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Description: | The descriptive catalogue of the etched works of Hollar, by Richard Pennington (1982) describes this small oval: "Half right; with long hair and moustache and imperial. He wears a white collar with a scalloped lace edge over a doublet with eight buttons down the centre. Unsigned." John Paulet is famed as the royalist and Catholic peer who, in the Civil War, held his castle of Basing House for three years against the Parliamentary forces before being stormed on 16 October 1645. Hollar is erroneously often listed among the defenders.
John Paulet (1598-1675) was created Baron St John in 1624, became captain of Netley Abbey in 1626 and succeeded to the marquisate in 1629, becoming also keeper of Pamber Forest. Basing House was his chief seat: on every pane of glass in the house he had etched with a diamond "Aimez Loyaute" as a sign of his loyalty to the king. At the end of the Civil War siege, Paulet was taken prisoner, charged with high treason, and his estates sequestered. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, he retired to his restored estates at Englefield, Berkshire, where he died on 5 March 1675, the premier marquis of England. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Earl of Wiltshire Civil War Lord St John of Basing Netley Castle John Paulet Baron St John Pamber Forest portrait Lord St John Englefield siege John Pawlet 5th Marquis of Winchester Basing House | Temporal: | start=1640-01-01; end=1655-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Wenceslaus Hollar | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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