By a similar process the lands formerly held by the Monks of Revesby, were granted, on the dissolution, by Henry VIII. to his “well beloved and dear kinsman,” the aforesaid Duke of Suffolk, Charles Brandon. Among these are named lands in Tumby, Fulsby, Kirkby-on-Bain, &c., &c. From the Brandons they passed to the great Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and then to the Howards; then to the family of Sir Joseph Banks; and he, dying without issue, left his estates divided among the families of Stanhope, Sir H. Hawley, Bart., and Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. The present Sir Henry M. Hawley, of Leybourne, Maidstone, Kent, is lord of the manor of Tumby, including Fulsby, and resides at Tumby Lawn. Some of the land belongs to the representatives of the late Right Honourable E. Stanhope, H. Rogers, Esq., and smaller proprietors. The Fulsby Hall Farm, with the watermill, was given in 1669 to the Grammar School at Brigg, by Sir John Nelthorpe, the then proprietor; but most of this has been purchased in late years by Sir Henry James Hawley; so that there now only remain some 70 acres, and the Fulsby watermill, connected with that school. Just outside the parish to the south-east is a large wood, now called “Shire Wood”; but in a Revesby charter (No. 29), date Henry II., the name is given as “Skire-wode”; which is Danish, connected with our words “shear” to cut, and “shire” a division, and means the “boundary,” or “dividing” wood. The same syllable occurs in the “Skir-beck” quarter of Boston. In a smaller wood, in the west of the parish, called “Kirkby Riddings” we have another relic of the Danes, as Mr. Streatfeild, in his work “Lincolnshire and the Danes,” tells us, that in their language “ridja” means to “clear away a wood.” We still speak of “ridding ourselves” of anything, when we clear it away. The Kirkby Riddings, doubtless tell of the “clearings” in those larger woods which we have already mentioned as formerly existing here, wherein the Lords of the demesne found their sport in the chase of the deer, the wild boar, and other animals. {115a} Those “hardy Norsemen” were a tough race, and have thus left their traces behind them. We have mentioned an Ayscough in connection with Kirkby; a daughter of Sir Henry Ayscough having married Nicholas Cressy of Fulsby Hall. This was a very old family, originally located in Yorkshire; the name having probably been Akes-heugh, or Ake-shaw, _i.e._, Oak-wood; it afterwards came to be spelt in a variety of ways, as Ayscough, Ayscoghe, Aiscough, Askew, &c.