SPITTAL-on-the-STREET, a chapelry in the parish
of GLENTWORTH, western division of the wapentake
of ASLACOE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 10
miles (E.) from Gainsborough. The chapel is dedicated
to St. Nicholas. An hospital for poor women, with
a chapel dedicated to St. Edmund, existed here in
the reign of Edward II., was augmented in that of
Richard II., and is now under the superintendence of
the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln.