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.

170 VICARS OR RECTORS BEFORE TIHE REFORMATION.
feet apart. The style of their architecture is the "late decorated;" the walls
are of white brick; the open parapets, pinnacles, and spires, of Ancaster stone.
The chapels are thirty-six feet long and twenty feet broad, the towers and
steeples seventy feet high. The interiors have groined ceilings, springing
from carved corbels, and are fitted up with open seats, having carved ends and
stone reading-desks: each chapel will seat sixty persons. The cost of each
about 6001.
VICARS OR RECTORS OF BOSTON BEFORE THE
REFORMATION.
1309. Sir John Truesdale, parson.
1321. John Barrett, rector of Boston church, Register of Corpus Christi
Guild, 1346, and again mentioned as rector of St. Botolph in 1362.
1381. John Stransgill, rector of Boston, according to the Subsidy Roll of
this year. He is called Strensall in the Register of the Corpus Christi Guild in
1385 and 1398. He was assessed in the Subsidy 51 Edward III., 1377, as a
beneficed clerk, and was also a member of the Guild of the Holy Trinity in
Boston, and died in 1408.
1409. Richard Flemyng, rector of Boston; his name is in the Corpus Christi
Register of this year, and is mentioned, in 1415, by INGULPHus, " as an excellent
doctor of holy theology." He was appointed Bishop of Lincoln May 12th,
1420, and founded Lincoln College at Oxford in 1427; he died at Sleaford,
143 1. He was in early life a warm supporter of the doctrines of John Wickliff,
but was afterwards as strenuous an opponent of them. Baker says, " he wrote
divers books, one' Of the Etymology of England.' "
1424. John Ickworth, rector, and member of Corpus Christi Guild.
1431. Richard Layot, rector, and memnber of the same Guild.
1452. John Marshall, rector, and also member of the same Guild.
1462. Roger Cheschyre, rector, and, in 1469, alderman of the Guild of
Corpus Christi.
1492. William Smyth, vicar of Boston, and alderman of Corpus Christi
Guild in 1503. Died 13th April, 1505; he was prebendary of Hather.
1513. Robert Wilberfoss, vicar of Boston, and member of Corpus Christi
Guild.
1518. John Tynmouth, alias Manelyn, vicar of St. Botolph and Bishop of
Argolis,' alderman of Corpus Christi Guild in 1519. Under the name of JOHN
of TYNMUOUTrr, he is supposed to have written a life of St. Botolph.
1531. Doctor John Mabledon, vicar of Boston, and member of Corpus Christi
Guild. Salary in 1538, as vicar, 50 marks.
1545. Baron Sandford, vicar of Boston. Salary 231. The Corporation
Records, under date June 1552, order " communication to be had with Vicar
Suneforthe (Sandford) for surrendering his benefice."2
This John Tynmouth was a Franciscan at Lynn The Bishop of Argos was a suffragan of the
in Norfolk, and educated at the Franciscan Convent Bishop of Lincoln, as were also the Bishops of
(now Sidney College) at Cambridge, and afterwards Leyden and Mayo. There was another John of
among the members of his fraternity at Oxford. He Tinmouth, who is described as a "Chronicler of the
was appointed Vicar of Boston about 1515, and soon fourteenth century."-See CHURTON on EarlyEngafterwards made a suffragan bishop. He died in lish Churches, p. 229.
1524, and was buried in the churchyard at Boston. The dates prefixed to these names are those at
He bequeathed five pounds to each of the Franciscan which we find the parties mentioned as holding office,
houses at Lynn, Carmbridge, and Oxford.- See and not those when they were respectively apWOOD'S Ath. Oxon. vol. i. p. 566; and DODD's pointed.
Church HEistory, i. p. 187.