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 52 BEAUFORT Lieut, of COS. Gloucester, Hereford, and Monmouth 1660-89; Col. of a regt. of Foot, 1660; of Horse, 1661. He was committed to the Tower in 1 660/1, but not, apparently, for any matter of importance; was cr. M.A. of Oxford, 20 Sep. i663,(") and sue. his father as Marquess of Worcester, 3 Apr. 1667; Lord President of Wales; Lord Lieut, of North and South Wales i672-89;() P.C. 17 Apr. 1672; nom. and inv. K.G. 29 May, inst. 3 June 1672. On 2 Dec. 1682, he was cr. DUKE OF BEAUFORT.(=) Committee of the E. India Co. 1684-90. He attended the funeral of Charles 1 1, and carried the crown of the Queen Consort at the coronation of James II, by whom he was made Col. of the nth regt. of Foot, June to Oct. 1685; a Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1685-88; and Lord Lieut, of the Isle of Purbeck, 1687. To that King he steadily adhered, against the Duke of Monmouth in 1685, and against the Prince of Orange in 1688. To the latter, when King William III, he, being a staunch Tory, refused the oath of allegiance. He w., 17 Aug. 1657, before Richard Powel, of Middle Sq., Clerkenwell, a Justice authorised under the Commonwealth to perform marriages, Mary,() widow of Henry Seymour, styled Lord Beauchamp, sister of Arthur, Earl OF Essex, and ist da. of Arthur (Capell), ist Lord Capell, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Charles Morrison. He d. 21 Jan. 1 699/1 700,(^) at Badminton, of fever, in his 70th year, and was bur. in the Beaufort chapel at St. George's, Windsor. M.I. Will dat. 20 Jan., pr. 27 Jan. 1 699/1 700. His widow, who was bap. at Hadham Parva, Herts, 16 Dec. 1630, d. 7 Jan. I'ji^jc,^ in her 85th year, at Chelsea, and was bur. at Badminton, co. Gloucester. Will dat. 6 Oct. 17 14, pr. Jan. 17 14/5. [Henry Somerset, styled Lord Herbert, s. and h. ap., d. an infant, and was bur. in the Beaufort chapel, St. George's, Windsor, afsd.] [Charles Somerset, styled, istly. Lord Herbert, and afterwards him ^25,000 p. a. out of his paternal estates. He does not seem to have been on the best terms with his father, who writes to Lord Chancellor Clarendon, 9 June 1660, of "my son the Lord Herbert's underhand working by false suggestions." V.G. (^) He was one of 8 noblemen on whom this degree was conferred on that day. For a list of these, see sub James, Earl of Suffolk [1640]. C') See Her. isf Gen., vol. iii, pp. 225 and 288, for an account of "The Beau- fort Progress through Wales, 1684." ('^) In consideration, inter alia, "of his noble descent from King Edward III by John de Beaufort, eldest son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by Catherine Swinford his third wife." See the patent as quoted in Collins, vol. i, p. 237. This "noble" descent through John de Beaufort (himself born a bastard and only legiti- mated by Act of Pari.), was further sullied by being through yet another bastard (not so legitimated), viz. Sir Charles Somerset {cr. Earl of Worcester in 1 5 14), an illegit. s. of Henry (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset. G.E.C. " Thus crowned with worth from heights of honour won See all his glories copied in his son." Absalom and Achitophel, part ii. V.G. {^) The well engraved arms of this Duchess of Beaufort were on a chalice and paten in Thorpe Church, near Ashbourne, in 1897. (') "A person of great honour, prudence, and estate." (Evelyn's Diary). V.G.