page_title: Skellingthorpe
section_title: 17th century
hierarchical_section_title: Skellingthorpe / History / 17th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Manor Farm stands on the site of the old Manor House, Henry Stone's home.
context_page_description: Skellingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,465. It is situated 3 miles west from Lincoln city centre, and just outside the A46 Lincoln ring road.
  The village of Doddington and Doddington Hall lie 1 mile to the south-west. Birchwood estate, built in the 1970s on the site of RAF Skellingthorpe, is 1 mile to the south-east.
context_section_description: In March 1610 the Court of the Star Chamber adjudicated on the case of a marauding clan said to have committed outrages in Lincolnshire. Thomas Clokes, Edmund Clapham, Mary Clapham (his wife), Ann Clapham, Elizabeth Clapham and Mary Clapham (their daughters), Roger Tonge, John Daye, and others were accused of burglaries at Scothern; while in Skellingthorpe they were accused of forcibly entering the property of Roger Fulshaw and seized bales of hay and plundered cattle from his land. Roger Fulshaw had found himself in trouble following a violent brawl with a fellow called Rands in the churchyard.
  Robert Farrar who was made a Freeman of Lincoln on 3 November 1552 may have resided in the village, where a family of that name was settled at the beginning of the following century. The Ferrers held the manor during the early 1600s. By 1625 William Ferrers provided £20 annually from the parish revenue to employ a schoolmaster in Tewkesbury. He was buried in Skellingthorpe on 4 August 1646. He was succeeded by Sir Henry Ferrers who had been created a baronet in 1628. Henry married Anne Scudamore, hedied in 1663. (The baronetcy became extinct on the death of their son Henry in 1675.) John Stone purchased the manor from Ferrers in 1630, and on his death it passed to his widow, Katherine. Sir Henry Ferrers wasn a royalist during the English Civil Wars, and his lands were sequestered for his part in forming the King's garrison at Newark, Katharine Stone and her son Henry underwent much trouble between 1650 and 1656 in saving the estate from being involved in the sequestration.
  The manor was inherited by Henry Stone. In 1681, he began a suit against Lincoln's mayor and others for preventing water draining into the Trent causing flooding to his grounds in the parish.  Stone was "a munificent benefactor to the charitable institutions of Lincoln and other places". He died aged 62 on 26 June 1693, and the following year the governors of 'Christ Hospitall' in London arranged for a tomb to be erected in his memory. This is now in the grounds of the church, with the wording on it still clearly visible. (Henry’s two wives, two children and brother all predeceased him, and so he willed his estate to Christ’s Hospital. His will also benefitted  neighbours and tenants, local schools and the church. His will was so broad that an extensive survey of the parish’s acreage and worth in 1694 was made by bailiffs for Christ’s, and other surveys until 1700 by Stone’s trustees.) His family was buried with him, for the tomb says on its south side:"Here lye the bodies of Mary Stone, late wife of Henry Stone, Esq. and of their two sons who dyed very young." It is unclear what he died of, but there is a record of his nurse, Bridgett Mapletoft, being paid £8 "for looking after Mr Stone in his sickness and for mourning."
  The 1694 survey, carried out by Robert Hopkins, the bailiff for Christ's Hospital, established that the parish consisted of 3,670 acres and that there were 31 tenants on manor lands. The 1694 map shows that several roads existed at the time, under different names. Saxilby Road was called Ox Pasture Lane; Jerusalem Road was called Doddington Road, with a Wood Lane at Hughes's corner; and Waterloo Lane was called Witham Lane. (Witham Lane changed its name to Coldholme Lane in 1830 before becoming Waterloo Lane in 1914.)
caption: The Stone family may have lived at the old Manor House on the site of Manor Farm[58] or on the site of the present Manor House, off Lincoln Road.[59]
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