POWLETT, Charles (c. 1630-99) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

bap. Feb. 1630, TNA, C115/105/8122. s. John Paulet, 5th mq. of Winchester and 1st w. Jane Savage, da. of Thomas Savage^†, Visct. Savage. educ. ?privately; travelled abroad (Italy); m. (1) 1652 (with £10,000), Holles, Mems. 164. Christian Frescheville (d.1653), da. John Frescheville, Bar. Frescheville, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) 12 Feb. 1655 Mary (d.1681), illeg. da. of Emmanuel Scrope^†, earl of Sunderland, and Martha Jeanes (alias Sandford), wid. of Henry Carey, styled. Ld. Leppington (d.1649), 2s. 3da. (1 d.v.p.). Morrice, Ent’ring Bk. v. 279. d. 27 Feb. 1699; N. Yorks. RO, Bolton Hall mss. ZBO VIII, 0937, 27 Feb. 1699. will 9 Apr. 1694, pr. 14 June 1699. PROB 11/451.

Offices Held

PC 1679 – 85, 1689–?d.; Beinecke Lib. OSB MSS fb 210, ff. 357–8. mbr. cttee for trade and plantations 1679, Bodl. Carte 81, f. 600. 1689 – d.; commr. of appeal in admiralty cases 1697. CSP Dom. 1697, p. 510.

Freeman, Winchester 1660, Hartlepool 1670; HP Commons 1660–90, iii. 276. ld. lt. Hants 1667–76, CSP Dom. 1667–8, pp. 78, 92. 1689 – d.; warden of New Forest 1668–76, CSP Dom. 1667–8, p. 161. 1689 – d.; custos rot., Hants 1670 – 76; kpr. of King’s Lodge at Petersham 1671; v.-adm., Hants 1692; HMC Hastings, ii. 345. high steward, Winchester.

Col. regt. of ft. 1689–97, CSP Dom. 1698, pp. 46, 105, 119. militia horse and ft. by 1697 – d.

Parlimentarian

POWLETT, (PAULET), Charles I, Lord St. John of Basing (c.1630-99), of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London and Hackwood, Hants.

Associated with: Lincoln’ Inn Fields, London;Survey of London, iii. 96-103.; Bolton Castle, Yorks. and Hackwood, Hants.VCH Hants iv. 115-27.;

PAWLETT, PAULET

Likenesses

line engraving by R. White, after unknown artist, 1679, NPG D1080.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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