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  • Text: Sir Amias Paulet was the son of Sir William Paulet (c. 1404-1488) and Elizabeth Denebaud (c. 1415-1497), both of whom were from Hinton St George, near Crewkerne in southern Somerset. [17] Amias was one of five children: he was the only son, with four sisters, Elizabeth, Florence, Christian and Alice. [18] At the time of his death, his father, Sir William, was a substantial landowner in Somerset and in neighbouring Devon, with an additional rental income of around £10 per annum. [19] William’s lands were granted to Amias on 12 September 1488, when he was around thirty-one years old, the same time that he inherited the family estate at Hinton St George, including their ancestral home, Hinton House. The splendour of the house was such that the antiquarian John Leland would remark in 1544 that it was ‘a right goodly maner place of fre stone, with two goodly high toures embatelid in the ynner Court’. [20] Although the house itself no longer stands, records show that the house had ‘square turrets at each angle’ (what Leland described as ‘high toures embatelid’) which strongly suggests that Amias Paulet was in possession of a licence to crenellate. [21]

    [17] Victoria County History (hereafter VCH), Somerset, vol. 4, pp. 38-52. For the Paulet family pedigree, see Dorset History Centre (DHC), D-RGB/LL616.

    [18] David J. Ashton, ‘Paulet, Sir Amias (c. 1457-1538)’, ODNB, Oxford 2004.

    [19] DHC, D-WCH/T/14/2, a deed to declare uses for the manors of Isle Brewers, Pitney and Wearne in Somerset; also the manors of Chideock and a moiety of the manors of Winterborne Houghton and Up Cerne, Dorset, 2 March 1475.

    [20] Ashton, ‘Tudor State’, p. 17; J. Chandler, Leland’s Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England, Stroud 1993; VCH, Somerset, vol. 4, p. 42.

    [21] A. Bethell, ‘Sir Amias Paulet’, PSANHS, vol. 17 (1871), pp. 63-72 (p. 64).
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Christiana PauletNameChristian Paulet [S3226:130]
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Elizabeth DenebandNameElizabeth Denebaud [S756] [S3226:130] [S3227:38] [S3227:121]
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William Paulet of PawlettNameWilliam Paulet [S756] [S3226:130] [S3227:38] [S3237:166]
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Christiana PauletFatherWilliam Paulet of Pawlett (~1404-1488) [S756] [S3224:26] [S3226:130] [S3234:59]
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Christiana PauletMotherElizabeth Deneband (~1415-1497) [S756] [S3226:130] [S3234:59]
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William Paulet of PawlettBirthabt 1404England [S3226:130]
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Elizabeth DenebandBirthabt 1415England [S3226:130]
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William Paulet of PawlettDeathOct 2, 1488 [S3226:130] [S3227:38] [S3227:121]
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Elizabeth DenebandDeath1497 [S3226:130] [S3227:38]
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