Henry del Ortiary and Sabina his wife, on the one hand, and Ralph de Rhodes, on the other hand, in which the former parties recognise the right of the said Ralph to certain lands in Haltham, Wood Enderby, Moorby, and other parishes in the soke.[1]
Of other families of distinction once connected with this parish we have indications in the arms which Gervase Holles found in the church windows in his time (circa 1630, temp. Chas. I.), which we give here.
In Fenestris Cancelli.
| Verry a fesse G. fretty, d'or | Marmyon |
| G. a cross sarcely, arg. | Beke |
| Sa. 2 lyons passant, arg crowned, or | Dymoke |
| Or, a lyon rampant, double queue, sa | Welles |
| Sa. 3 flowres de lize betw. 6 crosse crosslets, fitchy, arg. | |
| G. 3 bars ermyne | Kirketon |
| Barry of 6, or and sa. |
Fenestræ Boreales.
| B. a lyon's head erased betw. 6 crosses, botony, arg. | Touthby |
| Arg. 2 bars G. a border, sa. | |
| Dymoke, each lyon charged sur l' espale with an annulet | Dymoke |
| Ermyne on a bend G. a cinquefoil, or | |
| G. crosse crucilly fitchy, a lyon rampant, arg. | La Warre |
| Or, a lyon rampant, double queue, sa. | Welles |
Fenestræ Australes.
| G. 3 water-bougets, arg. | Ros |
| Or on fesse G. 3 plates | Huntingfield |
| Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty | Rochfort |
| Rochfort with a garbe in the 2nd quarter, arg. | Rochfort |
| Rochfort with an annulet in the 2nd quarter, arg | Rochfort |
| Or, a manche G. | Hastings |
| G. a bend ermyne | Ry |
| Rochfort with an eagle displayed in the 2nd quarter, arg | Rochfort |
| Arg. fretty of 6 pieces G. a canton ermyne |
In Fenestra Borealis Navis.
| G. crosse crucilly fitchy, a lyon rampant, arg. | La Warre |
| Arg. on a bend, G. 3 gryphons heads erased, or |
In Campanili.
| Joh'es Staines W. Jo.[2] |
MAREHAM-LE-FEN.
Mareham-le-Fen lies about six miles south from Horncastle, and five miles eastward of Tattershall station, with a population of more than 800. Letters via Boston arrive by mail cart at 7.30 a.m. This is the seat of a considerable industry, carried on by Mr. Titus Kime, as a grower of greatly improved varities of potatoes, agricultural seed, and, latterly on a large scale, of bulbs of different kinds, in which he seems likely to compete with the Dutch trade.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Helen, is a fine structure of oolite stone, probably one of the largest in the neighbourhood, except the collegiate church of Tattershall. It consists of tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch and chancel. The body of the church was restored in 1873, and re-opened on June 13th of that year, at a cost of more than £2,000, by J. Banks Stanhope, Esq., Lord of the Manor; the then rector, the Rev. W. Sharpe, restoring the chancel, and the parishioners and other friends the tower. The latter consists of three tiers, having a small square window in the south
