couple of miles northwards would bring us to a fine tower and spire at _Langtoft_, once a dependency of Medehamstead[1] Abbey at Peterborough, together with which it was ruthlessly destroyed by Swegen in 1013. On the roof timbers are some beautifully carved figures of angels, and carved heads project from the nave pillars. The south chantry is a large one, with three arches opening into the chancel, and has several interesting features. Amongst these is a handsome aumbry, which may have been used as an Easter sepulchre. The south chantry opens from the chancel with three arches, and has some good carving and a piscina with a finely constructed canopy. There is a monument to Elizabeth Moulesworth, 1648, and a brass plate on the tomb of Sarah, wife of Bernard Walcot, has this pretty inscription:— Thou bedd of rest, reserve for him a roome Who lives a man divorced from his deare wife, That as they were one hart so this one tombe May hold them near in death as linckt in life, She’s gone before, and after comes her head To sleepe with her among the blessed dead. At Scamblesby, between Louth and Horncastle, is another pathetic inscription on a wife’s tomb:— To Margaret Coppinger wife of Francis Thorndike 1629. Dilectissimæ conjugi Mæstissimus maritorum Franciscus Thorndike. L.(apidem) M.(armoreum) P.(osuit) The old manor house of the Hyde family is at the north end of the village. The road for the next ten miles over Deeping Fen is uninteresting as a road can be. But this will be amply made up for in another chapter when we shape our eastward course from Spalding to Holbeach and Gedney. [Sidenote: THE FATHER OF FEN FARMERS]