. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . h consists in the suppositionthat each family is descended from a particular plant oranimal, is very ancient and widely spread.* Many of ourold Saxon families can distinctly trace the origin of theirnames in this way, the separate clans being distinguished fromeach other by their respective totems, which were consequentlyheld in special veneration as the guardian spirits of thefamily, the members of which would generally refuse to pluckthe plant or kill the animal after which they were
. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . h consists in the suppositionthat each family is descended from a particular plant oranimal, is very ancient and widely spread.* Many of ourold Saxon families can distinctly trace the origin of theirnames in this way, the separate clans being distinguished fromeach other by their respective totems, which were consequentlyheld in special veneration as the guardian spirits of thefamily, the members of which would generally refuse to pluckthe plant or kill the animal after which they were we hnd the Heartings or sons of the hart : the Wvlfingsor sons of the wolf : and the Thornings or sons of the too were often named after some plant or animal : as,for instance, Oakington from the oak tree, Horsington fromthe horse, and Wormingford from the serpent or wvrm. Thesuggestion that in the same way the Dvmokes derived theirname from the oak tree is not advanced without some reasonsthat go far to support it. * See Aii,i^/o Siixo/i Brilain, p. So, bv Grant ,Mleii. THE EARLY DYMOKES. 45 The visitor, who keeps his eyes open, on enteringScrivelsbv Park, will notice on the right hand side of theLion Gateway, a rude delineation of an oak tree—the rebusof Sir Robert Dymoke, whose name appears below—the letterY being apparently formed bv the stem of the tree. Again, asan additional support to the oak-tree theory, attention maybe called to the words dc iiinbrosd qiiercii which areappended to the name of Dimoak now Dimmock inWrights Court hand (p. 48, 6th Ed., 1822) in the listof ancient surnames as thev were written in old deeds,records, and charters. The family motto pro rcge dimico which was probablyassumed long after the establishment of the Dymokes atScrivelsbv, and in evident allusion to their dutv as Champions,is a good instance of what are called canting mottoes.* Sir John Dymoke, who married the Lady Margaret deLudlow, is not onlv th
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