sed from the Duke of Suffolk, Thomas Glenham,
Esq., with Sir Henry Sidney, and some others, succeeded to different
portions.

{201b} _Words and Plans_, by J. Taylor.

{202} This tract of forest probably was very extensive. We know that in
the north-west of the county, and extending to near Doncaster, there was
the forest of Celidon; south of that was Sherwood forest. In Holland
there was the forest of "Haut Huntre" (its Norman name); and there is a
tradition, in our neighbourhood, of a church, not far from Old
Bolingbroke, being called "St. Luke's in the Forest," now known as
Stickney; this name itself probably meaning a "sticken," or staked,
island; a kind of preserved oasis, or clearing, in a wilderness of wood
and morass. _Architectural Society's Journal_, 1858, p. 231.

{203a} This has also been quoted in the Notes on High Toynton; and
another case of a similar tenure of land is mentioned in the Notes on
Hameringham.

{203b} _Lincs. Notes & Queues_, vol. iii, pp. 245-6.

{203c} _Domesday Book_, "Land of Robert Despenser."

{204} In _Domesday Book_ the chief features are "the woodland" and
"fisheries," no less than 10 of the latter are named as belonging to
Robert Despenser.

{205} Harleyan MS., No. 6829, pp. 179-182, given in Weir's _History of
Horncastle_, pp. 50-53.

{206a} In the reign of Mary Sir Edward Dymoke married Anne, daughter of
Sir G. Taillebois.

{206b} _Gentleman's Magazine_, April, 1826.

{207a} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. ii, p. 108.

{207b} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iv, pp. 119-120.

{208a} Mr. Tyrwhitt, like many other clergy in his day, was
non-resident; the duty being performed by a curate, the Rev. W. Robinson,
who held also the rectory of Moorby, but resided in Horncastle.

{208b} _Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. ii, p. 39.

{209} The writer of these notes in his youth used to visit a farmer,
living in the fen, whose father was among the first to erect his
farmstead in that locality. He had first to solidify the site of his
dwelling by importing soil by boat; and, when that was effected, to
import by boat all the materials for the buildings; the construction of
roads followed; and thus in course of time a waste of morass became one
of the most fertile tracts in the country.

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