BARLINGS, a parish in the wapentake of LAWRESS,
parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 65 miles
(E.N.E.) from Lincoln, containing 245 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £1000
royal bounty, and in the patronage of John Dixon, Esq.
The church is desecrated. A school is endowed with a
rent-charge of £10. An abbey for Premonstratensian
canons, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded in 1154,
the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £307-16.6.
The last prior was Dr. Mackerel, who, having put hinir
self at the head of an insurrection against the king's
authority, was taken and executed, in 1536.