94 Some Account of the Parish of Monk/on Farleigh. 



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

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



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

 b. 1718 ; d.1793. John Bennell, Esq., of Stanton 

 Tenth Duke. Harcourt, Oxford, d. August 



6th, 1802. 



Edward, b. 



Webb, b. 

 1772; d. 

 1774. 



Edward Adolphus. 

 Eleventh Duke, 

 b. 1775 ; d. 1793. 



Webb John, 

 b. 1777. 



1771 ; d. 

 1774. 



Edward Adolphus. 

 Twelfth and pre- 

 sent Duke, b. 

 1804. 



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

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

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

 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 the date, 1764, would seem to shew that I 

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

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

 the house. The 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 ec the Duke's Tower/' and j 

 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 1 1 

 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 ll 

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

 mortal fear that the French should invade England and disturb the 1 1 

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

 marked by Rector Cozens (1824) by shrubs. 



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



