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LINCOLN MERCURY
February 14th 1840
GRASBY - Sometime ago Mr J Clarke, farmer, of Grasby, near Caistor, had his barn robbed of five sacks of barley, put aside for delivery. A little while after, he had a stack of beans blown over in a hurricane, and which he covered from the wet with a large stack sheet. In the night half the sheet was cut off and taken away - Mr Burkinshaw, another farmer in the same parish, has had his straw taken out of his yard by men with bands at night, and a woman was seen taking straw from another farmstead. To mention minor thefts of eggs, garden produce, &c, in this depraved village would be tedious and uninteresting - Grasby, with a population of nearly 500 souls, is a church living of £200 a year, but the Clerical Guide does not show that it has any resident clergyman.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
February 27th 1840
A Correspondent observes that his attention has been this week accidentally drawn to an erroneous paragraph which was inserted in the MERCURY. In the impression published Friday 14th instant, it is stated that, Grasby, with a population of nearly 500 souls, is a church living of £200 a year, but the CLERICAL GUIDE does not show that it has any resident clergyman. But it is remembered, that Grasby is only a small village on the high road leading to Brigg, and accordingly visited by many marauders soliciting eleemosynary gifts, such gipseys, beggars of every description; none of its peaceable inhabitants are even suspected, and indeed it would be very ungrateful if they could so far forget their duty to their minister and his lady, who are residing thither as good Samaritans amongst them, and daily employed in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, living unostentatiously, and communicating religious instruction to both old and young, by their gifts of bibles, testaments, prayer books, and tracts, in a word always 'doing good', and 'would blush to find it fame'. The mischievious paragraph is therefore a foul libel, both upon them and the inhabitants. The CLERICAL GUIDE not showing that it has any clergyman is a cruel as well as unjust attack made upon the respected gentleman and his lady.
LINCOLN MERCURY
May 15th 1840
Last Saturday Police Constable Rodgers apprehended on the Nettleton road, William Tonge, servant to Mr Richard Allen, of Clixby for horse stealing. Last Friday, the prisoner brought to Lincoln market a cob mare, which he sold to Mr Ingall of Fiskerton, for £5-10s; he then adjourned to the Bulls Head. On Saturday a constable arrived from Rasen in quest of the delinquent; and, from information given by the landlord, he and the police constable pursued and captured Tonge as above described. He has since been remove to Rasen for examination before the magistrate there. At a recent assizes, he was tried and
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