{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Nazareth Newton Lady Paget 1578.jpg|thumb|right|Nazareth Newton as Lady Paget in 1578, Plas Newydd (Anglesey)]] '''Nazareth''' or '''Nazaret Newton''' (died 1583) was an English courtier and lady-in-waiting.
Nazareth Newton was the youngest daughter of Sir John Newton (d. 1568) of East Harptree, Somerset, and Barrs Court, Gloucestershire, and Margaret, daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz of Iron Acton and Elizabeth Huddesfield.
At Harptree, the Newton family lived at Eastwood, a house built from the demolished stone of Richmont Castle.<ref>H. T. Ellacombe, "Barre's Court, or Hannam", ''The Hearald and Geneaolgist'', 4 (London, 1869), p. 438.</ref>
Her sister Frances Newton, who married William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, was a lady of the bedchamber.
She was a chamberer to Queen Elizabeth in the 1560s.
==Lady Southwell== Nazareth Newton was the third wife of Sir Thomas Southwell (d. 1568) of Woodrising, Norfolk.
Their daughter, Elizabeth Southwell, was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. She was a mistress of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and mother of Walter Devereux.<ref>Johanna Rickman, ''Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England, Illicit Sex and the Nobility'' (Aldershot, 2008), p. 31.</ref> She married Sir Barentine Moleyns or Molyns of Clapcot. Their son was Michael Molyns.<ref>[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/molyns-michael-1601-1662 Alan Davidson, 'MOLYNS, Michael (c.1601-at least 1662), of Clapcot', ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629'', ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803212639/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/molyns-michael-1601-1662 |date=3 August 2019 }}.</ref>
Thomas Southwell had married Margaret Jernegan, and secondly Mary Mansell, mother of his heir, Robert Southwell (died 1598). In March 1571, Nazareth Southwell was given a gift of properties confiscated from John Eliot, a London merchant.<ref>''Calendar of Patent Rolls'', vol. 5 (London, 1939), p. 164.</ref>
==Lady Paget== After Southwell's death, she married Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget, second son of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget and Anne Preston. They had a son, William Paget, 4th Baron Paget.
Paget dismissed her servants in 1573 after their marriage. Gilbert Talbot wrote that Paget was an "evell husband" after had he hired one of the servants, Margaret Butler, a "sober maiden" to be his wife Mary's servant.<ref>Edmund Lodge, ''Illustrations of British History'', vol. 2 (London, 1791), p. 104.</ref> As a New Year's Day gift in 1579, she gave the queen a petticoat of cloth of gold "stained" black and white, with gold lace and spangles (sequins) in a pattern like waves of the sea.<ref>Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, ''John Nichols's Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: 1579-1595'', vol. 3 (Oxford, 2014), p. 7.</ref>
Following other disputes, the couple were formally separated in 1582.<ref>Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, ''John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: 1572-1578'', 2 (Oxford, 2014), p. 53.</ref> Lady Paget lived at Woodrising until her death in 1583.<ref>Laura Oliver Miller, 'Nazaret Newton Southwell Paget', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, eds, ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen'' (Routledge, 2017), pp. 517-8.</ref>
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