Somerset, Hinton St George church - refused - re-erected
Sir Amias Poulet c1533 -1588 - keeper of Mary Queen of Scots at Tutbury in April 1585 and later at Chartley and Fotheringay, until her death. A harsh gaoler, he was congratulated by Elizabeth on his vigilance, but to William Davison’s suggestion that he should connive at Mary’s murder, Paulet replied:
My goods and my life are at her Majesty’s disposition, but God forbid I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot on my poor posterity.
He was rewarded after Mary’s execution with the chancellorship of the Garter.5
Amias was the 1st son of Sir Hugh Paulett 1575 by his 1st wife Philippa www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/uy2926 daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard of King’s Nympton, Devon.
He m Margaret www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7uNBK5 heiress daughter of Anthony Harvey 1564 flic.kr/p/wk6ffC of Columbjohn, Broadclyst, who is buried in Sampford Peverell church
Children - 3 sons and 3 daughters
1. Hugh b1558 died young
2. Anthony 562-1600 m Catherine d1601 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/NM094a only daughter of Sir Henry Norris / Norreys 1st Baron of Rycote www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/henry,-lord-... by Margaret daughter of John 1st Baron Williams of Thame 1559 flic.kr/p/wDyVm
3. George b 1565 m Elizabeth daughter of Edward Paulet of Goathurst
4.Joan m Robert Heyden of Bowood, Devon
5. Sarah 1608 flic.kr/p/d8QLSS m Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey
6. Elizabeth died unmarried.
Effigy in alabaster with french inscription, "once in St Martins Church Westminster which being pulled down and being refused to place the monument in the new church there, was removed with the body to this place in respect of the memory of Sir Amias Poulett by the 1st Earl Poulett knight companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter AD 1729"
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amias_Paulet - Hinton St George church Somerset
Somerset, Hinton St George church - refused - re-erected
Sir Amias Poulet c1533 -1588 - keeper of Mary Queen of Scots at Tutbury in April 1585 and later at Chartley and Fotheringay, until her death. A harsh gaoler, he was congratulated by Elizabeth on his vigilance, but to William Davison’s suggestion that he should connive at Mary’s murder, Paulet replied:
My goods and my life are at her Majesty’s disposition, but God forbid I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot on my poor posterity.
He was rewarded after Mary’s execution with the chancellorship of the Garter.5
Amias was the 1st son of Sir Hugh Paulett 1575 by his 1st wife Philippa www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/uy2926 daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard of King’s Nympton, Devon.
He m Margaret www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7uNBK5 heiress daughter of Anthony Harvey 1564 flic.kr/p/wk6ffC of Columbjohn, Broadclyst, who is buried in Sampford Peverell church
Children - 3 sons and 3 daughters
1. Hugh b1558 died young
2. Anthony 562-1600 m Catherine d1601 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/NM094a only daughter of Sir Henry Norris / Norreys 1st Baron of Rycote www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/henry,-lord-... by Margaret daughter of John 1st Baron Williams of Thame 1559 flic.kr/p/wDyVm
3. George b 1565 m Elizabeth daughter of Edward Paulet of Goathurst
4.Joan m Robert Heyden of Bowood, Devon
5. Sarah 1608 flic.kr/p/d8QLSS m Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey
6. Elizabeth died unmarried.
Effigy in alabaster with french inscription, "once in St Martins Church Westminster which being pulled down and being refused to place the monument in the new church there, was removed with the body to this place in respect of the memory of Sir Amias Poulett by the 1st Earl Poulett knight companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter AD 1729"
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amias_Paulet - Hinton St George church Somerset