somersethistorianJul 23, 20231 minSMUGGLING LEAD THROUGH BRIDGWATER?This entry in Exchequer records at The National Archives from the early seventeenth century, reveals the names of two men involved in...
somersethistorianJun 25, 20231 minA NOTE ABOUT THE MONMOUTH REBELLION AND NORTON ST PHILIP‘WITHOUT INTEREST’? Amongst papers of the Strachey family at the Somerset Heritage Centre is a folder with a label written in the 19th...
somersethistorianJun 25, 20232 minBASTARDS, MARRIAGE AND SUFFRAGETTESIn 1913 the Rev. E.H. Bates Harbin, editor of a recently published volume of Somerset quarter sessions records covering the...
somersethistorianJun 25, 20235 minLieutenant Colonel Paule St de Beville in Somerset, 1768The difficulties between France and Great Britain during the 18th century, like those between most nations at war, led to a need for...