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Great Bedwyn. 



of S r Edwarde Stanhope, Knight,* by Elizabeth his Wyfe, 

 Davghter of S r Fovlke Bvrgchier, Lorde Fitzwaryn, 

 from whome the moderne Earles of Bath are discended. 

 S r Henry Seymovr, Knight, who maried Barbara, Davghter 

 ' of Thomas Morgan, Esqvier.f Thomas, Lorde Seymovr of 

 Svdeley, Highe Admirall of Englande, who maryed 

 Katherine, Qveene of Englande, and Wydow to Kinge 

 Henry the Eight. One other Jhon and Anthony, who 

 dyed in theire Infancy. Jane Qveene of Englande, Wyfe 

 to Kynge Henry the Eight, and Mother to Kynge 

 Edwarde the Sixt. Elizabeth, firste maryed to S r Henry 

 Vghtred, Knight, after to Gregorie, Lorde Cromwell, 

 and last to Jhon, Lord Sainct John of Basinge, after 

 Marqvesse of Winchester. Margerie, who dyed in 

 her Infancy, and Dorothe, maryed to S 1 ' Clement 

 Smythe, Knight. 



" This Knight departed this Lyfe at LX yeares of age, 

 the XXI day of December, Anno 1536, and was fyrste 

 bvryed at Eston Priorie Chvrch, amongst divers of 

 his Avncestors, bothe Seymovrs and Stvrmyes ; Howbeit 

 that Chvrch being rvined, and thereby all theire 

 M onvmentes either whollie spoyled, or verie mveh defased 

 dvring the Mynoritie of Edwarde, Earle of Hertforde, Sonne 

 to the said Dvke, The said Earle after, as well for the 

 dvtifvl Love he beareth to his said Grandefather, as 

 for the better Contynvans of his Memory, did cavse 

 his Bodie to be removed, and here to be intombed at 

 his own Coste and Chardge, the laste daye of September, 

 Anno 1590, in the XXXII year of the most happye Raigne 

 of ovr gratiovs Soveraigne Ladie, Qveene Elizabeth." 



In the year 1829, the three shields on the upper part of the monu- 

 ment were still in existence; two of them were broken, but the 



* Nothing is said of the Duke's first marriage to Catharine dau. and coheir of Sir William Fillol of 

 Fillol Hall, co. Essex, and of Woodlands, co. Dorset, knt. hy whom he had two sons ; 1. John, who 

 died without issue in 1552 and was buried at the Savoy Hospital on the 19th Dec, and 2. Sir Edward 

 of Biry Pomeroy, co. Devon, and of Maiden Bradley, co. Wilts, knighted at Musselburgh, 10 Sept. 

 1547, when he was only 18 years of age. From this Sir Edward descend in an unbroken line the 

 direct ancestors of the later Dukes of Somerset, a descent strangely contrasted with the complicated 

 succession of the Protector's second family, to whom, as well as to his brothers and their heirs, Anne 

 Stanhope had managed to secure, by a special entail, the honours of her husband ; yet in failure of 

 her male issue and that of his brothers, with remainder to his issue male by his first wife Catharine 

 Fillol. This singular entail died out in the year 1750, when the Dukedom passed to the elder line, 

 and Sir Edward Seymour sixth in descent from the above Sir Edward, became the eighth Duke of 

 Somerset. 



+ This statement is at variance with the records of the family preserved in the College of Arms and 

 also with the impalement with Sir Henry's Arms, placed over this inscription ; by which evidences 

 it would appear that he married Barbara daughter of Morgan Wolfe by Gwcnllian daughter and heir 

 of John de Barri, Morgan Wolfe was the son of Howell Wolfe, the son of John Wolfe, Esq., the son 

 of Sir William Wolfe, lent., by the daughter and coheir of Sir Mauger Le Sore of St. Pagans, co. 

 Glamorgan. Both Sir Henry and his Lady died in the year 1578, or about twelve years before the 

 n'vu tioti Of this Monument. 



