The Manor Houses of Lackham 1050-1949 2nd Ed

Houses of Lackham 2 nd ed 10
Fig. 3 Arms of the Baynard family 17 **
There is a funeral hatchment almost covering the upstairs window in this
sketch of James Montagu, buried at Lacock in 1790, which shows the arms
of Montagu and Mortimer impaling the arms of his wife Eleanor, (Hedges
and Gore). It is likely that the original was as large as indicated – in
Kimbolton church (the family seat of the senior branch of the family) there
are a half dozen funeral hatchments that are anything up to 6 feet across.
The sketch was made only four months after James‟ death, and it was
common for such large shields to be placed on the bereaved house for
anything up to a year afterwards.
These are the same arms as seen at the bottom of Fig. 1. These arms can
be seen on a monument in the Lackham Aisle in St. Cyriac‟s, Lacock.
James Montagu (born 1714) had married Eleanor Hedges, the heiress to the
nearby Alderton estate, in 1744 -three years before he inherited Lackham.
Alderton came into the Montagu estates in 1751 upon the death of Eleanor‟s
father, William
17 Sable, a fess between two chevrons Or