Oswald Barron

“ Sir John Paulet of Basing, by his cousin Alice Paulet of the Hinton line (his wife in or before 1467) , was father of Sir William Paulet, who, during a very long and supple career as a statesman in four reigns — " I am sprung, " he said, " from the willow and not from the oak " — raised his house to a marques sate. ”

“ William Paulet, by his marriage with Eleanor Delamare (d. 1413) , daughter of Philip Delamare and heir of her brother, acquired for his descendants Fisherton Delamare in Wiltshire and Nunney Castle in Somerset. Their son Sir John Paulet married Constance, daughter and coheir of Hugh Poynings, son and heir of Sir Thomas Poynings, Lord St John of Basing. Through this marriage came the lordship and manor of Basing, and the manor of Amport or Ham Port which is still with the descendants of Hugh de Port, its Norman lord at the time of the Domesday Survey. ”

“ They advanced themselves by a series of marriages with heirs, acquiring manors and lands in Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Devonshire and Hampshire. A match with a Denebaud early in the 15th century brought the manor of Hinton St George, still the seat of the elder line, the earls Poulett. ”