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WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" MULTOETJM MANIBUS GEANDE LEVATTJE ONUS." — Ovid. 



^^^m±E Soutli Transept of Lacock Cliurcli is attached to the Manor 

 -t^l^l of Lackham in that parish, and appears to have been used by 

 many of its successive owners as a place of interment. The object 

 of the present paper is to describe three ancient memorials of the 

 Baynards which it contains, as illustrating in some degree the 

 pedigree of that family, or rather the portion of it connected with 

 the descent of the Lackham estate. 



At the period of the Domesday survey, Lacham was held by 

 Ralph [de Mortemer] of William de Ow, and by him (together 

 with other Manors in "Wiltshire) of the King.^ At a somewhat 

 later date it belonged to the family of Bluet.^ Elinor, the daughter 

 and heiress of Sir John Bluet, Knight,^ by marriage with Edmund 



1 Wyndliam's 'Domesday' xxxii. 12. Mr. Britton in his 'Beauties of 

 "Wiltshire," vol. iii, states that "William de Ow was attainted of treason in the 

 reign of "William Rufus, and his estates forfeited to the Crown ; hut omits to 

 mention his authority. 



2 The names of three individuals of this family, — Roger de Bloet, B. Bluet, 

 and Sir "William Bluet, occur in the Cartulary of Lacock Ahbey, an abstract 

 of which is printed as an appendix to the ' History of the Abbey,' by the Rev, 

 Canon Bowles, and J. G. Nichols, Esq., 1835; (see p. xv. xviii. xix.) An Emma 

 Bloet was elected Abbess of Godstow in Oxfordshire, a.d. 1248. From the 

 'Testa de Nevill' compiled early in the 14th century, it appears that the heir 

 of Ralph Bluet held, at that date, one Knight's fee in Lackham of the Earl 

 Marescall, and the Earl of the King. An obit for the soul of ' Rafe Bluet' 

 was celebrated annually on the 20th of February, in the Priory of luugton St. 

 Michael, to which he had been, in all probability, a benefactor. 



3 Sir Jolui Bluet was buried in the Abbey Church of Lacock, where, until 

 the Dissolution, four candles of wax, lighted during the daily Mass for tho 

 Dead, were maintained about his tomb. 



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