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 SOMERSET. 173 VI. 1547, 1. Edward Seymour, br. to .lane, Queen Consort to (1536-37) to Henry VIII., and mother of Edward .VI., 1552. being 2d but 1st surv. s. Mid of Sir John Seymour, (b) of Wolf Hull and Chadhain, bo. Wilts, by Margaret, da. of Sir Henry WEWr. WORTH, K.B., of Nettlested, co. Suffolk, was b. about 1500 ; ed. at Oxford, and subsequently at Cambridge ; waa in the wars with France, being knit/hted there at Roye (by the Duke of Suffolk}, 1 Nov. 1523 ; an Kaquire of the Body, 1530, attending the King to France at the meeting called that of the " Cloth of Gold," and being, toon after his Mister's marriage with the King, cr. (v. p.), 5 June 1536, VISCOUNT BE A ITCH AM I' OF HACHK,( C ) co. Somerset. He sue. his father (who rf. 21 Dec. 15S8, aged 60), a few months later, in the family estates. P.C., 1037, being cr. IS Oct. 1537 (three davs after the baptism of his nephew, Edward, after- muds Edward VI.!, HAUL OF HERTFORD : el. K.G., 9 Jan. 1540/1 and inst. 22 May loll ; Chief Comm. to treat with France. Jan. to Feb. 1540/1, and again in 1544 : Ghkat Chamukri.ain of Exoland, 1543-47 : Lieut. Gen. of the north, 1544, taking the towns of l.eithand Edinburgh and laying waste thecountyuf Haddington; one of the Council of the Regency, July to Aug. 1514 ; assisted at the siege of Boulogne and was Capt. Gen. thereof, March to July 15411 ; one of the executors of Henry VIII. iu Dec. 154$, being made Feb 1546/7, Gov. of the person of ^his nephew), Ed. VI. ; PROTECTOR OF THE REALM ; High Steward for the coronation ; Treasurer of the Exchequer, and (1517-51) Eari. Marshal Having (tho' an Earl) no Barony vested in him, he was rr. 15 Feb. 1546/7, BARON SEYMOUR, ( J ) with a spec. rem. to his issue male by his then wife.,") failing which to that by his first or any other wife,; r j being "on the next day, 16 Feb. 1546/7,;*, cr. DUKE OF SOMERSET, with a like spec, rem.; 1 ') He was Bearer of the Crown at the corouation, 20 Feb. 1546/7, of Ed. VI.; Gent, of the Privy Chamber, 1547-49. He made peace with France, and, invading Scotland, gained the battle of Pinkney, 10 Sep. 1547. Capt. Geu. within and without the Realm, 1548-49, but was 13 Oct. 1549 deprived of his high post of " Protector." In 1550, however, he was still P.O. and Gent, of the Privy Chamber, and in 1551 was made L. Lieut, of Bucks and Berks, but ( n i John Seymour, the 1st son, </. unm. and v.p. 15 July 1520. ('') See an interesting account, by John A. C. Vincent, in " The Genealogist," N.S. vol. xii, of "A BrUtoi ancettor o f the Dukes of Summit," being one Mark William, sometime Mayor of Bristol, whose da. and hi Isabel, m. 30 July 1424, Sir John Seymour, and was great grandmother of this Sir John. As to the male line of .Seymour, which iu the 15th century certainly looks suspicious, it is dealt with (in his genial way) by Blanche, iu his " BttrU and Duke* of 'Somerset" (Arch. Assoc., sii, 312— 338). Plancho thinks the wings in the coat of anus to be a rebus ou the estate of Peuho, co. Monmouth, the Latin " jienna " (a wing) being sub- stituted for the Saxon word "pen." (a headland). See vol. vi, p. 195, note "a." ( c ) He is said to have been 7th in descent from Sir Roger Seymour, who (says Camden) m. " one of the heiresses of the illustrious John Beauchamp, the noble Karon of Hache," i.e., Cicely, 1st sister and coheir of John (de Beauchamp), Lord Beauchamp de Somerset (who was of Hache in that county) ou whose death iu 1361 that Barony had fallen into abeyance. I" 1 ) Often, but erroneously, considered to have been cr. Baron Seymour of Hache. There is in the patent a declaration of the King as to the cause of this creation, i.e., "whereby" the name of that family "from whom his most beloved mother, Jane, late Queen of England, drew her beginning, might not be clouded by any higher title or colour of dignity." This possibly may have been the first hiten- tion, hut within a few It ours a second patent conferred on tho grantee, the Dukedom t>f Somerset with a like spec, rem., so that (practically) the Barony of Seymour lias been, ever since its creation, " clouded " with this dukedom. (°) Some light is thrown on the grounds of this limitation by the mis-conduct of the first (and repudiated) wife. See p. 174. note " e." 1 ) A similar postponement of the right of the elder line to that of the younger was made iu the creations of the peerage of Melfort [S ], viz. the Viscouutcy in 1685 and the Earldom in 1686. ( B ) See vol. iv, p. 223, note " b," sub " Hertford," as to the batch of Peers cr. at the accession of Ed. VI. creat" See 4Iil ' es s " ^ at ' °f H° nvur " P- 46 > f° r Iin account of the ceremony at this