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.

THE KYME FAMILY. 387
he lived above a mile out of town; that he found attendance upon the duties of an alderman troublesome, and that charges might arise to take him from his business, by which his
decayed fortunes might suffer. He therefore requested to be dismissed from the office."
The petition was granted. Mrs. Prudence Kyme (Adlard's wife) was buried
at Fishtoft 1718. He died in 1712.1 His son Nightingale was living in Boston
in 1748. Nightingale's wife, Alice, was buried at Fishtoft in 1723, aged 32.
This Nightingale left two sons, Nightingale and Adlard, the former resided in
Boston; the latter at Fishtoft, where he died in 1758; Nightingale died at the
age of 75 in 1789; his second wife was Bridget Parkins. His son Nightingale
died in 1814, without children, and terminated (it is believed) the male line of
this branch of the family of Kyme of Kyme.
There yet remain three questions concerning the Kyme family, to which the
means of giving a solution are not very apparent.
The first is, Who was the Mr. Kyme, who married Cicely the daughter of
Edward IV.?
The second, Who was the Kyme who married Anne Ayscough? and the
third, What and who were the Kymes of Lincoln, and how did they connect
with the main branch?
There is very little upon record respecting the marriage of one of the family
of Kyme with the daughter of Edward IV. BEOOKE states,
"Cicely, second2 daughter of Edward IV., was motioned to marry James, Prince of
Scotland and Duke of Rothsay (in 1474), but it took no effect, and so she was married
(before December, 1487) to John, Viscount Welles,3 whom she outlived, and married again
to one KYME, Lincolnshire, and died without issue."4
ANDERSON says,
" Cecilia, daughter of Edward IV., wife of —1i, John Viscount Wells-2, KYME of Lincolnshire.5 The Princess Ciceley married Lord Welles about 1488,6 and her second husband,
KYME, about 1500.7 She was buried at Quarina in the Isle of Wight." 8
This is all that we can find upon record respecting this marriage, and it is not
sufficient to found even a conjecture upon, concerning the relationship of the
Princess CICELY'S second husband to the KYMES of Lincolnshire.9
Respecting the husband of the celebrated ANN AySCOUGu we have scarcely
anything to add to what we have already stated. For the reasons we have
adduced, we think he was connected with the Kymes of Stickford, a branch of
the Kymies of Friskney; but here again all is conjecture. She is said to have
married Mr. Kyme "win obedience to her father's desire or command. Her
falling from Popery so offended her husband, that he drove her violently out of
his house." We find it stated, that she resided afterwards at Ewerby Thorpe,
1 After the death of Adlard Kyme, Rochford daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, who both died
Tower and farm were occupied by John Jessup, young.-Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York,
who married Adlard's daughter Esther; Benjamin p. xx.
Jessup, his son, succeeded him; the latter died in 4 BROOKE'S Catalogue of Nobility, 2 Edward,
1793, at the age of 79. The farm was then held by p. 34.
his nephew, Mr. John Ayre, who died in 1816, and 5 ANDERSON' Royal Genealogies, p. 745, Table
with him terminated the holding of this property by 492.
the Kyme family, after having been in their occu- 6 CAMDEN.
pation certainly nearly 200 years, very probably 7 YORKE'S Uion of honour, p. 40.
considerably more. 8 Ibid.
2 YORKE also says the second daughter, but 9 A paper in the MSS. Collections of the late
VINCENT, in his Discoverie of Errors, fc. p. 633, WILLIAM BRAND, Esq. states, we do not know
says, third daughter. upon what authority, that the second husband of
3 Viscount Wells and his wife Cicely were ad- the Princess Cicely "was a gentleman of the noble
mitted members of the Guild of Corpus Christi in family of Kvme, of Kyme Tower, near Boston."
Boston in 1487; he wTas alderman of that Guild in Kyme Tower, near Sleaford, the ancient seat of
1495, and died 9th February, 1498-9, leaving two the Kymes, may be said to be also near Boston.