The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards of Lackham
they may have been joined by…other priests who had been
deprived under Edward VI……. Michael Brickett, who was
kept by Edward Baynard of Lackham as his chaplain…. may
have been an example of the latter 245
Michael Brickett was the last Chaplain of Lackham. He was buried
May 7 th 1565 246 . This would fit with Hasler’s view 247 , that Edward
Baynard was a protestant. He maintains that
Though Baynard was discreet enough about his religion to
hold important local offices under Queen Mary he was
described by the bishop of Salisbury, early in Queen
Elizabeth’s reign, as a "further earnest" and his will which
laid emphasis on a funeral sermon rather than almsgiving or
mourning gowns is protestant in tone. 248
It has been suggested 249 that Elizabeth Warneford was born
c1515, that is around the same time as Edward, but there does not
appear to be any evidence to support this. It seems unlikely; she
died in 1621 so would have been over 100 if she was born in 1515.
Also Edward Baynard was at least 47 when he married Elizabeth
Warneford (after 1559) and after two previous marriages he still
had no heir. It would seem extremely unlikely that he would have
then married a woman of 45 years of age, and if he had it is almost
impossible that she would then have borne him 10 children - of
whom only one died early! It seems much more likely that Elizabeth
married her first husband Edward Baynard when she was in her
teens or early twenties, which would give her a birth date.
245 VCH Wiltshire vol IV ibid
246 Lacock Parish Registers Burials
247 Hasler, PW (1981) The House of Commons 1558-1603 vol 1 HMSO pp407-8
248 “Further ernest” here can be taken to mean Protestant
249 WFHS Wiltshire Inscriptions
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