SOMERSHAM, (Huntingdonshire) among the fens, near 3 m. to the N. E. of S. Ives, had formerly a large palace of the Bps. of
Ely, from whose See it was alienated many years ago, and was in the possession of Anth. Hammond, Esq; one of the
commissioners of the navy, &c. in the R. of Q. Ann, whose seat here was called Somersham-Place. Mr. Wood, in his Athenae
Oxoniensis, says, that Somersham, with its appurtenances, was part of the jointure of Q. Henrietta-Maria, but that Col.
Walton, one of the K's. judges, got it settled on himself and his descendants, for the great service he had done the
Parliament.