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Nos. 1 and 2 were the royal swan-marks of Henry the 

 Eighth and Edward the Sixth. No. 3 was the swan- 

 mark of the Abbey of Swinstede, on the Witham, in Lin- 

 colnshire ; and I may notice that the crosier, or crook, is 

 borne by the divine, the cowherd, the shepherd, the goat- 

 herd, the swanherd, and tile gooseherd, as emblematical of 

 a pastoral life and the care of a flock. 



No. 4 was the swan-mark of Sir Edward Dimock, of 

 Lincolnshire. The king's champion, it will be recollected, 

 is of this family, who hold " the mannour at Scrivelsby in 



Lincolnshire by that tenure, to come armed on horsebacke 

 (or one in his stead) on the king's coronation day, and in 

 the presence of the king to proclaime and challenge any 

 that shall affirm the king not lawfull heire to the crowne 



