SIBSEY. SIBSEY, on the South Side of the East Fen, 5 Miles N.N.E
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1'2'6 Parts oC Lindsey. '*King J a.mes, butler 1Russell William, farmer, Bank Taylor William, parish clerk Lake Thomas, farmer and grazier Scott Mrs Prudence, farmer, Bank Thistlethwaite Thos. Ntnl. schlmstr Morley William, farmer, Medlam Skelton Charles, cattle dealer Trafford Anthony, farmer, Woodside North Francis, farmer, Moorhouses Skelton Wm. brick and tile maker Wilson James Waiter, postmaster North James, farmer, Moorhouses Smith Mr Joseph, Bank Organer Thos. farmer, Moorhouses Stanhope James Banks, Esq. J.P.j CARRIERS pass through to Horncastle The Abbey and Boston, Wednesday & Sat. Overton Thomas, packet boat owner 1 Pett John, farmer, Moorhouses Stennett David, beerhs. Moorhouses' PACKET BoAT to Boston, Wednesday i Roberts Barnabas, farmer, Woodside Stennett William, farmer and vie- Thomas Overton, proprietor Roberts John, jun.fa.rmer, Woodside tualler, Red Lion SIBSEY. SIBSEY, on the south side of the East Fen, 5 miles N.N.E. of Boston, has a station on the East Lincolnshire Railway. It is a large, well-built village, and has in its parish 1216 inhabitants, and 5390A. lR. 27P. of enclosed hnd, including many scattered houses, and the fen hamlet of Friih Bank, 2t miles N. of Boston, near the Stone Bridge and other navigable drains. J. S. W. S. E. Drax, Esq., M.P., is l01·d of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to George Gape, and Thomas Booth, Esqrs., and several smaller proprietors. N. 1\Ialcolm, Esq., is owner of the Frith Bank (1217A). The Church (St. Mar garet) is a spacious structure, consisting of nave, aisles, chancel, and a handsome lofty tower, containing an excellent peal of eight bells. The arcades separating the nave from the aisles are ofNorman'character, but the greater part of the remainder of the building is of Early English and Decorated architecture. The chancel which contains three handsome stone stalls, was rebuilt in 1854, at an expense of about £500, defrayed by the late Thomas Gape, Esq., to whose memory a fine stained glass window was placed in the east end, b_y his friends and tenantry. Here are also three other stained windows, inserted respectively by E. B. Waite, sen., Esq., William Saul, Esq., and G. Utterby, Esq.; and in the west end is another, similarly embellished, inserted by the late vicar, and his cmate, the Rev. T. L. Edwards. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £ll. lls. 2d., and now at £315, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. Frank Besant, M.A., who has about 160 acres of land, in lieu of tithes, and a good residence. George Gape, Esq., is impropriator of the rectory. The Wesleyans have a chapel in the village, built in 1821, and the Primitive Methodists have one at Northlancls. The Free School was built by the parishioners in 1723, but the old structure has given place to a New Building, calculated to accommodate 200 scholars: it was originally endowed with 48A. loP. of land, enclosed from the waste, and now let for upwards of £100 per annum, for which the master and mistress teach about 150 children. At NoRLANDS or NoRTHLANDS hamlet, more than a mile north of Sibsey, is another Free School, founded about 1846, by the late Mr. ·william Plant, who was a native of this parish, and endowed with about 25 acres of land, for the free instruction of 60 poor children. The poor parishioners have the following yearly doles, viz. 10s., out of the vicarage lands, left by John vVrightson, in 1700; 10s., as interest of £10, left by Thomas Peet, in 1715; £2, from lA. 4P. received in exchange for land left in 1590, by Thomas Martin; £10, from five cottages, purchased with poor's money, in 1710; £5. 10s., from two cottages and lR. 8P., left by John Would, in 1625; £2. 8s. 9d., from lA. 2R. ~OP., in Chapel-field; and £17. 7s. 6d. from 9A.1R. 8P. of land in the West Fen, allotted like that in Chapel-field, to the poor parish ioners, in satisfaction of several small rent-charges, bequeathed to them at various periods, and in com pensation of their common-rights, at the enclosure of the parish, in 1813, under an Act of the 50th of George Ill. At the same time, lA. 3R. 28P., in Chapel-field, was allotted for the reparation of the church, in exchange for the old church lands. PosT OFFICE at Mr. John Tuxford's, where letters arrive at 5.30 a.m., and are despatched at 7.45 p.m., f)W Boston, which is the nearest Money Order Office. Those marked 1 are at Frith Bank; Elverston John, station master 4 Killick William, toll collector 2, atHighFerry; 3,atNorthlands; Fox Theophilus Curtis, butcher Kirkby Edward, blacksmith 4, at Hill Dyke; and the rest at Gascoigne Mrs Elizabeth, farmer Kirkby Richard, farmer Sibsey, or where specified. Gascoigne William, butcher Knight Benjamin, farmer & thrash- Allis Charles, hawker Gash J ames, tailor ing machine owner, Little moors Bale Mr & Mrs teachers, Free School Gosling Charles, jun. farmer 1 Lawrence David, fa1·mer Besant Rev Frank, M.A. incumbent Gosling Isaac, farmer, Swinecotes Lill William, butcher Bordass William, druggist Gray Job, shoemaker & shopkeeper Limmex James, grocer Bower 1\Irs. wheelwright and farmer Gunnis Edward, blacksmith Little Alfred Goldsmith, farmer Boyers William, saddler Harrison Mrs Elizabeth l\1addison John, beerhs. and carrier 1 Brough William, farmer Harrison Thomas, farmer, horse Mawer Joseph, wheelwright Bumett Wm. Dunington, wheelwght dealer, brewer and vict. Peacock 1 Medforth Jno. vict. Malcolm Arms 1 Carby Hildred, farmer Harrison Wm. farmer, Little Moors 3 Millard J ames, schoolmaster and Carby Thos. Hy. farmer, Earlscroft Hasnip Charles, tailor land surveyor Cartwright John, market gardener Herring Henry, cattle dealer 3 Millard Mrs Sarah, schoolmistress Clapham William, miller and baker Herring Joseph, cattle ·aealer Mowbray John, farmer, Willows 4 Danby Mrs Matilda, shopkeeper 3 Holderness Matthew, shopkeeper Nixon Thomas John, parish clerk and victualler, Pied Bull Hubbert James, thrashing machine and land surveyor 1 Dickinson Robert, farmer owner North Mrs Margaret, farmer Dixon J ames, farmer Hubbert Robert, farmer Pickering Francis, bricklayer Driver James, baker Kent Henry, farmer, High ferry 3 Picket Mrs. farmer Eley, William, shopkeeper Kerman George, shoemaker Pogson 1\lrs Elizabeth, dressmaker ' .