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THE

History and Antiquities

OF

BOSTON,

AND THE

VILLAGES OF SKIRBECK, FISHTOFT, FREISTON, BUTTERWICK, BENINGTON,
LEVERTON, LEAKE, AND WRANGLE;

COMPRISING

The Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln.

INCLUDING ALSO

A HISTORY OF THE EAST, WEST, AND WILDMORE FENS, AND COPIOUS NOTICES OF THE HOLLAND OR HAUT-
HUNTRE FEN; A HISTORY OF THE RIVER WITHAM; THE BIOGRAPHY OF CELEBRATED PERSONS, NATIVES
OF, OR CONNECTED WITH, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD; SKETCHES OF THE GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY,
BOTANY, AND AGRICULTURE OF THE DISTRICT; A VERY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF ARCHAISMS AND
PROVINCIAL WORDS, LOCAL DIALECT, PHRASES, PROVERBS, OMENS, SUPERSTITIONS, ETC.

BY PISHEY THOMPSON.

HUNDRED

ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE Hundred ENGRAVINGS.

with

"The genuine history of a country can never be well understood without a complete and searching analysis of
the component parts of the community as well as the country. Genealogical inquiries and local topography, so far
from being unworthy the attention of the philosophical inquirer, are amongst the best materials he can use; and
the fortunes and changes of one family, or the events of one upland township, may explain the darkest and most
dubious portions of the annals of a realm."-SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE.

BOSTON: JOHN NOBLE, JUN.

LONDON: LONGMAN AND CO.; SIMPKIN AND CO.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: SAMUEL G. DRAKE.

1856.

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LONDON:

Printed by G. BARCLAY, Castle St. Leicester Sq.

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