SLEAFORD, (Lincolnshire) 14 m. from Lincoln, 89 cm. 110 mm. from. London, stands near the source of a pretty little r.
which runs so quick thro' the T. that it never is frozen; and within the T. and in the space of a m. below, it drives 5
corn-mills, 2 fulling-mills, and one paper-mill, and then falls into the Witham. It is a very populous T. continually
improving in its buildings, has a large handsome Ch. a considerable Mt. every M. stored with all sorts of cattle and
provisions, and 3 Fairs, viz. Whit-M. Aug. 1, and Oct. 9. Alexander, who was Bp. of Lincoln in the R. of Hen. I. built a
castle in the S. W. part of the T. fit for entertaining a K. but only a part of its wall is standing. There is a fr. sc.
here, founded and handsomely endowed in 1603 by Robert Carr, the master whereof is presented to the approbation of the
feoffees, by the inheritor of the castle, who was the late Ld. Harvey. The said Mr. Carr also erected and endowed a hos.
here; for 11 poor men; for the management of which charity, he constituted the vicar of this T. together with the rectors
of Aswardby, Kirby, Lathorp, Asgarby, and Quarrington, perpetual governors for the time being, with some laymen governors
for life. Its Mts. on M. after Epiphany, Easter, and Whitsuntide, are equal to some great Fairs. This is called New-
Sleaford, to distinguish it from Old-Sleaford in the neighbourhood, where was the seat of John Hussy, the first and last
baron of that name.