Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacentWeir, George
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Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
_In Fenestra Orientali Cancelli_.
G. 3 lyons passants gardants d’or a labell of Comes
3 each charged with 3 floures de lize of the Lancastr.
second
Empaled. Castile and Leon quarterly A label of 3 arg.
Empaled. France & England quarterly each charged with 2
de lizes sa.
Or a lyon rampant purpure Lacy.
B. 3 garbes d’or Meschines.
Com. Cestr.
Quarterly. Sa. a crosse Ufford Willughby.
engrayled d’or Beke
Quarterly. G. a crosse
molyn arg.
Argent a fesse G between 3 bugles trippant
sa.
_In Fenestra Orientali ad dextram Navis_.
B. 6. lyoncels rampant d’or. 3. 2. 1. Longspeee.
Lancaster.
England, and France quarterly.
Lacy.
G. 3 lyons passants arg. a labell of 3 d’or,
each charged with a lyon rampant purpure
_In_ 1_ma Fenestra australi_.
B. 3 garbes d’or Meschines.
Chequy d’or & B a bend G. Clifford.
Quarterly arg. & G. the 2d & 3d charg’d with Spenser.
a frette d’or over all a bend sa.
Femina gestans in veste sex leones aureos Longespee.
erectos una cum leone purpure conjunctos Lacy.
_In_ 2_da Fenestra Australi_.
G. a fesse verry betw. 3 leopards heads Cantilupe.
jesant floures de lize d’or
G. a crosse molyn arg. Beke.
B. a fesse daunce betw: 10 billets d’or Deyncourt.
_In Campanili_.
Quarterly France, and England
Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty Rochford.
Or, a chevron betw: 10 crosses botony sa. Slight.
Orate pro bono statu . . . Ducis Aurelie. Ad hoc Campanile . . . Ao.
r. r. Hen.
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw: 3 martlets
sa.
Quarterly. Chequy or & G. on a chiefe arg. a
lyon passant sa.
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 163.
{72} Domesday, folio 351.
{74} See the Charter in Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. i. p. 822.
{76} Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.
{82} Dr. John Taylor of Norwich was one of the earliest ministers
appointed by Mr. Disney. He held his appointment from about 1715, for 18
years, and at this place composed his justly valued “Hebrew Concordance,”
in two vols. folio.
{86} Itinerarium, p. 162.
{87} Gough, and others who have copied from him, erroneously state this
tower to be two hundred feet in height.
{90} The principal part of the stained glass taken from this church was
placed by the Earl of Exeter in the church of St. Martin, Stamford Baron,
with some other richly stained glass, procured from the churches of Snape
in Yorkshire, and Barnack in Northamptonshire.
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