Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Bluets</strong> 47<br />
<strong>The</strong> restoration of lands didn‘t happen immediately, but by 1236 Ralph IV<br />
was back in control.<br />
This year was the start of a long, drawn-out series of events, the<br />
Appropriation of Lacock Church by Lacock Abbey. <strong>The</strong> Abbey wanted<br />
total disposition of the living of St Cyriacs because<br />
by the time of the foundation of Lacock Abbey...the<br />
appropriation of benefices was a recognised method of<br />
increasing the income of a religious house 184<br />
<strong>The</strong> nuns held the right of assignment that had been with the Earl of<br />
Salisbury, Ela‘s son William . On 12 February 1236 he agreed he would<br />
arrange to obtain from Sir Ralph Bluet "the avowson which he has in the<br />
parish church of Lakoc so that Ela may give [it] to the nuns" 185 . This<br />
undertaking was referred to in another charter between Ela and her son<br />
in July of the same year 186<br />
Ralph obviously didn't agree to this; it was 75 years before things were<br />
at last going smoothly - in an official letter to the abbess in March of<br />
1312 Simon, the Bishop of Salisbury 187 , decreed that both Sir John<br />
Bluet and the abbess were to surrender their rights and that "the<br />
bishop will grant the whole church, with all its rights, to the abbess the<br />
next time it shall be vacant" 188 . Finally, in August 1312, John Bluet<br />
granted his rights to Joan, in consideration of "certain alms for him and<br />
the souls of his ancestors and heirs" 189 .<br />
184<br />
Clark-Maxwell (1904) On the Appropriation of Lacock Abbey WAM 33 p359<br />
185<br />
Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 pp11 - 12, no. 9, dated<br />
12 Feb 1236<br />
186<br />
Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 pp 12 – 13 no. 12 dated<br />
22 July 1236<br />
187<br />
Simon of Ghent was Bishop of Salisbury between October 1297 and September<br />
1315. He was also Chancellor of Oxford University and Archdeacon of Oxford<br />
188<br />
Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 p20 no 33,<br />
dated 6 Mar 1312<br />
189<br />
Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 p21 , no. 35<br />
dated 16 Aug 1312