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John MALET [1] |
 Note |
Aft 1596 [2] |
- Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 47-48, appendices T1-T2:
JOHN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON.
John Malet was the son of Sir John Malet, Knight of the Bath, and Mary, the daughter of Chief Justice Popham. He succeeded his father in 1614, and died in April, 1644; he married (it is singular that I find at so late a date no mention of her Christian name) the daughter of Sir John Tracy, by whom he had issue:
1. John Malet.
2. Mary.
3. Jane, married to Charles White, Esq., of Fifield, Berks; he died 1662.*
4. Elizabeth.
5. Ann, married as his first wife to Roger Bourne of Gothelney, Somerset; she died May 1st, 1670, and was buried at Charlinch. "Roger Bourne of Gothelney, Esq., February 1st, 1671-2, L.4,000 on mortgage of Enmore and Charlinch made by John Malet, deceased, due to me; I devise them to trustees, named." (Pye, 15.)
John Malet was a Member of Parliament in 1623-4 for Bath, where there is a monumental inscription to him, April 10th, 1644. In a window in the north aisle of the Abbey Church were the Malet arms with the motto "Malet Meliora," but these have been removed. He was Sheriff for Somerset in 1638-9, and seems to have had considerable trouble in satisfying the demands of the Government for ship-money.** He is said by Sir W. Pole to have sold the manor of Deandon.*** The precis of his will+ is from the Rev. F. Brown's MS.
* Berks Visitation, vol. vi of Miscellanea Gen. and Herald, p. 107.
** State Papers, Ch.i, 1638-9, Feb. 2.--John Malet, late Sheriff of Somerset, to Secy. Nicholas.
"I have received sundry letters from the Council commanding Henry Hodges, my predecessor, and myself, to collect the ship moneys which were in arrears in his time; and having many times desired him to continue his endeavour towards the more speedy dispatch of this important affair, I have reaped no other fruit than peremptory refusals. Hodges was Sheriff about one year and a half, and I succeeded him, and was in office little above half the year. His account was so imperfect, as will appear by the false and injurious returns he made to me of what was behind in several Hundreds, that during my time he never perfected it, and, more, the Hundreds were so grieved at his rate that many complained to the Council for relief; and I being made a referee with the Bishop of Bath and Wells for the discovery of the inequalities of Hodge's [sic] proceedings, gave my attendance continually in the service, by which means the time I should have employed in the collection was for the most part spent in hearing the complaints of the country and certifying them to the Council." Seal with arms.
Feb. 2, Deposition of Robert Rich, Under Sheriff, to John Malet, Sheriff of Somerset.
Several letters have been sent from the Council to Henry Hodges, of Somerset, in 1625, and to John Malet, his successor; to collect the arrears of ship money imposed by Hodges; in obedience whereunto Malet and the deponent have collected and paid to Sir Wm Russel L2,200. Notwithstanding that Hodges was acquainted with the said letters, yet he has not paid in one penny of the said arrears, and has utterly refused to receive them or join in collecting them.
*** Sir A.M.'s MSS., vol. ii, p.18.
+ To my wife L500, my son John Malet--My brother and kinsman Sir Robert Tracy, Sir John Hele, my friend Mr. Hugh Halswell, my brother Thomas Malet, my friend and neighbour John Bourne, of Durleigh, and Mr. John Cridland, trustees of my estate--L 2,000 to my daughter Mary, L1,500 to my daughter Jane, L1,500 to Ann and Elizabeth--My servant Tho's Malet-- Overseers, Mr. Hugh Halswell, Mr. John Bourne of Durleigh, and Mr. John Cridland. Feb. 15th, 1646.
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| Birth |
Est 1621 |
Enmore, Somerset, England  [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Note |
Aft 1621 [1] |
- Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 48-49, appendices V1-V3:
JOHN MALET OF ENMORE.
John Malet, son of John Malet and the daughter of Sir John Tracy, married Untia Hawley,* daughter of Francis Lord Hawley; by her he had one child, his heiress-- he died in 1656:
1. Elizabeth Malet, married John Wilmot Earl of Rochester.
She was the subject of an outrage which is thus related:
Charing Cross in the time of Charles II was the scene of the forcible abduction of Elizabeth Malet (celebrated as the triste Heritiere of De Grammont) by the Earl of Rochester. She was the daughter of John Malet of Enmore, Somerset, and was possessed of a fortune of L.2,500 a year. One evening she had been supping at Whitehall with the beautiful Miss Stewart, afterwards Duchess of Richmond, and was returning home with her grandfather Lord Hawley, when their coach was suddenly arrested at Charing Cross; they were surrounded by a number of men, who seized and carried Miss Malet to another coach drawn by six horses with two females inside: it drove rapidly off, but was pursued, and Rochester was found near Uxbridge skulking by himself: he was committed to the Tower but, pardoned by King Charles, he afterwards married Elizabeth Malet, and had issue by her:
1. Charles Wilmot, third Earl of Rochester, died s. p., November 12th, 1681, buried at Spelsbury.
2. Ann Wilmot, married first to Henry Bayntun,** 1685; he died at Adderbury, Oxon, September 1st, 1691. Married second to Francis, son of Fulke Greville Lord Brooke. She died in 1703.
3. Elizabeth Wilmot, married Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich; he died October 20th, 1729, aged fifty-seven; she died July 2nd, 1757.
4. Malet Wilmot, married John Vaughan, created first Viscount Lisburn, June 29th, 1695; he died 1721; she died August, 1716.
Elizabeth Lady Rochester died in 1681.***
Marginalia: The Enmore line of Malet closes.
* Untia Malet married as her second husband Sir John Warre, and by her had issue Sir Francis Warre, Bart., of Hestercombe.
** Henry Bayntun by his wife Ann Wilmot had one daughter, his heir, who was married to Edward Rolt, of Sacombe, Com: Hertsly, who had issue by her Edward Bayntun Rolt, who represented the borough of Chippenham in Parliament in the second and third Parliaments of King George II, and, by virtue of an Act made in the fifteenth year of that King, sold the manor of Enmore with other estates to James Smyth of St. Audries, from whom it was conveyed to the Earl of Egmont.
Bayntun, of Spye Park, Wilts, Esq/re, buried at Bremhill, June 19, 1691. To my son John Bayntun, all my manors, etc. My daughter Ann Bayntun on her marriage with Edward Henry Bayntun, son of my sister Lucy Bayntun.
*** Hatton Family Correspondence, Camden Society, Vol. II, p. __
Letter to the Countess of Manchester, August 2nd, 1681. "The young [the Dowager was living] Lady Rochester is dead suddenly of an apoplexie."
*** Bishop Burnet's Lives and Characters, etc., Jebb's edition, 1883, p. 245.
The Bishop is writing of Lord Rochester's last days:--"He told me that he had thereupon received the Sacrament with great satisfaction, and that was increased by the pleasure he had in his Lady's partaking it with him, who had been for some years misled into the Communion of the Church of Rome; and he himself had been not a little instrumental in procuring it, as he freely acknowledged; so that it was one of the joyfullest things which befell him in his sickness, that he had seen that mischief removed in which he had so great a hand. And during his whole sickness he expressed so much tenderness and true kindness to his lady that, as it easily defaced the remembrance of every thing wherein he had been in fault formerly, so it drew from her the most passionate care and concern for him that was possible, which indeed deserves a higher character than is decent to give to a person yet alive."
In each of the five letters which Burnet prints from the Dowager Countess to her sister Lady St. John, Lady Rochester is mentioned. In the P.S. to Letter III, the words are: "Before I sealed this I received yours and two waters for my son Ro; he and his Lady give you thanks and present their service to you."
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| SW Group |
A |
| UKC 1881 |
N |
| Death |
1656 |
Enmore, Somerset, England [3] |
| Person ID |
I7156 |
Southwest |
| Last Modified |
24 Jan 2010 |
Est 1621 - 1656 (~ 35 years)
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