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.

XViii CONTENTS.
Division XVI.-Archaisms, &c.
Importance of lists of archaic and provincial words and phrases, 696. Alphabetical list of
1260. Provincialisms, &c., 698. Proverbs, phrases, comparisons, superstitions, omens,
customs, &c., 731.
Appendix.
List of religious houses formerly in Lincolnshire, 737. Classification of religious houses,
748. Members of the Corpus Christi Guild at Boston, who were officially connected with
other places, 749. Monastic libraries in Lincolnshire, 754. Extracts from the Parish
Register of Boston, 755. Briefs read in Boston Church, 757. King's Evil. Burying in
woollen, 758. Appointment of Constables (1640), 759. Rate of wages in 1680, 761. Other
rates in 1596, 1610, and 1754, 766. Assize ofbread, 1754, 767. Voluntary gift to Charles II.
by the inhabitants of Lincolnshire (1661), 768.
Additions and Corrections.
Artificial hills in Lincolnshire, 769. King John's Charter to Boston, 771. Manor of
Hussey Hall, 772. Lincolnshire persons charged with high treason (1642), 773. Guild of
St. Mary, Boston, 774. John of Tynemouth, 775. Dr. Anthony Tuckney, 775. Dr. Obadiah
Howe, 777. Canopies to the stalls in St. Botolph's Church, 777. The Cottbn memorial, 778.
The Bolles family, 778. Unitarian Congregation, 779. The Guild Hall, 779. Grammar
School, 779. Pond Garth, 779. General Baptists' Congregation, 780. Presbyterian Congregation, 780. Escutcheon of arms at the Vicarage, 781. The river Witham called Wima,
782. Chart of Boston Deeps, 782. The Tilney family, 783. George Ripley, 783. John
Thory, 783. Rev. John Cotton, 784. Rev. Samuel Whiting, 784. Samuel Leigh, 785.
Dr. Stukeley, 785. Dr. Andrew Kippis, 785. Methodist Chapels in the Hundred of
Skirbeck, 786. Boring for Water (1826), 787.
GENERAL INDEX................. 789
INDEX OF NAMES............... 804
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.............. 815
ERRATA.
Page 263, line 22, for "Rev. Levi Underhill," read "Rev. Michael Underhill."
Page 374, note 3, for "dairy," read " daisy."
Page 472, line 3. The view of Skirbeck Church is called a " north-west" view, but it is
the directly reverse, being a " south-east" view; the error arose from the engraving
being changed without making a corresponding change in the letter-press.
The name of the last known descendant of the Packharness family was William, not Peter,
as is stated at page 545, line 17.
Page 592, line 31, for "George Thomas Brailsford," read "Thomas Brailsford."
Page 753, last line, for " Ecclesiastica" read " Fiercatoria."
Several literal errors have, no doubt, escaped the eyes of the proof-readers; and some
irregularities occur in the spelling of two or three words; but it is believed the
above are the only verbal inaccuracies in the volume.