610 SLREMBY. . (KELtY'S

Hoft Capt. William V.D., J.P. Grebby Wintort Bobert Edward Perey, Newman Edward Devon, farmer, hall ball Home farm . Newman Edward Devon, Manor house COlllfERCI.AL, Pycock .!.rthur Edward,miller (wittd)'; Walker John Harry, Triangle house Codd J oseph, , farm bailiff tO' J~ H. Grebby mill Williams Rev. Oharles Tudor B.A. W alli:er esq Saunders .A.sher; farm bailiff to Capt. (rector), Rector7 Hewis Kate (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off W 1 Hoff J .P. Grebby SCRI.VELSBY is a parish, 2} miles south from Horn-' 1760. The tegister for Scrivelsby dates from the year castle terminal station on a branch of the Great Northern 1566 and that of from 169o. The Bev. Samuel railway, in the South Lindsey division of the county, Lodge, rector 1867-97• made an exact transcript of the , southern division of the wapentake of registers of both parishes from 1566 to :1812. The living Gartree, Horn<'astle union, petty sessional division and is a rectory, united to that of Dalderby, net yearly valu• county court district, rural deanery of , arch­ £462, including 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the deaconry of Stow and . • The church gift of F. Seaman esq. and held since 1909 by of St. Benedict is an ancient building of stone, in the the Rev. Frank Simpson Alston M . .A.. of Exeter College, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con .. Oxford. Scrivelsby Ci>urt, the home of the Honourable si~ting of chancel with north aisle of jwo bays, nave of the King's Champion and Standard Bearer of , three bays, north aisle and a small western tower, with and the residence of the holder of the office, Frank f>pire, erected in 186o by the late Hon. Sir Henry Seaman Dymoke esq. D.L., J.P. is an irregularly-built Dymoke, 1st and only baronet, and containing one bell: mansion, partly in the Domestic Gothic style, and the nave and earlier chancel arcades and the chancel standing in a park of 36o acres, well wooded and arch are Early English : the windows of the nave, stocked with deer: this manor belonged to the Marmions . wodern Decorated: the chancel retains a piscina: the from the time of the Conquest, having been originally stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. John bestowed by the Conqueror upon Robert de Marmion~ Dymoke, d. 1828, and to Amelia .Alice Elphinstone, his conditionally on the performance of the office of "King'• wife, d. 1856, and was erected by their eldest son, and Champion :" it came into the family of Dymoke before there is a memorial window to Emma, Lady Dymoke, the reign of Richard II. by the marriage of Sir John .d. 1884, erected by Sir Francis H._ Hartwell hart. and Dymoke kt. with Margaret, daughter and sole heiress Lady Emma (Dymoke), his wife: t·he monuments of Sir Thomas de Ludlow kt. and Joan (Marmion), his chiefly commemorate the Marmion and Dymolie wife, then holder of the manor of Scrivelsby which is families, possessors of the :Manor of Scrivelsby and still nominally held, as anciently, by the tenure called hereditary Oha.mpions of England: there was forme-rly •' grand serjeantry," consisting in this instance of the m the church, Wltil at least to June x86o, a sJ.ab with pNformance of the office of Champion of England, or l>ras:oJ effigies and a fragme11t of a canopy, to Sir King's Champion, the owner being required to appea:r Thomas Dymoke, ob. 1422, and Elizabeth (Hebden) at the coronation of each monarch, armed and upon his wife, ob. 1453: beneath the dhanceJ. arcade is an horseback, and to cause a challenge to be proclaimed to Altar tomb, with brass effigy and inscription, to Sir all opposers of the sovereign's right to succession, receiv• Roberb Demoke, kndghlt banneret, ob. 12 Ap. 1545, ing as his fee the King's drinking cup: this ceremony Champion at the Coronations of Richard Ill. Henry VII. has, however, been dispensed with at the last four coro­ and Henry VIII. ; over the head of the figure is a nations: the Champion is nsually styled "Honourable": shield of 10 quarterings; it appears from a brass in­ towards the end of the last century a large part of the seription that this tomb was removed from its original house, including the great hall, was destroyed by fire, to its present position in 1760 : at the east end of the and historical antiquities of much interest and value aisle is a tomb with recumbent cross-legged effigy in were then irretrievably lost! on the right hand of the stone of a knight in armour, representing Philip, last principal entrance, lighted by a tall mullioned window, Lord :Marmion, of Scrivelsby and Tamworth, ob. 1292: is the armoury, containing a large collection of arms and contemporary with this is the recumbent effigy of a armour of various dates, horse accoutrements and a huge lady, with a dog at her feet: in the chancel is an "black jack": in the dining-room are a number of family inscripti