Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Bluets 103
Nearly four hundred years later one of these areas (Winterswell)
belonged to a Notton clothier 439 .
Robert was chaplain at Lackham in William Bluet‘s time; William gave a
messauge in the manor of Lakham to Robert of Lakham, cleric, and Rosye
his wife 440
It is noteworthy that Robert was a clerk, not a priest and so could marry.
Robert appears as a witness to Lacock Abbey charters between at least
1263 and 1303 441 . Other Lackham names that appear at this time are
‘Alan de Lacham’ 442 and ‘Sir William de Lacham, knight’ 443 ,which is dated
to between 1257-83, and is presumably William Bluet.
The names of six other chaplains are known – Richard (1168) 444 , Robert
439
Kite, E (1911) Will of Samuel Mitchellof Notton, 1694 Wilts. Notes &
Queries VI p269
Samuel Mitchell gave “lease of grounds at Winters Well Lacock purchased of
Nicholas Gore and John Grist” to his son in law Robert Tarrant and grandson
Robert Colborn. He didn‘t actually die until 1698 – Here lyeth the body of
Samuel Mitchell, of Notton, Clothier, who deceased the 4th day of Feb 1698,
Aged 74 years Lacock inscriptions recorded in Sherlock, P (ed) (2000)
Monumental Inscriptions of Witshire 1822 WRS vol 53, p17
440
British Library Add. Ch. 7063 dated Edward I
441
Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 He appears in
charters between 1257-63, 1286-98 and 1290-1303 [ p33 no 94, p28 no 58 and
p49 no 178 respectively]. He is shown as “Robert de Lacham clerk” in the first
and last here.
442
Rogers, KH (1978) ibid p26 no 58
443
Rogers, KH (1978) ibid p33 no 98
444
Rogers, KH (1978) ibid p18, no 29, dated 1168 – 79 Richard was a witness to
the agreement between Earl William of Salisbury and Ralph Bloet between 1168
and 1179, where he is recorded as Richard, chaplain of Lach‘ which is the earliest
record of a Lackham chaplain. It doesn‘t necessarily follow that the chapel was the
one under discussion as the name is not given.