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Identifier: wiltshirenotesqu3118unse (find matches)
Title: Wiltshire notes and queries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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ts, occupying the whole height of the wall, are shown moreclearly in the earlier sketch by Dingley. It was hung roundwith armour, and was evidently in Aubreys mind when, atEaston Piers, in 1670, he wrote the well-known masterly and 1 Some portion of the old building is traditionally said to have belongedto the Norman period. 2 The arms in a lozenge underneath—Montagu impaling Hungerford—are those of the widow of James Montagu, the late owner of Lackham,who had died at an early age in 1676. She was the daughter of AnthonyHungerford, of Farley Castle. 8 The hatchment which nearly covers this window is that of JamesMontagu (grandson of the lady whose arms are given by Dingley). He wasburied at Lacock 3 Mny 171)0—three months before the date of Grimmsdrawing. The arms arc those of Montagu and Montheumeu quarterly,impaling Hedges quartering Gouk—his wife Eleanor, who predeceasedhim, having been the daughter of William Hedges, of Compton Basset, bythe heiress of Gore, of Alderton, /
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Old Lackham House and its Owners. 3 delightful preface to his Wiltshire Collections. Speaking oflords of manors and their houses in still older times, he says:—The lords of mannors never went to London but in Parliamenttime, or once a yeare to do their homage and duty to the king.They kept good howses in their countries, did eate in theirgreat gothique halls, at the high table, or oriele, the folke at theside tables. Oricle he adds in a note, is an eare, but hereit signifies a little roome at the upper end of the hall, wherestands a square or round table: perhaps in old time was anoratorie. In every old gothique hall hereabout is one, as atDray cot, Lckhatn, Alderton, &c. The gable immediately on the right of the porch, with itslarge projecting window and buttress, most probably includedthe banqueting room in which Henry VIII was entertainedwhen visiting Lackham for several days on his way to Wolf-hall, before his marriage with his third and Wiltshire queen—Jane, the daughter

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