viewed the Roman ruins here, and gathered several of the bricks. Coins have been frequently ploughed up.

Sir Isaac Newton came to a day school at Stoke.

The following is a short account of the Turnor's of Stoke Rochford and Punton house.

In the time of Henry VIII. Christopher Turnor of Milton Erneys, who was a descendant from the Turnor's of Haverhill co. Suffolk, married Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir Walter Erneys of Milton Erneys in co. Bedford. Their son Edward married Alice, Daughter of Estwick of Milton Grange.-Christopher, their son, married Ellen daughter of Thomas Samm, of Pirton, and died at Milton Erneys in 1619. Sir Edmund Turnor, of Stoke Rochford, was their youngest son; he married Margaret daughter of Sir John Harrison, and died in 1707. Sir 'Edmund in his political character, was attached to the crown, and was active in its services. When Bristol was taken by Prince Rupert, he was appointed Treasurer, and pay master to the garrison there; and he was made prisoner at the battle of Worcester, in 1651, being then a Captain of Horse.

As a reward for these services, he was to have been made a Knight of the Royal Oak, but that order not taking place, he was Knighted in 1663, about which time he was a Commissioner of the alien office, Surveyor General of the OutPosts, and one of the chief Farmers of the Customs. His charity and public spirit were exemplary, and the several acts of his munificence, which remain as lasting monuments of his benevolence, still endear his memory to the good and virtuous, and hold him up as a pattern worthy of imitation. He had several children, but John who succeeded him in his estates, married Diana only child of Algernon Cecil, son of William earl of Salisbury, and died at Bath in 1719. His son Edmund, of Stoke Rochford, married Elizabeth daughter of Henry Ferne Esq. and died in 1769. His eldest son, Fdmund Turnor of Panton house near Wragby, and Stoke Rochford, married Mary daughter of John Disney Esq. of Lincoln, by whom he had fourteen children. Edmund, his eldest son succeeded him, in 1805. He married first Elizabeth daughter of P. B. Broke Esq. who dying in 1801, he next married Dorothea, daughter of Colonel Tucker, by whom he has issuc.

Edmund Turnor Esq. of Stoke Rochford, F. R. S. F. A. . was M. P. for Middlehurst, in 1805, and is the Author of Collections for a history of the Town and Soke of Grantham."

The Reverend George Turnor, Rector of Wragby, is his next eldest brother-be married Eleanor Hanmer, and has issue, a daughter Mary Ann.

MODERN STATE.

The parish is extensive, comprehending Stoke Rochford and Easton, both in the Soke of Grantham, and North Stoke in the hundred of Winnibrigs and Threo; but all three are distinct townships, as to parliamentary and parochial taxes of every denomination.

In 1795, an Act passed for inclosing the township of Stoke Rochford, containing about 1500 acres whereof Edmund Turnor Esq. is lord of the manor, and principal proprietor; with the hamlet of North Stoke, of which he is sole proprietor. The tithes are exonerated and the fences thorn hedges.

The park contains about one hundred and forty acres (part of which is in north Stoke) it is remarkable for a pleasing irregularity of

ground, fine old thorns, and a rapid trout stream which winds through the valley.

Thirty years ago there was also a much larger Park, comprehending Stoke-wood, which was stocked with deer. This park was a mile to the east of the north road.

EASTON.

In ancient writings Estun, Eston, Eason, a hamlet to Stoke Rochford, distant six miles from Grantham, and thirty-three from Lincoln.

It is a township or hamlet within the parish of south Stoke, alias Stoke Rochford; and had formerly a chapel of ease, belonging to the parish church of Stoke. Stoke church, and the rectory house, are both in the hamlet of Easton, at that extremity of it which adjoins the village of Stoke.

Domesday Account.

Land of the Archbishop of York. In Estone (Easton) Siward had three carucates of land to be taxed. Land to three ploughs and six oxen, Osbern, a vassal of the Archbishop's, has there one plough, and twelve villanes and six hordars Half the advowson of the church there, and one mill of eight shillings, and ten acres of meadow,

and two hundred acres of wood pasture, and two hundred and forty acres of coppice wood. Value in King Edward's time forty shillings, now forty shillings.

53 Henry III.

1268, Robert de Tybetoft had a grant of free warren.

17 Edward III. 1344, Robert de Tybetoft and Margaret his wife had the manor of Easton; and he had three daughters, his heirs, whereof one married to Le Scrope, and by the Tybetofts Le Scrope had the castle of Langham in Nottinghamshire, and the manor of Eston.

15 Henry VII. Henry Scrope, Knt. holds the manor of Easton near Grantham. In 1561 that manor was conveyed by Lord Scrope to Gilbert Bury, and in 1593 Gilbert Bury died seized of it,

4 James, 1606, James Bury sold the manor to Sir Henry Cholmeley, Knt..

In 1443, John Eston, Esq. and Thomas Palfrey had lands in Eston and Stoke.

The mansion house, built at different times, is situated on the east side of the river Witham, and adjoining to the village. It is in a beautiful valley, commanding a view of the great north road. Montague Cholmeley, Esq, has taken down the west wing of the house, which very