ns into the Witham river, nearly four miles distant,
perfectly limpid throughout its course. As to the name Well-syke, "sike"
is an old term for a "beck," or small running stream. "Sykes and meres"
are frequently mentioned in old documents connected with land. The word
syke is doubtless connected with "soak," and this wood was so named
because the "syke" welled up within a marshy part of it.

{190b} _Architectural Society's Journal_, vol. xxiii, pp. 122 and 132.

{190c} Harleyan MS., No. 6829, p. 244.

{191} It was at Roughton in 1631.

{192a} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iii, pp. 245-6.

{192b} Harleyan MS., No. 6829, p. 245.

{194a} Sir Jos. Banks was Lord of the Manor.

{194b} Archdeacn Churton's _English Church_; Introd. _Domesday Book_, by
C. Gowen Smith, p. xxxii.

{195a} Harleyan MS., No. 6829, p. 218.

{195b} Burn's _Justice_, vol. v, pp. 823-4.

{196a} _Revesby Deeds & Charters_, published by Right Hon. E. Stanhope,
No. 150.

{196b} _Architectural Society's Journal_, 1894, p. 214.

{196c} _Architectural Society's Journal_, 1891, p. 24, and 1897, pp.
145-163.

{196d} _Architectural Society's Journal_, 1897, pp. 75, 79.

{196e} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iii, p. 215.

{198a} A pamphlet on _The Ayscough family and their connections_, by J.
Conway Walter, 1896.

{198b} _Lincolnshire Wills_, by Canon Maddison.

{198c} At this early period, partly perhaps owing to laxity of morals,
but partly because the papal supremacy was not fully recognised, celibacy
of the clergy was not strictly enforced. On the accession of Queen Mary
great numbers of them were found to be married. She issued "Injunctions"
to the bishops in 1553-4, ordering them to deprive all such of their
benefices; although some of them, on doing public penance, were restored
to their position. In the Lincoln Lists of Institutions to Benefices, at
that period, many of the vacancies are stated to have occurred, owing to
the deprivation of the previous incumbent; and in some cases, as at
Knebworth, Herts., and at Haversham, Bucks, (both then in the Lincoln
diocese), it is specified that the incumbent so deprived was married
(sacerdos conjugatus). _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. v, p. 174.

{198d} One derivation of the name Revesby is from "reeve," a fox, or
rover, and we still call the fox the "little red rover."

{201a} The Glenham family were at one time located at Miningsby; when
the Revesby estates pas