STOW, (Lincolnshire) bet. the city of that name and Gainsborough, is supposed to be the ancient Sidnacester, once the seat
of the Bps. of this Co. called the Bps. of Lindisser. Its privileges are greater than those of any place hereabouts,
except Lincoln, and did once exceed even that, it having been famous before Lincoln was a Bp's. See; and the common notion
is, that this was heretofore its mother Ch. The Ch. which is a very large fabrick, was founded by one of the Bps. of
Dorchester in Oxfordshire, and rebuilt by the first Bp. of Lincoln. In Stow-park, 1 m. from the Ch. there was once an
abbey, which was afterwards made a Bp's. palace; but there is little of the ruins now to be seen.