The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards of Lackham
Edward Baynard was one of the local militia commanders. Musters
of the militia were not uncommon in this perilous period, early in the
reign of the first Queen Elizabeth. Records of a muster in 1560
show that
Edward Baynarde and Nicholas Snell and John Eyre with
the muster master mustered at Calne, Chippenham and
Trowbridge the hundreds of Calne with the borough of
the same, the hundreds of Chippenham with the borough
of the same, the hundred of North Damerham, the town
of Lacock, the liberty of Cossham, the liberty of
Monketon, the towne of Kingeswood, the hundred and
borough of Malmesbury, the hundred of Westbury, the
hundred of Milksham, the hundred of Bradford with the
liberty of Trowbridge where we chose hable pikeners
268, hable billmen 740, hable archers 534, hable
harquosiers 285 total 1,837, of which numbers the
inhabitants of the division do furnish of al sorts pikeners
80, billmen 260, archers 200 harquboiers 60 Captain
Henri Harrington 300, Mathewe Arundelle 300 243
This was the year in which the reformation was enhanced in
Wiltshire, two years after the demise of the catholic Queen Mary
and the enthronement of Queen Elizabeth . On the 8th September
The Bishop of Salisbury was instructed to visit his diocese
and purge the clergy of its Roman Catholic element by
requiring acceptance of the Acts of Supremacy and
Uniformity 244
It is thought that some priests accepted and continued to work
with their flock and
243 Wilts N&Q in Wiltshire Times Jan 23 1915 WANHS14.144
“Mustering the Territorials of Wiltshire in 1560”
244 VCH Wiltshire vol IV p 87
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