By G Poiilett Scrope, Esq., M.P. 25 



to the next male heir, George Paulet, eighth and only sur- 

 viving son of Norton Paulet, son and heir of Francis, eldest 

 son of Lord Henry Pawlet, second son of William 4 th Mar- 

 quis of Winchester and Earl of Wiltshire. He died 22nd 

 AprO. 1800, and was succeeded by 

 1800. Charles Ingoldsby Burroughs Pawlett, son and heir, who 

 died 29th November 1843, leaving as his successor in all 

 honours his son and heir, 

 1843. John Paulet, present and 14th Marquis of Winchester, 

 Earl of Wiltshire, and Baron St. John of Basing, in the 

 Peerage of England, Premier Marquis of England, Hereditary 

 bearer of the Cap of Maintenance, Lord Lieutenant of the 

 County of Southampton, and Colonel of the North Hants 

 Militia. 

 The Arms borne by the Paulets, Earls of Wiltshire and Mar- 

 quisses of Winchester have always been the family coat, viz. : 

 Sable, three swords in pile argent, pomels and hilts or ; with which 

 the Duke of Bolton quartered the arms of Scrope (azure a bend 

 or,) within a bordure or. Crest, — a Mailed arm proper, holding 

 a sword, same as in coat. Motto, — "Aymez Loyaute." 



Most of the estates in Wiltshire held from an early period 

 by this branch of the Paulet family, were long since alienated. 

 The Manor of Longbridge Deverill was sold by William, first 

 Earl and Marquis, 14th Elizabeth, to William Mullens, from 

 whom it passed to the Ludlows, owners of the adjoining Manor 

 of Hill Deverill.i 



The Manor of Fisherton Delamere continued in the possession 

 of the Earls of Wiltshire down to Henry eleventh Marquis 

 and Earl, and sixth and last Duke of Bolton, who sold it, circa 

 1778, to Webb Seymour, Duke of Somerset. 



Scropes ; having twice during that period been transmitted through natural 

 daughters to their present possessor. The Hampshire estates of Basing and 

 Hackwood, inherited from the St. Johns, passed likewise to Lord Bolton, to- 

 gether with those in Yorkshire. The mansion at Hackwood contains numerous 

 portraits of the successive Earls of Wiltshire and Mai-quisscs of Winche&tcr of 

 the Paulet blood. 



' Hoare's Hundred of Heytesbiuy, p. 11. 



