Old Hampshire Mapped
Coats of Arms, Heraldry
Paulet
John Pawlet Marquis of Winchester Ano~. 1551. by K: EdwardIn the engraving there are colour letters s - sable for the ground, and a - argent for the swords. The arms has a tiny crescent, a mark of cadency for a second son?
WILLIAM PAULET
Marquess of Winchester
sable, three swords in pile, points in base, argent hilted gules, a crescent for a difference
The description of the coat of arms varies from person to person: the pomels and hilts might be gold (or); and there might be a difference around a bordure ermine.
The 1st marquess, William, died 1572. His eldest son was also William.
The coat of arms on Blaeu's map of Hampshire, 1645.
The coat of arms on Jansson's map of Hampshire and Berkshire, 1646.
William Paulet Earle of Winchester
The coat of arms of Paulet on Blome's map of Hampshire, 1673, which is a poor engraving.
From Bowen's road book, 1720s-50s, plate 97
WINCHESTER Gives Title of Marquis to ye Most Noble Charles Paulet, first summon'd to Parliament by Writ in 1717.
With the family motto; and the dedication on the New and Improved Map of Hampshire by Thomas Kitchin 1751
AIMEZ LOYAUTE
To the Most Noble Charles Pawlet, Duke of Bolton, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the County of SOUTHAMPTON This MAP is dedicated by his Grace's Most Obedt. humble Servant Thos. Kitchin.
But lately within our memorie King Edward the sixth, honoured Sir William Powlet Lord Treasurer of England, Earle of Wilshire, and Lord Saint John of Basing, with a new title of Marquesse of Winchester. A man prudently pliable to [the] times, raised not sodainly but by degrees in Court, excessive in vast informous buildings; temperat in all other things, full of yeares for he lived ninetie seaven years and fruitfull in his generation, ...
William Pawlet Knight, to be Controller of Houshold, and afterwards Treasurer of the same, created him, at the Birth of Edward, Prince of Wales, Baron of St. John, and afterwards being made Master of the Wards, Knight of the Garter, one of his Executors, and of the Council to the Prince, by the same King he was preferred to be Chancellor, created earl of Wiltshire, and last of all Marquess of Winchester, in his Son King Edward VI.'s his Reign. He married Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir William Capel Knt. by whom he had four Sons
John [Pawlet], commonly called Lord St. John, ... was summoned to Parliament 15 Eliz. the Year after his Father's Death, and was one of the Peers at the Duke of Norfolk's Trial. He married one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke, by whom he had also Issue four Sons
William [Pawlet], the Eldest [son]. He was summoned to Parliament in his Father's Life-time, by the Name and Title of Lord St. John of Basing. He married Anne, the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham, and by her had Issue one Son
William [Pawlet], who succeeded his Father in his Honour and Estate, and marrying Lucy, Daughter of Thomas, Earl of Exeter, had by her six Sons, of which the two eldest, Thomas and William, died in their Father's Life-time
John [Pawlet] was ... Heir, and succeeded him in his Title [Lord St. John of Basing]; he married Jane, Daughter of Thomas Viscount Savage of Rock-Savage in Cheshire
Charles [Pawlet] his [John'a] Heir and Successor, called in his Father's Life-time, Lord St. John of Basing. He had for his second Wife, Mary, Daughter of Emanuel, Earl of Sunderland, and by her had two Sons, Charles and William. He was made Duke of Bolton in the first Year of the Reign of King William III, and Queen Mary II. 1689.
Charles is the present Duke of Bolton, and hath issue by Frances, the Daughter of William Ramsden of Byron in Yorkshire Esq; two Sons, Charles Marquess of Winchester, and the Lord Henry Pawlet; and by the Lady Henrietta Crofts, Daughter of James, Duke of Monmouth, the Lord Nassau Pawlet.