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LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
January 24th 1839
SEARBY - Awfully Sudden Death - On Sunday last, Charlotte Wray, in the service of Mrs Roadley, of Searby, as she was milking the cow, her male attendant observed to her, he thought her rather late and dilatory, and before she had time to reply to him, she fell backwards, and the vital spark was immediately extinct.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
March 28th 1839
CAISTOR - On Sunday last that very old custom of the Gad cracking in Caistor church was gone through as usual. The origin of this custom must be very ancient, and remain in darkness, yet the following statement has some appearance of truth in it, although it differs from many tales that have been told of it. The Earl of Hundon (Hundon is a hamlet or farm in the parish of Caistor), is said to have had a quarrel with the Lord of the Manor of Broughton, near Brigg, about certain lands, and agreed to determine it by single combat; the Earl was the conqueror, but agreed to restore the lands on condition of the following ceremony being performed in Caistor church on every Palm Sunday. A Whip or Gad to be cracked in the porch of the church three times during the reading of the first lesson, and to be held over the Parson's head the whole of the time of the reading of the second lesson - after which the person who performs this remains in the church till the service is over and then gives up the Gad (to which is attached a purse, containing two shillings, formerly it was said to be thirty silver penny pieces), to the tenant of the said Hundon Farm, of which farm Sir Culling E Smith is proprietor.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
April 25th 1839
CAISTOR - Extraordinary Fecundity - A ewe belonging to Mr J Bennard, of Owmby near Caistor, has produced five lambs. A remarkably fine she hog, slaughtered by Mr William Hannah, of Caistor was exhibited at his shop last Saturday, bred and fed by W E Hobson Esq., of Kettleby and weighed 8 stone 2 pounds. Several competent judges allowed the animal to be the best sheep they had ever seen.
LINCOLN MERCURY
February 14th 1840
GRASBY - Sometime ago Mr J Clarke, farmer, of Grasby, near Caistor, had his barn robbed of five sacks of barley, put aside for delivery. A little while after, he had a stack of beans blown over in a hurricane, and which he covered from the wet with a large stack sheet. In the night half the sheet was cut off and taken away - Mr Burkinshaw, another farmer in the same parish, has had his straw taken out of his yard by men with bands at night, and a woman was seen taking straw from another farmstead. To mention minor thefts of eggs, garden produce, &c, in this depraved village would be tedi (Continued on page 6)
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