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> 48<br />
Effectively this gave control to the Abbey, but they could not gain from it<br />
until the current priest died. Before this happened, Bishop Simon himself<br />
died, in 1315, at which time the appropriation of the Church was not<br />
finished 190 . <strong>The</strong> process was not actually completed until 1337 191<br />
<strong>The</strong> Manor of <strong>Lackham</strong> and the Abbey of Lacock had a very long history<br />
as neighbouring estates. An early antiquarian, Sir William Dugdale<br />
included the Abbey in his survey of Religious Houses in 1643<br />
Lacock in Wiltshire<br />
Founded by Ela Widow of William Longaspata, for Nuns,<br />
among whom she her self took the Habit, An 1236 and after<br />
became Abbess of this House. This William Longespee was<br />
Son of Henry the II and Earl of Rosmar and Salisbury in<br />
Right of Ela his Wife, descended from Walter de Ewrons, to<br />
whome King William gave the said Earldom of Salisbury 192 .<br />
<strong>The</strong> said Countess Ela founded two Monasteries in one day,<br />
viz. 16 Cal Mai, Anno. Dom. 1232. Namely Henton for<br />
Carthusians, and this Lacock for Canonesses. <strong>The</strong> said Ela<br />
became Abbess here, An 1240, resigned An 1257, died 1261<br />
aged 74.<br />
[Valued at 168l 9s 2d per Annum] 193<br />
Dugdale 194 says that she ordered the body to be buried in the abbey<br />
church at Lacock and that in his time the inscription still remains<br />
Bowles maintains that the memorial stone is to be found in<br />
the Cloisters, having been removed from the altar of the destroyed<br />
190<br />
Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 p21, no 40, dated 3 Jun<br />
1315<br />
191<br />
Clark-Maxwell (1904) On the Appropriation of Lacock Abbey WAM 33 Appendix<br />
XIV p374<br />
192<br />
Marsh AEW (1903) History of Calne p240 fn1<br />
Ela had a brother, Stephen, who became Justice of Ireland and Earl of Ulster in<br />
right of his wife. He was killed by the Irish in 1260 His remains were brought<br />
over to England for internment, his body being buried at Lacock and his heart at<br />
Bradenstoke<br />
193<br />
Dugdale, Sir W. (1643) Monasticon <strong>Vol</strong> II of the Canons Regular of St<br />
Augustin p170. This is not the 19th century, new edition<br />
194<br />
Dugdale, Sir W (1643) Monsaticon 1830 edition <strong>Vol</strong> VI p500