World History

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Churchwardens’ Accounts of Wigtoft, a Village Near Boston, Lincolnshire.

Page 83.

1487. Item, paid for hooks and hengless [hinges] unto the school-house door, with a key, and for nails to the same door. [Note by editor: "It appears a school was kept in the church at that time, as is the case at this day"—1797.]