¶Not in Sadleir or Wolff; BL & Cambridge only on Copac; OCLC adds a copy at Princeton. Paynell, Eton and Oxford educated, held great expectations in his future life as heir to riches and a seat in the House of Lords. 'Power, renown, and honours swam in visions through his thoughts, and when his aspiring fancy could soar no longer, he turned with grief from the flattering dream to look upon the humiliating reality.' Miles Thomas Stapleton was created 8th Baron Beaumont in 1840, the 7th Baronet having died in 1507. Paynell, was his only novel having previously published a poem, Godesberg Castle in 1829.