MALTBY, a chapelry in the parish of RAITHBY,
Wold division of the hundred of LouTH-EsKE, parts
of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 3 miles (S.W. by S.;
from Louth. The population is returned with the parish.
Ann Bolle, in 1705, bequeathed certain land, directing
the income, after deducting 40a. a year for the
poor, to be applied in teaching children. Here was formerly
a preceptory of the Knights Templars, to which
Ranulph, one of the earls of Chester of that name, was
the first benefactor; it afterwards belonged to the Hospitallers.