Lincolnshirk
DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRK skeletons, each accompanied by a shield, knife and spear a(terwards Earl of Bristol, and thus transfelTed it to that head, all of which were in good preservation, the remains of family. The Marquess of Bristol is lord of the manor and the wooden shafts of the spears being still more or less owner of the principal part of the land. chstinctly visible ; a brass- coin of Valentinianus was also The area of the entire parish of New Sleaford is 3, r6o found, bearing a figure of Victory, and the legend 1' Securi &eras; rateable value, £14,50"'; the population in 1881 was tas Reipublicre." -of the township, 3,955 ; of the parish, 4,075, including i51 Sir John Hussey kt. 'first and only Baron Hussey, of Slea• officers and inmates in the workhouse ; and of the local board ford, who was beheaded at Lincoln, in 1537, for high treason, district, 4,9651 viz. ~ Holdingham, 120; New Sleaford, 3,955; possessed a house at Sleaford, called the Old Place, in which Old Sleaford, 526 ; and Quarrington, 364. Henry VIII. when on his progress towards York to meet the Parish Clerk, Robert Bennett Graharp.. King of Scotland, passed the night ; a modern building now occnpi~ the site on which this house stood. HoLDINGHAM, anciently "Haldingham," is a township in The Black Bull inn, in Southgate retains its ancient sign this parish, on the road to Lincoln, and was not improbably built into the wall, and representing a bull being baited, the birthplace of Richard de Haldingham {c. 125o-6o), who executed the famous "Mappa Mundi," now preserved in 'With the date" 1689," and the initials "RBM," and below, Hereford Cathedral.
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