Hæc domus odit amat punit conservat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimina jura bonos. In 1660 Dr. Mapletoft, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, being appointed Sub-Dean of Lincoln and also Master of the Spital Hospital, at once rebuilt the chapel and set to work to improve the revenue, and when he became Dean of Ely in 1668, he retained his Mastership of Spital, and so well did he and his next-but-one successor, Chancellor Mandeville do their work, that, whereas it had sunk to a master and two poor persons to whom he paid 2_s._ each, they restored it to its complement of seven poor people and bought land for it, which so increased in value that, when the Charity Commissioners took the Spital in hand in the reign of Queen Victoria, the revenues were estimated at £959, which was nearly all of it being misappropriated. [Illustration: _Wykeham Chapel, near Spalding._] [Sidenote: THE NEW SCHEME] [Sidenote: MAPLETOFT’S INSCRIPTION] In 1858 a new scheme was drawn up, and now seven alms-people of each sex receive £20 a year, and besides other annual payments £5,500 has been spent out of the Spital funds on the Grammar School at Lincoln and on founding and maintaining a middle-class school at Market-Rasen called after the Spital’s founder _The De Aston School_. Of the old hospital at Spital only the chapel built by Mapletoft in 1662 remains; a plain structure with its east end to the road where the entrance door is, the altar being at the west end. Below the small square bell-cot is a stone bearing this inscription:— Fui Aᵒ Dni 1398 ⎫ Non Fui 1594 ⎬ Domus Dei et Pauperum Sum 1616 ⎭ Qui hanc Deus hunc destruat. G.P. 1830. This means:— I was in 1398 ⎫ I was not in 1594 ⎬ The House of God and of the poor I am in 1616 ⎭ Whoever destroys this house may God destroy him. This means that it was founded by De Aston as a chantry and hospital in 1398,[5] pulled down by Wray in 1594 and rebuilt by Mapletoft in 1661. The mason who carved the date has transposed the two last figures in 1661. G.P. should be J.P. for John Pretyman, the last “Master.” CHAPTER XVI ROADS NORTH FROM LINCOLN Kirton-in-Lindsey—The Carrs—Broughton—Brigg—The North Wolds—Worlaby—Elsham—Saxby-All-Saints—Horkstow—South Ferriby—Barton-on-Humber—St. Peter’s and St. Mary’s—Greater care of Churches.