Anciently written Maringe and Mayring, is about a mile and a half
south-east from Horncastle, the parishes adjoining each other. The manor
once belonged to Edward Marsh, Esquire, of Hundle House, in the county of
Lincoln, by a descendant of whom it was sold to William Hudson, Esquire,
of Gray’s Inn. In 1659 it was sold to a person named Duncombe, of whom
it was purchased, in 1688, by Sir Edmund Turnor, of Stoke Rochford,
Knight, and is now possessed by his descendant of the same names. {43}
The chapel is completely destitute of interest. On repairing it, about
fifteen years ago, two nobles of Edward the fourth, two angels of Henry
the seventh, and several silver coins of different reigns, contained in a
leathern purse, were discovered concealed in the wall. The patron of the
curacy is the Bishop of Carlisle.