SKIRBECK, a parish partly in the wapentake of
KIRTON, but chiefly in that of SKIRBECK, parts of
HOLLAND, county of LINCOLN, 1 mile (s. E. by S.)
from Boston, containing, with the hamlet of Skirbeck-
Quarter, 1307 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £34. 17. 8., and in the patronage
of the Rev. William Volans. The church is dedicated
to St. Nicholas. An ancient hospital, for ten
poor persons, founded in honour of St. Leonard, was
given, in 1230, by Sir Thomas Multon, Knt, to the
knights hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, who
settled here, and dedicated it anew to St. John the
Baptist. In the time of Edward II., its revenue was
sufficient for the maintenance of four priests, also
twenty poor people in the infirmitory, and for the daily
relief of forty more at the gate..