BECKIMGHAM, (Nottinghamshire) on the b. of Linc, near Gainsborough, was for a long time, the manor and seat of a family of its name. Here was a chantry, which Edw. VI. granted to Thomas Reeve and George Colter; who, by licence, alienated the same to Robert Harrison and his heirs. The Ch. here is a prebend to the collegiate Ch. of Southwell. Dr. Howel, who wrote the Medulla Historiae Anglicanae, was born here.