ploughs. There is a church and a priest, and two fisheries of fifteen pence, and one mill of five shillings, and sixteen acres of meadow. Value in King Edward's time eight pounds, it is now the same.

In the time of Henry III. Robert Dayvill had the third part of a Knights Fee,* of the honor of Tickhill Castle, which he held of the Countess Owe, and the Countess of the King in Capité. William de Cantilupe also held the third part of a Knight's Fee of the King. (Testa de Nevill.)

Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton died seised of this manor 13 Richard II. (1389) and leaving no issue, it passed by inheritance in 4. Henry IV. (1402.) to Edmund Earl of Stafford, on the death of Joan widow of the above Lord Basset, who held it as part of her dower. It now belongs

* Knight's Service, Servitium Militare, was a Tenure whereby several lands in this nation were held of the King, which drew after it Homage, Escuage, Wardship Marriage &c. but taken away hy 12. Cha. 2d. In Domesday Book some land holden by Kaight-service is called Tainlund, and land holder by Socage, Reveland. A Knight's Fee, is so much inheritance as is sufficient yearly to maintain a Knight with convenient Revenue; which in Henry the third's days was L45. Sir Thomas Smith rates it at L40. By Statue Edw. 2. (1307) such as had Twenty pounds in Fee, or for term of life might be compelled to be Knights. But this Statute was repealed 17. Cha. 3.-Cowell.

to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, but at what time it passed into their possession we have not been able to trace, though. it appears to have been before 1 Richard III. (1483.)

A branch of the Dallyson family were seated. here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: Bishop. Sanderson, in his Survey of monuments remaining in Lincoln Cathedral, before the great Civil War, noticed a gravestone there with an inscription and Latin verses, for John 3d son of Thomas Dallyson of Greetwell Esq, who died the 4: of Oct. 1595.

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The Church,

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Dedicated to All Saints, was a Rectory till the year 1472, when it was appropriated to the Choristers of Lincoln Cathedral; it is now a Curacy, of which the Dean and Chapter are Patrons.

The Fabric is a small ancient structure, consisting of a body and tower-steeple covered with tiles; the chancel has been much larger than it now is.

Adjoining to it stands the Manor house, the older part of which appears to be of the time of Elizabeth or James the I. but has been almost entirely rebuilt. This, and another large farmhouse are occupied by the two Lessees under the Dean and Chapter, who farm the whole Lordship. The parsonage house is quite demolished.

The soil on the north side of the parish is clay; the hill is a light earth, upon a lime stone rock, of good quality for building; below, towards the river, it is fenny. A fine stream of water, arising from a spring in Lincoln field, runs on the westside into the Witham : from which the name of the place was probably taken.

The melancholy solitude of this once populous little village, contrasted with what it was half a century back, cannot but excite our dis approbation of the modern system of destroying the cottages and small farms, and thereby banishing the robust honest Peasant to the mephitic atmosphere of the crowded manufacturing town, while his healthy labors are imperfectly supplied by the powers of machinery. this selfish policy the happiness of one of the most valuable classes of society has been too generally sacrificed to the enriching a few overgrown tenants, and not unfreequently of some griping Steward, who can now manage the economy of a large Estate without the trouble of attending to small rents and repairs.

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The residence of the parish minister may now easily be dispensed with, his simple flock being driven into a society where profligacy has long thrown off the veil of shame; his church curtailed to the dimensions, and scarcely so well kept as a common stable, serves well enough to perform the stated service in, when the returning festival obliges him to ride over

TIl fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay,
..a boid peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroy'd can never be supply'd.

A time there was ere England's griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man;
For him light labor spread her wholesome store,
Just gave what life required, and gave no more;
His best companions innocence and health,
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are altered, trade's unfeeling train,.
Usurp the land and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn where scattered hamlets rose,
Uuweildy wealth, and cumb'rous pomp repose..
And every want to luxury allied,"

And every pang that folly pays to pride.
These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,
Those calm desires that ask'd but little room

Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scener
Lived in each look, and brightened all the green.
These, far departing, seek a kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no more.

At the distance of a mile we come to

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WILLINGHAM,

Or Cherry-Willingham, another small village in the same Wapentake..

Domesday Account:

Land of Gilbert de Gand. In Wilingeham (Willingham) Ulf had four oxgangs of land to be taxed. Land to as many oxen. Gilbert has here two ploughs, and twelve villanes, and one