[90] For this information the writer is indebted to the Rev. E. A. Irons, rector of North Luffenham, who has long made a special study of the records of the diocese and district. [91] An interesting account of this fight, and the circumstances which led up to and followed it, is to be found in an article entitled “An Unnoticed Battle” in _Rutland Magazine_, vol. i. p. 186 _et seq._ [92] Lincolnshire Topographical Society, 1843. [93] Chequée _or_ and _gu._, over all a bend _erm._ [94] _Sa._ semée with cinquefoils _arg._, a lion rampant _arg._ [95] _Lincoln Cathedral Statutes_, vol. ii. p. 447. [96] According to Gough (Camden’s _Britannia_) the stained glass of the church was taken out in 1737 to save the vicar wearing spectacles! [97] _Chancel Screens_, A. Welby Pugin, p. 14. [98] Pugin, p. 22. [99] See plan and view in Gally Knight. [100] Published by J. D. of Kidwelly, MDCLXXII. [101] _York Fabric Rolls_ (Surtees Society), p. 300-1. [102] _Archæological Journal_, vol. xlv. p. 429. [103] In the _Lincoln Diocesan Magazine_, 1895. [104] In this respect resembling Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s third husband, who “lith y grave under the rode-beme,” and an Alderman H. Philyp, who wished “to be buried in the Church of Seynt Petres, in the Baylly of Oxford, under the Rode.”—A. Gibbons, _Early Lincoln Wills_, pp. 87-8. [105] Aymer Vallance, “Rood-Screen of Moulton Church,” _Archæological Journal_, vol. lxvi. p. 264. [106] At _Grimoldby_, _Addlethorpe_, and _Winthorpe_ still exist the pulley holes for working the lights in front of the rood-screen, according to “A. V.,” _Church Times_, July 29, 1910. [107] _English Church Furniture_, E. Peacock, 1866, p. 151. [108] Mason and Webb, _Durandus’ Symbolism of Churches_, p. civ. ed. 1893. [109] _Early Lincoln Wills_, A. Gibbons. The bequests seem to begin early in the fifteenth century. There is only one instance (Jas. Burton, of _Horncastle_, 1536, to the Rood light xij_d._) in Canon Maddison’s collection of _Lincolnshire_ wills of the sixteenth century. [110] _Oliver Cromwell_, p. 141. [111] J. G. Williams, _Linc. Notes and Queries_, vol. viii. p. 101. [112] On this occasion, probably, the Lincoln Corporation received from the King’s hands its third sword.—Williams, _Linc. Notes and Queries_, viii. p. 155. [113] J. G. Williams, _Linc. Notes and Queries_, viii. p. 140. [114] _True Intelligence from Lincolnshire, presented to the view and consideration of the peaceably-minded_, 15th August 1642. [115] _Joyful Intelligence from Lincolnshire_, quoted in _Linc. Notes and Queries_, viii. p. 154. [116] Clarendon’s _History of the Rebellion_, book v. [117] _Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson_, ed. 1892, pp. 143-45. [118] _Relation of a Fight in the County of Lincoln_, &c., 1643. [119] Carlyle, _Letters of Cromwell_, Part II. x. [120] _Great Civil War_, i. p. 143. [121] A. Paterson, _Oliver Cromwell: his Life and Character_, p. 51.