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Laying in the corner of what was once the churchyard of St John’s in Skirbeck are the broken remains of gravestones along with bits and pieces of rubble.
I suppose that they were piled in a corner at one time but they are now just scattered around, sad isn’t it?
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On this side of the fence that runs along the centre of my photo is the land on which St John’s Church once stood. On the other side is a piece of land that was known as St Augustine’s Pasture, and behind that, where six grain silos stand, is the site of St Augustine’s Friary founded in 1317 by the Tilney family.
In the July of 1930, in the old friary pasture, a firm of timber merchants were digging foundations for their new sheds when they found human skeletons just four feet below the surface.
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On this spot in about 1200, a hospital was founded and dedicated to St Leonard. Its function was to care for ten poor of the community. Thirty years later, Thomas de Moulton gave the hospital, along with rights to the land, to the Knights Hospitallers of St John’s of Jerusalem. A number of knights lived out their days here and a tomb of one of them can be found in St Botolphs Church in Boston town’s marketplace.
St Leonard’s Hospital became St John’s Hospital and by 1287 there was a chapel added, this became St John’s Church, the cemetery of which you can see in my photos. The church was in use until the 17th century when it became unfit for purpose and was demolished.
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Have you ever been excited to go somewhere but when you do get there it’s way below your expectations? No medievalness at all!😉
This is Corpus Christi Lane which once was a 14th century alley in Boston Lincolnshire.
Never mind onwards and upwards.
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Here I am again back in Boston where I started my search for the Tilney family.
The summer took me to two villages on either side of the Humber in search of this lady’s maternal ancestry. It is possible that this is Margaret the wife of Frederick Tilney.
Margaret and Frederick had at least one son, whose descendants would go on to greater things (depending on your point of view that is) in the mid-16th century.
Margaret’s effigy once lay in the church of St John’s in Skirbeck. It is this area, which predates Boston itself, that I find myself this weekend.
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My last post on the subject of the Ayscough family from Stallingborough Lincolnshire is about Edward Asycough, an Elizabethan country gentleman.
Edward Ayscough probably lived at the family’s manor house at Stallingborough as his tomb, seen here, can be found in the church that stood adjacent to the house. At this time Spain was threatening war and it was the duty of every Englishman of note to supply horses and weapons for the fight against the Armada.
In 1584 Edward’s local muster point was Caistor, but he failed to turn up with his assessed quota of ‘one dimi-lance and two horses’ his fine for this was to supply a third horse. Three years later he held the position High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Edward Ayscough had married Hester Grantham of Goltho, and as you can see he had rather a large brood of children - fourteen in all.
He died in 1612.
The manor of Stallingborough descended to his son William and then through three more Edwards until it passed, in the mid 16th century, to Isabella his 3x great granddaughter the wife of Andrew Boucherett.
On this marriage, the manor became the property of the Boucherett family.
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Francis Ayscough inherited the manor of Stallingborough on the death of his father in 1546. At this time it is likely that he was living in the nearby village of South Kelsey. Francis was the older brother of Tudor martyr Anne Askew and is known to have been interested, like Anne, in the teachings of the new religion.
When Anne left her husband it is thought that it was to Francis’ home that she fled, she would later leave for London where she was tortured and executed. In Foxe’s Book of Martyrs it states that it was Francis who betrayed his sister to the authorities after her first trial and release, and who quickly made it clear he had returned to the old faith.
I don’t know what I think about this, it’s easy to think Francis was unprincipled, weak and a coward who betrayed his sister to save his own skin, in reality though, I wonder how many of us would have done the same?
Francis Asycough was married twice and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire on three separate occasions. He can claim Sir Issac Newton as one of his descendants.
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On the floor of St Peter and Paul’s Church in the Lincolnshire village of Stallingborough is this brass marker, it features William Ayscough and his wife Margery Hilyard. This couple were the grandparents of Anne Ayscough (Askew) who was burnt at the stake for her Protestant belief.
William Ayscough died in 1509, just a few years before the teachings of new religion began to take hold.
William was knighted in 1501 at the marriage of Prince Arthur to Catherine of Aragon.
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Church Lane in Stallingborough meanders its way north with what remains of a medieval village to its left. The green fields, seen in my photographs, cover the foundations of buildings that can be seen as ridges and hollows.
To the south of this lane, there were open fields, archaeologists think this was where the village expanded during the 16th century and where the Tudor house belonging to the Ayscough's was situated.
Living there in the 1520s was Anne, a young girl who was forced to marry a man to whom her dead sister was promised.
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At the end Church Lane in the Lincolnshire village of Stallingborough is the 18th-century church of St Peters and St Paul. It stands on high ground where once stood the original church. On the surrounding terrain, there is evidence of a medieval settlement that can be seen as small banks and ditches.
In 1086 there were forty-five people living there, it was the third largest manor in north Lincolnshire after Barton and Grimsby and is listed as having five overlords.
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Memorial of Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt at All Saints Church in Tealby, Lincolnshire.
Charles Tennyson’s self-importance was based on his perceived notion of entitlement. He had his heart set on a peerage that was linked to the Barony of d’Eyncourt, a title that had been in abeyance for over a century. He would pester his father to change the family surname to d’Eyncourt, which he didn’t. He did eventually persuade him to add a codicil to his will to that effect though.
Tennyson was disliked in his home county, and he didn’t fare much better with those in met in his political career either. Here's what he had to say about the people he was hoping to representing.
‘I have now made up my mind most reluctantly to give up all thoughts of contesting Lincoln. I am most vexatious because I am confident of success but of the absurd prejudice that has arisen against me on the part of several inferior class of voter...‘
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Detail on a memorial to Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt at All Saints Church Tealby in Lincolnshire.
Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt, and his older brother George Clayton Tennyson, had been brought up with the story of their family connection to the ennobled family of d’Eyncourt. This tale greatly impressed Charles, who would spend the rest of his life trying to obtain the right to the d’Eyncourt name and the peerage that went with it.
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Monument to George Tennyson at All Saints Church Tealby Lincolnshire.
George Tennyson was a lawyer who had some interest in politics. Not interested enough to enter parliament himself, he looked to his sons to do it for him. His elder son, also George, did not match his high expectations, his father considered him weak and duly sent him off for a career in the church. Charles, the second son was the person through who he could live his life. The disinheriting of George and the favouritism shown to Charles would cause much family strife which exhibited itself in mental illness that reverberated down the generations.
George Tennyson died in 1835.
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