Wiltshire notes and queries . are mentioned on a monumental tablet in LacockChurch. The Hon. James Montagu died in 1665, at the age ot 57, his widow surviving himnearly twenty years. The funeral penon,here reproduced, was at the time of Dingleysvisit to Lacock Church, in 16S4, hanging inthe Baynard Aisle. It bore at the staff end,the arms of Montagu—Argent, three lozengesconjoined in fess gules, within a bordure sable(differenced by a mullet for a third son) impal-ing Baynard, as already blazoned. Dingleyhas also preserved sketches of other shieldswhich he saw on the funeral achievementsand st
Wiltshire notes and queries . are mentioned on a monumental tablet in LacockChurch. The Hon. James Montagu died in 1665, at the age ot 57, his widow surviving himnearly twenty years. The funeral penon,here reproduced, was at the time of Dingleysvisit to Lacock Church, in 16S4, hanging inthe Baynard Aisle. It bore at the staff end,the arms of Montagu—Argent, three lozengesconjoined in fess gules, within a bordure sable(differenced by a mullet for a third son) impal-ing Baynard, as already blazoned. Dingleyhas also preserved sketches of other shieldswhich he saw on the funeral achievementsand streamers of Montagu, in the BaynardAisle— 1. Montagu, with bordure and mullet, as on the penon, quartering Or, an eagle displayed vert, beaked andmembcred gules—Monthermer. 2. Montagu singly, and crest, with mullet, but without the bordure Of Captain Montagus eleven sons, Walter, the eldest, diedyoung, and James, the second son, aged 12 in 1650, and conse-quently about 27 at his fathers death, became the heir. He. 1 These arms, either with or without the bordure sable, were borne by theMontacutes, Earls of Salisbury. John de Montacute, Lord Montacute,second son of the first Earl of Salisbury of that name, married the heiress*of Monthermer, and they appear with the bordure on his tomb in SalisburyCathedral. He died in 1389-90; since which time all succeeding Monta-cutes, and, on questionable authority the Montagus, have quartered thearms of Monthermer. Dingley notes that the coat of Montagu in the heraldry at Lacock isgiven both with and without the bordure sable. He also remarks that thegriffins head in the Montagu crest is here, in one instance, beaked sable andlangucd gules, and in the other is all or—;i kind of fanciful variation by nomeans unknown in other instances of undertakers heraldry. 174 Wiltshire Notes and Queries. married in 1671, Diana, daughter of Anthony Hungerford, ofBlack Bourton, afterwards of Farley James Montagu, of Lackham, co. Wilt
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