Nicolas 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 Hamerton. 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 on Christmas day, yearly, 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: 1 LECTVM : FVGE : DISCVTE : SOMNVM. G: S: I. W : H: PENN : FVSOR: 17l7. 2 IN: TEMPLO : VENERARE : DEVM. HEN : PENN : NOS : FVDIT : CORNVCASTRI. 3 SVPPLICEM : DEVSI : AVDIT. DANIEL HEDDERLY CAST ME 1727. 4 THO. OSBORN FECIT DOWNHAM NORFOLK 1801. THO. BRYAN AND D. BROWN CHURCHWARDENS. 5 DVM : SPIRAS : SPERA. H : PENN : FVSOR : 1717. THO : ET : SAM : HAMERTON-ÆDITIVI. 6 EXEAT : E : BVSTO : AVSPICE : CHRISTO. THO : LODINGTON : L.L.D : VIC. H : P : 1717. The benefice is a vicarage, in the presentation of the Bishop of Carlisle, valued in the King’s books at £14. 4s. 2d. [Picture: Seal of the Grammar School at Horncastle] THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.