rl>I.RECTORY .] LINt'OLNSHIRE. BOLBEACH. 27~ Mounb!llin Lucy t'Mr.s. ), farmer 'San110m John Richard, coach builder Sivell Willam, miller (wind) &; baker Neal Jane (Mrs.), tinware dealer 1Sa.rgisson Alfred, urazier Smith Elizabeth (Mrs.), gardener Neal William, bricklayer \.Sargisson Henry. tailor 'Sy~vester William Joseph, watch mak,er P&l'i.sh Charles, beer retailer Searls J'Ohn, Saracen's Head P.H &; hair cutter Parker William, fatmer Showier John Davey, tailoJ: Tickelpenny Ann (Mrs.), dress maker PhiJ:ipson Edmund, miller (wind),baker Sinll John, farmer !Trueblood Edward, farmer &; farmer Spilsbury Franeis .lames L.R.C.P.I., West Wm. Gilbert.farmer & landowner Raynor Goorge, ~ocer &; draper L.R.C.S.Edin. physician&; surl!"eon &; WillsonJohn &; Soo, auctioneers, valuers Robinaon Tbos. farmer, Authorpe row medical officer &; public vaceinator, & estate agents Rose William Lamb, joiner & builder Hogsthorpe district, Splilsby union & Woolley Waiter; butcher Rutter William, farmer, Recrory fa.rm .Admiralty snr~on &; agent

KOL:Bl!:AOH is a parish and head of a union ani cmmty a 'Spire. The Burial Board was formed in 1853, but the court district, pleasantly situated on the road from cemetery is now controlled bv the Urban District Counc·l. Spalding to Wisbech, with a ,station on the Midland and H~re are Public Assembly Rooms, holding 300 persons. Great Northern joint .railwav, 8 miles east from Spalding, Here is a good market house, erected in 1844. The 14 north-by-north-west from Wisbech, 17 1outh from market was granted by Royal Charter to Thomas de Mul­ Boston and 101 from , in the Holland division of tone in 1252. The market day is on Thursday ; the horse the county, parts of Holland, wapentake and petty ses­ and foal fairs are on the rj'th of May and 17th Septem­ sional division of Elloe, rural deanerv of East Elloe and ber, and pleasure fair IIth or October. .A weekly stock archdeaconry and . The parish com­ market, established in 1868 by Mr. W. Hackworth, auc­ prises the town of and the 1cattered villages or tioneer, is also held every Thursday, and a considerable hamlets of Holbeach Drove, Holbeach St. John's, Hol­ IUilonnt of business is done. The charities are numerous beach Hurn, , Penny Hill and Holbeach and amount to about [.r7o yearlv, arising from g;fts in Bank and , consisting chiefly of fa1ms. money and lands bequeathed and devised by J acob Davey Holbeach is said to have been natned from the old beach, esq. Thomas Everson e!'lq. and others; these are dis­ the ancient boundary ~f the German ocean, from which pensed in bread, coals and money, at stated periods of the­ all the lands in the neighbourhood have at various peri£.d:o~ year: Duncombe's charity, of [.67 annually, is for the­ been recovered, as is evident from the numerous embank­ benefit of deserving and necessitous persons residing in ments on the marshes. Holbeach; it was reorganized in 1887, when the trmtees­ .A Local Board of Health of Q members was co01tituted established coal and clothing clubs ; young persons enter­ in 1850 under the Act 13 and 14 Vict. c. 108, but under ing service are assisted to outfit~ from this charity, bnt the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 no part of the funds is to be applied in relief of the poor's and 57 Vict. c. 73 ), the parish and town are now g~ rate. William StukelPy M.D., F.R.S. of Corpus Christi verned by an Urban District Council. The "Vestry college, Cambridge, the antiquary, was born here 7th Clerks' Act" (13• and 14 Vict. c. 51) was adopted by the November, 1687; in 1729, after having been elected a township, March 11, 18_<;1. The town consists of one fellow of the Royal College of Phy~icians. he took holy main street, and of some smaller ones divl'rging ir­ orders and became incumbent of All Saints, Stamford ; regularly therefrom : it is well paved and drained, and subsequently he was presented to the rectory of St. was lighted with gas in 18:14, and various sanita1y im­ George the Martyr, Queen's square, London, where he­ provements have been effected. The church of All Saints died 3rd March, 1765; Henry Rands, or Holbeach, is a very fine, spacious and complete building of stone Bishop of Lincoln 1547-52, and one of the compilers of of the early part of the 14th century or Late Decorated the Liturgy, was al:'!o a native of this place. .A curiol}s period, with some portions of Perpendiculal" date, and Roman pitcher, now in the Bo!'ton Literary ln;,titution, consists of ehancel, cierestoried nave of seven bays, aisles, was dug up some years ago at the Burn, on the sput a tall and narrow south porch, a spacious and magnifi­ formerly occupied by a cro~s. and many m·ns, coins anq cent north porch of much later date with a parvise and other vestiges of Roman and Saxon occupation have been flanking turrets and a large western tower with embattled found here at different periods. A stone cross marks the parapet.. surmounted by a lofty octangular spire, 1Eo feet spot where, in 1868, in a piece of ground near the station, in height, with four tiers of louvre lights, and containing a large deposit of human remains was found. The repre~ a clock, with chimes and a bells : the windows, formerly sentatives of William Butt are lords of the manor of rich in stained glass, are particularly beautiful, and re­ Holbeach Lord Dacre ; Richard Furley Caparn is lord of tain their ~riginal tracerv, which has been much ad­ the manor of Holbeach .Abbots, a great part of which waS' mired: the clerestory, with 14 windows on eJch side, enfranchised in 1859; Holbeach and Pipwell has embattled parapets, and at the south-east angle of form the third manor, of which Samuel Kmgston esq. is the nave is a stair which formerly led to the rood loft ; lord. The principal landowners are the Crown, Edgar the font i, Decorated and ha& an octagonal basin, with Waiter Garland esq. of Michaelstow, Ramsey, Essex; panelled sides, inclosing figures -of angels, but is very Lady ffirica Thynne, Charles William Chri::;tie esq. Henry· much worn: the pulpit, a costly work, is a memorial erected by the Rev. Prebendary ;Brook M.A. vicar of Hol­ Waddington Hartley, of Fencegate, Burnley; William Bel­ beach 1866-72, to his father: in the north aisle is an grave esq. of Wells, Somerset; Messrs. John Carbutt. altar tomb, profusely ornamented around the sides and Joseph Ward and Joseph William Ward, and John Bett bearing a recumbent effigy of Sir Humphrey Littlebury, esq. Henry Cole Tinsley esq. John Hardy Carter esq. an