BOLINGBROKE, a market-town and parish in the western division of the soke of BOLINGBROKE, parts of LINDSEY., county of LINCOLN, 30 miles (B. S.E.) from Lincoln, and 129 (X.) from London, containing 753 inhabitants. This town is pleasantly situated near the source of a small river, which runs into the Witham. A castle was built by William de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, of which his descendant, AlJicia de Lacey, was dispossessed by Edward II. Henry IV. was born in this castle, and from it took the name of Henry of Bolingbroke: the south-west tower is still remaining, and, from the site and other vestiges, the castle appears to have been a quadrilateral building, with a tower at each angle, and to have been defended by a rampart. There is a manufactory for earthenware: the market is on Tuesday, and a fair is held on St. Peter's day. The town is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests for the recovery of debts under £5, which extends through the soke, and is held under an act passed in the 4"th of George III.: constables and other officers are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor The living is a discharged rectory, to which that of Hareby was united in 1139, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9. 19. 2., and in the patronage of Mr. and Mrs. Warren. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a spacious and venerable structure, but a considerable part of it was destroyed in the civil war during the reign of Charles I. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A free school has a trifling endowment for the instruction of poor children.