Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Captain

First Name:

John

Last Name:

Somerset

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1664 onwards

Inscription:

In Memory of John Somersett Gent. who
died the 8th day of January 1663
His county gave him name, and ‘s name exprest
In what his ancestors and ‘s selfe were blest:
hence his first years the best improvement knew,
which happily what’s great and good pursue.
nor did his thinking age shame his first years,
he knew noe mean delight, nor sordid cares;
in short, his hopeful ofspring orderd hence
to heaven in theire baptismal innocence;
the needy here on earth he chose to be
his care, evn his adopted Progenie.
such were his thoughts, and thus his actions strove,
while he remaind below, to live above;
and when th’ Almighty found him fit for bliss,
he calld him to his proper happiness.

From: John Page "Millenium History of St Michael's Church: The Somerset Monument" 2000 (revised 2022) at https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5faea5ef35230/content/pages/documents/11-somerset-monument-211122.pdf

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

For a full description of the monument see: John Page "Millenium History of St Michael's Church: The Somerset Monument" 2000 (revised 2022) at https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5faea5ef35230/content/pages/documents/11-somerset-monument-211122.pdf

See: Henry Symonds, 'A by path of the Civil War' in Proceeding of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol 65 (1919) at: https://sanhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/09Symonds-1.pdf