48 BEAUCHAMP (of Somerset) BEAUCHAMP (of Somerset) I. John Beauchamp, s. and h. of Robert B., of Hatch, Somerset,(^) by Alice, da. of Reynold de Mohun, of Dunster, in that co., was b. before 1249. -^^ ^^^ sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June (1283) II Edw. IjC") by writ directed Johanni de Bella Campo. He m. Cicely, da. and coh. of William de Vivonne, by Maud, one of the 7 daughters (coheirs to their mother) of William (Ferrers), Earl of Derby. He d. at Hatch, 24, and was bur. 31 Oct. 1283, at Stoke under Hamden. Tnq. p. m. Dec. 1283. His widow d. 10 Jan. 1320, at Stoke under Hamden. (°) BARONY BY i. John Beauchamp, of Hatch afsd., s. and h., was b. WRIT. 25 July 1274, and had seizin of his father's lands, 17 Sep. 1295. He was in the Scottish wars, and was sum., 26 Jan. ^"99- 1296/7, to attend the King at Salisbury.('^) He was sum. to Parl.('=) 29 Dec. (1299) 28 Edw. 1 to 24 Aug. (1336) 9 Edw. Ill, by {*) The arms of this family — " Vaire, arg. and az. " — are entirely different from those of the great house of Beauchamp of Warwick, and no connection is shewn between the two families. The Somersetshire Beauchamps and the descent of this Barony are fully dealt with by John Batten (Somersetshire Archasol. Soc. Proceedings, vol. xxxvi, 1891, pp. 20-59). "^^^ writer holds that this Barony, of which in 1361 Ro2;er Seymour was sole representative, was not forfeited by Act 5 Edw. VI, nor by the attainder (155 1/2) of the ist Duke of Somerset (heir general of the said Roger), and that, even had it been so forfeited, it would have been restored by Act 7 Edw. VI, for the restitution in blood of Sir Edward Seymour, that duke's eldest son. C') This writ was treated as originating a peerage in the Mowbray case, 1877. For discussion on this and other supposed Parliaments, see Preface. ('^) Register of the Abbey of Athelney. Cf. IFardrobe Accounts, 14 Edw. II. {^) This writ was not a regular writ of summons to Pari., such as would originate a peerage. See Preface. (f) The following observations as to the titles of Beauchamp de Somerset, and Beauchamp de IFarwick, are made by Sir N. H. Nicolas and reproduced in Courthope (p. 102), under " Cherleton." "John Beauchamp, yr. s. of Guy, Earl of Warwick, was sum. to Pari. (1350-57), as 'Johanni de Bello-Campo de JVarrewyk^ probably to distinguish him from John Beauchamp of Hache in Somersetshire who is described in the writs as John Beauchamp de Somerset; but it cannot for a moment be contended that either Somerset in the one instance, or Warwick in the other, formed the titles of either of these Barons; and that instead of being Barons Beauchamp they were Barons of Warwick and of Somerset. These additions are to be found in the original writs, by which those dignities were created, whilst this Barony [Cherleton] existed for nearly 50 years before the words ' de Powes' occur in the writs of summons; the presumption is, therefore, more strongly in favour of the Baronies in question being those of Warwick and Somerset, than that this dignity [Cherleton] should be that of Powis." In spite of these remarks, the Editor is unable to see why the respective writs of " Beauchamp de Somerset " and " Beauchamp de Warwick " (thus, apparently, purposely distinguished from one another), did not create (as in
