Philip de Kyme was constituted sheriff of Lincolnshire in the 14th Henry II [1168] and was one of the barons in the great council held at London in the year 1177, where he was subscribing witness to the instrument of arbitration there made by King Henry II for according the difference betwixt Alfonso, King of Castile, and Sanctius, King of Navarre. This feudal lord was the founder of the priory of Kyme, and he granted twenty acres of land to the canons and nuns at Bolington for supporting the charge of their garments. He was steward to Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, and was s. at his decease (before 1194) by his son, Simon de Kyme. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 309, Kyme, Barons Kyme]