H ISTORICA L NOTES T ON HE PARISH OF PARTNEY . H I S TOR I CA L N O Y E S O N T H E PA R I S H OF P A R T N E K L COL I N NS H I RE . G IL BE R T G E O R GE WA L K E R , A X M . O O D . F R , R C TO O F PA T Y W T D L E R R NE I H A BY, O M T M V C A O F UTTO FT S E I E I R H . I h o pe you make what enquirie s you can and write down what is to o u t t s c s s o m st c c ct ld y . The lit le hing whi h di tingui h d e i hara er are so on fo rgott en if yo u delay t o en q uire you wi l l have n o info rmat i o n m o ou c t o t o . if y negle t wri e , inf r ati n will be in vain ’ lett r B t a e t P r ri [ n e to ennet [ an ton on he a fi o e e n e a ion o P artne . g , f g g f y S P I L S BY \V O TO F A K L O U G T T M . K . R N , R N I N H SE , H I H S REE 1 8 8 9 . A P REF CE . WOUL D beg the intending reader of this little book to remember that it has been written by a country parson away from reference libraries , and that his first object in writing has been to rouse some interest amongst his parishioners for the past history of their parish . It is owing to the former of these facts that I have been unable to verify all my quotations , and to the latter that I have drawn my illustrations from neighbouring and familiar places , and have felt it necessary to put in some things about which the reader perhaps feels himself already sufficiently well informed . As a basis for my Notes I took the chapter on Partney in ’ ’ ’ Oldfi e ld s H z slor o Wa z n eet 1 8 2 y f fi , published in 9 , and Bishop Trollope ’ s Paper read before the Lincoln 1 8 6 shire Arch aeological Society in 5 . As far as possible I have tested the value of the statements v z . P re ace f . made , by reference to the authorities quoted , and amplified what had been written . I have also made use of various scraps of information given in the ’ ’ L z ncol ns h z re N otes 87 ueries volumes of Q , and in numerous other books . I believe that in every case I have made an acknowledgment in a footnote . Especially I have to thank personal friends for much — valuable help mv predecessor, the Rev . J . W . Bayldon , M . A . , now Rector of Low Toynton near H orncastle , for permission to utilise the information he had gathered about the past history of the parish ’ during his 1 9 years residence here this he has in the main preserved on blank pages of the parish registers, and future generations of parishioners will never fail to appreciate his most judicious labours in this — direction the Rev . A . R . Maddison , M . A . , Priest Vicar of Lincoln Cathedral , who supplied me with a list of the early Rectors , and gave me many extracts from Wills and much other valuable in — , W . H m . formation y brother , Mr T ollis alker, Barrister at law , who has very kindly verified many references for me in the Library of the Inner Temple, without which help my work would have been much an d more difficult, frequent j ourneys to London much — more necessary and , most important of all , the P reface . M as in . s b e rd . Rev . W . O g , M A , Rector of South wh o Ormsby , gave me many most useful hints as to sources of information , and communicated to me s what I must regard as the most valuable of my fact . To the Secretary of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln , and to the various Incumbents who allowed me to make m extracts from the registers under their charge , y sincere thanks are due . From many parishioners and neighbours I have received hints or scraps of information for which I have been most grateful . To mako a . fuller acknowledgment would cause my preface to be longer than my book . I shall be glad if what I have written below brings out in any way a truer knowledge of Partney in the past and a clearer understanding of its condition in the present . G . G . W . D ED ICATION . T O TH E P A O O F N E R I SH I NE RS P A RT Y . M Y D E PA O A R R IS H I NE R S , I wish to dedicate to you these Notes on the history of our parish . You will see , when you read them , that they are nothing more than Notes . Anything worthy of th e name of a History was outside my aim and beyond my powers . Nor do n I claim to give you anythi g very original or new . I have but put together such notices about Partney r i m as I could glean f om var ous books and docu ents, while with them I have tried to mould into something like a continuous story the traditions still current amongst us . A clergyman must act as an unconscious historian m every time he enters a baptis , a marriage , or a one burial in the parochial registers . And so of ' D n l ed ica tio . x . the first things I should always do on entering upon the charge of a parish would be to make myself acquainted with the contents of the Church chest and gladly welcome any information I could get about the life past and present of the place I had come to dwell in . As you seem to understand the character of a man the better if you have learnt something about his parentage and bringing up , so to be not altogether uninformed about the past history of a parish , makes it easier to understand what otherwise were but unmeaning irregularity . To have written w out these Notes, therefore , is , I ould venture to ’ think , by no means a waste of your Rector s time , because in looking into the past and trying to explain to you something of what he sees therein h e has in the truest sense been also educating himself. This is what I hope I may always be doing during the years, be they few or many , in which I may be allowed to subscribe myself f Your riend and Rector, G LB T I ER G . WALKER . N E E aster 1 8 8 . PA RT Y , , 9 T T CON EN S . CHAPTER I . Th e Nam e CHAPTER II . Th e C hu rch " CHAPTER III . Th e Re cto ry CHAPTER I V . O th e r Re ligi o u s Fo u ndati ons CHAPTER V . Land o wne rs and I n habi tants CHAPTER V I . Th e Mark et and Fair s V II CHAPTER . Tradi t i o ns of th e Plagu e V CHAPTER III . A Di sti ngui s h e d V i s ito r Content . x s l . IX CHAPTER . s Re ste rs oo s and e s Pari h gi , B k , Pap r X CHAPTER . S o m e Note s on Dalby X F D M APPEND I O OCU ENTS . B G ENEAL OGICAL TA L ES . G nt W o O r s o sto w so n au , ill ughby , m by , Th ry , Ful , Maddi , L landen o ne . , B ur L M ISCE L ANEOU S NO TES . OOK O UL D B S AND PAPERS C NS TE . D X IN E . LL U ST AT S I R ION . ” n V fr t b r E t e e o o o M s . 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