MINTING, a parish in the southern division of the
wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) from Horncastle, containing
270 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £5. 7. 11., and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, was given, before
1129, to the abbey of Leyr in France, upon which an
Alien priory of Benedictine monks was established and
continued here till its suppression by Henry V., who
granted it to the Carthusian priory of Mountgrace, and,
as parcel of its possessions, it was given in exchange
to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.