STIXWOULD, a parish, in the southern division of
the wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle, containing
214 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £7- 10., endowed with
£400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of Edmund Tumor, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. Peter. A convent of Cistercian nuns,
in honour of the Blessed Virgin, was founded here,
in the reign of Stephen, by the Countess Lucy, relict
of Ranulph, first Earl of Chester, which at the dissolution
possessed a revenue of £ 163. 1. 2.