BEAUCHAMP (of Warwick) 51 whereby he may be held to have become LORD BEAUCHAMP.^ He d. unm., 2 Dec. 1360, when any Barony cr. by his writs of sum. became extinct.i^) He was bur. at St. Paul's Cathedral, London. (°) M.I. BEAUCHAMP'S COURT See " Brooke of Beauchamp's Court, co. Warwick," Barony {Gre- ville)y cr. 1621. BEAUDESERT See "Paget de Beaudesert, co. Stafford," Barony {Paget), cr. 1550. BEAUFORT Edward Somerset, styled Lord Herbert, s. and h. ap. of Henry, 1st Marquess of Worcester, is by some considered to have been cr. by Charles I, i Apr. 1644, BARON BEAUFORT OF CALDECOT CASTLE, CO. Monmouth, and EARL OF GLAMORGAN. See " Glamorgan," Earldom of, under which title the circumstances of the case are fully related. DUKEDOM. I. Henry (Somerset), 3rd Marquess of Worcester, y ^o^ fsfc., s. and h. of Edward, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (celebrated for his loyalty and inventive genius), by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, sister of Robert, Earl of Carnarvon, and da. of Sir William Dormer, was b. 1629, being then (by courtesy) styled Lord Herbert. M.P. for co. Monmouth ('^) 1660-67; ^"'i ^"^ °^ the 12 com- moners deputed, 7 May 1660, to invite the return of Charles II.(') Lord champ of Somerset," where the words clearly refer to the county. See also ante, p. 48, note "e," circa finem. (') As to how far these early writs of sum. did in fact create a peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. C") His house at Blackfriars, built by himself, was sold at his death to the Crown, and being converted into the office of the Master of the Wardrobe, gave the desig- nation of "St. Andrew by the IVardrohc" to the adjoining church. (') His tomb there was very commonly mistaken for that of the "Good Duke Humphrey," i.e. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, bur. in the Abbey of St. Albans, Herts, 1446. See a curious account thereof in Stow's London, edit. 1720, book iii, p. 165. ('^) There seems no sufficient reason for identifying him with the Henry Herbert who sat for this co. 1654-55, ^"'^ who was probably the Henry Herbert of Colebrook who represented co. Monmouth in the Long Pari. The Diet. Nat. Biog. states that the future Duke was known as plain Mr. Herbert during the Commonwealth, but gives no authority; it further makes him M.P. for IVorcester 1654-55, which is certainly erroneous. V.G. (') Unlike his father, he made his peace with Cromwell, and was allowed by
