objections to the demand that six of the garrison (unnamed) should be ‘delivered to mercy.’ But on 17 March a surrender was concluded without his aid. Of the three brothers, Thomas was the only one living when the castle surrendered on 24 March 1649. William died of fever during the siege in October 1648, and Timothy, who had left the castle in July 1648 and ‘marched presently for the north,’ was killed at Wigan in August 1648 while a major of horse under the Earl of Derby. Their father, William Paulden of Wakefield, compounded for delinquency in adhering to the forces against parliament in July 1649.
Thomas Paulden went abroad and joined Charles II in his exile. He paid several secret visits to England, and was once betrayed and brought before Cromwell. He denied his name, but was sent to the Gatehouse, from which he escaped by throwing salt and pepper into the keeper's eyes. In 1652 and 1654 he received payments on the king's account, and in May 1657 was supplying Hyde with intelligence as to the strength of the forces under Sir William Lockhart [q. v.] (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, ii. 168, 385, iii. 300, 307). At the Restoration he returned to England, and was assisted in his poverty by the Duke of Buckingham. In January 1665–6 he wrote a quaint letter to Christopher Hatton, thanking him for kindness done to him. In April 1668 the king requested the treasury commissioners to recommend him to the office of commissioner of excise ‘on the first vacancy.’ In February 1692 he was in great money difficulties, and wrote to Lord Hatton, begging to be taken into his household as a servant, in order to be saved from a debtor's prison. He probably died before 1710. Thoresby, in his ‘Diary’ under date 18 July 1710 (ii. 62), mentions a visit he paid at York to ‘the two aged virgins, Mrs. Pauldens, about 80 years old,’ who spoke to him of four memorable brothers of theirs. The registers at Wakefield record the baptisms of Sarah on 18 Feb. 1627–8, and of Maria on 5 Sept. 1632, daughters of William Paulden; and of a son George, on 19 Dec. 1629.
Paulden published ‘Pontefract Castle: an Account how it was taken, and how General Rainsborough was surprised in his quarters at Doncaster,’ The Savoy, 1702; London, 1719 (for the benefit of his widow); Oxford, 1747; and in Somers's ‘Tracts,’ 1812, vii. 3–9.
[Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 36; Surtees Soc. Miscellany, xxxvii. 85–115; Fox's Hist. of Pontefract, pp. 231–56; Paulden's Pontefract Castle, passim; Archæologia, xlvi. 45–8, 54–63; Holmes's Hist. of Pontefract (Sieges of Pontefract Castle), ii. 154–63, 216–27, 239, 292–324; Addit. MSS. 21417 ff. 36, 40, 59, 61, 65–70 (Baynes Corresp.), 29551 f. 155, 29565 ff. 136–7 (Hatton Corresp.); Cal. of State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1667–8, p. 327; Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, p. 2111; Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rep. App. v. p. 12; Cal. of Clarendon State Papers, i. 461.]
PAULE, Sir GEORGE (1563?–1637), registrar of the court of high commission and biographer of Whitgift, was, according to his petition to the king in 1631, born about 1563, and perhaps belonged to the family of Paule of Westhartburne or Goosepoole, Durham (Surtees, Durham, iii. 220). By his twenty-first year he was servant to Archbishop Whitgift at Lambeth (Strype, Whitgift, i. 418). On 10 March 1586 he was granted the lease for twenty-one years of the parsonage of Graveney, Kent, bearing a rent of 7l. 6s. 8d., being part of the lands of the see of Canterbury. This unexpired lease was renewed on 26 June 1590 for a like term (State Papers, Dom. Eliz. 1590, p. 158). On 21 Nov. 1588 Anthony Calton, registrar of the bishopric of Ely, assigned his interest in his office to Paule, but Paule disposed of it to Sir John Lambe in 1600 (ib.) In Elizabeth's parliament of 1597 he sat for Downton, Wiltshire (Return of Members, i. 435). By 1599 Paule, although still described as the archbishop's ‘servant,’ had succeeded to the post of comptroller of Whitgift's household (Strype, Whitgift, i. 507). In Elizabeth's last parliament Paule sat as member for Hindon, Wiltshire. On 16 May 1603 he received, along with John Plumer, grant of the office of registrar and clerk of the acts (State Papers, Dom. James I, Proct. book, p. 3). He was with Whitgift during his last illness, and ‘gave this testimony that he died like a lamb’ (Strype, Whitgift, i. 507). On 5 July 1607 he was knighted by James at Whitehall (Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 158). In 1612 he published, with a dedication to Archbishop Abbot, his ‘Life of Whitgift;’ and it is clear that he retained the favour of Whitgift's successor. He also attracted the notice of Buckingham, through whom he obtained legal work for the crown. On 30 March 1621 he received a grant, along with Sir Robert Heath, solicitor-general, of the survivorship of the office of chief clerk for enrolling pleas in the king's bench. He held the office, he said later, under or for the Duke of Buckingham (State Papers, Dom. James I, xcvii. 123, xcviii. 15). In July 1621 he quarrelled with the lord treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, earl of Middlesex, and begged leave of Buckingham to prefer his
