Lords Report of 26 March 1925

DUKEDOM OF SOMERSET.
Resolved and adjudged—
That the Dukedom of Somerset was created by Letters Patent of King Edward VI, dated 16th February, 1546–7, granted to Edward, EARL OF Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp of Hache and Baron Seymour with the limitations therein specified.
That Edward Duke of Somerset was executed 22nd January, 1551–2, was attainted and all his honours forfeited.
That the said Dukedom of Somerset and the said Barony of Seymour with the limitations specified in the Letters Patent of creation were restored to William Seymour, great-grandson of the said Edward, 1st Duke of Somerset, and that the said William was summoned to the House of Lords in the said Dukedom of Somerset.
That the said Dukedom descended according to the limitations specified in the Letters Patent of creation to Algernon, 15th Duke, who died without issue the 22nd October, 1923.
That the claimant, Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour, has proved the extinction of the lines senior to his own, and, claiming through Lord Francis Seymour, who died 10th February, 1799, fourth son of Edward, 8th Duke, is (in the event of the validity of the marriage of Francis Compton Seymour, son and heir of the said Lord Francis Seymour and Leonora Hudson being established) the heir-male of the said Lord Francis Seymour, and of the said Edward 1st Duke of Somerset.
That, the evidence of the validity of the marriage had between Francis Compton Seymour and Leonora Hudson produced by the said claimant, Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour, is not rebutted by the allegations and the evidence in support thereof produced by the Petitioner, Henry Sydney Seymour, and the Claimant, George
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Francis Alexander, Marquess of Hertford, and that therefore the said marriage stands, and that the said claimant, Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour, ought, on the evidence produced, to be regarded as the heir-male of Edward, 1st Duke of Somerset, and by virtue of the limitations contained in the patent of creation of the said Dukedom is entitled to his writ of summons in the said Dukedom of Somerset.
Ordered, That the said Resolution and Judgment be laid before His Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.
THE LORD DORMER THE LORD DORMER sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

MARRIAGES PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed, and referred to the Examiners.
HAMILTON BURGH ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read 1a; to be printed; and (pursuant to the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899), deemed to have been read 2a (Lord Balfour of Burleigh), and reported from the Committee.

LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (NEW CAPITAL) BILL. [H.L.]
Committee to meet on Thursday next.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR THE LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders have not been complied with in respect of the Petition for the following Bill:
Sheffield Corporation.
The same was ordered to lie on the Table.

SHEFFIELD CORPORATION.
  PETITION FOR BILL.
  Examiners' Certificate of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Thursday next.
CHARTERED ASSOCIATIONS (PROTECTION OF NAMES AND UNIFORMS) BILL. [H.L.]
To be read 2a on Wednesday next.—(Viscount Burnham.)
PROTECTION OF BIRDS BILL.
To be read 2a on Tuesday, April 28 next.—(Lord Darling.)
HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM
Adjourned Debate on the Motion of the Duke of Sutherland (which stands appointed for Tuesday next) put off to Thursday next.