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pensions granted him by both kings out of the fee farm rents of Worcester, pro bono et gratuito servicio, as expressed in the grants. He took to wife, Maud, daughter and heir of Richard Quartermain, of a large estate at Ricote and North Weston, in Oxfordshire, by Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Grey, of Rotherfield, and had an only daughter and heiress,

ELIZABETH, who m. THOMAS WESTCOTE, esq. but previously to her marriage, insisted that her husband should take the name of LYTTLETON.

He (Thomas) d. about the year 1421. Maud, his wife, surviving him, holding Frankley in dower or jointure, married secondly, John Massey, esq. His son-inlaw,

THOMAS WESTCOTE, alias LYTTLETON, was escheator of Worcestershire, 29th HENRY VI. and died in that reign, leaving by the heiress of Littleton, who wedded, secondly, Thomas Hewster, esq. of Lichfield, (with four daughters, of whom Aune, m. Thomas Porter, esq. of Barston, in Warwickshire) four sons, viz.

1. THOMAS, his heir.

11. Nicholas, who both retained their paternal sur111. Guy, name of WESTCOTE, though often solicited by their mother to call themselves LYTTLETON: she once expostulating with them, whether they thought better of themselves than their elder brother, they answered, that he had a fair estate to alter his name, and if they might share with him, they would do the like. NICHOLAS m. Agnes, daughter and heir of Edmund Vernon, of Staffordshire, and was ancestor of the Westcotes of that county. GUY wedded Greenevill, of Gloucestershire, and from him the Westcotes of Devon and Somerset. IV. Edmund, d. unm.

The eldest son and heir,

SIR THOMAS LYTTLETON, K B. became one of the great law luminaries of his country, and is immortalized by one work alone, his celebrated "TREATISE ON TENURES."* In 1454, he was called to the degree of serjeant at-law, and afterward appointed steward of the Marshalsea of the king's household; the next year he was constituted king's serjeant, and rode justice of the assize in the northern circuit. On the accession of EDWARD IV. he sued a general pardon, which was granted to bim, and in the 4th year of that prince's reign, he was appointed one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, when he had a grant of 110 marks out of the Customs of London, Bristol, and Hull, and moreover 106s. 11 d. for a robe and furs, and 6s. 6d. for a summer robe. In the 15th of King EDWARD, he was made a Knight of the Bath, with the Prince of Wales, and several persons of the highest distinction. Sir Thomas m. Joan, daughter and co-heir of William Burley, esq. of Broomscroft Castle, in Shropshire, and relict of Sir Philip Chetwynd, knt. of Ingestry, in Staffordshire, (with whom he acquired large possessions) and had three sons,

1. WILLIAM (Sir), of Frankley, from whom the LORDS LYTTELTON, refer to BURKE'S Peerage.

11. RICHARD, of whom presently.

1. Thomas, of Spechley, near Worcester, ancestor of the Lord Keeper Lyttelton, temp. CHARLES 1. and of Sir William Lyttelton, speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of WILLIAM III. (See LITTLETON OF STOKE MILBURGH.)

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This celebrated judge made his last will 22nd August, 1481, and died the next day, at his seat at Frankley, in a great and good old age. His widow survived him twenty-four years, and died 22nd March, 1505, nearly fourscore, leaving a great estate, which came by her father and mother, to her eldest son, Sir William. The second son,

RICHARD LITTLETON, esq. to whom his father gave a moiety of the manor of Baxterley, in Warwickshire, m. Alice, daughter and heir of William Winesbury, esq. of Pillaton Hall, in the county of Stafford, and had issue,

Richard, d. s. p.

EDWARD (Sir), his heir.

Ellen, m. first to John Cotes, esq. of Woodcote, in Shropshire, and secondły to William Basset, esq. of Blore, in the county of Stafford. Margaret, m. first to William Humphry Pigot, esq. of Salop, and secondly to - Clifton, esq. of Derbyshire.

Anne, m. to Thomas Middlemore, esq. of Edgbaston, in the county of Warwick.

He (Richard) d. 9th HENRY VIII. and was s. by his son,

VI.

SIR EDWARD LITTLETON, knt. of Pillaton Hall, who had a grant from HENRY VIII. of the office of constable and keeper of the castle of Stafford, and keeper of his parks, and bailiff of his manor of Farebriggs, in the county of Stafford, for life. He was sheriff of Staffordshire 15 and 31 HENRY VIII. and 4 EDWARD He m. first, Hellen, daughter of Humphrey Swinnerton, esq. of Swinnerton, in the county of Stafford, and by her had seven sons, the six eldest died without issue, the seventh, EDWARD, succeeded as heir, beside two daughters, Barbara, wife of Henry Gower, esq. of Worcestershire, and afterwards of John Folliot, esq. of Pirton; and Constance, wife of Sir James Fuljambe, knt. Sir Edward m. secondly, Isabel, relict of Wood, and daughter of Richard Hill, sister and heir of Robert Hill, esq. of Hounhill, in the county of Stafford, (she m. secondly, Ralph Egerton, esq. of Wrinehill) but by tha: lady had no issue. He died 10th October, 1558, and was s. by his

son,

SIR EDWARD LITTLETON, knt. sheriff of Stafford shire, 5 ELIZABETH who m. Alice, daughter of Francis Cockayne, esq. of Ashburne, in Derbyshire, and had issue,

1. EDWARD (Sir), his heir.

11. Thomas, m. Cassandra, daughter of Thomas Lane, esq. of Bentley, in the county of Stafford, and left issue.

111. Francis, of Melsho, in the county of Salop, m. Gertrude, daughter of Thomas Sutton, of Overhaddon, in the county of York, and left issue. IV. Walter, of Eccleshall, in the county of Stafford, m. Alice, daughter of John Comberford, esq. of the same county.

v. John, d. s. p.

vi. James, m. Mercy, daughter of John Stone, esq. of London, relict of William Bowyer, esq. and left issue.

VII. Devereux, m. Jane, daughter of George Allen, esq. of Woodhouse, in the county of Derby, and left issue.

1. Jane, m. to John Lane, esq. of Bentley.

tions both in the knowledge and practice of the law, and accumulation of publications, Lyttleton, with Coke's commentary, will ever continue to demand the attention and applause of our ablest advocates.

The daughter and heir of Grendon, of Grendon.

11. Constance, m. to Thomas Holt, esq. of Gristlehurst, in Lancashire.

III. Mary, m. to Walter Vernon, esq. of Hounhill, in Staffordshire.

IV. Grace, m. first to Francis Harnage, esq. of Belzardine, in the county of Salop, and secondly, to Silvanus Lacon, esq. of the same county. v. Margaret, m. to Sir John Repington, knt. of Amington, in the county of Warwick.

Sir Edward d. 19th July, 1574, and was s. by his eldest

son,

SIR EDWARD LITTLETON, knt. sheriff of Staffordshire 25th and 35th of ELIZABETH, M.P. for the county of Stafford, in the 39th of the same reign, m. Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Devereux, knt. youngest son of Walter, Viscount Hereford, and had issue,

1. EDWARD (Sir), his successor.

II. Thomas, m. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Adam Morton, esq. of Wilbrighton, in the county of Stafford.

1. Mary, m. to Richard Fowler, esq. of King's Harnage, Salop.

11. Anne, m. to Humphrey Salwey, esq. of Stanford, in Worcestershire.

III. Jane, m. to Richard Knightley, esq. of Fawesley, in the county of Northampton.

IV. Ellen, m. to William Babington, esq. of Curborough, in the county of Stafford.

v. Margaret, m. to John Skinner, esq. of Cofton, in Worcestershire.

VI. Lettice, m. to John Fulnethy, archdeacon of Stafford.

VII. Constance, m. to Richard Hill, gent. of London. Sir Edward was s. at his decease by his son,

SIR EDWARD LITTLETON, M.P. for Staffordshire, 21 JAMES I. and sheriff 24th of the same reign, m. Mary, daughter of Sir Clement Fisher, knt. of Packington, in the county of Warwick, and had issue,

EDWARD, his heir.

Fisher, m. Anne, daughter of John Baynton, esq. of Wiltshire.

Walter (Sir), chancellor of the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, m. Priscilla, daughter of Sir Lewis Pemberton, knt. of Rushden, in Northamptonshire, and had four sons, viz.

Walter, of Lichfield, m. a daughter of William Talbot, esq. of Sturton Castle, Staffordshire, and left issue.

Edward, m. a daughter of

Mullins, but

d. s. p. Fisher, LL.D. m. Elizabeth, daughter of Pincebeck, of London, and widow of Skegnes, and d. in March, 1696-7.

Henry, merchant of London, d. s. p. William, m. the daughter and heir of John Webster, of Amsterdam, merchant.

Lettice, m. first, to William Washbourne, esq. of Washbourne, and secondly, to John Clent, esq. of Knightwick, both in Worcestershire.

Mary, m. to Euseby Shuckburgh, esq. of Naseby, in Northamptonshire.

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II. SIR EDWARD LITTLETON, who m. first Mary, daughter of Sir Walter Wrotesley, bart. of Wrotesley, and had

1. EDWARD, who died in the lifetime of his father,
24th January, 1704, leaving by his wife, Su-
sannah, daughter of Sir Theophilus Biddulph,
bart. (which lady d. 25th August, 1722.)

1. EDWARD, successor to his grandfather.
2. Theophilus, d. unm.

3. Fisher, barrister-at-law, died in 1740.
He had m. Frances, elder daughter+ and
co-heir of James Whitehall, esq. of Pipe
Ridware, in Staffordshire, and had tws
sons and a daughter, viz.

EDWARD, fourth baronet.
Fisher, barrister-at-law, m. Mary, only
daughter and heir of Thomas Seace,
esq. of Northreps, in Norfolk, but
had no issue.

FRANCES, m. to MORETON WALHOUSE,

esq. of Hatherton, in the county of
Stafford.

1. Susan, m. to Sir John Coryton, bart.
2. Mary, m. to Edward Arblaster, esq. of
Longdon, in Staffordshire.

3. Elizabeth, m. to Humphry Hodgetts, esq.
4. Catherine, m. to John Floyer, esq. son of
Sir John Floyer, M.D. of Lichfield.

5. Jane, m. to John Eggington, esq. of Zodbaston, in Staffordshire.

11. Walter, major in the army, m. Lady Anne Knollys, daughter of Nicholas, Earl of Banbury. He fell in a duel and left no issue.

1. Elizabeth, m. to Walter Chetwynd, esq. of In gestree, in Staffordshire, and had issue. 11. Hester, m. to Humphrey Persehouse, esq. of Reynolds Hall, in Staffordshire.

Sir Edward m. secondly, Joyce, daughter of his cousin Littleton, of Teddesley Hay, and by that lady had

Reader, 'twas thought enough, upon the Tomb
Of the Great Captain, th' Enemy of Rome,
To write no more, but (Here lies Hannibal)
Let this suffice thee then, instead of all
Here Lye two Knights, the Father and the Son
Sir Edward, and Sir Edward Littleton.

+ The other daughter and co heir married Mr. Justice Parker of the Court of Common Pleas.

Devereux, who d. unm. at his seat at Tamworth, Shropshire, created a BARONET 14th October, 16-12.

7th June, 1747.

Walter, d. unm.

Henry, deputy governor of Cork, left no issue. Fisher, barrister-at-law, succeeded to the estate of his eldest brother.

William, capt. R.N. left a son,

Edward, who inherited the property of his uncle Fisher. He m. his cousin, Joyce, eldest daughter of Stanford Wolferstan, esq. of Statfold, and d. s. p.

Adam, killed in a duel, d. unm.

m.- - Dilke, esq. of Maxtoke Castle, in Warwickshire.

Sarah, m, to Stanfold Wolferstan, esq. of Statfold. He d. about 1709, and was s. by his grandson,

III. SIR EDWARD LITTLETON. This gentleman m. Mary, only daughter of Sir Richard Hoare, knt. lord mayor of the city of London, and one of its representatives in parliament, temp. Queen ANNE, but died s. p. 2nd January, 1742, and was s. by his nephew, IV. SIR EDWARD Littleton, who m. Frances, eldest daughter of Christopher Horton, esq. of Catton, in the county of Derby, but d. issueless 18th May, 1812, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED. Sir Edward had removed the seat of the family from Pillaton Hall, to Teddesley, in the same county. His estates devolved upon his grand-nephew,

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EDWARD JOHN WALHOUSE, esq. who assumed the surname and arms of LITTLETON. He was raised to the peerage in 1835, and is now (1837) BARON HATHERTON, of Hatherton, in the county of Stafford.

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LITTLETON, OF STOKE MILBURGH.

CREATED 14th Oct. 1642.-EXTINCT in Jan. 1710.

Lineage.

SIR THOMAS LUTTELTON, K.B. of Frankley, the cele brated author of the "Treatise on Tenures," m. Joan, widow of Sir Philip Chetwynd, of Ingestrie, in Stafforshire, and daughter and co-heir of Sir William Burley, of Bromscroft Castle, in the county of Salop, and dying 23rd August, 1481, left issue,

WILLIAM, ancestor of the LORDS Lyttleton, of
Frankley.

RICHARD, ancestor of the LITTLETONS, of Pillaton
and Teddesley.

THOMAS, of whose line we have to treat.

The youngest son,

THOMAS LITTLETON, was seated at Spetchley, in Worcestershire. He m. Anne, daughter and heir of John Botreaux, esq. of Botreaux Castle, in Cornwall, and from this marriage descended SIR EDMUND LYTTLETON, of Mounslow, lord keeper of the great seal, Baron Lyttleton of Mounslow; and

1. ADAM LITTLETON, esq. of Stoke Milburgh, in

CHRISTOPHER HORTON, esq. m. Frances, only daughter and heir of Sir Eusebius Baswell, bart. of Cadeby, in the county of Leicester, and had issue,

CHRISTOPHER, m. Lady Anne Luttrell, second daughter of Simon, Earl of Carhampton, and had one son, who died an infant. His widow m. H. R. H. HENRY-FREDERICK, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, youngest son of King GEORGE II. but had no issue by His Royal Highness.

He m. Awdrey, daughter and eventual heir of Thomas Poyntz, esq. of North Skynden, in Essex, and dying about the year 1617, left a son,

II. SIR THOMAS LITTLETON, Who m. his cousin, Anne, daughter and heir of Edmund Lord Littleton, of Mounslow, lord keeper of the great seal, and dying in April, 1681, was s. by his son,

11. SIR THOMAS LITTLETON, speaker of the House of Commons, temp. WILLIAM III. who m. Ann, daughter of Benjamin Baun, esq. of Westcoate, in Gloucestershire, but died without issue in January, 1710, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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The family of Livesey was originally of Livesey, in the county of Lancaster, a scion of which

EDMUND LIVESEY, of Parva Markham, in Nottinghamshire, left by his wife, a daughter of Nevil, two sons, Henry, whose only daughter and heir, m. — Roken; and

ALEXANDER LIVESEY, who m. Anne, Fleshwell, of Slaby, in Derbyshire, and was father of

ROBERT LIVESEY, esq. of Streatham, in Surrey, who served as sheriff of Sussex and Surrey in 1592, and 1602. He m. first, Amy, daughter of John Brooke, of London, and had by her, an only daughter, Martha, m. to Sir Edward Peyton, bart. He wedded, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Maurice Berkeley, esq. of Wymondham, in Leicestershire, and by her, who m. after Mr. Livesey's decease, Robert Pakenham, had three sons, viz.

Edward, whose son Robert was living abroad in 1619.

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II. SIR EVAN LLOYD, of Yale, who m. Mary, daughter and co-heir of Rees Tanat, esq. and had an only daughter and heir,

MARGARET, who m. Richard Vaughan, esq. of Corsygedol, and was mother of

CATHERINE VAUGHAN, who m. the Rev. Hugh Wynn, D. D. prebendary of Salisbury, and left a daughter,

MARGARET WYNN, heir to her uncle, William Vaughan, esq. This lady m. Sir Roger Mostyn, bart. of Mostyn, and had five daughters.

Sir Evan Lloyd died 6th April, 1700, when the BARO

NETCY EXPIRED.

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Lineage.

EVAN LLOYD, esq. of Yale, in Denbighshire, (described in the inscription on his monument in Llanarmon Church, North Wales, as "one of the deputy lieutenants, custos rotulorum, and justice of the peace in Denbighshire, a captain-general in the service of his majesty King CHARLES, in Ireland, son and heir of Sir John Lloyd, knight banneret, and grandson of Sir Evan Lloyd, knight banneret, the twelfth of his race lineally descended from Ynyr of Yale, and the tenth of his house of the name of Lloyd;") married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Sir Richard Trevor, knt, and had issue,

JOHN, his heir.

Roger, m. Miss Nightingale, and had issue.
Trevor, a captain in the army of CHARLES I. who
m. in 1639, Miss Medhop, an heiress, by whom
he acquired estates in the King's County, and
in the county of Tipperary. From this Trevor
Lloyd descend the LLOYDS of Gloster, in the
former county, now represented by HARDRESS
LLOYD, esq. of Gloster. (See BURKE'S Common-
ers, vol. ii. p. 550.)

Catharine, m. to John Lewis, esq. of Presaddfed.
Mary, m. to William Parry, esq. of Pontygof.
Magdalen, m. to Robert Humphreys, esq. of Bodle-
wyddan.

Evan Lloyd, in the words of the monumental inscription alluded to above, "departed this life on the 17th April, in the year of our Lord, 1637, at Presaddfyd, in the Isle of Anglesea, and his body, by order of Mary, his wife, was brought away thence, and interred in the sepulchre of his fathers at Llanarmon, in Yale." His eldest son,

JOHN LLOYD, esq. of Yale, a magistrate and deputylieutenant for the county of Denbigh, married, first, Margaret, daughter of Sir Bevis Thelwall, knt. and secondly, Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Jones, knt. of Castellmarch, one of the judges of the King's Bench, and widow of John Price, esq. of Rhiwlas. By his first wife, John Lloyd had a son and heir,

1. SIR EVAN LLOYD, of Yale, who was created a BARONET 21st June, 1647. He wedded Anne, daughter of Sir Charles Williams, knt. of Llangibby, and dying in October, 1663, was s. by his son,

Lineage.

HUMPHRY LLOYD, esq. of Lear, married Gwelliam, daughter of Thomas ap Rees, of Newtown, and was father of

DAVID LLOYD, esq. of Moyle y Garth, in Montgomeryshire, who m. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Owen Vaughan, esq. of Llwydyarth, and was s. by his son, 1. CHARLES LLOYD, of Garth, who was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. 10th May, 1661. Sir Charles m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Bowater, esq. of Whitley, in the county of Warwick, and had issue,

CHARLES, his successor.

Edward, m. a daughter of John Penryn, gent. of
Dythur, in Montgomeryshire.
John, d. s. p.

Elizabeth.

Susan.

Hester.

He d. about the year 1678, and was s. by his eldest

son,

11. SIR CHARLES LLOYD, who wedded Catherine, daughter of John Huxley, esq. of Wirehall, in Middlesex, and had, with four daughters, Catherine, Sarah, Anne, and Elizabeth, an only son, his successor at his decease, about the year 1692,

III. SIR CHARLES LLOYD, who m. first, Victoria, daughter of Sir Richard Corbet, bart. of Longner, in Shropshire, by whom he had no surviving issue. He wedded, secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Leighton, bart. of Watlesborough, in Salop, and widow of Thomas Jones, esq. of Shrewsbury, by whom (who d. in June, 1734) he had a son, Charles, who d. issueless, and a daughter,

VICTORIA.

He d. in November, 1743, when the BARONETCY

EXPIRED.

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THOMAS LLOYD, esq. præcentor and treasurer of St. David's, to which church he was a considerable benefactor, m. Frances, daughter of Marmaduke Middleton, esq. (sister of Middleton, Bishop of St. David's,) and was s. by his son,

SIR MARMADUKR LLOYD, knt. of Maes y Vellin, or Milfield, in the county of Cardigan, an eminent lawyer, who was appointed chief justice of the great sessions for the several counties of Radnor, Brecon, and Glamorgan, and one of the judges before the president of his majesty's council in the marches of Wales. He m. Mary, daughter of John Stedman, esq. of Strataflorida, by whom he had a daughter, Anne, the wife of Nicholas Williams, esq. of Edwinsford, in the county of Carmarthen, and a son and heir,

SIR FRANCIS LLOYD, knt. comptroller of the household to King CHARLES I. who endured much in the cause of his royal master during the civil war. He m. first, Lady Mary Vaughan, daughter of John, Earl of Carbery, but by her had no surviving issue. He wedded, secondly, Bridget, daughter of Richard Leigh, esq. of Carmarthen, and had

Lucius, d. s. p.

CHARLES, his heir.

Frances.

Sir Francis, who was also one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber to CHARLES II. was s. at his decease by his only surviving son,

1. SIR CHARLES LLOYD, of Milfield, in the county of Cardigan, who was knighted by King WILLIAM III. and created a BARONET by Queen ANNE 1st April, 1708. Sir Charles m. first, Jane, daughter and heir of Morgan Lloyd, esq. of Greengrove, in the same county, by whom he had two daughters,

Jane, m. to William Glover, esq. of Carmarthen.
Eleanor, d. unm.

He wedded, secondly, Francis, daughter of Sir Francis Cornwallis, knt. of Abermarles, in Carmarthenshire, and by her had

CHARLES CORNWALLIS, his successor.

LUCIUS-CHRISTIANUS, heir to his brother.

Emma, m. to Doctor Foy, a physician at Carmar-
then.
Elizabeth.
Frances.

Sir Charles d. 28th December, 1723, and was s. by his son,

II. SIR CHARLES-CORNWALLIS LLOYD, who m. Mrs. Jennings, of Somersetshire, but d.s. p. 25th February, 1729, and was s. by his brother,

III. SIR LUCIUS CHRISTIANUS LLOYD, who m. Anne, daughter of Walter Lloyd, esq. of Peterwell, in the county of Cardigan, the king's attorney-general for Wales, and M. P. for Cardigan, but died issueless in 1750, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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II. SIR JOHN LLOYD, who resided at The Forest. He m. Mary, daughter of Matthew Smallwood, LL. D. Dean of Lichfield, d. in 1674, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. His sister and heir,

BEATRICE, married Sir John Barlow, bart. of Slebetch, and had two daughters,

BEATRICE, m. first, to Sir Anthony Rudd, bart. and secondly, to Griffith Lloyd, esq. ANN, died unm.

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LLOYD, OF PETERWELL.

CREATED 26th Jan. 1763.-EXTINCT 19th Aug. 1769.

Lineage.

1. HERBERT LLOYD, esq. of Peterwell, in the county of Cardigan, son of Walter Lloyd, esq. of Voelallt, by his wife, daughter and heir of Daniel Evans, esq. of Peterwell, was created a BARONET in 1763. He m. Beatrix, sister of Dr. Powell, of Nanteos, but died without issue, 19th August, 1769, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. Sir Herbert's nephew, John Adams, esq. of Whitland, spent the whole property, and the estate was consequently sold to Albany Wallis, esq.

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