mark for the discharge of his duty, i.e., that the same John should cause a certain creek between Tetney and Northcotes to be repaired and set to rights. And the Abbot of Louth Park gave to the same John de Cockerington 10 marks and i palfrey worth 100 shillings not to discharge the duty of his office, i.e., that the said John should not cause the inlet of the sea between Tetney and Northcotes to be repaired and set to rights, and so he suffered the said ditch to remain as it had been before from the time of King Henry, the father of the present king. They affirm moreover with respect to the same matter that William Gray, Sheriff of Lincoln, received from the Abbot of Louth Park for the same business 100 shillings: that is to say that he should not cause the said creek between Tetney and Northcotes to be repaired nor amended. And that the same William received from the inhabitants of Northcotes 18 shillings on condition that he would cause the said creek to be repaired &c. And so he tacitly neglected it and it still remains to be repaired to the annual loss of i mark to the inhabitants of Northcotes."

Note. This must refer to the Tuttle Drain, which runs eastward between Northcotes and Tetney into the sea. (298 mention of the Port of Northcotes.) "Thomas de Boltun Sheriff of Lincoln fined Jacob de Barnoldby 4/- and John Mile of Tetney 4/- on a certain recognizance with security. He came there by another person and received the money."

At the time of the dissolution of the Monasteries Tetney Grange was let to John Greteham, farmer, on an unexpired lease. For some reason or other it pleased the King to take the property into his own hands, and receive the rent of it as parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, without disturbing the lease. This caused the writer and others hours of fruitless search at the Record Office for the documents relating to the

supposed sale, and it was only after we had abandoned the search that we found, in a document in our hands, what had really become of the property. The document referred to I have translated and given below. Its contents are too curious and valuable to be passed over. The names of the articles of furniture are curious, some of them I cannot make out. Probably these were mere local names, and never found their way into dictionaries.

Duchy of Lancaster, Minister's Account 27, 28, Hen. VIII., No. 91.

From Michals. 27 Hen. VIII. to Mich. 28 Hen. VIII.

TETNEY GRANGE.

Account of John Greteham farmer there for the time aforesaid.

ARREARS.

None, because it is the first account of this farmer made for the lord king.

GRANGE FARM.

Sum-nothing.

The rental is £8: 15: 4 for the farm of the Manor or Grange of Tetnaye with all lands and tenements, meadows, feeding lands, pastures, and marshes with all other appurtenances according as Simon Webster at any time held and occupied (the same) together with the state (or condition) of all goods and chattels in the said Grange Manor, whether without or within the limits of Tetney aforesaid, together with the tithes of all and singular, their corn, meadows, and cattle, let to John Greteham to farm by Indenture, dated January 24th, in the year 23 Hen. VIII., for the term of 40 years, this year being the ninth of his term. (The rent) to be paid thence annually to the Abbot and Convent and their successors or their certified attornies for each of the four years of his term 10 marks legal English money, and for each of the remaining 36 years of his said

term eight pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, viz., at the feast of St. Botolph the Abbot and at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel by equal portions. And also the said John Greteham his heirs and assigns shall likewise pay or cause to be paid to the Abbot and Convent of Spalding annually at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel 18s. for the tithe of Spalding during the said term. And likewise the said John grants that he his heirs and assigns annually at the feast of St. Martin shall deliver 4 capons and 8 hens to the Abbey of Louth Park which are valued according to the officers of the lord king at 2/-, with clauses of distraint for default of payment for the space of ten days, and re-entry for the space of other ten days. And the said John his heirs or assigns shall repair and also sustain from year to year all burdens as well the repairs of houses and close sewers as of sea banks, ditches, drains, Court expenses, and other incumbrances or incidental charges of the said Grange at his own proper charges and expense during the said term. And at the end of the said term the houses of the said Manor or Grange also the close sewers and banks and ditches to be left in all respects in sufficient repair except the wood always to be found by the Abbot and Convent and their successors at all fit and suitable times except carriage, which is to be done at the cost of the said John his heirs and assigns from the Abbey of Louth Park aforesaid. And further the said John binds himself his heirs and assigns securely by these presents at the end of his said term to deliver or cause to be delivered without delay to the said Abbot and Convent and their successors all the articles and goods underwritten or the part of them which are valued as appears below. These articles and goods underwritten were delivered to the said John at his entrance and remain in the said Manor or Grange, viz., in the hall one long table with its tressils, another pair of tressils, and a table dormidor

and three forms.

Also one great stool on which pigs are killed, one chair, one dais or raised part of the floor on which the principal table in the hall was placed called the spying block, one vessel for washing the feet with two woollen (rugs or towels?)

In the pantry, three table cloths worth 2/-; two napkins, value 6d. ; one choice saler made of amber; one cup of white stone, value 3d.; two stands and five waterpots, value 8d. ; two gillefatts, value 2/8; one tunnel, 1d.

In the kitchen, two lead cauldrons set in furnaces, value 13/-, with a mash tub, value 1/6; one strainer, value 1d.

In the dairy house, six vessels for milk, value 6d. ; one milk pail, 1d.; three tubs for cheeses, 3d.; one 1churn (?), 8d.; one 'cream pot, 3d.; one bolting cloth, 2d.; 'rerekitt, 1d.; one cheese tub, value 3d.; one "kymnell, 6d. ; two bolting troughs, value 2d.; one pair of mill stones for the "brewhouse, value 2/-; two iron tripods, value 8d.; three cupboards of iron, value 12d.; one 'verum, value 12d.; one ffleshecroke, value 1d.; one cultellus called a dressing knife, value 3d.; two other cultelli for meat, value 2d.; one salt bag, 1d.; one pair of mill stones for making mustard, value 12d.; one 'secura, value 4d.

In the hynde house, a "draughtfforke, value 3d.; three forks for 12fumo, value 12d.; three 18vanges, 9d.; one senebect' revolving (rotat') and another for working with the hand, value 12d. ; one hammer, value 3d.

In the 11kylne house, one silitrum, value 3/4; one steeping tub, value 5/-; two scales, value 16d.

plaustrum with

jugum,

And in the storehouse, one value 6/-; one biga with its ornaments for four horses,

1 Kyrne. 2 Crebrum. 3A cloth for sifting meal. 4 Basket; hallicot. 5 Bushell measure; catholicon A. 6 Brasina bailey. 7A spit, Lat D. 8 Mealpot. A hatchet or a safe? 10 Servant. 11 Manure fork or goad. 12 Dung? 18 Spade or mattock cowel. 14 A place for drying malt or hops. 15 Cart or waggon. 16 Yoke,

value 6/8; two carucat' pro fumo cariand'; two carts (competent' ornat') well fitted with iron and wood, one for horses and the other for oxen, to carry dung to the plough land, 22/-; oxen equal to six horses to drag four varpican harrows, of which two have iron teeth and two are made altogether of wood; birds, five geese and one gander, twenty hens and one cock, value 2/4; as by the aforesaid contract more plainly appears in the Indenture.

Sum, £8: 15: 4.

Sum of the rent as stated above, £8 : 15 : 4, of which in money delivered to John ffreman the king's receiver there of the outgoings of the said Grange Farm as appears by bill dated Dec. 1, 28 Hen. VIII. There remains on the other hand the sum of £4: 8:8, and for this £4 : 6 : 8 for the like sum charged upon the said John ffreman for an equal amount received by George Walker lately Abbot there from the outgoings of the said Grange for the first mediety of the present year for the use of his hospitium before the dissolution of the same Abbey of Louth Park, and charged in his account then and there made, as in the same account more plainly appears.

And so this is

Equal.

SUCCESSIVE OWNERS OF TETNEY AND ITS PRINCIPAL MANOR.

It has been mentioned that Ivo Tallibois, through his marriage with the Lady Lucy, became Lord of the Manor of Tetney.

After Ivo's death Lucy again became possessed of her former estates and espoused Roger de Romare, Lord of Bollingbroke, by whom she had a son William, who was rightful heir to her possessions. This William married Maud, daughter of Richard de Redvers, by whom he had issue: