ELSHAM, a parish in the northern division of the
wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts of LINDSEY, county
of LINCOLN, 5 miles (N.E. by N.) from Glandford-Bridge,
containing 383 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £7. 18. 4. W. T. Corbett,
Esq. was patron in 1801. The church, dedicated to All
Saints, is a neat structure in the early style of English
architecture, with a handsome western. porch. An hospital,
or priory of Augustine canons, was founded early
in the twelfth century, by Beatrix de Amundevill, and
dedicated to St. Mary and .St. Edmund, the annual
revenue of which, at the dissolution, amounted to
£83. 17. 10.