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Bolingbroke in Lincoln County England History and GeographyBOLINGBROKE, a market-town and parish, in the western division of the soke of BOLINGBROKE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 129 miles (N.) from London, containing 753 inhabitants. This town is pleasantly situated near the source of a small river which runs into the Witham. A castle was built by William de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, of which his descendant, Allicia de Lacey, was dispossessed by Edward II. Henry IV. was born in this castle, and from it took the name of Henry of Bolingbroke: the south-west tower is still remaining, and from the site and other vestiges, the castle appears to have been a quadrilateral building, with a tower at each angle, and to have been defended by a rampart. There is a manufactory for earthenware: the market is on Tuesday, and a fair is held on St. Peter's day. The town is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests for the recovery of debts under £5, which extends through the soke of Bolingbroke, and is held under an act passed in the 47th of George III.: constables and other officers are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The living is a discharged rectory, united with Hareby, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9. 19. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Warren were patrons in 1782. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a spacions and venerable structure, but a considerable part of it was destroyed in the civil war during the reign of Charles I. There is a free school with a trifling endowment. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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