Boston [Map]

Boston is in Lincolnshire.

Around 1400 Philip Tilney was born to Frederick Tilney (age 30) at Boston [Map].

Around 1418 Robert Tilney was born to Philip Tilney (age 18) at Boston [Map].

Calendars. 17 Jan 1462. Release to William Pemberton, the mayor, and the citizens of Lincoln, Westminster, on account of their impoverishment through the payment of £180 for the fee farm of the city and through the removal of the staple thence to Boston [Map] and other losses, of £100 yearly which Thomas de Roos, knight, and his ancestors received from the said fee farm of the grant of Edward II., in the king's hands by reason of an act in Parliament at Westminster, 4 November; and grant to them of all lands and possessions in Ingham and Cotes by Ingham, co. Lincoln, which Edward Burton, late mayor, and the citizens acquired from John Helwell, late of Gunby, co. Lincoln, esquire, and which William Tallboys (age 47), late of Kyme, co. Lincoln, esquire, lately entered into and expelled them from, now in the king's hands by the act aforesaid.

In 1488 Hugh Tilney (age 43) died at Boston [Map].

On 04 Aug 1608 William Cheney (age 68) died at Boston [Map].

After 26 Jun 1612. Elizabethan Period monument to Roger Manners 5th Earl of Rutland (deceased) and Elizabeth Sidney Countess Rutland at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire [Map] sculpted by Nicholas Johnson. Cost £150 including carriage by sea from London to Boston [Map].

Elizabeth Sidney Countess Rutland: In 1585 she was born to Philip Sidney and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. On 05 Mar 1599 Roger Manners 5th Earl of Rutland and she were married. She by marriage Countess of Rutland. Childless, unhappy and possibly not consummated. She the daughter of Philip Sidney and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. He the son of John Manners 4th Earl of Rutland and Elizabeth Charlton Countess Rutland. In 1612 Elizabeth Sidney Countess Rutland died. She was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire.

Around 15 May 1617 Ursula Tyrwhitt (age 77) died in Boston [Map]. See Diary of Anne Clifford.

In 1702 Edward Irby 1st Baronet (age 25) was elected MP Boston which seat he held until 1708.

In 1741 Vere Bertie (age 29) was elected MP Boston.

The South Forty Foot Drain aka Black Sluice is a man-made drain starting at Guthram Gowt [Map] that drains a large area of the Lincolnshire fen-land known as the Black Sluice Area aka Lindsey Level. The drain, or an early version of it was first constructed around 1635 when the Earl of Lindsey agreed with the Commissioners of Sewers for Lincolnshire to carry out drainage works which would make 150 km2 of land available for agricultural use. The South Forty Foot Drain drains the area bounded by Great Hale, North Kesteven [Map], Bourne, South Kesteven [Map], Pinchbeck [Map] and Boston [Map].

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30 Mar 1851. Census. Fishtoft, Boston.

Keomi aka Keytumas Gray (age 10). Aged 2.

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Around 1445 Hugh Tilney was born to Philip Tilney (age 45) at Skirbeck, Boston.

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1798. John Buckler (age 27). To the Reverend Samuel Partridge, M.A. Vicar of Boston, Lincolnshire