R. apud Westm’ xxvº die Junii. P’ Br’e de privato Sigillo. * * * * * * * * * * PRINTED BY WEIR AND SON, HORNCASTLE. FOOTNOTES. {4a} Taciti Breviarum Vitæ Cn. Julii Agricola. sec. xx et xxi. {4b} Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28. {5} The Roman road from Lincoln to Horncastle did not vary materially from the present road between these places. Another Roman way branched from this road at the distance of about four miles from Horncastle, leading nearly in a straight line to Caistor, and from thence to the Humber: it bears the name of the _High Street_, and several tumuli are to be seen on its sides. {6} Leland’s Collectanea, tom 1. part 2. p. 509. {7a} See Appendix, No. 1. {7b} Adelias de Cundi was the daughter and heiress of William de Cheney, Lord of Cavenby and Glentham in the county of Lincoln, at the time of the conquest. By her husband, Roger de Cundi, whom she survived, she had a daughter and heiress Agnes, afterwards married to Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford Castle, in the county of Hereford. Dugdale, vol. ii. p. 336. Monast. Ang. vol. ii. p. 646. a. n. 50. {7c} Dugdale’s Baronage, p. 39. {8a} Hund. Rot. 19. Hornc. Wap. {8b} On the eastern boundary of the parish is a place called _Hangman’s Corner_, where those convicted of capital offences, in the court of this manor, were executed. {8c} Cart. Rot. 14 et 15. H. III. {9a} Hund. Rot. ut antea. {9b} Mag. Rot. 17 H. III. Madox. collect. {9c} Cart. Rot. 18 Ed. 1. m. 39. {9d} Cart. Rot. 12. Ed. 2. no. 17. {9e} Pat. 14 Ric. II. pars 1. m. 3. {9f} The house where the bishops used to reside, a spacious structure, but destitute of architectural merit, was situated at the north-west corner of the ancient fortress. It was demolished about the year 1770, when the present manor house was erected on its scite. {10a} All these grants were again acknowledged, and the privileges further extended in the sixteenth year of the reign of Charles the second. See Appendix, No. 2. {10b} Parliamentary Survey, made in the years 1647 and 1648.