Toft-By-Newton. Usselby. Walesby

Walsbt'lroR Wapentake. 493 K.B. at £9. 10s., and now at .£312 per annum, is in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and incumbency of the Rev. John Charles Kitching Saunders, M.A., who has 12 acres of glebe and a small rectory house. Letters via Caistor, which is the nearest Money Order Office. The PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS are Mrs Ann Green, Manor House; William Parker, Thornton House, farmers; Rev John Charles Kitching Saunders, M.A., rector; Robert 'Valker, parish clerk and sexton, and William Hewson, foreman, Gravel hill. TOFT-BY-NEWTON. TOFT-BY-NEWTON,a smallparish,4milesW. by S.ofMarket Rasen,has only78 souls, and 1293 acres. Percival Spearman Wilkinson, Esq., is lord of the manor, and the other chief landowners are Christopher Nevile, Esq., Captain William Knight, Mr. Joseph Ranby, and Messrs. John and Francis Gothorp. The Church (St. Peter and St. Paul) is a plain stone building, with nave, chancel and bell turret. The benefice is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £9. 10s. lOd., and is in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Albert Browne, M.A., who is also rector of Newton. It is now worth about £300 a year, having 45 acres of glebe, and a rent-charge in lieu of tithes, established in 1840. The Rectory House was rebuilt in 1838, in the Elizabethan style. Letters via Market Rasen, which is the nearest Money Order Office. The PRTNCIPAI. INHABITANTS are Rev Henry Albert Browne, M.A., The Rectory: and J oseph Cham berlain, William Drury, ·william Hethershaw, Thomas Neave and Joseph Ranby, Toft House, farmers. USSELBY. • USSELBY parish, 3 miles N. by W. of Market Rasen, and 5~ S.W. from Caistor, has only 68 inha bitants, and about 1110 acres of land, nearly all the property of Rear-Admiral Tennyson d'Eyncourt, the lord of the manor, impropriator and patron of the living. The Church (St. Margaret) is a small edifice built of stone, and consists of nave and chancel, having about 50 sittings. The benefice is a. vicarage, valued at £89 per annum, in the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Nelson, B.A., who resides at Market Rasen. The manor was the property and seat of the Elliots, and afterwards of the Alcocks. Here is a railway station, on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire line, between Barnetby and Lincoln. Letters via Market Rasen, which is the nearest Money Order Office. The PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS are John Henry Webster, Esq., Usselby Hall; James Amos 'Vilson, corn miller; 'Villiam Titley, station master; ·and John Bland Herring, Grange, George Hall, Joseph Grantham, and William Simon (and parish clerk), farmers. WALESBY. 'VALESBY, 3 miles N.E. of Market Rasen, and 7t S. of Caistor, is a village and parish in a. picturesque part of the Wolds, containing 325 souls, and 2580 acres of land, including the hamlets of Otby and Risby. The latter contains 717 acres, belonging to Clare Hall, Cambridge; and nearly all the rest of the -parish belongs to William Angerstcin, Esq., the lord of the manor and patron of the benefice. The Church (All Saints), which is an ancient Gothic fabric, standing on a commanding eminence, con sisting of nave, aisles, chancel, and tower with three bells, and containing several handsome monuments of the Hackett and other families, was repaired and new roofed in 1829. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £23. 8s. ld., and now at £800, is in the incumbency of the Rev. Julius Henry Rowley, M.A., who has a good residence, built in 1870 at a cost of £700, and 77 A. 2R. 22P. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1847 for yearly tithe rents of £570 from Walesby, and £130 from Risby, Dr. Daniel Waterland, who vindicated the doctrine of the Trinity against Dr. Clark, was born ·here in 1683. The school, built in 1868, at an expense of £760, defrayed by the present rector, is partly supported by subscription. The Wesleyans have a small chapel in the parish. Many Roman coins and other antiquities have been discovered here. - Letters via Market Rasen, which is the nearest Money Order Office. • Abraham John, farmer, Otby house Dixon Da.vid, wheelwright Walker Wm. Edward & Mrs Harriet Bailey Mrs Maria, shopkeeper Green Joseph, cowkeeper Louisa, master & mistress, Church Birkett John, parish clerk and Julian Robert, blacksrp_ith school sexton Kirman Thompson Frankish,farmer, Watkinson George, farmer :Brice Edward, farmer, Risby house Walesby house Weightman Richd. farmer, Risby hs Cartwright Frederick, farmer Lacey Mark, farmer Whitwell George, shopkeeper Cartwright Mrs Mary Lusby William, bricklayer Woodcock J ames, carrier Chamberlain Richard, farmer Musgrave Gothorp, farmer, Grange CARRIERS- Market Rasen, James Chamberlain William, farmer Rawlinson George, cowkeeper 'Voodcock & John Cooper, Tues Cooper John, poulterer butcher, and Bowley Rev Julius Hy., M.A., J.P., day; Caistor, James Woodcock 8G earner0 rector, Rectory John Cooper, Saturday .

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