The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

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Division IV.-Mlonasteries, Guilds, &c.
Monastery of St. Botolph, 108. Dominican or Black Friars, 108. Carmelite Friary, 109.
Augustine Friary, 111. Franciscan Friars, 112. Guilds, 113. St. Botolph's Guild, 115.
Corpus Christi Guild, 115. Extracts front the Register, 116. Obits celebrated, 123. Rentroll of the Guild (1489), 127. St. Mary's Guild, 134. Privileges granted by Papal Bulls,
135. Annual rent-rolls, 138. List of aldermen, 139. John Robinson's bequest to this
Guild, 139. Inventory of property at the dissolution, 141. Guild of St. Peter and St. Paul,
147. Holy Trinity, 150. St. George, 153. Smaller unincorporated Guilds, 154. St.Anne's
church, &c., 155. Chantries, 156. Sale of the plate of the Boston Guilds, 157. Companies
of tradesmen or artisans, 158.
Division V.-The Church.
St. Botolph's Church. Probable mode of raising the money by which it was erected, 160.
A church dedicated to St. Botolph, mentioned in 1090, 161. Notices of this church, and
foundation of the present one, 162. Inventory of Church plate (1552), 163. St. John's
Church, 164. Notices of St. Botolph's Church, 165. Renovation of the exterior in 1843,
167. Of the interior, 1851, &c., 168. New cemetery, 169. List of vicars and. rectors from
1309, 170. Mayor's Chaplains, 172. Lecturers, 173. Parsonage, Rectory, or Vicarage, 173.
Description of the exterior, 175. Description of the interior, 180. Library, 187. Holles'
Church Notes, 191. Existing memorials, 194.
Division VI. — General History and Description.
Boundaries of the parish of Boston, 199. The Scirebeck, 199. Maud Foster, 200.
Heronshaw Hall, 201. Fishtoft Hundred, 202. Burton Corner, 203. Wide Bargate, and
sheep and cattle market, 204. Independents' Chapel in Grove Street, 205. Unitarian Chapel,
Chapel Row, 205. Pescod House, 205. Wide Bargate, 206. Bargate and Barbridge, 207.
Wesleyan Centenary Chapel, 208. Congregational Church, 209. History of theatrical
amusements in Boston, 210. Blue-coat School, 211. Wormgate, 212. Old Grammar
School, 213. Old Vicarage, 214. The Church-house, 215. The Sessions House, 216. Old
gaol in the Market-place, 217. The Butchery, 218. Corn Market, Pillory, &c., 219. Ducking-stool and hurry-cart, 220. New Corn-market, 220. Athenaeum, 221. Pump Square,
222. National Schools, 222. The old Market Cross, 223. Butter Cross and old Three Tuns,
224. Council Chamber and house John Fox was born in, 225. Market-place prior to 1710,
220. Assembly Rooms and Market House, 227. Gully Mouth, 228. Jersey School and
House of Correction, 230. Remains of Dominican Friary and National Schools, 231.
Custom House, 232. Packhouse Quay, 232. Spain Lane, 233. Unitarian Chapel, 233.
Hall of the Guild of St. Mary, now the Town Hall, 235. Gysors' Hall, 236. Duckfield
Lane, 238. Grammar School, 238. Manor of Hall-garth, 238. Cold Harbour, 239. St.
John's Row, Bridge, Church, &c., 241. Hussey Tower, 243. Hussey Hall, 244. Parish
Work-house, 244. Union Work-house and poor statistics, 245. Augustine Friars, 247.
Ancient steel-yard, 247. History of the Quarter Sessions, 247. Merchant seamen's
houses, 247. The Holms, Dock-pasture, &c., 247. Baths and garden; Gallows, 248. Approach to the bridge from the Market-place in 1772, 248. History of the successive bridges,
249. Stanbow Lane, 253. Robinson Family, 253. St. George's Hall and Cripple Hall,
254. Irby Hall, 255. High Street, Furth-end Lane, or WVest Street, 256. Railway station,
Gas-works, &c., 258. Doughty Quay, Carmelite Friary, 258. The Old White Horse, 259.
HIeslam Alley and Chapel, 259; Chapel of Ease, 260. General Baptists' Chapel and Congregation, 260. Presbyterian congregation, 263. St. Anne's Cross, &c., 263. Skirbeck
Quarter, 264. Old Hammond Beck, 265. Red Stone Gowt, 266. Black Sluice and South
Forty-foot drain, 267. Sir Thomas Middlecott's Charity, 268. Liquor Pond Street, Salem
Chapel, 269. Ebenezer Chapel and Primitive Methodists, 270. Unknown localities, 271.
Erection Lands, and list of them in 1553, 272. Beadsmen, 277. Bridge, 278. Henry
Fox, Richard Briggs, and Agnes Fox's charities, 277, 279. Anne Carre's charity, 280.
Benefactions to the poor and to poor widows, 281. Poor freemen and mariners, 282. Lost,