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l&cmoir relating to the Estate at Kirkstead , in Lincolnshire , lately recovered to the Dissenters . Sir , Lincoln ^ Jan . 1 , 1813 . A considerable interest having been excited , both in this and in
other parts of the country , by a trial which came on at Lincoln , before Judge Grose , at the last summer assize , and that trial hav . ing been very falsely reported in some of the London papers , I am anxious that a true statement of it
should be given to the public , through the medium of your pages : —and , in order to have the case perfectly understood , I shall beg to offer you a short history of Kirkstead .
The lordship of Kirkstead lies upon the river Witham , at nearly an equal distance from Lincoln % nd Boston . Here was built , in the year 11 & 9 > an abbey for Cistercian monks , the ruins of which
are still to be seen . Adjoining the Spot on which the ruins stand , but beyond the ditch which once surrounded them , with a small , pasture field intervening , is a chapel ,
supposed to be one of the oldest buildings in Lincolnshire . Its windows Ipfty&nd narrow , and pointed upwards , in the form of a spear , indicate thai it was built before r' * -
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the general use of glass , that is , before the twelfth century ; and the tradition respecting its antiquity , which is current in the neighbourhood , is , that it had an existence before the abbey .
The property of thei Cistercian monks was held under great and peculiar advantages , having been exempted from all ecclesiastical and parish taxes ; and * at the suppression , it was given away , with
all its privileges . There are many of these estates in the neighbourhood of Lincoln : they are extraparochial and extra-episcopal ; of course , they have no parish church * they are allied to no parish , and pay no tithes nor church lays *
The lordship of Kirkstead was given , at the Conquest , by William , to one of his Norman generals , of the name of Eudo ; and in the chapel is a stone figure , imbossed , still in good preservation , of a man in complete armour . This
stood originally in an erect posture , against the wall , but was laid down , as a paving stone , with the image towards the earth , till it was discovered , upon the new paving of the chapel , by some one who had more veneration for the monuments of antiquity , and , under his direction , it was again placed
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ram MOBJTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature . i
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No . LXXXVI . FEBRUARY . [ Vol . VIII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1813, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2425/page/1/
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