Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

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The Bluets 106 The original agreement for this work still existed in 1900 although it seems to have disappeared now - This the covenant made between lady Johanna de Mounfort Abbess of Lacoke and the convent of the one part of Sir John Bluet Lord of Lacham of the other part. That is to say that the aforesaid Abbess and convent or their successors shall cause to be made and finished a chapel of Our Lady in their abbey of Lacoke, which chapel shall adjoin their high church of the same abbey. And thus shall the chapel be, in length five and nine feet and in width twenty five and a half and there shall be in the said chapel four windows that is to say in each gable one window as large as the one is made and finished and the other is begun shall be well made and finished, and in the far (south) side of the aforesaid chapel the one to be such as is made and finished and the other as large as it is begun shall be made and finished of good and suitable work and the aforesaid windows are to be suitably ironed and glazed. And the old wall shall be taken down from the apex of the two windows which were and appeared on the making of this writing in the wall aforesaid as far as the string course next below the sills of the same windows, and two arches shall be made where the wall shall be taken down as large that is to say as can well be suffered between the two buttresses so that the old arch (window arch) can be sawn without peril. And the aforesaid Abbess and convent or their successors shall cause to be made the roof of the same chapel of good timber and suitable work and a roof of such kind as shall please the aforesaid Abbess and convent or their successors . And the aforesaid chapel, that is to say the roof, shall be well and suitably covered with lead, and the roof within the aforesaid chapel shall be all well ceiled and painted .. 455 The Lady Chapel‘s location is made clear by Talbot, it was To the south of the nuns‘ choir, and its east end ranged with the east end of the Church, which was a little beyond the east face of the tower later built by Sir William Sharrington 456 455 Breakspear, H (1900) Lacock Abbey Church The Archaeological Journal pp4-5 WANHS WT138/13 456 Talbot, CH (1911) The Will of Joan Trye WN&Q vol 7 p58 The Tower is, of course, the one now seen on the south eastern side of the abbey and famous from
The Bluets 107 Sir John was appointed Warden of the forests of Chippenham and Melksham, his deputy was John de Montsorel 457 . According to a much later Visitation of Wiltshire there was another generation of Bluets at Lackham, with John being the son of another John Bluet who married Margaret or Margery Bigod, presumably a daughter of his overlord. There is some problem with this as no such marriage is seen in the pedigree of the Bigod family. There is no direct evidence, from charters etc, that there were two John Bluets at this time, and the dates do not require another generation, although if they were short-lived it would just be possible. It is taken that the Sir John who is said to have been married to Margaret Bigod is a confusion of later date and that Sir John married first Margery and then Eleanor 458 . There is documentary evidence for Margery; in 1300 Alice of Calne , daughter of Thomas Boret granted land in Helmerton (Hilmarton) to Sir John Bluet and his wife Margery 459 . In 1308 she is given as John‘s wife in an agreement 460 with John‘s brother, Ralph VI. The latest record found of Margery is in September 1309, when she and John took back land in Melksham and Beanacre they had allowed Fox-Talbot‘s early photographs. 457 Victoria County History Wiltshire IV p437 458 The Bluet pedigree in Fig. 18 shows this arrangement, not the one depicted in Visitations. This lineage remains speculative, but is considered to be as probable as the more widely accepted one. 459 Badminton Estate Records D2700/NR11/1/4 460 Calendar Patent Roll Edw II vol 1 1307 – 1313 dated Nov 1st 1308 p145. This is possibly the grant that is recorded in Rot. Orig. in Curia Scacarii (1805) p163 not dated which shows John held in chief – “Johes Bluet finem fecit cum R p decem marcas p licentia feoffandi Radm Bluet de manio de Helmerton qd de R tenet in capite”. (An aside, and nothing at all to do with Lackham or the Bluets; the next entry in this Roll is “Nov 5th 1308 Notification that Roger atte Mershe had accidentally lost part of his left ear by the bite of a horse” - it is not clear why this appears in a Patent but it was too good to omit!)
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The Bluets 33 Margery in 1377 118 .
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The Bluets 35 dated February 1368,
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Page 135 and 136: The Bluets 129 Appendices
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