distinctly told that the mobs concerned in that movement were deprived of all weapons before they could use them. In the Lincoln Chapter House books (c. i, 20, f 193) is a letter from Richard Cromwell, dated Oct. 29, 1586, which says that he, and Admiral Sir John Russell, went to Louth, where “all the harness and weapons were seized, and conveyed to Lincoln,” and that for the same purpose Mr. Bryan had been sent to Horncastle, and Mr. Brown to Market Rasen. On the whole, therefore, the preponderance of evidence is strongly in favour of the connection of all these scythes with the neighbouring Battle of Winceby—the original tradition. {41b} Weir, in his _History of Horncastle_ gives the quarterings of these shields as follows:— (1) Sable, 2 lions passant in pale, ducally crowned, or, Dymoke impaling Barry of 6 ermines, and gules, 3 crescents, sable, Waterton; a crescent for difference. (2) Dymoke impaling Vairè, on a fess, gules frettè, or. Marmyon, in chief, ermine, 5 fusils in fess, Hebden, a crescent for difference. (3) Argent, a sword erect, azure, hilt and pomel gules. (4) Dymoke impaling quarterly, gules and argent, a cross engrailed. Countercharged, Haydon, a crescent for difference. {42a} The only other theft from the church of which we have record, was when the vestry was broken into in December, 1812, and the money collected for parish purposes was stolen. A reward of £50 was offered for information of the thief, but without result. (MS. notes by Mr. T. Overton in possession of Mr. John Overton, of Horncastle.) {42b} Details of these are given by Holles as follows:— _In fenestra Insulæ Borealis_. “Orate pro a’ia Thomæ Coppuldike Armig. & D’næ Margaretæ Consortis suæ fundatoris Gildæ Cantar . . . Fenestram fieri fecit Ano Dni 1526.” _In superiori fenestra Borealis Cancelli_. ‘Gules a lion passant guardant. Arg. . . . Sable, 3 flowres de lize betw: 6 crosses botony fitchy Arg. . . . Gules, a cross sarcelly Arg.” . . . Bec. _In fenestra Orientali Insulæ Australis_. “Orate pro benefactoribus artis sutorum, qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt stæ Ninianæ cum cera et catena. Item sti Crispinus et Crispianus cum instrumentis calceariis.” (N.B. The feminine is an error of Holles, as St. Ninian was a man. Collier’s _History_, vol. i. p. 100). _Fenestra Borealis superior_. Empaled Sa, 2 lions passant arg. crowned or. Dymoke Or, a lion rampant double queue sa. Welles Empaled