Hic jacet Francisca filia primogenita Petri Frescheville de Staveley
in Com. Derb. Arm. [ex priore uxore sua Elizabetha filia Gervasii
Clifton de Clifton in Com. Nott. Militis] et quondam Uxor Gervasii
Holles de Burgh in Com. Linc. Militis, cui peperit Freschevillum
Holles, & Margaretum gemellos, & Franciscum Holles filium juniorem.
Obijt Horncastell.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 241.
{29} It is observable that Cromwell is here stiled the arch-rebel,
although at the time mentioned he was only a colonel, and by no means an
illustrious individual in the war. The date given to the battle is
wrong, it having been fought on the 11th of October; and the signal
defeat of the royalists is diminished in its importance, by stiling the
conflict a skirmish.
{35} The same Act also empowered the commissioners of the river Witham,
in conjunction with the Horncastle and Sleaford Navigation Companies, to
complete the navigable communication between the Witham and the Fosdike
canal through the High Bridge at Lincoln.
{37} “Horne Castelle, as far as I can lerne, is now most builded withyn
the Circuite of an old waullid Toune, or sum hughe Castel, as apperith
from divers Ruines of a Waulle. It hath one fair Paroche Chirch.
Alluitur Bano et Verino qui paulo infra op Banum. Dr. Thybleby of the
Queen’s College hath Landes aboute the olde Walles of Horn Castelle.
Warig risith of divers springis aliquot passuum millibus ab oppido. Pons
ibidem super Verinum flu. The market is very good and quick occupiers in
the town.” Leland’s Itinerary, vol. 7. p. 51.
{41} Domesday, folio 339.
{42a} Mr. Holles, in the Church Notes before quoted, mentions the
following inscription at this place, which now no longer exists:
_On a Gravestone_.
Hic jacet Gulielmus Brackenburgh, & Emmotta uxor ejus, qui quidem
Gulielmus obiit 6 die Januarii An’o D’ni 1476 quorum a’iabus
p’pitietur Deus Amen.
The pictures of themselves upon the stone, & of ten children, all in
brasse.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 177.
{42b} Mr. Holles. notices the following arms and inscriptions on the
bells in this church, the first of which are now gone, the latter still
remaining:
_Fenes_. _Boreal_. _Cancelli_.
Sa. a crosse betw. 4 cinquefoyles arg.
_Campane_.
[1] Sit nomen Domini benedictum.
[2] Intonat e cœlis vox campana Michaelis.
[3] Sum rosa pulsata mundi Maria vocata.
Ibid. p. 342.
{43} From the information of E. Turnor, Esq. F.S.A.
{44} Mr. Holles notices the following arms once in this church, but now
gone:
_Fenestra Australes Cancelli_.
G. 3 lyons passant guardant or England.
Verry a fesse G. fretty or Marmyon.
Argent a plaine crosse B.
Or a lyon rampant purpure Lacy.
Chequy or & G. a chiefe ermyne Tateshale.
_In Campanili_.
Arg. a sword sheathed proper, a buckler appt.
with girdle wrapped, hilte pomel, & neuf or
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 244.
{45} In the windows were the following arms when this church was visited
by Mr. Holles:
_In Fenestris Cancelli_.
Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or Marmion.
G. a Crosse sarcely Arg. Beke
Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or, Dymoke.
Or a lyon ramp. double queue sa. Welles.
Sa. 3 Flowres de lize betw: 6 crosse crosselets
fitchy arg.
G. 3 bars ermyne Kirketon.
Barry of 6 or and sa.
_Fenestræ boreales_.
B. a lyons head erased betw. 6 crosses botony arg. Touthby.
Arg. 2 bars G. a border sa.
Dymoke each lyon charg’d sur l’espale with an Dymoke.
annulet
Ermyne on a bend G. a cinquefoil or
G. crosse crucilly fitchy a lyon rampant arg. La Warre.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa. Welles.
_In Fenestræ australes_.
G. 3 waterbougets arg. Ros.
Or on fesse G. 3 plates Huntingfield.
Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty Rochfort.
Rochfort with a garbe in the 2d quarter arg. Rochfort.
Rochfort with an annulet in the 2d quarter arg. Rochfort.
Or a manche G. Hastings.
G. a bend ermyne Ry.
Rochfort with an eagle displayed in the 2d quarter Rochford.
arg.
Arg. fretty of 6 pieces G. a canton ermyne
_In Fenestra borealis Navis_.
G. crosse crucilly fitchy a lyon rampant arg. La Warre.
Arg. on a bend G. 3 gryphons heads erased or
_In Campanili_.
Joh’es Staines W. Jo.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 245.
{47} The following arms and inscriptions, now gone, are noticed by Mr.
Holles, as being in this church when visited by him:
_In Fenestra Australi_.
Empaled. Arg. on a crosse sa.
Empaled. Arg. a crosse G. a bezant
Empaled. Arg. a crosse sa.
Empaled. Quarterly arg. and G. on the 1st and 4th
quarters a popinjay vert. membred and beked G.
_In Fenestra Occidental ex sinistra Campanilis_.
Orate pro a’ia Joh’is Tott, Agnet, & Helene uxorem ejus, &
specialiter pro Andrea Tott Artium Baccalaureo, qui istam Fenestram
lapidari, nec non vitreari fecit.
_Sup Fulchrum ex p’te Australia_
Quarterly Ufford & Beke Willughby,
3 Crosses portate
2 Chevrons betw. 3. roses
A crosse
A lyon passant
Domus mea domus Orationibus vocabitur. 1591.
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 213.
{48} By the following extract it appears that in the time of Mr. Holles,
the windows of this church abounded with stained glass, of which not a
single vestige is now remaining.
_In Fenestris Orientali Cancelli_.
Quarterly. Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or Marmyon.
Quarterly. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned d’or Dymoke.
Empaled. G. a frett of 8 pieces d’or
Empaled. B. 3 garbes d’or
G. a lyon rampant d’or
Sa. a sword in pale arg.
Sa. 2 lyons passants arg. crowned d’or Dimoke.
Arg. 3 flowres de lize bet. 6 crosse crosselets Hillary.
fitchy sa. a border G.
Arg. a playne crosse G.
G. a playne crosse arg.
_Tumulus lapidus_
Hic jacet Anna fillia Thomæ Dymoke Militis D’ni . . . et Margaretis
consortis suæ quæ obiit Ao. D’ni 1462 &c. &c.
Empaled. Verry a fesse G. fretty or Marmion.
Empaled. Or a lyon rampant double queue sa Welles.
_In muro boreali eræ sculptum_.
Orate pro a’ia M’ri. Joh’is de Croxby, quondam Rectoris istius
ecclesiæ, qui dedit annualem redditum xx_s_ annuatim impetuum, et in
secunda feria primæ hebdommadæ quadragessimæ habitantibus in
Conningsby sc’am formam evidentiæ suæ distribuendorum.
This charity hath ceased for many yeares, the evidence having been
sacrilegiously stolne out of that monument within the wall, as by the
loosening of the plate of brasse may appeare.
_In Fenestra Occidentali Capellæ Orientalis_.
Orate pro a’iabus . . . Hatcliffe . . . Uxis suæ Fenestram.
Sa. 3 welles arg. bis Wellis.
Empaled. Sa. 3 welles arg. Wellis.
Empaled. B. 2 bars d’or over all a lyon rampant Hatcliffe.
Sa. a sword in pale arg.
Arg. a fesse daunce betw. 3 talbots heades erased
sa.
Arg. a fesse betw. 3 cootes sa.
B. 2 bars d’or over all a lyon rampant G. Hattecliffe.
Orate pro bono statu H. Wellis notoria publici . . . Hatcliffe uxoris
suæ et sequelis eorum . . . hanc fenestram fieri fecerunt A’no D’ni
1460.
_In superioribus Fenestris Borealibus_.
G. a cinquefoil peirced betw. 8 crosse crosselets Umframville.
d’or
Quarterly. Sa. a cross engrayled d’or . . . Willughby.
Ufford.
Quarterly. G. a crosse sarcely arg. . . . Beke.
G. 3 waterbougets arg. Ros.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa. Welles.
Arg. a crosse patonce G.
Arg. a chiefe G. over all a bend engrayled B.
Chequy or and G. a chiefe ermyne Tateshale.
Ermyne a fesse G. Bernake.
Arg. a chiefe G. over all a bend B. Crumwell.
Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or Dymoke.
Or on fesse G. 3 plates Huntingfield.
Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty Rochford.
G. a crosse molyn arg. Beke.
Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty on the 2d Rochford.
quarter a garbe arg.
Quarterly &c. an annulet on the 2d quarter Rochford.
B. crucilly a lyon rampant arg. bis
Argent 3 shell snayles sa.
Dymoke Crumwell Holland
Quarterly France and England a label of 3 arg.
Quarterly France and England a label of 3 ermyne
_In Fenestra Orientali_.
Orate pro a’iabus fratrum & sororum Gildæ be’æ Mariæ de Cunningsby,
qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt.
This is a fayre Window, adorned with the Genealogy of the Kinges of
Israel and Judah, David lying along through the whole bottome, from
whose roote branch out the several stems. In one part of it below
the Picture of King Edward the first, crowned, &c. &c.
Edwardus primus regnavit annos . . .