Page:A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices.djvu/205



His admission to the Inn is not in the books; but his name appears on the list of Treasurers of the Middle Temple in 1520, and again in 1521, and he is credited with the restoration of the gateway leading into Fleet Street (the predecessor of the present gateway erected by Sir C. Wren in 1684), "garnishing the same on the outside thereof with cardinals' hats and arms," thinking thereby to conciliate Cardinal Wolsey, whose animosity he is said to have incurred by having him placed in the stocks in days before his "greatness had a-ripened," Sir Amias being then a great man and a magistrate down in Hampshire, and the Cardinal an unknown cleric. When their relative positions became reversed, the Cardinal avenged himself by confining Sir Amias to the limits of the Temple for five or six years. He became free in 1524, soon after the gateway was completed, though whether the cardinals' hats and arms had anything to do with his liberation does not appear. Sir Amias was the son of Sir William Paulet of Hinton St. George, Somerset He served in the wars in France and in the suppression of Simnel's and Perkin Warbeck's rebellions. He died in 1538.

There is no entry of his admission to be found (it probably being in the lost book); but his Arms are in the first North window of the Hall. He was the son of (q.v.) also a member of the Inn, whom he succeeded in 1538. He was knighted in 1537, and was present in the same year at Prince Edward's baptism. He subsequently served in France, and distinguished himself at the siege of Boulogne in 1544. In 1549 he put down the risings in the West following upon Reformation changes, and in the following year was appointed Captain of Jersey, and some time after, Vice-President of the Welsh Marches. He died on the 6 Dec, most probably 1572, though the date of the year on his tomb at Hinton St. George is obliterated. The name on the inscription is Poulet, the form of it he himself always adopted.

Admitted 21 February, 1593-4.

Second son of Sir Amias Paulett and great grandson of {q.v.). On the Register he is described as "Anthony Pawlett of George Hinton, Somerset, Governour of the Island of Jersey," in which office he succeeded his father in 1588. He was also Captain of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth. He died 22 July, 1600.

PAWLETT. See POULETT.

Admitted 23 June, 1613.

Son and heir of John Peard of Barnstaple, Devon. He was called to the Bar 30 June, 1620. He represented his native town in Parliament in 1640 as an ardent supporter of the Parliamentarian Party, and when the Civil War