This chapel is a donative of exempt jurisdiction, but appears to have had no stipend for the officiating minister until it came into the possession of Mr. Daniel Disney, who being a presbyterian, appointed a minister of that persuasion to perform service there, with a salary of £30. per annum. {81} In order that the tenets which he professed might not want support in his parish, in 1720 he settled certain lands upon five trustees, the profits of which were to be applied to the maintenance of a presbyterian minister at this place. This gift he afterwards confirmed by his will in 1732, and in addition, bequeathed to the trustees the use of the chapel and chapel ground for the same purpose. On the death or alienation of the minister, the trustees were to present the names of two to the lord of the manor, who was to appoint one of them, and on his neglect or refusal, the trustees themselves were to make the appointment. Ministers continued to be nominated by the prescribed form until the death of Mr. Dunkley, who had for many years received the bequeathed stipend, and whose demise took place in 1794. On that occasion the present owner of the manor took possession of the estates which had been conveyed to the trustees, and appointed to the chapel a minister of the Church of England, paying him £30. per annum. The trustees, however, recovered possession of the estates, by an action of ejectment, tried at Lincoln summer assizes, 1812, but not of the Chapel. Owing to some difficulties in the arrangement of the affairs, the presbyterian form of worship is not yet re-established here. This village gave birth to the celebrated monk Hugh de Kirkstead, who is styled by Fuller “a Benedictine Cistertian Bernardine Monk, or, as it may be termed a treble refined Christian.” He, and Serlo, one of his own order, joined in composing a chronicle of the Cistertians from their first arrival in England in 1131, to their own time, about 1210. In the fourteenth volume of the “Archeologia of the Society of Antiquaries” is an engraving of an ancient iron candlestick of a very singular construction, six of which were found in cleaning the bed of the river Witham near this place. This village contained, according to the returns of 1811, 26 houses and 110 inhabitants. TATTERSHALL. SITUATION. TATTERSHALL or Tateshall is a small market town in the wapentake of Gartree. It is situated on the banks of the river Bane, near its junction with the river Witham, and is distant nine miles south west from Horncastle. It is a place of considerable antiquity, having been a Roman military station; traces of two encampments of that warlike people being still visible, at a short distance from the town, in a place called Tattershall park. Several Roman coins have also been found in different parts of the parish. [Picture: Tattershall Church and Castle, from the South East] THE MANOR.