REcrORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. BURTO~-UPO~ •.STATHER. lC9 JJVBTON-OOGGLES is a village and pariah, Ii miles with residence, in the gift of the representatives of Joseph north from the Co1·by station on j;he mainbne of the Great Phipps Townsend esq. and held since 1883 by the Rev. Northern railway, 9! south-east from Grantham and 98! John Woollam M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford, anu. from London, in the South Kesteven division of the county, rW'al dean of Beltisloe. Here is a Primitive Methodist hundred of Beltisloe, parts of Kellteven, Bourne petty chapel. The charities are of small amount, except Sa. 3r. sessional division, Grantham union and county court dis- :aSp. of land left by an unknown donor for the poor of t1.is trict, rural deanery of Beltisloe, archdeaconry and diocese parish, of which the trustee is Sir Hugh Arthur Henry of J.incoln. The ancient name of this place was Byrton-le- Cholmeley hart. of Easton Park, lord of the manor and Coggles, or Byrton-en-les-Coggles, Coggles meaning owner of all the land except the glebe. The soil is clay "smooth round stones." The church of St. Thomas-•- and loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are cereals. Becket is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English The area is 2,613 acres ; rateable value, £6,316; the popu­ and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south la.tion in 1891 was 236. porch and a western tower with .spire containing 3 bells: Post Office.-John Hawley, sub-postmaster. Letters two stone effigies of knights in chain armour found under- through Grantham from Corby arrive at 8 a.m. ; d~s- ground have been placed in the porch: the remains of two patched at 4·45 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but side altars, a circular staircase and a lychnoscope, all pre- not paid. Corby is the :qearest money order & telegraph viuusly bricked up and plastered over, have been un- office covered: the church was restored in 1874 at a cost of Parochial School (mixed), eupported partly by an endow- £1,600, under the direction of E. Welby Pugin esq. archi· ment called "Speight's charity," amounting to £14 tect, when a leper window was discovered in the chancel : yearly; it will hold 6o children; average attendanC'&~ there are 230 sittings. The register dates from the year 38 ; Miss Amy Leonard, mistress 1565. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge Carriers.-Thomas Pick & John Clarke pass through th& £418, net yearly value £388, including no acres of glebe, village on tues. & sat. from Corby to Grantham Woollam Rev. John M.A. (rector &, Briggs Henry, gamekeeper to Sir Hutchinson John Henry, car,Fenter rural dean), Rectory Hugh A. H. Cholmeley bart Kitchen Richard, farmer Dring Charles, basket maker Minta Henry, faxmer COMMERCIAL. Dring George, shopkeeper Palmer Parker, blacksmith Baxter George, farmer Hawley John, carpenter, Post office Seiles John, cowkeeper ;Bonnett James, Hare & Hounds P.H. Hawley Thomas, builder, stone mason Strawson George, farmer & farmer & farmer :BURTON -PEDW ARDINE is a parish 2 miles south· (Hussey) his wife; on the tloor is a stone inscribed t() west from Heckington station on the Grantham, Sleaford Thomas Horsman esq. his nephew (ob. Ap. 2, 163r), who and Boston branch of the Great Northern railway, and 1~ erected the monument, and Ma.ry (Tredwaye) his wife~ north-west from Helpringham station on the Spalding and with brass effigies of both : here is also a memorial to Doncaster extension of the Great Northern and Great William Yorke of Leasingham, ob. Mar. 16, 1681, Elizabeth Eastern joint railway, and 5 south-east-by-east from Slea­ (Walgrave) his wife and nine children; and another to ford, in the North Kesteven division of the county, wapen· William, son of Sir William York kt. ob. 2 Jan. 1725, v;ith take of Aswardhurn, parts of Kesteven, Sleaford union, the arms of York impaling Oakes: there are chairs for jO petty sessional division and county court district, rural persons. The register of baptisms and burials dates from deanery of Lafford No. 2, and archdeaconry and diocese of the year 1765; marriages, 1736. The living is a rectory. Lincoln. The old church of St. Andrew, known to have rent-charge £10, net yearly value [200, including 26~ been rebuilt in 1330·40 by Sir Roger Pedwardine, con· acres of glebe, with residence, in the gjft of and held sincp sisted of a central tower, nave, transeptal chapels, aisles 1889 by the Rev. Charles Edward Walker Foottit B.A. of and chancel ; this ancient fabric, with the exception of the University College, DW'ham. In the parish, and near the north transept, fell down in 1802, and a small, mean-look· site of an ancient mansion called" Mareham Hall," are the ing building was erected in its place in the following year base and part of the shaft of a medireval boundary cross. from part of the old material ; the present church, erected The poor's land of 3 acres, left by an unknown donor, pro­ almost on the same site in 1870-1, is a building of stone in duces £5 yearly. The land is all freehold; the principal the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south landowners are Richard Godson Millns esq. of 39a, Abbey porch and a small western bell-cot with a crocketed spire­ road, St. John's Wood, London N.W. Erasmus Tomlin­ let containing one bell, dated 1604: the north transept or son esq. of Helpringham, Retford Hospital, James Ward St. Mary's chapel is part of the ancient structure, and has esq. and Henrv Kirke Hebb esq. of Lincoln. The soil is on the north side a recessed arch inclosing a tombstone strong clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and of grey marble, with marginal inscription in Norman seeds. 'l'he area is 2,580 acres; rateable value, £2,184; French to Dame Alice Pedwardine, daughter of Sir Henry the population in 1891 was 163. de Longchampe, ob. 1330, and wife of Roger Pedwardine: Parish Clerk, Thomas Asher. on the floor is an ancient slab with matrices of brasses, and Letters through Heckington S.O. arrive at IO a.m. Wall against the west wall is an altar tomb of marble and ala­ Letter Box cleared at 4 p.m. The nearest money order baster with pillars supporting a canopy under which lies & telegraph office i.s at Heckington the recumbent effigy, in a1·mour, of Sir Thomas Horsman National School (mixed), erected in ;t86o, at the cost of kt. ; epitaphs, disposed on two black marble tablets, com· Henry Edwardes Handley esq. for 27 children; average­ memorate the knight, ob. Nov. 26, x61o, and Elizabeth attendance, 24; Miss Lucy Sherard, mistress F'oottit Rev. Charles Edward Walker Ellis John, farmer Rippon William, fal'mer B . ..l. Rectory Gash Thomas, farm bailiff to Fred Smith David, boot & shoe maker Blades Joseph, farmer Ward esq Tomblin Samuel, farm bailiff to th& Crick John. brick maker Hercock Thomas, tsrmer Rev. C. E. W. Poottit Cox William, King's Arms P.II :SUB.TON-UPON-STA'l'HER is a parish and consider- I being 111. mutilated figure of a. cross-le~ knight, brought able village, formerly a market town, pleasantly seated from Owston, which now lies in a recess in the north wall ot on the brow of a bold cliff, on the east bank of the river the chancel ; the drapery of this figure is sculptured with Trent, over which is a ferry to Garthorpe ; it is 5 miles great boldness and the details of the armour executed with north-north-west from Frodingham station on the Penistone great precision and the shield bears the arms of Sheffield; ..and Qleethorpes branch of the Manchester, Sheffield and supporting a cushion for the head of the knight are remains­ Lincolnshire railway, 8 north-ea~t from Crowle, -4 west from of angelic figures delicately sculptured; an ancient swor~ Winterton and 12 north-west from Brigg., in the North probably brought from Owston church, is now laid on the Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, north figure; a marble tablet in the chancel beam-s the followin~ division of Manley wapentake, Winterton petty sessional inscription : " the venerable remains of the five Sheffields division, Glanford Brigg union, county court. district of Lin- mentioned in the Itinerary of Leland, upon the printing of coin, rural deanery of Manlake, archdeaoonry of Stow and the book, were reseued from the danger of oblivion, and re­ diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew, standing on moved 'from Owston to this place by the pious direction of a. commanding eminence, is a!n edifice of stone, pa.rtly of the the not degenerate heir of that antient family, .lohn, Earl of Transitional period, in the Decorated style, consisting of Mulgrave, who, after the famous sea fight in Sold Bay, was, chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch at twenty-three years of age, by King Charles ll. mad& and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 3 .captain of the' Royal Catharine,1 colonel of the Old Holland bells r the chancel retains a piscina and three canopied stone regiment, gentleman of the Bedchamber, and Kni~ht of th& sedilia: the church was extensively restored in 1865, under most noble order of the Garter, afterwards, by King James the direction of the late Mr. Browuinl!", when the @IOUthem II. Lord Chamberlain of the Household; by King William portion of the nave formerly a chantry chapel-was con- and Queen Mary created Marquis of Normanby, and by the -rerted into a.