{4a} Taciti Breviarum Vitæ Cn. Julii Agricola. sec. xx et xxi.
{4b} Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.
{5} The Roman road from Lincoln to Horncastle did not vary materially
from the present road between these places. Another Roman way branched
from this road at the distance of about four miles from Horncastle,
leading nearly in a straight line to Caistor, and from thence to the
Humber: it bears the name of the _High Street_, and several tumuli are to
be seen on its sides.
{6} Leland’s Collectanea, tom 1. part 2. p. 509.
{7a} See Appendix, No. 1.
{7b} Adelias de Cundi was the daughter and heiress of William de Cheney,
Lord of Cavenby and Glentham in the county of Lincoln, at the time of the
conquest. By her husband, Roger de Cundi, whom she survived, she had a
daughter and heiress Agnes, afterwards married to Walter, son of Walter
de Clifford, of Clifford Castle, in the county of Hereford. Dugdale,
vol. ii. p. 336. Monast. Ang. vol. ii. p. 646. a. n. 50.
{7c} Dugdale’s Baronage, p. 39.
{8a} Hund. Rot. 19. Hornc. Wap.
{8b} On the eastern boundary of the parish is a place called _Hangman’s
Corner_, where those convicted of capital offences, in the court of this
manor, were executed.
{8c} Cart. Rot. 14 et 15. H. III.
{9a} Hund. Rot. ut antea.
{9b} Mag. Rot. 17 H. III. Madox. collect.
{9c} Cart. Rot. 18 Ed. 1. m. 39.
{9d} Cart. Rot. 12. Ed. 2. no. 17.
{9e} Pat. 14 Ric. II. pars 1. m. 3.
{9f} The house where the bishops used to reside, a spacious structure,
but destitute of architectural merit, was situated at the north-west
corner of the ancient fortress. It was demolished about the year 1770,
when the present manor house was erected on its scite.
{10a} All these grants were again acknowledged, and the privileges
further extended in the sixteenth year of the reign of Charles the
second. See Appendix, No. 2.
{10b} Parliamentary Survey, made in the years 1647 and 1648.
{10c} Robert Aldrich was born at Burnham in Buckinghamshire, educated at
Eton, and elected a scholar of King’s college, Cambridge, in 1507, where
he took the degree of M.A. afterwards became proctor of the university,
schoolmaster of Eton, fellow of the college, and at length provost. In
1523 he was one of those who were sent out by the university of Cambridge
to preach in different parts of the nation, as the judges now go their
circuits. In 1529 he retired to Oxford, where he was incorporated B.D.
About the same time he was made archdeacon of Colchester. In 1534 he was
installed canon of Windsor, and the same year he was appointed register
of the most noble order of the garter. July 18, 1537, he was consecrated
bishop of Carlisle. He was a correspondent of Erasmus, who termed him
when young, “blandæ eloquentiæ juvenis,” and appears to have associated
with him during his residence at Cambridge. Leland was his familiar
acquaintance, and gives him a high character for parts and learning. He
was the author of a volume of epigrams, and several theological
treatises.
{10d} Memoirs of Sir Henry Fynes Clinton, Annual Register 1772,
Characters, p. 2.
{11} See Appendix, No. 3.
{13} Clarendon, Rapin, and Hume.
{14a} Ludlow’s Memoirs.
{14b} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{14c} Colonel Russel’s.
{17} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{18} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{19a} Intercepted letter from Sir William Widdrington. Rushworth’s
Collections, 8vo. edit. vol. v. 78.
{19b} Ibid.
{19c} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{20a} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{20b} Some say this was a Captain Portington, who afterwards told
Cromwell that he aimed at his nose, when he hit his horse on the head.
Life of Cromwell. See also Ludlow, Vicars, and Hume.
{21a} The road adjoining to Winceby field bears the name of _Slash
Lane_, where it is traditionally related great numbers of the royal army
were slaughtered, owing to their retreat being obstructed by a closed
gate.
{21b} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{22a} Vicars’s Parliamentary Chronicle.
{22b} Ibid.
{23a} This anecdote the author has repeatedly heard from the several of
the old inhabitants of the town.
{23b} October 11, 1643.
{23c} It is said accompanied by Sir William Widdrington. Rapin.
{25} Dr. Stukeley has incorrectly described this fortress as a complete
parallelogram: Gough, too has erroneously stated it to have enclosed
twenty acres. The track of the wall will be found on the modern plan of
the town.
{26} The Roman youth were first instructed in the game of Troy Town by
Ascanius, called also Julus, the son of Æneas, and from him the maze in
which it was performed took the name of Julian Bower. A very animated
description of this game is given by Virgil in the fifth book of his
Æneid. See also Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 91.
{29a} “Ecclesia de Horne Caster, & de Askeby, & de superiore Toynton, &
de Mering, et de Hinderby sunt de donacoe d’ni Regis, & Osbertus Persona
tenet eas de dono Regis Ricardi.” Testa de Nevill.
{29b} See the note in page 31.
{30a} This shield is merely painted in a cavity where a brass has been
fixed.
{30b} In the Harleian collection of manuscripts, in the British Museum,
is a volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, taken about the year 1640, by
Mr. Gervase Holles, a native of Great Grimsby, and a representative of
that place in several parliaments. Beside noticing the above monument
and epitaph, it contains the following account of arms and inscriptions
at that time in this church, not a vestige of which is now remaining.
_In Fenestra Insulæ borealis_.
Orate pro a’ia Thomæ Coppuldike Armig. & D’næ Margaretæ Consortis suæ
fundatoris Gildæ Cantar . . . Fenestram fieri fecit Ano Dni. 1526.
_In superiori Fenestra boreali Cancelli_.
G a Lyon passant guardant Arg.
Sa. 3 Flowres de lize betw: 6 Crosses botony fitchy
Arg.
G. a Crosse sarcely Arg. Beke.
_In Fenestra Orientali Insulæ Australis_.
Orate pro benefactoribus artis sutorum, qui istam Fenestram fieri
fecerunt sc’æ Nenianæ cum sera & catena. Item sc’i Crispinus &
Crispinianus cum instrumentis Calceariis.
_Fenestræ borealis superius_.
Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or Dymoke
Empaled. Or a lyon ramp double queue sa Welles.
Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw. 3 bulles Tourney.
passant sa
Empaled. Quarterly. B. a fesse betw. 3 goates heads
erased arg.
Empaled. Quarterly. Argent a chevron gobony sa.
Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. on a bend G. 3 roses arg.
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw. 3 griphons heades Tilney.
erased G.
Quarterly. Arg. 3 bars G, over all a bend engrayled Ros.
sa
Quarterly. Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty Rochford.
Quarterly. Arg. 3 crosses botony fitchy B. semy of
flowres de lize
Quarterly Ermine and chequy or and G. Gipthorpe.
Arg. a chevron betw. 3. roses G.
Taylboys, &c.
_Fenestra Australis superior_.
G. a fesse betw. 3 waterbougets ermine Meres.
Empaled. Marchants Marke