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Hace 4 días · Under a grant of 1547 it reverted on the death of Catherine Parr in 1548 to Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, the hereditary warden of the forest. (fn. 75) Somerset was deprived of the forest in 1549; it was restored to him in 1550 and forfeited on his execution and attainder in 1552.
Hace 2 días · The library was restocked by Frances, duchess of Somerset (d. 1674), who left it nearly 1,000 books belonging to her late husband William Seymour, duke of Somerset, the recorder of Lichfield. (fn. 145) Between 1680 and 1682 Dean Smalwood had ten cases made for the books, each case bearing a wooden boss with the donor's arms, including his own.
Hace 3 días · It reverted to John's grandson Sir Edward Seymour (cr. Viscount Beauchamp 1536, earl of Hertford 1537, duke of Somerset 1547), on whose execution and attainder in 1552 it passed by Act to his son Sir Edward (cr. earl of Hertford 1559, d. 1621), a minor. From 1553 to 1675 it descended with Tottenham Lodge in Great Bedwyn successively to William ...
Hace 4 días · The holding descended, with West Bower in Bridgwater, to Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, on whose attainder in 1552 it reverted to the Crown. (fn. 128) It was granted in 1553 to Thomas Sydney and Nicholas Halswell and descended with Halswell in Goathurst (fn. 129) until 1746 when most of the land was sold to Edmund Jeane (d. 1754).
Hace 5 días · Margaret died in 1489 owning an estate called Wembdon manor, said to be held of Robert Testard; her heir was John Seymour, son of a daughter of John Coker's brother Robert. (fn. 34) The descent thereafter has not been traced until 1664 when the owner, Gregory Hockmore, also lord of the principal manor of Wembdon, leased to William Clarke of Sandford the capital messuage called Cokers and a ...
Hace 5 días · By 1547 the manor had passed into the possession of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, who had a release from the Earl of Bath in 1549. (fn. 351) It was among his lands at his forfeiture in 1551–2, (fn. 352) and was granted to George Owen and William Marten, who in 1553 had licence to alienate it, half to John Clarke of Ardington and half to John Coxhead.
Hace 5 días · In 1534 John Staunton, the last abbot, with William Herne, the prior, John Given, the subprior, John Arnold, and twelve other canons subscribed to the Act of Supremacy. Richard Layton visited the house in August 1535 (fn. 40) and on 23 January 1539 (fn. 41) the abbot and ten monks surrendered the abbey to the king through the visitors, Tregonwell and Petre.
