. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . It has already been told how this Scrivelsby branchinherited the Scrivelsby estate and the Championship from thetime of John, who officiated at the coronation of George 1761, to Henry Lionel, the last representative of thisbranch of the family, and whose death occurred in 1875. It is at this point that the interest of our genealogicalpuzzle culminates. Henry Lionel, dying without issue,bequeathed the estate—not to anyone by name—but to theheir-at-law of John Dvmoke, who died at T
. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . It has already been told how this Scrivelsby branchinherited the Scrivelsby estate and the Championship from thetime of John, who officiated at the coronation of George 1761, to Henry Lionel, the last representative of thisbranch of the family, and whose death occurred in 1875. It is at this point that the interest of our genealogicalpuzzle culminates. Henry Lionel, dying without issue,bequeathed the estate—not to anyone by name—but to theheir-at-law of John Dvmoke, who died at Tetford in theyear 1782. It is not difficult to fathom the motive of thisbequest, nor, indeed, of the peculiar method adopted fordescribing it. He put himself in the place of the oldChampion who died in 1760, and bequeathed his estateto the representative of the heir-at-law at the time ofLewiss death, and this heir-at-law was John Dvmoke, whodied at Tetford in 1782, the verv words emploved inHenry Lionels will. Of course, he might have left it directto Francis Seaman Dvmoke, who was undoubtedlv the. FRANCIS SCAMAN DYMOKE, ESQ. THE HON. THE QUEENS CHAMPION THE MISSING LINK. IO5 heir-at-law of his great grandfather. But he had no personal acquaintance with the Tetford family, and in all probability he wished to emphasize, as distinctly as possible, his desire to amend what might haye seemed to him a wrong, under which the Tetford branch had suffered for a hundred years, without gratifying any personal wish of his own in benefiting a particular indiyidual. And so, in the whirly-gig of time, the Championship, in the teeth of all probability, and long after the time when the inheritance seemed hopelessly lost, comes back to the very man who might haye expected to succeed, had the cleavage of 1760 never happened. The marvel is heightened bv the reflection that, although the legal representative of Sir Edward Dymoke (3) is now at Scrivelsbv, he is not there because of his right as
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