[Illustration] A noble Norman family of great antiquity, who were of
Baronial rank immediately after the Conquest, descended from William
Baron Malet, whose grandson, another William Baron Malet, was
expelled by Henry I. The elder branch of the family were long seated
at Enmore, in the county of Somerset; but the ancestors of the
present family, whose baronetcy was conferred for services in the
East Indies, at Corypole and Wolleigh, in the county of Devon, and
at Pointington and St. Audries, in Somersetshire. Wilbury was
purchased in 1803.
See Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 106; Collinson's
History of Somersetshire, vol. i. p. 90; and the Gentleman's
Magazine for 1799, p. 117.
ARMS.--_Azure, three escallops or_. Robert Malet bore _Argent, three
fermaux sable_, in the reign of Edward I. as appears by Sir R. St.
George's Roll, Harl. MS. 6137.
Present Representative, Sir Alexander Charles Malet, 2nd
Baronet.
+Gentle.+