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A superb Chamberlains Worcester plate, bearing the naval Crest of ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS PASLEY.(1734-1808).

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"Out of a naval coronet or, a sinister arm in armour ppr., grasping in the hand a staff, thereon a flag arg., charged with a cross wavy gu., and on a canton az. a human leg erect couped below the knee or".

In 1794 he lost his leg in the 'Bellerophon' during Howe's victory over the French at the Battle of the 'Glorious First of June'. He received a pension of £1000 in compensation, a baronetcy and one of the 7 gold medals and chains awarded to the flag-officers in that action, few battles had that number of awards. His last active post was that of vice-admiral; as commander-in-chief at the Nore (1798) and, from February 1799, at Plymouth. He became Admiral of the Blue in January 1801 and Admiral of the White after Trafalgar in November 1805, and died in retirement at his home near Winchester in 1808.

HMS Bellerophon was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1786, she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly on blockades or convoy escort duties. Known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", she fought in three fleet actions, the Glorious First of June, the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Trafalgar, and was the ship aboard which Napoleon finally surrendered, ending 22 years of nearly continuous war with France.

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