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was buried in Lacock Church.)
SIR ROBERT BAYNARD, KT.
Second, but eldest surviving son, born 1563. M.P. for Chippenham, 1584-85, and
for Westbury, 1586—87. James I visited him at Lackham, and in 1618 knighted
him at Theobalds. 1629 High Sheriff of Wiltshire. By his wife, Ursula (1587-
1623) daughter of Sir Robert Stapleton, and Dame Olive (nee Sharington of
Lacock Abbey; by her first marriage, Mrs. John Talbot) he had two children,
Edward who died an infant, 1617. and Mary, born in 1621.
Lady Baynard's memorial, also en an oak panel, is in Lacock Church. Sir Robert
died 1636. (His Inventory gives a good picture of the rooms and their contents.)
CAPTAIN THE HON. JAMES MONTAGU
(Arms: Argent, three lozenges conjoined in fesse gules, within a bordure sable)
Born 1609. Third son of Henry, First Earl of Manchester. Married the heiress
of Lackham &c., Mary Baynard, in Lacock Church in 1635. They had eleven sons
and two daughters. He died 1665-66. His widow "Ye Honoured Mary
Mountague" died 1685.
JAMES MONTAGU, ESQUIRE (II)
Second, but eldest surviving son. Born 1638. 1671 he married Diana, daughter
of Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton, and later of Farleigh Castle. They had
four sons. He died March, 1675-76. His widow died 1736. Tablet on East wall of
the Lackham Chapel to them, and to their sons.
EDWARD MONTAGU, ESQUIRE
Eldest son, born 1672. Died 1710. Never married. Nothing is known of him, and
he was probably physically weak.
JAMES MONTAGU, ESQUIRE (III)
Brother of the above, born 1673. He seems to have early succeeded to
Lackham. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Eyles, Lord Mayor of
London, the owner of Southbroom, Devizes. They had five sons and three
daughters. He died 1747, his wife had died 1741. Their names occur on the
same tablet as James Montagu(II).
JAMES MONTAGU, ESQUIRE (IV)
Eldest son of the above, born 1713. 1744 he married Elinor,daughter and
heiress of William Hedges of Alderton, Wiltshire, and had four sons and nine
daughters. (In 1790 August, Grimm made a drawing of the old manor house of