HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 83 



sex. A stately monument to his memory was erected above the 

 choir in the cathedral of Lichfield, which, together with that beau- 

 tiful church, was destroyed during the Civil war. 



In 1688, William Lord Paget was Lord Lieutenant and Custos 

 Rotulorum of the county of Stafford, and appointed Envoy Extra- 

 ordinary to the Emperor of Germany. His Lordship died at an 

 advanced age in London, on the 26th of February, 1713, and was 

 succeeded by his son Henry, who, on the 19th October, 1714, was 

 created Earl of Uxbridge by Queen Anne. His only son and heir, 

 Thomas Catesby (Lord Paget), was elected to two Parliaments in 

 the time of George the First, and is classed among the few noble 

 authors who have distinguished themselves by their productions iu 

 the English language. In 1734, he published a poem, in quarto, 

 entitled an Essay on Human Life, which was more remarkable for 

 good sense than poetic beauty. He also published a political pamph- 

 let in 1740, and several poems and essffys, in one volume octavo, 

 of which only a few copies were printed, to be given away to his 

 friends. Perhaps it would be much to the advantage of modern 

 literature, if the Noble authors of the present day were equally 

 modest and circumspect. His Lordship died at Drayton, near Ux- 

 bridge, in January, 1742. 



Henry, the second Earl of Uxbridge, was born in 1719, and dying 

 unmarried in 1769, the barony of Burton and earldom of Uxbridge 

 became extinct, but the Barony of Paget descended to Henry 

 Bayley, in right of his mother. Henry Bayley Paget, the late Earl 

 of Uxbridge, was born June 18, 1744 ; married April 11, 1767, to 

 Jane, daughter of Arthur Champagne, dean of Clonmacnoise, in 

 Ireland, and succeeded to the barony of Paget on the 17th of No- 

 vember, 1769. The issue of his Lordship's marriage has been seven 

 sons and five daughters, of whom the eldest son, Henry William, 

 was born May 17, 1768. 



The late Earl was exalted to the earldom of Uxbridge May 19th, 

 1784; and his conduct as a public character was eminently con- 

 spicuous and patriotic. He was Colonel of the Staffordshire Militia, 

 and devoted much of his attention to the discipline of that fine 

 regiment, while his example incited his sons to distinguish them- 

 selves by deeds of heroism in the service of their King and country. 



At the commencement of the war with the French Republic in 

 1793, his Lordship's eldest son, Lord Paget, raised a regiment of 

 infantry, and was distinguished for his bravery as its leader in 

 several engagements on the Continent. His second son, the Hon. 



