1281, quoted _Lincolnshire
Notes & Queries_, vol. v, p. 216.

{18b} Coram Rege Roll, 13 Ed. I., m. 10, 12 May, 1285. _Lincs. Notes &
Queries_, pp. 219-20.

{18c} The transfer of the manor to the bishop is further proved by a
Carlisle document, a chancery inquisition post mortem, dated Dec. 11,
1395, which states that a certain John Amery, owner of a messuage in the
parish "by fealty and the service of 16d. of rent, by the year, holds of
the Bishop of Carlisle, and the said Bishop holds of the King."

{18d} The bishops of those days were sportsmen. It is recorded of a
Bishop of Ely that he rode to the Cathedral "with hawk on wrist," and
left it in the cloister while doing "God's service." There it was stolen
and he solemnly excommunicated the thief. Aukenleck MS., temp. Ed. II.,
British Museum. The extensive woods in the soke of Horncastle abounded
in game, as we have already shown by the tolls charged on roebuck, hares,
&c., brought into the town. The punishment for killing a wild boar,
without the king's licence, was the loss of both eyes. These ferae
naturae became extinct about A.D. 1620.

{18e} These and other privileges granted to the Bishop are first
specified in a Cartulary Roll, 14-15 Henry III.; they are renewed in a
Memoranda Roll of 4 Ed. III.; again in the 25th year of Henry VI., and
further in a Roll attested by Charles II., in his court at Westminster,
Feb. 26, 1676. The August Fair was, in late years, altered by the Urban
Council to begin on the 2nd Monday in the month, and to end on the
following Thursday, it really however begins on the previous Thursday.

{19a} Roll 104, Hilary Term, 24 Ed. III. (1350). County Placita,
Lincoln, No. 46.

{19b} De Banco Roll, Michaelmas, 41 Ed. III., m. 621, Aug. 3, 1368,
Lincoln.

{19c} Coram Rege Roll, Trinity, 13 Ed. I., m. 10, Westminster, 12 May,
1285. Given in _Lincolnshire Notes & Queries_, vol. v., p. 220.

{20a} Patent Roll, 14 Richard II., pt. 2, m. 47, 8 Dec., 1390. _Lincs.
Notes & Queries_, vol. v., p. 221.

{20b} Fuller's _Church History of Britain_, vol. i, pp. 240, 242.

{20c} Camden's _Britannia_, p. 484.

{20d} Camden's _Britannia_, p. 522.

{20e} _Ibid_, p. 978. The name of Tibetot may possibly still survive in
the family of Tibbot, who till quite recently held the manor of Thimbleby
in the soke of Horncastle.

{20f} _Ibidem_, p. 489.

{20g} _Ibidem_, p. 88.

{20h} _Ibidem_, p. 760. This castle was built b