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Manors information for Scrivelsby and places above it in the hierarchy
- William the Conqueror gave the manor of Scrivelsby to Robert MARMION. He and his heirs were to perform the office of Champion of the English Crown, the lord or his deputy were required to appear at the coronation of every monarch and issue a personal challenge to anyone who spoke against the new king or queen.
- Scrivelsby Court, the seat of the DYMOKE family since the reign of Richard II (circa 1380), stood on a hill within a 300-acre wooded park. Much of the building was destroyed in a fire in 1765.
- The National Archives' project to update the Manorial Documents Register is now complete. Note particularly the links on that page to the TNA guide and to the A-Z list of manors. Quoting the TNA guide: The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is maintained by The National Archives, on behalf of the Master of the Rolls, as a record of the whereabouts of manorial documents. It is not a register of title to manorial lordships and we do not collect or record this type of information.
- Primary Sources: English Manorial Documents "From English Manorial Documents, Translations and Reprints from the original Sources of European History, E. P. Cheyney, tr., vol. 3, no. 5 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1907), pp. 3-32". This includes examples from several parts of the country, including Essex, Durham and Norfolk.
