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Arms of Bassett of Claverton, Somerset (Bassett of Uley, Gloucestershire): Ermine, on a canton gules a mullet or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.56 "Basset/Basset of Somerset") (Arms of Bassett of Uley, Gloucestershire, in Maclean, Sir John; Heane, W.C., eds. (1885). The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms; with pedigrees from the heralds' visitation of 1569 and 1582–3, and sundry miscellaneous pedigrees. Harleian Society, 1st ser. Vol. 21. London, pp.204-6[1]). 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, of the Bassett family of Uley, Gloucestershire), 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[2]). 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 Isabel Bassett, the daughter and heiress of Sir Anselm Bassett of Uley, Gloucestershire (the Bassett family had been established in Gloucestershire since the 14th century, when the marriage of Margaret Berkeley, a daughter of Thomas, 5th Lord Berkeley, with Sir Anselm Bassett had brought him the manor of Uley in the hundred of Berkeley, which their descendants were to hold until the middle of the 18th century) 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.