Note 81 — NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SPIRES By Harry Gill
Reading edition
“Be it had in mynd that the Towne of Maunsfeld Wodhouse was burned, the Saturdaye nexte afore the Fest of Exaltation of the holy Crosse, the yere of our Lord MCCCIIII., and the Kirke Stepull with the Bells of the same, for the Stepull was afore of Tymber werke: and part of the Kyrk was burned” (Thoroton, Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, p. 273).