Hugh Paulet

In 1532, Hugh was in the commission of the peace for Somerset, and he was heir and sole executor to his father in 1538, receiving a grant of the manor of Sampford-Peverel, Devon.

On the accession of King Edward VI, he was one of those charged by Henry VIII's executors, on 11 February 1547, with the good order of the West Country shires.

In 1550, he was a commissioner to inquire into the liturgy in the island of Jersey, and to put down obits, dispose of church bells, and to enact other Protestant reforms.

In 1562, when French Protestants surrendered Le Havre to Queen Elizabeth I, she commissioned Paulet as adviser to Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, who was to take command of the garrison and act as high-marshal.

A monument in the north aisle of the church at Hinton St. George, with the effigies of a man in armour and his lady, with an inscription, probably commemorates Sir Hugh and his first wife.