John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, of Hinton St George, Somerset, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1621 and was later raised to the peerage.
John, First Lord Poulett, painting by anonymous artist (British School), c.1640.
Elizabeth Poulet, 1616, by Robert Peake the Elder, Denver Art Museum
Somerset Trained Bands
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The Somerset Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the county of Somerset in South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662. They were periodical
John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett
…war against the Parliament, but as hostilities broke out he sided, on 15 June 1642, with the Royalist cause. At the time he commanded 800 men of the Somerset Trained Bands, but the men followed Lt-Col John Pyne, MP, into the Parliamentarian army. He was one of the principal commanders at the Siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset…
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The Battle of Newburn
A sergeant and private of the Somerset Militia in 1685