The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards
There seems no good reason why the cross is tinctured differently
to the arms usually associated with the Walsingham family.
Eleanor Walsingham’s, brother was Sir Francis Walsingham (Fig. 23
below) , the famous Minister to Queen Elizabeth I. Eleanor had an
uncle, Edmund, who married Eleanor Gunder. Edmund and Eleanor
had many children, including yet another Eleanor who married
Richard Finch and, it is thought, Edward Baynard (1512-1575).
Whether this was before or after Richard Finch is uncertain but if
this is correct Eleanor Sharrington and Eleanor Baynard were first
cousins (Fig. 22). There is another connection between Lackham and
William Sherrington. His first wife was Ursula, the natural
daughter (and heir) of John Bourchier, 2nd Lord Berners. Her
great great grandfather (died 1420) was William, 2nd Earl of Eu in
Normandy.
Aubrey 232 reports that "Sherrington was King Henry the Eighth's
Taylor” but Jackson, in his footnote to this, begs to differ and gives
greater details of Sir William's life.
Aubrey makes an odd blunder in [this]...Sir William certainly
had an evil reputation for 'clipping and shearing', but his art
was practised on the King's coin, not his broadcloth......Sir
William was one of the Chief and by malpractices, carried
out to an enormous extent, obtained the means of
speculating largely in the purchase of [dissolved] Abbey
lands. In 1547 he bought estates.... Avebury, Winterbourne,
Chariton and Barbury near Ogboume [from] Fotheringhay
College, Northampton…. Also Lacock Abbey, Beaulieu,
Notton, Woodrow, Seend, Seende-row, Gatcombe,
Luddington, Cote, Medbum and the Rectory at Lacock.... In
1548 his frauds were discovered. He was…..”clapt up" in the
Tower, indicted before the Lord mayor and...convicted of
232 Aubrey, J ed Jackson JEJ, (1862) Wiltshire Topographical Collections
WANHS p91
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