Engraved by THOMSON, from a Painting by STEWARD: ON. Published by &B Whittaker for I a Belle Assemblee 20.new series. Aug 757826. and the Proots by M. Colnaghi 23 Cockspur Street. LA BELLE ASSEMBLÉE, FOR AUGUST, 1826. ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIR OF THE MOST NOBLE ANNE, THERE cannot be a more grateful task || Leigh Paulet. Sir John, one of his dethan that of tracing worth and greatness scendants, of Leigh Paulet and of Gotefrom their origin-of marking, in their hurst in the county of Somerset, married a progress, the attendant increase of splen- great heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir dour and of importance. Such is the duty || Thomas Reyney, of Rowd, and of Shyrwhich devolves upon us, in offering a suc- ston, both in Somersetshire. His son, Sir cinct sketch, historical and genealogical, of John Paulet, by that lady, sealed with the the ancient and long-ennobled family of arms of Reyney (A.D. 1391) viz. GULES, A Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, Marquess of PAIR OF WINGS CONJOINED IN LURE, ARWinchester, Earl of Wiltshire, Baron of St. GENT. In the 4th of Richard II. (1380) John, and Premier Marquess of England, this Sir John Paulet was in the expedition the portrait of whose noble lady imparts under Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Bucnew attraction to our pictorial assemblage kingham and Duke of Gloucester, in aid of of Britain's Female Noblesse. the Duke of Brittany against the French; and the honour of knighthood was conferred on him in the camp before St. Omer's-an honour which, afterwards, in the same year, when the army was before Trois, was also conferred upon his son, Sir Thomas Paulet. The family name-which has been variously written, Paulette, Paulet, Powlet, Pawlet, &c.—is derived from the lordship of Pawlet, in Somersetshire, one of its possessions from time immemorial. According to Collinson's History of the County of Somerset, Walter de Dowai owned this lordship in the time of the Conqueror; and from him it is said to have descended to the Paganels, Fitzhardings, Gaunts, and Gournays. Collins, however, in his Peerage of England, states that Hercules, Lord of Tournon, in Picardy, who came into this country with Geffery Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou, third son of Henry II., was lord of this manor, and, having thence assumed his surname, was ancestor of the present family. Sir William de Paulet, residing at Leigh, in Devonshire, in the early part of the thirteenth century, gave the manor the denomination of No. 20.-Vol. IV. The Sir John last mentioned married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Creedy, of Creedy in the county of Devon, Knt.; by whom, dying in 1378, he left two sons-Thomas, ancestor of the present Earl Paulet, and William-and a daughter, Dionysia. William, his second son, sergeant-at-law in 1415, was designated of Melton Paulet, in Somersetshire. Sir John, his eldest son (by Eleanor, eldest daughter of Philip de la Mere, of Noney Castle, in Somersetshire, and of Fisherton de la Mere, in Wiltshire) added greatly to his estate by marrying Con stance, second daughter and co-heir of H son, Hugh, only son and heir of Sir Thomas || his councils, that the consummation of the Poynings, Lord St. John, of Basing. His Duke of Northumberland's design in placing the Lady Jane Grey on the throne was prevented; a service rewarded by the Queens Mary and Elizabeth, who retained him in the Treasurer's office, which he enjoyed for thirty years. When asked, how he had preserved himself in that place through so many changes of government, he gave the emphatic answer-“ By being a willow, and not an oak!" John, married, also with great advantage, Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Robert Roos, of Gedney, Skelton, and Irby, in the county of Lincoln, Esq. By that lady he had a daughter, Margaret, wife of Sir Amias Paulet, of Hinton St. George, in Somersetshire; and a son, John, who was one of the commanders of the army that subdued the Cornish men, at Blackheath, under the conduct of James Lord Audley. He was knighted; and he was also created one of the Knights of the Bath, at the marriage of Prince Arthur, A.D. 1501. His eldest son, This nobleman built the magnificent seat named Basing, in the county of Hants. On the 10th of March 1571-2, he died there, "in the ninety-seventh year of his age, after he had seen one hundred and three persons that were descended from him." His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Capel, Knt., ancestor to the Earls of Essex. By that lady he had the eldest, John, succeeded him as second Marquess of Winchester. This nobleman, as Lord St. John, in the life-time of his father, was one of the peers who, in 1571-2, sat on the trial of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. By his first wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of Robert Willoughby, Lord Broke, he had four sons and two daughters. William, his eldest son, third Marquess of Winchester, was a learned man, and was enumerated amongst the poets of his day. Sir William (by Alice, daughter of Sir William Paulet, of Hinton St. George) attained high rank and power in the reign of Henry VIII. In 1532, he was Comp-four sons and four daughters; of whom troller of the King's Household; in 1533, he was sent with the Duke of Norfolk, to attend Francis I. King of France, on his intended interview with the Pope, Clement VII. at Marseilles; in 1537, he was made Treasurer of the King's Household; on the 9th of March, 1538-9, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron, by the title of Lord St. John, of Basing; in 1540, he was made Master of the Wards, which office was confirmed to him in 1542, with the fee of £200 per annum, he being the first on whom it was bestowed, after the establishment of that court by authority of Parliament; in 1543, he was elected a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; in 1544, he accompanied the King at the taking of Boulogne; he was one of the executors of the will of his royal || master, Henry VIII., and one of the council to his son, afterwards Edward VI.; in the first of Edward VI. (1547) he was Lord Great Master of the Household, President of the Council, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; on the 19th of January, 1549-50, he was created Earl of Wiltshire; afterwards he was made Lord Treasurer of England; and, on the 12th of October, 1551, his towering honours were crowned by his elevation to the Marquisate of Winchester. " His only son, by a daughter of William, Lord Howard of Effingham, was William, fourth Marquess of Winchester, who entertained Queen Elizabeth, most splendidly, at Basing, in one of her progresses." He married Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter; by whom he had six sons. John, his third but eldest surviving son, succeeded him; and Henry, the fourth, was ancestor to the present Marquess. John, fifth Marquess of Winchester, was the father of Charles, the sixth Marquess, who, on the 9th of April 1689, was created Duke of Bolton. In his de He wrote a volume of essays, entitled, "The Lord Marquess Idlenes; London, printed Yet even this dignity can hardly be re- || by Arnold Hatfield, 1586, 4to." garded as the summit of his political fame and glory. It was in a great measure by those John, the fifth Marquess, was one of noblemen who firmly adhered to scendants that title continued through a|| Duke of Bolton, without issue male, the succession of six Dukes, till the 25th of De-|| Dukedom became extinct. The other fa cember, 1794; when, on the death of Harry, mily titles then devolved on his fourth Charles I. His fine seat at Basing, converted into a garrison for his Majesty, endured a siege || from August, 1643, to October 16th, 1645. Having several brave officers with him, the Marquess made many successful sallies, in which great numbers of the enemy were killed. Ultimately, however, the mansion was taken by storm, with the noble owner and about 200 persons in it. He had caused to be written with a diamond, in every window of the house, the glorious family motto-" Aimez Loyaulté," which so exasperated the republicans, that they burnt this noble seat to the ground; having first plundered it of money, jewels, and furniture (amongst which was a rich bed worth £14,000) to the value of £200,000. A particular journal of the siege of Basing was printed at Oxford, A.D. 1645; and a curious letter on the subject, addressed to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and written in the Protector's own hand, is preserved in the British Museum. The Marquess had the happiness of living to witness the Restoration of Charles 11. He died, premier Marquess of England, on the 5th of March, 1674, in the 77th year of his age, and was buried at Englefield, in Berkshire, where a neat monument of black and white marble was erected to his memory. one of the compartments of the monument appears the following inscription, in gold Roman letters, from the pen of John Dryden, then poet laureat. "He who in impious times undaunted stood, Which (to preserve them) Heaven confin'd in thee. In In another compartment, below, are these words: "The Lady Marchioness Dowager (in testimony of her love and sorrow) gave this monument to the memory of a most affectionate tender husband." On a marble stone on the ground, at the foot of the monument, in Roman capitals, is the following record of the deceased: "Here lieth interred the body of the Most Noble and Mighty Prince, John Powlet, Marquis of Winchester, Earl of Wiltshire, Baron of St. John of Basing, first Marquis of England: a man of exemplary piety towards God, and of inviolable fidelity towards his sovereign; in whose cause he fortified his house of Basing, and defended it against the rebels, to the last extremity. He married three wives; the first was Jane, daughter of Thomas, Viscount Savage, and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Darcy, Earl Rivers, by whom he had issue Charles, now Marquis of Winchester. His second wife was Honora, daughter of Richard Burgh, Earl of St. Alban's and Clanricarde, and of Frances his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Francis Walsingham, Knt., and principal Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, by whom he had issue four sons and three daughters. His last wife (who survived him) was Isabella, daughter of William Viscount Stafford, second son of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surry, Earl Marshal of England; and of Mary his wife, sister and sole heir of Henry Lord Stafford, who was the heir-male of the Most last Duke of Buckingham, of that most illustrious name High, Mighty, and Most Noble Prince Edward Stafford, and family, by whom he had no issue. He died in the 77th year of his age, on the 5th of March, in the year of our Lord, 1674. By Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms." It is worthy of remark, that the Marquess's first wife, Lady Jane Savage, had the honour of an epitaph from the pen of Milton, commencing "This rich marble doth enter Of this lady, John Howth, who assisted her studies in the Spanish language, observes: "Nature and the Graces exhausted all their treasure and skill in forming this exact model of female perfection." Charles, the eldest surviving son of the Marquess, was instrumental in settling the crown of these realms on the Prince and Princess of Orange; who, on the 6th of April, 1689, appointed him Lord Lieutenant of the County of Southampton, and advanced him to the dignity of Duke of Bolton, on the 9th of the same month. He raised a regiment for the reduction of Ireland. His son and successor, Charles, second Duke of Bolton, went to Holland, in the reign of James II., and came back with the Prince of Orange at the Revolution, in which his exertions had proved very serviceable. In 1688, he was appointed one of the commissioners for managing the King's revenues at Exeter; and, at the coronation of William and Mary, he carried the Queen's orb. In this and the two succeeding reigns he filled many offices of high honour and trust. By his second of three wives, Frances, daughter of W. Ramsden, of Byrom, in the county of York, Esq., he had two sons, cousin, George Paulet, ancestor of the present Marquess of Winchester, with whose descent we shall immediately proceed. of Bolton, in 1794, to the titles of Marquess of Winchester, Earl of Wiltshire, and Baron St. John. This George, twelfth Marquess of WinLord Henry Paulet, fourth son of Wil-chester, held the office of Groom Porter liam, fourth Marquess of Winchester, was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. He married Lucy, daughter of Sir George Philpot, Knt., of Amport, in the county of Hants. Dying in 1672, he left a son and heir, to his Majesty George III.; and he represented the city of Winchester in Parliament, in 1765 and 1768. He married Martha, daughter of Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq. by whom, who died March 14, 1796, he had issue : 1. Charles Ingoldsby, the present Marquess, born in 1774;-2. Urania Anne, married, Francis Paulet, Esq., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Norton, and also heir to Sir John Norton, of Ro-first, March 17, 1785, Henry de Burgh, Martherfield Park, Hampshire, Bart. He died in 1696, leaving issue an only son, Norton Paulet, Esq., who represented the Borough of Petersfield in Parliament, from 1707 to 1727. He died in 1741; having married Jane, daughter of Sir Charles Morley, of Droxford, in the county of Hants; by whom he had issue: 1. Norton, M.P. for the city of Winchester, married, but died in 1759, without issue; -2. Henry, a Captain in the army, died unmarried in 1743;-3. John, also in the army, died unmarried in Germany;-4. Charles, Captain in the Royal Navy, died unmarried in 1762;-5. William, also in the navy, died unmarried in 1772;-6. Herbert, a Captain in the army, died unmarried in 1746;-7. Francis, died a minor, at Cambridge, in 1742; -8. George, who, surviving all his brothers, succeeded, on the death of Harry, sixth Duke quess of Clanricarde, who died without issue by her, December 8, 1797; secondly, Peter Kington, Esq., a Colonel in the army, killed at the storming of Buenos Ayres, in 1807, by whom she has one daughter, Urania; thirdly, Vice Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke;-3. Lord Henry, K.C.B., Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy, who married, October 26, 1813, Maria, youngest daughter of Edward Ravenscroft, of Portland Place, Esq., by whom he had issue, two sons-Henry and Edward-and three daughters-Anna Maria, Frances Emma (deceased) and Uriana. Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, the thirteenth and present Marquess, succeeded his late father on the 22d of April, 1800. Before his accession to the title, this nobleman was, in 1792, returned M.P. for the Borough of Truro, in Cornwall, and continued to sit till 1796. He had the honour of being appointed by his late Majesty, Groom of the Charles and Harry, successively Dukes of Stole; an office which he holds also under Bolton. Charles, the third Duke, K. B., &c. held many high offices under the crown. He was twice married, but died without issue. brother and heir, our present most Gracious Sovereign. The noble Marquess married, on the 31st of July, 1800, Anne, second daughter His of the late John Andrews, of Shotley Hall, in the county of Northumberland, Esq. By this lady, whose portrait, faithful in its have the honour of presenting to our Subrepresentation of the amiable original, we scribers, he has issue: Harry, fourth Duke of Bolton, who married Catherine, daughter of Charles Parry, of Oakfield, Berkshire, Esq., left, at his death, in 1759, two sons, Charles and Harry, suc. cessively Dukes of Bolton, and two daughters. Charles, fifth Duke of Bolton, K. B., &c. died unmarried in 1765, and was succeeded by his brother, Harry, sixth Duke of Bolton, who died Vice Admiral of the White Squadron, on the 25th of December, 1794. He was twice married; but, dying without male issue, the dukedom became extinct, and the title of Marquess of Winchester descended, as already stated, to || his Grace's fourth cousin, George Paulet, of Amport, Esq., father of the present Marquess. 1. John, Earl of Wiltshire, Major in the 8th regiment of Hussars, born June 3, 1801;2. Lord Charles, born August 11, 1802;-3. Lord George, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, born August 12, 1803;-4. Lord William, Captain in the 85th regiment, born July 7, 1804;-5. Lady Annabella, born August 6, 1805;-6. Lady Cecilia, born November 21, 1806;—7. Lord Frederic, late Page of Honour to His Majesty, Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, born May 12, 1810. |