“M. S. THOMÆ LODINGTON, LL. D. Qui Vicarii jure usus Sacra apud Paganos de Horncastle De More Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Annos perpetuos XLV peregit Annorumque LXXIII Curriculo Confecto Morti cessit Mar. XXI A.D. MDCCXXIII. Posuit Pientissima Conjux Prudentia Lodington.” Beside the sepulchral memorials already detailed, are a number of others on the floor, and a few of recent date, on marble tablets, against the walls. At the end of the north aisle of the chancel, is the following table: The BENEFACTORS to the CHURCH and POOR of this Town, the Clauses of whose Wills may be seen at large in a Book in the Town Chest. Note these Tables were erected 1724. WILLIAM EVERITT and JOSEPH BROWN Churchwardens. Anno 1611, October. Mr. Robert Clark of Woodhall gave to the Poor of this town . . . Shillings a year, to be paid to vicar on St Thomas’s, and by him to be distributed every Christmas-day for ever, out of his lands in Thimbleby, now belonging to John Hutchinson, Gent. Mrs Ann Smith gave to the poor of Horncastle twenty shillings a year out of her lands there, now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Coats: it is given in brown bread every Good Friday. George Acham of Asterby, Gent. gave also one hundred and forty pounds, to purchase lands, the rents thereof to be disposed off yearly to the poor of Horncastle, at the discretion of the governors of the free-school (for the time being,) which lands are in the parish of Burgh in the Marsh. Anno 1629 May the 2d. Mr. William Hurtscroft gave one house the yearly rent of fifty-two shillings; to be given weekly (viz.) twelve pence in bread every Lord’s day to poor fatherless and motherless children in Horncastle, by the Overseers for the poor; the said house now in the possession of widow Scamon. The same year. Andrew Kent, gent. gave six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence, to be a stock for the poor of Horncastle, which is applied accordingly in coals for their use. Anno 1661, June the 6th. Thomas Bromley of Conesby gent, left to the poor of this town forty shillings per annum (viz.) twenty shillings every good Friday, and twenty every St. Thomas’s day, to be paid out of his lands in Haltham super Bane; now the said lands belong to Thomas Hammerton gent. Rutland Snowden, gent. gave to the poor of Horncastle one house of the yearly rent of twenty-six shillings; but being decayed is now reduced to thirteen, paid in bread sixpence every other Sunday: the said house belongs now to Mr. William Dawson.