Moulton, or Multon, probably has its name from a mill, which anciently, perhaps, were not so common as now. There is a good church, and very fine spire; as also a good free-school of near 100l. per ann. value in lands. Moulton hall, whose last ruins I have seen, was the seat of Thomas de Multon, lord Egremont, a great man in these parts. His hand is among the barons at _Magna Charta_. Between these two parishes, in a green lane northwards, stands a little stone called Elho stone, whence the name of this hundred is derived: it is about the middle thereof, and was formerly the main road across the country, now called Old Spalding Gate. Old men tell us, here was kept in ancient times an annual court; I suppose a convention, _sub dio_, of the adjacent parts, to treat of their general affairs. A wood hard by is called Elhostone wood. [Sidenote: +Weston.+] Weston, because west from the last town. Here is the stately chapel of Wykeham, the villa of the rich priors of Spalding, built by Clement de Hatfield, prior, who died anno 1318. In 1051, Spalding priory made by Thorold, sheriff of Lincoln, out of his own manor-house. Many places near the old sea-bank are called _hurns_, signifying an angle. Here is a little leam called the Wik: Mr. Camden, in _Bucks_, says it signifies the winding of a river, as Cowhurn hard by. [Sidenote: +Spalding.+] Spalding has been famous for its ancient and rich priory founded before the Conquest, and for the residence of Ivo Tailbois, the lord of this country, by gift of William the Conqueror, the site of whose castle is on the north-east part of the town. The town-hall was built by William Hobson. But of this place we expect from you, sir, a more particular account. [Sidenote: +Pynchbek.+] In Pynchbek church-windows are the arms of Ogle, of Fleet; Argent, on two bars sable, six escallops of the first, empaled with _De la Launde_. Pyncebeck seems to come from the Cimbrian _pinken_, _lucere_, from the clearness of its water. [Sidenote: +Donington.+] Many towns, on both sides Deeping Fen, end in _ington_, _ingham_, as lying upon the Mead. Donington is very hilly, full of elevations or dunes. Thomas Cowley, esq. of Donington, who died about 1718, left all his estate, which was considerable, to the poor of every parish where it lay, whereof 400l. per ann. to Donington, where he built a school-house, and endowed it. [Sidenote: +Algarkirk.+] Algarkirk has a fine church, in which are some water-bougets carved on the oak seats in escutcheons. They say here lived the famous count Algar,[23] commander of the Holland men in many battles against the Danes, of whom they show an image in stone in the church-yard. I found there this inscription, _Sis testis Xpe, quod non jacet hic lapis iste Quisquis es si transeas sta perlege plora Corpus ut ornetur sit lapis ut memoretur. Sum quod eris fueramque quod es pro me precor ora._ [Sidenote: +Wiberton.+]