Lincoln

(anc. Lindum Coloni a ). A city of England, the capital of Lincoln shire, on the With am. It was at the period of the Conquest rich and populous. It was taken several times by Saxons and Danes. Without Newport-gate, upon Lincoln plain, was fought the battle between the partisans of the empre Maud, commanded by the Earl of Gloucester, and the army of Stephen, in which the king was defeated and taken prisoner, February 2, 1141. Lincoln was the scene of important operations during the civil wars in the reign of King John; and here the party of the Dauphin was completely overthrown by the Earl of Pembroke during the minority of Henry III. During the great civil war the royalists obtained po e ion of the city, but it was stormed by the Parliamentary army under the Earl of Manchester, May 5, 1644.