Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

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William would appear to have been the last of the Bluets to bear the
device that is seen on the chancel wall at Silchester Or, two wings
conjoined in a fesse gules. (The later Bluet arms are also or with the
eagle being gules, so the same colour scheme). The version seen as
Fig. 1a is taken from this wall painting in Silchester church, Hants.
The paintings belong to the original chancel of c 1230.. In the
corners of the east wall, high up, a rapidly sketched coat of
arms, consisting of a pair of conjoined wings, badly
preserved, may be seen. As befits work executed at the
expense of the manorial family, as this would have been, this
is the Bluet‘s signature (at Lacock Abbey, Wilts, their main
home, it can be seen on a roof-boss of the cloisters 383 )
And, indeed, in the cloister roof is found a beautifully coloured roof
boss. However these are not the Bluet arms, which have not been
located in the Cloisters at Lacock as the colour scheme is reversed.
As was seen above these are the Seymour arms, they bore Gules a
lure of two golden wings 384 .
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Or two wings conjoined in lure gules
Timms notes that this roll was painted about 1285, which would lend support to
William Bluet surviving beyond this date. However it has been shown (Peter ,
pers.comm) that the date of 1285 is only approximate and that it is very possible
that the Bluet arms are earlier, which would not support a survival date beyond
1285. Our thanks to Peter Howarth for his constructive and helpful comments on a
number of heraldic points. The circumstances that led to the compilation of the
roll are unknown. By permission of Brian Timms
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