Anno 1673, December the 5th. Thomas James, gent. gave to the poor of Horncastle twenty shillings yearly in white bread on every Christmas day for ever payable out of his lands there, which lands are now the estate of Thomas Howgrave, Esquire. Anno 1702, December the 20th. Captain John Francis gave two chaldern of coals yearly to be given to the poor, appointed by the governors of the school, out of lands in this town now the Rev. Mr. John Francis’s of Sibsey. Anno 1703, December the 14th. Mrs Douglass Tyrwhitt of Gaiton on the would gave ten shillings yearly to the poor of Horncastle on St. Thomas’s day, out of her lands in Belshford, now the lands of Joseph Sutton of the same. Anno 1696, May the 26th. Nicholas Shipley, gent. gave to this church one brass candlestick of twenty-four sockets, and Fox’s three books of martyrs. He gave also to the poor five pounds, which was immediately given amongst them, and thirty shillings yearly for ever, (viz.) twenty on St. Thomas’s day, and ten every good Friday, in brown bread, to be paid out of his lands adjoining to this church yard, now purchased by Mr. Thomas Hammerton. He gave also to the governors of the school one hundred pounds the interest thereof to put out poor boys apprentices to trades; but their then treasurer dying insolvent, that money was lost. We mention this here because this misfortune doth not lessen the charity of that well disposed gentleman. Anno 1719. Mrs. Mary Hussey, widdow, gave one silver plate to the communion table for ever. Anno 1721. Mrs. Dorothy Parker of Boston, gave to this church one brass candlestick of sixteen sockits, and to the poor widdows and widdowers of this town she gave sixty pounds, the interest or rents thereof to be given amongst them on St. John’s day, in Christmas, and St. James’s in July, yearly for ever. Anno 1724. Mrs Mary Waters, widdow, gave to the overseers of the poor, five pounds, to be by them put out at interest, and the said interest to be given to the poor yearly on Christmas day for ever. Against the wall over the north entrance are several scythes and hay knives, some of which are yet remaining in the shafts to which they have been affixed, in order to render them instruments of warfare. The occasion for which they were so prepared is unknown, the traditionary accounts of them being both vague and contradictory. In the steeple are six bells, bearing the following inscriptions in capital letters: 1. Lectum fuge discute somnum. G. S. I. W. H. Penn Fusor 1717. 2. In templo venerare Deum. Hen. Penn nos fudit Cornucastri. 3. Supplicem Deusi audit. Daniel Hedderly cast me 1727. 4. Tho. Osborn fecit Downham Norfolk 1801. Tho. Bryan and D. Brown Churchwardens. 5. Dum spiras spera. H. Penn Fusor 1717. Tho. et Sam. Hamerton Æditivi.