Philip de Kyme was constituted sheriff of Lincolnshire in the 14th HenryII [1168] and was one of the barons in the great council held at Londonin the year 1177, where he was subscribing witness to the instrument ofarbitration there made by King Henry II for according the differencebetwixt Alfonso, King of Castile, and Sanctius, King of Navarre. Thisfeudal lord was the founder of the priory of Kyme, and he granted twentyacres of land to the canons and nuns at Bolington for supporting thecharge of their garments. He was steward to Gilbert de Gant, Earl ofLincoln, and was s. at his decease (before 1194) by his son, Simon deKyme. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 309, Kyme, Barons Kyme]
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