Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacentWeir, George
History
Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
{61a} Domesday, folio 331.
{61b} In the forty-second and forty-third years of Henry the third,
Philip Marmyon had grants of a market, fair, and free warren, at his
manor of Scrivelsby. In the ninth year of Edward the first, he showed
that he had those rights, and that of gallows at Scrivelsby, with the
other privileges incident to one of the great barons of the realm; and
also right of free warren in the soke of Horncastle.
{62} On account of the present possessor of the manor of Scrivelsby
being a clerk in orders, his son, Henry Dymoke, Esquire, was allowed to
perform the service at the coronation of His present Majesty George the
fourth, in 1821. The following is a description of the ceremony on that
occasion.
Before the second course was brought in, the Champion, in his full
suit of armour, mounted on a horse richly caparisoned, appeared under
the porch of the triumphal arch, at the bottom of the Hall. Every
thing being in readiness, the procession moved in the following
order:
TWO TRUMPETS with the Champion’s Arms on their banners.
THE SERGEANT-TRUMPETER, with his Mace on his shoulder.
TWO SERGEANTS AT ARMS, with their Maces on their shoulders.
THE CHAMPION’S TWO ESQUIRES, in half armour, one on the right hand
bearing the Champion’s lance, the other on the left hand with the
Champion’s target, and the arms of Dymoke depicted thereon.
A HERALD, with a paper in his hand containing the challenge.
THE DEPUTY EARL THE CHAMPION, on THE LORD HIGH
MARSHAL, on Horseback, in a CONSTABLE in his
Horseback, in his complete Suit of Robes and
Robes and Bright Armour, Coronet, and
Coronet, with the with a Gauntlet Collar of his
Earl Marshal’s in his Hand, his Order, on
Staff in his Helmet on his Horseback, with
Hand, attended by Head, adorned the Constable’s
a Page. with a Plume of Staff, attended
Feathers. by two Pages.
FOUR PAGES, richly apparelled, attendants on the Champion.
At the entrance into the Hall, the Trumpets sounded thrice, and the
passage to the King’s table being cleared by the Knight Marshal, the
Herald with a loud voice proclaimed the Champion’s Challenge, in the
words following:
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