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 represented in armour and with his wife and family of two sons and two daughters. The wife, whose name is spelt first Dorithe, then Dorathe, "died the 7th of June 1591 and Andrew" the blank being left unfilled.

The knives and scourges of Crowland Abbey (see Chap. XLIV.) are seen in the old glass. The custom of giving little knives to all comers at Crowland on St. Bartholomew's Day was abolished by Abbot John de Wisbeche in the reign of Edward IV. In the tower is a fine peal of disused bells.

Dr. Tennyson held this living with Somersby. This is a smaller building, but it retains in the churchyard a remarkable and perfect cross, a tall, slender shaft with pedimented tabernacle, under which are figures, as on the gable cross at Addlethorpe and on the head of the broken churchyard cross at Winthorpe—the Crucifixion is on one side and the Virgin and Child on the other.

From Somersby there are two roads to Horncastle—each passes over the brook immortalised in "In Memoriam" and in the lovely little lyric, "Flow down cold rivulet to the sea," and branching to the left, one passes through Salmonby, where Bishop William of Waynflete is said to have been rector. This is doubtful, but probably he was presented to the vicarage of Skendleby by the Prior of Bardney in 1430. The other and prettier road goes by Ashby Puerorum and Greetham, and both run out into the Spilsby and Horncastle road near ''High Toynton''. Ashby Puerorum (or Boys' Ashby) gets its name from an estate here bequeathed to support the Lincoln Minster choir boys. At this place, and again close by Somersby, the hollows in the Wold which this road passes through are among the prettiest bits of Lincolnshire.