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- Gloucester, and these various expenses compelled him, in 1672, to 
mortgage the Somerford property for £3,000. His son Robert, the 
succeeding baronet, was also buried at Great Somerford, December 
14th, 1687, where it is probable that his eldest son, who, in 1686, 
died unmarried at the early age of 20, was also laid to rest. The 
next brother, George, succeeded to the baronetcy, but died without 
issue at the age of 19, in 1697; the title, with the estates, then 
passed on to his cousin. With the death of the fifth baronet, 
Robert, in 1738 the title became extinct, but from a sister— 
_ Frances—is descended Canon Parker, of Upton Cheyne. Before 
the end of the century the Jasons, who do not seem to have 
have resided at all at Somerford, lost their interest in this parish. 
The mortgage on the manor was taken up by Sir Richard Hawkins, 
a London lawyer, who was knighted in 1687, and under the terms 
of his will, he dying in October of the same year, all the Jason 
property in Somerford was sold, much of it to the various tenants 
of the estate. By an Indenture Quadripartite, dated 15th May, 
1700, it appears that the advowson was sold to the then incumbent, 
Mr. Edward Wayte, and the other purchasers were John Smith, of 
Overton, gent., Richard Laurence, gent., John Pyke, gent., William 
Alexander, yeoman, Henry Tuck, yeoman, Samuel Knapp, yeoman, 
fohn Leonard, yeoman, John Coller, yeoman, Sarah Newell, widow, 
all these of Somerford, and Joseph Sealey, of Rodbourne. The 
total paid for the whole property was £3,322. The Scite, Manor 
House, and demesne lands, with some additions, were the portion 
purchased by Mr. John Smith for £1,065. 
From owe I have already stated it will be seen that by the 
begi nning cof the eighteenth century the estates of the Yewes, 
poring the next one hundred and forty years various fresh combi- 
iths, the Pikes, and the Parsloes. 
b. THE SMITHS. 
Mr. John Smith, jun., who in 1698, purchased the “Scite, Manor 
