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.

604 WRANGLE.
The Vicarage-house forms a very picturesque appendage to the church, and
is pleasantly situated in wellarranged grounds of considerable extent, on the north side
of the churchyard. It is
represented in the annexed
engraving.
The Guild of the Blessed
"he __ Mary at Wrangle is mentioned
twice; in 1516, in the Comnpotus of the Guild of St.
I ____ Mary at Boston, and in 1535
it is called the Guild of the
Blessed Virgin at Wrangle,
in the account of the Rural
- Deans in the hundred of'
Candleshoe.1
The bells in the steeple are six in number, and were cast at Peterborough in
1714. On one of them is inscribed, "The God of heaven and earth, priest
and people to serve, I call." On the tenor are the words, T "h The dead I mourne,
the living warn, and peals determine all."" The parish was exonerated from
tythes, and all manorial claims, by the allotment of adequate portions of land
at the time of the inclosure of the common, in 1807.
REDE, OR READ FAMILY.
The ancient family of REDE, REED, or READ, may be traced as residents in
Wrangle from about the middle of the fourteenth, to nearly the end of the
seventeenth century; or if, as we think was the case, this family was descended
from that of WORMESLEDE,' from the commencement of the thirteenth century.
Alexander de Wolmerst is mentioned in 1210; a part of the parish was called
Wolmersley in 1274; Abraham de Wimeresty resided in Wrangle in 1281;
Peter de Wilmersty and Robert were assessed to a subsidy in 1333. Thomas
de Wolmerstey, or Wymersley, was Abbot of Walthan from 1345 to 1371,
and gave a window to Wrangle Church. In 1358, Thomas de Wylvies "serving
the Abbot of Waltham in Wrangle," was elected a member of the Corpus
Christi Guild in Boston. From about this date the name of WORMESLEDE ceases
to be connected with Wrangle, and that of REDE appears to take its place.
REGINALD REDE was a member of the Corpus Christi Guild in 1.384;4 and
Edmund, chaplain of Isabella Rede, was assessed (under Boston) to a subsidy
levied about that time. Hugh Reed of Wrangle was a member of the Corpus
Christi Guild in 1454, and John Rede of Boston in 1457; he was a merchant
of the staple, and alderman of the Guild in 1468, and died in 1503. Margaret
his wife died before him, in the same year. "Master William Rede, Professor
Valor Ecclesiasticus, vol. iv. p. 49. 4 Richard Rede (his residence not stated) was a
2 Lincoinshire Churches. member of the Corpus Christi Guild in Boston in
3 This name assumes various shapes, —Wymers- 1349.
ley, Wolmerset, Wolmerst, and Wolmersley, &c.