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. Lincoln. Militis, cui peperit Freschevillum Holles, & Margaretam
gemellos, & Franciscum Holles filium juniorem. Obijt Horncastell.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 241.
{32} 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} See Appendix, No. 4.
{37} 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.
{39} “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 faire 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 Horne 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} William Banks, Esq. father of the present lessee.
{43} See Appendix, No. 1.
{44a} 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.
{44b} 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_.