DIRECTORY.] 169 HORN CASTLE. [LINCOLN.] try, provisions, &c. ; and fi vc annual fairs arc held, the first, Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar school was founded and on the fifth Thursday in Lent, for cattle, sheep, &c. ; the endowed June 25th, 1562, by Edward Lord Clinton and second, on the 21st and 22nd of June, for horse.~, cattle, Saye, Lord High Admiral of , for free instruction of &c.; the third, the great horse fair, commences on the the sons of residents of the town and soke in classical lite­ Monday after the 8th of August, and concludes on the 21st rature : mathematics and other branches of learning are of that month-the last day but one is for sheep, and the also taught for a small annual payment: it is expected that last day for cattle-this is considered to be one of the larg-est two exhibitions will shortly be established, open to all who horse fairs in the kingdom, and is resorted to by dealers have been two years at the school, and tenable for four years from all parts of England and the Continent ; the fourth is at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edin­ for foals and sheep, and is held in the middle of September~ burgh, or : the Rev. Samuel Lodge, M.A., is head the fifth is for pleasure, cattle, horses and sheep, and is held master, and there are at present between 40 and 50 boys on the 28th and 29th of October, and was removed here, educated, about 10 of whom are boarders in the master's upon payment of £200, from in 1768. The house: the school is in high repute, and several eminent butter market, erected at the expense of James Banks Stan­ persons have been educated within its walls. hope, Esq., M.P., was opened November 15th, 1853. A There are National and British schools, supported by canal was completed in 1801, which runs from this town voluntary contributions, and an Infant school for poor into the Witham at , and thus forms a junction children, founded by Mr. Richard Watson, who died in with the Trent. 1784. Special and petty sessions for the division of There are place8 of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, the parts of Lindsey are held every Saturday, at the Independents, Baptists, and Primitive Methodists. Court House, North-street. The meetings of the com­ There are charities, called Hurstcroft's and Snowden's, for missioners of taxes and the county court are also held at apprenticing orphan boys belonging to the parish : the the same place. The following parishes and places are income is about £100 yearly. within tlJe jurisdiction of the county court :-Asgarby, The Dispensary, established in 1789 by the late Drs. , Ashby West, , , Harrison and Fawssett, is a great benefit to the town and , , , Bucknall, , neighbourhood: it is supported by donations and subscrip­ Claxby Pluckacre, , , Edlington, Ful­ tions, and one annual sermon and ball: the average number letby, , , Greetham, , of patirnts is about 1,000. A new building for the dispensary , Hammering ham, Hatton, Heminghy, Horncastle, has been erected by subscription, as a memorial of 8ir Henry Horsington, Kirkby-on-Bain, Kirkstead, Langton-by­ Dymoke, Bar~. : it stands opposite the Court House, is of Horncastle, Langtou-by-W rag by, Lusby, Mareham-le­ white brick with stone dressings, neat, commodious, and Fen, Mareham-on-the- Hill, Martin, , , very suitable. , Panton, Ranby, Revesby, Roughton, , A handsome Corn Exchange, situated in the High-street, Seam blesby, , Scrivelsby,Somersby, Sot by, Stain ton was opened on the 5th of July, 1856 : it is of brick, with Market, , Sturton Great, Tattershall, Tattershall stone facings: the cost was about £3,500. Concerts, Thorpe, , Thimbleby, Thornton, Toynton High, lectures, and assemblies are held here; and the Mechanics' Toynton Low, Tumby, , , Wilksby, Institution, which is in a very flourishing condition, is in , , , and Woodhall. one part of the building : attached to it is a library, con~ The church of St. Mary consists of nave, large chancel, taining about 2,400 volumes; also a news-room, whirh is north and south aisles, north and south porches, chancel aisles, well supplied with London and provincial papers, periodi­ and exceedingly massive square embattled tower, with spire, cals, &c. peal of 6 bells, and clock: the north aisle was rebuilt in The Horncastle Agricultural Society hold their meetings 1820, the south in 1821: the church appears, from the few annually at the Bull and Red Lion hotels alternately. remaining portions of the original edifice, to have been In 1792 an Act was obtained to make the river Bain erected about the time of Henry VII.; the interior is large navigable from here to the river Witham, a distance of 10 and very fine, and contains monuments to Dr. Madely, late mil~s: the capital, £15,000, in £20 shares: in 18u0 another vicar of the parish, George Heald, Esq., the eminent Chan­ Act was obtained to raise an additional _£20,000. A cery barrister, and an old brass to the Dymoke family : the good trade is carried on in coal and corn, malting and church has been thoroughly restored to its original style: brewing. the chancel was built by J umes Banks Stanbope, Esq., M.P., The railway was opened on the 12th of August, 1855: it and the rest by subscription : it is neatly fitted with oak joins the Lincoln and Boston line at Kirkstead, thus opening open benches, also a new oak roof: the chancel is laid with a communication with all parts of England. Minton's encaustic tiles: the cost of restoration was On the south-western side of the town, near the castle, about £4,000. The parish reg-ister dates from 1559. The is the Julian Bower close, the site of a maze of Roman living is a vicarage, annual value £700, in the gift of the origin, long since effaced py cultivation : many urns, coins, Bishop of Carlisle, and held by the Rev. William Holme fibulre, and other Roman vestiges have been at different Milner, M.A. periods discovered here. At the south-eastern part of the A chapel of ease, named the Holy Trinity, in the Early parish, near the mill· on the Mareham-road, is Hangman's English style, has been built partly by public subscription, Corner, where those found guilty of capital offences in the and partly by a legacy of £500, bequeathed for that purpose court of the manor were formerly executed. by Dr. Madely, the late vicar: it was opened for divine J. B. Stanbope, Esq., M.P., is lord of the manor and service in Easter week, 1848: it consists of nave, chancel, principal landowner. small side aisles, north porch, and high open belfry con­ The area of the parish is 2,510 acres, and the population taining 1 bell, and is capable of containing about 400 in 1861 was 4,944, including 98 in the Fen allotment. persons; all the sittings are free. Parish Clerk, John Os borne.

Official Establishments, Local Institutions, &c. POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE, Post Office Moses Elmhirst, esq. grove Savings Bank & Government Insurance & Annuity Charles Francis Massingberd-Mundy, esq. South Ormesby Office, Market place Henry Lionel Dymoke, esq- Scrivelsby court Henry Boulton, postmaster INSURANCE AGENTS. Letters arrive from London & t:Re South by mail cart from Boston...at 7.10 a. m.; delivered at 8.30 a m. & 1.30 p.m.; Great Britain Mutual Life, Robert Briggs dispatched at 6.5 p.m.; box closes, 5.45 p.m London AssU1·ance, Frederick Harwood, High street Letters arrive from Lincoln & the North by mail cart at Midland Counties, William P. Carlton, High street 8.10 a.m.; dispatched at 5.45 p.m.; box closes, 5.2.5 p.m.; Phrenix Fire, J. Johnson sunday despatch for the North, 4.30 p.m Royal Fire §; Life, John Panton, St. Lawrence street Letters for Wildmoor Fen are received from Boston (fire only); Watson Joll, Bull ring Sun Fire, James D. Shera, High street MAGISTRATES. Yorkshire ~Fire~ Life, Eli Hall, High street C.J. H. Massingberd-Mundy, esq. South Ormesby PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. John Hassard Short, esq. Edlington grove James Banks Stanhope, esq. M.P. Revesby abbey Corn Exchange, High street, Richard Allenby, manager Rev. Henry Fielding, M.A. Sahnonby County Court, North street; John Godfrey Teed, Q.c. Rev. Thoma.~ Livesey, M.A. Stourton hall judge; Philip Rose, treasurer ; Richard Clitherow Rev. John Woodlands Watkin, n.c.L. Stixwou~~ registrar; John Uppleby Stapylton Smith, high bailiff ' Rev. Francis Pickford, Hagwo:rthingham GM Works, Foundry street; Charles Dixon, manager