Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Bluets 87
descendents
Wick Farm near Lacock in Wiltshire was owned by this family. They also
appear as charter witnesses for the Bluets and others see below.
William Bluet was a juror at an inquisition into the destruction of a charter
belonging to the Abbot of Quarr by William (some sources say Adam)
Brayboef, Sheriff of Hampshire
The King.. ordered the sheriff to summon before the King
on the 3 rd day after Christmas, wherever he might then be
in England thirty lawful knights girt with sword 380
There was a Chapel attached to Lackham. The founding date is unknown,
but it was before 1179. In a charter, seen earlier, William gifted an acre
of land to Richard Swein, the rent for which was 1d to light the chapel of
the blessed Mary at Lakham . 381
William held mesne lands at Yeovilton in Somerset and was succeeded by
another son, John, about 1303, which gives a possible date for William‘s
death. It has already been seen that the Bluets held Yeovilton under
William d‘Eu, as they did Silchester.
The date of William‘s death in unknown but he was certainly alive after
1282 375 as was seen above, and it may have been as late as the 1300
upper limit in the DNB 382 .
380
Calendar of Charter Rolls vol 2 p212 1257-1300 Dated 3rd May 1278
381
Rogers, KH (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS p38 no 122, undated
but witnesses put it around 1270-1290 This land was later granted to the
Abbey church by Richard‘s son Edward, when the rent to Lackham chapel
continued (Rogers, KH (1978 ibid p38 no 124 undated, which is the
agreement referred to in Kite (1899) ibid p2). It is surprising that Kite
didn‘t use the previous agreement. Although both are undated they were
both before 1311, as in this year Edward‘s widow, Isabel gave the
remainder of her lands to the abbess. One of the witnesses was Sir John
Bluet, agreement made on the feast of St Alphege the Martyr * (19th
April ) (see Rogers, KH (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS p29, no 74)
*Saint Alphege is the commonly used named for Ælfheah the Anglo-Saxon Bishop
of Winchester and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was martyred at Greenwich
on 19th April 1012 (details Wickipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphege
382
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2006) Vol 6 Blackmore – Bowyer
Bluet family by Crouch, D. p325 gives he died sometime between 1287 - 1300.
377 Boon, GC (2000) St Mary the Virgin, Silchester p19