In a List of Institutions to Benefices, preserved at Lincoln, it is shewn that in 1562, on the resignation of the then Vicar, one John Howsone, Michael West, Clerk, was appointed to this vicarage, along with that of Nether Toynton, by Richard Bertie, Esq., the ancestor of the present Earl of Ancaster. This was probably by some private arrangement with the Bishop of Carlisle, as the Berties (as the Willoughbys are now) were patrons of Low Toynton, but not of Upper, or High, Toynton. He was instituted to the two benefices on July 9th of that year. MAREHAM-ON-THE-HILL. Of this parish, ecclesiastically annexed to High Toynton, little can be said. The name was anciently written Maringes, {183a} or Marun {183b}; the former probably from the low “marish,” or marsh, “ings,” _i.e._ meadows, the suffix being the Saxon “ham,” a homestead. It lies about two miles south-east from Horncastle, connected with High Toynton by footpath, and bridle road, across the fields barely a mile in length, but for carriages a detour of more than double that distance has to be made. This parish, like High Toynton and West Ashby, is in the soke of Horncastle. In _Domesday Book_ it is stated that the manor comprised 3 carucates, or about 360 acres of land, with 21 soc-men and 11 bordars, {183c} who had four carucates, or about 480 acres; there were further 60 acres of meadow, and, what no longer exists, 300 acres of underwood; which was a very large proportion, considering that in Scrivelsby, now a well wooded estate, closely adjoining, there were at that time only six acres of underwood.