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HORBLING.

Horbling is a small village in the wapentake of Aveland, in the parts of Kesteven, about 3 miles E. b. S. from Folkingham. This parish is within the liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Domesday Account.

Land of the Archbishop of York.----In Horbe linge (Horbling) Turchil had four carucates of land to be taxed. Land to as many ploughs, Walter now has it under the Archbishop. In the demesne is one plough, and nine villanes, and one bordar, and eight sokemen having three ploughs. There is a church, and twenty acres of meadow. Arrable land one mile long, and one broad. Value in King Edward's time six pounds, now forty shillings. Tallaged at twenty shillings.

Land of St. Guthlacus of Croiland...In Hor.

belinge (Horbling)

land to be taxed.

Wider had one carucate of Land to one plough and two oxen. Godric, a vassal of the Earl's, has there half a plough in the demesne, and four villanes having five draft oxen, and two mills of ten shil lings, and ten acres of meadow, Value in King Edward's time twelve shillings, now sixteen shillings.

In Horbelinge (Horbling) hundred Greve has four carucates of land to be taxed- Land to' four ploughs. Stefan a vassal of the Earl's, bas there two ploughs, and nine villanes and one bordar and three sokemen having three ploughs," and twenty acres of meadow. Value in King Edward's time forty shillings, the same now.

six oxen.

Land of Waldin Brito...In Orbelinge (Horb-! ling) six oxgangs of land to be taxed. Land to Soke in Haseby. Waldin has there one bordar, and two acres and a half of meadow. Value in King Edward's time ten shillings now four, Wido de Credon has the soke.

Land of Wido de Credon In Horbelinge (Horbling) Wido has soke over six oxgangs of the land of Waldin.

In this parish is a spring of very good water which is situated a little way north of Mr. Smith's.

the

house, the solicitor; the water rises into a kind of cistern, which is a cube of about 44 feet, spring will fill the cistern when empty in about 35 minutes.

Robert Jokem of Horbling anciently gave to the Prior of St. Saviour, one messuage, and one › yard land, lying at the head of Holland Causey near to the scite of the Priory, to have and to. hold to them and their successors for ever, for the reparation and maintenance of the said Cau- : sey from the head thereof towards Kesteven-to the innome of Donington. (Dugdale on drain-!

age pa. 219.)

It appears from M.S. S. in the British Muse...« um that Johes Wyke was lord of Horbling the 17 Henry 6,

Lacey held Horbling the 16 of Edward I.

The Church,

Is a stately edifice, with cross ailes and a tower steeple. The pillars on the north side the middle aile, are hexagonal, those on the south side are some round and others clustered. The font is octagonal and on each side is a shield raised, on which is carved the..nails, the scourge, the spear &c. made use of at the crucifixion of our

Savicur. The inside the church is not in good repair, here are some very indiferent stalls, and

scarcely any pews.

At the west end of the nave

is a very

fine lofty window, and in the chancel are some saxon ar ches; the remainder of the building appears to be of norman architecture.

In the south aile is a white marble tablet;.. sacred to the memory of Harriet the wife of Benjamin Smith, of this parish, who died Aug. 15. 1808, aged 25 years.

On a flat stone in the middle aile...

Here lyeth the body of Thomas Shuttlewerth, of Brigg-end, Esq. who died 1. May, 1695, aged 69 years.

In the north trancept is a marble tablet ;.. To the memory of Mr. Edward Brown of Horbling, who left several charities, and died in 1692, aged 49 years.

Another. To the memory of Ed. Brown Esq. who died in 1761, aged 85 years.

He gave 2001, to procu e Queens Anne's boun. ty for a perpetual augmentation of the vicarage of this church, with several pieces of plate for the communion service, and 201, per aun. to the poor.

Another. To the memory of Eliz. Brown spinster, daughter of T. Brown Gent, who died in 1737, aged 21. Also of Mary another daugh ter who died in 1751, aged 37.

On the north wall of the chance!:

To the memory of Thomas Thimbleby and Jane his wife, he died in 1727, and she in 1727 also. They left ten shillings to be disposed of annually on Good-Friday, for ever.

The

The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, it is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's books at 61. 10s Patron the bishop of Lincoln oldest register is in 1653. A boarded partition. separates the nave from the steeple.

The School.

In the year 1691, Ed. Brown Esq. left by will, an estate consisting of about 22 acres of land, lying in Gosberton, and which now lets for 301. a year, for the support of a schoolmaster, and the overplus to the putting out of poor Apprentices. The schoolmaster is to teach 10 boys and 10 girls, to read, write, and cast accounts, and for which he is now paid a salary of 20 pounds. per annum.

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