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496 SCREMBY. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'rl with residence, in the gift of R E. P. Win ton esq. and Grebby is a hamlet I mile north-west. William H,off held since 1888 by the Rev. Charles Tudor Williams esq. J.P. of Grebby Hall, is sole landown~. B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The charities amount, to £6 yearly, £5 derived l'arish Clerk, Thomas Starmer. from Scremby estate and £1 from rent of land in Little Steeping, and distributed by the rector and church Post Office.-Robert Pearce, sub-postmaster. Box wardens and overseer. Scremby Hall, a handsome man cleared at g. 25 a.m. & 6. I5 p. m. Letters arrive from sion, pleasantly standing on a gentJe acclivity, is the Spilsby at 7-5 a.m. & 2.45 p.m.; no delivery on sun· residence of Robert Edward Percy Winton esq. who is day. Skendleby is the nearest money order office. k lord of the manor and' principal landowner. The soil i11 Partney, about 2~ miles distant, the nearest telegraph loqm and clay; subsoil, loam, clay and chalk. The office chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The • area is 1,342 acres; rateable value, £1,229; population Public Elementary Scll.ool (m~xed), for 40 children~ in 1901, IS r. average a.tJtendance, 30; M~ss Anruie Moast, mistrest! Hoff William J.P. Grebby hall COMMERCIAL. Parker James, farm bailiff to W. Tunnard John Charles, Manor house Balderston John, farmer Hoff esq. Grebby Williams Rev. Charles Tudor B.A. Chapman Daniel, baker & miller Pearce Ro bert, shopkeeper & farmer. (rector), Rectory (s·team & wind) Post office Winton Robert Edward Percy, Codd J oseph, farm bailiff to W. Hoff Sanders Ash er, farm bailiff to George Scremby hall · esq. J .P 1 Bowser esq SCRIVELSBY is a parish, 2! miles south from Horn r76o. The register for Scrivelsby dates from the yeu castle terminal station on a branch of the Great Northern rs66 and that of Dalderby from 1690. The Rev. Samuel railway, in the South Lindsey division of the county, Lodge, rector r867-97, made an exact transcript of the parts of Lindsey, southern division of the wapentake of registers of both parishes from IS66 to r8r2. The living Gartree, Horncastle union, petty sessional division and is a rectory, united to that of Dalderby, net yearly value county court district, rural deanery of Horncastle, arch £462, including 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the deaconrv• of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The l'hurch gift of F. Seaman Dymoke esq. and held since rgog by of SL Benedict is a fine building of stone, in the Rady the Rev. Frank Simpson .Als·ton M . .A. of Exeter College, English, Decorated and Perpendicula.:r styles, consisting Oxford. Scrivelsby Court, the home of the Honourable of chance-l with north aisle of two bays, nave of three the King's Champion and Standard Bearer {)f England. bays, north aisle and a small western tower, with spire, and the residence of the holder of the officB, Frank erectild in 186o by the late Hon. Sir Henry Dymoke, Seaman Dymoke esq. D.L., J.P. is an irregularly-hrult 1st and only baronet, and containing one bell : the manHion, partly in the Dom~stic Gothic style, and nave and earlier chancel arcades and the chancel arch standing in a park of 36o acres, well wooded and are Early English: the windows of the nave, modern stocked with deer: this manor belonged to the Marmions Decorated: the chancel retains a piscina: the st·ained from the time of the Conquest, having been originally bestowed by the Conqueror upon Robert de Marminn, east window is a memorial t-o the Rev. John Dymoke,• d. 1828, and t.o Amelia .A.lice Elphinstone, his wife, conditionally on the performance of the office of " King'" d. 1856, and was erected by their eldest son, and Champion'': it came into the family of Dymoke- in 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. Harbwell hart. and Dymoke kt. with Margaret, daughter and sole heiress Lady Emma (Dymoke), his wife: the monuments of Sir Thomas de Ludlow kt. and Joan (Marmion), hiiJ chiefly commemorate the Marmion and Dymoke wife, then holder of the.manor of Scrivelsby which is families, possessors of the Manor of Scrivelsby and ~till nominally held, as anciently, by the tenure called hereditary Chll!mpioru! of England: there was formeTly " grand serj Pant.ry," cc.nsisting in this instance of the in the church. until a.t lea-st to June 186o, a SILab witih performance of the office of Champion of England, or brass effigies and a fragmei!IJt of a canopy, to Sir King's Champion, the owner being required to appear Tbomas Dym-oke, ob. 1422, and Elimbetlh (Hebdien) at the coronation Df each mc.narch, armed and upon h:i.s wife, ob. 1453: beiJ.e611Jb. t!he dha·nceJ. 81I'Cade is 8.1n horseback, and to cause a challenge to be proclaimed to altar tomb, with bra.ss effigy and iru;cription, t-o Sir all opposers of the sovereign's right to succession, receiv RobOO'It Demok.e, kruighJt bannererti, ob. 12 Ap. I545• ing as his fee the King's drinking cup : this ceremony Cha.mp]on at t.lhe Oo.ronB!ti-ons of Rioha.rd Ill. Henry VII. has, however, be1m dispensed with at the last three coro and HM!lry VIII. : over l:lhe head of tlhe figure is a nations: the Champion is usually styled "Honourable": shiell.d of 10 qilllll'terin~5. It appeau\ll from a loose brass towards the end of the last century a large part of the illJSCT'i.ption, a1. Scrivels.by Corurt, that tJhriB tomb was house, including the great hall, was destroyed by fire, removed from its original to iffis pr!l@erut posWbi.on in 176o : and historical antiquities of much interest and value at the east end of the ~isle is a tomb with recumbent were then irretrievably lost: on the right hand of the cross-legged effigy in stone of a knight in armour, con principal entrance, lighted by a. tall mullioned window, jectured to represent Philip, last Lord Mannion, vf is the armoury, containing a large collection of arms and Scrivelsby and Tamworth, ob. 1292: contemporary with armour of various dates, horse accoutrements and a huge this is the recumbent effigy of s lady, with a dog at "black jack": in the dining-room are a num'ber of family her feet : in the chancel is an inscription on copper to Sir portraits, including one of Henry Dymoke esq. on horse Charles Dymoke kt. Champion at the Coronation of b!!ck, in his character of Champion at the Coronation of J a.mes II. ob. c. 1688, and Eleanor (Watson), his wife, George IV. in 182I; and l:lheu-e a.re also p1'6'SC'ITed 11 daughter of Lewis, 1st Baron Rockingham, as well as to n urn her of the OororuastJion cups ; t.ihe Clhie! entrnnce to other members of the family : here also is a slab inscribed tlhe park, oalled< "the Lion Gaite," from the figoce of a to the Hon. Charles Dymoke, Champion at the Coronation lion on the Mc::lhway, beams tfue :oome "R. Dym()k,"" of Wm. ID. and Queen Marry, d. 17 Jan. 1702-3, erected drivided by bhe rudely-ca.rved boughs of a. bree, and by his widow, Jane Dymoke, in 1726, and mural monu snppo!Sed: oo iJilldiooste -the derivation of tJhe name from ment of white marble to Hon. Lewis Lewis Dymoke M.P. the de.s.ignaltii-on, "d,e umbr<osa quercu," a.s we.ll ae the Oh!).mpion at the Coconations of Geo. I. and Goo. II. d. OO"eobion of the ga.te by Si.r Robe!rl Dym<Jke kt. men 1760, and the &n. John Dymoke, Champion at the tioned above. The lordship of the manor is vested in Coronation of Geo. Ill. d. 6 March, 1784: and a tablet the Champion. The soil is sandy loa.m; subsoil, white to Sir Henry Dymoke hart. d. 28 April, 1865, whose clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and gu-ave in the churchyard is marked by a canopied tomb turnips. The area is 2,132 acres; rateable value, of marble, with inscription to himself and Emma (Pearce), £1,862; population in 1901, 121. his wife, d. 1884, and an inscribed stone to Mary Anne, :By a Local Government Board Order, dated Decembar widlow of bhe Rev. the Hon. John Dymo~e, jun. 'Dhe 24th, 188o, the Fen alJ.otm.ent was transferred to Lang church was restored in 1876, at a cost rJf £279, and again riville parish. in rBg1, at a cost of £259, defrayed by the rector and the Parish Clerk, Job Raithby. late Hon. F. S. Dymoke, Queen's Champion (d. 1893). In the churchyard, which contains a hont 2 acres, is a Letters through Horncastle, arrive at 8.40 a.m.; leave canopied cross to the memory of Henry Lionel Dymoke, at 8.50 a.m. week days only. Horncastle, 2l miles d. 1875• the last member of that branch of the Dymoke distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office family who succeeded to the estates and championship The children of this parish attend the t~chools at Horn on the death of the Hon.