As we have observed in our “Records” of other parishes, Eudo, son of Spirewic, and Pinso, were two Norman sworn brothers in arms, who came over with the Conqueror, and did him such good service that William granted them “the manor of Tattershall with the hamlet of Thorpe and the towne of Kirkeby,” beside some 24 other lordships; Eudo to have tenure directly from the King, and Pinso under St. Cuthbert of Durham. They subsequently divided these possessions between them, Pinso taking those further away, while Eudo seated himself at Tattershall. On his death there, he was succeeded by his son, Hugh Fitz Eudo, commonly called “Brito,” or “The Breton,” who founded the neighbouring abbey of Kirkstead, A.D. 1139. He had in Kirkby 1 carucate (120 acres) of land “in demesne,” with 8 acres of meadow and 80 acres of woodland interspersed with pasture, very much as “Kirkby Moor” is still. He had also in Tumby another carucate, in his own occupation, with villeins and bordars, and two soc-men, _i.e._, free tenants, on 75 acres; also 20 acres of meadow, one fishery and a half, two mills, and 370 acres of woodland, forming the “Tumby chase.” He had also lands in Waddingworth and Wispington, which were within the jurisdiction of Kirkby; in the latter two parishes he halved the land with the Bishop of Durham, who also (as we have seen) had a slice of Kirkby. With these several important personages connected with this parish, it naturally also acquired a more important position than the villages around, justifying the term “town of Kirkby,” given to it in old records (Dugdale’s “Baronage” vol. i., p. 439). Of subsequent owners of Kirkby, and its appurtenances, Tumby, Fulsby, and Toft, we are not able to give a connected series, but there is evidence enough to enable us to form fairly safe conjectures, concerning several of them.