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LUMLEY OF LUMLEY CASTLE, EARL OF SCARBOROUGH 1690, VISCOUNT LUMLEY
OF IRELAND 1628.
[Illustration] This very distinguished family is of Anglo-Saxon
descent, and has been seated in this county from the time of the
Conquest; Liulph, who lived before the year 1080, is the first
recorded ancestor. In the female line the Lumleys represent the
Barons Thweng of Kilton, and from hence the arms borne by this
ancient house, who were themselves summoned as Barons from the 8th
of Richard II. to the 1st of Henry IV. The elder line of the family
became extinct on the death of John Lord Lumley in 1609. It was
during the time of this Lord that the following anecdote is told.
"Oh, mon, gang na farther; let me digest the knowledge I ha' gained,
for I did na ken Adam's name was Lumley,"--exclaimed King James I.
when wearied with Bishop James's prolix account of the Lumley
Pedigree, on his Majesty's first visit to Lumley Castle in 1603. For
the curious story of the _lucky leap_ of Richard Lumley, the
immediate ancestor of the present family, see Nichols's
Leicestershire, iii. pt. i. 363; and Surtees's Durham, ii. 162.
See also Leland's Itin., vi. fol. 62; Brydges's Collins, iii. 693;
the Roll of Carlaverock by Sir H. Nicolas, p.313; and the Surrey
Archaeological collections, vol. iii. pp. 324-348, for a valuable
account of the Lumley monuments in Cheam church, and notes on the
pedigree and arms.
ARMS.--_Argent, a fess gules between three popinjays proper,
collared of the second_. This coat was borne by Marmaduke de Twenge
in the reign of Henry III. and by M. de Thwenge and Monsieur Rauf
Lumleye in the reign of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls.) John le
Fitz Marmaduke bore, _Gules, a fess and three popinjays argent_.
(Roll of Carlaverock, 1300.) Sir Robert de Lumley the same, _but on
the fess three mullets sable_. (Roll of the reign of Edward II) See
the seal of John Lord Lumley, who died in 1421, in Bysshe's Notes on
Upton, p. 58.
Present Representative, Richard George Lumley, 9th Earl of
Scarborough.