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 210 TARMOUTH. YARMOUTH. Viiooiiiitoy. 1. Sir Robbrt Paston, Bart, of Ozncad, oo. Norfolk, I* 1673, "* ^"^^ ^* ^' ^^^ William Faston, Bari., of the game (a aufferer in JSarldoiil. (Birtib), let Eabl of Limdsbt, waa (. 29 May 16S1 ; ed. at T 1 fi7Q Wtttm. Bchool and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; waa knighted, bv X. iu# 57. cijarieg ij^ 26 May 1660 ; waa M.P. for Thetford, 1660, and fur. Caatle-Riaing, 1661-78, auc, aa 2nd Baronet (a dignity or. 8 Jane 1642), on the death of hia father, 22 Feb. 1662/3 ; F.RS.. 20 May 1668 : a geut of the Privy chamber. 1666/7; and waa cr. 19 Aug. 1673,(») Barom Paston of Paaton, and VISCOUNT YARMOUTH, both in 00. Norfolk, taking hia aeat 20 Oct following ; High Steward of Urent Yarmouth, 1674 ; L.-Lieut and Vice- Admiral of Norfolk, 1676 entertainiiifr Charlea II. at Oxnead in that year ;0*) ReoeiTer of the finea called *' the Green wax," 1678 ; Col. of a reg. of the Norfolk militia, 1679, and waa cr., 80 July 1679, KARL OP YARMOUTH. He m. about 1650, Rebecca, 2d da. of Sir Jaaper Clayton, of St. Edmund the King, London, by Mary, da. of William Toupsom, of Tinmouth Caatle, oo. Cumberland. He (i. 8 March 16S2/8 and waa hur. at Oxnead. aged 5l.(«) WiU pr. May 1688. Hia widow d, 16 Feb. 1698/4.(<l) Will pr. 1694. IL 1683, 2. William (Pabton), Earl of Tarmouth [167D], to ViaoouiiT Yarmouth [1678] and Baron PaafiON [1678], let a. and h., 1732. aged 19 in June 1678 ; ed. at Trin. ColL, Cambridge ; Col. Norfolk reg. of Horae militia, 1678 ; M P. for Norwich 1678-83 ; Uyled Lord Paston, 1679-83 $ucioth€ purage, aa above, 8 March 1682/8 ; High Steward of Yarmouth, 1684 ; Capt. of a troop of Horae, 1685-88 ; Treaaurer of the Houaehold, 1687-88, to James IL, of whom he waa a aupporter ; joint L. Lieut of WilU, March to Deo. 1688 ; Vice Admiral of Norfolk, Jon. to April, 1719 ; F.U.S., 80 Not. 1722. He m. firstly, in or before May 1674, Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria (born Botlk or Fitzrot), widow of Jamea Howard (who d 6 July 1669, in hia 20th year), and illegit da. of Onarles II., by Elizabeth, wife of Fmncia (Boylk), lut ViBOOUHT Shannon [L], da. of Sir Robert Killbgiucw. She d. auddeuly, at her houno in Pall Mall, 28 July and waa bw. 4 Aug. 1684, in AVeatm. Abbey.(°) He «i. aecoiidly (Lie. Via Gen., 1 March 1686/7, he about 33 and ahe above 80), Elixiibeth, widow cf Sir Robert Wisbman, D.CL., Dean of the Archea, 8d da. of Dudley (North), 4th Lord North db Kirtunq, by Anne, da. and coheir of Sir Charlea Momtaqd. He </. ■.p.mjk, 25 Dec 1782, at Epsom, aged 80, when all his Aottcmrj became exUheti^ Will pr. 1788. (*) He is aaid to have been granted the impoaition of " deala coming to Yarmouth " (worth £8,000 a year) for having moved for a grant for £2,500,000 f(»r the King, with whom he waa, apparently, in great favour. (b) On 9 Aug. 1676, ** he was waylaid, while travelling at night, by rufBana, who shot five bullets into hia coach, one of which entered his body." («) He ia spoken of aa " a ueraon of good learning, and a traveller who brought home a number of curioaities. Hia portrait, ** after Sir Q. Eneller," painted about 1675, ia engraved in " DoyU." {^) She, ** who made a great bustle in K. Charles ll.'a time, now boards in a thatched houae ; and altho* she keeps op her pride to the height, by aiiffering no one to ait«t meat with her, and many other vain formalities, yet with difficulty enough finds money to pay for her board . . . Her aon gives her no reM|iecU or holds any correspondence with her, tho' ahe Uvea not above two milea from hiin." [Huinphn-y Prideaux to J. Ellia, 25 Dec. 1693.] (•) '* Without anv arma [t.e., armorial ensigns] of her own ; the King, her father, not having aaaigned her any in her lifetime." [i^andfrnd] (<) In Macky's ** Cliamctera," he ia apoken uf, wi.en about 50, aa "a Nonjuror all King William 'a reign, but a man of aense and knowleilge in the affaire of his country." Later on, however, it ia said of him " Lives very obscurely and yet increoFeth his debts." He deeply incumbered tlie estates (which were sold at hi« death), allowing the magnifioent umily seat at Oxnead to fall into ruin, and selling his father's library and ooUeotioa of ooriosities.
 * * ^^^ Itoyal oauiie) by hia firat wife, Catharine, da. of Robert