Holbech (the Salt-Beech) church is very large, and well built, a strong tower and lofty steeple, dedicate to all saints: formerly there were organs and fine painted glass, with many coats of arms, but none left except the Holbeches: Vert, six escallops argent, three, two, one. There is a fine monument of the Littleburys, an ancient and flourishing family in these parts: upon his shield is his coat, Argent, two lions passant gardant gules: there is a brass inscription of a lady of the Welby family, wife to Sir Richard Leake, knight. *Orate pro anima Johanne Welby quondam filiae Richardi Leake militis nuper uxoris Littlebury que obiit xviii die mensis decembris anno domini mccclxxxviii. cujus anime propitietur deus Amen.* Here was born Henry Rands, alias de Holbech, bishop of Lincoln, who was one of the compilers of the Liturgy: here formerly flourished the ancient families of Fleet, Dacres, Harrington, Barrington, Welby, Multon. In the year 1696, in digging at Mr. Adlard Stukeley’s gardens, they found an old brass seal, which I gave to Sir Hans Sloan; a man in long robes, with two escutcheons, on one three cocks, on the other a portcullis; the legend, + +SOVRABLA DEUS OLER+. In the year 1698, an iron spur with a very long shank was found: in my possession. A remarkable rarity in nature I met withal, an admirable ossification in the _omentum_ of a sheep, white and solid as ivory. Mr. Cheselden has printed a cut of it in the second edition of his Anatomy. I gave it to Dr. Mead. From the ancient churchwardens’ accounts, before the time of the Reformation, from anno 1453, many curious remarks may be made, in relation to prices of things, wages, superstitious customs, old families, and the like: a specimen whereof I have here annexed. _ss._ _A Boake of the Stuffe in the Cheyrche of_ Holbeche _sowld by Chyrchewardyns of the same according to the injunctyons of the Kynges Magyste._ _s._ _d._ An. dni. M. ccccc. xlviiᵒ. First to Antony Heydon the trynite with the tabernacle ii. iiii. It. to Wm. Calow thelder the tabernacle of Nicholas and Jamys vi. viii. [Illustration: 21 Ecclesiam de HOLBECH _in Agro_ Linc. Lucio _Henrico_ _Hibbins Arm. d.d. W. Stukeley_ 1722 _Stukeley delin._ _I. Harris sculp_] [Illustration: _1·2ᵈ._ Littlebury in Holbech Church]