ASHBY, a parish in the Wold division of the wapentake
of CANDLESHOE, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 2 miles (B. by N.) from Spilsby, containing
140 inhabitants. The living is a discharged recA
tory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £7. 10.2., and in the patronage
of Robert Fowler, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, The church
is dedicated to St. Helen.