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The Manor of Alderton 3rd edition
According to Canon Jackson she was the illegitimate daughter of William, sixth Baron
Stourton, and Agnes Ryce (Fig. 2), who “claimed she was married in the Chapel at
Stourton 6 th January 1545-6”. Agnes died August 19 th 1574 and is buried in the
Baynton Aisle in Bromham church 146 . The monument in Bromham church can still be
seen – it is located in the south east corner of the Bayntun Chapel and shows Mary
Stourton, Sir Edward and his second wife Anne Bakington and three of the children. 147
This monument causes some confusion, as the eldest daughter is correctly named Anne
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would seem redundant given that water is, conventionally, blue anyway. In this case it is a
roundel barry wavy of the sixth (there are six sections three of each colour) In heraldry
barry wavy argent and azure almost always symbolises water. Here the six fountains of the
Stourton arms represent the six source springs of the River Stour from which the name is
derived. Gore depicts the stream and springs on a sketch map in the section dealing with Mary
Stourton.
146 Britton, J (1814) The Beauties of England and Wales – Wiltshire p 415 quoted in Bayntun-
Coward H (1977) (ed) Notes on the Bayntun Family p51. Unfortunately, the burial records for
Bromham do not include the period 1568 to 1681 so this date cannot be verified. In fact she
does not appear in any of the Bromham parish registers in the period concerned that are
available. (Bromham Parish Registers, W&SHC Trowbridge),
147 The inscription reads :
Here lieth Sir Edward Bayntun, knight, within this marble clad,
By Agnes Ryce his first trew wife that thyrtyne children had
Whereof she left alyve with him at her departure thre,
Henry, Anne and Elizabeth whose pictures here now see ).
The XIXth day of Auguste she decesed of Christ ye yere ) 1574.
These little figures standing bie present the number here.
Then married to Anne Bakyngton his second wife she was,
For whose rememberance here in tombe these lynes he left in brass
Annon Dni 1578
One of the daughter figures is missing, from the location probably that of Elizabeth. As this
lack isn’t mentioned by Britton may it be assumed this loss has occurred in the last hundred
and eighty years?
Edward’s second marriage wasn’t held at Bromham, it is not recorded in the Marriage register
for the period 1574 – 1578
148 “Lady Ann” Baynton was buried March 6 th 1587 (Bromham Parish Registers, Burials ibid)
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