An essay of the ancient and present state of Stamford. [electronic resource] : Its situation, erection, dissolution, and re-edification: Ancient and Present Sports, Endowments, Benefactions, Churches, Monuments, and other Curiosities; Monasteries, Colleges, Schools, and Hospitals: Some Account of a Monastick Life; when the Monks first appeared in the World; what Orders of them were settled here, and the Time of their coming into England. The whole gathered from the best printed accounts, as well as original manuscripts, particularly the Registers of Durham, and Peterborough; the Rolls in the Tower, and the Cotton Library; Old Writings belonging to Brown's Hospital, the Corporation Books, Mr. Foster's Papers, Stevens's Supplement to Dugdale's Monasticon, and many other private Repositories. By Francis Howgrave.