so Bilstborpe. • is £1744. The strong clay land, forming the north-east portion of the parish, has been greatly improved by draining; the sandy soil on the western part has become rich and fertile through superior cultivation. Augustus William Savile, Esq., is lord of the manor, and owner of all the land except the glebe. Before the Conquest Bildesthorpe was the property of Ulph, the Saxon, but was given by William I. to Gilbert de Gand, being at that time BOC to Ruflord. The CHURCH (St. Margaret) consists of nave, chancel, south porch, and tower, and was restored in 1873. A mortuary chapel was erected on the south side of the nave in 1880, and Mrs. Savile, who died in 1879, and the late Henry Savile, Esq., of Ruffol'd Abbey, are interred therein. The belfry contains a monument dated 1649, to William Chappel, Bishop of Cork and Ross, in Ireland, who spent some time here during the rebellion, as noticed with Laxton. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £5 Is. 8d. and now at £450, in the gift of A. W. Savile, Esq., and in the incumbency of the Rev. Edward William Garrow, l\f.A. The larger portion of the glebe, about 60 acres, was sold to the Rufford estate in 1882 j the tithes were commuted in 1841 for £39118s. At the foot of the hill on which the church stands are the remains of a moat. An Infant School which is held in a. timber structure, is supported by voluntary rate and is attended by about 15 children. The other children attend the schools at Farnsfield and Eakring. The church land, left in 1662, consists of I! acre at Eakring, but the rent is now paid to the schoolmaster. The overseers distribute 5s. yearly, as the interest of £5 left to the poor in 1732, by James Lynman. Here is a WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 3 p.m., via OIlerton. Ollerton and Southwell are the nearest l\'Ioney Order and Telegraph Offices. Adkin Clifford, blacksmith & cottage Garrow Rev. Edward William, M.A., Scott Gp-orge, farm bailiff, Wicar Leys farmer The Rectory Ward Joseph, tailor Ball Mrs Elizabeth,Infant Schl. mstrs Goodwin George, farmer Wilkinson Mrs Marianne Mauley, Bullock George, shopkeeper Grass Wm.gamekeeper & cottage frmr The Rectory Edlington Edward, carpenter, wheel- Greenfield Chas. farmer, Manor farm wright & cottage farmer Rays John, cottage farmer CARRIER-Georga Rouse, to Mans/ie1d Edlington Jos. Alfred, teacherof music Rutehinson J oseph Buckels, farmer on Mon. and Thurs., and Newark, Garland William, steam thrashing Outram Frank, farmer, Clifton lodge Wed. and Sat. machine proprietor Rouse George, shopkeeper & carrier Farnsfield is the nearest Rly. Station BINGHAM is a small market town and parish pleasantlysituated in the fertile vale of Belvoir,10 miles E. of Nottingham, and 123 miles N.W. by N. of London, and is on the Great Northern Railway. It is in Bingham union and county court district, Nottingham bankruptcy court district, Bingham wapentake and petty sessional division, and polling district, Newark parliamentary division of the county, Bingham rural deanery, Nottingham archdeaconry, and Southwell diocese. It had 1673 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 3054 acres of land: the rateable value is £11,026. Near the Market Place is a station on the Nottingham and Grantham branch of the Great Northern Railway, and at the west end of the town is one on the Melton Mowbray and Notting­ ham branch of the Great Northern and North W estern Joint Railways. The Earl of Carnarvon is 100'd of the manor and principal owner. Mr. Samuel Walker Chettle has also an estate here, besides whom there are many small freeholders. The manor was enclosed nearly two centuries ago. Bingham formerly was a place of considerable repute, from its religious establishment and collegiate church, which are said to date nearly as far back as the Conquest. Previous to the Conquest, Bingham was possessed by two English lords, Roge and Helga. The Conqueror granted it to Roger de Busli, who had soc in Newton, a part of which is in this parish. In 1768, there was found in Chapel Close a stone coffin contain­ ing the remains of a woman and child, and also several trinkets. Bingham was the birth place of Mr. Robert White, a schoolmaster of this town, and a celebrated astronomer, and editor of the 'Ephemeris' which bears his name. He died in 1773, in the 80th year of his age. At his death he was succeeded, both in his school and as a compiler of almanacs, by Mr. Stafford, a late pupil. Another worthy of the town was Thomas Groves, a poor lad, who during the time of his apprenticeship ran away and enlisted as a private marine; he ultimately rose to the rank of colonel. He died in 1790, after serving his country for 75 years. The CHURCH (St. Mary and All Saints) is an ancient cruciform structure, said to have been built in the early part of the fourteenth century. It consists of nave, chancel,~transepts, and side aisles, with a square embattled tower, crowned with the remains of statues, and surmounted with a spire 120 feet in height, which, with the upper stage of the tower, is of late erection. There is a chantry on the south side, now used as a choir vestry. There is a peal of six bells. The ceiling of the chancel was replaced by an open roof in 1846, when other improvements were effected. The clerestory was added in 1874, when the chantry chapel was rebuilt at the cost of £1000. The organ was added in 1873. Within the church are some beautiful specimens of foliage and sculpture of elaborate carving, mostly done by the family of the Rev. R. H. Miles, the late rector. Many of the windows of the church are :filled with stained glass, and inserted in the buttress of the tower is a rare specimen of a lancet window. In the chantry are the remains of an ancient monumental effigy, supposed to be that of Richard de Bingham. The south transeJ.lt contains an aumbry and the chancel a piscina. In 1881 a lych-gate was erected at ll. cost of £40, and on It is some carving executed by the late rector, just before his death. The Register dates from 1588. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £4478. lld., and now at £1200 (gross), in the gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, and in the incumbency of the Rev. Percy Boward Droosten, M.A. The Rev. W. C. Leeper is the curate, and Mr. J. W. Sharpe organist and choirmaster. The rectory of Bingham, which prior to the Dissolution belonged to Welbeck Abbey, was granted by Edward VI. to Archbishop Cranmer. The ancient college orguild, founded in honour of St. Mary, was given by Edward VI. to Thomas Reeve and George Cotton; part of the land, which was resel'Ved, WRS granted by Queen Elizabeth to John Sonkey and Percival Grimstone. Here was also a chapel dedicated to St. Helen, to which Richard de Bingham gave five marks yearly, and one acre of land, for the maintenance of the chaplain. This chapel, at its dissolution, passed to the same ileT'BOna as the guild. According to Speed, • •.