94 Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Farleigh. 



Edward Seymour, of Maiden Bradley,=Mrs. Mary Webb, 1716. 

 (eigbth Duke of Somerset, d. 1757.) I 



Webb, second son, := Anna Maria, d. and sole heiress of 



b.l718; d.l793. 

 Tenth Duke. 



John Bennell, Esq., of Stanton 

 Harcoui-t, Oxford, d. August 

 6th, 1802. 



II II 



Edward, b. Webb, b. Edward Adolphus. Webb John, 



1771 ; d. 1772; d. Eleventh Duke, b. 1777. 



1774. 1774. b. 1775 ; d. 1793. 



I 

 Edward Adolphus. 

 Twelfth and pre- 

 sent Duke, b. 

 1804. 



The marriage of the eighth duke, the births of all the tenth, 

 duke's sonsj and the burial of the Duchess Anna Maria, are all re- 

 corded in our registers, and so, no doubt, the family of the tenth 

 duke resided here permanently, but as his own death is not so recorded 

 I suppose, that, on his succession to the title in 1792, he left us. 



The initials W.S., and tbe date, 1764, would seem to shew that 

 it was he who in that year added to the house at its extreme southern 

 end. If so it was probably he also who re-faced the whole front of 

 the house. Tlie work is evidently of one and the same date, and is 

 of the style of the Georges. It was, probably, he too who built 

 the tower which, up to 1873, stood in the southern angle of the 

 house-front. This went by the name of " the Duke's Tower," and 

 it was here that tradition has it the Duke, who is handed down as a 

 precise and hard man, collected his rents to the last farthing. 



The dowager duchess, Anna Maria, certainly resided here from at 

 least 1799 to her death, in 1802. It is known that she was buried 

 exactly 20 feet each way from the extreme south-east corner of the 

 churchyard, and 15 feet deep in the earth. By her own directions 

 no monument was put up to her memory, she having lived in 

 mortal fear that the French should invade England and disturb the 

 bones of the dead. But the exact spot in which she was buried was 

 marked by Rector Cozens (1824) by shrubs. 



Service, it is said, was never commenced in the parish Church 



