The Church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is s rectory in the patronage of Sir William Earle Welby, Bart. Succession of Rectors. 1662, Sep. 18. Hen. Knewstub, B. A. 1662, Sep. 24. Isaac Sheffield, 1879, Dec. 22. Joshua Clark, M. A. 1687, Mar. 20. Rich. Knight, M. A. 1692, Sep. 26. Wm. Lodge, B. A. 1737, Dec. 9. Rich. Welby, M. A. 1775, May 15 Chas. Gery, M. A. MODERN STATE. ་ Sir William Earl Welby is Lord of the Manor. The parish contains about 700 acres of land, subject to tithes; the fences are thorn, hedges, It is old inclosure, and principally grazing land. Sir. W. Welby is also nearly the sole proprietor: This is the most dreary part of the county, 1 BARKSTON. Barkston, called Barkston in the Willows, is a smail neat village in the soke of Grantham in the parts of Kesteven, about 4 miles from Grantham and 23 from Lincoln. Domesday Account. Land of the King. In Barchestone (Barkston there are thirty five sokemen and ten bordars with six ploughs, and seventy acres of meadow and two mills which Turned, the son of Uued bad. These are in the soke of Grantham. Land of Ivo Talbois, In Barchestone (Barkston) ten oxgangs of land to be taxed. Land to ten oxen Soke in Hundindune (Hunnington.) There is one plough in the demesne, and one villane, and three bordars with one piough, and thirteen acres of meadow. Land of Osborn Presbyter: Soke. In Bar chestune (Barkston) one carucate of land to be taxed. Land to one plough. Soke to one There are seven plough, Soke of this manor. acres and a half of meadow. Land of Colegrim. In Barchestone (Barkston, six oxgangs of land to be taxed. Land to Six.oxen. There is half a plough in the demesne and two mills, the soke of which belongs to Granham (Grantham.) Robert de Stadford claims two mills which are in Barchestone (Barkston;) and Colsuan makes the same claim. The wapentake say they Jay in Mereston (Marston) and the soke of them in Granham (Grantham.) "In the time of Henry III Margaret de Stixwould held a carucate of land in Barkeston." "Roger de Finkelyn held the 25. part of a knight's fee of the fee of Clinton, in Barkston, of Roger de Hingoudęby, and Roger of the Lord Clinton, and he of the King. Also Roger de Finkeleyn sold the knight's Templars a Toftjand three acres of land,". "Alex. de Cressy, the 4. part of a Toft and 16 acres of land. William le Keen, a Toit ard 12 acres of land. Margaret de Stixwould a Toft and half a bovale of land. The Hospital of Lincoln a Toft and one bovate of land. Also W. Keen held all the remainder of the Town of Barkston, in the Soke of Grantham, of the Lord Warren, and he of the King." (Testa de Nevill.) This manor belonged to the monastery of Haltemprice, in the East Riding of the county of York, and was probably given to those Monks by Thomas Lord Wake of Liddel, when he founded that house, 1822. The prior and convent of Haltemprice granted an annuity for life, outf their maner of Barkston, to Blanch Lady Wake, of Liddel, widow and relict of Thomas Lord Wake, their founder, and daughter, of Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster. In the 1st Hen. VI. John Pacy de Belton was lord of Barkston. 44. Eliz, Alicia Porter had the manor. A, D, 1107, The monastery of Stixwould had lands here of the gift of William de Romarra. Richard Hickson Esq. of Gonerby, the founder of the almshouses here, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1621, is supposed to have beenford of the manor, and to have given this adorwith Haydor, and other extensive possessions, to% John Newton of Gonerty, styled by Bishop Saunderson, nephew of Richard Hickson; but that relationship does not appear from the Newton pedigree, see Haydor.) In the survey of the soke of Grantham, taken 1650. John New Ou, Gent, is stated to be lord of the manor of Barkston; and in the list of persons on whom Charles Il, intended to have conferred the honour of kjehthood of the Royal Oak, in 1660, John Newton, Esq. of Haydor is named; his estate being then 30007, per annuin. The Church, Is a good building consisting of a nave and north aile, a chancel and spire steeple, in which are 3 bells. Here are three very fine saxon arches, sup ported by round pillars. The font is plané and of stone. The seats are mostly stalls. In raised letters over the Porch, t Me Thomam Pacy post mundi flebile funus In the first north Window. |