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KEPT BY REV. BRUNO CANTRILL, O.S.F.
AMALGAMATED NOTES TO PAGE 162 .
Henry Somerset , fifth Earl and first Marquis of Worcester, had a second son , Lord John Somerset of Pauntley Court , co . Gloucester, whose sonCharles Somerset was of Canon Pyon, co . Hereford . The last was aged 39 at the Visitation of 1683, and then married to his third wife , Elizabeth daughter of John Goodere of Burghope, co . Hereford . Three of their daughters are included in a pedigree in Colonel J. A. Bradney's History of Monmouthshire Brickenden, ob . 5 Nov. 1770, aged 80 , (a) Caroline, wife of buried at Pauntley . In her will (20 April , 1769, proved 4 Jan. 1771) she bequeaths to my brother -in- law m John Southcoat, Iol ., who is clearly the John Sosthcott [Southcote] married 31 July, 1731. Again from a pedigree (Harleian Soc. , lii , 914) Edmund Southcote Parker assumed the name of Southcote on inheriting the estates of his maternal uncle, Sir John Southcote of Blyborough , co . Lincoln , whose eldest son Edmund married Catherine daughter of William second Lord Widdrington of Blankney . Their son, John, is given as married in August , 1701, dau . of . . Somerset . " to " (b) Anne, a spinster, died 4 March, 1764, aged 70 , buried at Pauntley , who by will (27 Feb. 1764, proved 4 Feb. 1765 by Caroline Brickenden) left her share in the manor of Pauntley to Gascoigne Frederick of the Inner Temple, and another , in trust for her sister Caroline Brickenden, with remainder to her kinsman, Henry , fifth Duke of Beaufort and seventh
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Marquis of Worcester. (c) Frances , wife of Henry Scudamore of Blackbrook. So Clare Somerset must have been another sister, and perhaps Henrietta , who appears on page 162. Their father by his second wife , Catherine daughter of Walter Baskerville of Canon Pyon , co . Hereford , had : (a) Charles Somerset , æt. 13 in 1683. He was a Catholic Nonjuror in 1717, described as of St. Andrew's parish , Holborn , and declared the yearly value of his estate in Acton and Willesden at £657 9s. od . , and at Great Comberton , co . Worcester, at £2 10s. od. In his will ( 1 Dec. 1720, proved 2 July, 1724) he is described of East Street , Red Lion Square, and names his deceased wife , Frances daughter of Dorothy Hanford of Woollashall ; and leaves his boots, linen , and two best periwigs to his brother Henry . He died 28 July, 1721, æt. 57 (a disparity of about 6 years in his age) ; (b) Henry S., æt. 11 [? in 1683 ; (c) Mary Johanna, æt. 17 in 1683 ; (d) Elizabeth , æt. 5 in 1683. ( Bradney's Monmouthshire; J. Orlebar Payne's Cath. Nonjurors and Records of English Catholics . ) The Hon . Henry Francis Widdrington was commonly called Lord Widdrington of Blankney after his father's death , a title forfeited by his father, the fourth baron, for his loyalty to the Stuarts in 1715, and died in 1743. The P.C.C. will of Henry Francis W. is printed in Major F. J. A. Skeet's History of the Skeet Family, etc. , p. 118. The will , dated 19 Nov. 1772, with a codicil of 11 April , 1774, was proved 12 Sept. 1774 by his widow the Honourable Ann Widdrington , commonly called Lady Widdrington . He wasborn in 1700, ob . s . p. 19 Sept. 1774 at Turnham Green , Chiswick, Middlesex, and buried at St. Pancras . J.S.H.
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