fortified passage. In the
marsh districts the main roads are called "rampires." See Brogden's
_Provincial Words_.

{6b} The name Baumber, again, also written Bam-burgh, means a "burgh,"
or fortress on the Bain, which runs through that parish.

{7a} These urns are fully described with an engraving of them in vol.
iv, pt. ii, of the _Architectural Society's Journal_, by the late Bishop
Dr. E. Trollope.

{7b} _Architect. S. Journal_, iv, ii, p. 201.

{8} Gough, _Sepulchral Monuments_, Introduction, p. 59, says "coffins of
lead and wood are believed to have been used by the Romans in Britain."

{9} The first Danish incursions into England were in A.D. 786 and 787,
specially in Lincolnshire in 838. In 869 was fought the decisive battle
of Threckingham in this county, which made the Danes paramount. The name
Threckingham is said to be derived from the fact that 3 kings were slain
in this battle, but we believe this to be an error, and that the place
was the residence, the "ham" of the Threcginghas.

{10} The prefix "Horn" is also found in Holbeach Hurn, an angular
headland on the south coast of Lincolnshire. In the monkish Latin of old
title deeds, we also find the patronymic Hurne, Hearne, &c., represented
by its equivalent "de angulo," _i.e._ "of the corner."

{11a} Dr. Mansell Creighton, late Bishop of London. _Essays_, edited by
Louisa Creighton, 1904, pp. 278-9.

{11b} The palace of the Bishop was on the site of the present Manor
House.

{11c} Dugdale, vol. ii, p. 336. _Monast. Angl._, vol. ii, p. 646.

{12a} Hundred Rolls, Lincoln, No. 14, m. 1.

{12b} Hundred Rolls, Lincoln, No 14, m. 1, 3 Edward I., 1274-5.

{12c} This sale was confirmed by the King, as shewn by a Charter Roll,
14 Henry III., pt. i, m. 12 3 Ed. I., 1274-5.

{12d} Patent Roll, 14 Richard II., pt. i, m. 3. A.D. 1390.

{12e} Patent Roll, 6 Edward VI., pt. iii, m. 1.

{12f} Patent Roll, 1 Mary, pt. 8, m 2, (44) 28 Nov., 1553.

{12g} Memoirs of Sir Henry Fynes Clinton. _Annual Register_, 1772, p.
2.

{12h} Coram Rege Roll, Portsmouth, April 20, 14 Chas. II.

{13a} Exchequer Bills and Answers, 11 Charles V., Lincoln, No. 185.

{13b} The carucate varied in different parts of the country, in
Lincolnshire it was 120 acres. Gelt was a land tax, first imposed by the
Danes in the reign of Ethelred, about A.D. 991, being 2s. on the
carucate. Villeins and bordars were under-tenants of two different
classes, borda