After forcibly removing Edward VI to Windsor Castle, with the intention of keeping him hostage, Somerset was removed from power by members of the council, led by his chief rival, John Dudley, the first Earl of Warwick, who created himself Duke of Northumberland shortly after his rise.

This situation also became increasingly uncomfortable to many of the non-Junto Whigs, led by the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Shrewsbury, who began to intrigue with Robert Harley's Tories.

Either to escape the cannonade and volleys of archery or because he saw an opportunity to outflank King Edward's isolated battle, the Duke of Somerset led at least part of his men via some of the " evil lanes " to attack Edward's left flank.

In 1452, Richard led a small army to Blackheath near London in an attempt to force Henry to dismiss Somerset from the government, but at this stage he lacked support and was forced to submit to arrest and take an oath of allegiance to the King at Old St Paul's Cathedral.

The town became a centre for commerce, which led to the construction of the market cross, Glastonbury Canal and the Glastonbury and Street railway station, the largest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

This led to the transfer to the museum of the School of Design that had been founded in 1837 at Somerset House, after the transfer it was referred to as the Art School or Art Training School, later to become the Royal College of Art which finally achieved full independence in 1949.

The local Republican team led by Kacey Dyer and Mark Caliguire proposed selling all of the land to Somerset County to create a passive-use park.

The proposals were opposed by Somerset County Council, and this led to the setting up of a " Save Our Somerset " campaign.

This and other considerations urged by Lord Charles Somerset, then governor of Cape Colony, led the British government to authorise the islands being taken possession of as dependencies of the Cape.

The conflicting claims of York and Somerset led to the Armourer and his Man being introduced too soon ; whoever was compiling the Quarto text remembered that Humphrey left the stage, though not why, but did remember that while he was offstage Margaret struck his wife.

The archaeology students of King Alfred's also participated in a 10-year project led by Aston to investigate the manor of Shapwick in Somerset.

In August 1443, Somerset led 7, 000 men to Cherbourg, and marched south to Gascony ; the Duke was ill.

* During the 2002-2003 Season, Somerset High School's Football Team, led by longtime coach Bruce Larson, won the WIAA Division 5 State Championship, the first state title the school had ever won in football.

This situation also became increasingly uncomfortable to many of the non-Junto Whigs, led by the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Shrewsbury, who began to intrigue with Robert Harley's Tories.

It was fought at Hedgeley Moor, north of the village of Glanton in Northumberland, between a Yorkist army led by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and a Lancastrian army led by the Duke of Somerset.

In 1685, the Duke of Monmouth led the Monmouth Rebellion in which Somerset people fought against James II.

The departure of Somerset Second Eleven in 1987 led to the introduction of the Wales Minor Counties side ; Durham's elevation to first-class status in 1992 saw the arrival of Herefordshire, the first time a side from that county had competed.

Trescothick led Somerset into the 2010 season as captain, and began strongly in the County Championship with a century and four half-centuries from his first eight games, though he struggled in the newly formed Clydesdale Bank 40 with only 95 runs from the first five matches, and in the Friends Provident T20 173 runs at 21. 62 with a best of 50.

In 1836 he suggested to Sir William Ewart the formation of the parliamentary committee which led to the establishment of the schools of design at Somerset House, and assisted the efforts of Joseph Hume to obtain for the public freedom of access to all monuments and works of art in public buildings and museums.

In January 1777 Dickinson led 400 of his militia in a raid on a British foraging party near Somerset Court House, New Jersey, capturing about forty wagons of supplies and several prisoners.

Parliamentary powers were sought and the standard gauge was specified, but pressure from the broad gauge B & ER – who feared loss of the feeder traffic from the line it had supported – led to a requirement to lay broad gauge and to make a junction with the Wilts Somerset and Weymouth where the lines would cross.

The East Somerset line from Witham led in from the east, and had a station opposite the S & D station.

But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wiltshire and Somerset, and forced to head off to the northwest, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington.

Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset.

There were two large explosions at the Somerset West plant during the 1960s.

He owned large West Country estates at Tormarton in Gloucestershire and Chew Magna in Somerset, while his principal residence was at Sutton Court in Stowey.

The origin of the popular view of Somerset as sympathetic to the rebel cause lies partly in his series of sometimes liberal, often contradictory, proclamations, and partly in the uncoordinated activities of the commissions he sent out in 1548 and 1549 to investigate grievances about loss of tillage, encroachment of large sheep flocks on common land, and similar issues.

By the time Somerset realised what was happening, there was no time to raise a large force to support the king.

In 1799 Smith produced the first large scale geologic map of the area around Bath, Somerset.

The complex was constructed on the last large undeveloped woodlot in Somerset, and construction had been blocked by legal challenges for over two decades.

Worcester County was separated from Somerset in 1742, and by 1774 Sandy Hill had grown large enough to merit a chapel of ease within All Hallows ' Parish, today called Holy Cross Chapel.

Bridgewater is a relatively large, mostly affluent suburban township located in the center of Somerset County.

In April 2010 a large hoard of coins was unearthed near Frome, Somerset, United Kingdom, which includes the largest group of coins issued during Carausius ' reign ever found ; 760 coins from his reign were found in a group of 52, 500 Roman coins that also included 5 rare silver denarii.

There were also some 24 subsidiary railways, leased or worked by the above companies, and a large number of joint railways, including the UK's largest Joint Railway, the Midland & Great Northern, and one of the most famous, the Somerset & Dorset.

Nether Stowey is a large village in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, South West England.

They settled in Somerset and raised a large family.

Street is a town or large village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England.

Long before the Norman Conquest, during Saxon times North Petherton was at the centre of a large royal estate, located on one of the historic communication routes through Somerset, and was both an important centre and the meeting place for the Hundred of North Petherton although the Petherton limit tithing of North Petherton was in the Hundred of Andersfield from the 1670s.

The current venue for most of the " on-schedule " events is Somerset House in central London, where a large marquee in the central courtyard hosts a series of catwalk shows by top designers and fashion houses, while an exhibition, housed within Somerset House itself, showcases over 150 designers.

He was a large landowner in the New Jersey counties of Hunterdon, Union, and Somerset, and he owned a copper mine at Rocky Hill that was later abandoned.

In the archaeological record, there is considerable evidence of occupation to the north of Aldwych, but much along the former foreshore has been covered by rubble from the demolition of the Tudor Somerset Place, a former Royal residence, to create a large platform for the building of the first Somerset House, in the 17th century.

Due to the lack of other large football clubs in Somerset, Yeovil have few strong rivals.

However, Somerset also had several hundred German mercenary arquebusiers, a large and well-appointed artillery train, and 6, 000 cavalry, including a contingent of Italian mounted arquebusiers under Don Pedro de Gamboa.

Somerset occupied several Scottish strongholds and large parts of the Lowlands and Borders, but without peace these garrisons became a useless drain on the Treasury of England.