2 Baynard Monuments in Lacock Church. 



Baynard, Esq., of Dunmow, Co. Essex, circa a.d. 1349, conveyed the 

 estate to that family.' 



From an ancient document on vellum, formerly in the possession 

 of the Lady Mary Montagu, (daughter and heiress of Sir Robert 

 Baynard), entitled "Illustrations collected hy John FhiUpott" (Som- 

 erset Herald, temp. James I.) "of the Family of Baynard, shemng 

 their Antiquitie, Nohilitie, Patrimony, and Posteritie," printed in 

 Gent. Magazine, May, 1826, p. 418 ; it appears that the Baynards 

 were of Norman family, the first of whom, Ralph Baynard, built 

 Baynard's Castle, near Paul's Wharf, in London, in the reign of 

 William Rufus. He had grants of land in Essex, Norfolk, and 

 Suffolk. Baynard's Castle was forfeited by some act of felony, and 

 granted to Robert de Clare. From John Baynard of Co. Essex, 

 who died 23 Edward III., [1349,] the Wiltshire branch of the 

 family descended, as exhibited in the pedigree annexed. 



Lackham continued in the possession of the Baynards for nine 

 successive generations, imtil Mary, the heiress (above mentioned) 

 of Sir Robert Baynard, Knight, by marriage with the Hon. James 



1 This statement is made on the authority of the pedigree in the Wilts Visit- 

 ation, where Elinor, the wife of Edmimd Baynard, is described as daughter and 

 heiress of Sir John Bluet ; but the following extracts furnish the name of an 

 intermediate owner, Peter de Cusaunce, Knight, from which it would appear 

 that Sir John left two daughters and coheiresses, one of whom by marriage with 

 Peter de Cusaunce conveyed to him the Lackham estate, but dying without 

 issue, it passed into the hands of the other daughter, Elinor, wife of Edmund 

 Baynard : — 



" 1346. John de Peyton obtained license to have a chapel in his Manor of 

 Lackham, in the parish of Lacock."— Wyvill Register, Sarum. In the year 

 1349, the King presents to this chapel " on behalf of the heir of Alianore Bluet, 

 Lady of the Manor" ; and in 1352, Peter de Cusaunce presents as " Lord of the 

 Manor of Lackham." "Wilts Institutions. 



Leland's account of the descent of Silchester, (Co. Hants,) another property 

 of the Bluets, is as follows :— " one of the Blueths leavyug no sons, the land not 

 entaylid to the heire [jnale or generale] came by mariage to one Peter de Cus- 

 ance, Knight, and after to one Edmunde Baynard." — Itinerary vi. 53. 



Peter de Cusaunce was Sheriff of Wilts, 1377, and presented to Hilmarton 

 (which he appears also to have obtained by marriage with a Bluet) in 1380. 



The connexion of John de Peyton with the Manor of Lackham, unless he held 

 it as trustee for the heir of Bluet, does not appear. The famUy of Peyton were 

 seated in Co. Suffolk, and, with this exception, the name has not been met with 

 in any documents relating to Wilts. 



