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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unjustly dispossessed Abraham de Wolmerst of his right of common pasture in
Wrangle, which belonged to the free tenants in that village. It was shown that
Alexander had not dispossessed him.... That the land, which the men of
Wrangle claimed, belonged to Alan de Benington, and to -- of. But
they said that the said Alexander dispossessed the said Abraham of his common
pasture right, of the western part of the land which he claimed, to the use of the
said Alan de Benington.... It was decided that the said Alan and Alexander
had their seisin as claimed.l
In 1253, free warren was granted to the abbot and convent of Waltham over
all their demesne lands in Wrangle.2 Richard Cowpeman de Wrangle and John
Butt were jurors at an inquisition before the King's Justices, at Stamford, in
1274.3 In the same year, Henry de Lacey, Earl of Lincoln, held in Wrangle
half a knight's fee, value 101.4
" A jury found that this half fee was taxable (geldable), and yielded one mark per annum.
The said Henry and his ancestors holding the said half fee by feoffment of Alexander de
Pointon, who afterwards enfeoffed Ranulph Earl of Chester, the ancestor of the said Henry,
to hold of John Earl of Richmond in like manner, he holding of the King in capite." 5
They also found that the abbot of Waltham claimed to have in Wrangle
wrecks and wayffs, and the goods of felons in the whole of his fee there, abutting
from the sea, from Wolmersley to Leake Bank, by what warrant they knew
not. The Earl of Lincoln also claimed to have the same liberties within the
same boundaries, and the Earl of Richmond claimed waiff and wreck of the sea,
from Saltenay6 to Wrangle, upon the sea-shore.7 In 1280, the Earl of Lincoln
held three parts of one fee in Wrangle of the honour of Richmond, for which
he rendered 7s. 6d.8 Richard, son of Alan de Wrangle, paid a fine of one mark
for rescuing a thief from Richard Tulle, the King's bailiff, in 1281.9 In the
same year,
"William, son of Abraham de Wimeresty, whilst he was bailiff at Wrangle, made rescue
of a prisoner of the King from the King's bailiff, and committed other transgressions; he
was fined a mark by Alan de Neyer, and Ralph, son of Thomas de Leverton." 10
In the same year the abbot of Waltham was summoned to respond to the
King's warrant, for claiming to have right of wreck of the sea, from Wolmersley
to the sea-bank at Leake, without license or leave. The abbot showed that he
held the same by a grant of Henry III., confirming the said abbot and his successors in all their lands and tenements, and all liberties and rights pertaining
thereto; and that all wrecks, whales, and all other such things, were confirmed
by the same grant, and also the view of frankpledge, and the assise of bread,
&c., of his tenants in Wrangle." In January 1282 (10 Edward I.), the King
granted to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and his heirs for ever, a market,
to be held on Saturday in every week, at his manor of Wrangle, in the county
of Lincoln.l
Four persons in Wrangle paid 18s. ld. to the subsidy of a none, levied in
1297, upon cattle and agricultural produce, assessed at 81. 2s. 6d.
1 Abbreviatio Placitorum, p. 68. This record is ancient jurisdiction of the Witham, claimed by the
imperfect, and its full meaning cannot be ascer- Earls of Richmond, extended from Fosdyke to
tained; it is curious, however, and shows the names Wrangle, and think it probable that Saltenay and
attached to various portions of the parish at that Fosdyke are names of the same place.
early period, such as Wolmnerst, Sandeford, Wigge- 7 Rot. Hundred, vol. i. p. 349.
fleet, &c. s Chancery Proceedings, 9 Edward I.
2 Charter Rolls, 38 Henry III., membrane 3. 9 Placita de quo warranto, p. 400. 10 Ibid.
3 Rot. Hundred, vol, i. p. 348. 11 Ibid. p. 404.
4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. 12 Charter Rolls, 1282, No. 20. This market is
6 In several places in the Chronicles of INGUL- traditionally stated to have been held on a piece of
PHUrS, the "church of Sutterton, and the chapel of ground now called the Thoroughfare, and also that
Saltenay," are mentioned. We believe that the the haven formerly came to very near this place.