Transcribed from the 1904 W. K. Morton edition, by DavidPrice,
Records,
HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN,
OF
Parishes Round Horncastle.
BY
J. CONWAY WALTER,
Authorof “Records of WoodhallSpa,” “TheAyscoughs,”
“LiteræLaureatæ,” &c.
AncientChrismatory, see page 38.
Horncastle:
W. K. Morton,HighStreet,
1904.
p.vPREFACE.
In perusing the following pages, readers, who may be speciallyinterested in some one particular parish with which they areconnected, may in certain cases be disappointed on not findingsuch parish here described, as they have previously seen it,along with the others, in the columns of the “HorncastleNews,” where these ‘Records’ firstappeared. This may arise from one of two causes:—
(1) The volume published in 1899, entitled“Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood” (whichwas very favourably received), contained accounts of parishesextending from Somersby and Harrington in the east of thedistrict, to Horsington and Bucknall in the west, with othersbetween; as being likely to interest visitors to that growinghealth resort. These, therefore, do not find a place inthis volume.
(2) Further it is proposed that in the near future thisvolume shall be followed by a “History ofHorncastle,” already approaching completion, and with itaccounts of the fourteen parishes within its“soke.” These, again, are, consequently, nothere given.
The Records of all these different parishes will be found inthe volumes to which they respectively belong.
In again submitting a work of this character to the manyfriends whom his former volume has gained for him, the authorwishes to say that he is himself fully alive to itsimperfections; none could be more so. In not a fewinstances it has, almost perforce, come short of his own aim andaspirations; the material available in conne