SCAMBLESBY, a parish in the northern division
of the wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 6 miles (N. by E.) from Horncastle,
containing 347 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and
Chapter of Lincoln, and in the patronage of the Prebendary
of Melton-Ross with Scamblesby in the Cathedral
Church of Lincoln, endowed with £400 private
benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary
grant.