colnshire. . The king’s champion, it will be recollected*!^ of
this family, who'hold “ tlje mannour at Scrivelsby in Lijst|-
colnshire by that tenure, to come armed.; on horsebâcke (or
one in his stead) on the king’s coronation day, and in the
presence of the king to proclaim e and challenge any that
shall affirm the king not lawfull heire to the crowne and kingdom
e, to fight with him bodie for bodie,” k c ,— Camden.
No. 5, the swan mark of Sir Thomas Frowick, of Gunners-
bnry, Middlesex, who was bom at Ealing, bred in the study
of our municipal law; wherein-, he attained to such eminency
that he was inade Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Four years he sate in his place, accounted the oracle of law
in his age, though one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed
that office.—Abridged from Fuller's Worthies. The swan
mark is from Harleian M.S. No. 541. A volume of papers
collected by Stow the Antiquary. The four swan marks
which precede it-are from Archseologla.
■ The next three swan marks are from an interesting volume,
Mr. A. J . Kempe’s Losely Manuscripts, and refer to the
time of Elizabeth.
Nb. 6 , th e 1 swan mark of Lórd William Howard, afterwards
Earl of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England,
in the feign °f Queen Mary.
No. 7, the swan mark of Lord Buckhurst. The keys
here- adopted have reference to his office- of Chamberlain of
the Household/ At the . present day the appointment of the
.rpyal swanhefd’s man is Vested in the Lord Chamberlain for
the time being.
No; 8 ,Tthe mark’of Sir William More, who was appointed
by Lord Buckhurst?W-tbe^ office of Master of the Swans for
Surrey, “ in küch sorte as all the rest of the sheres were
graunted:” One of "the conditions recorded in the grant is as
’ follows: e‘ But this order must be kept, that .the upping* of
all those Swans, near or within the said branches m the Terns,
may be upped all in one day with the upping of the Terns,
which is referred to Mr. Maylard, of Hampton Course, who,
’hath the ordering of the Terns. So if it pleas you from time '
to time to send and confer with him.” The following is a
copy óf a ’letter from R. Maylard, the Master of the Swans
on the Thames, to ’Sir William More^as Master of the Swans
for Surrey, extracted from Mr. Kèmpe’s book :—
May it please you, Sir, this morning I received, a 1’re
affirmed to come from you,,but no name thereunto/ Wherein
yo’ request me td. come to Perford to conferr wt.yo’ touching
the upping of Swann^|?w’chT wold most gladly .pforme, yf I
were- not throughe very ernest busynës letted of my purpose,
ffor to morrowe being Tuysdaie I take my jorOey along the
* Upping, or taking up the young Swans to mark them, now sometimes
called swan-hopping.