MELTON-ROSS, a parish in the southern division
of the wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts of LINDSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Glandford-
Bridge, containing 126 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean
and Chapter of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Prebendary of Melton Ross with Scamblesby
in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln.