A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



PAUHT. Sable three 

 ruiords in file -with golden 

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William Gorfen as his share." On his death, in I 547," 

 his sister and heir Alice immediately took possession, 

 without any proof of age or livery of her inheritance, 

 but was pardoned and received licence to enter in 

 February, 1551." In Michaelmas of the same year 

 the manor was settled on Alice 

 for life with remainder to 

 Chidiock Paulet ** and his 

 issue. 89 In this way the manor 

 of Warnford came into the 

 family of the Paulets, who 

 were descended from Con- 

 stance the elder sister of Alice 

 Kyngeston, and one of the 

 granddaughters and co-heirs of 

 Sir Thomas de Poynings, who 

 died in 1429. Alice Gorfen 

 must have died before 1 562, for 

 in that year Chidiock, Lord 



Paulet, obtained licence from Queen Elizabeth to 

 alienate his manor of Warnford to Peter Tichborne and 

 Thomas Pynder, 30 no doubt for purposes of settlement. 

 Chidiock died seised of the manor in 1574," and 

 was succeeded by his son William, who in 1577 

 granted the manor and advowson of Warnford to 

 William Neale and Agnei his wife in return for 

 various annuities.* 1 In spite of this arrangement, 

 however, William Paulet is still described as seised of 

 the manor at the time of his death in 1 596." William 

 Neale, who was one of the auditors to Queen Eliza- 

 beth, died seised of the manor in 1602, leaving a son 

 and heir Thomas, aged thirty-six," who was after- 

 wards knighted and was auditor to King James I. On 

 his death in 1620 Warnford passed to his son and 

 heir Thomas, 35 the author of a little treatise entitled 

 A Treatise of Direction how to Travel! Safely and Profit- 

 ably Into Forraigne Countries, published in London in 



In 1678 Thomas sold the manor to Richard 

 Woollaston, from whom it was purchased a year later 

 by Sir Richard Stephens for 2,000 down and two 

 further payments of 3,500 and 5,500. Sir 

 Richard, however, failed to pay the purchase-money 

 at the times agreed upon, and the matter was referred 

 to Chancery, which decided against him. He then 

 appealed to the House of Lords, but his appeal was 

 dismissed, and by Act of Parliament passed in 1695 

 Hannah Woollaston, widow of John Woollaston the 



son and heir of Richard Woollaston, and Jonathan 

 Woollaston were enabled to sell the manor for the 

 payment of debts and legacies according to the will of 

 Richard Woollaston. In pursuance of the Act they 

 sold to Edward Silvester, 37 who by will left the manor 

 to his grandson, George Freeman, the son of his only 

 daughter Elizabeth, who had married Ralph Freeman. 38 

 George died without issue, and was succeeded by his 

 sister Elizabeth the wife of Sir Christopher Bouverie, 

 who was the second son of Sir Edward Bouverie. 3 ' 

 On the death of Sir Chris- 

 topher, Warnford passed to his 

 son and heir Freeman Bouverie, 

 who died without issue in 

 1734, his heir being his brother 

 John, who also died childless in 

 1750 leaving two sisters and co- 

 heirs, Elizabeth Bouverie and 

 Anne wife of John Hervey. 40 

 In 1754 the manor was settled 

 upon Elizabeth, her heirs and 

 assigns for ever. 41 At that 

 time Smith de Burgh, eleventh 

 earl of Clanricarde, held the 

 manor as a tenant. He seems 

 to have purchased it shortly 

 afterwards, for in 1765 it was 



settled upon him for the term of his life, with re- 

 mainder in tail-male to his eldest son Henry de Burgh, 

 Lord Dunkellin, with contingent remainder in tail- 

 male successively to his second 

 son John Thomas and his 

 daughters Lady Hester Amelia 

 and Lady Margaret Augusta. 41 

 Smith de Burgh, eleventh earl 

 of Clanricarde died in 1782 

 and was succeeded by his son 

 Henry, twelfth earl of Clanri- 

 carde, who died without issue 

 in 1795, his heir being his 

 brother John Thomas. 13 The 

 manor, however, was for some 

 time retained by Urania Anne, 

 widow of the twelfth earl, who 

 married Sir Joseph Sydney 



Yorke in 1815, and it was not until 1826 that she re- 

 leased her life interest 44 to Ulick John, fourteenth earl of 

 Clanricarde, 45 son and heir of John Thomas, thirteenth 



BOUVKRIE. Party 

 fessrwise or and argent 

 an eagle sable 'with nvo 

 heads bearing on his breast 

 a scutcheon gules 'with a 

 bend "vair. 



Di BDRGH, Earl of 

 Clanricarde. Or a cross 

 gules <with a lion sable 

 in the quarter. 



25 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 94, 

 No. 51. Two years later Henry VIII 

 granted to him the lands and tenements 

 in the parish formerly belonging to the 

 priories of Montacute (co. Somers.) and 

 Boxgrove (co. Suss.) (Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, 

 pt. i, m. 48). 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 94, 

 No. 51. 



V Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. I, m. 2. 



M This Chidiock was governor of the 

 town of Southampton and the castle of 

 Portsmouth in the reigns of Mary I and 

 Elizabeth (Pat. I Mary, pt. u, and I 

 Eliz. pt. 9). 



M With contingent remainder to Giles 

 Paulet and his issue, with contingent re- 

 mainder to the right heirs of William 

 Paulet, earl of Wiltshire. Pat. 5 Edw. VI, 

 pt. 1, m. 16 ; Memo. R. L. T. R. 14 

 Eliz. rot. 58 ; Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 5 

 Edw. VI. *> Pat. 5 Eliz. pt. 5, m. 36. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), 17 Eliz. 

 only pt No. 120. 



8a (i) An annuity of 50 for the term of 



the joint lives of Frances late wife of Lord 

 Chidiock Paulet, and Thomas Paulet son of 

 Chidiock and Frances ; (2) an annuity of 

 ^50 during the life of Thomas Paulet, the 

 first payment being due at the feast 

 (either of the Annunciation of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary or of St. Michael the Arch- 

 angel) which should first fall after the 

 death of Frances ; and (3) an annuity of 

 50 during the life of Frances, the first 

 payment being due at the feast (either of the 

 Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

 or of St. Michael the Archangel) which 

 should first fall after the death of Thomas. 

 (Notes of F. Hants, Mich. 19 & 20 Eliz. ; 

 Com. Pleas Deeds Enr. Mich. 19 & 20 

 Eliz ; Memo. R. L. T. R. East. 20 Eliz. 

 rot. 1 06). 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 247, 

 No. 86. 



" Ibid. (Ser. 2) 44 Eliz. pt. 2, No. 1 14. 



85 W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 

 32, No. 129. 



84 The foreword to the reader is dated 

 from 'his house at Warneford,' 3 Feb. 



270 



1642, and the whole work it dedicated to 

 his brother William. 



"7 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiii, App. pt. 

 v, 275 ; Close, 7 Will, and Mary, pt. 12, 

 m. 5-7. 



88 Stowe MS. 84.5, fol. 98 ; Recov. R. 

 Hants, Mich. 4 Anne, m. 67. 



89 Manning and Bray, Surrey, ii, 208. 



40 Ibid. 



41 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 26 Geo. 

 II; Close, 28 Geo. II, pt. 12, m. 10-12 ; 

 Recov. R. Kit. 27 Geo. II, m. 283. 



42 Close, 5 Geo. Ill, pt. i 5, m. 39-42 ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 5 Geo. Ill, m. 147. 



48 Recov. R. Hil. 38 Geo. Ill, m. 17. 



44 Feet of F. Hants, East. 6 Geo. IV. 



45 He succeeded to the earldom in 1 808, 

 was created marquis of Clanricarde 

 (peerage of Ireland) 1825 and Baron 

 Somerhill 1826. He was Under-Secre- 

 tary for Foreign Affairs 1826-7, Am- 

 bassador at St. Petersburg 183840, Post- 

 master-General 1 846-5 2, Lord Privy Seal 

 1858, and Lord Lieutenant of county 

 Galway, &c. 



