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Title: A History of Horncastle
from the earliest period to the present time

Author: James Conway Walter

Release Date: October 29, 2009 [eBook #30358]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF HORNCASTLE***

Transcribed from the 1908 W. K. Morton & Sons edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

[Picture: SEAL OF SIMON DE ISLIP. Vicar of Horncastle, 1349; Archbishop
of Canterbury, 1349-1366]

We are indebted for the engraving of this seal to the courtesy of Miss G.
M. Bevan, author of _Portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury_,
published by Messrs. Mowbray & Co., London.

A
HISTORY OF HORNCASTLE,
FROM THE
EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

_ILLUSTRATED_.

BY
JAMES CONWAY WALTER,
AUTHOR OF
_Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood_, _Parishes around
Horncastle_,
_The Ayscoughs_, _The Coitani_, _&c._, _&c._

HORNCASTLE:
W. K. MORTON & SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, HIGH STREET,
1908.

[Picture: Market Place and Stanhope Memorial]

PREFACE.

The following pages may truthfully be said to be the result of labours,
extending over many years, and of researches in directions too many to
tell.

Born within almost a mile of Horncastle, and only by a few months
escaping being born in it, since his father, on first coming to the
neighbourhood, resided for a time in Horncastle, {0} the author, from his
earliest years (except for periodical absences) has been connected with
the life, social or civil, of the place, probably more closely and more
continuously, than any other person living, in like circumstances.

The notes on which this compilation is based were