A.D. 1583) Richard Laycebe, vicar, signs the Transcripts of 1590 Tetney parish registers. 1597) RICHARD ODLING, vicar, signs the Transcripts of the 1631 registers. In 1605 the Bishop of Lincoln appears as patron. Valuation of Vicarage, £7 18s. 4d.; number of communicants, 310. 1632. Sept. 24. JOHN BELGRAVE, B.A., appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln. Cause of vacancy not stated. Note. On Nov. 27, 1655, Oliver Cromwell prohibited the use of the Book of Common Prayer in our Churches. He further abolished Episcopacy, turned out numbers of the clergy, and put dissenting ministers in their places. By the Act of Uniformity of King Charles II., A.D. 1662, some 2,000 of these intruders who refused to submit to Episcopal Government or to conform to or use the Prayer Book were ejected from their livings. Martyn Ffinch was one of these. He had obtained the Vicarage of Tetney, and was now dispossessed. That he remained in the parish is certain, as the Court Rolls show, and it seems highly probable that he originated Dissent here in the form of a sect of Anabaptists, for in the early part of the next century there was a Baptist chapel, with a burial ground attached, where Chapel Row now stands. Marriages and funerals were celebrated there, and in 1737 an entry in the parish register records that parents refused to have their children baptized at Church. In the Tetney Court Rolls for the year 1659 I find the following entry :— "Nicholas Wood surrenders to the use of Martyn Ffinch, Clerk, lands in Tettney, lately bought off Wm. Lacon, a messuage or tenement with the building thereto belonging, one other little house adjoining, one barn, one stable, one close of pasture adjoining the same containing one acre, seven acres of land arable on each side being in both fields fourteen acres, and common pasture for his two cows in North Marsh, with all the appurtenances in Tettney. Rent, £0 14s. 7d. Fine, £4 5s. 5d. £5 Os. Od. value. A.D. FFRANCIS BALL, Landlord. 1662. Aug. 26. JOHN THORY, appointed by the Bishop. 1670. Aug. 2. JOHN GREENE, M.A., appointed by the Bishop, on the death of J. Thory. (Mr. Greene was ordained Sept. 2, 1668, by the Bishop of Norwich.) 1673. JOHN BEATNIFFE, curate, signs the Transcripts. 1686. Feb. 21. JAMES CARRINGTON, B.A., appointed by the Bishop, on the death of Greene. 1692. June 4. STEPHEN LUDLAM, M.A., appointed by the Cause of vacancy not stated. Bishop. 1727. March 27. PETER BROKA (?), M.A., by the Bishop. Cause of vacancy not stated. 1729. July 15. WILLIAM EMERSON, by the Bishop, on the death of Peter Broka. 1732. Dec. 18. RADCLIFFE SEARLE, M.A., by the Bishop, on the death of William Emerson. 1757. Feb. 22. JOHN SEARLE, by the Bishop, on the death of Radcliffe Searle. 1778. Oct. 16. WOLLEY JOLLAND, by the Bishop, on the death of John Searle.* 1836. Nov. 26. EDWARD REGINALD MANTELL, M.A., by the Bishop, on the death of Wolley Jolland. 1859. Dec. 30. FIELDER HEMMANS, M.A., by the Bishop, on the cession of the Rev. Edwd. Regd. Mantell. 1872. Sept. 2. JOHN WILD, B.A., by the Bishop, on the cession of Fielder Hemmans, who was appointed to Holbeach. * Wolley Jolland was Vicar of Louth, and held Tetney in plurality, as did also Mr. Mantell. The connexion of Tetney with Wellow Abbey. According to Tanner's Notitia, the Abbey of Wellow was built by and received its initial endowment from Henry I., to the honour of St. Augustine for Black Canons. This was probably about the year 1110. Grimsby was at that time a royal demesne, and was let by the crown at a fee farm rent; the Church of St. James was also in the patronage of the king. Having so much interest in Grimsby it is not surprising that he should found an Abbey there and endow it liberally, and that this royal gift should include the Churches of St. James, Grimsby, and Clee. Later on, about A.D. 1150, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, gave "to the aforesaid Canons the Church of Teteneia with all the appurtenances and ten librates of land in Teteneia and Humberstain." (600 acres.) The deed of confirmation contains the following important clauses" And I do will and firmly command that the aforesaid Canons and their successors may have and hold all lands, rents, and possessions and their men and all things freely and quietly and honourably, with Sac, and Soc and Thol . . . . and Them . . . . and Infangthef and all liberties and free customs and acquittances in wood and plain in meadows and pastures in ways and paths in waters and mills within the Borough and without the Borough and in all places discharged free and quit of suits and service. . . and wapontake and pleas and plaints and summonses to be made and of money to be given for the forfeiture of murder and frankpledge and scutage and Geld and Danegeld and Tailliage and of works of Castles and Binddays and Bridges and Ports and Ditches and Highways. And that they shall be quit of all Toll and Pavage and Pontage and Stallage and Lastage and from all secular service and examination and from all secular occasions and customs, excepting only judgment of Death and members." The effect of the above royal verbiage was to create the lands and tithes given by Earl Ranulph into an independent manor, and give it full manorial rights, so that to the two manors mentioned in Domesday a third was now added. I may mention that these manorial rights or privileges, or some parts of them, continued till the time of the Enclosure, and are, in the Act of Parliament (p. 892) authorizing the award, reserved to the Bishop of Lincoln in these words:"Provided also, and be it likewise enacted . . . . That this Act shall not prejudice, lessen, or defeat, the Right or Title of the said Lord Bishop of Lincoln, or his successors, or his or their lessees, to any Seigniories, Royalties, Rights or Services, incident or belonging to him or them as Lord of the Manor of Canongarth." In A.D. 1341, We must now hark back some centuries. we find the following sad example of monkish misrule. "Vacancy of the Abbey of Grimsby." "Extent of the Manor of Weelesby . . . and of the temporalities of the Abbey of Grimsby, now vacant and in the hands of the King, through the death of Thomas de Welyngore, late Abbot of the said place, made at Weelsby on the 3rd day of April, 15. Edwd. III. Tetenay. "Extent of the Manor of Teteney, which belongs to the Temporalities of the said Abbey, as above made. . . . by the oath of Walter Parson, William Rinal, John Daunce, Robert Cook, Peter Wryght, John Deye, Henry Bakere, William de Kaburn, John Atte Style, William Salesby, William de Humberston, and Walter de Grymmesby, who state upon their oath that there is there a certain capital messuage which is worth nothing yearly beyond deductions, because there is there neither garden nor herbage (i.e., liberty of grazing). There is there one dove-cot which is worth yearly 2/6, and not more, for it is dilapidated and in ruins. There is there in demesne 160 acres of land, of which 100 (acres) can be sown yearly, and when sown is worth 4d. per acre. Total 33/4. And they were sown before the death of the said Abbot. And all the rest is of no value because it lies in warren and in common. And there are there 40 acres of meadow, and the yearly value per acre is 6d. and not more because of the overflowing of the sea. Total 20/- There is also there a certain several pasture which is called the North Marsh, which is of the yearly value of 5/- and a certain windmill which is worth 5/yearly beyond deductions and no more because it is out of repair and falling down, and there is no suit due (or owing) to it. There is also there from the rents and assize of the tenements of divers free men and ten natives at the feast of the Lord's Nativity 22s. 1d., at the feast of the Passover 16s. 3d., at the feast of S. Botolph 47s. Ožd., and at the feast of S. Michael 28s. 5d. Total of the rents as shewn above, 123s. 10d. Moreover of the said 10 natives one does not work, and the rest work annually from the feast of S. Michael until the feast of S. Martin (Sep. 29— Nov. 11) 45 work (days) which are worth by the year 3s. 9d., price per day 1d. And from the same feast of S. Martin to the feast of the Purification of the blessed Mary (Nov. 11— Feb. 2) 90 working days, which are worth by the year 5s. 7 d., price per day d. And from the said feast of the Purification of the blessed Mary until the feast of the Apostles Philip and James (Feb. 2-May 1) 92 work days, which are worth by the year 8s. 3d., price per day 1d. And from that feast until the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul (May 1-June 29) 63 work days, which are worth 5s. 6d., price per day 1d. And from that feast until Lammas. day (June 29-Aug. 1) they ought to mow the whole of the lord's meadow and carry it to the manor, and the work is worth by estimation 10s. Od. And from the said feast of |