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
There were also two other Saxon owners in the parish, who would seem, to
some extent, to have been partners. Godwin and Gonewate had between them
60 acres in Kirkby, charged with the aforesaid payment of “gelt,” and 75
acres exempt from it. They had also 360 acres in Tattershall Thorpe; and
separately, or together, they had lands in several other parishes.
Especially in Tumby, they owned 300 acres rateable to “gelt,” and 360
acres more sub-let to dependents.
Another part of this parish would seem to have been a separate demesne,
Fulsby, probably a contraction of Fugels-by, or the homestead of Fugel.
{100b} Here, at a later period, there was a large residence, named
“Fulsby Hall” of which possibly there may be still some traces in ponds
and mounds, in a field in the middle of what is still called “Fulsby
Wood.”
Toft Grange also would seem to have been another distinct property; and
was at a later date (as will be shown hereafter), owned or occupied by a
Dymoke. The term “Grange” would imply that it was an appendage of some
Religious House; and an old charter of Richard I., now in the Library of
Revesby Abbey, shows that that Sovereign granted to the Monks of St.
Lawrence at Revesby, the Grange of Toft, {101a} with its appurtenances, a
mill at Fulsby, with lands in Tumby, Coningsby, &c.
The greater part of Tumby was, as it is still, woodland, and formed
“Tumby Forest,” or “Tumby Chase,” of which old maps still show the trees.
{101b}
In a Close Roll, 5 Ed. IV. (1466), there is a reference to the great
wood, called “Tumbi Wode,” or “Tumbi Chase” (“Ibiden,” p. 131).
We have, thus far, three Saxon proprietors in this parish, who were, in
their day, men of substance; but the incoming of the Norman was the
Saxon’s doom; and while Domesday Book says, with pregnant brevity, that
Ulmar, Godwin, and Gonewate “had,” _i.e._ formerly owned, such and such
lands, it names the Normans alone as present proprietors.
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