The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards of Lackham
who included the vicar of Calne 108 , the vicar of Corsham 109 and
Thomas Tem[y]se It might be that this was a relation but it is
probably Robert II. It would mean that he was born about 1330,
but this is not impossible as it would only make him 70+ when he
died.
Even before he inherited Lackham Robert II was witnessing land
deeds, for example of the Manor of Cotells three times in 1460
alone 110 and again in 1462. In that year he witnessed the release of
land in Salisbury 111 from Edward Basyng to the “dean of Salisbury,
Gilbert Kymer 112 , William Ludlow and others” . It is interesting to
note the John Mompesson was another of the witnesses.
A year later, in 1463 113 , Robert was one of three arbiters 'upon
certain varyauncys and debatis for a mese[uage] in Chippenham and
Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 4 (1902),A7148 pp. 122.
athttp://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64386&strquery=edmund
baynard -castle.
108 Sir Elias Erlstoke
109 William Stockton
110 Davies, Rev JS (1908) The Tropenell Cartulary p133 dated 22/3/1460, p134
dated 24/6/1460 and p136 dated 5/7/1460
111 Davies, Rev JS (1908) ibid p377 dated 10/11/1462 The property in
Wodelye, Smallbones Close and Cokesmede
112 Hellinge, L & Trapp, JB (1999) The History of the Book vol III 1400-1557
p125
Kymer was Dean 1449-1463, physician to Humphrey the Duke of Gloucester and
twice Chancellor of the University of Oxford - 1431 & 1446,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chancellors_of_the_University_of_Oxfo
rd]
He attended Henry VI during his illness of 1453, when Kymer was said to be “an
expert, notable, and proved man in the craft of medicine” [VCH Berkshire vol 3
Section :Windsor Castle pp5-29]
113 Davies, Rev JS (1908) ibid pp111-2 dated 11/4 /1463
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