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According t the following article, Justice Hall was built in 1728 by George Stovin – the\u00a0antiquary and was so named because he was a magistrate – this has nothing to do with the Manor of Crowle.<\/div>\n
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A search of possible sources provides an answer in “Lincolnshire notes and queries, Volume 4” published in 1896. This is available on-line at\u00a0http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/lincolnshirenot01sympgoog#page\/n6\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/div>\n
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Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. 89<\/strong><\/div>\n
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55. Family of Stovin. (Vol. IV., p. 62.) \u201d In reply \u00a0to the query respecting this family, I append an extract from\u00a0” Notes on the Parish Register of Crowle,” published in an almanac at that place about ten years ago :<\/div>\n
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“Under 1606 the name of Stovin appears for the first time, George Stovin marrying ‘ An ‘ Turn hill, on\u00a01st December. The name occurs pretty frequently after, \u00a0but it is impossible to work out a pedigree. In 1621 \u00a0Frances, daughter of George, was baptized, and in 1642 \u00a0she was married to Simon Empson, apparently the first or \u00a0the intermarriages between these\u00a0families. In 1638 \u00a0George Stovin married Elizabeth Margrave, and in 1640 \u00a0Robert Stovin espoused Elizabeth Pinder, The Stovins \u00a0were the owners of Tetley in Crowle, but when they \u00a0acquired it has not yet been ascertained. The so-called \u00a0tradition which the crest – a strung bow – is made to \u00a0support, that the first was the chief of the bow stringers \u00a0in the Conqueror’s army, is unworthy of consideration.<\/div>\n
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The owner of Tetley in the time of the Commonwealth, \u00a0George Stovin, seems to have become a Quaker, and for \u00a0attending unlawful religious services was taken off to \u00a0Lincoln Castle and died a prisoner therein, as the\u00a0antiquary had heard from his grandmother and his uncle \u00a0George, then 16 ; so in 1680 if the George baptized in \u00a01664. Further particulars are given in the local history \u00a0by Archdeacon Stonehouse. He married Ann Clarke, a\u00a0grand-daughter of Richard Brewer, of Crowle. James\u00a0Stovin, Esq., of Crowle, their son, on account of his \u00a0independent character and large property, possessed great \u00a0influence in the Isle. He was High Sheriff of Lincoln-shire in 1725. His house was the large rambling one on\u00a0the south side of the Market Place<\/div>\n
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Mr. \u00a0Stovin afterwards bought Tetley of George, his elder\u00a0brother, went to live there, died there 11th Oct., 1739, aged. 61, and was buried in the grounds next his wife, who\u00a0died ten years before. He left five sons and three\u00a0daughters, the eldest of whom only he seems to have had\u00a0baptized, George, on the 1st March, 1695-96.<\/div>\n
This \u00a0was George Stovin, Esq., the antiquary, of whose life and\u00a0character Mr. Hunter in his History of South Yorkshire\u00a0gives us some interesting particulars, which are here added\u00a0to. On the 22nd April, 171 7, he was married in York \u00a0Minster to Sarah, daughter and heiress of Mr. James\u00a0Empson,\u00a0of Goole,\u00a0and two or three years after came to \u00a0live at Crowle, building a small house for himself, which\u00a0from his being already a magistrate was called\u00a0” Justice Hall.” Over the porch are the arms of Stovin, \u00a0G.S.S., and the date 1726.\u00a0<\/strong>He was not brought up to\u00a0any profession, but led the life of a country gentleman, which afforded abundant leisure to prosecute his favourite\u00a0topographical and antiquarian researches, taking great\u00a0interest in the affairs of the neighbourhood. He scarcely ever left the Levels, living at Crowle, and with the true\u00a0feeling of a native antiquary, thinking no part of \u00a0England comparable to Axholme, and no town equal to \u00a0Crowle. He might lead a quiet and sober life, but \u00a0domestic sorrows multiplied. He buried five children in\u00a0the grounds at Tetley. George, his dutiful son, whom\u00a0he had entered at Gray’s Inn, died at the hopeful age of\u00a017, and was interred in the chancel. In 1745 his wife\u00a0died, and though he buried her in the church he put a\u00a0gravestone to her memory at Tetley, with an incomprehensible coat of arms, quarterly : i Stovin, 2 Empson,\u00a03 Clarke, 4 Smithson.<\/div>\n
In spite of his regard for Crowle\u00a0in the latter part of his life he crossed the Trent, and\u00a0fixed his residence at Winterton, placing over his door \u00a0there also a carved shield with his arms and his wife’s, as \u00a0at Justice Hall. ‘There he spent the concluding years of \u00a0his life, living,’ writes Mr. Hunter, *as I am informed by\u00a0one who knew him well, in a little cottage which he had \u00a0made arcadian with honeysuckle and other flowers, where \u00a0he was to be seen every morning at five with his pipe.\u00a0Having a good memory, and full of anecdote, he was \u00a0accustomed to amuse his neighbours.’ He died in May,\u00a01780, aged 85, and was buried in the chancel of Winterton\u00a0church, on the 14th, but he who had erected so many\u00a0memorials never had a monument placed over him. He \u00a0printed an account of Lindholme on a single sheet, which\u00a0is now a rare curiosity, and left behind him a quarto<\/div>\n
MS. of over 400 closely written pages, which Mr. \u00a0Hunter had the use of, and of which an abstract by the \u00a0late Mr. Charles Jackson, of Doncaster, appeared in the\u00a0Yorkshire t\/trchaological Journal, He left a son James. \u00a0His sister, Susannah, married at York Minster, in 1738, \u00a0Mr. John Froggatt, and had with a son, two daughters,\u00a0Mrs. Stovin, of Hurst Priory, and Ann, wife of Thomas\u00a0Lightfoot,\u00a0of Crowle, Surgeon. Another sister of the \u00a0antiquary, Ann, married Thomas Lister, of Eastoft, \u00a0Gent., who died in 1729, and has a pretty tablet to his \u00a0memory in the chancel. She married afterwards John \u00a0Cowley. Her son, Thomas Lister, Esq., was the last of<\/div>\n
the family, but not of the name, for he left his property \u00a0to his mother’s nephew, George Stovin, of Tetley, on\u00a0condition he took the name and Arms of Lister. . . “<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From\u00a0The History of Winterton and the Adjoining Villages by William Andrew (1836)<\/strong><\/div>\n
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About this period, Mr. Thomas Place, a respectable inhabitant of the town, built, probably on the site of the old mansion of the d’Arcies, a substantial new hall: the walls\u00a0being one yard in thickness, and formed of \u00a0good stone. From this person’s extreme benevolence to the church, recorded elsewhere, and other acts of kindness done to the town, his estate became involved, and having been mortgaged to the family of Stovin, at his decease it fell into their possession; their\u00a0crest and court of arms may be seen to this day, in bold relief, over one of the northern\u00a0doors. A descendant of this family, proving \u00a0a careless man, and a spendthrift, his likeness\u00a0at his decease, with those of other degraded \u00a0relations, were allowed to hang upon the walls \u00a0of the rooms, as a lasting memorial of extravagance and folly. The house is now tenanted \u00a0by Mr. N. Blanchard, who likewise rents the\u00a0lands formerly held by the before-mentioned\u00a0Thomas Place.<\/p>\n

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Stovin Coat of arms as described<\/p>\n

No gravestone remains to mark the\u00a0exact spot of his interment At one\u00a0time it was thought likely that it might\u00a0be under one of two pews, but when\u00a0these were removed nothing was found ;\u00a0nor does the record of any monumental\u00a0remembrance of the deceased antiquary\u00a0exist. In front of the old hall at Winterton is a shield carved in stone with the\u00a0arms of Stovin, viz. : \u2014\u00a0Barry of six or and\u00a0gules, in chief a label of five points ;\u00a0impaling Empson, Azure a chevron\u00a0between three crosses formee argent.\u00a0Crest, over the helmet, a bow with the\u00a0string drawn and the arrow ready to be\u00a0discharged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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