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.

EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTER, ETC. 473
1664. Adam Slight, of the Hospital, buried September 19.
1666. Thomas XWest, of the Hospital, buried March 28.
In 1732, the baptisms, and, in 1779, the burials of persons occur, against
whose names the word Anabaptist is written.
In 1685, a certificate was given, that " Ebenezer Birtch had not been presented heretofore to his Majesty to be touched for the healing the disease called
the King's evil."
We find the following names of clergy in this parish previous to the Reformation:
1300. William de Percy, parson.
1305. Simon, chaplain of Skirbeck.
1333. John, chaplain of Skirbeck.
1335. John Parker, rector; received 351. 6s. 8d.
1342. John de Multon, parson of Skirbeck.
1378. John, rector.
1381. John Tochett, rector.
1428. Robert Ywardby, rector, and of Toft; he was alderman of Corpus
Christi Guild this year.
1450. Thomas Greendale, rector of Skirbeck.
1468. Alexander Ferclew, rector, and Professor and Doctor of Sacred Theology, 1471. Alderman of Corpus Christi Guild, 1470.
1484. WilliamL Langton, rector, and Professor of Sacred Theology.
1520. John Eden and William Pickering, chaplains.
1547. William Parker, rector. Salary, 301.
The Church Register furnishes the following list since the Reformation:1652. Rev. Jeremiah Vasyn, buried January 9, 1679.'
1679. Rev. Thomas Palmer, buried June 14, 1719.
1719. Rev. Alexander Simpson, buried March 2, 1735.
1735. Rev. John Smith (alive in 1760).
1735. Rev. David Field; curate 1761.
1735. Rev. Edward Wilby; curate 1762.
1770. Rev. Thomas Birtwhistle, died 1789.
1790. Rev. Charles Birtwhistle.
1791. Rev. Thomas Vardull.
1791. Rev. Thomas Bland, rector.
1825. Rev. Robert Campbell, rector; died 1833.
1833. Rev. William Roy, D.D.; died December 2, 1852.
1852. Rev. Robert Evelyn Roy.
We find a great many entries in the Records of the Corporation of Boston,
relating to Skirbeck parsonage or rectory. We select the following as particularly relating to its history:1594. "Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Dineley to have the parsonage of Skirbeck
for three years more (if Mr. Pratt live so long) for 201. a-year, to be paid to the
curate."
1595. The Corporation purchased the whole manor of Skirbeck, and the
advowson thereof, of the Earl of Sussex, and the presentation to the two next
inductions to the church.
1We think the following memorial of this gentle- frequens, Moribus suavis, Vita sobrius et honestus,
man, in the churchyard on the east side of the Pietate clarus, Omnibus charus, Nulli gravis, qui
porch should be recorded here. It is already nearly postquam per annos plus minus XLIIII..... mi
illegible on the stone:-nisteriale in hac Ecclesia parochiali.... deliter Ad"Sub hoc marmore ministrasset et laboribus qui'vit in D'no Januar'
habuit mortale deposuit. Jeremias....A. Mr. ydac 7. Anno D'ni MDCLXXIX.
hujusce Ecclesie Rector fidus, Pastor vigilans, Etatis sum LXXIII."
Fide sanus, Orationibus et Sermonibus instans et
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