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to Conton in Nottinghamshire."
 * shire, and Will Stagg was at the same time whipped and sent

A good, sound method of dealing with "Vagrom men," but for the women and children one wonders the parson or churchwardens were not ashamed to make the entry.

Great Hale.

The book also shows the accounts of the "Dike-reeve" (an important officer) for what in another place is called "the farre fenne."

We have already spoken of Great Hale or Hale Magna. It is very near Heckington, and was once a large church. Long before the abbey of Bardney appropriated it, in 1345, it had both a rector and a vicar, the two being consolidated in 1296.