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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the building of the Union WVorkhouse, this house was taken down, and the
materials and site sold.
The workhouse for the Boston Union was opened in 1837.' It is erected
upon a portion of the Augustine Friars' Pasture, two acres of which were
purchased of the Corporation for this purpose, and for the necessary yards,
&c. &c.
View near the Union Workhouse.
The house is calculated to accommodate comfortably 450 persons. The
board-room and chapel are on either side of the entrance; the rooms are well
ventilated, and the classification as perfect, and the dietary as gocd and sufficient, as are generally found in the best-regulated houses of this description. The
average number of pupils in the girls' school is about sixty, in the boys' school
about seventy.2 The routine of education for the children, and of employment
for the more adult, appears to be exceedingly well adapted to promote those
objects. The greatest number of inmates at one time, in each vear since the
establishment of the house, was as follows:1837...... 225 1843...... 338 1849. 351
1838. 2... 289 1844.... 317 1850... 389
1839. 236 1845.... 352 1.851...... 421
1840...... 210 1846...... 380 1852....... 394
1841..... 225 1847.... 390 1 1853...- 338
1842...... 320 1848.344 1854...... 333
1 The Boston Union contains the following containing anagregateof 97,250squareacres, and a
parishes: —Boston, Skirbeck, Skirbeck Quarter, population, in 1851, of 38,312 persons, dwelling in
Fishtoft, Fi'eiston, Butterwick, Benington, Lever- 7831 houses; there were also 319 uninhabited
ton, Leake, Wrangle, Carrington, Frithville, Lang- houses, and forty-three houses building. The total
rickville, Thornton-le-Ville, Westville, Swineshead, receipts of the Union in 1853 were 19,7121. ls., the
Bicker, Wigtoft, Brothertoft, Dogdyke, Wyberton, expenditure, 19,4061. 8s.
Frampton, Kirton, Sutterton, Algarlkirk, Foscdyke, 2 An infant-school was added in 1856; it conand Sibsey, and the hamlet of Hart's Grounlds; tains about thirty pupils.