392 * Bewley Court, Lacock. 



There was also 



" A gardyn [garner] for come conteyning j Rome, a stable of iij 

 Romes, a Barton, a garden and an orchard conteynynge j acre of 

 pasture." ^ 



Bewley Court was afterwards exchanged for other property with 

 Edward Baynard, of Lackham, and passed upon the death of his 

 son, Sir Robert, in 1636,' with the Lackham property to the 

 Montagu family, through the marriage of his heiress, Mary, to 

 Captain James Montagu.^ 



Early in the seventeenth century the house was considerably 

 altered, the hall being divided by two floors to form extra rooms 

 and a large dormer inserted in the roof on the south side. The 

 hall chimney and north oriel were removed and large wooden 

 mullioned windows inserted to light the first floor. Later in the 

 same century the east wing was altered and the northei'n end 

 partly re-built. 



From this date nothing was done to the house until, having 

 fallen into a dangerous state, certain repairs were undertaken in 

 1897 chiefly to the hall roof ; and the large dormer was removed. 



In 1902 the property was acquired by the present owner, Mr. 

 G. LI, Palmer,^ of Lackham, who as soon as it came into his hands 

 instructed the writer to prepare a complete set of drawings of the 

 house as it stood and to carry out certain repairs and alterations. 

 These latter consisted of the removal of the two floors within the 

 hall, the re-building the hall chimney and building a portion of a 

 new double-storied passage at the back of the hall, which will be 

 required if the house be again converted into a residence, as is 

 intended when the opportunity arises. 



The house is at present reached from a road on the east across 

 a farm yard, and it is difficult to trace the original approach. There 



' A Survey of Manors, (tc, belonging to Sir William Sharington made hy 

 Stephen Cole, Gentleman, Surveyor and Steward, 2 Ed. vi., 25&. In the 

 possession of Mr. C. H. Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, and kindly transcribed 

 for me by the Rev. W. G. Clark-Maxwell, M.A., F.S.A. 



^ Wilts Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Charles I. (London, 1901), p. 330. 



^ The Society is indebted to Mr. G. LI. Palmer for a donation of £b to- 

 wards the cost of the illustrations of this paper. 



