Records, Historical and Antiquarian, of Parishes Round HorncastleWalter, J. Conway (James Conway)
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Records, Historical and Antiquarian, of Parishes Round Horncastle
Walter, J. Conway (James Conway)
Parishes -- England -- Horncastle -- History
{54} This Bishop was, at the date of Domesday, William de Karilepho. He
had been Abbot of St. Vincent; was consecrated Bishop of Durham, January
3rd, 1082, and held the office of Chief Justice of England under the
Conqueror. He was an ambitious man, and acquired great possessions,
largely in this neighbourhood. He was banished from his See for three
years by William Rufus for conspiring, with many of the nobility, against
the throne. And for the part which he took in the quarrel between Rufus
and Archbishop Anselm, he was so severely rebuked that he died of wounded
pride.
{58} We have, in the north of the county, Goxhill which, in Domesday
Book, is Golse; and in Broughton, not far from thence, is the hamlet
Gokewell; both of which may contain the same prefix. Although Goltho,
which has a similar sound, is a corruption of Caldicot.
{59} It is not improbable that these early possessions in Goulceby, &c.,
may have come to the Cromwells indirectly on the females’ side, through
their connections, the Willoughbys; since we find, by a Feet of Fines
(Lincoln, folio 69, A.D. 1302), that as early as the reign of Edward I.,
a suit was instituted between John Bec (of the ancient Spilsby and Lusby
family), and Robert Wylgheby; wherein it was proved that the Willoughbys
even then held lands in “Golkeby, Donington,” etc.
{60a} Feet of Fines, Lincoln, Trinity, 22 Elizabeth (“Architect. S.
Journ.” 1895, p. 129.)
{60b} I have referred to this Thomas Glemham, in notices of
Mareham-le-Fen, of which manor he was Lord. Other members of the family
settled elsewhere in the neighbourhood, besides Burwell, the
headquarters.
{60c} British Museum, Add., 5524., fol. 68.
{60d} He was eventually imprisoned by Cromwell, and died in exile in
Holland.
{61} It is also stated that Mrs. Eleanor Lister “was buryed in ye vault,
Dec. ye 28th, in woollen”; and their first-born grandson Matthew,
baptized 7 May, 1703, was “buried in woollen” on the 13th of the same
month.
{69} Of course it is possible that the supposed owner of Greetham may
have been this second Lord Strafford, whose Ancestors held Ashby
Puerorum. I quote this from a paper in the “Architectural Society’s
Journal” of 1891, by Rev. A. R. Maddison, F.S.A., entitled “A Ramble
through the parish of St. Mary Magdalene,” in which he mentions house
property in Lincoln belonging to the Wentworths. It certainly shows a
connection of the Wentworths with Ashby Puerorum, then probably still an
appurtenance of the Greetham Manor.
{73} The close connection of Haugh and Hagi, is shown by Domesday Book,
which called the Lincolnshire village Haugh Hage. Taylor (“Words and
Places”) connected the word with “hedge” and our modern “haw-haw,” a sunk
fence; and so a hedged enclosure.
{75} The present holders of this title (the Keppels), are a different
family, their honour dating only from 1696. Albemarle or Awmarle, a town
in North Normandy, is now Aumale, from which the Duc d’Aumale takes his
title.
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