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the flat country on the other side of the Humber and the Ouse, to- 

 wards Thorn and Jlatfield. At Tudworth near Hatfield were twenty 

 fisheries yielding- twenty thousand eels.* 



Yet, in these respects, the southern part of Yorkshire was far 

 exceeded by the adjoining county of Lincoln. A large division of 

 Lincolnshire obtained, in Bede's time, the name of Lindi-sey, the 

 sey of Lindum (the Roman name of Lincoln), as being almost cov- 

 ered with meres and woody marshes.f The quantity of wood pas- 

 ture, coppice wood, meadow land, marsh land, and eel fisheries, 

 entered in Domesday as belonging to Lincolnshire, is immense. Thus 

 ■in the King's land at Kyme, were two hundred and ten acres of wood 

 pasture, seven hundred acres of marsh, and six fisheries; besides 

 what belonged there to other proprietors. The bishop of Lincoln had 

 in Corby, eleven hundred acres of wood pasture; in Bitchfield, seven 

 hundred acres; in Sleaford, three hundred and twenty acres of 

 meadow, and three hundred and thirty acres of marsh; in Louth, 

 four hundred acres of wood ; and in Cainby, four hundred acres of 

 meadow. In the two Mintings, were two hundred and sixty acres of 

 meadow, one hundred of wood pasture, and one thousand and ten 

 of coppice wood. In the Isle of Axholme, between the Trent and 

 the Dun, there was then a marsh, ten miles long, and three broad. 

 Vast quantities of woods and marshes stretched along the south bank 

 of the Humber, and the Lincolnshire coast. At Barton were two 

 hundred and forty acres of meadow, and coppice wood two miles 

 long and one broad; and at Ferraby, near Barton, were two hundred, 

 and ten acres of meadow, and two hundred and sixty acres of marsh.. 

 Eari Hugh had in Wainfleet, and its dependencies, a thousand acres 

 of meadow, twenty salt pits, and eighty acres of copijice wood; and 

 in Huttoft, Sutton, and some adjacent places, seven hundred and 



* Bawdwen's Domesday, p. 161, &c. t The same district is still called Lindsay. 



