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Definition of Somersets
1. somerset [v] - See also: somerset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somersets
Literary usage of Somersets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"... and remorselessness, than the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury by the somersets.
The execution of Lord Sanquhar for killing the fencing-master, ..."
2. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1876)
"... ap- ing illustrations of that intermixture of old and Bacon at the new torms
ot thought and action tor which the somersets. age was remarkable. ..."
3. The Great Governing Families of England by John Langton Sanford, Meredith White Townsend (1865)
"In other words, the somersets are the descendants of Charles Somerset, illegitimate
son of Henry Beaufort— so called from a castle in Anjou — Duke of ..."
4. The Eighth Duke of Beaufort and the Badminton Hunt: With a Sketch of the by Thomas Francis Dale (1901)
"... CHAPTER I Rise of the somersets TH E founder of the Somerset family was born
at a remarkable period of English history. When his father, the third Duke ..."
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