The text beneath states: Spaine's proud Armado with great strength and powerGreat Britain's state came gapeing to devour,This Dragon's guts, like Pharaos scattered hoast,Lay splitt and drowned upon the Irish coast.For of eight score save two ships sent from SpaineBut twenty-five scarce sound return'd again.

[4] Near Bratoft is Gunby Hall, a National Trust property open to the public, a red-brick house, dating from 1700, with Victorian walled gardens, which Tennyson described as a "haunt of ancient peace",[citation needed] It is alleged[by whom?]

that Sir William Massingberd's daughter tried to elope with one of his postilion riders but her father shot the man dead.

Sir William was sentenced to appear in London annually at which time the family coat of arms was smeared with blood.

[further explanation needed] It proved too much so Sir William demolished the family seat at Bratoft Castle and built Gunby Hall in 1700.