{12g} Memoirs of Sir Henry Fynes Clinton. _Annual Register_, 1772, p. 2. {12h} Coram Rege Roll, Portsmouth, April 20, 14 Chas. II. {13a} Exchequer Bills and Answers, 11 Charles V., Lincoln, No. 185. {13b} The carucate varied in different parts of the country, in Lincolnshire it was 120 acres. Gelt was a land tax, first imposed by the Danes in the reign of Ethelred, about A.D. 991, being 2s. on the carucate. Villeins and bordars were under-tenants of two different classes, bordars being superior to villeins. (Introd. _Domesday Book_, by C. Gowen Smith, 1870). {13c} Barristers are said to have been first appointed by Edward I., A.D. 1291. {16a} Among the Lincoln Cathedral Charters is an imperfect one, which mentions her “Castle of Tornegat (can this be a corruption for Horncastle?), her land at Wicham in Chent (Kent?), at Carlton and Torleby (Thurlby) in Lincolnshire,” _Architectural Society’s Journal_, 1901, p. 22. There is a notice of her in the _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. I. {16b} This Geoffrey Gairmar is himself rather an interesting figure in local history. He is mentioned in the Rolls Series, 91, i, ii (Ed. Hardy and Martin, 1888–9), as the author of _L’estorie des Engles_, a rhyming chronicle, based chiefly on the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, and Geoffrey of Monmouth (between A.D. 1135 and 1147). He undertook his work at the request of Custance, wife of Ralph Fitz Gilbert; the latter held the manor of Scampton near Lincoln, and Geoffrey was probably a Norman who lived in that parish. He quotes _The Book of Washingborough_ and _The Lay of Haveloc the Dane_, relating to Grimsby. He does not directly mention Horncastle, but shews acquaintance with the neighbourhood by celebrating the burial of King Ethelred at Bardney. {16c} Camden’s _Britannia_, pp. 45, 288, 529. {16d} _History of Lincoln_, 1816, p. 138. {16e} Camden, p. 88. A Lincoln Chancery Inquisition (Oct. 31, 1503) shows that on the death of Anne, daughter and heir of Edmund Cheney, owning the manors of Tothill, Gayton, Riston, and Theddlethorpe, Robert Willoughby, Lord Broke, was declared to be her kinsman and heir. {16f} Dugdale, vol. ii, p. 336. D. Mon, ii, p. 646. (_Architectural Society’s Journal_, 1895, p. 23). {17a} Dugdale _Baronage_, p. 39. {17b} Hundred Rolls, Lincoln, No 14, m. 1, 3 Ed. I., A.D., 1274–5. A Pipe Roll also, 1 Richard I., A.D. 1189–90, mentions “Gerbod de Escalt as paying a tale of £80 in Horncastre.” {17c} Feet of Fines, Lincoln, 37 Henry III., No. 36 (3 Nov. 1252), and ditto, No. 38, same date. Gerard de Rhodes is also named in a Chancellor’s Roll, 3 John, A.D. 1201–1, as paying certain fees for Horncastle. He is also named in the document above quoted (Hundred Rolls, Lincoln, 14, m. 1) as succeeding to the manor on the demise of Gerbald de Escald. {17d} Feet of Fines, 9 Henry III., No. 52, Lincoln. {18a} Quo Warranto Roll, 9 Ed. I., 15 June, 1281, quoted _Lincolnshire Notes & Queries_, vol. v, p. 216.