2-699-350 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Mr. Dymoke, The King's Champion', (1881). The Dymoke family traditionally held the office of king's champion whose duties were to ride into Westminster Hall at the coronation banquet, and challenge all comers to impugn the King's title. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]