• Wapentake. 391 ture of the Elizabethan period. The poor parishioners have the interest of .£50, left by Anne Fisher, in 1769, and a yearly rent-charge of 20s., left by the Rev. Thomas Russell, in 1609, out of a farm at Thorpe~ on-the-Hill. Letters vid . Corby is the nearest Money Order Office, and Great Ponton the nearest Railway Station. Burgess John (Exors.of) fmr.Westby Gibson John, farmer and grazier, Scarborough William, farmer and, Foottit Rev James, B.A. vicar, Vicar- Manor house ; and Somerby grazier, Lodge age, Westby Hall Henry, frmr. & grazier; & fmr. Sentance Thomas, carrier, Westby Grummett Joseph, farmer, grazier, & vict. Blue Harbour, Somerby 0AR:&IER Thos. Sentance, to Gran .. valuer, and agent to Royal Insur­ Lee David, farmer and grazier tham, Saturday ance Co. Westby Scarborough James, farmer, Westby •

BITCHFIELD. , a small village on the opposite acclivities of a narrow valley, 7 miles S.E. of Gran­ tham, has in its 169 souls, and about 1344 acres of land, mostly belonging to Sir Montague J. Cholmeley, Bart., M.P., who is lord of the manor and lay impropriator. Bitchfield House, a modern mansion, is occupied by Mr. William Marriott. The Church (St. Mary Magdalen), built in the lOth and enlarged in the 12th century, consists of nave and north aisle, with finely carved ancient oak roofs, chancel and a tower and spire with three bells. The chancel was rebuilt in 1863, at the sole cost of the late Robert Nicholas Newcomb, Esq., of Stamford, by whom a memorial window of stained glass, by Wailes, representing the Good Samaritan, was placed at the same time in the east end. The living is a vicarage, valued at £170 per annum, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Arthur Parmenter, B.A. A handsome vicarage house, built of stone, in 1870, by a grant from the Eccle. siastical Commissioners, stands near the church. The vicarage was endowed by Bishop Wells, and has been augmented with a parliamentary grant of £200. It is intended to restore the church next year. Letter box cleared at 3.30 p.m. Letters via Grantham. Corby is the nearest Money Order Office and Railway Station. Hilton Thomas, farmer and grazier Marshall John, farmer, grazier, cattle Rimington Richard, carpenter Knight Oudley, vermin destroyer dealer and victualler, Crown Taylor Thomas, boot & shoe maker Marriott Miss Mary Elizabeth, Nichols Edward, farmer and grazier,

ladies' day and boarding school and corn, oilcake & coal merchant CARRIERS To Grantham,V. Musson1 Marriott William, farmer & grazier, Parmenter Rev Thomas Arthur, B.A. from Corby, and H. Sentance,from · Bitchfield House vicar, Vicarage Westby, pass through on Saturday Okins Char~es, shopkeeper Plummer Robert, parish clerk

BURTON-COGGLES. BURTON-COGGLES, a pleasant village, on an eminence above a small rivulet, 1 mile N.W. ofCorby station, and 9 miles S. S.E. of Grantham, has in its parish 280 souls, and 2676 acres ofland, all except the glebe, belonging to Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Bart., M.P., for North ; and having a fine stratum of lime­ stone near the village. The Church (St. Thomas a Becket) has a tower and short spire, with finely canopied windows. It is in the decorated and early English styles, and has some ancient brasses and two re­ cumbent figures of Crusaders. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £16. 12s. 3~d., and now having 116 acres of glebe, a good residence, and a yearly rent-charge of £530, in lieu of tithes, is in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. William Travis Sandys, 1\f.A. The Free School was built by Sir M. J. Cholmeley, about the year 1860, and is endowed with 11 acres of land at Donington, left by John Speight, in 1734, and now let for £20 per annum; besides which, the master has £9 yearly from Sir M. J. Cholmeley, partly as the interest of £50, left by Catherine Cholmeley, in 1773. The Poor's land, about 8A., was given by an unknown donor, and is let for £10 per annum, which is distributed among the poor parishioners. Here is a neat Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1870. PosT OFFICE at :Mrs. Bridget Walton's, Letters arrive at 9.10 a.m., and are despatched at 4.50 p.m., via Grantham. Corby is the nearest Money Order Office and Railway Station. Aldwinckle John, farmer & grazier Hutchinson Henry, carpenter Todd Mrs Elizabeth, cowkeeper Barrand Joseph, farmer & grazier Kennewell John, cowkeeper Walker Henry, farmer and grazier Burrows Mrs Charlotte, farmer and Moor William, farmer and grazier Walton Mrs Bridget, postmistress victualler, Hare and Hounds Netherclift James, coa] dealer Dring George, parish clerk Palmer Parker, blacksmith CARRIERS-To Grantham, W. Cook Hawley William, stonemason, brick- Parkinson Mrs. day school and V. Musson pass through from

layer, builder and farmer Sandys Rev William Travis, M.A, Corby1 on Tuesday and Saturday· Hawley John, carpenter rector, Rectory BYTHAM (CASTLE) PARISH. , a considerable village, picturesquely seated on a bold eminence between two rivulets, 2 miles from Railway station, 5 miles S. of Corby, and 9 miles N.N.W. of Stam­ ford, has in its township 721 souls, and 4007A. 19P. of land. Its parish, which contains 7760 acres, and 921 inhabitants, includes also Oounthorpe and Holywell-cum-.Aunby. Here was anciently a castle, or)