Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacentWeir, George
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Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
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, & 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.
{74} “In Bolinbroc h’b Stori II car. t’ræ ad g’ld. T’ra II car. In
soca I car. de hac t’ra. Ibi h’t Iuo modo II car. et XII vill. et VIII
bord. et XII soch. cu. III car. Ibi æccla et mercatu. novu. et III
molini X solidos et LXX ac. p’ti. T R E. val. XXX lib. mº. XL. lib.
Tailla q’ter XX lib. cu. omnib’s adjacentib’s.” Domesday folio, 351.
{76} See the Charter in Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. i. p. 822.
{79} Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.
{81} 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.
{86a} Itinerarium, p. 162.
{86b} 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.
{91a} Joan Lady Cromwell was one of the daughters of Sir Richard
Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell. She
married Humphry Bourchier, third Son of the Earl of Essex, who was
created Lord Cromwell, in the first year of Edward the fourth.
{91b} Matilda Lady Willoughby was the other daughter of Sir Richard
Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell.
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