. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . ns :— Sable, two lions argent, crowned or. the cherished memory of his loved parents, JohnTyrwhitt, Esq. of Pentre Par, Carmarthenshire, obiitAug. 2*. 1844 : and of Sophia, his wife, daughter ofthe Hon. John Dymoke, of Scrivelsby Court,Lincolnshire, obiit March 14 tablet is erected as a tribute of fillial (sic) respect,by their affectionate Son, the Rev. James BradshawTyrwhitt, Rector of Wilksby and Claxby, in the west end of the churchyard is a stone c
. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . ns :— Sable, two lions argent, crowned or. the cherished memory of his loved parents, JohnTyrwhitt, Esq. of Pentre Par, Carmarthenshire, obiitAug. 2*. 1844 : and of Sophia, his wife, daughter ofthe Hon. John Dymoke, of Scrivelsby Court,Lincolnshire, obiit March 14 tablet is erected as a tribute of fillial (sic) respect,by their affectionate Son, the Rev. James BradshawTyrwhitt, Rector of Wilksby and Claxby, in the west end of the churchyard is a stone cross tothe memory of Mary Anne, the relict of the second Dymoke, who died and was buried at Paris, in 1874,and was subsequently re-interred at Scrivelsby, in lady was the daughter of the Revd. Dr. Madelev, whowas for many years Vicar of Horncastle, and enjoyed a veryhigh reputation. There is also a handsome churchyard cross, after themodel of the one in Somersby Churchyard, to the memorv ofHenry Lionel Dymoke, who died in London, and was buriedat Scrivelsby on the ist January, CHAPTER XV. The Parish Registers. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseenAnd waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray. MONGST the curious and eccentric irregularities—not to use a stronger term—for which someof our old Parish Registers are notorious,those of Scrivelsby may well put in a claimfor pre-eminence. It is almost inconceivable that these oldregisters should have been so badly treated. When, a fewyears ago, the laborious task of reducing them to order wasfirst taken in hand, it seemed utterly hopeless to expect asuccessful result. The following were some of the difficulties to beencountered. The oldest book, beginning from 1565, hadevidently suffered much from both fire and damp ; many ofthe leaves were shrivelled up by the former, and renderedillegible by the latter. These difficulti
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