TRADITIONS OF LINCOLNSHIRE, (FIRST SERIES.) BOSTON IN THE OLDEN TIMES; A SERIES OF LEGENDS AND TALES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BOSTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. BY ROGER QUAINT, Monk of the Order of St. Francis, and formerly of the Grey Friary, South End, "Listene these lays, for some there bethe ANON. BOSTON; PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN NOBLE. SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., LONDON; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. The Old Tavern; or, a Century Ago The Abduction, a Legend of Hussey Tower 149 205 Icanhoe; or, St. Botolph and the Devil 239 ENGRAVINGS. A BROWN STUDY IN THE CHURCH LIBRARY, BEING AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER, OR PRO-PREFACE. OVER the southern porch of Boston Church is a spacious chamber, fitted up as a library, and stored with many valuable works, both in ancient and modern literature, but which the hand of time, by its usual relentless ministers, moth, damp, and dust, is fast hastening to decay. This neglected depository of the literary treasures of past times, was established in the year 1635, and in the reign of Charles I., by the celebrated Dr. Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, then on his metropolitical visitation to Boston; who, in consequence of an application to that effect from the Rev. Anthony Tuckney, vicar of Boston, ordained, "that the roome over the porch of the saide church shall be repaired and decently fitted up to make a |