_On a Gravestone_.
Hic jacet D’nus Thomas Butler, quondam Capellanus Gildæ be’æ Mariæ
Cunningsby, qui obiit 10 die Mensis Decembris, A’no D’ni 1510. Cujus
aiæ &c. &c.
_On another_.
Pray for the Soule of John Smith of Cunsby sometimes M’chant of the
Staple of Calis, which died in the yeare of our Lord God 1470, &
Jonet his Wife which died the 24th Day of November in the yeare of
our Lord God 1461.
And all good people that this Scripture reade or see
For theire soules say a Paternoster, Ave-Maria, & a creed for
Charity.
On another the pourtraytures of a man and his two wives on either
side of him in brasse with this inscription vizt.
Pray for the soules of Richard Whetecroft of Coningsby M’chant of the
Staple at Calice & sometimes Lieutenant of the same, & Jane &
Margaret his Wives, which Richard deceased the 23d day of November,
Ao. D’ni 1524.
_In the Parlour of the Parsonage House_.
Arg. a crosse engrailed G. betw. 4 waterbougets sa. Bourchier.
Quarterly & Quartered with Quarterly . . . Gules Lovayne.
billetty d’or a fesse arg. Crumwell and Tateshale
B. a manche d’or
Empaled. Sa. 3 lyons Passant guardant arg. Dymoke.
Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned d’or
Empaled. Dymoke
Empaled. Marmyon
Verry a fesse G. Marmyon.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa. Welles.
Empaled. A coate defaced
Empaled. Welles
Empaled. Verry a fesse G.
Empaled. B. a manehe d’or
All these Escocheons are in 2 Windowes, in which two Windowes also
are these Verses:
Alme Deus cœli Croxby tu parce Johanni
Hanc ædem fieri benefecit sponte Jo Croxby
Anno Milleno quater. c. L. x. quoq. terno.
_In the other Windowes_.
Barry of 6 ermyne and G. 3 crescents sa. Waterton.
Quarterly Ufford & Beke Willughby.
Verry a fesse G. Marmyon.
Ermyne 5 fusils in fesse G. Hebden.
Arg. a crosse sarcely sa.
Empaled. Quarterly Crumwell & Tateshale Crumwell.
Empaled. B. a fesse betw. 6 billets d’or Deyncourt.
Empaled. Dymoke
Empaled. Welles
Sa. an arming sworde pile in poynte arg.
Empaled. Arg 3 bulls passant
Empaled. G. on a chevron arg. 3 pomeis
Empaled. Arg. a fesse dauuce betw. 3 talbots heads
erased sa.
Empaled. Arg. a fesse betw. 3 cootes sa.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 178 to 182.
{53a} Domesday, folio 354.
{53b} Burton’s Monast. Ebor. p. 215.
{54} The following arms and inscriptions, now gone, were in this church
when it was visited by Mr. Holles.
_In Fenestra_.
Arg. a plaine crosse G.
G. a fesse betw. 6 crosselets botony fitchy arg. charged
with as many mullets or pierced G.
Sa. a bend betw. 6 mullets or pierced G. Briton.
_In the Church on a flat marble stone in Saxon Characters_.
ICI : GIST : MARGARETA : DE : LACI : QE : FVLA : FEME : GWILLEAMA :
DE ; MOVSTE . . .
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 177.
{55} Domesday, folio 331.
{56a} Escheat Rolls.
{56b} Cook C. Herald, MS.
{56c} From the information of E. Turnor, Esq. F.S.A.
{57a} Tupholme is not mentioned either in the Domesday survey or Testa
de Nevill.
{57b} See the Charter in Dugdale’s Monasticon, p. 596.
{59} The windows were formerly embellished with the following heraldic
bearings in stained glass, of which no vestiges are now existing.
_In Boreali Fenestra Chori_.
Arg. 3 chaplets with roses gules Lascels.
G. 3 mascels argent
G. 4 fusils in fesse arg. a border engrailed or Nevill.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 140.
{60} Lodge’s Illustrations, vol. ii. 191.
{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:
“If any person, of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or
gainsay our sovereign lord King George the fourth, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, defender of the faith, son and
next heir to our sovereign lord King George the third, the last king,
deceased, to be right heir to the imperial crown of this United
Kingdom, or that he ought not to enjoy the same, here is his
Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false traitor, being
ready in person to combat with him, and in this quarrel will
adventure his life against him on what day soever he shall be
appointed.”
Whereupon the Champion threw down his gauntlet; which, having lain a
short time upon the ground, the Herald took it up, and delivered it
again to the Champion.
They then advanced to the middle of the Hall, where the ceremony was
again performed in the same manner.
Lastly, they advanced to the steps of the throne, where the Herald
(and those who preceded him) ascending to the middle of the steps,
proclaimed the challenge in the like manner; when the Champion having
thrown down his gauntlet and received it again from the Herald, made
a low obeisance to the King: whereupon the Cupbearer, having received
from the Officer of the Jewel-House, a Gold Cup and Cover filled with
Wine, presented the same to the King, and his Majesty drank to the
Champion, and sent to him by the Cupbearer the said Cup, which the
Champion (having put on his gauntlet) received, and having made a low
obeisance to the King, and drank the Wine; after which, making
another low obeisance to his Majesty, and being accompanied as
before, he departed out of the Hall, taking with him the said cup and
cover as his fee.
{63} In this inscription Sir Robert Dymoke is, by mistake of the
sculptor, styled _knight_ and _baronet_ instead of _knight banneret_.
{68} “Vir illustris in consilio, strenuus in prælio, princeps militæ in
Angliæ, et in omni regno ornatissimus.” Wever’s Fun. Mem. p. 366.
{70} The MS. vol. of Church notes, so often before quoted, contains the
following description of this castle:—
“The castle of Bullingbrooke was built by William de Romara, Earle of
Lincolne, and ennobled by the birth of King Henry the 4th, who from
thence took his sirname. Heretofore it was a famous structure, but
now gone much to ruine and decay.
“The towne standes in a bottome, and the castell in the lowest part
of it, compassed about with a large moat fed by springs. It is most
accessible on the south-west part, the rest being encompassed by the
hills.
“As for the frame of the building, it lieth in a square, the area
within the walls conteyning about an acre and a half, the building is
very uniforme.
“It hath 4 stronge forts or ramparts, wherein are many roomes, and
lodgings: the passage from one to another lying upon the walles,
which are embattled about. There be likewise 2 watch-towers all
covered with lead. If all the roomes in it were repayred, and
furnished [as it seemes in former tymes they have bin] it were
capable to receyve a very great prince with all his trayne.
“The entrance into it is very stately over a faire draw-bridge. The
gatehouse a very uniforme, and strong building. Next within the
porter’s lodge is a payre of low stayres, which goe downe into a
dungeon, in which some reliques are yet to be seene of a
prison-house. Other 2 prisons more are on either side.
“The building itselfe is of a sandy stone hewen of a great square out
of the rockes thereby, which though it abide the weather longe, yet
[in processe of tyme] it will moulder, especially if wett gett within
it, which hath bin the decay of many places of the wall where the
roofe is uncovered.
“There be certaine roomes within the castle, [built by Queen
Elizabeth of freestone] amongst which is a fayre great chamber with
other lodgings.
“In a roome in one of the towers of the castle they usually kept
their auditt once by the yeare for the whole Dutchy of Lancaster,
having ever bin the prime seate thereof, where all the recordes for
the whole countrey are kept.
“The constable of the castle is Sir William Mounson Lord Castlemayne,
who receaveth a revenue out of the Dutchy lands of £500. per annum,
in part of payment of £1000. yearely given by the king to the
Countesse of Nottingham his lady.
“One thinge is not to be passed by affirmed as a certaine trueth by
many of the inhabitants of the towne upon their owne knowledge, which
is, that the castle is haunted by a certain spirit in the likenesse
of a hare: which att the meeting of the auditors doeth usually runne
betweene their legs, and sometymes overthrows them, and soe passes
away. They have pursued it downe into the castleyard, and seene it
take in att a grate into a low cellar, and have followed it thither
with a light, where notwithstanding that they did most narrowly
observe it [and that there was noe other passage out, but by the
doore, or windowe, the roome being all close framed of stones within,
not having the least chinke or crevice] yet they could never finde
it. And att other tymes it hath been seene run in at iron-grates
below into other of the grotto’s [as their be many of them] and they
have watched the place, and sent for houndes, and put in after it;
but after a while they have come crying out.”
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 162.
{71} The following arms and inscriptions were in the windows of this
church when it was visited by Mr. Holles.
_In Fenestra Orientali Cancelli_.
G. 3 lyons passants gardants d’or a labell of Comes
3 each charged with 3 floures de lize of the Lancastr.
second
Empaled. Castile and Leon quarterly A label of 3 arg.
Empaled. France & England quarterly each charged with 2
de lizes sa.
Or a lyon rampant purpure Lacy.
B. 3 garbes d’or Meschines.
Com. Cestr.
Quarterly. Sa. a crosse Ufford Willughby.
engrayled d’or Beke
Quarterly. G. a crosse
molyn arg.
Argent a fesse G between 3 bugles trippant
sa.
_In Fenestra Orientali ad dextram Navis_.
B. 6. lyoncels rampant d’or. 3. 2. 1. Longspeee.
Lancaster.
England, and France quarterly.
Lacy.
G. 3 lyons passants arg. a labell of 3 d’or,
each charged with a lyon rampant purpure
_In_ 1_ma Fenestra australi_.
B. 3 garbes d’or Meschines.
Chequy d’or & B a bend G. Clifford.
Quarterly arg. & G. the 2d & 3d charg’d with Spenser.
a frette d’or over all a bend sa.
Femina gestans in veste sex leones aureos Longespee.
erectos una cum leone purpure conjunctos Lacy.
_In_ 2_da Fenestra Australi_.
G. a fesse verry betw. 3 leopards heads Cantilupe.
jesant floures de lize d’or
G. a crosse molyn arg. Beke.
B. a fesse daunce betw: 10 billets d’or Deyncourt.
_In Campanili_.
Quarterly France, and England
Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty Rochford.
Or, a chevron betw: 10 crosses botony sa. Slight.
Orate pro bono statu . . . Ducis Aurelie. Ad hoc Campanile . . . Ao.
r. r. Hen.
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw: 3 martlets
sa.
Quarterly. Chequy or & G. on a chiefe arg. a
lyon passant sa.
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 163.
{72} Domesday, folio 351.
{74} See the Charter in Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. i. p. 822.
{76} Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 28.
{82} Dr. John Taylor of Norwich was one of the earliest ministers
appointed by Mr. Disney. He held his appointment from about 1715, for 18
years, and at this place composed his justly valued “Hebrew Concordance,”
in two vols. folio.
{86} Itinerarium, p. 162.
{87} Gough, and others who have copied from him, erroneously state this
tower to be two hundred feet in height.
{90} The principal part of the stained glass taken from this church was
placed by the Earl of Exeter in the church of St. Martin, Stamford Baron,
with some other richly stained glass, procured from the churches of Snape
in Yorkshire, and Barnack in Northamptonshire.
{91a} Joan Lady Cromwell was one of the daughters of Sir Richard
Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell. She
married Humphry Bourchier, third Son of the Earl of Essex, who was
created Lord Cromwell, in the first year of Edward the fourth.
{91b} Matilda Lady Willoughby was the other daughter of Sir Richard
Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell.
{92a} Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii p. 179.
{92b} The MS. volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, notices all the
foregoing inscriptions, though not in a very correct manner. It also
contains the following account of inscriptions and arms in this church,
which are now gone:
_In the upper ende of the Chancell_.
Next under another fayre monument of blew marble [as the former] the
picture of one also inlayd in brasse, adorned rounde aboute with a
border of curious workemanship in brasse, with the pictures and names
of some prophets in the Old Testament, and of other saintes, and some
Saxon kinges, as Edmund, Edward, Etheldred, Ethelbert, there is noe
inscription, onely this ensuing escocheon upon either side of him.
[Picture: Coat of arms]
_On the north Side under a Marble_.
Orate pro a’ia M’ri Joh’is Gigur baccalaur. Theologiæ custodis hujus
collegii, ac etiam . . . Collegij Marton in Oxonia qui obijt 12º.die
. . .
_On the Wood Worke in the lower ende of the Quire_, _curiously carved
in capital l’rs this_,—
Ad honorem & gloriam Dei opt. Max. & decorum domus ejus hoc opus
factum est Anno D’ni 1424.
_In Fenestris_.
The history of the passion depainted. In another Hell’s torments,
where are divers creatures bound together in a chayne; amongst whome
one with a crowne, another with a mytre on his head, the divell
tormenting them, and under them is written—
‘Sic affliguntur pœnis, qui prava sequuntur.’
The history of Hermogenes that raysed up devills, and of Guthlake
[the saint of the fens] and of Catherina, who cast them into the sea,
that Hermogenes and Philetus raysed.
The history of Cosdre with his decollation.
_In Fenestris ex latere Australi_.
Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B. Crumwell.
Quarterly. Crumwell with chequy d’or Tateshale.
and G. a chiefe ermyne
G. a lyon rampant d’or Fitz-Alane.
Arg. 3 cinquefoyles and a canton Driby.
Bendy of 10 pieces arg. and G.
Ermyne a fesse G. Bernake.
B. a fesse daunce betw: 10 billets d’or Deyncourt.
G. 10 annulets d’or
Chequy d’or and G. a bend ermyne Clifton.
Quarterly.—Crumwell and Tateshall
Empaled. Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a Crumwell.
bend B.
Empaled. Arg. a chevron B. a file with
3 lambeaux d’or
Barry of 6 arg. and B. a bend G. Grey of Rotherfield.
Verry a fesse Marmyon.
Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B. a
labell of 3 ermyne
Lozengy arg. and G. Fitz-William.
_Ex latere boreali_.
Empaled. Chequy d’or and G. a bendlet
B.
Empaled. Lozengy arg. and G. Fitz-William.
B. a crosse patonce arg.
Party p. pale G. and sa. a lyon rampant
arg. crowned d’or
Arg: 3 water-pots covered G. a border Monboucher.
sa. bezanty [ut opinor.]
Empaled. Arg. a chiefe G. over all a
bend B.
Empaled. Party p, pale G. & sa. a lyon
rampant arg. crowned d’or
Arg. a chevron betw: 3 pots covered G.
a border sa. bezanty
Arg. a chiefe G. surtout a bend B. a
labell of 3 d’or
Barry of 6 arg. and G. a bend engrayled
d’or
Crumwell with a labell of 3 ermyne
_In Fenestris utrimq. supra portas Australem et Borealem_.
Orate pro a’ia Radulphi nuper D’ni de Crumwell & Tateshale
Thesaurarij Angliæ, et fundatoris hujus Collegij.
_The Roode Loft_, 1524
G. a saltier arg. a file with 3 Nevile.
lambeaux B.
Lozengy sa. and erm. on a chiefe sa. 3 Wainflet
lillies arg. Ep’us Wint.
Wainflet Ep’usWinton cujus insignia sculptata sup. utranq. porticum
in saxo.
Thomas Howard gen. & Beatrix consors ejus vitriaverunt fenestram
borealem in honore s’cæ Catherinæ, cujus passio ib’dm.
Empaled. Arg. a chevron chequy d’or & G betw 3 flesh-hookes sa,
Empaled. B. a fesse betw. 3 storkes arg.