ill, fol. 348 (556).

{183b} _Domesday Book_.

{183c} Soc-men were small tenants who held their lands under the lord,
on the terms of doing certain agricultural service for him. Bordars,
from the Saxon "bord" a cottage, were a lower class of smaller tenants,
who had a cottage and small allotment, supplying to the lord more
continuous labour, and also eggs and poultry. By statute of Queen
Elizabeth (31 Eliz., c. 7), which probably only confirmed old usage, at
that time liable to fall into abeyance, it was enacted that any
proprietor electing a new cottage should be compelled to attach thereto
four acres of land. If something like this were done in these days we
should probably hear less of the rural population migrating to the towns,
to the increase of pauperage. There was a third still lower class of
dependents, not here mentioned, named villeins, who performed the meanest
labours; these were attached either to the land, or to the person of the
owner, and could be transferred from one to another owner, like goods or
chattels. Such a position of serfdom is unknown to the agricultural
labourer of modern times; and their name, as having belonged to the
lowest grade of society, now only survives as a synonym for a dishonest
person, a scoundrel or villain.

{184a} A "trentall" was thirty masses for the dead to be celebrated on
thirty several days.

{184b} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol iv, pp. 12-13.

{185a} Weir's _History_, ed. 1828, p. 335.

{185b} Mr. Taylor in his _Words and Places_, p. 130, says that "there is
hardly a river named in England which is not celtic, _i.e._ British. The
name Waring is British; garw, or gwarw, is welsh, _i.e._ British, and
appears in other river names, as the Yarrow and Garry in Scotland, and
the Garonne in France.

{186} This bridge was taken down and a wider and more substantial one
erected in 1899.

{187a} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iii. p. 218.

{187b} _Ibid._, pp. 87, 88.

{187c} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iv. pp. 212, 213.

{188a} Canon Maddison, _Architectural Society's Journal_, 1897, p. l62.

{188b} In the old Register Book of Burials, &c., of the parish of
"Toynton Inferior," is an entry of the burial of "--- Newcomen ye 17th
November, 1592." The Christian name is undecipherable.

{190a} Sewer is a common local name for a drain, or even a clear running
stream. Such a stream, called the Sewer, rises at Well-syke Wood in this
parish, and ru