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The Bluets 114 therein, and in her chace and park took deer, and in her warren hares, rabbits, etc., cut clown her trees growing in the woods within the chace, fished in her stews and free fisheries at Maresfeld, carried away fish, trees, deer, etc. and also assaulted her bailiffs and servants exercising their offices within the honour of L'Aigle. 495 Breaskspear‘s excavation of Lacock Abbey in 1900 found evidence for what was probably Sir John‘s tomb Each gable was pierced by a window and the south wall had two windows. The monument of Sir John Bluet, who was buried in this chapel and around which four candles were maintained daily, was probably provided for from the first and occupied the centre of the wall between the windows; a large block of foundation stone was found projecting inside the wall face, which probably formed the support to this 496 Ralph Bluet VI held in knight‘s fee in Lackham in 1316, and at Littlecote in Hilmarton. Limited evidence for Ralph is to be found, but in 1309 he and Margery (presumably his wife) had bought the Manor of Beanacre; three years later he conveyed it to John and Eleanor Bluet 497 and of course he has already been seen acting as an Inquisition juror ( see above) . It is not uncommon for there to be disputes arising from a will, and there is evidence of this with John‘s. There were three trustees (executors) of John‘s will – Roger of Chippenham (the parson of Heddington), and two Roberts, the parsons of Bromham and Ditteridge. There was a dispute about payments to be made under the terms of the will - first Robert le Poleter of New Salisbury brought an action against the trustees for £14 495 Calendar Patent Roll Edw II vol 2 1313 – 1317 496 Breakspear, H (1900) Lacock Abbey Church The Archaeological Journal pp4-5 WANHS WT138/13 497 Victoria County History Wiltshire VII pp 98-99 Beanacre Manor was first mentioned in a claim by the Prioress of Malmsbury in 1296 but may have been in existence before that. It was rented by the family of William de Beanacre but they lost it for defaulting on payments. See Victoria County History Wiltshire for more details.
498 The Bluets 115 and then in 1319 a writ was issued concerning a plea for £10 from William de Braybok. The trustees should have appeared before the Court early in the year but eventually attended at Woodford in October 1319 499 . They obviously didn‘t pay up – in February 1321 the Abbot of Salisbury warned them to comply with the court decisions 500 , which presumably they did as no further records are known. As per the agreement with the Abbey, and mentioned by Breakspear above, 501 John was buried in the Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church of Lacock and four wax candles lighted during the daily Mass for the Dead 502 were maintained until the dissolution in 1539 , 503 . The nuns had to find at their own costs a priest.... who is bound to celebrate daily for ever for the souls of Sir John and Dame Margery late his wife, and their ancestors, benefactors of the monastery, and all the faithful departed in the Lady Chapel.... The nuns are also to cause one of the priests of the monastery to celebrate a mass of the Blessed Virgin with notes (singing) daily in the same chapel, and during these two masses four wax candles, each of four pounds weight of wax, shall burn daily at the four corners of Sir John's tomb when he has been buried in it and when they are consumed to a length of two cubits they shall be renewed at the cost of the nuns. 504 498 Reynolds, S (ed) (1965) The Registers of Roger Martival Bishop of Salisbury 13- 15 – 1330 Vol III Royal Writs The Cat. & York Society p 55 no 180 499 Reynolds, S (ed) (1965) ibid, This was before Justices R de Worth and William de Selton, the clerk was William de Aisshton 500 Reynolds, S (ed) (1965) The Registers of Roger Martival Bishop of Salisbury 13- 15 – 1330 Vol III p77 no 278 501 Breakspear, H (1900) Lacock Abbey Church The Archaeological Journal pp4-5 WANHS WT138/13 502 Aubrey, J ed by Jackson, JE (1862) Wiltshire Topographical Collections footnote 1 p9 503 Michael, W (1901) Historic spots in Wiltshire Lacock was one of the thirty monasteries spared dissolution in 1536, but was surrendered in 1539 504 Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 p20, no 33, dated 6 Mar 1312
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