The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

382 THE KYME FAMILY.
Carlaverock;1 and rendered military service by himself and Thomas de Breton
in 1282, 1294, and 1299,2 and is mentioned in connexion with all great public
affairs relating to Lincolnshire from 1277 to 1307. He was appointed a conservator of the peace for Lincolnshire in 1308:3 hbe held a manor in Croft at
the time of his death, which occurred in 1323.4 He was succeeded by his son
William, who married Joan -—. He had "the right of bathing upon the
shore of the manor of Croft given him."35 He was appointed, in 1323, one of the
custodes to 6" guard and defend, and arm and array," the forces for the county
of Lincoln, to be ready to march against the enemy at three days' notice.6 He
was also appointed one of the custodes in 1324, to defend the coast of Lincolnshire against a threatened invasion by Charles King of France and Navarre.7
He died without issue 1337. His widow, Joan de Kyme, held an estate in
Croft as part of the honour of Bolingbroke, she also held the manor of Thorpe
of the same honour at the time of her death in 1362.8 Her second husband
was Nicholas de Cantilupe. On the death of William de Kyme in 1337, the
estates passed to his sister Lucy, as heiress of the family. Lucy married Gilbert
de Umfraville, Earl of Angus. Their son Gilbert died in 1421; and his son,
Sir Robert Umfraville, died without issue 15 Henry VI. A.D. 1436. The property and title then passed, by heirs female, to the Burdons and Talboys; and
again, by the female line and division, among the heirs general in 1530, when
the head of the barony (Kyme) came to Sir Edward Dymoke of Scrivelsby?9
The barony of Kyme is now in abeyance, between the heirs general of the
Dymoke line, and the representatives of the other sisters and co-heiresses of
Sir Gilbert Talboys, who died in 1530.10
The arms borne by the Kyme family, are gules, a chevron between ten cross
crosslets, or.
STTIKELEY endeavours to connect the famous Robin Hood, and the almost
equally famous Robin of Redesdale, with this elder branch of the Kyme
family."l
We have drawn our materials for this account of the elder branch of the
Kyvme family, principally from a visitation of Lincolnshire, dated 1564, as then
made by Robert Cooke, Chester herald, and continued and enlarged by the
visitation made in 1592.12 The same MS. furnishes us with some materials for
continuing the descent of the Kyme family, through a younger brother of
William de Kymne, the son of Philip Kyme and Agnes Welles, who died, as we
have stated, in 1259. This younger brother, SIMON DE KYME, married Maude,
the third daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, by Sybilla, daughter
of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. This Simon de Kyme held, when the
Testa de Nevill was taken, in Croft, Winthorpe, Friskney, and Burgh, one
knight's fee of Gilbert de Gaunt, and he of the King in capite.l3 He also held
one knight's fee of the Earl of Ferrers, and the said Earl of the King in capite,
in Friskney, Wainfleet, Bratoft, Skegness, and Winthorpe.l4 Simon also held
land in the neighbourhood directly of the King in chief.l' It may be remarked
Antiquarian Repertory, vol. iv. p. 471. The 6 Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p. 349.
writer of an heraldic poem of the period says, "I 7 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 389.
may name in the fifth place a great and much- 8 Escheat Rolls, 36 Edward III.
honoured lord, Philip Lord of Kyme, who bore 9 CRFASEY'S Sleaford, p. 277, and BANKS'
gules, a chevron surmounted with crosslets of House of Marmion, 126.
gold." lo OLIvER's Sleaford Guild, pp. 17, 18.
2 Parliamentary Writs, vol. i. p. 233 and 333. l Paleeographia, Brit. vol. ii. p. 115.
3 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 21. 12 Harleian MS. 1550. The account has also
4 Escheat Rolls, 16 Edward III. r. 67. been collated with a MS. in the Heralds' College.
5 Inquis. ad quod damnmrm, 5 Edward III. A.D. 13 Testa de Nevill, p. 329.
1331. 14 Ibid. 15 Ibid.