There are some rather singular field-names in this parish; as “Bull-pingle,” to the east, one field from the road to Horsington; “pingle” being a Lincolnshire word for a small inclosure (Brogden’s “Provincial Words.”) “The Devil’s Parlour” is a triangular field, abutting on “The Monk’s Drain,” adjoining the Bull-pingle. “The Coulter Cast” adjoins Poolham Ings; it is a narrow strip, probably difficult to plough; hence the names adjoining this, are the “High” and “Low” “Priest’s Fields.” All these fields are in the Halstead manor. In Stixwould proper, is “The Field,” _par excellence_, probably one of the earliest clearings, and so named to distinguish it from the “Wood,” or “Would,” the “Field,” was where the trees had been “felled;” then there are the “Warren Field,” “The Sykes,” “Hemp-yard,” the “Town Close,” probably where the villeins had right of common pastures. “Coney-Green,” like the “Warren Field,” has a reference to the rabbits, being the term used in Norman law, for warren, although in some cases, like the “Coney-Garth,” at Bardney, or “Coney-Green,” at Edlington, it means, probably, the “King’s Enclosure.” Such names as “Steer Piece,” “Ewes Walk,” “Sheep-cote Lane” (_i.e._, Sheep Bank Lane,) and “Cow Legs,” speak for themselves. There is also the “Mill Field,” although there is no tradition of a mill having existed; possibly there may have been a mill in connection with the drainage. At the junction of the three roads, east of the village, the Roman “Trivium,” formerly stood, what to the rustic offender was no “trivial” matter, the village stocks, doubtless with the usually concomitant “whipping post.” These stood on what was called “The Town Mound,” which was levelled about the middle of the last century, and is now only represented by a triangular plot of sward. Near the Witham, in a field south of the road to the ferry, the Rev. J. A. Penny, late vicar, found fragments of mediæval pottery, pieces of “puzzle jugs,” the neck of a “pilgrim’s bottle,” &c., all of which the late Sir Augustus Franks, of the British Museum, pronounced to be Cistercian ware, being only found where Cistercian houses have existed. In the church of St. Andrew, Woodhall Spa, is a sepulchral stone, having a rather rudely-carved effigy of a lady, in the attitude of prayer, holding a book between her hands. This now supports the credence table, but it was taken from Stixwould priory, and is commonly supposed to have represented the Lady Prioress, or the Lady Lucia, the foundress; the latter, however, was buried at Spalding, and would therefore hardly have an effigy at Stixwould. STOURTON.