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 SOMERSET. 177 3d Earl of Essex, being 1st da. of Robert, the 2d Earl, by Frances, da. and h. of Sir Francis Walsingham. He d. in London (only a month after his restoration to the Dukedom of Somerset) 21 Oct. and was bur. 1 Nov. 1660 at Bedwyn Magna, co. Wilts, aged about 72.(») Will pp. Nov. 1660. His widow d. 21 April and was bur. 7 May 1674, ;*>) aged 71 years and 6 months, at Bedwyn afsd. M.I. Will pr. 1674. [Wim.iam Seymour, styled- Lord Beauciiamp, 1st s. and h. ap., Yiy secuud wife, b. in Wilts, 1621 ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 18 Nov. 1635, aged 14, subscribing as " Gullielmua de Rello Campo." He d. v.p. unm. at Chelsea, Midx., ami was fjiir. 16 June 1642, at Bedwyn Magna ] [Robert Seymour, styled Lord Beauciiamp 1642-46 hut formerly (1640-421 Loud RoRRiiT Seymour, 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. ap., b. in Wilts, 1622 ; mat at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 18 Nov. 1635 (with his elder br. William) aged 11. He d. v.p. unm. in France aud was bur. 30 Jan. 1615/6, at Bedwyn Magna.] [Henry Seymour, styled Lord Beauciiamp, 1646-54, but formerly (1640-16) Lord Henry SEYMOUR, 3d but 1st surv. s. and h. ap., i. about 1626, r> M.A. of Oxford, 16 Jan. 1642/3 ; kniyhled 17 Jan. 1644/5 at Oxford. He m. 28 June 1648, at Hadham Parva, Herts, Mary, sister of Arthur (Caff.ll), 1st Earl at Essex, 1st da. of Arthur, BabON Capell of Hadham. He d. v.p. at Tilsy and was bur. 30 March 1654, ( c ) at Bedwyn Magna, aged about 28. His widow, who was bap. 16 Dec. 1630. at Hadham Parva, m. 17 Aug. 1657, Henry (Somerset), 1st Ddkk of Beaufort (who d- 21 Jan. 16«!>/700), and d. 7 Jan. 1714/5, in her 85th year, being far. at Badminton, co. Glouc. Her will pr. Jan. 1715.] VUI. 1660, J. Wir.t.iAM (Seymour), Duke of Somerset [1547], Oct. Marquess of Hertford [1640], Earl of Hertford [155P], Baron SEYMOUR [1547], and Baron Bkauchamp [1559], grandson aud h., bring only s. and h. of Henry Seymour, styled Lord Beauchamp, by Mary, his wife, both abovonamed. He was b. about 1651 ; styled Loud Beauchamp (after the death of h's father) 1654-60. He sue. (o the peerage, as above, 24 Oct. 1660 ; was a Bencher of Gray's Inn and Recorder of Lichfield, 1667. He d. unm. ( a ) at bis stepfather's residence. Worcester House, in the Strand, 12, aud was bur. 20 Dec. 1671, at Bedwyn •fed., aged 20.(,e) Will pr . Dec. 1671. IX. 1671. 4- John (Seymour), Duke of Somerset, Marquess of Hertford, Ac, uncle aud h. male, being 5th and yst. s.if) of William, the 2d Duke. He was 4. before 162S ; styled Lord John Somerset, ( fc ) " The Marquis of Hertford was a man of great houour, great interest in fortune and estate, aud of au universal esteem over the kingdom ; and though be had received many and continued disobligations from the court . . . carried himself with notable steadiness in the support and defence of the king's power and dignity . . . He was [1642] of an age not fit for much activity aud . . . loved his book above all exercises. [Clarendon's "Hist. Reb."} A fine portrait of him "after Van Dyck" with the collar of the Garter about his neck is engraved in " Doyle." (') The date, 1674, is on the monument, that of 1673 in the bur. reg., according to " Coll. Top et Gen," vol. v, p. 24 and 35. (') Sir E. Nicholas writes to Sir E. Hyde, 14 May 1651, " Certainly the King had a very great loss in the death of Lord Beauchamp, and, by that loss, the West will be much unprovided." ( d ) "A very pretty young man " writes Pepys in his " Diary" for 30 May 1667. (°) Elizabeth, his only surv. sister and heir, m. 31 Aug. 1676, Thomas (Bruce), 2d Earl of Ailesbury, and* was mother of Charles, the 3d and last Karl, who, thro' her, inherited the vast estates of Tottenham and Savernake, co. Wilts, >is also the co- representation as senior coheir (the Scottish "heir of line") thro' the families of Seymour, Grey, and Brandon, of the Lady Mary Tudor, da. of Henry VII. At his death this representation devolved on his da. aud her descendants but the estates on Ins sisters son, Thomas Brudeuell, afterward* Brace, ancestor of the present (1S96) Marquesses of Ailesbury. u Edward Seymour, the 4th s,, his nest elder br., d. an infant, N