190 Parts of Lindsey. • The GRAMMAR ScHooL, an ancient brick edifice, on the south side of the town, consists of two stories, the upper used as the school room, and the lower as the master's house, It has two towers at the west end, and was founded in 1484, by William Patten, alias Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Chancellor of . This learned and benevolent prelate was born at Wainfleet, and erected the splendid monument which stood in the old church, to the memory of his father. He founded Magdalen College, Oxford, the president of which is trustee of this school, and pays the master £100 per annum. The schoolmaster has also the use of a good house, with gardens, orchard, &c., and the rent of about 19 acres of land, given by different benefactors, and 40s. a year, left by Robert "'\Voolbie, in 1597. In 1857, a commodious National School, with teacher's residence, was erected at a cost of about £900. It is attended by about 150 children, and has been lately enlarged by t.he addition of a class room. In 1859, a neat National School for infants was built on the Bank, about two miles from the town; church service­ is held in it every Sunday evening. The BENEFACTIONS to the poor of produce the following yearly doles: .£1. 19s. 6d., from 2A. 21P., called the Poor's Yard; 10s., left by the Rev. Thos. Shaw; 16s. 8d., left by persons named Woolbie and Claxon; 3s. 4d. by one Kingerby; 2s. 6d. by one Gibson; 10s., left by John Shaw, in 1735 ; 10s., left by an unknown donor; 6d., left by three donors; .£12, as the rent of 4A. 2R. 24P., called the Poor's Plot. They had also 30s. a year from a house occupied by George Booth ; but this rent charge has not been paid since 1828 ; and, until 1784, they had 23A. 2R. 2P. of waste fen land, in Wainfleet St. Mary's parish; but it has been lost through the negligence of the parish officers, and has merged into an estate belonging to Bethlehem Hospital, in , though the parish endeavoured to reclaim it at the enclosure. The Literary Institution, established here in 1852, has a. good library and occasional lectures.

WAINFLEET ST. THoMAS, commonly called NORTHOLME, is a. small churchless parish. or township, forming part of the town and suburbs of Wainfleet All Saints, with which rectory it has long been con­ solidated. It contains only 30 acres ofland, and 202 inhabitants. The soil belongs to C. Sibthorpe and B. B. W. Powlett, Esqrs. At what period the church was demolished does not appear, but it was standing in the time of the Pretectorate, when the General Baptists obtained a grant of it. No mention is made of it afterwards, and no traces of it are now extant, but the church yard is still used for the purposes of sepulture. Northobne House, the residence of B. Marsh, Esq., is a good building of brick, with pleasure grounds attached, erected in 1866, on the site of an old Elizabethan moated mansion, supposed to have been built in 1549. W AINFLEET ALL SAINTS DIRECTORY.

Adlard William Peacock Ely, baker, and registrar for Boyes Mrs Hannah, straw bonnet maker births and deaths, Wainfl.eet district, Union, Broughton Miss Eleanor, day school, Barkham street, Market place Northolme Andrews Jabez, mason and builder Burton Robert, victualler, Red Lion Ashton Mrs Sophia, Mount Pleasant Carden Mrs Elizabeth, shopkeeper, High street Atkin John, beerhouse, carrier and 'bus proprietor Carden Mrs Mary, Barkham street, Northolme Armstrong William, agent for Stamford, Spalding and Carden Mr William, Market place Boston Banking Company; h Boston Casey Rev Edward, curate Atkinson Mrs Maria, farmer, Bank Cash George Henry, ironmonger, High street Atkinson Samuel, farmer, Bell Water Bank Cash John, horse breaker Bamber William, plumber and glazier, High street Chambers Ebenezer, wheelwright, Bank Barkworth John Joshua, tailor and woollen draper, Codd James, shoemaker,