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.

746 APPENDIX. Founders, Benefactors, When To whom Valuation. Situation. &c. Founded. Dedicated. le Order.:Dugdale. Speed. ~ s. d.. s. d. Thornholm. King Stephen Virgin P. Augustines... 155 19 6 Site granted 30 Mary. Hen. VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk. Thwaites2....... P. Torksey K.... King John..... St. P. Ibid... 13 1 4 27 2 8 3 Granted 35 Hen. Leonard. VIII. to Sir Phiinp Hobby. Torrington4 W.. illiam de Arun- St. Mary P. Ibid. dell. Thornton Cur- William le Gross, 1139.. Virgin A.5 Cistercians.. 594 17 2- 730 17 2teis. Earl of Albe- Mary. marle, and Lord of Holderness. TheAbbeywas suppressed 33 Hen. VIII., but the greater part of the possessions were reserved by the King, who established here in 1541. Holy C. Seculars. It continued to 1 Trinity. Edw. VI. when it was dissolved, and the site given in exchange to the Bishop of Lincoln. Tunstall6.... Reginald de Creve- Temp..... P. Gilbertines. quer. Steph. This house was united to the Priory at Bolington, by Alexan. der the son of the founder. Tupholm 7 Alan de Neville and Temp. Virgin A. Premonst... 100 14 10 119 2 8 Gilbert hisbrother Hen. II. Mary. Site granted 30 Hien. VIII. to Sir T. Heneage. Vaudey.. Jeffery de Brache- Circa Ibid. A. Cistercians 124 5 114 177 15 74 court, or his Lord 1148. Gilbert de Gaunt. Granted 30 Hen. VIII. to theDukce of Suffolk. St. A. Augustines 95 6 1 152 7 4 Wellow 9.. King Hen..10.. Augustine. Granted 36 Hen. VIII. to T. Heneage.' Clare MS. valor, 1051. 13S.-TANNER, P. 259. abbey 1148.-Mon. Angl. Nineteen of the religious There could not be less than ten religious here, of this house received pensions in 1553.-BRtowN for the prior and nine subscribed to the su- WILLIS. premacy, A.D. 1534.-WILLIS' Hist. of Abbeys, 6 Near Redburn; this establishment was on an vol. ii. p. 123. island.-TANNER, 267. 2 The Priory of Thwaites, in Lincolnshire, a cell. 7 There were nine religious here at the disso-TANNER, 282. lution.-TANNER, 272. 3 LELAND says, 151. It consisted only of four | In the parish of Edenham, at the dissolution religious about the time of the dissolution.-TAN- the abbey contained the abbot and thirteen monks. NER, 278. — TANNER, 265. LELAND says, the yearly revenue 4 This house is not mentioned by TANNER. was worth o80l. 9 Near Grimsby. It was founded first as a priory, but made an l'O LELAND and SPEED say King John.

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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 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." In the digital collection Making of America Books. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aba1561.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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