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English: "Detail from chimneypiece at Claverton, Somersetshire, seat of George Vivian, Esq." Arms of Sir William Bassett (1628-1693), of Claverton, Somerset, MP for Bath. George Vivian (1798–1873) was an English traveller and topographical artist, the second son of John Vivian (1756–1828), a solicitor of the excise, and barrister, the second son of Matthew Vivian of Penelewey, near Truro. John Vivian, father of George, purchased the Claverton Manor estate in 1816; he brought in Jeffry Wyatt to remodel the manor house, but Wyatt persuaded him to build a new house on an elevated site.

Heraldry

Arms of Basset of Claverton, Somerset Ermine, on a canton gules a mullet or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.56 "Basset/Basset of Somerset") quartering Killigrew Argent, an eagle (with two heads) displayed sable a bordure of the second bezantée (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.564). Sir William Bassett (1628-1693), MP for Bath, was the son of William Bassett (c.1602-1656), MP, of Claverton (near Bath), Somerset (born in Colchester, Essex, the son of Martin Bassett), by his second wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter and heiress of Sir Joseph Killigrew (1593-1616) (1st son of Sir Henry Killigrew, MP, of St. Margaret Lothbury, London (elder brother of Sir William Killigrew I, MP) and Jaél de Peigne), of Low Ham (Netherham), Somerset and of Lothbury, City of London and Landrake, Cornwall, MP for St Ives in Cornwall. (Source: KILLIGREW, Sir Joseph (1593-1616), of Low Ham (Netherham), Som. and London. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010[1]). Sir William Bassett succeeded to the estate of Claverton on the death of his father in 1656. He died on 25 Sept. 1693 and was buried at Claverton. He directed his executors to sell his lands for payment of his debts, and though some £10,000 was raised, not all his creditors were satisfied. Bassett of Claverton was descended in the male line from the Pynchard family of Gloucestershire which changed their surname to Basset when they acquired a moiety of Uley manor by marriage to the heiress of Sir Anselm Bassett. Her grandson, Sir Simon Bassett, was MP for Gloucestershire in three of Edward III’s Parliaments. Sir William Bassett’s grandfather moved to Somerset, buying Claverton, an estate of 1,300 acres just outside Bath, in 1609. (Source: BASSETT, Sir William (1628-93), of Claverton, nr. Bath, Som. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983[2])

The manor of Claverton, Somersetshire, was purchased by Sir William Bassett in 1608 and remained in his family for almost a century. In his Natural History of Wiltshire, the seventeenth century antiquarian John Aubrey, declared that Bassett “hath made the best vineyard” in all England. In 1758 it was sold to Ralph Allen, the owner of the Bath stone quarries. (Source: History of Claverton Manor[3])

Red-herring

Arms of Strode of South Hill, West Cranmore (near Shepton Mallet), Somerset: Ermine, on a canton sable a five-pointed estoile argent (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.359 "Sir William de Strode", quoted in Collinson, History of Somerset, Vol.2, pp.209-10, West Cranmore [4]; Vol.3, p35) A cadet branch of Strode of South Hill, West Cranmore was Strode of Parnham, Dorset, who bore differenced arms: Ermine, on a canton sable a crescent argent; arms of "Strode of Shepton Mallet, Somerset: Ermine, on a canton sable a crescent argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.982).

Genealogy of Strode

Collinson, History of Somerset, Vol.2, pp.209-10, West Cranmore [5]: 1. Warine de la Strode, of Strode, Dorset, who as supposed to come with the Conqueror out of Bretange, was father of

2. Sir William Strode, of Strode.

3. Hugh de Strode, liv. 8 Hen. I.

4. Sir John Strode, of Strode.

5. Sir Hugh de Strode.

6. Henry de Strode, m. Maud Fichett Beapre.

7. Hugh Strode m. Beatrice, d. and coh. of Sir John de Button, by Hawise d. and coh. of Sir Matthew de Furneaux.

8. Henry de Strode m. Elizabeth Brent, d. and h. of John Brent.

9. Richard Strode, m. (1) Margaret, d. and h. of John Gerard, esquire.

10. William de Strode m. Alice, d. and h. of Roger de Ledred, of Somerton, Somerset.

11. John Strode, 2nd son, of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, m. Joan Okle, d. of John.

12. Walter Strode, of Shepton Mallet.

13. Thomas Strode, the father of John and Edward

Identifier: observationsonar00rich (find matches)
Title: Observations on the architecture of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. & c. & c
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806-1871 Vivian, George. Some illustrations of the architecture of Claverton, and the Duke's House, Bradford
Subjects: Architecture, Elizabethan
Publisher: London, John Weale, Architectural Library
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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