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292 H.AGWOhTHINGBAM. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELLY'S Starmer Susan (Mrs.), farmer j Tayles Charles, farmer lWass Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.)~ dress ma Stones Alfred, rabbit catcher Waiter William (e;xors, of),. farmera Wright Robert, farmer, Old hall BAIN'I'ON is a parish on the road from Wragby to of himself and his first wife, and below are figur&S of Louth, I~ miles north-west from South Willingham sta- children: there is also a mural monument to Sir George *ion on the Louth and Lincoln branch of the Great Heneage, ob. 1659, with symbolical carvings, erected in Northern railway, 5 north-east from Wragby, 7 south-east 1692, and another to George Heneage, and Mary (Petre) from Market Rasen and 10 west from Louth, in the East and Elizabeth (Hemloke), his wives: a l!lmall slab of the Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, east 15th century commemorates William Maltby~ in 1897 division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, Wragby petty various gifts were made to the church in commemoration sessional division, Louth union, county court district of of the Diamond Jubilee of Her lat~ Majesty Queen Market Rasen, rural deanery of Wraggoe, archdeaconry Victoria, including brass altar rails and gas standards, of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Mary given by Lord and Lady Heneage, and a new organ was is an edifice of stone of the Norman, Early English and present.ed by Lord Henoo.ge in 1898, at a cost of about Decorated periods, consisting of chancel, with chantry £3oo: there are 180 sittings. The register dates from chapel on the north side, nave, aisles, south porch and an the year 1674· The living is a vicarage (joined with embattled western tower with a lofty spire and contain- that of Sixhills), joint net yearly value £'267, with 26 ing 3 bells and a clock: the church contains several acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Lord Heneage memorials to the Heneage family: in the chantry chapel P.C. and held since 1912 by the Rev . .Alfred Woodroofe is a floor slab with effigies in brass of John Heneage, ob. Fletcher LL.B. of Owens College, Manchester, who is 1435, in a civilian's dress, and Alice, his wife, in a long- also vicar of Sixhills. The Catholic church, dedicated sleeved gown and horned head-dress: a ~maller mural to St. Francis of Sales, was erected here in 1836 by brass, also in the chantry, is inscribed to John Heneage, the late G. F. Heneage esq. (d. 1868): two of the ob. t53o, and Katherine, his wife: agairu;t the north wall windows are stained. Hainton Hall, the seat of the of the chancel is a small altar tomb of Purbeck marble, Right Hon. Lord Heneage P.C., D.L., J.P. lord of the w.ith a reredos of the same material, and a monument manor and sole landowner, is a large and handsome with effigies in coloured brase, kneeling before a desk, mansion standing in a well-wooded park of 145 acres, and to Sir Thomas Heneage kt. ob. 1553, Katherine (Skip- has been the seat of the family since the reign of Henry with), his wife, and his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Ill. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, clay; on the Sir William Willoughby kt. 1st Baron Willoughby, Wolds, chalk and limestone. The crops are wheat, of Parham; the figure of the knight is attired in a tabard barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,320 acres of of his arms: against the west wall is the tomb of John land and 4 of water; rateable value, £2,577; population Heneage, ob. 1559, and .Anne (Cope), his wife, with in 19n was 283. effigies of both, the former being in complete armour, under a double arcaded canopy supported by fluted Sexton, J oseph Kings wood. eolumns: the tomb is or stone, partially painted, and Post, M. 0. & T. Office. John William Lee, sub-post- above it are funeral helms and spurs: next is a grand master. Letters arrive from Lincoln at 7.25 a.m. &; altar tomb of alabaster, with effigy, to Sir George Heneage 5.50 p.m. ; on sun d ays, 9 a. m . ,· d'1spa t c h e d a t 5 .2 5 kt. ob. 1594 ,· the figure, reclinmg on a mat, with the · p.m. ; on sun d ays a t 2.55 p.m head on a Cllf!hion, is in full armour, richly gilt, and at the feet a !'ejant greyhound: on the south side of the Public Elementery School, built by the late G. F. fhapel is a finely sculptured monument, with many sym- Heneage esq. in 1846 & supported by Lord Heneage, bolical figures and inscriptions, to William Heneage, ob. at whose expense it was enlarged in r886; it will hold r6IO, ret. gr, and .Anne (Fishbourne), ob. 1585, and Jane 120 children; avera~;re attendance, 67; Miss .Annie (Brussels), ob. 1596, his wives: there are kneeling effigies Georgina Selvage, mistress Heneage Lord P.C., D.L., J.P. Hainton' Button Charles, cottage farmer Lord William, farmer ball; & Brooks' club SW, London Clayton William, head gamekeeper ·to Neave William, farmer, Rookery farm; H~neage Lt.-OoL Hon. George Edwd. Lord Heneage P.C & at East Torrington D.L., J .P. Hainton hall , Doughty Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Bichardson George Edward, butcher Fletcher Bev. .Alfred Woodroofe LL.B. ,Flintoff Hy. Edwin,Heneage Arms htl Robinson Edwin, foreman to Lord (vicar), Vicarage Freeborough George, clerk of the Heneage P.C. House farm Hobson Rev. Bernard (Catholic) works to Lord Heneage P.C. & Rose William (Mrs.), farmer, Ivy bo Wilson George Henry (sec. to Lord land surveyor Taylor William, farmer,Hainton walk Hene-age P.C.), The Elms Jackson Jamel!!, blacksmith (letters through Ludford, Lincolnl COMMERCIAL. Lee John William & Sons, grocers &. Winter George, carpenter Barton Frederick, bead gardener to drapers, Post office Lord Heneage P.C I GREAT and LITTLE HALE (Hale Magna and Hale of the 14th century and now bearing the initials "R. C." Parva) are townships, forming the ecclesiastical parish and the date " 1665 :" there is also a mural tablet of of Hale Magna and Hale Parva, in the Kesteven division marble with incised effigies and inscription to Robert of the county, parts of Kesteven, wapentake of .Asward Cawdron esq. ob. IIth March, 1652, and Anne (King) hnrn, Sleaford union, petty sessional division and county and Mary, widow of John Austen, gent. his wives, with court district, rural deanery of South Lafford, archdea 13 sons and 7 daughters; and a separate inscription on conry and diocese of Lincoln. Great Hale is about 6 miles brass to the afOTesaid .Anne, ob. 1625, and below it east-south-east from Sleaford and half-a-mile south from another brass inscribed to Francis Cawdron, ob. x65o ; Heckington station on the Boston and Sleaford branch of another mural monument in this aisle commemorates the Great Northern railway. The church of St. John the Robert Cawdron esq. ob. 18 Oct. 1728, and Sarah Baptist, at Hale Magna, is a building of rubble of the (Hussey), his wife, and in the church is a memorial to pre-Norman, Early and Late Decorated and Perpendii Sarah (Hussey}, wife of John Smith esq. d. 17th May, cular styles, consisting of quasi-chancel and nave of five 1767: at the east end of the church, under the bays under a continuous roof, aisles extending along the window, is a doorway leading into a passage or ambu whole length of the church, an unusually large south latory, connecting the north and south aisle: the porch and an embattled western tower with eight crocketed church was thoroughly restored in 18g6, at a cost of pinnacles containing 6 bells, five of which were cast out of nearly £2,150, and affords 266 sittings. The register three old ones when the church was restored in 1896; there is said to date from the year 1538, but the earlier is also a sanctus bell: the tower dates from a period parchments are 80 decayed as to be illegible. The anterior to the Conquest and has coupled circular-beaded living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £370, lights in the belfry stage: the south aisle is Early including 57 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift English of late character, and retains a piscina and an of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 19H1 by the Rev. aumbry: part of the rood loft stairs remain: the octa Frederick McKenzie, of Durham University. The vical"' gonal font belongs to the Perpendicular period : the age house stands half way between the two villages. ~Screen is now at the east end of the north aisle, the Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1851, and rebuilt inclosed space being used as a vestry and containing in 1901, and a Primitive !Methodist chapel. The rents two aumbries and a piscina: at the north side of this of the poor's allotments in Great Hale, consisting of aisle is a mural monument with kneeling effigies to 19 acres, let at £34 yearly, and in Little Hale, of ~ Robert Cawdron, gent. ob. 3oth Dec. 1665; Katherine acres, let at £3o, are distributed by the trustees under (Nelham), his first wife; Susanna (Faukenbridge), his a scheme of the Charity Commissioners. Edward sPcond wife and Elizabeth (Sansome), relict of John Hussey Packe esq. who is lord of the manor, Bear~ Woods, gent. his third wife, who erected this memorial; Admiral the Marquess of Bristol M.V.O., J. Farrant Bobert Cawdron was buried in the aisle beneath a large esq.