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 Duncome, 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. 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.