Observations on the Life of William Lord Pawlet.
WIlliam Pawlet (where-ever born) had his la••gest estate and highest Honour (Baron of Basing, and Marquess of Win∣ch••ster) in Hantshire•• He was descended from a younger house of the Pawlets in Hinton St. George in Somersetshire, as by the Crescent in his Arms is acknowledged. * 1.1 One telleth us, That he being a younger Brother, and having wasted all that was left him, came to court on trust; where, upon the stock of his Wit, he trafficked so wisely, and prospe∣red so well, that he got, spent, and left, more than any subject since the Conquest. Indeed he lived at the time of the dissolution of Abbeys, which was the Harvest of Estates; and it argued idlene••s if any Courtier had his Barns empty. He was servant to King Henry the seventh; and for thirty years toge∣ther Treasu••er to King Henry the eight••. Edward the sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth: the latter in some sort owed their Crowns to his Coun∣sel, his policy being the principal Defeater of D••ke Dudley's Designe to dis-inherit them. I behold this Lord Pawlet like to aged Adoram, so often men∣tioned in Scriptures, being over the Tribute in the days of King a 1.2 David, all the Reign of King b 1.3 So∣lomon,