Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

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It is noteworthy that the only appearances of the Seymours in the Lacock
Abbey Charters are as witnesses, and then only twice.
However they were important enough to the Abbey to have the right of
appointing novices, in 1346-7 Sir Thomas Seymour is found paying the
expenses of the festivities on the occasion of the veiling of Alice
Sthocus
387 and so it is not surprising to find their arms in the Cloister
It has been seen that the Bluet arms are to be found in the St
George‘s Roll, which was a Roll of Arms compiled in about 1285 . The
original is now lost but a number of copies do exist, although these
differ from each other 388
Fig. 17 from St George's Roll *
The roll was said to lend support to the idea of William Bluet
surviving beyond 1285. However it has been brought to our
attention 389 that although Sir Anthony Wagner dated the
387 Victoria County History Wiltshire Vol 3 Houses of Augustinian canonesses:
Abbey of Lacock p310 The Victoria County History footnote (fn 169) to this
entry gives :N.C. f. iv, Cellaress's Roll. 'Ea die' (Monday, 29 Oct.) 'non plus quia
dominus Thomas Seymore acquietavit omnia alia propter velacionem Alicie
Sthocus'. Thomas held land in Wick and Notton (Lacock): B.M., Add. Chart.
47145; Cal. inq. pm. ix, 93. [might this have been Athocus ?]
388
Howarth, Peter pers comm 2011 “The ten copies were made between 1530 and
1640. Four of these are in the College of Arms. The copy used by Brault as his
basic manuscript is the one from Queen's College, Oxford. Other copies are to be
found at the British Library (3 copies), the Society of Antiquaries, and the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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389 Peter Howarth, pers. conn 2011