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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Barnhain House, which is said to have been situated at a place called Broken
Cross, at Boston-Long-Fenne-end; they paid a quit-rent to the lords of the
manor of Poyvlton Hall, Freiston, of 10Ud., and half a pound of pepper. In
1650, this estate was held by Bridget Wyles; in 1661, by Andrew Burton;
in 1676, by John Burton, who died in 1691, and was succeeded by his son of
the same name, who paid the above quit-rent in 1692. It is probable that
the house now standing near Burton Corner is the Barnham House above
alluded to.
Burton Corner House.
In 1661, four messuages and land are described as situated at Boston-LongFenne-end, in the respective occupation of John Hobson, Thomas Brown, An1thony Kellett, and Andrew Burton, the latter property belonged to Thomas
Baron. In 1680, Daniel Cabourne held a mansion at the Fenne End in the
hundred of Fishtoft. The premises are described as consisting of a house, containing eight bays and two outshots; a barn, containing three bays and one
outshot; and a stable at the end of the barn, an orchard, a garth, and one close
of pasture-land lying underneath it, containing altogether eight acres. This
property is said to have been purchased of Alvinglham Abbey, and rented to
John Orresby, of London, in 1640. The Vestry-Book of Boston contains ain
entry, under date 1768, stating that the boundary-post between Boston and
Fishtoft was called Jobson's Pound, and was situated on the road leading from
Burton Corner. Sir Arthur Ingram held land in Long Hedges and Willoughby
Hills in 1611, and Sir Robert Addey was then a considerable proprietor in both
places.
Returning to Bargate Bridge, we find, on the eastern side of the road, a
cluster of houses called Mill Hill. The Corporation Records state that, in 1640,
Nathaniel Malkinson held, in fee-farm, one piece of waste land in Bargate,
whereupon was lately one windmill and tenement. Mill Hill in Bargate, and
the waste land beyond it, are mentioned in 1676. The hill was occupied by
William West in 1680, and is described as having then a messuage and several
tenements upon it. In 1711, the Corporation leased part of Mill Hill to be
built upon. On the east side of Bargate, nearly opposite Mill Hill, is St. Peter's