9th century, was a corn and
coal merchant, and also land agent for Sir Henry Dymoke, Bart., of
Scrivelsby Court. He occupied the house at the corner of South Street,
next the water side, then a private residence, but now the shop of Mr. F.
Stuchbery, Ironmonger. He married the widow of Arthur Thistlewood, a
native of Horsington, noted, in his later years, as the leader of the
"Cato Street Conspiracy," which proposed to assassinate the ministers of
the government, in London, when attending a dinner at Lord Harrowby's
residence, in February, 1820. The plot was discovered and frustrated,
and Thistlewood, with others of his guilty confreres, was executed on May
1st in that year. Mrs. Turner was the daughter of a butcher, named
Wilkinson, whose shop was situated in the High Street, where is now the
shop of Mr. Uriah Spratt.

MARTIN BROWN.

Mr. Martin Brown, grandfather of Mr. W. H. Brown, Plumber and Glazier, of
Church Lane, was in the early part of the 19th century captured by the
press gang in Horncastle, and made to serve in H.M.S. Mars, in the war
with Napoleon. In one contest his ship was lashed to a French
man-of-war, to fight it out, and his captain was killed. He survived to
tell the story till 90 years of age, with scarcely a day's illness, until
his death, Nov. 9th, 1866. He lies buried in Holy Trinity churchyard,
his wife, who predeceased him by several years, being buried in St.
Mary's churchyard, on the south-east side.

CAPTAIN SHEPHERD.

Captain Shepherd, an old naval officer, lived many years, and died, in
Union Street, now called Queen Street. He had had many voyages and
experiences, which he was fond of recounting to his many friends. He had
brought home many trophies and curiosities; among other things he gave an
Indian bow, made of sugar cane, and poisoned arrows, to the present
writer, when a boy.

MISS FRANKLIN.

In the next house to Captain Shepherd resided Miss Franklin, sister of
the great arctic navigator, Sir John Franklin. Much interest was taken
in Horncastle in the fate of Sir John, when absent on his last polar
voyage, and considerable sums were raised, more than once, among the
residents in the town, to assist Lady Franklin in sending out vessels in
search of her husband, under the command of Captain Leopold MacClintock
and others. We have mentioned elsewhere that a public dinner was given
to Sir John, at the Bull Hotel, just before he sailed for the last ti