Chapter Marinel to Marmion of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

him to bring in supper. “Sir Ralph,” knowing his customer, humoured the joke, which Oliver did not discover till next day, when he called for his bill. (We are told in Notes and Queries that Ralph Fetherstone was only Mr., but his grandson was sir Thomas.)

Marmaduke Neville, the lover of Sybil Warner in lord Lytton’s Last of the Barons (1843).

Marmion, “a Tale of Flodden Field.” Lord Marmion was betrothed to Constance de Beverley, but he jilted her for lady Clare an heiress, who was in love with Ralph de Wilton. The lady Clare rejected lord Marmion’s suit, and took refuge from him in the convent of St. Hilda, in Whitby. Constance took the veil in the convent of St. Cuthbert, in Holy Isle, but after a time she left the convent clandestinely, was captured, taken back, and buried alive in the walls of a deep cell. In the mean time, lord Marmion, being sent by Henry VIII. on an embassy to James IV. of Scotland, stopped at the hall of sir Hugh de Heron, who sent a palmer as his guide. On his return, lord Marmion commanded the abbess of St. Hilda to release the lady Clare, and place her under the charge of her kinsman, Fitzclare of Tantallon Hall. Here she met the palmer, who was Ralph de Wilton, and as lord Marmion was slain in the battle of Flodden Field, she was free to marry the man she loved.—Sir W. Scott: Marmion (1808).

Marmion (Lord), a descendant of Robert de Marmion, who obtained from William the Conqueror the manor of Scrivelby, in Lincolnshire. This Robert de Marmion was the first royal champion of England, and the office remained in the family till the reign of Edward I., when in default of male issue it passed to John Dymoke, son-in-law of Philip Marmion, in whose family it remains still.