Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre
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The Manor of <strong>Lackham</strong> <strong>Vol</strong> 3 : The Montagu family<br />
by Sir Herbert Mackworth, Dorset, Johnson, and<br />
Wilkinson : and the bills of Messers. Montagu, Ashe,<br />
Humphreys, and Gaby, by Messrs. John, George, and John<br />
Whitehead. No business transacted at the banks before<br />
ten nor after three.<br />
The history of the Bank is unclear, but the deed of co-partnership<br />
between James Montagu and Mssrs Ashe, Humphreys and Davy was only<br />
signed in 1792 343 so the British Directory was very perceptive!.<br />
A little should be said about Montagu’s partners; Robert Ashe was the<br />
Lord of the Manor and Rector of Langley Burrell and was High Sheriff of<br />
Wiltshire in 1788 344 , his quietus record, and the order to hand over the<br />
Shrievalty to his successor, are still extant 345 . He was Francis Kilvert’s<br />
great great grandfather 346 .<br />
Matthew Humphreys was a Chippenham clothier who bought The Ivy in<br />
1791 from John Northey. The Georgian culvert found during a 2009<br />
excavation, at Chippenham Museum and Heritage <strong>Centre</strong>, was possibly<br />
associated with one of the outbuildings “constructed by Matthew<br />
343 W&SHC 568/20<br />
344 Jackson, Rev JE (1857) The Sheriffs of Wiltshire” WAM III p231<br />
Reported in The New Annual Register vol 13 p48 Promotions<br />
345 W&SHC 118/157<br />
346<br />
Plomer, W (1939 ) Excerpts from the Diary of the REV Francis Kilvert <strong>Vol</strong> II<br />
1871-1874 pp202-203<br />
Monday 25 November 1872<br />
“The old manor house at Langley Burell used to stand on a knoll just beyond the<br />
fishpond below the terrace walk, where the oak stands now. The new Manor House<br />
was built about 100 years ago by Robert Ashe, Rector of the Parish and Lord of the<br />
Manor, my great-great-grandfather. The stones for the new house were hewn by an<br />
olde man named Old Chit Chat. When he got his pay he would go down the ancient<br />
footpath by Pen Hills House tossing a coin with himself to see whether his belly or his<br />
back should get the benefit of his wages. If the back won the toss Old Chit Chat<br />
would toss again to give the poor belly one last chance. The game generally ended up<br />
by his going to the public house”<br />
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