The Woodhall or Iodine Spa, Lincolnshire / by Robert Cuffe.

  • Cuffe, Robert.
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Woodhall or Iodine Spa, Lincolnshire / by Robert Cuffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Manor of Horncastle is mentioned in Domesday Book as part of the possessions of the King. About eight miles south-east from Horncastle is the decayed market town of Bolingbroke, formerly strengthened by a castle, and important in history as the birthplace of Henry of Bolingbroke, afterwards King Henry IY. About two miles south of Horncastle stands the village of Scrivelsby, once the seat of the Lords of Marmion, a noble name immortalized in the pages of Scott. The Lord Marmion held the office of Champion to the Kings of England. The lands of Marmion and the office of Champion passed to the family of Dymoke, and at the coronation of Richard II. Sir John Dymoke performed that office, and it has continued in the family from that time to the present. The neighbourhood of Horncastle, the birth-place of that Plantagenet whose elevation to the throne plunged England into the horrors of civil war, was itself exempt from the ravages of the Wars of the Roses; and it was not till the terrible struggle between Charles I. and his Parliament that the soil was stained by the blood of kindred combatants. At a village called Winceby, midway between Horncastle and Bolingbroke, a battle was fought between the Royalists, under Sir John Henderson and the Parliamentarians under the Earl of Manchester. In this battle, which ended in the complete defeat of the Royalists, Cromwell had his horse shot under him; and it is said that Sir Ingram Hopton was slam while in the act of attempting to seize him. It is related of Crom¬ well that he caused the body of the fallen Royalist to be hon¬ orably interred in the church of Horncastle, with a remark that though an emeny he was a gentleman and a soldier. About seven miles distant is the Manor of Mareham- le-Een. The Manor House was the seat of Mr. James Roberts, who accompanied Sir James Banks in the first voyage of Captain Cook round the world. He caused his gardens to be orna¬ mented with objects of curiosity from Terra del Euego, New Holland, and the South Sea Islands.