having been, it is said, sold about 40 years ago, and removed to the garden of a farmhouse in the adjoining parish of Edlington, where it still remains. The furniture of the church is of the 18th century, or later, but there is a good old oak chest. On the western portion of the north wall is a curious fresco, not probably of very ancient date, consisting of a skeleton, and a winged figure rising from a sepulchral monument, which bears an inscription, mostly illegible, “Redeem the time, &c.” The chancel arch, now almost ruinous, is part of the original building; south of it, is a tablet, in memory of “William Settle, Clerk, who departed this life, July 4, 1848, born at Urswick, in the County of Lancaster, graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, aged 82, and 52 years vicar of this parish.” The Settles have a burial vault in the churchyard. The register dates from 1679. The name of William Vaux appears as vicar, from 1690 to 1719. One entry is as follows:—“Margaret Vaux the 21st child of William Vaux and Elizabeth his wife was baptized ye 23 of October 1718,” and shortly after, follows, in a different hand, “Mr. William Vaux, vicar, buryed May ye 30, 1719.” The family would seem to have continued to reside in the parish, for we find recorded the burial of Mary Vaux, February 19, 1720; that of Margaret Vaux, September 3rd, 1721; and that of Elizabeth Vaux, “January ye 10, 1755.” Of the rest of the numerous progeny of this fruitful couple no traces remain. A small hamlet in this parish is named Lowthorpe, probably from its position; while a farm, belonging to Mr. Robert Harrison, of Horncastle, who is Lay-Rector, is named “Sturton Stoup” farm. This name, however, has no connection with the “Stoup,” or holy-water vessel of the church; but “Stoup” is a Lincolnshire word, meaning a post, or stake. The farmhouse was, within recent years, a wayside inn, called “The Stoup”; and the “stoup” was a post, or stake, planted in the middle of an adjoining green lane to prevent its being used as a thoroughfare. The parish was inclosed in 1778. The benefice of Stourton was formerly in the patronage of the Crown, and there was a Vicarage house, standing in its own grounds, in what is now an open field, south of the churchyard. This was demolished many years ago. The Vicarage was united to that of Baumber, in the patronage of the Duke of Newcastle, about the year 1870, the consolidated benefices being now in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. They had, however, been held together by at least three previous incumbents. The communion plate is old, although only the chalice bears a date, 1648. TETFORD.