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9Ltnrolnsfltrt. BOLINGBROKE. (NEW), &c. .. TAILORS. Compton Richard, fariner, Revesby Soul by LQPisa, fanner, Revesby AHanson L. EHst Kirkby Curtis David, farmer, Revcsby Spikin Ja:tnes, parish clerk, Hagnaby Ingleby John(&wool deah·)Revesby Desforges Samuel, farmer, Minningsby Taylor William, parish clerk, Revesby Douse Francis, farmer, Ha(J'naby West Geo. saddler, &c. New Bolingbroke Sands Thomas, New Bolingbroke West John, farmer, Minningsby Simpson Fdix, New Bolingbroke Flesh born Robert, farmer, Fletcher John, farmer, Hare by West Wm. Kirkham, farmer, East Kirkby & TAVERNS PUBLIC HOUSES. Fowler David, fa1·mer~ Minningsby Willerton George, plumber and glazier, Carpenters' Arms, Wm. Shaw, Moorby Frieston Thos. parish clerk, Minningsby New Bolingbroke [broke Dutchy of Lancaster Arms, Wm. Shaw, Goodwin Robert,veterinary surgeon,New Wood William,packet owner,New Boling- New Bolingbroke [broke Bolingbroke (Bolingbroke Globe Inn, William Hall, New Boling­ Hall Wm. watch and clock maker, New COAOHBS. Red Lion, David Stenett, Revesby Hancock Edward, farmer, Hareby From NEW BOLINGBROKB. Three Tuns, 1\Jary Vinter, East Kirkby Hardy William, farmer, Minningsby Waggon and Horses, John Wright, East To BOSTON, the Pelham (from Hull) Hodgson Charles, cattle and wool dealer, every night (Sunday excepted) at half­ Kirkby [Bolingbroke New Bolingbroke Wheat Sheaf, Robert Harrison, New past eight. Holland Thomas, fanner, Carrington To HULL, the Pelhant (from Boston) Retailers of Beer. J enkin8on William, packet owner, New every morning (Sunday excepted) at Coates Nathaniel. New Bolingbroke Bolingbroke seven; goes through Tattersall, Lin­ Dalby Richard,. New Bolingbroke Kemp John, farmer, Hagnaby coln, , &c. Gilbert George, New Bolingbroke Kirton Henry, farmer, Widale, Revesby Jenkinson William, New B·)lingbroke Lake Thos.farmer, Bark wood hall,Revesby CARRIERS. Newham Thomas, New Bolingbroke Lea John, partsh clerk, Hareby From NEW BoLINGBROKE. Russell Abraham, ~ew Bolingbroke Madens Thomas, farmer, Hareby To BOSTON, Wm. Wood, every Wed. Tasker Christopher, New Bolingbroke Owen George, farmer, New Bolingbroke Whitehead Uriah, New Bolingbroke To , WilJiam Newham PlumptoR Major, brazier and tin-plate and William Wood, every Saturday. Miscellaneous. worker, New Bolingbroke Acrill Peter, farmer, East Kirk by Robinson Thomru~, farmer, Minnings by CONVEYANCE BY 'WArBB. Allen Charles, farmer, New Bolingbroke Rowson Robt. parish clerk, East Kukby From NEW BoLINGBROKE. Bird Ann, straw hat maker, East Kirkby Russell J no.travellingdrapr,N .Bolingbrke rro BOSTON, 'Villiam Wood, every Bird David, farmer, East Kn·kby Short William, farmer, East Kirkby Wednesday-and William Jenk.inson, Brooks John, farmer, East Kirkby Simons Ann, farmer, Minningsby every Wednesday and Saturday ; both Bullivant Ambrose, farmer, Minningsby Smith Robinson, farmer, N. Bolingbroke for passengers and goods. Carritt Edward, auctioneer & appraiser, Smith William Lawson, cattle and wool To HORNCASTLE, Wm. Wood, every New Bolingbroke . dealer, East Kirkby Saturday, for passengers and goods. BOSTON, WITH THE VILLAGES OF FRIES"fON, BU'l.... fERWICK AND NEIGHBOURHOODS. BosTON is a market town, borough, port and where the convenience of alJ cJasses has been con­ parish, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the suited. 1"'he press of this town furnishes a newspap(lr, wapentake of Skirbeck, and parts of Holland, 116 weekly, ou Tuesday; it is called the' Boston Hel'ald,' miles N. from , 36 s. B. from Lincoln, 36 N. and deservedly enjoys an extensive patronage. ft·om Peterborou~h, 49 w. from Nortingham. 61 'N. E. "fhe town was first incorporated by Henry VIII, fa·om Leict-ster, 72 N. from Cambridge, 78 s. s. w. and Queen Elizabeth gave the corporation a tourt of from Hnll, and 82 w. N. w. from No.-wich; situate on admiralty over all t.he neighbouring sea-coa:sts: it con­ both sides of the riv~r With am (which is na\ligable to sists (Jf a n1ayor, recorder, twelve aldermen, and eigh­ Linculn) and about five miles from the iuflux of that teen common council, with a judge ad,·ocate, town river with the sea. Some authorities assert its name clerk, &c. Sessions are held here quarterly; a court to be derived fa·om Botolph'8 town, and to have had of requests every fortnight, at the Guildhall, for tht: its origin with Botolph, a-Saxon, who founded a mo- recovery of debts under £5.; and a court of record, nastery on the northeln side of the present church; upon the same principle as the court in London. Bos­ but others support an opinion of its having been a ton has sent membe1·s to parliament since the 37th Roman settlement, fron1 some ancient foundations of year of Henry VIII, the right of voting for whom, buildings, urns, and other specimeus of that nation previous to the passing of the Refor~ Act, was vested discovered here in 1716. Prior to the reign of King in the sons of aldermen, the eldt'St sons of commou­ John, Boston appears to have been a place of con- council men, and in the freemen of the town, viz : siderable importance; and when Edward Ill. was pre- tho:ie who have served an apprenticeship to fl'eemen paring to invade Britanny, it furnished 17 ships and of the borough, amounting to about five hundred ; to 361 men, being a greater number of ''essels than was these are to be added about 1,000 ten pound house­ supplied either by Portsmouth, Hull, Harwich or holders nnder the new constituency : tbe mayor is Lynn. Se\'eral improvements of late vears have been the returning office1·. 'fhe uew Boundary Act defines made in the town, by taking down old buildings and the limits of the borough to comprise" the old borough erecting new ones; but the greatest is that of deep- of Boston, the parish of Skirbeck, and the hamlf:"t of ening the channel of the river, and enlarging the bar- Sk-irbeck quarter ; but not the fen allouuent of the bour; and the construction of an ia·on bridge, consist- parish of Skirbeck." Uudt'r the same act, Boston is ing of a single arch, eighty-six feet six inches in span, appointed one of the stations for t eceiving \'Otes at the and in breadth thirty-nine feet. "fhe expense of this election of county members to represent the. pa1·ts of erection inclndiug the purchase money of buildings, Kesteven and Holland: the present. representatives amounted to nearly £22.,000., the whole of which was. are John Wilks, Esq. and Major Handley. In point defrayed by the corporation. In the centre of the of comtnt>rcial importancf», Boston is by far the first Market-plctce, an undertaking· was commenced of town in the county of Lincoln: formerly a very ga·eat boring fur spring water, but after having reached the trade was carried ·ou here in the exportation of wool; depth of six hundred feet the undt'rtaking was aban- that, however, was prohibited, and the present trade doned. 'fhe buildings erected for public pUJ·post'S consists principally of corn, coal and timber. "fhe­ are, the Guildhall, in South-street; tlie borough l!aol, ~nclosure of has tended most materially to at the south end of the town; the house of correction, incrt-ase the commercial importance of Bo~ton, by in Skirbeck quarter; the police and town clerk's otlice, causing immense quantities of grain to be brought into in the l.Vlarket-place; the workhouse, in St. John's- it:s n1arket; and the subsequent shipment of this grain row; aud the coal gas works, near the Grand ~Juice. to London and otht•r places, gives employment tu an The places of amu~ement at·e, the theau·e, in Red increased quantity of shippi11g. The number of vessel!~~ Lion-street; Vauxhall ga•·dens (a place much resorted belonging to the port, according to a return ·made in. to during the summer) about a mile frotn the town; 1828, was one hundred and fifty, a vet aging fifty-tour and the as~embly rooms, on the east side oft he Haven, tons burden. About forty boats are also emplo}ed in adjoining the brid~e. Boston has alsn a theatre of the fishery: shrimps of superior quality, soles and at·ts, open every Wedne~day; ·and two subscl'iption herrings are taken in abundance. Of late years, too, news' l'ooms, with libraries attached. Commodious there hat; been a gi'O\l'ing trade to the Baltic: a very haths have been recently erected on the bank of the considerable t1·atiic also is carried on with the intel'ior Wit ham, south of the town, supplied with salt water, of the kingdom, by means of the Witham, and the and containing bot, cold, pleaL~sureJ and ~hower bat.hs.,. 'at'ioua navigable canal1 with which it cornmunieate,s ~ 172