{198} In a note on the Will, Mr. Maddison says, “The testator was the second son of Robert Dighton (of Sturton), by his wife, Joyce St. Paul (a lady of another very old and well-connected county family).” {199a} Land Revenue Records, bundle 1392, file 79, Pub. Rec. Off. {199b} North’s “Church Bells of Lincolnshire,” p. 497, ed. 1882. {200a} There are still Willoughbys in the neighbourhood, and one living in Langton. {200b} There are, however, several modern spires since this saying came into vogue, two—at Horsington and Wispington—being within sight from Woodhall, and a third at Sausthorpe near Spilsby, a very fine one, designed by Mr. Stephen Lewin, who was the architect of St. Andrew’s Church, Woodhall Spa. {201} Gov. Geol. Survey, “Country round Lincoln,” p. 205. {204} He was supposed to have been asleep in the train, and hearing the name of the station called out, he aroused himself too slowly, and stepped out of the carriage when the train had passed 80 yards or more beyond the platform. He was discovered an hour or more afterwards by a railway servant, who walked down the line. He was conveyed to his residence at Horncastle, but never recovered the sense of feeling below his neck. The present writer frequently read to him in his illness. After some weeks he regained a slight power of movement in his feet, which gave hopes of recovery; but soon after this, his attendant, on visiting him, found him dead in his bed. {205a} Blomfield, “Hist. of Norfolk,” vol. iii., p. 187. {205b} Dugdale’s “Baronage,” vol. i., p. 439. {208a} This list was published by T. C. Noble. {208b} “Architect. Soc. Journ.,” vol. xxxiii, pt. i, pp. 122 and 132. {208c} Locally pronounced “Screelsby,” and even on one of the family monuments in the church we find, “the Honourable Charles Dymoke, Esquire, of Scrielsby,” died 17 January, 1702. {209a} Weir’s “History,” p. 63. {209b} This is referred to in the old book, “Court Hand Restored,” by Andrew Wright of the Inner Temple (1773) p. 48. where, among a list of ‘canting’ titles of different families, we find a note, “de umbrosa quercu, Dimoak.” This ancient family have performed the office of Champion to the Kings of England ever since the coronation of Richard II., as holding the manor of Scrivelsby hereditarily, from the Marmyons of Lincolnshire, by Grand Sergeantry, so adjudged, M. 1. Henry VIth. The umbrosa quercus, or shadowy oak, represented a play upon the two syllables dim-oak. The term ‘Rebus’ is from the Latin rebus, ‘by things,’ because it is a name-device, the representation of a name by objects. On this principle the crest of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, was a boar. The boar is also found in the arms of Swinburne, Swinton, Swinney, &c. An old poem says, Whilst Bacon was but bacon, had he fearde, He long ere this had proved but _larde_; But he, instead of larde, must be a lord, And so grew leane, and was not fit for boarde. And, again, we find,