 1L/23-27). Rowston was a poor living and it was patently
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household and family and also to pay his vintner’s bills. He was
constantly writing reproachful and often abusive letters to the trustees
pleading for money, and the trustees found it hopelessly difficult to
provide for the children without their father benefiting from the
trust moneys. The children too wrote plaintive letters to “Uncle
Burton” making known their modest wants for warm clothing and
the like, certain that they could expect nothing from their father.
The trustees sent Darwin, the eldest boy, as apprentice to Henry
Hyett, a chemist in Bailgate, Lincoln, then in 1883 they tried
apprenticing him to Robey and Co., but with no more success. In
1886 he went out to Queensland and his letters from there reveal
him working fairly contentedly first on railways and later on a large
plantation. Walter, the second boy, was at Colston’s Boarding School
1n 1882, and at Denstone in 1886. The next year he was at home
idle because his father said he could not let him go back to school
in rags and he had no clothes. In 1887 he was sent as apprentice to
a bookseller at Kington, Herefs., but was soon rejected as unsuitable.
The girls, May and Maud, had little education, though they were
sent intermittently to a boarding school in North Wales. They had
already left school before the crisis of 1891 when the bailiffs were
in the vicarage, the furniture sold, and Lewty agreed to assign over
his tithe to pay his creditors. But worse disgrace was to follow, and
in February 1892 he was suspended from the living for eighteen
months for intemperance. An allowance of E1 a week was made for
the maintenance of the three of them. The daughters rallied round
their father, for though they found him incorrigible, they could not
leave him to starve and preferred to spend some of their allowance
on him. When Lewty died in 1goo his creditors received only 3s
in the pound. Among the items for which he owed were twelve copies
of an anthem “I will ransom them ! ” It is a relief to know that both
daughters were married, though Maud was widowed almost at once.
Walter was writing to the firm about the administration of his father’s
estate from the Bisho ‘s Hostel, Lincoln. Crockford shows that he
was duly ordained an dpthat he served as vicar of Rowston from 1908
to 1948.
Scattered’ through the deposit is material on ecclesiastical matters.
T. A. Dyson acted as solicitor to the Lincoln Diocesan Trust and
Board of Finance for a time before 1926, and a few papers of the late
19th and early 20th centuries survive (2 B.D. ~L/go). There are also
papers about the restoration of Corringham parish church in 1881-2,
including letters from the architect, G. F. Bodley (2 B.D. 1C/52),
and about chancel repair at Marton church in 1907 (2 B.D. ‘M/65).
Other bundles relate to the sale of the old vicarage and the building
of the new at Gainsborough in 1933-35, and the purchase of a site
for a new vicarage at East Stockwith (2 B.D. 1B/31) and the sale of
Northorpe vicarage (2 B.D. 1N/22), both in 1934. Papers relating to
glebe land include its sale at Corringham in 1919-20, (2 B.D. 1C/53,
54), its proposed sale at Hatton in 1918 (2 B.D. 1H/34), correspondence
about letting and selling it at Lea, 1913-31 (z B.D. 1L/11,
12), and accounts for Scampton glebe farm 1900-37 (2 B.D. ~E/I).
Other papers concern possible proceedings against an unsuitable
incumbent at Horsingon in 1906-7 (2 B.D. 1H/67), and an erratic,
litigious incumbent at East Stockwith who educated young men in
his vicarage (2 B.D. 1B/28-32). One of Mr. Dyson’s interesting clients
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religious and missionary. In 1900 she was training at the House of
Training for Women Missionaries, Redcliffe House, Upton Park,
London, whose warden was the eminent Cowley Father, The Rev.
G. Congreve. The annual report of this house for 1899 is included
with her letters and papers about her investments and the sale of
her shares to contribute to the work. In 1903 she was at St. Mary’s
Hostel, Salisbury, Rhodesia, and by 1904 at St. Monica’s School,
Penhalonga (2 B.D. 1D/3).
2 CHATTERTON
A further deposit of records from Messrs. Chatterton, Moran and
Popple, solicitors, of Horncastle, was received in June 1971; the
previous deposit (Report g p.49) had consisted of a variety of
documents e.g. title deeds, Parish and Urban District Council records,
Water Board records. This subsequent deposit, in fact, consisted.
mostly of title deeds and supporting papers, ranging in date from the
17th to 19th centuries covering roughly the area of South East Lindsey;
there being no large client’s bundles, it was decided to list them in
alphabetical order of parishes. It further emerged that there were
groups of probates, apprenticeship indentures, bankruptcy case papers,
and some books of the firm including a cash ledger (1825-58).
One prominent family in the Horncastle-Spilsby area during the
18-19~. were the Brackenburys; this family originated, mostly probably
in the Belchford area, but during the late 17th to mid-19th centuries
established branches at Spilsby, Gt. Steeping, Scremby and Skendleby.
Names that appear most frequently in this collection are Carr Brackenbury
(c. 1665- 174 1), Receiver-General for Lincoln and sometime
accountant for the Ancaster estates in Lindsey (see 2 Ant 6/87-91,
181); his second son, the Revd. Joseph Brackenbury (171g-77), who
was incumbent, at various stages, of Halton Holgate, Hundleby, Lower
Toynton and chaplain to the Duke of Queensbury and Dover; and
also his grandson Joseph (1753-1811) clerk to Alford Sewers and
an attorney with a practice in Spilsby.
Carr Brackenbury was born at Great Steeping and made a career
at the law, having at his death a chambers in Clements Inn. He was
married twice, firstly to Ann Gate, sister of Joseph Gate of Panton
by whom he had g children; she died in 1727. His second marriage
brought more money into the family: about 1730 when quite
advanced in years he married Anne, daughter of Sir John Tyrwhitt
(5th Bart.) of Stainfield by whom he had two children who died in
infancy and one son, James, who survived. During his lifetime he
acquired much property in the Spilsby area, including the Manors
of Lusby, Donington on Bain, Skendleby and Hogsthorpe. Lusby was
mortgaged to the Earl of Ancaster in 1724 (2 Chat l/368). There
is a copy of his will in the collection (2 Chat S/1).
His second son, the Revd. Joseph Brackenbury was educated at
Jesus Coll., Cambridge where he gained a B.A. in 1739 and an M.A.
in 1743. He was a party to the marriage settlement of his daughter
Elizabeth, on her marriage to John Comyns of Hylands, Essex in 1769
(2/ 1/l), which was an apparent failure, as we also have the Deed
of Separation which is dated 1794, to which his son Joseph was a party
(21 l/2). Just before his death he was involved in a mortgage of
roperty in Mumby, Hogsthorpe and Burgh le Marsh for E3,ooo
Poaned to him by the then Bishop of London the Rt. Revd. Richard

Tarrick (l/380-385). His will can be found in the L.C.C. wills for 1777.
It is his eldest son Joseph who occurs the most frequently in this
collection; he seems to have carried on his grandfather’s legal profession,
and also became Clerk to the Alford Sewers. We first come across
him in 1785 when he was a party to his sister Mary’s marriage settlement
(z/3/1-2) on her marriage to Joshua Grigby of Drinkstone,
Suffolk, and the following year he was fulfilling his capacity as one
of the trustees of the Spilsby Charity School (1/461;2 Thimb. 3/ 1),
which had been functioning since 1716. This particular deed is a lease
of a parcel of land in the school yard for the erection of a new
building. Among the clients he represented was John Astho e of
Spilsby, who held property in Market Deeping, Halton Ho ‘pgate, Wisbech and Saltfleetby, as well as being an innholder in Spilsby
(l/633)*
Also prominent in this collection is the Wright family, also of
Spilsby, the most famous of whom was Philip Wright a sheep farmer
(see Young: Agriculture in Lincolnshire p.335-6); amongst the title
deeds there are some farm accounts (1/438-g), including accounts for
the sale of farm stock in 181 I : these give details of breeds, and names
of purchasers. He probably had to sell these to pay off mortgage loans,
as, like many other farmers of the time, he had financial difficulties.
As well as mortgages of various land he owned (1 84, 222-5, 432, 470)
we have a note of his loss at the time of the co1 iapse
of the Spilsby
Bank (6/11), which amounted to L670. The Bank owed just under
E30,ooo to various creditors, and this was not paid off until 1814,
a commission having been set u to investigate the collapse. Two of
the bankers, John Steel and Jo1n Wray were declared bankrupt as
a result.
As for the early history of the firm, nothing much emerges from
this collection, although we do have the firm’s cash ledger which
starts at 1825 (2 Chat 11), and a few printed reference books of the
early 19th century. There are a few indications as to the names of
the partners, but we are sure that Thomas Walker, and his son
William,were in the firm at the turn of the 18th century. By the time
that the cash ledger starts, in 1825, Jackson Gunnis is the senior
partner, and he seems to have continued in the firm until about 1845,
when he died. Following him was Langley Langton Bankes of Tattershall
whose name still appears in the ledger at the end, in 1858. It
seems fairly certain that this firm was originally established in Spilsby
and moved to Horncastle sometime during the middle of the 19th
century, merging with the firm of Clitherow, who were already
established at 7 Lindsey Court.
Title deeds, Lincolnshire: Anderby, 12 items, 1693-1793; Bardney,
I item, 1867; Belleau, 8 items, 1785-94; Billingborough, 1 item,
1849; Billinghay, 13 items, 1705-1870; Bilsby, 4 items, 1699-1761;
Bolingbroke, 17 items, 1718-1804; New Bolingbroke, 2 items,
1825; Branston, 1 item, 1871; Brothertoft, 2 items, 1819-20; Burgh
le Marsh, 22 items, 1612-1811; Cawthorpe, 5 items, 1763-92; North
Collingham (Notts.), I item, 1785; Coningsby (and Hawthorn
Hill), g6 items, 1688-1878; Covenham, 1 item, 1786; Croft, 6 items,
1722-94; Donington on Bain, 3 items, 1637-1787; Dunholme, 1
item, 1768; Mavis Enderby, 1g items, 1665-1798; Wood Enderby,

2 items, 1859-70; Firsby, 8 items, 1797-1821; Freiston, 2 items,
1814-41; Friskney, 25 items, 1691-1818; Goulceby, I item, 1715;
Goxhill, 12 items, 1654-99; Grimoldby, 1 item, 1754; Gt. Grimsby,
3 items, 1739-1807; Hagworthingham, 6 items, 1780-1825;
Haltham on Bain, 1 item, 1808; Halton Holgate, g items, 1671-
1854; Hameringham, 1 item, 1758; Hareby, 2 items, 1832; Hogsthorpe,
2 items, 1788-1800; Holton le Moor, 4 items, 1799-1805;
Horncastle,. 17 items, 1808-38; Hundleby, 5 items, 1685-1829;
Ingoldmells and Addlethorpe, 8 items, 1700-1815; East Keal, 6
items, 1760-1829; Kirkby on Bain, 12 items, 1758-1858; Kirton
Fen, I item, 1843; Kirton Skeldyke, I item, 1853; North Kyme,
3 items, 1802-36; Langworth, 1 item, 1860; Leake, 1 item, 1796;
Leverton, 2 items, 1785-1861; Louth, 11 items, 1699-1769; Ludford,
I item, 1795; Lusby, 1 item, 1724; Mablethorpe, 2 items,
1 1700, 1790; Mareham le Fen, 4 items, 1790-1868; Mareham on the
Hill, 1 item, 1861; MininGby, 3 items, 1650-1827; Monkthorpe,
I item, 1821; Mumby, 6 items, 1775-7; Orby, 4 items, 1757-1818;
North Ormsby, 1 item, 1796; Partney, 7 items, 1768-1844; Revesby,
I item, 1859; Roughton, 1 item, 1808; Ruskington, 2 items, 1840-
65; Saleby, I item, 1751; Salmonby, 1 item, 1773; Saltfleetby,
I item, 1745; Sausthorpe, 4 items, 1721-1852; Scamblesby, I item,
1773; Scatter, 2 items, 1812; Scremby, 2 items, 1798-1830; Scupholme,
I item, 1752; Skendleby, 1 item, 1737; New Sleaford,
I item, 1772; North Somercotes, 2 items, 1763-1858; Spilsby, 43
items, 1640-1857; Stainby, 1 item, 1732; Great Steeping, 8 items,
1699-1816; Little Steeping, g items, 1701-1823; Stickford, I item,
1819; Stickney, 10 items, 1697-1809; &afield, 1 item, 1680; Sutterton
Fen, I item, 1843; Swineshead, I item, 1774; Tattershall,
25 items, 1719-1872; Tattershall Thorpe, 24 items, 1719-1847;
Tetney, I item, 1797; Theddlethorpe, I item, 1791; South
Thoresby, 2 items, 1712-50; Thorpe, 35 items, 1652-1801; Timberland,
1 item, 1826; Toynton All Saints, 21 items, 1694-1816; Low
Toynton, 2 items, 1774-8; Toynton St. Peter, 6 items, 1811-78;
Trusthorpe, 2 items, 1699-1726; Tumby, 3 items, 1795-1865;
Wainfleet All Saints, 7 items, 1701-1804; Washingborough, I item,
1769; West Fen, 1 item, 1794; Willoughby and Sloothby, 2 items,
1804; Winthorpe, 3 items, 1715-1830; Wisbech, 2 items, 1793-1838;
Wrangle, 2 items, 1787.
Title Deeds, other counties: Essex, 2 items, 1769-94; Middlesex, 3
items, 1837-59; Suffolk, 2 items, 1785-1805; Surrey, 2 items, 1761-
1813,
Probates and Administrations: 51 items, 1701-1879.
Final Concords: 10 items, 1825-30.
Apprenticeship Indentures: 22 items, 1831-70.
Assignments in Trust for Creditors: 18 items, 1781-1857.
Magdalen College (Oxon) leases: 8 items, 1809-18.
Records of the Brackenbury family: g items, 1741-1831.
Miscellaneous: 13 items, 1800-66.
Miscellaneous printed: 8 items, 1792-1860.
Cash Ledger: I item, 1825-58.

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DIXON
(additional)
On 5 March 1872 the aged James Green Dixon and his daughter
Mary Elizabeth visited the churchyard at Holton-le-Moor. Mary
Elizabeth gathered violets, some of which she placed on the grave
of her cousin Richard Roadley Dixon, and some of which she kept.
Those she kept survive, and they make an appropriate item to place
at the end of the Dixon deposit. We assume it is the end, but the
experience of the past year or two shows what a dangerous assumption
that is. When the last Report went to the press it was thought that
Holton had revealed most of its archival riches, but during the past
year no less than five further deposits have been made, through the
kind offices of the Misses Gibbons. The major discovery was a locked
safe in the estate office, which was found to contain a number of large
and informative ledgers for the period 1824-1906. Other valuable
additions to already deposited material include estate rentals, household
accounts, estate and building plans, and some excellent
nineteenth-century photographs.
One aspect of the collection which is now exceptionally full relates
to the social and institutional history of Caistor. Holton-le-Moor lies
in the ecclesiastical parish of Caistor, and the Dixons have from time
to time taken the lead in Caistor affairs. The historian of the town
in the nineteenth century will find here the records of, or material
relating to, the Society of Industry, the parochial administration, the
Grammar School, the Matron Society, the National Sunday school, the
Savings Bank, the Friendly Society, the Church of England Temperance
Society, the Christmas beef subscriptions, the cricket club, the
races, the chess club, and the ploughing meeting (or agricultural
society).
James Green Dixon (1789-1879) lived in Caistor Market-place for
over fifty years. His papers, and those of his family, were mentioned
briefly in the original survey of the Dixon deposit (Report 22, 1970-1,
p.20), but they are full enough to justify a more detailed account.
The third son of William Dixon of Holton-le-Moor, J. G. Dixon
was intended for a farming life. He took over the tenancy of Gravel
Hill Farm, art of the Dixon estate in Thornton-le-Moor, in 1811,
and started Parming Mount Pleasant Farm, Holton, in 1814. In 1817
he began to rent Ewefield Farm, also in Holton, which meant that he
now had in his occupation a total of over 830 acres. William Dixon
died in 1824, leaving his landed property equally between his two
farming sons, Thomas John and James Green. Mount Pleasant and
Gravel Hill fell to the latter’s share, but he sold Mount Pleasant to
Thomas John for g11,500.
Meanwhile, on the death of his uncle Robert Parkinson in 1822,
he had succeeded to a farm of around IOO acres in Rothwell, and
to this farm he added by purchase two adjacent properties, making by
1825 one large farm of about 530 acres. With the Thornton property
this made a total landed estate of over 800 acres, almost enough to
live on as a gentleman. But James Green Dixon lacked both the
education and the inclination to be a gentleman. He continued to
farm Rothwell until 1873, but gradually relinquished his other farming
commitments. He seems to have surrendered the tenancy of Mount
Pleasant to Thomas John in 1830. In 1839 Thomas John bought
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in 1849 James Green made over the Thornton farm to two of his
sons, John William and Thomas Parkinson Dixon.
James Green Dixon was not a successful farmer, and was often in
financial difficulties. His wife, one of the Dauber family, inherited
E15,ooo in 1842, but the debts and incumbrances continued to mount.
When John William took on the Rothwell farm as tenant to his
father in 1873 it was in a poor state, and when he succeeded to the
property in 1879 it was heavily mortgaged. A few years later the
mortgagee foreclosed, and the estate was sold in 1886.
James Green’s main interest in farming was his herd of shorthorns.
He made some purchases from the final sale of Robert Colling’s herd
in 1820, and kept a herd book in which the pedigrees of his beasts
were recorded (DIXON 12/4/o). His favourite cow was Young Strawberry,
calved in 1827: he had its portrait painted when it reached
the age of twenty-one (12 /7/4/ 19). Ten years earlier Sir Charles
Anderson had been amused to witness Dixon at an agricultural show
‘feeling his own cow and expatiating on her girt excellence’ (diary,
4 Sept. 1838). Perha s this was the same animal.
In 1824 James Zreen began business as a corn merchant. This
departure from Dixon family tradition may be connected with his
alliance with the Daubers. Though he did not marry Elizabeth Dauber
until July 1825, his future father-in-law, ohn Dauber of Brigg, a corn
and coal merchant, may have suggested that there was an opening
in his own trade. Dixon attended local markets (Louth on Wednesday,
Brigg on Thursday, Grimsby on Friday, and Caistor on Saturday), and
made purchases from most of the leading farmers of the northern
wolds. He stored the corn he bought at warehouses at Brigg, Brandy
Wharf, Louth and Grimsby, having his own warehouse for a time at
the last-named place. Some consignments went to London, but most
went by the Aire and Calder canal to Leeds and Wakefield, where
they were sold through large factors such as Thomas and Richard
Binney of Wakefield, and James Hirst and Sons of Leeds. The Dixon
deposit includes ledgers containing detailed accounts with farmers,
wharfingers, shippers and factors, and also some interesting items
of market intelligence from Wakefield and Hull (12/ 1 and 12/4/4).
Dixon also dealt in seeds and wool, and in 1830 entered the coal trade.
He bought coal from the Wakefield district, principally from Sir J. L.
Kaye (Horbury Bridge), Stansfeld and Co. (Flockton), and J. Charlesworth
and Co. (Lofthouse). It was shipped to the Ancholme, and
sold mainly in sm.all quantities to customers in the vicinity of Caistor.
In 1834 he reckoned to have made a profit of Eg64.15.10 for the year
on corn sales (12 / l/g, f. I IS), but hu coal business was on a much
smaller scale. He does not appear to have done much dealing in corn
and seeds after the mid 1840s but he kept on the coal trade into the
railway era, giving it up only about 1870, when he was over eighty
years old.
In public life James Green Dixon was a leading tory in the Caistor
district and a staunch churchman. He continued his father’s work
as Visitor of the House of Industry, and also fostered the Matron
Society and the Caistor and Rasen committee of the S.P.C.K. In
character he seems to have been a truer son of his father than Thomas
John. The latter was squire of Holton, a successful business man who
aspired to ‘county’ status. James Green remained a lainer man, and
certainly a less successful one. With his pronounce%local accent, his
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hu neighbours. The rector of Rothwell, with whom he had a longstanding
feud about the religious state of the parish, was moved to
make a public attack on him in 1843. The rector, himself an unbalanced
and difficult man, descended to spiteful personalities, but
the long letter which he had printed is nevertheless an interesting
side-light on the character of his rotagonist (12/10/7).
James Green had four sons, Jol!n William (1826-98) an unsuccessful
farmer; Marmaduke (1828-g8), who emigrated to New Zealand and
did very well there; Thomas Parkinson (18z7-1900); and James Green
junior (1832-1918). The last two were of unsound mind, though James
Green junior was able to live quietly at Caistor to the end of his days.
The only daughter, Mary Elizabeth, died unmarried in 1875, at the
age of thirty-nine. The Dixon deposit includes diaries and letters for
most members of this family; and Mary Elizabeth’s diaries are of
particular value for the social history of Caistor in the middle years
of the nineteenth century.
Summary of additional deposits, 1972-73
estate records : estate book, 1784-96; survey of Thornton-le-Moor,
1839; rentals and rent accounts, 1866-1961; agreements (Holton
and Searby estates), 181 l-1904 (195); further zoc. papers.
accounts : ledgers and cash books (including trust accounts), 1824-
1gog (24); household accounts, vouchers and papers, 1831-1907.
farming records : accounts (including R. R. Dixon’s Searby Moor
farm), 1844-72 (4).
personal apers, T. J. Dixon and family: additional letters of R.
Road Pey
to T. J. Dixon, 1800-6; papers of T. J. Dixon, including
Searby church restoration; misc. items for Mrs. M. A. Dixon and
family.
papers of the Revd. T. G. Dixon: papers about Holton School,
Caistor Grammar School, Skipworth trust, and other business
matters; more antiquarian papers; diaries, sermons and photograph
albums (the whole c.188o-1938).
papers of G. S. Dixon (2 DIXON): further diaries, notebooks and
miscellaneous papers.
plans: Holton estate (Holton-le-Moor, Thornton-le-Moor, Nettleton),
1gc.; Hall, church, school, cottages and other buildings in Holton,
1gc.-2oc.; Searby church (1830s).
miscellaneous : family music books (c.1798-1870) and photographs
(c.1845-1900); Eyworth (Beds.) tithe valuation, 1794; diaries of
Miss V. Hine, 1931-2; Holton-le-Moor parish-vestry minutes,
officers’ account books, etc., 1721-1944 (8); Caistor Society of
Industry committee minute book, 1800-1; Caistor Church of
England Temperance Society minutes, 1888-93; Caistor beef
subscription book, 1826-71; Caistor Cricket Club score book,
1870-g; Caistor Rural Deanery, Sunday school teachers’ minute
book, 1912-36; miscellaneous brass rubbings.
FOSTER LIBRARY
Work has continued on the multifarious documents which were
deposited by the Literary Executors of Canon Foster at the Lindsey
and Holland County Library in 1937 and transferred to the Archives
Office in 1955, and also subsequent de osits by the Library and Miss
S. M. Ingoldby (see Reports 7/5-l 1 anB 20/42.). This has entailed the

elisting of Sections A-H of F.L. Mss. which Miss F. Thurlby had
card-indexed, and listing of the contents of about 20 collapsibles
bearing the legend ‘Unlisted’.
F.L. Deeds.
The original listing of F.L. Deeds used the running numbers 1-1199
and 2000-2045; this odd gap seemed to be the best place in which to
list the majority of the unattached title deeds in the ‘Unlisted
collapsibles. So, by listing in alphabetical order of parish, the list
progressed to number 1318. Following this, the deeds from sections
D (“Indentures”) but minus a few medieval deeds which are listed
with “Charters”, and F (“Final Concords”), together with a few from
A (“Charters”) and C (“Bonds”), filled up the numbers from 131g-
1625. Finally the rest of C, “unattached’ Bonds, were allotted the
numbers 1626-46.
Owing to the miscellaneous nature of these deeds, copies of court
roll etc., it has been impractical to give a detailed summary of
contents. This, we hope, will be given in the next Report, but in
the meanwhile, there are certain items that stand out as being of
narticular interest: -
’ 1265 A stray from the Smith of South Elkington collection, which
is now widely dispersed. This deed is dated 1398 and
concerns lands in Elkington and Welton le Wold (n.b. not
transcribed in Harm. 3/ 1.).
1259 This particular of lands at Garthorpe, dated 1589, rightly
belongs in F.L. Garthorpe and District Deeds which is listed
separately.
1267-72 Assignments of a Dean and Chapter lease of 4 and 5 Pottergate,
Lincoln, between 1726-44; they should go with F.L.
Glover, as this property was assigned to Phillips Glover in
‘763.
1277-79 Rentals and correspondence relating to Banks estates at
Fulstow and Marshchapel, 1712-86.
‘294-95 Charter (Inspeximus) dated 1343, and a compotus Roll
(1449-50) relating to Stainfield Priory. The compotus which
is very full, has been translated (see M.C.D. 832.).
1431 Feoffment of charity land at Grantham, 1601, giving copious
details of previous feoffees.
1510 Probably a stray from the Andre de Coppet collection (see
Report 7/38-g), this lease of land at Irnham and Corby is
dated 1504.
‘5’9 Conveyance to feoffees of the Brocklesby Mausoleum in 1794,
by Charles Anderson Pelham.
‘553-57 Deeds relating to the Chantry House at Normanby, 1618-79.
1603 Lengthy 18th c. office copy of a Royal Grant to Edward,
Earl of Hertford, in 1609, of various monastic estates (inc.
Vaudey, Markby, Greenfield) in Lincolnshire and other
counties.
436-87 Statute Merchant bond and covenant, Lincoln 1571.
F.L. Foster Family
We have some 20 original documents, together with family and
genealogical correspondence and notes and extracts, all concerning
the Canon’s own family and other related families. These were
deposited in 1968 by Miss S. M. Ingoldby (Report 20 p. 42) and given

the reference number ~17. Certain of the documents are 18th century
title deeds concerning the Toller and St. Barbe families. The Tollers
were large landowners in the Horbling and Billingborough areas (see
Smith of Horbling, passim; F.L. Maps 27); Richard Toller of Billingborough
Hall, gent. married Emma Foster of Dowsby in 1603; he
was later indicted for treason in 1643. Mary St. Barbe, whose family
came from London, but originally from Hampshire, married the Revd.
Kingsman Foster of Dowsby, about 1810 (F.L. Foster S/r-o). One of
the most interesting items is a travel journal written by John Foster,
the Canon’s grandfather, who at the time of writing it, was a student
or perhaps a fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Dated August
1800, it describes a walking tour from Huntingdon to Coventry and
back, made by Foster, and three corn P anions named George Rooke,
Edward Stanley and Alexander Bedel . They had set out from Cambridge
to Huntingdon by coach, and thence to Coventry through
Northampton and Daventry; there is a great deal of country colour
illustrated in these pages, as well as glimpses of industrial expansion
in the Midlands; “ . . . took a view of the Grand Junction Canal,
running from London to Liverpool (at least will do when it is completed)
and indeed it is worth the trouble of a traveller to go + mile
out of the way to see the immense Bank which is rais’d nearly to
a level with the Church Tower; The Price of coals at a wharf at this
place [Weedon] we were told was rgd a hundred . . .‘I (pp.ro-11). At
Coventry, among other places they visited the ‘Tommy Weaving and
Ribband Manufactory’. (115). Among various other items are
photographs of Canon Foster (2 / 317; 5 / 1) and copious newscuttings
concerning his family (5/ r).
S-
Original documents, rg items, r766-c.rgoo. Family correspondence,
49 items, c.r864-1925. Other correspondence, 26 items, c.r886-1931.
Genealogical note-books etc., 11 items, rg-2oc. Notes and extracts of
the Foster family, rg-2oc. Notes etc. re other Foster families, rg-2oc.
Notes etc. re the Wilmer family, rg-2oc. Notes, extracts and pedigrees
for families related to Foster, lg-2oc.
F.L. Garthorpe and District Deeds
A collection of about 110 title deeds (16-18c.) relating to places
in the Garthorpe and Luddington area of the Isle of Axholme; many
of the neighbouring parishes in Yorkshire are also represented, viz.
Adlingfleet, Ousefleet, Reedness and Swinefleet, and Whitgift. The
collection itself was artificially compiled from various documents in
sections A (“Charters”), C (“Bonds”), D (“Indentures”), and the bulk
were from the Yorkshire Deeds: 6/ 1 however was found among ‘Misc.
from Timberland.’ at Exchequer Gate.
This area of the Isle was always very isolated and despite
Vermuyden’s re-routing of the River Don, must have been somewhat
unhealthy, although Dr. Stonehouse’s comments (History and Topography
of the Isle of Axholme p.455-6) on Carthorpe may have been
rather unkind. The material we have here concerns a few of the more
important families in the area; the Drewry, Morley and Worsopp
families of Adlingfleet, the Youle, Birkhill and Lister families of
Garthorpe, and the Dunn and Wressell families of Reedness. Not
much is known of these, although it is fairly certain that the Listers

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as-e related to the Listers of Coleby Hall. There is a pedigree of
Birkhill in Maddison, Vol.1 p.138.
There are some documents (l/28-36) which deal with a dispute
regarding the sale of land in Adlingfleet by William Lister of Garthorpe,
gent., to Revd. Richard Worsopp of Adlingfleet in 1670; the
trouble concerned the payment of the purchase money, and
necessitated an arbitration. Another item of interest is a Law of
Sewers (l/44) dated 1768, concerning the parishes of Adlingfleet and
Whitgift; this gives the principal proprietors’ names, the extent of
their lands, and the rates they are to be charged.
Adlingfleet, 44 items, 1558-1768. Garthorpe, 31 items, 1584-1703.
Ousefleet, 6 items, 1625-79. Reedness and Swinefleet, 21 items, 1612-
1740. Whitgift, 5 items, 1627-1707. Miscellaneous, 3 items, 1619-87.
F.L. Glover
This is a fairly large collection of title deeds, correspondence and
other papers, ranging from the 16th to 19th centuries, concerning the
Glover family of Wispington, near Horncastle. It has been articially
compiled from records in the ‘Unlisted section of the Foster Library
MSS., and also from part of a subsequent deposit by the Lindsey and
Holland Library in 1968.
Although the title suggests one family, this is really the history of
two families, which came together by marriage in 1696. The Phillips
family had owned the land in Wispington and other neighbouring
parishes since the mid-16th century. Robert Phillips, the first member
of the family about whom we know anything was probably born about
1530; his father whom we cannot trace, might well have come from
Bardney. What is known about Robert, however, is that he elevated
the family to the gentry by making himself wealthy through sheepfarming.
This was the age of the great expansion in sheep rearing,
and Robert, as well as owning lands in Wispington, Baumber, Thorpe,
Croft and Bratoft, had leases from Lord Willoughby of Parham in
Edlington, Orby, Tupholme, Waddingworth, Minting and Horsington.
He was able to make bequests of at least 250 sheep to people
outside the immediate family. (For his will, dated 1604 see P.R.O.
Prob. 11/105/g). Robert’s acquisition of wealth prompted him to
purchase the Manor of Wispington for E550 in 1585, from Lord
Willoughby d’Eresby, at that time with the army in the Low Countries
(1/ 1/ 1-2). He is also prominent in the list of subscribers towards
expenses for the defence of the realm in 1589 (L.N.Q. II. p.133).
His eldest son, and heir, was Stephen (1562-1628); for part of his
younger days he lived at Hemingby, and in 1588 married Bridget,
daughter of Thomas and Emma Dymoke of Haugham. He succeeded
his father in 1604 and maintained the family sheep farming tradition,
also enlarging the horse and cattle stock. More estates were bought
by him, including the rectory and advowson of Wispington
(1/o /3-4) and land in Ingoldmells (I /7/6-g). They had eight children,
of whom the eldest was Robert (c.15go-1635); Judith, one of the four
daughters, married William Cracroft of North Somercotes, in 1631.
Stephen died in January 1627/8 and was buried at Wispington; we
have his will (L.C.C. Wills 1628(i). 267) and his inventory (Inv.
133/ 1 lo), which together give a fairly full picture of the family estate
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Wispington, and also the numbers of farm animals (62 cattle, 19 horses
and 436 sheep).
Robert, his eldest son, seems to have been less of a business man;
not much is known about him other than that he married, in 1618,
Susan, daughter of Alderman Thomas Mosley of York, by whom he
had seven children. It is possible that a decline in WOOI prices caused
his financial embarrassment, for we know that he was forced on at
least one occasion (1/3/8-g) to sell land to raise money. At his death
in 1635 he owed nearly L600 in debts to about thirty different people
(Ad. Act. 24/g4). However, he did make one or two additions to the
family estates, by purchasing the Rectory of Calceby for L216 in
1635, along with other lands in Louth, Elkington, North and South
Somercotes, Grainthorpe, Skidbrook, Cumberworth and Calceby
(M.M. 1 /~/IO). Two of his daughters married people about whom
we know something; Frances (born 1620) married Henry Clowdesley
of the Bail, Lincoln, woollen draper (Hill 37), and Jane (b.1623)
married Revd. Richard Raikes of Beeford, East Yorks.; their grandson,
Robert Raikes was the well known Gloucester philanthropist (I/~/PO;
Venn Alumini Cantab.).
After Robert’s death, Susan in 1639 married Edmond Ellis of
Wellingore (1 114; 5/3), and there was a family settlement arranged
for Robert’s e idest
son Robert, on his attaining his majority in 1646.
Robert was the first member of the family to go to a university; he
attended Jesus College, Cambridge from 1648 to 1653, and then
entered Grays Inn. By this time the family fortunes had been somewhat
restored, and Robert added to the estates by purchasing land
in Walkergate, Louth, from Sir Charles Bolle in 1655 (1/S/1-4). In
this year he also contracted a useful marriage with Mary White, sister
of John White of Buckminster, Leics., Esq. ( I/ l/6-7) which produced
seven children, of whom the eldest, Stephen, unfortunately died in
1683. The younger sons John, Robert and Benjamin were well
educated and apprenticed, Benjamin being bound for seven years
to Robert Williamson, merchant at Bordeaux in 1682 (l/5/12; 5/12).
Apparently Williamson went bankrupt in 1693 and so his bond for
g500 would have been forfeit; however it seems that Benjamin did
continue in his merchant’s trade until his death in 1715. His brother
Robert (1662-1707) became a goldsmith and, like Benjamin, lived in
London. John, the eldest surviving brother after Stephen’s death, took
over as head of the family. Their father Robert had died in 1668
leaving monetary legacies to the value of nearly E3,ooo; the younger
children were well provided for, and there are surviving some rough
rentals for property in Wispington which was set aside for their
maintenance, dated 1669-76 (I/ 1/ 12b). The will (L.C.C. Wills 1668/
331) makes mention of a Dr. Richier, who is probably Dr. Peter
Richier of the Bail, Lincoln; whether he was a relation we do not
know, but a later member of the family, Edward Richier of Aldermanbury,
London, is a cousin of Phillips Glover (4/1/1-g: 1720).
On the death of John Phillips in 1720 the family name was extinct,
but the estates had already been saved by the marriage in 1696 of
Mary, the youngest daughter of Robert Phillips, to John Glover,
citizen and ironmonger of the parish of St. Nicholas Acons, London.
He had probably come into contact with her brothers in the course
of business. His family history is little known; his father, Richard’s,
will dated 1686 (P.R.O. Prob. 11/385/164) makes it fairly clear that
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with Surrey. By the early 17th century however, the family, or at least
Richard’s branch, seems to have moved to London, as there were
merchants in the family. Before his marriage to Mary Phillips, John
had had a previous wife named Elizabeth, but she seems to have
died some time between 1686 and 1695; the three children of this
marriage were provided for later (5 /3 I).
Now that Mary had married John, they lived more or less permanently
in London, and her mother, Mary also came to live there.
Between 1696 and 1700 when both Marys died (within a few months
of each other) two children were born, Phillips and Maria.
Phillips enjoyed a quick rise to success; already a rich man, by
virtue of astute investment both on the part of his uncle, his father
and himself, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723 and
was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1727 (3/1-p); in 1726
he married Mary, daughter of Richard and Agnes Lee of Winslade,
Devon. The marriage settlement is not in this collection however,
but is to be found in Turnor 4/4/ 1.
In 1720 he inherited the estate of his uncle John Phillips. There
was some doubt about the validity of the will as it was composed
within a short period of his death, and some details had been omitted,
including an intended bequest to Maria (5 / 29). Accordingly, Phillips
took steps to arrange a gift of EIO,OOO for her, from a total of E28,ooo
(in personal estate) of which a large sum was the profits of thoughtful
investment in the South Sea Company. Maria, however, died in 1723
without having made a will; Counsel suggested (5/30) a shareout
between Phillips and the children of John Glover’s first marriage, but
Phillips persuaded his half brother and sister to accept E1,ooo each,
and to indemnify him into the bargain (5/31).
Something has already been said about the Glover family investments
in the South Sea Company. We happen to have some correspondence
and legal apers concerning an incident which ocurred, in
September 1’720, at aE:out the time of the South Sea Bubble, concerning
a transfer of E2,ooo of stock held by Phillips Glover which he was
intending to sell for ~20,000 to Andrew Hope of London, brewer, and
Jonah Crynes of London, draper (41 I).
During the months of August and September in this year, there was
a great deal of transfer activity involving shares on the stock market,
particularly those of the South Sea Company. The asking price for
shares had been in the region of E1,ooo per cent; but when the crash
came, occasioned by the lack of collateral possessed by the company
as well as the rush to sell, the panic caused prices to fall very rapidly,
and the company was investigated by the Lords Justices. Edward
Richier, Phillips Glover’s correspondent, who evidently had a lot
of inside knowledge and acted as his attorney, writes on the 20th of
August: “ . . . You would have been frighted to have seen ye Distorted
Iooks & ye horrid Chargrin that seiz’d the Countenances of ye Jobbers
yesterday . . .“. Accusations were levelled at the Directors of the
company, and at the Exchequer. Two days later he records (4/ 1/2) :
. . . It is really a verry melancholy sight to behold persons who 10
days since flourished in their glittering Chariots (having grown weary
of walking on foot) brought as to that particular upon a level with
yr humble servant by Bubbles”.
Crynes and Hope, the purchasers, were evidently biding their time,
as, with each day, the price on the market was falling; from 820%
on the nond August it apparently plummeted to 365% by 17th

September, and after a short rally, dr ped on 28th September to
a mere 130%. This was the day on whix, or before, Glover and the
other parties had agreed to do business. Accordingly Richier, as
attorney, attended the Company books on the ogth, but it was a
holiday; on the 30th he also waited to do business, but again the
purchaser failed to appear. In November, legal advice was taken
(4/ I / ‘o-14), the outcome of which was that Glover was not necessarily
entitled to the asking price ( I,OOO%), and further, that as the contract
said that the purchasers would pay on transferral, Glover had no
real demand in law.
Despite this discouraging advice, Glover went ahead with an action
for L40,ooo damages in Hilary term 1720 (4/ l/16-19); they countered
him, arguing on a demurrer in June of the same year, and the case
would have been judged against him, had he not discontinued the
action, paying costs. This was not the end of the matter, however, for
in 1727 he made an unsuccessful bid to have the case heard in
Chancery (4/ 1 /sg).
Glover made a will dated 1744 (P.R.O. Prob. I l/742/249) in which
he made his wife, Mary, tenant for life, and his son, Phillips, the
tenant in tail, to inherit on the death of his mother. Following his
father’s death in 1745, Phillips became the head of the family, but
was unable to inherit until 1767, when his mother died. His sister
Mary meanwhile had married John Plumptre of London Esq., and
he himself married Mary, daughter of Charles Gore of Horkstow, in
1751 (Turnor 4/4/1/g), by whom he had one daughter, Laura.
Nothing else is known of his early life until 1758 when he embarked
upon his brief but, to say the least, spectacular career in the Lincolnshire
Militia (Southern Battalion). He was appointed Major, under
Sir John Cust (Colonel), and William Welby (Lt.-Colonel), which
rank he held until 1761 when he was made Lieutenant-Colonel.
Early in November 1759 the Militia were called out and ordered
to march to Liverpool and Manchester, as there was a threat of a
French invasion: however the threat receded at the end of February
1760, but the Lincolnshire Militia was ordered to remain in its Manchester
quarters until October of that year. It was during this time
that Glover was involved in a nasty accident in the Manchester
playhouse. Apparently a Mr. Jackson, an apothecary, came up behind
Glover at a rehearsal and jokingly struck him on the back; Major
Glover turned round, struck him in return with his switch, also ,
in joke. Apparently Jackson did not take the joke; according to
Dodsley’s Annual Register (Vol.3 p.98) he blustered “D-n you, Sir,
tho’ you are a major, I will not take this from you”. Matters escalated,
and Jackson insisted on satisfaction. They retired to a room in a coffee
house where, in a duel, Glover ran him through the body. The
result seems to have been fatal, for he was brought up at the Assizes;
however he was acquitted (Records of the Cust family Vol.3 p.50),
as the Grand Jury could not find a true bill.
The other incident in Phillips Glover’s career in the Militia was
only one of the displays of rivalry, if not hostility, shown by the
Militia towards the Regular Army. Both the Cust letters and the
Militia records in P Ant. g mention this feud. Lt.-Colonel Welby was
involved in a quarrel with the Duke of Richmond’s Regiment at
Stamford in April 1761. The following January, Phillips Glover had
a dispute with Capt. Gardiner of the Royal Musketeers about a
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been involved in the Stamford fracas. Capt. Gardiner immediately
asked for a court martial, and this was granted by Townshend, the
Minister of War. The outcome of this was that Glover was given
a stiff reprimand (J. C. Walter, Parishes around Horncastle R 345).
It did not dampen his usual cheerfulness, as in December 1762 e was
able to jest with Sir John Cust about a bet. However, sometime
between 1763 and 1765 he resigned his commission, probably owing
to the increasing attention he would have needed to give to his
estates. The general opinion of Glover was that he was indiscreet,
and possibly something of a martinet, but this may have been somewhat
harsh; however he was, it seems, easily provoked into hasty
action.
In 1767, as mentioned above, he inherited the Wispington estate;
his first objective was to provide for his family, but he had no son,
only a daughter Laura, born about 1775. There is not much in the
family records for 176580 to show how the estate was progressing,
except for small pieces of information from the few rentals that
survive (5/39(b) ). However, he did mortgage the Calcethorpe property
to Taylor Calcroft, who had been a party to the 1767 settlement
(5/39(a) ), in 1772; this property had been one of the later purchases
of Phillips’ father, in 1743. There is also a bundle of share subscription
vouchers (5 / 37), which show that Glover possessed L5,ooo of
stock in the Chesterfield Canal scheme, which he supported from
1771.
His sister Mary had, about 1750, married John Plumptre of London,
by whom she had two children, John, and Mary who in 1785
married Richard Carr Glyn the London banker (knighted in 1791).
Apparently John Plumptre the elder was related to Elizabeth
Chudleigh, the notorious Duchess of Kingston, of whom it was said
by Leigh-Hunt “ . . . she concentrated her rhetoric into swearing,
and dressed in a style next to nakedness.” (G.E.C. Vol.VII p.310 n.).
On her death in 1788 there were certain estates in France of which
she was the owner, and about which there was to be considerable
controversy, particularly some property in Calais, a mansion near
Paris called St. Assise, and another house in Montmartre. It is about
the succession of these estates that we have a fairly lengthy correspondence
(4/203), concerning the part played by Phillips Glover.
The correspondence opens with Glover in Paris in the autumn of
1788 attempting to find out what he would be entitled to as a second
cousin. Unfortunately he seems to have been utterly deceived by
a M. Bequet de Cocove, from whom the Duchess had bought a house
in Calais, into thinking that if he paid some of the Duchess’ debts,
he would have a better claim to the French estates than the first
cousins; it was also suggested that he come to an agreement with
the other heirs at law, and purchase their succession rights. The
villainous Frenchman together with an English clergyman named
Jackson, apparently managed to continue the deception, until in early
1790 Glover heard from his French bankers, Perregaux & Co. of Paris,
that de Cocove had got his signature on a bond for &4,000, payable
to de &cove after Glover’s death. By the early months of 1790, still
in Paris, he seems to have gone into debt to the tune of E13,500
(4/a/34); it was lamented that so many claims to the Duchess’ estate
were pending. In January he left for England, and did not return,
but kept up a regular correspondence with Perregaux & Co., from
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first made the acquaintance of Rebecca Shoulters, a widow, whose
father, Revd. William Jepson, was a resident of the Close in Lincoln,
and she is mentioned in one or two of the letters (4/2/25,41).
Having once purchased the rights of succession from the first
cousins, Glover was not allowed to retract, as the matter has been
sealed by a bond, “altho’ they cannot help lamenting that you have
been cheated and pillaged” (4/2/27).
Apart from the actions of men like de Cocove and Dessein, a
notorious hotel proprietor at Calais, and the demands for repayment
of debts owing by the Duchess, Glover also had to contend with the
slowness of the French courts. During the Revolution, legal activity
slowed while a revised judicial system was being set up; however, even
after the new system came into force, business was tardy. There is
not much original detail concerning the Revolution in these letters,
as most items are taken up with money matters.
Part of the Duchess’ wealth was in jewellery; one set was apparently
sent to a Mr. Christie in London-this could be James Christie the
elder. The sale of these jewels, which are the subject of many of the
letters was a long business, and the money from them was needed
to pay off Glover’s expenses, and the various demands, some real, some
spurious, which were laid against the Duchess’ estates. A summary
of the state of affairs u to August 1790 can be found in a rinted
pamphlet issued by G Pover (4/p/41). From then until ear Py
1792
the demands (including claims by Evelyn Medows, who was himself
notorious for having disputed the will of his uncle, the second Duke)
were gradually rebuffed, and attempts were made to bring de Cocove
to justice (4/o/55). Advertisements were placed (4/p/64) in various
newspapers, offering rewards for information received, but did not
result in his arrest. By the end of 1793, however, the estates had been
more or less dealt with and Glover paid off the final account to
Messrs. Perregaux (4/r/74). The only outstanding matter was the
post-obit bond which de Cocove had contrived to get Glover’s signature
for in November 1789, and this was never resolved before
Glover’s death in 1796.
In 1793 Mary Glover died and Glover remarried in December 1795;
his second wife was Rebecca Shoulters whom he had known for some
years, and was a family friend. By his will (P.R.O. Prob. 11/1283/611)
he appointed as his executors Sir John Thorold of Syston Bt., and
Robert Vyner of Gautby, the latter especially being a close family I
friend. The problem of the post-obit bond dominated their executorship:
the third series of correspondence deals with their attempts to
rebuff the document; by this time the amount seems to have gone
up to ;El;,ooo. The solicitor instructed in regard to this was another
Robert Vyner, a member of the Warwickshire branch of the family.
Evidently he had become attached to Laura Glover, for they were
married in February 1799 (4/3/32) and had IO children.
The correspondence closes with the problem of the bond still
unsolved, but we may assume that de Cocove did not bring the matter
to law. However, during the fifteen years that the affair of the Duchess
of Kingston’s succession continued, Glover’s estate was the loser by
about ~20,000; even in 1790, he had been forced to sell various pro
perties in Wispington, Theddlethorpe, Burgh, Calcethorpe and
Walmsgate, to raise money for the venture. These properties were
purchased by a certain Waste1 Briscoe Esq. (5/39(b) ). The Manor
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Vyner, although Rebecca had a life interest, until 1821 when it was
sold for E31,ooo to Edmund Turnor of Stoke Rochford (Turnor
4/4/l/6). There remained a Glover at Wispington, a Revd. Robert
Merony Glover, about whom there are a few tales told in J. C. Walter’s
Parishes around Horncastle pp.237~8, although it has been impossible
to discover whether he was a relation; he died in 1838.
This collection is really the main source for the knowledge we
have about the Phillips and Glover families, for there are few references
in other collections (M.M. 1/S; Ant. 3123; Turnor 4/4/l).
Maddison pedigrees, Kirkby pedigrees (Dixon 15/l) and L.N.Q.
provide a few snippets of information, backed up by relevant entries
in the Wispington parish register transcripts. More information,
especially about the later Glover family will be found in Leeds City
Library (Vyner of Newby Hall) and Hastings Museum (Briscoe
collection).
SullmlalY
Title deeds: Manor of Wispington, 13 items, 1585-1767. Rectory and
advowson of the vicarage of Wispington, 5 items, 1557-1767.
Wispington, 19 items, 1527-1763. Baumber, 11 items, 1551-1632.
Horsington, 12 items, 1590-1702. Louth, 5 items, 1649-55. Other
places in Lines. e.g. Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, Orby, Ingoldmells,
20 items, 1583-1729. Other counties; Devon and Cornwall,
6 items, 1584-1730. London, 3 items, 1754-63. Warwickshire, 7
items, 1551-1688.
Shrievalty: Letters Patent, 2 items, 1727-8.
Correspondence : South Sea Company, stock case, 23 items, 1720-27.
Duchess of Kingston’s French estates, 82 items, 1788-96. Glover’s
executors, 35 items, 1797-1803.
Miscellaneous: 41 items, 1618-1800.
F.L. Hardy Correspondence
A series of 22 items of correspondence by William Hardy of Alford,
who was the agent for Sir Robert Clayton of London, (1629-1707) who
owned estates at Orby, among other places in the neighbourhood.
These letters, which range in date from 1671 to 1683 were purchased
in 1942 by the Lindsey and Holland County Library from a bookseller:
numbers 8, g and 11 are marked ‘Clayton MSS.’ and may be
strays from the Loseley Park collection (see D.N.B. Vol.IV .473).
They deal with problems of the Orby estate tenants; tKe constant
theme is the withholding of rents owing to the flooded state of the
land. As Hardy writes in November 1673 (F.L. Hardy 9.) “ . . . your
Orby lands lyeing upon very ill draineinge the tenantes doe very much
complain and but that I procured the passing for some water through
Ingoldmells most of Orby lands would have beene worse by 5s. an
acre . . .” This roblem continued for many years. In 1676 “ . . . rents
are worse pai cp this yeare then ever but I hope there wilbee noe
losse in them except by Neave [of Saltfleetby?] who I have arrested
. . .” (14).
By 1680/l, preliminary investigations were being made into the
feasibility of running a proper drainage channel through Ingoldmells
to the sea (18-19); which would alleviate the tenants’ hardship, or
rather, safeguard the paying in of rent. Lord Sherard was one of the
patrons of the scheme (20), along with Sir Charles Dymoke. Not much
is known of Hardy’s family beyond that they were connected with the

Fitzwilliams; they may also have been connected with the Hardys
of Saltfleetby and Louth.
F.L. Irnham
These 37 documents are mostly title deeds, dated 1559-1828, and
relate to the Thimbleby estates at Corby, Beelsby, Bulby etc.; there
are no documents for the main Irnham estate however, and most deal
with the period from 1580 to 1650. Other records of the medieval
estate can be found in other collections in the Archives Office, notably
Cragg ~,I38 and 5127-8; Misc. Don. 83; F.L. Deeds 1066 and 152.0
(see Report 7 p.38 where these links are further discussed). This
present collection would therefore seem to be a bridge between these
medieval deeds (Lutterell and Hilton families) and the Irnham deeds
at present on temporary de E osit here (see Report 23 pp.36-41).
Interesting to note are t e Recusancy composition quieti (5/l-10)
dated 1593-1619, and complicated conveyancing practice (as illustrated
in 1/ 1-3; 2/3) which Catholics needed to observe to avoid the harsh
laws relating to landowning by Papists which stayed on the statutes
until the end of the 17th century.
The Thimbleby family, as their name suggests, originated from
that area near Horncastle, and were Lords of the Manor of Poolham
in Edlington. They acquired the Irnham Lordship in the early years
of the 16th century, through the marriage of Richard Thimbleby with
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Hilton, whose wife had been
a Lutterell. It is with John, the greatgrandson of Richard and his
son Richard, that most of these deeds are concerned.
Title deeds: Manor of Corby, 3 items, 1623-54. Corby, g items, 155g-
1623. Beelsby, 2 items, 1626-98. Bulby, 5 items, 1612-37. Burton
Coggles, 1 item, 1651. Hawthorpe, 2 items, 1584-1617. Moulton,
I item, 1560. Otby, 1 item, 1576. Willoughton, 1 item, 1722.
Aspley Woodhouse (Notts.), 1 item, 1622.
Recusancy compositions: 10 items, 1593-1619.
Miscellaneous: 1 item, 1828.
F.L. King Deeds
The King family of Ashby de la Launde have been discussed before
(see Report 13 pp.18-22) especially with regard to the documents
surviving in the Fane collection (Fane 2). This resent series of deeds,
from Canon Foster’s collection, are concerned Por
the most part with
the family estate in Martin, where the Kings were Lords of the Manor,
and, like the Irnham deeds, fill a gap in existing series of documents
in the Archives Office, although there is no fresh evidence in them
for the activities of the most renowned member of the family, Colonel
Edward King.
There are some deeds for the 17th-early 18th centuries, concerning
property purchased by Colonel Edward’s son Edward, and his son
Nevile (F.L. King Deeds I / 1-8; 3/1-6; 4/ 1-5) but the largest section
is the series of mortgages with which the Martin estate was encumbered
from 1744-18 13 (2 / 1-32) owing to large scale borrowing on
the part of John King (son of Nevile) and his son Nevile. The story
of the mortgages is most involved, and the family appear at one stage
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was appointed Receiver in November 1809 (2/26) following a loan
to Nev1le King of E10,ooo from Charles, Lord Arden, and Spencer
Perceval, the ill-fated Prime Minister, which had been necessary to
pay off, in turn, a previous loan made by Robert Waring Darwin
of Elston, Notts. Esq. (2/24). This was further complicated because
there was a separate debt of about E10,ooo due on the security of the
same property to Revd. John Sanford of Sherwell, Devon (e/29).
However, the situation seems to have been resolved in 1813, two years
after the assassination of Perceval, on the repayment by Nevile King
of the debts outstanding; Richard Brackenbury of Aswardby was
appointed trustee.
The first Nevile King (1679-1730) purchased the manor of Martin
for f1,500 in 1717 from Jane Widdrington of London, daughter of
William, Lord Widdrington; the Widdringtons were Barons of
Blankney from 1643 until 1743 when William died, although from
1716-1733 he was under sentence of attainder for having sided with
the Jacobites in the 1715 rebellion. The property then stayed in the
King family until 1910. (Report 13 p.22).
Title deeds: Manor of Martin, 8 items, 1657-1717. Mortgages of the
manor etc., 32 items, 1744-1813. Property in Martin purchased
by the King family, 21 items, 16oo-1794. Other property, 1g items,
1696-1785.
F.L. St. Mark’s Deeds
These 65 title deeds and related papers are the only primary source
material in the Archives Office for the parish charity of St. Mark,
Lincoln, founded by William othe Chawmber of Lincoln, baker, in
1505, by means of his will (112) and a supporting grant to feoffees
(1/ 1). His life is not very well documented, apart from this collection;
however, his will does exist in the Diocesan series (L.C.C. 1506 &, 8).
In it, he arranged for his feoffees to have obits said for his family and
himself, and an annual distribution of wheat bread and ale to the
poor. His godson William Pereson was to be tenant of one of the
charity properties, in the parish of St. Peter in Eastgate at an annual
rent of E2. The grant to feoffees, which describes the other properties
to be administered, was witnessed by Edward Grantham, Mayor of
Lincoln, and Hugh Fox and Henry Catley, Sheriffs. Other Mayors
and Sheriffs are witnesses to earlier deeds which supplement the
charity leases, and prove the title of William (e.g. 2/1-y : 1301-92).
Apart from St. Mark and St. Peter in Eastgate, there were lands
in the parishes of St. Michael on the Mount (formerly separate parishes
of St. Michael and St. Cuthbert), and St. Nicholas and St. John,
Newport.
There are references to 111-4 in the Report of the Charities
Commissioners for Lincoln (1819-37) pp. 379-80, but the dates given
there are inaccurate, and a better idea of the working of the charity
can now be ascertained from this collection. The properties
appear to have been leased to fairly substantial citizens
e.g. Thomas Forster of the Bail, innholder (2/g), Jeffrey Feildhouse,
Professor of Physic (3114) who paid the rent and sublet to poorer
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of the church, relief of the poor etc. Feoffees, usually eight or nine
in number, could appoint new members in the event of a decease.
As regards the location of the various properties, we get a general
indication from the bounds mentioned 1n the deeds. In St. Mark’s
in 1638 (2/g) the roperty is described as “situated between ground
lately in tenure oF
Original1 Pearte on the south, and the land of
the old Vicars picars Choral] on the north; between Synsell Dyke
on the east [formerly called Alde Eo], and the High Street on the
west . . .” This would suggest a location on the east side of High
Street near where the railway runs from St. Mark’s station (V.C. 2 / 1
fol. 68v.). In St. Michael on the Mount, there are two properties on
the east side of Steep Hill (3/l-19), one is probably north of Danesgate
[near Harding’s Houses?], and the other possibly in the ‘island’ between
Danesgate and Well Lane. As for St. Nicholas, Newport, we only know
that it is on the east side of the main street (4/r-8), while in St. Peter in
Eastgate, the property is on the north side of Eastgate (5/l-10).
In the miscellaneous section there are some parish apprenticeship
indentures (probably strays from the parish chest, as indeed the whole
collection probably is! ) of the 17th century, and a Quarter Sessions
order of 1720 about times of burials.
Deeds relating to the original foundation of the charity, 4 items,
1505-1600. St. Mark’s, 17 items, 13oo-1799. St. Michael on the
Mount, 1g items, 1550-1746. St. Nicholas with St. John, Newport,
8 items, 1509-1777. St. Peter in Eastgate, 10 items, 1347-1766.
Miscellaneous, 8 items, 1496-1853.
F.L. Trollope
This is a small collection of 24 title deeds and copies of court roll
for the area around Weston and Spalding; they relate to early purchases
of the Trollope family of Thurlby, forerunners of the Trollopes
of Casewick (the son of William who is mentioned in these deeds, was
the first Baronet). The Trollope family originated in Co. Durham
according to Burke, and one of the younger sons settled at Thurlby,
just outside Bourne. William was the son of this John Trollope, and
he married Alice, daughter of William Sharpe of Bourne (Dixon
15/ 1 vol.6 p.74). Their second (?) son James is also mentioned in
this collection.
Bourne, 1 item, 1618. Cowbit, 2 items, 1629. Fulney, 2 items, 1647-8.
Pinchbeck, IO items, 1548-1619. Spalding, 3 items, 1571-79.
Weston, 6 items, 1596-1622.
F.L. Miscellaneous
There are a great many documents in Canon Foster’s collection
which can only be described as miscellaneous. These have been
arranged under thirteen headings, of which all but two (6: Diocesan;
13 Residue) are now listed.

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1. Bromhead MSS. etc., 33 items, 16-1gc., some items in which were
originally part of the Willson collection. Items i/ 1/ 1-22 were in
a hard back folder with the bookplate of the Bromhead family
of Thurlby Hall; the immediate provenance, as usual, is unknown.
There are various extracts relating to mills (i/1/4), the
Cordwainers Guild (1/1/S), being extracts from a book now in
the Lincoln City Library as M.S. 5009, and the Lincoln Parochial
Survey of 1533 (1/ 1/ 12); also here is some correspondence, e.g.
from Humphrey Waldo Sibthorpe to Sir Edward Bromhead in
1826 (I / 1 / 13) remarking on the proposed New Gaol rules. The
MSS. Tenures of Lines. (1/3) has been described before (Report
; this contains hundreds of extracts from the Public
Re!Zd,
concerning military and other tenures of property in
Lincolnshire from the 13- 16c., drawn up in the 1620’s (?), the
excellent index to which is thought to be in the hand of Bishop
Sanderson. Some of the most interesting items are literary. For
example we have (1/5) an ode called Bosworth Field by Sir John
Beaumont, dated 1629, possibly a contemporary copy; other
material includes a Jacobite skit on William and Mary (1/6) and
a translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses Bk.11 by William Thompson,
dedicated to John Bradley, the Deputy Diocesan Registrar,
who might well have owned some of these other items.
2. Wills and Administrations, 47 items, 16-1gc.; compiled from the
B. section, this series contains the will of John Bradley, 1783
(2/3) and David Trimnell, D.D., the Precentor, 1754 (2/3g),
among others.
3. Inventories, 2 items, 1620-1683, for neither of which is there
a corresponding item in the Diocesan series; this could indicate
that they are strays. The
% ersons involved are Redmain Burrell
of Dowsby Esq., and E ward Tripp of Barton on Humber,
yeoman.
4. Copies of Court Roll, 119 items, 17-1gc., concerning the several
Manors of Long Bennington and Foston, Crowle, Eagle, Epworth,
Fiskerton, Gedney Abbots, Gedney Burlion, North Hykeham,
Bisho Norton, Spalding, Stow, Sutton Guanock, Sutton Holland,
Wadcfington, (Bewfoe, Mere Hos ital, parcel of Somerton Castle),
Westwood, Whaplode Abbots an$ Cherry Willingham. Nos. 44-70
relate to property in Garthorpe (see F.L. Garthorpe and District
Deeds).
5. Taxation, 56 items, 1779-83; Collectors duplicates for House Tax,
Land Tax, Male Servant Duty and Window Tax, for some
portions of Kesteven and Holland.
6. Diocesan. Not yet listed although this section contains some
strays from Diocesan series such as appointments of proctors for
Convocation, and draft Dean and Cha ter leases. There are some
very interesting medieval strays incluBing a draft petition to the
Archbisho of Canterbury, 1253-61, during a dispute over sede
vacante a Bministration
between the Archbishop and the Dean
and Chapter (see Dij 62/iv.) and an intriguing case of alleged
violation of the rules of kindred and aflinity in Flixborough about
7. ?&?l, 44 items, 16-1gc concerning the Court of Exchequer,
Quarter Sessions (inch. a-few folios of estreats for the three Parts,

8.
9.
10.
11.
13.
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Epiphany term 1824 : 7/p), Bankruptcy cases, and miscellaneous
caselgapers, including actions for highway robbery (7/S/ 13) and
assa t of a vicar 1n hu vestry (7/S 15).
Farming, 3% items, 18-eoc., includ‘ng some farm surveys of the
mid-18th century (S/1), and records of the Allison family of
Burton (tenant farmers of Lord Monson: 8/3).
Turnpikes, 5 items, 1759-60; these are mortgages of turnpike
tolls for the Grantham to Nottingham Turnpike.
Barton Transcripts, c.360 items, 18ooc.; a very miscellaneous
collection of extracts from newspapers, journals, Public Records
etc. relating to North Lincolnshire and especially the Barton on
Humber area. On the death of W. S. Hesleden in the mid-19th
century, Henry W. Ball, a bookseller, carried on his tradition
of collecting information and historical anecdotes on the Barton
area. This was condensed into a book entitled The Social History
and Antiquities of Bart‘on on Humber, published in 1856. What
we have here are a few of Hesleden’s notes and a vast quantity
of later notes taken by Ball, who seems to have engaged in a
running correspondence with John Gee of Hull, swo ping
anecdotes across the Humber. Other corres ondents inc Puded
Gillyat Sumner of Woodmansey near Bever Pey,
a noted local
antiquarian, and also Edward Peacock who uses the non de plume
of Ralph Skirlaugh, one of his fictitious characters (10/15/30.).
Interspersed are a few original documents, including some manuscript
Church Notes c.183 1-z possibly by John H. Loft (IO/ 1/3 :
cf Dixon 1g/ 1), a copy of the 1649 Parliamentary Survey of the
manor of Barton (10/o/ 1), an Ms. co y of Abraham de la Pryme’s
The Antiquities of Winterton an! Parts Adjacent, probably
copied c.1800 by George Stovin, MSS. copies of verses written by
Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle on his school fellows at Eton, etc.
(‘o/14/3 f P), and Rawson’s plan of the Humber, 1826, showing
the various landing points (and distances) for ferry boats using
the river. Included among these records are some interesting
Methodist documents, including a letter written to one of the
Miss Wesleys in 1805, and a printed letter sent on the occasion
of the death of the Revd. John Hunt in Fiji in 1848 (10/S).
Shipping, 5 items, 18-lge., including a set of instructions for ships
going up the St. Lawrence River in Canada in April 1759 (I I/O),
and a reference to one of Canon Foster’s ancestors, Kingsman
Baskett St. Barbe (11/4)in the early 19th century.
Pictures, Prints and Photographs, 89 items, 1g-aoc.; some of these
are line drawings and watercolours, mostly by members of the
Canon’s family, articularly his aunt Frances Maria Foster. There
are a number oPprints of the Lincoln area, including some Buck
views (13/1/4/i-4).
Residue (not yet listed).
FOSTER LIBRARY MEDIEVAL DEEDS
Resorting of the Foster Library Series A, Lincolnshire charters,
has brought to light an extensive series of medieval documents relating
to the Tournays of Caenby, a family of middling gentry resident in
Lindsey from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The resent
representative is Sir Stephen Middleton, of Belsay Castle, w Ro
has
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Among them are a number of medieval deeds and rentals, and some
later papers, for the Caenby estate, which assed by descent in the
female line to the Monck (later Middleton) amily, P and was dispersed
by sale in 1871. This office is fortunate in possessing three VOhmeS
Of transcripts and facsimiles of the earlier documents, which were
resented to the Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological
gO&ty
in 1914 by Sir Arthur E. Middleton. Canon Maddison had
based his articles on the Tournay family in A.A.S.R. Vol. 29 (1907-8)
and Lincolnshire Notes and Queries Vol. XI (1910-11) mainly on these
documents.
With the aid of these volumes, 156 documents have been assigned
to the Tournay section out of the 290 haphazardly numbered charters
in Series A. The addition of items previously placed in other
categories, mainly D Indentures, and a handful of Yorkshire deeds
from the Other Counties series, has brought the total to 184. In one
instance a piece of a deed in series A has been reunited with the
remainder among the Yorkshire deeds (F.L. 3136). There are sixty
eight medieval and sixteenth century deeds in the Middleton deposit
at the Northumberland Record Office. Not all the deeds in the Foster
Library series are complete titles, and some have been attributed to
the Tournay section on the basis of correlations with certain Middleton
charters, and a study of endorsements, which were made fairly
lavishly on some Tournay deeds in distinctive hands of the early
fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Where there is neither
certainty of title nor endorsement, deeds have been placed in a
separate category.
The Tournays were a Yorkshire family, holding property at Rudstone
in the East Riding from at least the early thirteenth century.
In 1344 Sir John Tournay of Rudstone entailed this property in the
male line, (Middleton No. 37), and by 1374 it had passed to Richard
Tournay of Caenby, son of Sir John Tournay’s youngest brother
Nicholas, who had married an heiress to property in Lindsey (F.L.
3143). Among the Yorkshire items is a de osition taken in 1451
relating to a dis ute over the boundaries oP the Tournay property
in Rudstone fieldps. The deponent was John Frost, said to have been
the first tenant of Towrney Hede Place after the family had ceased
to occupy it more than sixty years before. The Middleton rental of
1428 shows him as sole tenant in Rudstone, of a messuage and sixteen
oxgangs. In the deposition Frost recalled that in his childhood he
had heard Robert Hundesley tell that he helped Sir Rawlyn Tuurnay
make the meres which bound his flats in Rudstone field. Sir Rawlyn,
or Ralf, Tournay, must have died before 1374, when Richard Toumay
held Rudstone. Frost added that in recent years tenants had not
prevented others grazing the meres, for the inheritance was in dispute
and they had no succour from their landlords (F.L. 3141). The
property was peripheral to the interests of the family established at
Caenby, but was retained intact until 1560, when Anthony Toumay
sold the capital messuage, two closes and sixteen oxgangs of land
to Thomas Preston of Bridlington, yeoman, for E120 (F.L. 3142).
The heiress whose marriage established the Toumays in Lincolnshire,
was Richilda de Cadeby, daughter of William de Cadeby,
whose mother was daughter of Sir Gilbert de Thornton, Edward I’s
chief justice, according to the pedigree worked out by Canon
Maddison in Lincolnshire Notes and Queries Vol. XI. Forty documents
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have been identified among the Foster Library deeds. These include
a grant by Robert de Manby, Prior of the Hospital in England, of the
Hospitallers’ estate in Cabourn to Peter King of Grimsby in the mid
thirteenth century, and King’s subsequent conveyance of an estate
of two carucates there to Gilbert de Thornton, between 12go and
1293 (F.L. 3004-5). Gilbert de Thornton died c.1295, and his son
Alan before 1313, when William de Cadeby, nephew and coheir of
Alan, leased his moiety of the manor of Cabourn to Richilda de
Thornton, sister of Alan and the other coheir, for her lifetime
(Middleton No. 27, F.L. 3022). In 1337 Richilda de Thornton leased
for her life, one half of the manor to William de Asserby and Richilda
his wife, presumably the moiety which had been entailed on Richilda
de Thornton for life, and then on Richilda daughter of William de
la Chaumbre, by final concord in November 1329 (F.L. Calendar of
Final Concords C. 62). William de la Chaumbre is associated with
Richilda de Thornton in two earlier final concords, one of which
certainly relates to the Thornton inheritance (B. 230, B. 375), but the
family relationship is unknown. Nicholas Tournay and his wife
objected to the final ,concord of 1329, and as later Tournay deeds
of trust include the manor of Cabourn, it is likely that Rich&la de
Thornton’s alienation was not permanent (F.L. 3003).
Richilda de Cadeby’s inheritance from the Thornton family comprised
lands in Caenby and Glentham as well as in Cabourn. Her
father’s family appear to have been resident in North Cadeby, now in
Wyham parish, and to have acquired properties in the neighbourhood
of Kingerby and Owersby which passed to Richilda de Cadeby and
her family. A number of thirteenth century deeds in this deposit bear
the endorsement transcribitur in an early fourteenth century hand,
suggesting the compilation of a cartulary, and these all appear to
relate to acquisitions by several generations of Cadebys, but not by
the Thornton or Tom-nay families. A number, including a series for
lands in Owersby and Kingerby acquired by John de Crachall, canon
of Lincoln and Archdeacon of Bedford, who died c.1260, have an
additional endorsement in French. Among those who enfeoffed ohn
de Crachall were Osbert, Prior of Royston and Maurice son of WiIliam
de Newport, who had acquired several small parcels of land in
Kingerby from John Crasset c.1230 (F.L. 3030-3035). Apart from the
endorsements on these deeds, evidence for the Cadeby connection lies
in a quit-claim, by Alice, widow of Ralph son of Jordan de Pointon,
to William son of John de Cadeby, of rights of dower in lands in ’
Owersby, Kingerby and Osgodby, which she claimed before the
King’s justices at Lincoln in July 1281 (F.L. 3029). Ral h son of
Jordan de Pointon had earlier enfeoffed John de Cracha P1
with all
his lands in Owersby and Kirkby (D. & C. Lint. Ciij 45/ 1/ 11).
The Tournay deeds of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries permit
some corrections and additions to be made to Canon Maddison’s
pedigree. Richard Tournay, son of Nicholas Tournay and Richilda
de Cadeby, died between 8 January 1374, when he executed a feoffment
to uses (F.L. 3143), and 1g June 1374, when his widow leased
part of her jointure in Kingerby (F.L. 3173). His elder son John died
childless between June 1403, when he made his testament, and
Epiphany 1404, when the first of a series of feoffments of his property
was made (F.L. 3149). His testament is in Bishop Beaufort’s register
(Reg. 13 f. 61~0.) and makes interesting reading. Small bequests
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Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, the largest being ten
marks to Beverley Minster, and L22 was left in bequests to named
individuals, mostly in sums of forty shillings or less. The major
bequests were to benefit Glentham. Fifty marks were left for the
building of Bishops Bridge across the Ancholme on the road from
Glentham to Rasen. To Glentham church he left jE40 for the fabric,
twenty marks to buy a missal, four marks for a chalice and E1o for
a bell. Other bequests were 13s. 4d. to each of his villeins, 6s. 8d. to
every widow householder in Caenby and Glentham, and a horse or
bullock valued at 6s. Sd., to every tenant in Caenby and Glentham
who had a plough team or half a plough team. During his lifetime
John Tom-nay had been active in buying up property in parishes
around Caenby and also in the Owersby neighbourhood, and it is
clear that these were intended for the benefit of his soul rather than
the enrichment of his family. His widow Agnes Tournay ap ears
to have had a life interest in’the inherited lands, and in ha1! the
property acquired by her husband, and the latter was to revert to the
heir only on condition of his finding three chaplains to sing mass
daily in Glentham church in perpetuity (Middleton No. 53). The
other acquisitions were to form an estate for the heir, his brother
Nicholas Tournay, during the widow’s lifetime, with provision for
sale and the application of monies for masses and good works for the
souls of John, Agnes and Nicholas, after her death (F.L. 3150). The
chantry certainly was founded, and was in existence in 1535, but the
then John Tournay appears to have taken back the chantry’s property
in the last uncertain years of Henry VIII’s reign (A.A.S.R. Vol. 36
p. 341). Part of the property in trust for sale, notably in Pilham,
Wharton and Northorp, was absorbed into the main estate, but lands
in some parishes specified are not in the rentals of 1428 and 1445
(Middleton B and C), and John Tournay’s designs were presumably
respected in part.
Of these acquisitions, the largest was probably the estate in Pilham,
Gilby and Wharton, which had been built up by William Dodkyn of
Pilham in the years around 1300. It was sold by his son to John de
Bures of Surrey, and the date at which John Tournay purchased
the property, and from whom, is not certain, but a quitclaim to
one of his known trustees in 1381, probably relates to this acquisition
(F.L. 3133). Among the deeds belonging to this title are an early
thirteenth century quitclaim of the assart belonging to a quarter
bovate in Wharton (F.L. 31 IS), and an agreement made in 1309
between William Dodkyn and four men representing the communitv
of the vi11 of Wharton, regulating the enclosure of Dodkyn’s wood,
with provision for the return without payment of beasts straying
from that part of the wood which was held in common (F.L. 3121).
Nicholas Tournay, the heir of John, had himself acquired properties
in Glentworth and appears to have resided there, but in 1404,
when he was enfeoffed with part of John Tournay’s lands, he in turn
handed over his lands in Glentworth and the Rudstone property
which had passed to him, to his son John and wife Elizabeth (F.L.
3153). John was found next heir to Agnes Tournay in 1421, when his
father was presumably dead (A.A.S.R. Vol. 29, p. 14). His wife was
sister and heiress of Robert Greenfield of East Butterwick, but the
property she inherited in that neighbourhood does not figure in the
rental of 1445 (Middleton C), and it is possible that John Tournay
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Commissioners, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Vol. IV p. 152),
was the son of a second wife, possibly the Elizabeth Andrews who
Maddison says was the first wife of the younger John, and died in
1452. John Tournay the younger had a wife Margaret in 1447 (F.L.
3160), and in February 149213 John and Margaret Tournay were
admitted to the Confraternity of Lincoln Cathedral (D. 8c C. Lint.
A/3/17 f. 92). Possibly there was another generation-Maddison
himself bemoaned the conservatism of the fourteenth century Tournays
in their choice of names-for in 1491 a Thomas Tournay
“formerly of Maltby gentleman” who has not been fitted into the
pedigree, enfeoffed Margaret Tournay widow, with a messuage in
Glentham (F.L. 3167). The latest deeds in this group are some early
sixteenth century leases by William Tournay and his son John.
The remaining portion of the Foster Library Series, though miscellaneous,
contains items of considerable interest. One which may
well be a Tournay deed, but which is one of a group for whose
provenance there is no direct evidence, is a lease dated 1307, of a
windmill in North Cadeby to Samson the miller and Matilda his wife
for their two lives. The equi ment was inventoried and valued, the
sails at 12d, the millstones, Rve and four inches thick respectively,
at 4s. The pick for dressing the stones weighed 159 lb. All were to
be returned in as good a condition at the end of the lease (F.L. 3186).
There is a late twelfth century deed for Redbourne (F.L. 327g),
and another for Wharton (F.L. 3288), and the thirteenth century
deeds include five feoffments to Robert and Alexander de Camvill
in Glentham, with witness lists resembling those in the Glentham
charters printed in Registrum Antiquissimum Vol. III (F.L. 3tg2-
3196). One group forms a footnote to the notes in Sir Francis Hill’s
Medieval Lincoln on the citizen family of Paris, in that they show
Peter, son of Thomas de Paris of Lincoln, building up a holding
in Owmby by Spital during the early thirteenth century, and later
generations conveying it away in the fourteenth century and as late
as 1382 (F.L. 3117, 3257-3275). There are other deeds illustrating the
breakdown of this property in D. & C. Dij 84/3.
The great majority of these deeds are for parishes in north west
Lindsey, but there are four thirteenth century deeds for Louth,
including an exchange of lands in the fields between Tupholme Abbey _
and William Malerb, and a quitclaim by Alice, wife of John of
Theddlethorpe son of Gocelin the miller son of Baldwin of Huttoft, ,
to Ralph Alipange, which is notable for the severity of its enalty
clause. Alice binds herself under pain of forfeiting ten marj! s, half
to the bishop and half to the archdeacon, and of incurring sentence
of excommunication by the archdeacon or rural dean, should she
ever make any claim for the land which belonged to Baldwin . . .
and which her husband has sold to Ralph Alipange (F.L. 3296-3209).
There is one feoffment to uses for a small part of the Lutterell family’s
property in Irnham dated 1414 (F.L. 3315), and an agreement for the
foundation of the Burghersh chantry in Lincoln Cathedral in 1345
(F.L. 3317). This is a duplicate of D. & C. Dij 51/2/27. The appointment
of .John Whit as the first chaplain of St. Mary’s chantry in the
church of Somerby by Brigg, by Sir Thomas Cumberworth, specifies
that the chaplain shall have for his accommodation the middle
chamber in the Chantry house, half of the former school house, and
half of the hall, kitchen and pantry of the millhouse, and the west
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and the other half of the property was robably for the chaplain of
the Holy Trinity chantry, also founded Ey Cumberworth (F.L. 3318).
There are now 321 items in this series, numbered to avoid confusion
with the former numbering, from 3001-3321 in the Foster Library
general series. The interest of the collection leads to the vexed
question of its provenance. During the years that the Foster Library
was at the Lindsey and Holland County Library, Miss Thurlby
calendared the documents onto cards and indexed the names of
parties, but made no attem t to sort them by lace or person. It is
possible that she adopted tEe
categories A to R for the documents
m Canon Foster’s possession at his death in 1935, and that later
acquisitions by the Foster Library were numbered from 1 in the
serves of Foster Library deeds, but there is no proof that even the
Tournay deeds were together in 1935. The fact that two of them
bear the Lincoln Diocesan Records stamp suggests that they had
been in Canon Foster’s hands, and although one of them (F.L. 3206),
is a single item relating to Glentham, the other (F.L. 3126), is part
of the Dodkyn title to land in Pilham and Wharton, which has been
placed with the Tournay deeds. Some items have modern pencilled
dates or comments which suggest a dealer’s handling, but this is not
conclusive. What does seem clear, from Sir Arthur Middleton’s interest
in his records, is that he would not willingly have handed away a
sizeable number, and that he did not know of the existence of these
records. Possibly the muniments of the Tournay family were split
centuries ago, and the group now in the Foster Library represent
the share kept in the hand of the local agent of absentee landlords,
as were the Moncks from the mid eighteenth century.
To add to the confusion there are seventeen documents among the
Dean and Chapter’s muniments formerly in the pigeon hole Ciij 45/ 1,
eight of which certainly, and four possibly, are connected with the
Tournay deeds in the Foster Library. A quitclaim by Oliver de Sutton,
canon of Lincoln, to John de Cadeby, of the annual ayment of
fifteen shillings by Denis, John’s man in Thorganby, cp ating from
about 1270, has the French endorsement associated with the Cadeby
deeds. Another item is a conveyance to Nicholas Tournay and two
men who acted as feoffees for John Tournay (d. 1404), of a toft in
Glentham. The whole group has summaries on cards with corrections
in Canon Foster’s hand.
One explanation is that the Tournay items were acquired by
Chancellor Massingberd as deeds of title, when he bought part of
the Caenby estate in 1871, and that he chose to place them in the
cathedral library or the muniment room as interesting historical
documents. In this case surely they would have come to the notice of
Canon Maddison when he compiled his articles on the Tournay
family? On the other hand it is possible that a member of Massingberd’s
family gave them to Canon Foster at a later date. This is
not a convincing explanation, but a better one has yet to present
itself.
Tournay and related families, title deeds and leases, rgth-16th cs;
Lines: Blyton 1; Cabourn 11; North Cadeby 1; Caenby 2; Fillingham
8; Fonaby 1; Glentham 27; Glentworth 2; Harpswell I; Hatcliff 1;
Hemswell 5; Kingerby 6; Newton by Toft 1; Northorpe 24;

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Bishop Norton 6; Osgodby 5; Owersby 18; Owmby by Spital 3;
Pilham etc. 13; Snitterby 2; Spital 1; Stainton Waddingham 2;
Thornton le Moor 1; Usselby I; Wharton I; Willingham by
Stow 1; Wrawby 1.
Yorks: Reedness 3; Rudstone 4.
Deeds of trust etc. 27 items.
Other properties 12th to 15th cs.
City of Lincoln 5.
Lindsey: Barton on Humber I; Cabourn 1; North Cadeby 5; Corringham
I; Dunholme 3; Glentham 15; Glentworth 3; Hemswell 8;
Kelstern I; Killingholme 1; Kingerby 1; Louth 5; Maltby 1;
Messingham I; Normanby by Spital 3; Northorpe 15; Bisho
Norton 8; Osgodby I; Owersby 5; Owmby by Spital 19; Re cp-
bourne 3; Saltfleetby St. Peter 1; Somerby by Brigg 1; Stainton
Waddingham 6; Great Steeping 2; Thonock 1; Thorganby 1;
Torksey 2; Wharton 2.
Kesteuen: Blankney and Scopwick 4; Burton Coggles 1; Dorrington 1;
Fenton 1; Irnham 1.
Yorks: Swinfleet 1.
Bonds, 3 (15th century).
2 NELTHORPE
Two of the archivists visited the estate office at Scawby on
1 November 1972, when Lt.-Col. R. Sutton-Nelthorpe kindly agreed
to the deposit of a number of estate records. Apart from one or two
plans and surveys of the early nineteenth century, most of this deposit
dates from the 1880s and continues the series of rentals, accounts,
leases and estate correspondence to be found in the earlier Nelthorpe
deposit (Archivist’s Report 3, 1951-2. p.47, and 4, 1952-3, p.6).
At the death of Sir John Nelthorpe, the eighth and last baronet,
in 1865, the family estates in Lincolnshire amounted to some 8,720
acres. Nearly 4,000 acres lay around the principal seat at Scawby, in
the parishes of Scawby, Broughton and Manton (the Twigmoor
property), but over half the property lay in four detached portions,
at South Ferriby, Bradley, Legsby with Bleasby, and North Kelsey.
The North Kelsey estate was sold in 1867, and Bradley and Legsby
in 1914-15. But South Ferriby was retained, and the holdings in the
Scawby neighbourhood increased by about 500 acres, giving a total
acreage for the estate of 5,483 acres by 1917. In April 1925 theunsettled
portion of the property was transferred to the ‘Scawby and South
Ferriby Estates Company’.
Sir John Nelthorpe’s sister Charlotte married the Revd. Robert
Sutton, representative of a junior branch of the Suttons of Norwood,
Notts., and it was her descendants who succeeded to the Nelthorpe
estates. Her son Robert Nassau Sutton took the additional name
of Nelthorpe in 1884, and succeeded his father in the following year.
Records in this deposit relate, among other things, to the shire horses
which he bred, and to his attempts to exploit the ironstone found on
his land at Holme, Twigmoor and Messingham. Another interesting
file of correspondence and papers relates to the part played by his son,
Col. Oliver Sutton-Nelthorpe, in the establishment of the Brigg sugar
beet factory in the 1920s.
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Also inspected at the estate office, but not deposited, were further
modern estate accounts, and a number of plans, including three fine
early plans of the Scawby and Broughton estate (1811, 1816 and 1846).
Estate surveys, 1888-1917 (9).
Rentals, 188o-1gzg (10).
Agreements and tenant-right valuations, 1854-1981.
Miscellaneous estate apers, 1864-198s.
Accounts: estate le ggers
and journals, 1881-1961 (41); estate cash
books, 1881-1954 (9); farm ledgers, balance sheets, 1884-1948 (10);
farm cash books, 1884-1948 (6); horse ledgers, 1892-1915 (2); wage
accounts, 1940-59 (14); timber and misc. accounts, c.191555 (6).
Estate letter books, 1884-1926 (8)
Subject files: ironstone, 18g8-1gog; Brigg sugar beet factory, 1927-S;
Scawby glebe farm and advowson, 1921-5; etc.
Plans, 1771-1888 (12).
PARISH RECORDS
The summary below shows just how extensive have been the
parochial deposits during the last year. This is all the more pleasing
since, with scarcely an exception, they have all come in, not as a result
of any approach on our part, but by the unprompted action of their
custodians. Of course, one result of the grouping of country parishes
is that a single decision to make a deposit at the archives office can
produce records from several churches. During the last year the
Reverend D. Askew has brought in records from eleven parishes in
the Folkingham group, most of the deposits being additions to earlier
ones by himself and the late Canon Money.
Among so many and various deposits it is slightly invidious to
single out any for s ecial mention. One or two items, are, however,
somewhat different Prom
the normal documents to be found in parish
chests. There is, for instance, the account book for the fruits of the
benefice of COCKERINGTON, started by the Reverend Samuel
Partridge and kept u P by his successors in the early nineteenth century.
A student might fol ow Partridge’s finances in some detail through
the parish records of Lincolnshire, for similar volumes, started by him,
exist for Leverton (deposited here but at the moment temporarily
withdrawn) and Boston (in the parish church).
For HALTON HOLGATE there is also a benefice book which
gives annual lists of parishioners, listing their possessions and the
amounts of tithes and other dues arising from them. The seventeenth
century vestry book from the same parish includes an agreement by
the parishioners in 1646 to charge toll on outsiders bringing their
stock and wagons through Halton to reach the East Fen. Another
vestry book, starting in the seventeenth century, comes from
LANGTON BY WRAGBY, while the nineteenth
CONINGSBY vestry book includes the detailed business of thFr%z
vestry. The splendid records from SLEAFORD deserve detailed study
when time and opportunity arises; among other items of great interest
there is a fine series of settlement certificates and other poor law
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Any rize, however, for the unexpected would go to HIBALDSTOW.
Here tRere is a parish clerk’s rough register for the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, the blank pages of which he has used
for various purposes including the copying out of a Valentine. In
the fair copy of the register, 1742-1812, also written by the clerk, there
is an account of the effects of the cattle plague in the parish in 1747-
8, showing how many beasts each owner had lost. The final item to
be mentioned is not a parish record at all but a book which had
presumably been given to the church: it is a journal of parish events
between 1860 and 1896, anonymous but apparently kept by one Amos
Sinderson, who is described in the directories as a shopkeeper. In it
he briefly lists marriages, deaths, accidents, emigrations, crimes :
altogether a most vivid picture of village life, as the following extracts
will perhaps show: -
1865 July 16 New Reform Cha el o ened
1867 Sept 7 A. Sinderson acciB enta Ply
took some poison
1869 March 16 Mr. loseph Danby, Cliff Farm, barley straw stack
1886 Feb IO
1889 August
1891 Feb 18
burnt thrbugh Lucifer Matches .
May 4 Benjamin Welch junr. left Hibaldstow. Whent
to America.
Sept 2g Benjamin Welch returned from America
A man who gave the name of Buss, a London traveller,
cut his throat in the Vickers field on the Station Road,
it was sown with wheat at that time & occupied by
John Atkinson
Policeman George Holmes fined at Brigg for poaching
at Scawby
Ott 2g Hibaldstow School Board election [poll given].
Our scales adjusted the first time by order of the
County Counul.
Aunsby : churchwardens’ accts, 1776-1834; constables’ accts, 1718-1837;
overseers’ acct, 1725-74; 1775-1827, 1828-68; service registers, 18g8-
1919, 1920-41. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
Aswardby (additional) : marriages, 1838-1962; service registers, 1g15-
39, 1940-70. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
South Cockerington : churchwardens’ accts, 1701-75; constables accts,
1701-76; overseers’ accts, 1701-75, rate book, 1837-48, misc re
settlement, apprenticeship, bastardy, 18-19 cent.; highway accts,
1860-61, 67-8, 68-g, 78-g, and misc, 18-19 cent; dikereeves’ accts,
1722-75, 1815-46; benefice account book, 1796-1848 (North and
South Cockerington and Alvingham; also Strubby, 181322).
Deposited by the Rev. E. Esling.
Coningsby (additional): church restoration accts, 1870; vestry books,
1830-64, 1864-1923; National School cash books, 1884-97, 18g6-
1903. De osited by Miss M. Morley.
Crowland: t Ke
enclosure award, which had been withdrawn, was
again deposited by the Clerk to the Parish Council.
Dembleby (additional): marriages, 1814-64; overseers’ accts, 1836-56,
rate books, 1837-47, 48-56, a few settlement certificates, etc, 178g-
1823; Land and Property Tax assessments, 1796-1831. Deposited
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Folkingham (additional) : marriages, 1837-1969; banns, 1874-1946;
churchwardens’ accts, 1782-1940; vestry book, 1867-1903; overseers’
accts, examinations as to settlement, removal orders, etc, c.1700-
1860; school log books, 1875-1955, minutes, 1875-96, cash books,
1875-1920; service registers, 1 g 15-70; Sunday School Register,
1882-1893.
Also Parish Council minutes, 1919-31, 1946-60.
Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
Fulbeck (additional) : terrier, 1895; inventory, 1914; sequestration
accts, 1951; churchwardens’ and P.C.C. accts, 1831-1901, 1924-63;
accts. etc. re churchyard extension, 1925, electric light and organ
blower, 1935-6, work on lych gate, 1952, 1957, work on tower,
1953; P.C.C. records, mainly acts, 1911-70 (inc. voucher bundles,
1935-70). Deposited by Canon H. G. Mitchell.
Great Grimsby: baptisms, 1538-1812; burials, 1538-1812; marriages,
1538-1754 (five registers in all). Deposited by Canon D. G. Hawker.
Halton Holgate: register, c.1565-c.1700; banns, 1823-98; acct. of tithes
and other dues, 1737-46 (Halton Holgate, Raithby by Spilsby
and Hundleby); churchwardens’ accts, 1830-83; vestry book, 1628-
1707; constables’ accts, c.1700-85 (loose sheets), 1789-1829 (book);
overseers’ accts, 1775-1803, 1807-29, 1830-37, register of parish
apprentices, 1807-34 (3 entries only), pps. re sale of poor houses,
1838-40, settlement certificates, removal orders, bastardy bonds,
etc, 18-19 cent; highway accts, 1768-1817, 1817-38, 1840-41, 1841-2;
clothing and coal club accts, 1888-1900; terrier of all lands in
parish, 1699; survey of Halton, Asgarby, Hundleby and Spilsby,
1802. Deposited by the Rev. D. W. Owen.
The following records remain in the church: general register,
1701-73; ditto, 1774-1812; marriages, 1754-present (3 volumes);
baptisms, 1813-present (2 volumes); burials, 1813-present (2
volumes); vestry book, 17o8-present.
Hibaldstow: general register, 1631-1742; ditto, 1742-1812; marriages,
1754-1812, 1813-43, 1837-45; baptisms, 1813-53, 1854-91; burials,
1813-78. (Remaining in the church are, baptisms, r8g1-1961,
burials, 1878-1950, and the registers in current use).
banns, 1823-1956; vestry books, 168g-1807, 1832-1966, 1839-82;
enclosure award and plan, 1803; service registers, 1925-33, 43-49,
49-55; P.C.C. minutes, 1922-43, 47-54, 54-57; confirmation
registers, 1944-56; note book of a Hibaldstow shopkeeper on
events in the parish, 1860-96. Deposited by the Rev. J. M. S. King.
Langton by Wragby : general register, 1653-1729; book of reference
to titheable lands, 1841; churchwardens’ accts, 1811-30, 1830-1901;
accts for church rebuilding, 1865; vestry book, 1636-c.1800; overseers’
misc. papers, incl. vouchers, settlement certificates,
valuations, 18-19 cent; highway accts, 1812-59, 1894-5. Deposited
by the Rev. B. L. Wisken.
Legbourne: Parish Council minutes, 1931-70 (2); accts, 1895-1969 (3).
Deposited by the clerk, Mr. R. W. Booth.
Lincoln, St. Mark’s (additional): ba tisms, 1968-g; marriages, 1964-g;
banns, 1954-69; P.C.C. electora 1p rolls, 1936-56, 56-72. Deposited
by the Rev. J. Hammersley.
Louth, St. Michael’s (additional): baptisms, 1863-1900, 1900-43;
burials, 1863-1936; marriages, 1863-1916, rg16-40; banns, 1863-92,
1892-1904, 1905-15, 1915-25, 1930-59; service registers, 1902-7, 14-
‘99 19-23, 23-28, 28-34, 35-37, 37-42, 42-44, 45-47, 50-53, 53-55;

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P.C.C. minutes, 1903-33, 33-40, 40-47; faculties, forms for special
services, and other misc. papers, c.1862-c.1950 (incl. Fowler’s
original plans for the church,r862-3) .Deposited by the Rev. M.
Wright.
Metheringham: churchwardens’ vouchers, 17.@-@jg; constables’
vouchers, 1763- 1834; overseers’ vouchers, 17 16-1834, rate book,
1816-32, removal orders etc, c.1750-184~; highway accts, 1801-24.
Deposited by the Rev. R. H. P. Boole.
Newton by Folkingham: general register, 1622-81 (and some loose
sheets of marriages and burials, 1584-1621); ditto, 1683-1772
(marriages to 1753); marriages, 1754-1813, 1813-36, 1838-1946;
burials, 1773-1812; constables’ accts, 1771-1835; school managers’
minutes, 1903-66; service register, 1gz1-42; P.C.C. minutes, 1914
48. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
Newton on Trent (additional): churchwardens’ accts, 1915-21 (and
offertory accts, 1915-33); settlement certificates and other poor law
pps., 1730-1814. Deposited by the Rev. P. Parkinson.
Osbournby (additional): marriages, 1754-1812, 1813-37, 1837-1968;
baptisms, 1813-53; burials, 1813-89; banns, 1823-75; service
registers, 1915-35, 35-49, 50-69; allotments of church lands, 1855-
1910. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
Pickworth (additional) : school managers’ minutes, 1 g6 1-70; service
registers, 1905-46, 1946-56. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
Riseholme: inventory, 1914; vestry books, x854-76, 1877-1908; service
register, 1936-70; offertory books, 1874-86, 1886-1901, 1901-12,
1913-30, 18go-1913, 1913-19; misc. re benefice, fabric of church,
etc., 19-20 cent. Deposited by the Rev. J. Male.
Scremby : enclosure award deposited by Lincoln Diocesan Office.
Sleaford : general register, 1653-17 17; baptisms and marriages, 1708-
43; ditto, 1743-1812 (marriages to 1754); burials, 1721-83, 1783-
1812, 1813-44, 44-67, 67-98, 18g8-1934, 34-67; marriages, 1754-85,
85-94, 17g4-18w 13-37, 37-59, 60-83, 1883-1909, 09-q. q-29. 29
40, 40-58; baptisms, 1813-36, 37-55, 56-87, 1887-1919; banns, 1813-
80, 1881-1901, 03-16, 16-24, 24-52, 52-58, 58-65; churchwardens’
(later P.C.C.) accounts, 1813-40, 40-69, 70-75, 1875-1948; church
rate books, 1827-70 (19), and subscription lists, 1853-70 (5);
offertory accts, petty cash and other small accts, c. 1870-1960;
minutes etc re church hall, 1904-38; plans, accts., etc., re fabric,
1771-1953; Town Book, 1653-1761; vestry minutes, 1763-1835,
1835-96, 1897-1944; overseers’ rate books, 1823, 1824, settlement
certificates, etc. 1814-1956; school accts, etc, 1857-95, and deeds of
school site, 1750-1856; enclosure award, minutes of enclosure
commissioners, 1794-6; service registers, 1925-30, 30-36, 36-43, 43-
48, 48-52, 52-55, 55-60, 60-64, 64-69; book of church notices, 1814-
41; District Visiting Society secretary’s book, 1844-54; pa ers re
choir, 1864-lgoo; curates’ fund minutes, 18g5-1908, an% bank
book, 1886-94; Lafford Deanery church institute minutes and
accts, 1861-9; copies and indexes of registers. Deposited by Canon
H. G. Mitchell.
Stow: Parish Council receipt and payment books, 1925-48, 1948-59,
1959-68. Deposited by the clerk.
Sudbrook tithe award deposited by the Rev. M. P. Brackenbury.
Swarby (additional) : marriages, 1839-1969; school managers’ accts,
rgo3-28; service registers, 1912-48, 1949-71; parish meeting
minutes, 1894-1961. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.

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Threekingham (additional): marriages, 1837-1932, 34-47, 47-60; banns,
1823-1954; churchwardens’ accts, 1852-1934; vestry book, 1846-1961;
overseers’ valuations, 1875, 1881. Deposited by the Rev. D. Askew.
Walcot by Folkingham (additional) : marriages, 1837-1933, 1934-71;
service registers, 1905-43, 1943-59. Deposited by the Rev. D.
Askew.
Welton by Lincoln: registers and other records deposited by the
Reverend B. J. P. Pritchard. Not yet listed.
Scot Willoughby (additional): marriages, 1837-1964. Deposited by the
Rev. D. Askew.
Parish records listed, but not deposited
Barrow on Humber: general registers, 1560-1812 (3); marriages, 1754present
(11); baptisms, r813-present (8); burials, 1813-present (4);
banns, 1823-1948 (4); terrier, etc., 1822; augmentation of vicarage,
1509; benefice papers, 1805-1926; papers re vicarage buildmgs,
1926-68; churchwardens’ and other church accts, 1794-1954 (7);
allotment rental, 18g1-1908; faculties and other pps. re fabric,
19-20 cent; “Barrow Town Book”, early 18th cent; vestry books,
1845-1932 (2); charity accts etc, 1g-20th cent, Barrow school
managers’ minutes etc, c.18g4-1952; New Holland school mmutes,
deeds, corresp, etc, c. 1899-1940; Wootton school, copy will, 1726,
and corresp., 20th cent; enclosure act; service registers, Barrow,
1go8-60 (5), New Holland, 1918-59 (2); P.C.C. and Vestry meeting
minutes, 1920-71 (4); Wilkin family memoranda book (farm accts,
etc.), 1714-46; historical notes, mid-late 19th cent.
The Claxby group:
Claxby : general registers, 1566-1652, 1694-1705 (loose folios), 1706-
1812: marriages, 1756present (5); baptisms, 1812-present (2);
burials, 1813-present (1); banns, 1823-1935, 1g35-present; tithe
award, 1847; service registers, 1939-53, 1960-71; confirmation
register, 1g5o-60; faculties, 1870, 1861, 1971.
South Kelsey, St. Mary: general registers, 1559-1729, 1730-89;
marriages, 1754-present (3); baptisms, 1813-present (2); burials,
1813-present (2); banns, 1823-81; corn rent accts, 1925-50; churchwardens’
accts, 17g3-1801; vestry book, 18 19-76; tracing of
enclosure plan; service registers, 1906-61 (4); P.C.C. minutes, 1g47-
57; church socials and garden fetes accts, 1922-39; Caistor Deanery
Clerical Society minutes, 1917-39 (2); faculties, etc, 1888-1957.
South Kelsey, St. Nicholas: general registers, 1559-1656, 1707-40,
1744-94; marriages, 1756-91; volume of vestry minutes, mainly
acct.% of arish Officers, ip2-1837; faculties, 1901, 1906.
Kirmond e P Mire: general register, 1751-1812; marriages, 1756-
present (3); baptisms, rSr3-present (1); burials, 1815-1958 (I);
P.C.C., Vestry, and parish meeting minutes, in one volume, 18g4-
1935; school bank book, 1891-1937; service register, 1g3o-present.
Nettleton: marriages, 1755-1812 (used alS0 for banns, 1877-lglo),
1814-37, 1838-present; baptisms, 1813-present (2); burials, 1816
present (2); banns, 1g3o-present; constables’ accts, 1816-17; P.C.C.
minutes, 1935-46; also a box, the contents of which were not fully
inspected, incl. poor law and highway records, 19th cent.
North Owersby: general registers, 1559-1685, 1686-1788, 1789-1812;
marriages, 1755-present (3); baptisms, 1813-present (2); burials,
1813-present (1); banns, 1823-present (2); terrier, 1822; book of

churchwardens’ accts, 172 1-86, 1871-1921; and overseers’ accts,
17~1-86; vestry minutes, 1825-56; service registers, agog-08, ig54present;
book of memos of occasional duty, 1808-24; book of
photographs of Owersby and district, c.1895; account book of
constables and other officers of South Owersby, 1818-69.
Stainton le Vale: baptisms, I 8 13-present (I); burials, 18 I 3-present
(1); marriages, 1813-present (2); banns, 1824-present (1); service
registers, I 930-6 1, I g68-present. (The school managers’ minute
book, 18g2-1934, was found at Kirmond).
Thornton le Moor (in North Owersby church): general registers,
1711-83, 1783-1812; baptisms, 1813-present (I); marriages, 1813present
(2); book containing vestry minutes, 1882-1936, and parish
officers’ accts, 1728-1838.
Parish records deposited with Lindsey County Council
and now transferred
(The following deposits were made in the Lindsey muniment room,
mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. Some are apparently from
ecclesiastical sources, others from parish councils, many were deposited
by the late Mr. C. Brears.)
Bardney : Kitching’s Trust minutes, 1839-1903 (Mr. Brears).
Gunby: constables’ accounts, 1797-1832 (Source of deposit unknown).
Hogsthorpe : churchwardens’ accts, 1725, 31, 40; constables’ accts,
? 1725, 38; overseers’ accts, 1713, 14, 20, 25, 28; Christopher’s
dole accts, 1698-1725. (Source of deposit not known).
Horkstow: overseers’ accts, 181653, 33-7, 37-57; highway accts, 1826-
37, 61-2; Cow Lane occupation road accts, 1874-1924; Horkstow
Parochial Committee of Brigg Rural Sanitary Authority, minutes,
1884-96; parish council accts, etc, 1894-g. (Mr. A. A. F. Stubbs).
Horncastle: church rate book, 1864; poor rate book, 1853; highway
rate book, 1838-g, accts, 1859-60, 64-5, 65-6. (Mr. G. R. C. Keep).
Vestry books, 1672-1786, 1786-1844 (Source of deposit not known).
Sibsey: book of churchwardens’, constables’ and dikereeves’ accts,
1780-1853; vestry book, 1715-1839; overseers’ accts, 17th cent,
1781-1814; School log book, 18g2-1gog; notebooks with lists and
extracts of parish records. (Mr. Brears).
Little Steeping: vestry book, 1825-50; constables’ accts, 1800-39; overseers’
accts, 1813-34, 37-55; highway accts, 1813-27 (Mr. P. J.
Ward).
Sutton in the Marsh: vestry book, 1814-1924; overseers’ accts, 1815-37,
rate books, 1847-54; highway accts, 1803-40; drainage rates, 1825-
49; Sutton on Sea Parish Council, minutes, 1895-1925 (3); letter
books, 1895-1924 (7); rates, 1897-1910 (5). (Source of deposit
unknown, ? parish council).
Trusthorpe : Parish Council minutes, 1894-1913, 1g13-1g (Parish
Council).
Tumby : Constables’ accts, 1775- 1803, 1803-? ; overseers’ accts, 1769-80,
86-96, 17g7-1807, 32-4, 37-56, valuation book, 1838, rate book
1841-7, settlement certificates, etc, 18-19 cent; highway accts, 1803
30, rate book, 1843-53. (Parish Council).
Waltham: loose sheets of churchwardens’, constables’ and overseers’
accts, 18th cent; vestry book, 1839-78; overseers’ accts, 1779-1823,
1823-37 (Mr. Brears).

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Willoughton: churchwardens’ accts and vouchers, 1750-1834; constables’
accts and precepts, 1750-c-1824; overseers’ accts and other
p s, 1716-1833; highway accts, 1765-1829 (Mrs. E. H, Rudkin).
The Beposit
also included enclosure awards for the following parishes:
Goxhill, Habrough, Healing, Nettleham (plan only), Trusthorpe,
Waltham (now returned to Parish Council), Willoughton,
Wootton.
OTHER GIFTS AND DEPOSITS
Deposits from official somzes
(Including public records and deposits of constituent authorities and
other bodies.)
Alford Drainage Board : rate books, corresp. files etc., 20th cent.
East Midlands Gas Board: deeds, Gainsborough, 1702-1844 (3 EMGB).
H.M. Factory Inspectorate, Lincoln : registers of premises, accidents,
etc., circulars and other papers, 1805-1964.
Clerk to Quarter Sessions, Grantham: Grantham Q.S. files, 1948-71.
Clerk to Petty Session, Grimsby: court records, 1927-51, juvenile court
records, 1937-57.
Holland County Council : additional smallholdings records; Q.S.
records, 1939-69; recent annual reports and other papers from
various departments.
Kesteven County Council: Q.S. files, minutes, etc., 20th cent;
additional records of the following Poor Law Unions: Bourne,
1836-1936; Sleaford 1842-1958; Stamford, 1915-27; Hereward
School, minutes, etc., 1940-50.
Lincoln County Borough Council: town clerk’s corresp. files, 20th
cent.
Clerk to Lincoln Quarter Sessions: additional records, 20th cent.
Lindsey County Council: Q.S. records, 20th cent., files re withdrawal
of railway passenger services (E. Lines.), 1961-7; treasurers’ ledgers
and other financial records, 1857-1958 (c.300 volumes).
Diocesan Records
The Bishop of Lincoln: patronage files, 20th cent.
Church Commissioners: bishopric rentals, temp. Henry VIII and
c. 1660-63; Bardney, corresp. re leases, etc., c. I 760-1800; contract
for repairs to Riseholme, 1840; leases and conveyances, various
prebendal estates, 18-19 cent. (2 CC 65): leases, etc., prebendal
and bishopric estates, 18-19 cent (2 CC 66); stewards ledger of
fees, manor of Little Chester, Derbs., (Deanery estates), 1864c.1907
(added to CC 102).
Lincoln Diocesan Registry : additions to many classes of diocesan
records, mainly 1960s and 70s.
Records from other, mainly private, sources
Messrs. Allison and Helmer: clients’ bundles, etc., 1g-20th cent. (2 AH
to be listed).
Messrs. Andrew and Co.: a small additional deposit of deeds, etc. re
various Lines. parishes, 17-19 cent. (Hill 38).

A.P.E. Ltd.: balance sheets and reports of Fosters Ltd., 18781g6o;
photographs and other illustrative material re Gwynnes Pumps
Ltd., C. 1870-c. 1960.
Bedfordshire County Archivist: copy of Belton by Grantham parish
register, 1538-1668 (Misc. Don. 386).
Revd. A. J. Bishop: enclosure petition, Bassingham, 1629 (Misc. Dep.
264).
British Records Association: deeds, etc., re Reeve, Fane, Kelham and
Holt families, and for property in Candlesby, Folkingham, Irnham,
Swineshead, and other Lines. parishes, 17-19 cent. (B.R.A.
collections 1546, 1584, 1606-7, 1621, 1624, 1630, 1636, 1678, 1689,
1693, 1727-8, 1736, 1741, 1743, 1761, 1765).
Burton and Co.: deeds, Martin by Timberland, 1813-1927, Minting,
1826-lglg (BS 19).
Canon Caulton (via Diocesan Office): West Lawress Rural Deanerv
records, 1875-1948 (RD 3). ’
Mrs. Collingwood (via Captain Fane): steam cultivating contractor’s
acct. bk., Fulbeck, 1897-1934 (Misc. Dep. 260).
Durham County Archivist : Act of Parliament re Christopher estates,
1842 (Misc. Don 387).
Captain J. Elwes: estate and household corresp., accts., etc., 1947-70
(12 ELWES).
Revd. D. Griffiths (Lincoln Cathedral Library): cathedral organ
restoration fund pps. (added to Dean and Cha ter records):
cuttings re Wakeford case, 192 1 (Misc. Dep. 267); eartree Rural
Deanery records, 1949-64, Wraggoe Rural Deanery records, 1856-
1964 (RD 597).
Haden, Young and Co.: drawings re work on old prison, Lincoln,
1959-63 (Misc. Dep. 258).
J. F. Harvey Esq. : plans etc. : Miningsby glebe exchanges, 1847, 1854;
Miningsby award in lieu of tithes in E. and W. Fens, 1861 (no
lan); Hareby and Bolingbroke glebe exchange, 1854; Boling-
!Zroke
and Miningsby exchange of W. Fen allotments, 1823; E.
Kirkby plan of glebe, 1857 (Misc. Dep. 263).
Miss Hilary Healey : Nocton parish magazines, etc., 1950s (Misc. Don.
377).
J. N. Heneage Esq.: estate lans and other estate pps., 18-20 cent.,
Hainton Park Cricket C Pub score books, late 19th cent. (3 Hen).
(Including the maps and plans listed in Archivist’s Report
1955-6, pp. 66-7, the remainder of records listed there being
already deposited.)
R. H. Hinton Esq., via Cambs. Co. Archivist: copies of enclosure
awards of Bourne North Fen, 1770, Bourne South Fen, 1777 (Misc.
Dep. 256).
Miss E. L. Johnson: Marriage settlement, Brant Broughton, 1790
(Misc. Don. 380).
Lancashire County Archivist: mortgage, Ashby in p. Bottesford, 1857
(Misc. Don. 388).
Langley’s (Messrs. Langley Phillips and Coleman) : Welton enclosure
award (LPC 1122).
Revd. G. J. Lanham: records of the rural deaneries of Aveland, 1872-
1931 and Ness, 1876-1949 (RD 6).
T. Lofts Esq.: Bassingham Sick and Dividing Club, minutes, 1905-71,
accts., 1931-71 (Misc. Don. 390).
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photocopies of a few P.R.O. documents (Misc. Don. 384).
Monmouth County Archivist: Burgh le Marsh Middle School ‘Log
Book’ (actually a narrative of events, 1864-72 (SR).
Messrs. Mosso and Bowser: deeds: F 1’ eet, 1838-96; Gedney, 1874-
1968; Hor$ each, 1735-1969; West Keal, 1754-1914; Leadenham,
1806-95; Moulton, 1812-1937; Sutton St. Edmund, 17g7-1gog;
Sutton St. James, 1836-1930; Sutton St. Mary, 1858-1925; Whaplode,
1789-1922; Tydd St. Giles (Cambs.), 18o8-1930 (HD 75 and
76).
Northamptonshire County Archivist: deeds, Metheringham, Blyton
and Morton, 1838-91 (Misc. Dep. 261).
C. P. L. Openshaw Esq.: lease, Lincoln, 1680 (Misc. Dep. 257).
P. D. Park Esq.: plan, Sutton St. Edmund, late 19th cent. (Misc. Don,
391).
A. Powell Esq.: Powell family deeds, 19th cent., book re claim to
baronry of Marmion (4 WD).
Revd. E. A. Pratt: deed, Ingoldmells, 1657 (Misc. Dep. 255).
Mrs. E. Robson: deeds re property in Evedon, Holdingham, Ruskington
and Sleaford, 1828-1924.
Scunthorpe Museum Curator: plan and survey, Scamblesby, 1808
(Misc. Don. 389).
M. Tunnard Esq.: acre books: Algarkirk and Fosdyke, 1734; Boston
West, 1662; Wyberton, 1702; Surveys and valuations: Boston
East, 1803; Freiston, 1802; Holland Fen, c.1840; Kirton in
Holland, c.1850; Leverton, 1764; Wigtoft Marsh, c.1800; Wrangle,
1808; Wyberton, 1825; Fishtoft, Toynton All SS. and St. Peter
and East Keal, 1802; Friskney, Wrangle, Leake, Leverton and
Frampton, n.d.; Skirbeck, 1704; Kirton and Frampton recently
enclosed salt marshes, 1881; Sibsey and Freiston, Wanley estates,
1829; volume of misc. drainage and enclosure acts, 1801-s;
Frampton parish, misc. poor law and charity papers, etc., 18-19th
cent. (Misc. Dep. 259).
Miss F. Waite: agreement between Earl of Scarbrough and cottagers,
Glentworth, 1791 (Misc. Don. 385).
E. Warner Esq.: Horncastle Division Conservative Association
records (Misc. Dep. 268).
Mrs. A. Wolynska: Bonby school log book, 1876-1956 (SR).
RECORDS IN OTHER CUSTODY
AVELING-BARFORD
Aveling-Barford Ltd. was founded in 1932, and went into
production at Grantham in 1934. It represented an amalgamation of
two firms, Aveling and Porter of Rochester and Barford and Perkins
of Peterborough, which had both been members of the ill-fated
Agricultural and General Engineering group. Largely through the
work of Edward Barford the two firms survived the collapse of the
group as a whole, and continued, as a united company, the manufacture
of road rollers and other highway-making equipment, for
which they had become known in many parts of the world. Messrs.
Lloyd and Olney visited the works on 13 September 1972, and through
the kindness of Mr. Ryan, the chairman, Mr. Milliken, the company
secretary, and Mr. Olive, the public relations officer, were able to form
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The minute books for Aveling and Porter (later Aveling-Barford)
form a corn Iete series from 1894, and there are also two minute books
for Barfordp and Perkins for the period 1g12-80. Share registration
and transfer records cover the period from 1894 to the amalgamation
with British Leyland in 1967. We also found an interesting packet
of early legal papers for Aveling and Porter, including leases of the
Rochester works from about 1860 to 1900, and an agreement concerning
the taking over of equi ment at the Strood premises in 1858.
Financial records were foun% to be very im erfect for the pre-second
world war period, but one or two survivals Por Avelings serve to give
an impression of the early years of the Rochester firm. The earliest
was a supplies ledger for 1861-62, when Thomas Aveling (1824-82)
was starting the production of traction engines on his own account.
(Previously he had su plied designs for manufacture by Clayton and
Shuttleworth of Linco Pn.)
The engineering records for Barford and Perkins are very full, with
engine record books for motor rollers from the start of
in 1904. The Aveling records are less full, and some oP reduction
the early
drawings have been lost. But there are des atch books from 1860,
engine record books from 1867 (giving consi!!Ierable detail up to the
first world war), and specification books from 1899. The early engine
records are supplemented by a useful series of rinted items-sale
catalogues, newspaper cuttings, photographs and g Pass
negatives.
The company wishes to retain the minutes and the engineering
records, but has kindly agreed to the deposit of most of the other
items listed below.
S-rY
chairman’s room : framed patents for steam jacketed cylinders
(Aveling, 185g), and ballasted rollers (Barford, 1862).
secretary’s office : Aveling and Porter (later Aveling-Bar-ford), minutes
from 1894, printed annual reports, 1897-1945.
safe in hall: Barford and Perkins-registers of members and share
ledgers 1912-27 r), minutes tg12-80 (2); Aveling and Porter, later
Aveling Barfor d -directors’ attendance book 1895-1946, register
of seals, register of share options, schedule of deeds, register of
members and share ledger 1934-41, two pension scheme registers
b;sa5s~50$ci;t,~n books (2), modern share records, copies of articles
basement: Barford and Perkins--nominal ledgers (2), private ledgers
(locked, 2 items), special ledger, 1912 (locked); Avelmg and Porter
-supplies ledger 1861-62, register of employees c.187g-1986, sales
ledger 1894-7, register of directors igoo-32, legal papers c.1858-
1900, cancelled share certificates from c.1895 (1n safe), record of
machines supplied to public authorities 1919-85; Aveling, Barford
and Perkins Sales-private ledger 1929-83, day books (order
books) 1929-80 and 1981-4 (2); Aveling Barford-petty cash book
1942-4, general ledger 1946-7, sale sheets 1951 etc. (packets on
bottom shelf), order books and day books c.1g45-65, salaries
(locked), Journals 1953-64 (2), cash received book rg63-4, ledger
(1958-66) and papers (1966-S) re Newcastle canteen, sales analysis
1962-5. sales ledger 1941-6, cash account (Bar-ford Developments)
1946-8, account books for Henderson’s of Glasgow 1942-7 (4),
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books for various types of machine and other inter-war financial
records (in another cupboard), machine registers c.1g4o-60, two
books re scheme for a diesel road roller, also modern correspondence
files and financial records from 1965.
stores : Barford engine record books (motor rollers only) from 1904
(not inspected).
Mr. Olive’s department: despatch books from 1860, engine record
books from c. 1867 (Aveling-Porter), specification books (Aveling-
Porter from 1889, Barford from c.lgoq), engine drawings (only
a few before lgoo), glass negatives (including a complete set for
machines sent to crown colonies), scrap book 1861 to c. 1900,
newspaper cuttings from 1934, sales catalogues (Aveling and
Porter, and Amies, Barford and Co., later Barford and Perkins)
from 186os, part lists, instruction books.
LINCOLN CITY LIBRARY MANUSCRIPTS
A survey has been undertaken of the manuscripts kept in the strong
room of the Central Library in Free School Lane, Lincoln. The bulk
of the collection is a series of items stored in large cardboard boxes
and numbered 1 to 5,760. The items are indexed, but, in the absence
of a list, it was necessary to go quickly through each box to ascertain
what the main deposits were and who had made them. The result,
at least for those who imagined that the collection consisted mainly of
unconnected items of uncertain provenance, was something of a
surprise.
Numbers I to 4,595 represent several deposits made by the British
Records Society, later the British Records Association, between 1931
and 1934. With the exception of a small number of deeds for the
parish of St. Peter at Gowts, the items relate mainly to the county
(rather than the city) of Lincoln. The great majority of items came
in two deposits originating in the offices of London solicitors. In
1931 Messrs. Frere, Cholmeley and Co. released a very large number
of deeds and legal papers relating to the Nisbet-Hamilton estates
in Lincolnshire. And in the following year the British Records Society
forwarded another splendid collection of deeds and pa ers, relating
to the Chaplin family. These two deposits deserve a worB of comment
and description.
The Rt. Hon. Robert Adam Christopher Nisbet-Hamilton (1804-
77) was a Scottish gentleman of somewhat choleric temperament, who
became an M.P. for North Lincolnshire and a political figure of some
prominence in the second rank of the Conservative party. Born R. A.
Dundas, he married in 1828 Lady Mary Bruce, daughter of the seventh
earl of Elgin. In 1835 she (and he in her right) succeeded to the
Lincolnshire estates of her great-uncle, George Manners of Bloxholm
(d.1828). George Manners owned not only the Bloxholm estate near
Sleaford, a property of some 1,600 acres, but also the much larger
ancestral estates of the Christopher family, from whom he was
descended through his grandmother, Lucy, duchess of Rutland. The
Christopher estates consisted of about 4,700 acres in Alford and
neighbouring arishes in the Marsh, a scattered but very valuable
property. DunBas and Lady Mary took the name of Christopher in
compliance with George Manners’s will, and in 1836 Christopher
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Bateman Dashwood (c.1782-1834). The Well estate, of some 4,000
acres, had a fine house and park (which the Christopher estate lacked),
and adjoined part of the Christopher property in the Alford neighbourhood.
Christopher’s trustees. obtained an Act to sell off the
Christopher estates in exchange for the Well estate (see Misc. Don.
387), but in fact a large part of them was retained. Christo her there-
fore became the owner of altogether some 9,000 acres in tph e county.
But the fruits of his marriage did not end there. Some twenty years
later his wife succeeded to the Belhaven and Dirleton estates in
East Lothian, a roperty of some 16,500 acres. It was then, in 1855,
that he changeB his name again, this time to Nisbet-Hamilton
(Scottish Record Office, GD/6, Biel Muniments).
What survive in this collection, therefore, are deeds and legal
papers relating to three estates, the Bloxholm (Manners), Alford
(Christopher) and Well (Dashwood) properties. The oldest documents
are mediaeval deeds for the Huttoft (Christo her) property; and for
most arishes on the Christopher estate the cp eeds appear to go back
to at Peast
the sixteenth century. The Bloxholm title includes many
trust deeds for the Manners family (dukes of Rutland) in the
eighteenth century. And the Well documents include some estate
material, also of the eighteenth century. A further series of items relate
to the trust business under the will of George Manners, off which
Messrs. Frere and Forster must have dined for years. The Forsters, in
fact, set up as Lincolnshire landowners, with an estate at Great and
Castle Carlton for which the deeds appear in this deposit.
The Chaplin estates, of some 23,000 acres in the county, make even
R. A. Christopher’s accumulation look rather small. The deeds and
abstracts fall into two main sections, those for the Blankney estate
in Kesteven, and those for the smaller Tathwell estate, near Louth,
occupied for most of the nineteenth century by a junior branch of
the family. Along with the deeds come legal papers (including various
bonds for the eighteenth century), and papers relating to executorships
(principally that for James Bromhead of Lincoln, who died in 1804).
Although these apers contain little personal material for members
of the Chaplin Pamily,
the building up of their Lincolnshire estates
is well documented. The collection does not, however, take one up
to the eventual foundering of the Chaplin fortune at the end of the
nineteenth century.
Both R. A. Christopher and Henry (later Viscount) Chaplin were
national figures. So was the historian Henry Hallam (1777-185g), for
whose family there survives a mass of deeds and legal papers (including
letters from Hallam himself relating to family trust and financial
affairs). The Hallams had been established in the Boston neighbourhood
from the middle of the seventeenth century, and Henry’s grandfather
John Hallam (c.1693-1762) was mayor of Boston in 1741 and
1754. The family estates lay principally in Boston, Skirbeck, Leake
and Leverton, but deeds for Birmingham and West Bromwich found
in this collection may also relate to the Hallams. A common Lincolnshire
background, it may be sup osed, was one of the ties that bound
Alfred Tennyson to Arthur Hal Pam
(son of the historian), though the
Hallams lived in London and had no seat on their Holland property.
Also among the same deposits from London solicitors may be found
deeds and papers relating to Sir Montague John Cholmeley (1802-74),
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family estates, the items being rather a record of the land which he
himself bought and sold. The principal purchase was the Bitchfield
estate, about 1870. It was natural that Sir Montague should deal with
Frere, Forster and Co., since his great-aunt Jane had married William
Martin Forster of Lincoln’s Inn in 1811. Later in the century the
links between Lincolnshire and Lincoln’s Inn were still further
strengthened, when a member of the Wainfleet branch of the
Cholmeley family entered the firm.
Among the smaller divisions of the collection may be mentioned
a group of items relating to the Nelthorpes of Little Grimsby, a junior
branch of the Scawby family, whose estates passed in the early nineteenth
century to the Beauclerks. There are deeds for Little Grimsby,
Utterby and Wrawby, and Legal and estate papers for the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
Other families represented among the more miscellaneous parts of
this horde are the Ainslies, ,Dymokes, Heathcotes, Pelhams and
Vyners. Also present are a large number of deeds for Wilmington
and Beckenham in Kent, which appear to have been sent to Lincoln
by mistake. Mrs. Catherine Forster (sister-in-law of Samuel Forster
of Great Carlton) was one of the co-heirs of the Motley (later Austen)
estates in Kent, and that is presumably why the legal papers came to
rest with Frere, Cholmeley and Co.
A series of mediaeval deeds for Huttoft, dating from the thirteenth
to fifteenth centuries and probably belonging with the deeds to the
Christopher estate, contains one charter granting land in Bulby in
the parish of Irnham to Sempringham Priory. It dates from the early
thirteenth century and has no apparent connection with other deeds
in the collection. Deeds for Sempringham are scattered; some are in
the British Museum and others in this office (including one from the
same grantor William, son of Robert de Langton) and at Lindsey
and Holland County Library, as parts of artificial collections. One
other single item worthy of notice is a militia list for Rishcliffe
wapentake in Nottinghamshire, with a note on the dorse respecting
the captains of forces from several parts of the county. Both sender
and recipient are unidentified, but other names are of men who lived
in the reign of Henry VII, and from the urgency expressed, it is
tempting to link this with the raising of local forces to face the
Pretender Lambert Simnel, defeated in battle at East Stoke in 1487.
S-W
(Nos. r-49595)
Manners of Bloxholm: deeds (Bloxholm estate); Manners family
settlements and trust deeds, mainly 1%~.
Christopher of Alford : deeds for Alford, Bilsby, Cawthorpe, Hogsthorpe,
Huttoft (c.1250 onwards), Mumby-cum-Chapel, Orby,
Rigsbycum-Ailby, Saleby, Salmonby, N. Somercotes and S.
Somercotes (manor of Scupholme); court rolls and papers, manor
of Mumby, ?15c. (no.2448); estate papers, c.1637-62 (no.2400);
terrier of Edward Ale’s lands in Alford, 1659 (no.3829); etc.
Dashwood of Well: deeds for Alford, Claxby, Hogsthorpe, Sutton-le-
Marsh, Ulceby and Well; abstracts, settlements, drafts and legal
papers, 18~. and 1gc.; papers re bankruptcy of F. B. Dashwood,
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1741-56 (no.2586); estate survey, 1822 (“0.3164); plan of Well
and Alford c.1825 (“0.3067).
Manners trust and Nisbet-Hamilton: volume of copies of deeds, 182%
42 (“0.3524); lease of London house, 1828 (“0.3650); legal and
working papers; sale particulars, 1872 (“0.3715); probate of
R. A. C. Nisbet-Hamilton, 1877 (no.5).
Chaplin of Blankney : deeds for Blankney, Little Cawthorpe,
Hdlington, Haugham, Kirkby Green, Metheringham, Maltby,
Scopwick, Tathwell, Temple Bruer; settlements, 18~. and 1gc.;
abstracts of title (including estates in Welbourn, Wellingore and
Ashby-de-la-Launde); leases to Cartwright family (of Marnham),
18~. (nos.3078, 3166, etc.); shares and bonds,18c. (nos.203, 2941);
Lindsey estate rental, c. 1730 (no. 1803); executorship papers,
James Bromhead of Lincoln; etc.
Hallam of Bostomn: deeds for Bennington, Boston, Fishtoft, Leake,
Leverton, Skirbeck, Wrangle; deeds for Birmingham, West
Bromwich and Uttoxeter; legal and trust papers, including letters
from Henry Hallam, (3.1820-59 (“0.437).
Cholmeley of Easton : deeds for Bitchfield, Brinkhill and Tetford;
trust deeds and legal papers; estate papers, Gayton-le-Wold, late
17~. (no.2703); tracings of Tetford and plan of Brinkhill, c.1870;
papers re radway business, 1840s (nos.3848-9).
Nelthorpe of Little Grimsby: deeds for Little Grimsby, Utterby,
Wrawby; estate accounts and papers for Little Grimsby, Grainsby
and N. and S. Kelsey, mainly late 18~. (“0.3515); John Nelthorpe’s
quit roll as high sheriff, 1774-75 (“0.3422).
Austen of Kippington, co. Kent: deeds for Beckenham and Wilmington;
trust papers (Mrs. Collison and Mrs. Forster, daus. of F. L.
Austen): papers re Thomas Motley of Beckenham, deed., c. 1758.
Forster of Great Carlton: deeds for Great and Little Carlton; legal
papers; estate papers for Gt., Little and Castle Carlton, 1780s
Gthrnosa2?-;4): plans ~~1845 (“0.4270).
: Ainsl1e of West Torrington, Market Stainton and
Collow (in Legsby)-deeds, plans, papers re sale in 1858; Dymoke
-executorship papers, Mrs. Elizabeth Dymoke of Lincoln, c. 1742
76 (nos.202, 4587, etc.); Cecil-papers relating to the dowager
lady Exeter’s estates at Bamford and Hilton, co. Derby, c.1758-61
(nos.204, 4594); Heathcote of Norm.anton-papers re a purchase
at Swineshead, etc., 1718 (no.3249); Pelham of Brocklesby-deeds
for Ketsby estate, 18c.; Vyner of Gautby-trust deeds and legal
papers c.1788-1820 (nos.3260, 4000); Yorke of Walmsgate, trust
deeds, 1790s.
Miscellaneous deeds : Belton (Popplewell), Castle Bytham (Coverley
and Holland), Dunsby, Haxey, Lincoln (Holy Trinity churchyard),
Market and Middle Rasen, Surileet (Claypon), Wilsthorpe
(Ullett), S. Witham, etc.
It was hoped also to report on MSS. 4,5g6-5,760, but time has not
permitted. A brief inspection of the strong room did, however, bring
to light a number of unlisted collections, which are summarised
below :
Library’s own records from 1895; records of Christ’s Hospital,
Lincoln; Lincoln City-duplicated modern records; Robey and
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MS. of Thomas Cooper’s ‘Purgatory of Suicides’; Lincolnshire
Pedigrees (formerly Monson MSS. LXIV-LXVIII); Grimsby
Antiquarian and Naturalist Society-minutes, 1896-1940; Tom
Crowder of Bardney-misc. papers (presented 1958); Messrs.
Andrew and Co.-two boxes of unsorted deeds (deposited 1944).
REPAIR
Mr. Winch took up the position of senior repairer on May 1st 1972.
After training at the Public Record Office, he worked at the
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire record offices before coming to Lincoln.
During the year he and Miss Watson have dealt with a large number
of repairs of many different types: the urchase of such items of
equipment as a bookbinder’s bench and a Paminating press (the latter
of which has just arrived as part of our 1973-4 expenditure) will add
considerably both to the variety of work that can be carried out and
the speed with which it can be executed.
About 1300 paper documents have been repaired during the year
including a large group of rentals and other estate records of the
Tennyson d’Eyncourt family (4 T. d’E D/ 1), the Halton Holgate vestry
book and the Holland Quarter Sessions roll for 1684. Forty maps
and plans have been dealt with, but there has been a limit to the
amount of this work which can be done, as we are waiting for a very
much larger wall-board. A number of essential and dilapidated printed
reference books from the search room were rebound: it is not our
intention to take up too much of the repairers’ time with work on
rinted books, but there are some which can ill be spared for the
Pong period which they would be away at a commercial bindery.
Parchment repair, apart from a few items in the Holland Sessions
rolls, has concentrated mainly on the Kirton in Lindsey manorial
rolls : seventeen rolls, consisting of 6g membranes, have been repaired.
In all fifty skins of parchment have been used. When one reflects
that there are in all over 400 Kirton rolls for the fourteenth century,
most of them in need of repair, and that these are only a fairly small
proportion of our manorial records, which are a small proportion
of the deposits as a whole, the magnitude of the repair work ahead
becomes obvious.
PUBLICATIONS
Most of the publications which have appeared during the past year,
based wholly or in part on Lincolnshire archives, have been pamphlets
or contributions to learned periodicals.
Among local works are Mr. J. N. Clarke’s History of St. Mary’s
Church, Horncastle and Mr. Harold Ison’s The Parish of Cranwell.
Lindsey County Council’s series of archive teaching units, History
from Archives, continues with number 4, Lincolnshire Schools and
Schoolmasters. Two further volumes have appeared in the History of
Boston Series : Number 6, Methodism in the Town of Boston
by Mr. W. Leary, and Number 7, Boston in the Great Civil War by
Mr. A. A. Garner.
Mr. J. H. Harvey, having temporarily deserted medieval architecture
for the history of gardening, made extensive use of records in this and
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Catalogues (Phillimores) and Early Horticultural Catalogues
(University of Bath Library).
Studies in Church History, Vol. 9 included two articles based on
Lincoln sources, “Bishop Buckingham and the Lollards of Lincoln
Diocese” by Dr. Alison McHardy, and “Lincolnshire in 1536:
Heresy, Schism or Religious Dissent” by Mrs. Margaret Bowker. Dr.
David Smith’s article, “The Rolls of Hugh of Wells, Bishop of
Lincoln, 12og-35”, appeared in the Bulletin of the Institute of
Historical Research, Vol. XLV, Nov. 1974. The Agricultural History
Review, Vol. 20 Part II contained an article by Dr. B. A. Holderness,
“ ‘Open’ and ‘Close’ Parishes in England in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries”.
USE OF THE OFFICE
For the first time the number of reader visits has exceeded 3000 for
the year, 3036 to be exact. Having stated this, one must confess
that uie are cheating a little for the period of calculation is one of
thirteen months: even so, when compared with the figure of 2270
for last year (a period shorter by three weeks), the increase is quite
a marked one. The sight of a full search room on a good many days
in February, once thought of as a quiet time, certainly shows that
our numbers are not bumped up to such an extent as perhaps they
once were by college vacations and the summer migration of American
genealogists. Another point which has occurred to all those producing
the records: the average 1973 reader seems to get through a greater
weight of records than did his predecessor five or ten years ago. This
is, of course, a purely subjective judgment and could only be checked
by the installation of a conveniently placed weighbridge.
The 3036 visits were made by 1143 persons, as opposed to 817 last
year. Enquiries have totalled 548 (428). Only about IOO visitors have
been shown round the office, compared to 286, but this figure does
not include those parties who have actually worked on documents
as well as having a look round: they are counted as readers. Photocopying
and microfilming have increased considerably; 6042 (4659)
sheets of photocopy and 10785 (7462 frames of microfilm have been
supplied. In addition a very large ord’ er for the microfilm of medieval
charters and court rolls for the University of Western Australia was
dealt with by Kodak, whose camera and its operator were here for
several weeks.
Prospective readers are urged, in their own interest, to give advance
notice of intended visits so that documents can be produced ready
for their arrival. They are also urged, if ossible, to consult the
Archivists’ Reports, which are prepared part Py
to inform them of the
services and resources of the repository. The Archivists’ Report 1948-
50 and thence yearly to date are all available, price 3op each including
postage. An index to Reports 1948-58 is also available, price El, as is
the Handlist to Lincoln Diocesan Archives, K. Major, O.U.P. 1953,
price L1.20~. An index to Reports lo-19 (1958-69) is now printing, and
it is hoped to enclose a leaflet giving details of price, etc. with this
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FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following individuals and institutions have kindly given us
copies of books, pamphlets, offprints, reports, lists, or photographs:
Canon P. B. G. Binnall, Mrs. M. Bowker, Keeper of Western MSS
Bodleian Library, Director Borthwick Institute, Mr. W. Bunting, Mr.
J. N. Clarke, Miss J. A. Cripps, East Midland Baptist Association,
Department of the Environment, Mr. Grierson, the Rev. J. Hammersley,
Mr. J. H. Harvey, Miss H. Healing, the Rt. Rev. K. Healey,
House of Lords Record Office, India Office Library, Institute of
Historical Research, Mr. G. Jackson, Kesteven County Council,
Lambeth Palace Library, Lincoln Corporation, Lincoln Diocesan
Registry, Lincolnshire Association, Lindsey County Council, Lindsey
and Holland County Library, Lindsey and Holland Rural Community
Council, Dr. A. K. McHardy, Mr. Moyse, National Register of
Archives, Nottingham University Department of Adult Education,
Dr. R. J. Olney, Mr. A. E. B. Owen, Scunthorpe Museum, Dr. D. M.
Smith, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, Mr. P. Thompson, the Rev.
H. Thorold, Mrs. J. Varley, Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
Also the archivists of Berkshire, Caernarvon, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire,
Devon, Durham, Essex, Glamorgan, Kent, Lancashire, the
Greater London Council, Newcastle, Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire,
Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Ipswich
and East Suffolk, Bury and West Suffolk, Wiltshire, Yorkshire North
Riding.