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
{126} The Grynnees were “nativi,” or tenants in bondage; yet, as
sometimes happens in modern days, a son married the daughter of a knight.
They were attached to the manor of Ingoldmells, which then belonged to
the King.
{127a} The prefix may either be Ea _i.e._ Eau, water, or Ey, Ea, island.
The small islands in the Thames are called eyots.
{127b} By an Inquisition taken at Partney, 8 Sep. 7 Hen. VIII (A.D.
1491), it was found that Bernard Eland, son of Eustace Eland, late of
Stirton, Esquire is an idiot, and that he has an infirmity called “Morbus
Caducus; and he held his manor of Stirton of the lord the King, by the
service of two parts of a knight’s fee.” (“Archit. S. Journ.” 1195, p.
74).
{128} By an Inquisition, 20 Hen. vii (A.D. 1504, 5), held at Lincoln, it
was found that John Billsby and Nicholas Eland were seized of the manor
of Malbissh-Enderby, with appurtenances in Hagworthingham and also of the
manor of Bag Enderby, with appurtenances in Somersby, &c.
{129} This rood-screen has been reproduced in late years in the restored
churches of Brant Broughton and Thornton Curtis. (“Linc. N. & Q.,” 1896,
p. 49).
{131} Of Thomas Goodrick, Bishop of Ely, we may observe that he was
rather a “timeserver,” though one of the supporters of Lady Jane Grey,
and acting on her Council during her nine days’ reign. On the accession
of Queen Mary, he did homage to her, and was allowed to retain his
bishopric. The historian says of him, that “he was a busy
secular-spirited man, given up to factions and intrigues of state,
preferring to keep his bishopric before the discharge of his conscience.”
The name was probably originally spelt Gode-rich, and a Latin epigram was
composed, in allusion to this, as follows:—
“Et bonus et dives, bene junctus et optimus ordo,
Prœcedit bonitas, pone sequuntur opes”;
which may be Englishised thus:—
“Both _good_ and _rich_, duly combined,
The good in front, the rich behind.”
There is probably a trace of the Goodrick family in a carved stone over
the kitchen door at the farmhouse close by the church, on which the
device is a cross “fitchée,” rising from another recumbent cross,
combined with a circle, between the initials L and G, with the date above
1544.
{133} Our modern rock-salt was unknown till 1670, when it was
accidentally found in Cheshire. Before that time the only salt in use,
was that collected by evaporation, in “salt-pans,” on the Humber or the
sea-coast. Of these, Sharon Turner calculates (“Hist. Anglo-Saxons,”
vol. iii., p. 251, Ed., 1836), that there were no less than 361 in the
county.
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