PASTON, CLEMENT (1616 P-1697), for his ransom is as incorrect as that * he

sea-captain, second son of Sir William Papton was the first that made the English navy (1479:-1664) [q. v.], is said by Uojd (State t^irrible.' At the battle of Pinkie in 1547, Worthies) to have served the kin^ of France Paston was wounded and left for dead. It is in the time of Henry VII, but the inscription said that he was the captor of Sir Thomas on his monument, which gives the date of Wyatt in 1654, which is contrary to evidence his death, says : * Twice forty years he lived (Froude, Hist. ofEwjL cabinet edit. v. 364), and somewhat more/ fixing the date of his and that he commanded the fleet at Havre birth about 1516. He is first mentioned in in 1562, which is fiction. In 1570 he was

as ' one of the pensioners ' and a fitting a magistrate of Norfolk, and a commissioner 

man to command a king's ship. In 1646 he for the trial and execution of traitors (State commanded the Pelican of Danzig, of three Papers^ Dom. Elizabeth, Ixxiii. 28), and in hundred tons, in the fleet under Lord Lisle. 1587, though a deputy-lieutenant of the Jn 1546, still, presumably, in the Pelican, he county, he was suspected of being lukewarm captured a Frencli gallev having on board in the interests of religion (Strypb, An?ials, the Baron St. BlancharJ, who appears to iii.ii. 460). In 1588 ho was sheriff^ of Norfolk. have been coming to England on some in- He died on 18 Feb. 1597, and was buried formal embassy from the king of France, in the cliurcli of Oxnead, where a * stately The galley was i>robably the Mermaid, which marble tomb ' testifies that was added to the English navy ; but of the ... princes he served four, circumstances of tlie capture no record can In peace and war, as fortune did commnnd, be found. It was afterwards debated whether Sometimes by sea and sometimes on the the galley was * good prize,* and whether St. shore. Blanchard ought to pay ransom, for which He married Alice, widow of Edward Lam- Paston demanded five thousand crowns, bert. Her maiden name was Packington. He with two thousand more for maintenance, appears to have had no children, and left the At the request of Henry, on giving his bond bulk of his property to his wife, with re- for the money, the baron was released, and mainder to his nephew, Sir William Paston he returned to France with his servants, j-gee under Pastox, Sik William, 1479:"-

• two horses, and twelve mastifl'dogs.' After- 1664].

wards he pleaded that he was under compul- rm cm j t* t.- • tt- . ^ %t ^ « «on at tL time, and that the bond waa ,:fi'ir'?r,^l",^t.?"J,^'°;i,"i- °^^^ ^__.ti_^ ^ J •«. 4.U 4. <i.i. VI. 487; Cnaml)er8s Hist, of >orfolk, p. 211. worthl^, nor does It appear that the money 959 ^j^^ ^^^^^^ i^ Lloyd's State Worthiei was paid. Paston, however, kept the plunder J3 untrustworthy ; State Papers of Henry VIII of the galley, of which a gold cup, with two (1330, &c.), i. 811. 866, 894, xi. 329; Acts of of France and received thirty thousand crowns these papers have not yet been calendared, many TOL. ZLIY. B v'