DIRECTORY.] . . 451 there is an engraved copper memorial to Mrs. Sarah andl Cotehouses are othe:t' hamlets on the Ash ton, 1739: in the church is an ancient helmet found , 3 miles west-north-west from the village. close by : there are 400 sittings. The register dates Here is a Church Mission Room, and there are also Primi­ from 1563, and cGntains several entries of excommunica­ tive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Letters for Sus­ tions. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value from worth and Cotehouses should be directed through Don­ 744 acres of glebe £Boo, net £750, with Tesidence, in caster. Wall Box. by White Hors& P.H. Susworth, the gift of the trustees of E. W. Hammond esq. e.nd cleared at 2.30 p.m. week days only. held since z8g6 by the Rev. John Blew M.A. of Corpus Parish Clerk, John M. Alien. Christi college, Cambridge. The inoome is derived from land, awarded in lieu of tithe under the Inclosure Act, Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ in I8I2. There aTe Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and Mrs. Louisa Watson, sub-postmistress. Lett-ers arrive Methodist New Connexion chapels. King Richard I. from Linroln ab g.xo a.m.; dispatched at s.zo p.m. granted to this place a fair to be held on three days at The nearest telegraph office is at Kirton L::Udsey the feast of SS. Peter and Paul ; and a. weekly market on Thursday. A pleasure fair on the zoth July, being Schools. St. Peter's day, and the anniversary of the foundation National (mixed & infants), built in 1834, for the parishes of St. Peter's church; and a horse and foal show early of Scotter & Scotton; with an infants' school added in July. There is a Public Reading Room and Library, in 1877; the schools will hold zgo chBdren; average under the management of a committee; the library attendance, 141 ; children attending this school are contains about soo volumes. Here is an Assembly Room, eligible, if duly qualified, as candidates for exhibitions converted for the purpose from an old .steam flour mill connected with Kirto&in-Lindsey school; John More­ in z875, and holding about 200 persons. Gravenor Road­ land Alien, master; Mrs. Hannah Alien, mistress ; lay esq. J.P. is lord of the manor; the Court rolls of 1\Hs-s Ellen Knight, infants' mistress the manor date from 1519. The principal landowners Police Constable, Thomas Peacock are the rector, William Oarnley esq. Arthur Egginton esq. of South Ella, Hull, and the trustees of William Carriers to:- Harrison Os borne esq. The soil is various, chiefly loam; Gainsborough-Rohert Harsley, tues. &:; fri.; William subsoil, clay. The chief orops are wheat, barley, carrots, Staniland, tues. & fri turnips and pasture. The area is 5,og7 acres; rateable Br::gg-Robert Harsley, thurs value, £6,417; the population in z8gz was z,o78. Gainsborough-William Green, from Susworth, tues. & is a hamlet, one mile north. sat. ; , thurs SOOTTER. Hope Ingham, chemist Snowden Adam, coal dealer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hudson James, carrot dealer Staniland ·william, carrier Allison Charles Keall Joseph, cowkeeper Stothard William, farmer Blackshaw Rev.Saml.(P~imitive Meth) King Abraham, cowkeeper, Eau side Stutting John, shopkeeper Blew Rev. John M.A. Rectory Leggott Ellen(Mrs.),Sun ~ A.nchorP.H Tyndall John, thrashing machine propr Butler John, sen Lidgett Charles, baker & shopkeeper Wakefield David, farmer, Eau house Cook William Loughton Alfred, bricklayer Watson Louisa(Mrs.),shoe ma.Post oft Dowson Rev. Thomas (Prim. Meth) Lowe William, grocer & draper Welton Waiter, wheelwright Eminson Mrs Major Wm. Benjamin, grocer & draper Wright Christr.carpntr.& wheelwright Eminson Thomas Benjamin Franklin Marris Hunt, farmer & butcher Lancaster Rev. John Wm.(Prim.Meth) Morris Robert, farmer, Goosemoor COTEHOUSES. Roadley Gravenor J.P. The Manor Moxham Francis, poor rate collector Day William, fanner RoblD. son Mrs. Holly house Moxham Henry John, watch maker &c St h J f Whaplate Mrs Mox h am 'I'l10mas, farmer, c ommon ep enson ames, armer Nelson William, saddler COMMERCIAL. . OsborneWm. Harrison,farmr.Moss frm SCOTTERTHORPE. Assembly Rooms (J.M. Alien, hon. sec) Oxley Thomas, j1m. farmer, Kirton rd Day Robert, farmer Bates Joseph, higgler Public Reading Room & Library (J. M. Cook Harris, farmer Bell Charles, cowkeeper, Mill hill Alien, hon. sec.; Hunt Marris,treas) Foster Mary (Mrs.), cowkeeper Bird Alfred, farmer, Holly House farm Pycock John, farmer Proudley George, farmer Brnmby Henry, tailor Raddish Richd.& John Richd. farmers Stanewell William Hunter, farmer Butler J ohn,grocer & draper, farmer & Raddish Mary (:~Irs. ), farmer potato & carrot grower Richards Henry, cowkeeper SUS WORTH. Clark John, farmer Richards William, cowkeeper Clayton Edward, butcher ' Robinson William, cattle dealer Barsley Mrs. day school Clayton George, White Swan P.H Rodgers Thomas, vermin killer Black Joseph, farmer Cottingham George Waiter, grocer Scatter Horse & Foal Show Society (J. Clayton William Henry, farmer Cottingham William, miller (wind) M . .Ajlen, hon. sec) Day Edward James, farmer Day Edwin, farmer, Scatter Highfield Scupholme Richard Sharpe, shopkeepr Drewery Thomas, farmer Day John Wm. farmer, Avenue farm Sizer William, wheelwright Frankland Robert & William, farmers Day Robert James, farmer, Field farm Skinner Thomas, shoe maker Green Isaac, hawker Day William, farmer, Church farm Skinner Thomas, jun. cowkeeper Green William, shopkeeper & earner Drewry Thos.& Alfd.farmers,Grove ho Skinner William, cowkeeper Gregory John, White Horse P.ll. l,.; Drewry George, blacksmith Slight Jolm & Edward,tailors & woollen coal & lime merchant Eminson Thos. Ben.Franklin M.R.C.S. drapers Gulliat John, ferryman & wharfinger Eng., L.S.A. surgeon & public vac- Slight Edward, registrar of births & Jacklin George, hawker cinatr.Scotter dist. Gainsboro' union deaths for the sub-district of Scat- Mason John, farmer Eminson William, farmer ter, Gainsborough union Morley John, farmer Eromerson William, cowkeeper Smith John, agent for the Prudential Preston Nicholas, blacksmith Elwood Gervase, blacksmith Assurance Co. Limited Preston Samuel, farmer Faunthorpe 'William, farmer Smith Thomas, vermin killer Robinson Charles, farmer, South Ings Fox William, fa1mer Smith William, butcher Ross George, wheelwright Harsley Robert, carrier Smithson Newcome, miller (wind) Skutt William, farmer SCOTTON is a parish, township and village on the the Nevill family, who were lords of the manor till river Eau, 3 miles north-west from Kirton station on 1384-5: it suffered much at the time of the Reforma­ the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln- tion, and again in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, A.D. shire railway, 9 north-east from Gainsborough and 162 1566, when five of its altar stones were broken up and from , and in the West T.indsey division of the used as paving stones: in z82o, by the direction of Arch­ county, parb of T.indsey, wapentake of Corringham, deacon Bayley, the portions of the aisles which over­ Gainsborough petty sessional division, union and county lapped the tower were pulled down, & fine rood-screen court district, rural deanery of Corringham, archdeaconry destroyed, and forty-one shields of arms of the Nevills, of Stow and diocese of IJncoln. The church of St. which, with other glass, had up to that adorned the Genewys is a spacious edifice of stone, in the Norman, windows, were carried oft and inserted in the windows Early English and Later styles, consisting of chancel, of church, of which Dr. Bayley was then nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an em- rector; the materials of the destroyed rood-loft are said battled western tower containing a clock and 3 bells, to have been used to make a. bridge: one doorway and one of which is inscribed to St. John: the church, the tower arch are Norman, and there is a beautiful originally a ~e ~tructure, was beautified by several of Early English doorway in the north aisle; the principal LINCS. 29•