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NameClement Paston 
[54, His own article]
[54, His own article]Birthca 1515
Death18 Feb 1597
Generaldsp. Naval Captain. Sheriff of Norfolk.
FatherSir William Paston (ca1478-1554)
MotherBridget Heydon
Notes for Clement Paston
m. Alice Packington, widow of Edward lambert.
DNB Main notes for Clement Paston
Paston, Clement 1515?-1597
Name: Paston, Clement
Dates: 1515?-1597
Active Date: 1555
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Travel and Exploration
Occupation: Sea-captain
Place of
Burial: The church of Oxnead
Spouse: Alice, widow of Edward Lambert. Her maiden name was Packington
Sources: Blomefield and Parkins's Hist. of Norfolk, vi. 487; Chambers's Hist...
Contributor: J. K. L. [John Knox Laughton]
Article
Paston, Clement 1515?-1597, sea-captain, second son of Sir William Paston (1479?-1554) [q.v.], is first mentioned in 1544 as ‘one of the pensioners’ and a fitting man to command a king's ship. In 1545 he commanded the Pelican of Danzig, of three hundred tons, in the fleet under Lord Lisle. In 1546, still, presumably, in the Pelican, he captured a French galley, probably the Mermaid, which was added to the English navy. It was afterwards debated whether the galley was ‘good prize.’ Paston kept the plunder of the galley, of which a gold cup, with two snakes forming the handles, was in 1829 still in the possession of the family. At the battle of Pinkie in 1547, Paston was wounded and left for dead. It is said that he was the captor of Sir Thomas Wyatt in 1554, which is contrary to evidence (Froude, Hist. of Engl. cabinet edit. v. 354), and that he commanded the fleet at Havre in 1562, which is fiction. In 1570 he was a magistrate of Norfolk, and a commissioner for the trial and execution of traitors (State Papers, Dom. Elizabeth, lxxiii. 28), and in 1587, though a deputy-lieutenant of the county, he was suspected of being lukewarm in the interests of religion (Strype, Annals, iii. ii. 460). In 1588 he was sheriff of Norfolk. He died on 18 Feb. 1597, and was buried in the church of Oxnead, beneath a ‘stately marble tomb.’
He married Alice, widow of Edward Lambert. Her maiden name was Packington. He left his main property to his wife, with remainder to his nephew, Sir William Paston [cf. Paston, Sir William, 1479?-1554].
Sources
Blomefield and Parkins's Hist. of Norfolk, vi. 487; Chambers's Hist. of Norfolk, p. 211, 959; the account in Lloyd's State Worthies is untrustworthy; State Papers of Henry VIII (1830, &c.), i. 811, 866, 894, xi. 329; Acts of the Privy Council (Dasent), 1542-7 pp. 514, 566, 1547-50 p. 447; State Papers of Henry VIII (in the Public Record Office), vols. xvi-xix. As these papers have not yet been calendared, many of them being nearly obliterated by damp, and the writing very bad, it remains possible that an exhaustive search through them might lead to the discovery of some details concerning the capture of St. Blanchard, which is equally unknown to French and naval histories.
Contributor: J. K. L.
published 1895
Name: Paston, Clement
Dates: 1515?-1597
Active Date: 1555
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Travel and Exploration
Occupation: Sea-captain
Place of
Burial: The church of Oxnead
Spouse: Alice, widow of Edward Lambert. Her maiden name was Packington
Sources: Blomefield and Parkins's Hist. of Norfolk, vi. 487; Chambers's Hist...
Contributor: J. K. L. [John Knox Laughton]
Article
Paston, Clement 1515?-1597, sea-captain, second son of Sir William Paston (1479?-1554) [q.v.], is first mentioned in 1544 as ‘one of the pensioners’ and a fitting man to command a king's ship. In 1545 he commanded the Pelican of Danzig, of three hundred tons, in the fleet under Lord Lisle. In 1546, still, presumably, in the Pelican, he captured a French galley, probably the Mermaid, which was added to the English navy. It was afterwards debated whether the galley was ‘good prize.’ Paston kept the plunder of the galley, of which a gold cup, with two snakes forming the handles, was in 1829 still in the possession of the family. At the battle of Pinkie in 1547, Paston was wounded and left for dead. It is said that he was the captor of Sir Thomas Wyatt in 1554, which is contrary to evidence (Froude, Hist. of Engl. cabinet edit. v. 354), and that he commanded the fleet at Havre in 1562, which is fiction. In 1570 he was a magistrate of Norfolk, and a commissioner for the trial and execution of traitors (State Papers, Dom. Elizabeth, lxxiii. 28), and in 1587, though a deputy-lieutenant of the county, he was suspected of being lukewarm in the interests of religion (Strype, Annals, iii. ii. 460). In 1588 he was sheriff of Norfolk. He died on 18 Feb. 1597, and was buried in the church of Oxnead, beneath a ‘stately marble tomb.’
He married Alice, widow of Edward Lambert. Her maiden name was Packington. He left his main property to his wife, with remainder to his nephew, Sir William Paston [cf. Paston, Sir William, 1479?-1554].
Sources
Blomefield and Parkins's Hist. of Norfolk, vi. 487; Chambers's Hist. of Norfolk, p. 211, 959; the account in Lloyd's State Worthies is untrustworthy; State Papers of Henry VIII (1830, &c.), i. 811, 866, 894, xi. 329; Acts of the Privy Council (Dasent), 1542-7 pp. 514, 566, 1547-50 p. 447; State Papers of Henry VIII (in the Public Record Office), vols. xvi-xix. As these papers have not yet been calendared, many of them being nearly obliterated by damp, and the writing very bad, it remains possible that an exhaustive search through them might lead to the discovery of some details concerning the capture of St. Blanchard, which is equally unknown to French and naval histories.
Contributor: J. K. L.
published 1895