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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at Harrington, 12th July, 1552.1 Their son, John of Harrington, was a commissioner of sewers in 1560, and Sheriff in 1567: he was married, but apparently died without issue, since he was succeeded by his brother, Francis, who
married, daughter of Ralph Chamberlain,2 but died without surviving
issue, 19th December, 1599; and was succeeded by his brother, Thomas, who
married, first, Mary, the daughter of Sir William Ellis, of Lincoln; and,
secondly, Mary, daughter of Richard Enderbyv of Metheringham; he died
4th September, 1658, aged seventy-two.3 He was, probably, the last of the
male line of the Coppeldykes of Harrington, as we find no further record of that
branch of the family. There was a John Coppeldyke, of Frampton, who held
land in that parish so far back as 1274,4 who was probably a younger brother
of Sir Alan, who resided in Frampton at that period. There was also a Lawrence Coppeldyke, living at Wyberton in 1552. The deaths of Susanna, Humphrey, Dorothy, and Margaret, the daughter of Humphrey, are recorded at
Frampton, in 1577, 1629, 1631, and 1637, respectively.5
After the extinction of the Harrington branch of the Coppeldyke family, the
estate was sold to Vincent Amcotts, Esq. Charles Amcotts, Esq., M.P. for
Boston, from 1754 to 1777, died 20th April in the latter year, and was the last
of the male line of that family; his sister married Wharton Emerson, and their
daughter married Sir John Ingleby,6 lately deceased. The arms of the Coppeldyke family were found in the churches of Frampton, Freiston, Friskney,
Pinchbeck, and Wigtoft. They were, argent, a chevron between three cross
crosletts, gules. There is nothing upon record respecting the manorial rights or
the extent of the Coppeldyke manor in Freiston.
In the Hundred Rolls for 1613, the estate is said " to belong to the heirs of
Copuldyke," and a considerable quantity of land is stated to be then " held in
bondage of Copuldyke's heirs."7 Lady Waldegrave is mentioned as the owner
of the estate in 165]., and Nicholas Waldegrave in 1687. In 1785, it was, and
long had been, the property of the heirs of Richard Filkin, Esq.; it was sold by
them about the commencement of the present century; and the dwelling-house
and part of the land are now held by Mr. Plummer. The house is situated on the eastern side of the road near the Crane, or Skrange End; and,
previous to its modernisation about 1804, exhibited considerable marks of
antiquity.
Very little is known respecting the manor and land of Freiston, which
HERBERT PE E'R held there, in 1272 (57 Henry III.),8 in which year he died.
His widow, Lady Lucy Peche, claimed to have assise of bread and beer, with
rights of court, within her manor at Freiston, within the wapentake of Skirbeck, 1274.9 In 1299, she was summoned to assist the King with arms and
men, as having lands worth 401. per annum.10 Gilbert de Peche was connected
with the councils and parliaments, and the affairs of Lincolnshire, from 1277 to
1322; he is called the Baron Gilbert Peche, and held the manor of Bourn
of the King in capite, as part of the barony, in 1339.11 The manor at Freiston
Letter from R. UVEDALE, Gentleman's Maga- 1484, in the Harl. Collection, except where other;zine, May 1812, vol. lxxxii. part i. authorities are referred to.
2 Harl. MSS., 1484, p. 26b; but, according to 7 Or held by copyhold tenure of Coppeldyke
Mr. UVEDALE, he married Elizabeth, daughter Manor.
of Lionel Reresby, of Shryburgh, Yorkshire. Inquis. post Mortem, vol. i. p. 40.
3 Mr. UVEDALE. This Thomas Coppledyke, Hundred Rolls, vol. i.
was appointed one of the committee for the asso- l Ibid. p. 349 and 385.
ciated counties in 1643. MADOX'S Beronio Anglica, p. 176. There was
~~~~4 HudedRllvo.i~.38.a previous Sir Gilbert Pechd, who is enumerated
4 Hundred Rolls, vol. i. p. 383. among the Contes et Grans Seniors d'Angleterre
Parish Register ofFrampton. in the early part of the reign of Henry III., and
6 Mr. UVEDALE. The greater part of the de- bore argent, a fesse, and 2 chevrons, gules.-Antiscent of this family has been deduced from the MS. quarian Repository, vol. iv. p. 109.