hapter. There is a tablet of
black marble on the north wall of the chancel, in St. Mary's Church, in
memory of Elizabeth, his first wife, who died Dec. 4th, 1784, and also of
his infant son by his second wife), Matthew Harold, who died Sept. 19th,
1786.

{120b} This was the house now occupied by Dr. H. A. Howes, 30, West
Street; and the writer may add, that, within his own memory, while the
house was occupied by a later tenant, Mr. Jason Alison, a poor lunatic,
probably a survival of Dr. Harrison's asylum, was kept chained to the
kitchen fireplace. Such treatment would now be impossible, but parallel
cases are on record in the neighbourhood.

{122} Dr. E. Jenner made his first experiment in 1796, announced his
success in 1798, and the practice became general in 1799.

{124} Mr. Macarthur was the most indefatigable and efficient dispenser
up to that time; the Governors more than once passing a vote of thanks
for his services, raising his salary, or presenting him with a cheque.

{127} Weir, in his _History of Horncastle_, says that lime, manure, and
road material were charged half rates. This was in 1828.

{128} We refer to an admirable Paper, read before the Society of Arts,
London, by Mr. Buckley, C.S.I., Feb. 15th, 1906.

{129a} See a very interesting volume, _Our Waterways_, by Urquhart A.
Forbes and W. H. R. Ashford. Murray, London, 1906.

{133} Garnier's _Annals of British Peasantry_, 1895.

{134a} As an instance of this the Horncastle Union comprises 69
parishes.

{134b} These books were inspected by the present writer a few years ago,
although now (1906) supposed to be lost. In the account of Thimbleby,
given in the appendix to this volume, instances are given of various
forms of relief to paupers, in coals, shoes, petticoats, &c., but always
on condition that they attended the church services regularly, otherwise
such relief was forfeited.

{134c} In some parts of the country "black bread," made of oatmeal, was
in use, among the humbler classes, as late as in 1850.

{134d} This had been forestalled as early as in the reign of Edward I.;
a Pipe Roll dated 12 Edward I. (A.D. 1284) shows that a payment of 60
shillings was made for a common oven, rented of the Bishop of Carlisle,
as Lord of the Manor. _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iv, p. 237.

{134e} The older ones among us will remember that in the days of our
grandmothers the spinning wheel was usually to be seen in the boudoir, or