Its owners and some historical connections - Lackham Countryside ...

The Manor of Alderton 3rd edition
In the following year Charles commissioned the Tenor bell in the Church, the
inscription reads "Persone tune sono laudes et Katerinae" "The Worshipful
Charles Gore esq. 1632" 214 and one of the pieces of church plate also dates
from this time “a very old plate marked LG” 215
Charles was a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire and as such sat on civil cases
as well as criminal. An example is known from 1636 when he sat in a case,
with Henry Bayliffe 216 , dealing with money owed to William Dyke 217 . Charles
and Henry Bayliffe also served together as Commissioners on the "fateful
subsidies" collected in the area "for the further relief of his Ma'tyes Army"
on 8 October 1641 when the tax was set at 8s in the pound on land. "This is
only one of several subsidies that had to be paid, a precursor to the Civil War"
218
The Gores seem to have actively supported the Royalist cause during the Civil
War – in late January or early February 1642 Charles sent
two geldings. saddles and bridles, one case of pistols, two
carbynes, two musketts with bandoleres one buffe coat and
two horseman’s arms 219
214 Goddard, F et al (1928) Alderton alias Aldrington Parish Notices of Aldrington
parish to be kept in the parish chest W&SHC 1678/8
215 Goddard, F et al (1928) ibid
There is a side note in Hutchins’ hand (vicar in the early years of the twentieth
century) that says " this is a very curious and valuable "taster" or "comfit bowl" of the
seventeenth century, it's date is 1639. Such small vessels were made for domestic
use. The dish is 5 3 / 4 " in diameter with projecting shell handles, The pattern is
formed by a series of embossed punch marks, the Tudor rose in the boundaries
centre. Inscribed "LG 1639" probably for Lydia wife of Charles Gore of Alderton.
216 A relative of his fellow at Lincolns Inn, either a brother or son.
217 Bayliffe, BG (1999) Bayliffe Revisited author pub p78
218 Bayliffe, BG (1999) ibid p81
219 Gore, T (1666) Syntagma Genealogicum or A genealogical treatise of the family of
the Gores of Aldrington or Alderton p288, letter dated 14 th February 1642.
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