s duties. We may add that the sign of this inn, a good
portrait of Nelson, was the work of the artist Northouse.

{140} 300 pounds was borrowed Nov. 19th, 1901.

{142a} Robert Whelpton, the father of George, who was also a shoemaker,
used to relate that he made shoes for Sir John Franklin, before he went
out as Governor of Tasmania. Sir John, a native of Spilsby, was
brother-in-law of Mr. Henry Selwood, who lived in the house on the west
side of the Market Place, now occupied by Mr. R. W. Clitherow, which
would be opposite Whelpton's shop. Sir John was Governor of Tasmania
1836-1842.

{142b} William Thomas Whelpton took as a residence 69, Gloucester
Crescent, Regent's Park, London; and Henry Robert Whelpton resided in
Upton Park, Slough.

{142c} While at Derby he revisited Horncastle, driving over in a hired
carriage, with pair of horses, and it is said that a local wag, seeing
his carriage in the Bull Hotel yard, wrote upon it with chalk:

"Who would have thought it,
That pills could have bought it?"

{143a} His wife's maiden name was Barber. She was, by profession, a
lady's stay maker, and occupied a house standing on the site of the
present Church National School.

{143b} The inscription on the houses states that they were erected by
George Whelpton, of 1, Albeit Road, Regent's Park, London, in 1861, in
memory of his wife Elizabeth, who died Dec. 11, 1859.

{145} The present writer still has in his possession, as a cherished
heirloom, the sword and sash of his grandfather, the owner of Tanshelf
House, Pontefract, as well as of residences at Lofthouse and Methley.

{146} Similarly the present writer has a photograph of an uncle, who was
an officer of yeomanry in 1804, and lived to join the modern yeomanry in
1860.

{155} _Illustrated Police News_, Aug. 18th, 1883,

{159} The _Boston Guardian_ in an obituary notice said "all who knew him
esteemed him," and the _Horncastle News_ said "There is gone from among
us one of nature's true gentlemen."

{160} This ready mode of disolving the bond of wedlock was not uncommon
in former times, but a similar case is recorded as having occurred in or
near Scarborough in recent years, and in November 1898 a case came before
Mr. Justice Kekewich, in the Chancery Court, of a man, before leaving for
Australia, having sold his wife for 250 pounds.

{162} For these details, as well as many others, I am indebted to family
records in the possession of