At the date of Domesday Book, the great Norman Baron, Ivo Taylebois, owned land in this parish, as Earl Harold had done before him. Baldric, one of the Earl’s vassals, had there one carucate, and two villeins, and two bordars, and seven sokemen, who had two carucates, and half a mill, worth 7s. yearly, and 30 acres of meadow. There were three carucates, rateable to gelt. The manor, held by Edric, had six oxgangs, also rateable to gelt. Its value, temp. Edwd. the Confessor, was 60s., in Domesday 100s. Among the gentry of Lincolnshire, enrolled in the List made by the King’s Heralds, at their visitation in 1634, was Ambrose Shepard of this parish (Everard Green, F.S.A., “Lincs. N. & Q.,” p. 105). In Liber Regis, the living was valued at £17 8_s._ 6½_d._, now at £500; 423 acres being allotted at the enclosure in lieu of tithes and the old glebe. In 1722 the benefice was in the gift of the Rev. Mr. Carr of Newcastle-on-Tyne; after that the patronage was vested in King’s College, Cambridge. There is an endowed School, for master and mistress, founded by Jane Dymoke, widow of the champion, in 1727, and endowed by her in 1736, for teaching the children of the poor of the parish, “to read, write, spin, and card wool.” Commodious schoolrooms for boys and girls have been erected in late years. Lands in Woodhall yield an income of about £110 a year. There is a rent charge of £5 on a farm in Asterby, and £568 in consols. The whole yearly income is about £130, besides residence and 20 acres of land for the master. Four almswomen receive 2_s._ 3_d._ weekly, with an allowance of fuel. Four apprentices are provided for with a premium of £10, and £3 a year for clothing, during the 7 years of their service. The late Mrs. Baker, in 1848, also left the interest of £500 to be distributed in coals among the poor of the parish. The living is now in the gift of King’s College, Cambridge; but by an Inquisition held at Boston, 12 Henry VII. (A.D. 1497) it was found that Sir John Ratclyff, knight, besides considerable other property in the county, was seised of the advowson of Hemingby, and alternate advowson of Skyrbeck, but he being attainted, in the 11th year of that King, his property passed to Andrew Dymmock, as the Kings “Solidat” (soldier). (“Linc. N. & Q.,” iv., p. 11.) In 1711 Leonard Smelt, Esq., presented to this benefice; in 1722 the Rev. Mr. Carr, of Newcastle, gent.; and King’s College for the first time in 1768. KIRKBY-ON-BAIN. Kirkby-on-Bain is a village larger than most of those in the immediate neighbourhood, situated on the river Bain, between 4 and 5 miles from Horncastle, in a southerly direction, about 4 miles north-east of Tattershall, and rather less south-east of Woodhall Spa, where are the nearest railway station, money order, and telegraph office, there being a post office in the village.