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.

782 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
a roll dated 1512, have no resemblance whatever to those upon the oak panel in the
vicarage.' " The arms of Bardney Abbey were, sable, a crosier in pale between
two crowns towards the chief, being run through an amulet towards the top, or, and
a snake enwrapped at the bottom arg." e The conventual seal of Bardney was a
cross patee inter four lions, being the arms of Oswald, King of Northumberland, to
whom this abbey was dedicated.3
As the arms of all the mitred abbeys and bishoprics are now known, it is clear,
that, independent of internal evidence, the arms in question must be a personal coat,
very probably belonging to some person connected with the Abbey of St. Mary at
York,4 who was a benefactor to the church or vicarage-house at Boston. It is not
unlikely that the pike and rings on the fesse in the shield had a punning allusion to
the name of Pickering or Pigot. Several families of the former name resided in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The family of Pigott bore, Gules, a fesse
argent between three bizants.
THE RIVER WITHAM, CALLED WIMA, &c.
(P. 353.)
DUGDALE, at page 199 of his work on Embankment, mentions "the water WIMA
to certain lands in Boston," as part of the boundary of the Haute-Hundred or Holland Fen in 1240. In the Placita de quo Wfarranto, page 427, 1281, the Witham
is called the Wyme. (See pages 212, 332, and 620 of this volume.)
CHART OF BOSTON DEEPS.
(P. 367.)
It is a curious fact, that until within a very few years there did not exist any
correct chart of Boston Deeps and the Wash; and the entrance into the estuary, for
want of a correct knowledge of the sand-banks and channels within it, was deemed
so dangerous, that ships on their voyage along the coast always carefully avoided it;
choosing, in stress of weather, to run back to Yarmouth Roads or the Humber, the
nearest anchorages north or south, or sometimes even preferred the danger of
going on shore to facing the supposed certain destruction which would ensue, if
caught in Boston Deeps in heavy weather. When harbours of refuge were projected, the neighbourhood of Wainfleet or Skegness was pointed out to Government
as a suitable locality for one. It was, however, then believed by some intelligent
gentlemen in Boston, that the Deeps were a natural harbour of refuge of the very
best description, and a survey of the Deeps was undertaken by the late Mr. JOHN
Registry of the Honour of Richmond, Appendix, " Argent, a cross gules, a key in the first quarter.
p. 271. In the centre of the cross, a king in a circle, in his
2 COLEn's MSS., vol. xviii. p. 6. robes, with his sceptre and mound, wearing a ducal
3 SeeTANNERs'sNotitiaMonastica, andWILLIs's cap, not a crown." —FuLLRa'S Church History,
Mitred Abbies, vol. i. Appendix, p. 54. p. 323.
4 The arms of St. Mary's Abbey at York were,