ds of
where the bodies were discovered; and in the year 1905 he also examined
several bones, pronounced by a doctor to be human, which were found near
the same spot, while workmen were digging for the foundations of a house
since erected there. On the other hand, as against the theory of the
scythes having been used in the earlier "Pilgrimage of Grace," we are
distinctly told that the mobs concerned in that movement were deprived of
all weapons before they could use them. In the Lincoln Chapter House
books (c. i, 20, f 193) is a letter from Richard Cromwell, dated Oct. 29,
1586, which says that he, and Admiral Sir John Russell, went to Louth,
where "all the harness and weapons were seized, and conveyed to Lincoln,"
and that for the same purpose Mr. Bryan had been sent to Horncastle, and
Mr. Brown to Market Rasen. On the whole, therefore, the preponderance of
evidence is strongly in favour of the connection of all these scythes
with the neighbouring Battle of Winceby--the original tradition.

{41b} Weir, in his _History of Horncastle_ gives the quarterings of
these shields as follows:--

(1) Sable, 2 lions passant in pale, ducally crowned, or, Dymoke impaling
Barry of 6 ermines, and gules, 3 crescents, sable, Waterton; a crescent
for difference.

(2) Dymoke impaling Vaire, on a fess, gules frette, or. Marmyon, in
chief, ermine, 5 fusils in fess, Hebden, a crescent for difference.

(3) Argent, a sword erect, azure, hilt and pomel gules.

(4) Dymoke impaling quarterly, gules and argent, a cross engrailed.
Countercharged, Haydon, a crescent for difference.

{42a} The only other theft from the church of which we have record, was
when the vestry was broken into in December, 1812, and the money
collected for parish purposes was stolen. A reward of 50 pounds was
offered for information of the thief, but without result. (MS. notes by
Mr. T. Overton in possession of Mr. John Overton, of Horncastle.)

{42b} Details of these are given by Holles as follows:--

_In fenestra Insulae Borealis_.

"Orate pro a'ia Thomae Coppuldike Armig. & D'nae Margaretae Consortis suae fundatoris Gildae
Cantar . . . Fenestram fieri fecit Ano Dni 1526."

_In superiori fenestra Borealis Cancelli_.

'Gules a lion passant guardant. Arg. . . .

Sable, 3 flowres de lize betw: 6 crosses botony fitchy Arg. . . .

Gules, a cross sarcelly Arg." . . .