in some of the Churches near Chippenham. 



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displayed, gules) quartering Baynard, (sable, a fess, between 2 

 chevrons or). Above and beneath the tabard are seen portions of 

 the ring -mailed shirt ; the sword hangs diagonally; no "miserere," 

 or helmet; while the feet, covered with rounded plates, rest on two 

 dogs. The lady is habited in a mantle, embroidered with the arms 

 of Baynard quartering (not impaling) Ludlow. (She was the 

 daughter of Henry Ludlow of Hill Deverill, Esq.) The inscrip- 

 tion is : — 



" Hie jacet Robertus Baynard Arm. vir egregius, et legis peritus, in armis 

 bellicis multum strenuus, dapifer, precipuus inter primos, pacis conservator 

 diligentissimus. uxorern habens Eliz m . devotissimam cum totidem filiis et 

 filiabus subenumeratis : qui obiit 26 Aug. A.D, 1501, quorum animabus pro- 

 picietur Deus. Amen." 



Below are the effigies of thirteen sons and five daughters', all the sons 

 are of equal height, except the eldest, who is taller and has a pocket : 

 the second has a plain collar, tonsure and girdle, representing that 

 he belonged to the Priesthood. The four shields bear the arms of 

 Bluet and Baynard, Baynard and Ludlow, as on the tabards. One 

 of the daughters married William Temmes of Rood Ash ton, of 

 which family was Johanna, the last Abbess of Laycock. Notwith- 

 standing the multitude of children, in 1635, the estate of Lackham 

 came to an heiress, who, marrying the Honorable James Montagu, 

 son of the Earl of Manchester, conveyed it to that family, to whom 

 it belonged within the memory of many still surviving. 



The Brasses of Datjntsey. 

 These represent Sir John Danvers and Lady, A.D. 1514. The 

 Danvers family came out of Oxfordshire: from this family descended 

 this Sir John Danvers who married the heiress of the Stradlings, 

 and thus became possessed of Dauntsey. The Stradlings came to 

 an end in a very unhappy manner. John Aubrey the antiquary, 

 gives us the history of it: — "Here (about 1490 — 1500) was a 

 robbery committed at the Manor House on the family of the 

 Stradlings. Sir Edward Stradling and all his Servants, except one 

 Ploughboy who hid himself in an Oven, were murthered ; by 

 which means this whole estate came to Anne his Sister ; and that 

 heir married afterwards to Sir John Danvers a handsome gentleman, 



