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 212 BOLTON 1696, at Basing, aged 35. He m., 3rdly, 1697, before 15 Oct., probably in Dublin, Henrietta Crofts, one of the illegit. children of James (Scott), Duke of Monmouth, (sometime James Crofts) by Eleanor Needham, Spinster, da. of Sir Robert Needham, of Lambeth. He d. at his house in Dover Str., London, of pleurisy, 21 Jan., and was bur. i Feb. 172 1/2 (in woollen) at Basing, aged 60. Will pr.Feb. I724.('') His widow d. 27 Feb., and was bur. 10 Mar. 1729/30, at Basing, aged 47. Admon. 20 Mar. 1729/30, to her s., Lord Nassau Powlett. III. 1722. 3. Charles (Pawlet or Powlett), Duk.e of Bolton, is'c., s. and h. by 2nd wife, b. 3 Sep. 1685, at Chawton, Hants; ed. at Enfield.('') M.P. (Whig) for Lymington, 1705-1 708 ;("=) for Hants, 1708-10; for CO. Carmarthen 1 71 5-1 7. Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, 1714-22. Gov. of Milford Haven and Vice Admiral of South Wales, 171 5; Lord Lieut, of cos. Carmarthen and Glamorgan 1 715, re-gazetted to the former on the accession of George II, 30 Aug. 1727, and to the latter 26 Mar. 1729; Col. of the Horse Guards (Blue) 1717-33; Lieut. Gen. 1745. On 12 Apr. 1717 he was sum. to Pari, v.p., as a Baron, the writ (which was doubtless meant to have been in his father's Barony of Saint John) being directed Carolo Pawlet de Basing Chr. This accordingly constituted a new Peerage and cr. him LORD PAWLET OF BASING.('^) He was Lord Lieut, of Hants and Dorset, (*) Bishop Burnet's character of him, with Dean Swift's remarks thereon in italics, is as follows: " Does not make any figure at Court. Nor anywhere else. A great Booby." Tom Hearne's account is, " A most lewd, vicious man, a great dissembler and a very hard drinker." Lady Cowper in her Diary writes that he is generally to be seen with his tongue lolling out of his mouth. V.G. C') His master there, Dr. Robert Uvedale, writes, "he declines all business, and refuses to be governed, absenting himself from school, and by no persuasion will be prevayl'd upon to follow his studies." {Hist. AfSS. Com.). V.G. ('^) As a peer he belonged to that section of the party which opposed Walpole. V.G. ("*) [The following note on the subject of this Barony occurs in the handwriting of Mr. Hargrave, the eminent counsel, in his copy of Edmondson's Peerage in the British Museum. "What follows was laid before me as the copy of the memorandum by Speaker Onslow, concerning the summons of Sir Charles Pawlett as Lord St. John of Basing. "'Charles, afterwards Duke of Bolton, was in 1 717 called up to the House of Peers by Writ by the title of Lord Basing. Note. — It proved to be a new creation by, really, a mistake of the name of the father's Barony to which he was intended to have been called up. The father's title was St. John of Basing, and though this was known to their Lordships in their private capacity, yet the Writ being complete and legal, they, as a court, considered it was a Writ of fresh creation, and he was placed the lowest Baron, and thereby got a Barony in fee.' This memorandum is confirmed by the entry in the Journal of the Lords, 6 May 1717. — F.H." The entry in the Journals notices his introduction into the House, recites his Writ, and adds that, after taking the oaths, " he was placed on the lower end of the Barons' bench."- — Lords' Journals, vol. xx, p. 446.