{0} His father, for about 12 months, occupied the house in North Street, of late years known as the “Red House,” distinguished, it is said, as being the only house in the town having a front door of mahogany. {1a} Mr. Jeans, in his _Handbook for Lincolnshire_, p. 142, says “the Roman station (here) probably utilized an existing British settlement.” {1b} _Words and Places_, p. 13, note. Ed. 1873. {1c} There are probably traces of British hill-forts in the neighbourhood, as on Hoe hill, near Holbeck, distant 4 miles, also probably at Somersby, Ormsby, and several other places. {1d} In the name of the near village of Edlington we have probably a trace of the mystic Druid, _i.e._ British, deity Eideleg, while in Horsington we may have the Druid sacred animal. Olivers’ _Religious Houses_, Appendix, p. 167. {2a} _Words and Places_, p. 130. {2b} The meadow which now lies in the angle formed by the junction of the Bain and Waring at Horncastle is still called “The Holms,” which is Danish for “islands.” {2c} The name Bain, slightly varied, is not uncommon. There is the Bannon, or Ban-avon (“avon” also meaning “river”), in Pembrokeshire; the Ban in Co. Wexford, Bana in Co. Down, Banney (_i.e._ Ban-ea, “ea” also meaning water) in Yorkshire, Bain in Herefordshire; Banavie (avon) is a place on the brightly running river Lochy in Argyleshire; and, as meaning “white,” a fair-haired boy or girl is called in Gaelic “Bhana.” {2d} The name Waring (G commonly representing the modern W) is found in the Yarrow, and Garry in Scotland, the Geirw, a rough mountain stream, at Pont-y-glyn, in North Wales, and in the Garonne in France. {2e} _Ars Poetica_, l 59. {2f} An account of this urn is given by the late Bishop Trollope, with an engraving of it, in the _Architectural Society’s Journal_, vol. iv, p. 200. {2g} _De Bella Gallico_, bk. v, ch. 12–14.