TUPHOLME, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the
western division of the wapentake of WRAGGOE, parts
of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 9 miles (W. by S.)
from Horncastle, containing 71 inhabitants. It appears
formerly to have possessed parochial rights; the living
was a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £2.10.10.,
endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of th'e Bishop of Lincoln. An abbey of Premonstratensian
canons, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was
founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Allan arid
Gilbert de Nevill, which, at the dissolution, possessed a
revenue of £119. 2. 8.