• shire, and Will Stagg was at the same time whipped and sent

to Conton in Nottinghamshire."

A good, sound method of dealing with "Vagrom men," but for the women and children one wonders the parson or churchwardens were not ashamed to make the entry.

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Great Hale.

The book also shows the accounts of the "Dike-reeve" (an important officer) for what in another place is called "the farre fenne."

We have already spoken of Great Hale or Hale Magna. It is very near Heckington, and was once a large church. Long before the abbey of Bardney appropriated it, in 1345, it had both a rector and a vicar, the two being consolidated in 1296.