& half, and twenty-four acres of meadow. Value in King Edward's time forty shillings, now sixpounds.

This manor belonged to the Husseys, afterwards to the Carr's, then to the Harvey's, and now to Sir Thomas Whichcote of Aswarby.

The Church,

Is a neat gothic building, with midle, side ailes, chancel, and tower steeple, containing 3 bells, rows of tall clustered pillars, support some fine gothic arches, and the church is neat and well built, except the steeple, which is clumsy, and is apparently, giving way to its own ponderous load. Here are some oak stalls and a few good pews, the pulpit also is good, and the singing gallery neat. The fout is of stone and very

cnriously carved.

In the south wall of the chancel are some beautiful stone stalls, with contrasted gothic arches, richly ornamented.

Here are several good marble tablets, we just noticed the following.

On a pillar in the middle alle, To the memory of Christiana wife of John Goodwin, of Great Hale, who died sätt, aged 70 years.

Another, To the memory of Wm. Green, who died in anno 1792, aged 80 years.

In the south aile. To the memory of Robert Bradley, who died in 1795, aged 60 years. Also Mary his wife who died in 1798, aged 65 years.

Over the Stalls, in the chancel, is a beautiful tablet. To the memory of Sir Charles Puck, Bart. who died in 1758.

Another. To the memory of John Green, yeoman, who was buried in 1720, aged 75 years.

The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, it is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's books at 71. Os, 5d. Patron, Sir William Manners, Bart. Sir Wm. Manners is Impropriator.

MODERN STATE.

Sir Thomas Whichcote is lord of the manor. The parish contains 1505 acres, the average rent of which is 30 shillings per acre.

1795.

The soil is clay and loam, and the tithes are exonerated by land in lieu at the inclosure, in The fences are quick thorn hedges. The principal proprietors of land, are, Sir T. Whichcote; Sir W. Manners; Mr. J. Milns, and Mr Wing, Rector of Thornhaugh.

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FOLKINGHAM.

FOCKINGHAM is a remarkably plesant and healthy little market Town, in the wapentake of

Aveland in the parts of Kesteven, on the road from Lincoln to London,about 26 miles from the former, and 107 from the latter place.

Domesday Account,

Land of Gildert de Gaunt. In Folchingeham (Folkingham) Ulf had twelve carucates of land to be taxed. Land to as many ploughs. Gilbert has there in the demesne five ploughs, and fourteen villains, and five sokmen and nine bordars with seven plonghs. There is a church, and one mill of ten shillings and eight pence, and one hundred acres of meadow, and eighty acres of coppice wood. Value in King Edward's time fif

fy pounds, now forty pounds. Tallaged at fifty pounds.

Gilbert de Gaunt held in Folkingham, in the time of Hen. III. twelve carucates of land, except 4 bovates, which the Prior of Semperingham, and Abbot of Bardney held. It was then capital manor barony of itself, in the County of Lincoln. (Testa de Nevill)

The manor of Folkingham was given by W. the conqueror toGilbert de Gandavo, or Gaunt, nephew of Baldwin Earl of Flanders.

"Memorandum, says an ancient manuscript, that the conqueror was accompanied by one Gilbert de Gaunt, to whom the said William gave the manor of Folkingham, with its appurtenances and honor thereto belonging, and they drove out a certain woman named Dunmock". Camdens'. Britannia.

This Gilbert restored the abbey of Bardney. which had been destroyed by Inguar, and Hubba, the Danes, and having nearly rebuilt it, he amply endowed it with lands and tithes

He married Alice daughter and heir of Hugh de Montfort, and, dying in the time of Wm. Rufus, was buried at Bardney.

Walter his son and heir succeeded him in this

barony; he was a commander in the battle against the Scotts, at North Alverton in York-hire, called bellum standard, where the English obtained a signal victory. He increased the buildings of Bardney Abbey, and endowed it with more lands and tithes; having also founded the abbey of Bridlington in Yorkshire, he died the 4.

f Stephen, leaving issue, Gilbert, Robert, and Geffry. His wife's name was Maud, daughter of Stephen earl of Brittany and Richmond. Gilbert, son of Walter, being with Stephen at the battle of Lincoln in 1142, was, with him, taken prisoner by Ranulph earl of Chester, who compelled him to marry Rohais, or flawise, his niece, and daughter of Wm. de Romara earl of Lincoln, by which he had the title of earl of Lincoln in her right. He gave the monks of Bitham in Lincolnshire, all his lands called Braithwait, lying in Edenham, to which place those monks translated their abbey, and called it Vallis Dei, or Valdei.

By his wife, Gilbert had two daughters, and coheirs, Alice married to Simon de St. Lize, earl of Huntington, and Northampton, and Gonnora, but neither of them leaving any issue, the family inheritance, except what Gilbert gave to the ab