181 gang to axed. Land to as many ploughs.. Soke of Edenham. Ogerius has a moiety of this land, and has there fourteen sokemen and three bordars with six ploughs, and forty-five acres of meadow, and forty acres of wood pasture. It is worth forty shillings. In the same Mortune (Morton) Quenleue had two carucates of land and half an oxgang to be taxed.. Land to as many ploughs. Ogerius has there two ploughs and two sokemen with two oxgangs of this land, and eight villanes and four bordars with two plonghs. There is a church. and a priest and eighteen acres of meadow, and sixteen acres of coppice wood. Value in King Edward's time forty shillings now sixty. In the same Mortune (Morton) one carucate of land to be taxed. Land to one plough. Inland in Haconesbi (Hackenby.) Four villanes. have one plough there, and nine acres of meadow and sixteen acres of coppice wood. Value in King Edward's time, and now, ten shillings. In the same, one oxgang of land and a half to be taxed. Land to two oxen and a half. Soke in Haconesbi (Hackenby.) le the same Mortune (Morton) half a carucate of land to be taxed. Land to four oxen. Soke in Corninetone (qu.. Quarrington.) There are four villanes with half a plough, and five acres of meadow, and eight acres of coppice wood. One carucate of land inland in Mortune (Mor ton) and one oxgang and a half, soke in Harmodestorp (Harmthorp) they say helongd to Haconebi (Hackenby) in the time of King Edward where therein, and Luerie had them. The jury say St. Benedict of Ramsey ought to have half a carucate of land with sac and soke in the same Mortune (Morton.) Oger holds this unjustly. Land of Heppo Ballistarius. In Mortune (Morton) nine oxgangs of laud and a half to be taxed. Land to as many oxen. Nine sokemen have there one plough, aud ten acres of meadow and twelve acres of coppice wood. In Hermodestorp (Harmthorp) Turuert had one carucate of land to be taxed. Land to one plough. Simund, a vassal of Heppo's, has there one plough, and nine acres of meadow, and twenty acres of coppice wood. Value in kiug Edwards time twenty shillings now thirty. "In the time of Henry III, Baldwin Wake held in the hundred of Morton 4 bovates of land of Gilbert de Gaunt, also Hugh son of Aufrey, and Gerard son of Simon held in the same 4 parts of a Knight's fee" (Testa de Nevill.) The Church, Is a handsome gothic building consisting of a nave, north and south ailes a chancel and tower steeple. The pillars are lofty and beautiful, the cornices at the top being ornamented with foliage. The steeple which is between the nave and chancel is supported by four very handsome clusterd pillars. It is neatly fitted up with pews, and a neat singing gallery. The stone font is much mutilated. At the east end of the south aile is a mural tablet to the memory of Rebecca Leaband, who gave in 1716 one acre and a half of meadow ground in Morton north meadows, and one acre in the south meadows, to the poor children of Harmthorp for a school, for ever. The chancel and south transcept are older than the other parts of the church, and of bad matirals. It is a discharged vicarage, united with the vicarage of Hackenby in 1732, and valued in the King's books at 91. 1s. 10 d. Patron the Bishop of Lincolu. It is dedicated to St. John Baptist. THE SCHOOL. Mr. Abel gave by Will the interest of 1201, in the 3 per cent bank anguities, as a salary for a schoolmaster, which, with the donation of Mrs. Leaband, forms the annual stipend which the Master, Mr Wilson, who is a very able teacher now receives. MODERN STATE. The Earl of Exeter is lord of the manor, here is also the manor of Truesdale's Hospital, and the churchwarden's. The parish contains about 4400 acres of land, the fences are mostly hedges, the Tithes exonerated. The principal proprietors of land are the Earl of Exeter, Sir G: Heathcote, Mr. Parker, Mr. Wyan, Rev Mr. Myers &c. The great road from Loudon to Lincolu passes through this place, and it is ornamented with some good houses, particularly the vicarage house where the Rev. Mr. Hopkinson resides, and Mr Wyan's, which is a very neat modern building. Mr. Hopkinson, the present vicar, possesses considerable erudition, and has published seve ral useful tracts.. Harmthorpe or Hanthorpe, Is a hamlet to Morton, at the distance of a quarter of a mile to the West, it contains about 30 houses, one of which is the residence of Colo nel Pack. OSBOURNBY. OSBOURNBY is a neat pleasant village in the wapentake of Aveland, in the parts of Kesteven, about 3 miles N, N, W. from Folkingham. Domesday Account. Land of Gilbert de Gaunt. In Esbernebi (Osbournby) four carucates of land to be taxed. Land to five ploughs and a half. Sixteen sokemen and eight bordars have there eight ploughs, and there is one church. Land of Wido de Credon. In Osbernedebi (Osbournby) Alurie had two carucates of land to be taxed. land to three ploughs. Vitalis, a vassal of Wido's, has there one plough, and one sokeman with one carucate of this land, and five villanes and three bordars with one plough and |