ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 549. 



claims adjudged the office of the king's champion, at the coro- 

 nation of K. Charles II, on St. George's day, agd April, 1661, in 

 right of his manour of Scrivel/by, in the county of Lincoln (ej. 

 The painting is neat, and the colours well preferved ; the defcent 

 clear and perfpicuous, attefted by Camden, St. George, Segar, and 

 Trefwell, of the college of arms. 



The villa of Belfay (lands on the flope of a hill ; the family-feat 

 built on to an old tower ; a domeilic^ chapel among a clump of 

 trees in a field to the fouth-eaft. 



From the i2th mile-flone, on the left hand of the road, we 

 have a. view of 



Whalton, a pleafant villa, which was the barony of Walter Fitz 

 William ; alfo of Robert de Crammavill, from whom it was taken 

 together with the barony of Warkworth, 6 K. John, and both 

 given to Roger Fitz Roger, by whom it was pofTeffed in the reiga 

 of- K. Henry III (f), and by his fon John- Fitz Robtrt, Lord Clave ring, 



i.K, 



(e) "Ahtiqua familia Lambariorum per multas propagines et diverfas utriufque fortunas vi- 

 cifiitudinibus, a IPillielmo augufto rege uique in hunc diem dedufta, iniquis aliquando tern.-, 

 porum flutibus jadtataet continuata, prsefertiin in agro Eloracenfi, una cum caolefcentium et 

 conjusjium infigniis gentilitiis adornata, ufque ad Thomam Lambart, armigerum, qui jamde- 

 pj't in agro Lincolnlenft, cui nupfit Sufanna filia Edvardi Dymccke, equitis aurati, rrrultis no- 

 minibus viri ornathlimi, ex qua fufcepit divina bonitate tres filios, Caro/um, IVillielnium, et 

 Samuilem, quos fecialts noftrijure luciJo, etordine perfpicaci, genus fuum-poffeet debere 

 referre ad nutnerofam multitudinem comituum, baronum, heroum nobillum, equitumque . 

 auratorum r clariffimse dignitatis tarn unius quam alterius profapise, genuina fatentur ferie, et 

 ftemmatis perquam fplendidi clypeis antiquiffimis teftificantur, tandemque obfignatis tabulit 

 haec omnia palam demonftrare rogati, sequum et operae pretium ducunt. 



MS. penes J. L. Aiiddleton, de Btlfa), baronettum. 



(f) Rot. Clauf. de anno 6 Job. m. 14.. 



Vid. JVarkiuortb. 

 , Rolertus 



