Memorials of the Counties of England
General Editor:
Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., F.R.H.
Memorials of
Old Lincolnshire
Lincoln Cathedral, Evening.
E. R. Taylor pinx. Andre & Sleigh Sc.
Memorials of
Old Lincolnshire
EDITED BY
E. MANSEL SYMPSON, M.A., M.D.
Author of “Lincoln” (Ancient Cities)
Co-Editor of “Lincolnshire Notes and Queries”
With many Illustrations
LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN & SONS, RUSKIN HOUSE
RATHBONE PLACE
1911
[All Rights Reserved]
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
EARL BROWNLOW
LORD-LIEUTENANT OF LINCOLNSHIRE
THIS VOLUME
IS
DEDICATED
BY KIND PERMISSION
Lincolnshire, perhaps, is known most widely as thesecond largest county in England, as pre-eminentin agriculture and stock-breeding on wold, heath,marsh, and fen, as well to the fore in the manufacture ofagricultural and other machinery, as possessing the largestfishing-port in Europe (Grimsby), and as being associatedwith “The Handicap.”
But, apart from all these, she can boast of very manyattractions for the traveller and the antiquary. Flat andlow though her shores may be, yet there is a fascination inthe great extent of “yellow sands”; and there is a recompensefor the level plain of marsh or fen in the vast expanseof sky, where “The incomparable pomp of eve, And the coldglories of the dawn,” are seen at their finest.
And the views are wonderful: from Alkborough, overthe junction of the Trent, the Ouse, and the Humber; fromLincoln, over the plateau eastwards to the wolds, or westwardsover the valley of the Trent to the Nottinghamshireand Derbyshire hills; or eastwards, from the edge of the“high wold,” over the great plain