By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. 



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By her will dated 7th June, 1673, the Duchess bequeathed to her 

 grand-daughter, the Lady Elizabeth Seymour, the magnificent 

 pedigree of the Seymour Family now preserved at Savernake : also 

 a " great rich bed that was Queen Jane Seymour's." By the docu- 

 ment printed in the Appendix (No. xxiv.), it appears that certain 

 tapestrie, bed-furniture, &c, "said to be wrought by Queen Jane," 

 had become the property of the Crown, and had been delivered by 

 Kiug Charles I. to the Duchess's husband, then Marquis of Hertford: 

 but after the King's death, the Commissioners for the sale of his 

 goods, made the Marquis pay sixty pounds for them. 1 



In the Appendix (No. xxv.) will be found a letter with curious 

 particulars of the burial of her husband at Bedwyn in 1660, and 

 (No. xxvi.) a herald Painter's bill for a great deal of finery at her 

 own funeral in 1674. 



One of her daughters, Lady Mary Seymour, married Heneage 

 Finch, second Earl of Winchelsea : and one of their daughters, 

 Lady Frances Finch, married Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Wey- 

 mouth. To her the Duchess gave the moiety of the Irish estates of 

 Devereux, Earl of Essex, which has descended to the Marquis of 

 Bath. 3 William, third Duke of Somerset, having died 1671, a 

 minor and unmarried, the Wulfhall and other estates passed to his 

 sister and heir, Lady Elizabeth Seymour (above-mentioned), who in 

 1676 married Thomas, second Earl of Ailesbury. 



1 Upon the decease of the Duchess, the Bed and other articles, plate, pictures, 

 &c, were delivered by her Executor, Thomas Thynne (first Lord Weymouth), 

 to Lady Elizabeth Seymour, whose receipt for the same, together with a list of 

 them, is at Longleat. The tapestry would probably have been Queen Jane's 

 handy work at her father's house at Wulfhall. 



2 This also, in addition to the reason given above, p.149, accounts for so many 

 papers and documents relating to the Seymour Family being found at Longleat. 



