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 184 SO M KRSET— SOM ERVILLK. . f«c. to the peerage, as above, 2 Oct. 1S9-1. He m. G Sep. 187", Susan Margaret Kiehards, yr. da. of Charles MacKinnon, of Edinburgh. Family £VWc».— These, in 1SS3, consisted of 8,138 acres in Devon ; 6. 5S3 in Somerset ; 5.S21 in Wilts : 2.S65 in Lincolnshire ; 1,8-10 in Bucks ; 2S9 in rjnmfaihi shire ; 32 in Norfolk ; and -16 in Dorset. Total, 25,387 acres, worth A'37 ,577 a year. Principal Residences!*) in 189Si Maiden Bradley House, Wilts, and Burton Hall.co. Leicester. SOMERSET OF CASIIEL. Viscountcy [I.] 1. The Hon-. Thomas Somerset, 3<1 s. of Edward I 1G26 (Somerset). -Ith Haul ok Worcester, by Elizabeth, da. of i_ ' Francis( Hastings 1, Haul ok H UHTINODON, wasi. 1579 ; mat. at , , Oxford (Mag.Coll.), ti July 1593, aged 14; was one of the persons loot). Ht , llt t J amea J. to notify the death of Queen Elizabeth : K.B. 5 Jan. 1604/5 ; P.C- and sometime Master of tlie Horse't>) to James I. and was cr. 8 Dec. ]ti2ti. VISCOUNT SOMERSET OK CASIIEL, Co, Tipporary [I.] He m. about Aug. 1016C') Helena, widow of Thomas (BlTLKft), Eahl ok Ormonde and OsgOKT [I.J (who d. 22 Nov. 161D, formerly widow of Juliu Power, da. of David (Harrt), YiSCOONT BrjTTIVANT [I.], by his first wife, Elleu, <ia. of David (Roche), Viscoi-nt Eermoy [I.] She d, 1642, He d. s.p.m.C 1 ) about 1650, when the peerage became extinct. Admou. as "of Badminton, co. Glouc," 7 Feb. 1600/1, granted to a creditor. SOMERTON [England] See " Stawel of Somertox, co. Somerset," Barony (Statoel), cr. 1683 ; ex. 1755 ; also Barony [Legyc, boru Stated), Cr, 1760; ex. 1S20. SOMERTOX [Ireland.] i.e., " Somertox of Somerton, cn. Kildare," Barony [I.] {A (jar), cr. 1795; also " Somerton " Viscountcy [I.J (Agar), cr. 1S0O ; Bee " Noh.mant'on " Earl- dom [L], cr. 1806. SOMERVILLE [Scotland.] Barony [S.] 1. Sir Thomas Somerville,(<) of C arnwatii and Lin- I 1430 c " m ! f ) eo. Roxburgh, 1st s. and h. of Sir William Somerville, of the . ' same, 6. about 1370 ; sue. his father, 2 Oct. 1405, being served h. to, , „„ „ him, 1 March 1406 ; was one of the guarantee?, 28 March 1424, for the release of James I. [S.] from England ; was on the trial of the Duke of Albany [S.J in May 1425 ; was Justiciary [S.J south of the Forth, on or before 4 Nov. 1430, soon after which date and before 20 March 1438, be ( a ) Bulstrode Park, near fierrards Cross, Bucks, which, for a long period, had leeD the chief residence of the family, was in 1885, devised by the 12th Duke, with other estates, to his daughters and coheirs. ( b ) This fact is recited in the preamble to his patent, as likewise his " many accept- able services to the King himself and to the King's father and mother especially as a faithful counsellor," &c. ( c ) "Sir Thomas Somerset is married to the Countess of Ormond in Ireland, by whom he hath a great estate." [Letter of George, Lord Carew, to Sir Tboa. Roe, Aug. '616.J Elizabeth, his only da. and h., d. num., and is bur. at Raglan. (') The account of the family here giveu is in accord with that in (he " Mcmorie of thr Somervilles, being a history of the Baronial House of Somerville," a rambling and prolix wovk, by James Somerville, of Drum, lie jwe Lord Somerville [S.J, who I, 1693. This account is more precise, more complete, and more likely to be accurate than the one in Wood's " Douglas," from which it considerably differs. The " Memoric," tho' written as long ago as 1679, was not printed till 1815, when it waa edited by Sir Walter Scott, in two vols. 8vo., Edinburgh. (0 The famous " Worm of Linton," said to have been slain in some prehistoric age