Since the Thimelbys, who followed the Hiltons, the house has been in possession of the Conquest, Arundel, and Clifford families. Not more than two miles to the east is a fine avenue leading to an Elizabethan house in the form of an E, called Bulby Hall. Later the stream goes through its one village of Edenham, passes near Bowthorpe Park with its great oak, fifty feet in girth, and so joins the river Glen at Kotes Bridge, near _Wilsthorpe_. Though the stream, Edenham excepted, has nothing particular on its banks, near its source are several interesting churches. _Sapperton_, which still exhibits the pulpit hour-glass-stand for the use of the preacher to insure that the congregation got their full hour; _Pickworth_, with chantry chapels at each end of the south aisle, a rood screen and a fine old south door; and _Walcot_, with its curious double “squint” from the south chantry and its beautiful little priest’s door, evidently once a low-side window, for its sill is two feet from the ground and is grooved for glazing. Here the economy of the Early English builders is shown by their use of the caps of an earlier Norman arcade to form the bases of their new pillars. Hard by is _Newton_ with its lofty tower, _Haceby_, where once the Romans had a small settlement, and _Braceby_, which, with _Ropsley_ and _Somerby_, complete an octave of Early English churches all near together. [Sidenote: SOMERBY] _Somerby_ is within four miles of Grantham. The church contains a singular effigy, date 1300, of a knight with a saddled horse at his feet, and a groom wearing the hooded short cloak of the period, holding the horse’s head. Among the Brownlow monuments is the following inscription to Jane Brownlow, daughter of Sir Richard Brownlow of Humby, 1670, She was of a solid serious temper, of a competent Stature and a fayre compleaciton, whoes soul now is perfectly butyfyed with the friution of God in glory and whose body in her dew time he will rais to the enjoyment of the same. It is curious to find notes on stature and complexion in an epitaph, but it was only lately that I saw a tomb slab in the church of Dorchester-on-Thames, where, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, some of our Lindsey bishops had their Bishop-stool (_see_ Cap. XII.), on which it was thought worth while to record, _inter alia_, that Rebekah Granger who died in 1753 was “respectful to her friends, and chearful and innocent in her deportment”; whilst close by is a somewhat minute description of the nervous idiosyncrasy of Mrs. S. Fletcher, who died in 1799 at the age of 29, ending with “She sank and died a martyr to excessive sensibility.”