30 ~SHBY-DE-LA-LAIJNDE; LINCOLNSHIRE. are 100 sittmgs. The register dates from the year x6go. crops are wheat, barley, turnips, mangolds, potatoes and_ The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £250, seeds. The area is 2,88o acres; rateable value, £2,350; including 354 acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees under the population in 1881 was 16g. the will of the Rev. John William King B.D. and held since Parish Clerk, Charles Camm, 1888 by the Rev. William Thomas Webb ban. M.A. of Dur­ ham University.. Ash by Hall, the seat of Capt. Nevill Henry School, for 50 children; average attendance, 35; Miss ReeveM.A., l.P. is a handsome mansion close to the village, Cutler, mistress built in 1595, and since altered and improved. The trustees Letters through Lincoln arrive at 10.30 a. m. Ruskington of the late Rev. John William King B.D. are impropriators is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Letters of the tithes, lords of the manor and sole landowners. The are taken away (collected) by messenger at time he soil is light loam; subsoil, gravel and shale. The chief delivers at 10.30 a. m , Webb Rev. Wm. Thomas M.A. [vicar] Clarke Charles, farmer IGunthorpe Charles, farmer Reeve Capt. Nevill By. l.P. Asbby hall Dixon William Taylor, farmer ASHBY-by-PARTNEY is a village and parish 2 miles 1os. left by the Rev. Thomas Taylor, late of .Authorpe, of north-east from Spilsby station and x! south from Halton which £4 is given to the clergyman of the parish to preach Holgate station on the East Lincolnshire branch of the Great a sermon on the anniversary of the donor's death, £1 to Northern railway, and 127! from London, in the South a good poor frequenter of the Church of England and IOS, Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Wold divi- to be spent on pious books to be given to children of the sion of Candlesboe wapentake, Spilsby union, petty sesc;ional parish who can best repeat the catechism. The remaining division and county court district, rural deanery of Candle- charity of£3 is charged on land, the property of C. T. S. Birch. shoe No. x, and arch deaconry and diocese of Lincoln: the Reynardson esq. of Holywell Hall, Stamford, and was given by river Limb runs through the parish. The church of St. an unknown benefactor, and is distributed to the poor by Helen, wholly rebuilt in the year 1841, is a plain edifice the vestry. Major-Gen. Charles John Fowler R.E. of 28 of brick in the Gothic style consisting of chancel, nave, and Warwick square, London w, who is lord of the manor, Lord an embattled western tower containing 2 bells: on the wall Willoughby de Eresby P.c. and Charles Thomas Samuel of the chancel is a mHorncastle county court district, union and petty B.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who resides at Hag­ sessional division, rural deanery of Hill, and archdeaconry worthingham. Stainsby, which is a farm, now occupied by and diocese of Lincoln, 5 miles east-by-north from Horn- Mr. E. S. Clarke, was formerly a seat of the Littlebury castle, and derives the distinctive part of its name from an family. William Batcheler Coltman esq. M.A., J.P. of estate here, bequeathed at an early period for the support of Bleloch, near Dinnet, N.B., who is lord of the manor, F. the singing boys in Lincoln cathedral. The church of St. Coltman esq. Earl Manvers and John Sparling are the chief Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Norman and landowners. The soil is heavy loam; subsoil, mostly sand­ Early English styles, the windows being Perpendicular : it stone rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a seeds. The area is 1,620 acres ; rateable value, £1,639; tower with pinnacles containing 2 bells: about 1850 it the population in 188r was I47· underwent extensive repairs, at a cost of nearly £300, raised HoLBECK and STAINSBY are hamlets in this parish. by a rate and private subscription: in the church is a brass Parish Clerk, John Holtby. with effigies, executed c.. 156o, to Richard Lytleburye esq. of PosT 0FFICE.-William Edward Holtby, receiver. Letters Stanesbye, ob. 1521, and to his wife Elizabeth (Jenney), ob. through Horncastle arrive at 10.20 a.m. Box cleared at J523: there is another brass with effigies of a man, his wife 3.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Tetford; and ten children, possibly of the same family : there are 76 the telegraph office is at Horncastle sittings. The register dates from the year 1657. The living School, built in 1878 by the Messrs. Coltman, for 40 children; is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge£ n6, net yearly value£ 16o, average attendance, 24; Miss Elizabeth Marsball, mistress McDonnell Hon. Mark Henry Horace, Skipworth Rev. Arthur Holland B.A. · Clarke EdwardSamuel,farmer,Stainsby · Holbeck hall [rector of Tetford], Holbeck lodge Cross John, farm bailiff to Messrs. W. Tindall John Alder Frederick John, farmer B. & F. Coltman WEST ASHBY is a parish and agricultural village, B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. Here are Wes­ situated on the Bain and on the road from Horncastle to leyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Charities :-In 1707 Louth, 2! miles north from Horncastle terminal station of a Richard Freeman left an annuity or rent-charge of IOS. for branch of the Great Northern railway, in the South Lindsey the use of the poor; in 1763 Hurton Barker left an annmty division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Horncastle soke, or rent-charge of IOS. ; and in 1848 Mrs. Baker left £300 in union, petty sessional division and county court district of the £3 per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities for purchasing Horncastle, rural deanery of Horncastle, archdeaconry of coals. The Manor House, the seat of Francis Herbert Booth Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of All Saints is a esq. is pleasantly situated near the village. The Grove is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, erected in the commodious mansion, the seat of General Charles Elmhirst reign of Henry VII. ; and consisting of large chancel, nave, C. B. F. H. Booth esq. Mr. George Griffin, Mr. Robert north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower Harrison and Capt. Traffotd are the principal landowners. with pinnacles and containing 12 bells : there are several The soil is light loam; subsoil, white clay. The chief crops monuments to the Rockcliffe family: the stained east are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,074 acres; window was presented by Mrs. Pierce, and in the north rateable value, £3,431; and the population in 1881 was 382. aisle is a memorial window to Elizabeth Jane Ruck-Keene, By the Act 44 Vie. c. xvii. the Fen Allotment was trans­ daugbter of William and Elizabeth Elmhirst, who died in ferred to the new parish of Wildmore. 1875: in 1873 the church was completely restored and FAR THORPE, I mile, and MIDDLE THORPE, three quarters reseated, the cost of the restoration of the tower being de- of a mile north, are hamlets. frayed by Mrs. Bassett, daughter of the late William Elm- Parish Clerk, John Williams. hirst esq. in memory of Mrs. Barnard: there are 200 PosT OFFICE.-William Moses, sub-postmaster. Letters sittings. The register dates from the year 1561. The living through Horncastle arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at is a vicarage, gross yearly value £.3oo, including 7 ;1cres of 4·45 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order & glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, telegraph office is at Horncastle. Postal orders are issued ~nd held since 1886 by the Rev. Charles Reginald Blathwayt here, but not paid