Cathedral. He married Lettice, daughter of the celebrated Dr Peter Heylin, whose biography be wrote.  He died at Newark in 1683, being buried at Waddington, where a black marble stone at the east end of the former church commemorated his virtues in a Latin epitaph.
In the first half of his life he was a vigorous Puritan and wrote a book which was intended to discourage the restoration of Anglican clergymen who had been ejected from their livings by the Commonwealth Parliament, but later he, himself; conformed and acquired a great reputation as a champion of the orthodoxv which he had formerly condemned. No doubt he was prompted by conscientious motives and was fortunate in that his conscience coincided with his interest. His son, also John, was another undecided divine, who became a Roman Catholic in the time of James II, but returned to Anglicanism under William III and eventuallv became Rector of Ludford and Vicar of Kelstern. He also finds a place in the Dictionary of National Biography.

THE CAISTOR PALMSUN FAIR, held from time immemorial on the Saturday before Palm Sunday for the sale of sheep and cattle, was an institution famous all over this part of England. A very interesting record of Chancery proceedings in 1626 tells how Sir Edward Ayscough of South Kelsey brought a complaint against his neighbour Sir Ralph Maddison of Fonaby and others, stating that they had rendered both the fields in which the fair was held in alternate years, useless for the purpose by ploughing them and defacing the landmarks.

The defendants' reply is enlightening as to alleged sharp practice "they deny that the market was always kept in that field of the two that lay fallow, but put into pen yards and other convenient places for that purpose, and many thousands of sheep have been sold in one year out of sheep pens and pen yards in Caster, and sometimes a thousand sheep have been sold there in one day."