Mytton of Garth.
PEDIGREE.
REPRINTED FROM THE "MONTGOMERYSHIRE COLLECTIONS" VOL. XXIV. ISSUED
BY THE POWYS-LAND CLUB.
1890.
THERE is in the possession of the family an ancient vellum
roll, purporting to be a pedigree of the Mytton family, in which the first nine
generations are given as follows:-
SIR EVERARD DE MUTTON, Knight. "This Everard was slain in the Wars of Mawde the Empresse, An'o Dom. 1154." He had a son,
ALDRED DE MUTTON, Esq., who had a son,
SIR HUGH DE MUTTON, Knight, who had a son,
ROGER DE MUTTON, who married Ann, daughter of Richard Hussey, Esq., son of Richard Hussey, of Adbridge Hussey, by his wife Mabell, daughter to John Lord Talbot, son of Sir Radulphus Hussey, Knight, son of Adam Hussey, Esq., son and heir of Thomas Hussey "that came in with the Conqueror". Roger de Mutton had a son,
STEPHEN DE MUTTON, who married Jane, daughter of Lord Strange, son of Philip Lord Strange of Knocking, by his wife Joyce, daughter to Sir Robert Corbet, Knight. Stephen de Mutton had a son,
OWEN DE MUTTON, who married Joyce, daughter of William Purcell of Marton and Wynnesberge, Esq., by his wife Joyce, daughter of William Wynesbury, Esq., and by her had a son,
WILLIAM DE MUTTON, who married Joyce, daughter of Sir William Pickering, Knight, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Raysford, Knight, and had a son,
JOHN DE MUTTON, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Paul Dorrell, Knight, by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Roger Powis, Knight. John de Mutton had two sons,
1. .... de Mutton, Esq., first son. "Mem'dum. That
of Hankyn de Mutton's Brother all the Muttons of Weston-under-Lysyerde, and
now being ended by a daughter that married Harpesfield do likewise continue
the name of Mytton." (1)
2. Hankyn de Mutton.
In the Herald's Visitation (2) of Shropshire in 1623, the first part of the Mytton pedigree is given as follows:-
MITTON OF SHREWSBURY AND AFTERWARDS OF HALSTON.
Rogerus Mitton de com. Wiltes. = Anna, filia Ric'i Husey Hussey.
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Stephanus Mitton. = Jana, fil. Philippi Strange de Knocking, militis.
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Andoenus Mitton de com. Wiltes. = Jocosa, fil. Will'i Purcell de Merton.
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Phillippus Mitton. = Jana, filia Henriei Vernon, militis.
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Willimus Mitton. = Anna, fil. Will'i Pickton, militis.
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Johannes Mitton. = Anna, fil. Franc. Darrell, militis.
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Hankin Mitton. = Alicia.
It will be observed that the foregoing accounts
from the Vellum Roll and the Herald's Visitation of 1623 vary in several particulars,
and that in the latter the Heralds mark the connection between "Johannes
Mitton" and "Hankin Mitton" with dotted lines, which, we conceive,
must be taken to indicate that satisfactory evidence of that connection was
not adduced at the Visitation, and therefore the generations before "Hankin
Mitton" were treated as traditional only, and not vouched by the Heralds
to be authentic. Moreover, neither version gives dates; and, looking at the
era of some of the earlier generations, the alliances there given can be shown
to be improbable, if not impossible. Under these circumstances we shall content
ourselves with giving the two accounts of the earlier generations on the authority
of the Vellum Roll and the Visitation respectively, and leave them to stand
on their own merits.
The pedigree is, however, of proved and undoubted
authenticity from Hankyn Mytton downwards. We shall therefore commence our account
of the Mytton genealogy by quoting Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire
(pp. 77-9), which gives the following interesting particulars of the family:-
"1483. THOMAS MITTON."
Arms: (3) Per pale g. and az.,
an eagle displayed with two heads, or.
Thomas Mitton. In Phillips's list this Sheriff
is called John Mytton, Esq. of Shipton; but his name was certainly Thomas, and
I suspect he had nothing to do with Shipton. I take him to have been the ancestor
of the family now seated at Halston [of which the Myttons of Garth
are a cadet branch]. Some of the Visitations bring the Myttons out of Wiltshire;
but there is reason to believe that they were originally of this county, and
sprung from the village of Mitton, in the parish of Fittes. In the Tallage Roll
for Shrewsbury in the year 1313, which contains a catalogue of the names and
property of the inhabitants, William de Mutton is found to have 20s.
in goods, for which he is rated at 16d., and he is the only person of
that name in the roll. John de Mitton appears upon the Roll of Guild Merchant
of the liberty of the town of Salop, 46 Edward III (1372), de forinsecis,
which denotes, I presume, that he was a foreigner, and not a native of the town.
The first undoubted progenitor of the Halston
family is Hankyn Mitton, a usual abbreviation of Henry. Reginald de Mutton,
son of Hankyn, held premises in Shrewsbury in 1413; and of the wealth and importance
of this gentleman some notion may be formed from the fact that he lent to Richard
III (and I apprehend that it was during the residence of that capricious monarch
at the Parliament of Shrewsbury) the sum of forty marks, a considerable sum
in those days, and more than a fourth part of what was advanced by the Corporation
upon the same occasion. By a writ, (4) dated
the 10th of August, in the twenty-first of his reign, the King acknowledges
this service of his beloved and faithful Reginald de Mitton, and promises "in
good faith" to repay the same in the quindem of the ensuing Easter. He
greatly raised the family by marrying the heiress of Sir Hamo Vaughan, Lord
of the Manor of West Tilbury, in Essex, son of Sir Thomas Vaughan, Lord of the
Manor of Stepney, who bore the spread eagle in his arms, and who, from the name
of Vaughan's Place still belonging to that old hall near the market-place in
Shrewsbury, late the property of the Halston family, should seem to have had
a residence there. By this lady Reginald de Mutton had two sons, Thomas and
John. The will of the latter bears date the day before St. Mary Magdalen, 1454,
and proved, 12th November...., before John Clone, Bachelor of Degrees, Sequestrator
and Commissary-General of Reginald, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (Reginald
Butler, who sate from 1453 to 1459). He styles himself John Mitton of Salop,
burgess, directs himself to be interred in the chancel of the collegiate church
of St. Chad, and wills that all the ministers and choir of that church attend
the obsequies, and be rewarded in the usual manner (ut moris est). He
bequeaths to every order of friars of the town 20d., and directs that
he shall have four torches and four wax lights (cerios) to burn about
his body at the time of his sepulture; whereof he devises one torch and two
lights to the high altar of the Trinity therein, and another to the altar of
St. Mary. He further bequeaths seven marks to a fit chaplain to celebrate divine
offices in the said church for the space of a year for his soul. To Thomas Mitton,
son of his brother Thomas, he leaves a corslet (loricam) and sword; and
the residue of his goods the testator bequeaths to his wife Alice, and constitutes
her and William Otteley of Salop his executors. This will is attested by John
Colle and Philip Graie, Bailiffs of the town.
Thomas Mitton, son of Reginald, still further
augmented his property by marrying a rich Shrewsbury heiress, who united the
wealth of the Tours and the Prides, names which occur so frequently among our
early bailiffs, and the latter of which is still remembered in a principal street
of the town. Thomas, his son, whom I conceive to be the present Sheriff, obtained
a splendid addition to his inheritance by marrying one of the daughters of Sir
John Burgh, with whom he obtained Haberley, Dinas Mawddwy, etc. During the year
of his shrievalty he acted with great promptitude and vigour in the apprehension
of the Duke of Buckingham; and for this "good and acceptable service"
King Richard, styling him "our trusty and well-beloved Squier Thomas Mitton",
rewards him with a grant of the Castle and Lordship
of Cawes, of the annual value of £50. Upon the accession of Henry VII,
that fortress and domain of course reverted to the young Duke; yet Mr. Mitton's
spirited resistance, and seasonable admission of Henry (VII) within the walls
of Shrewsbury, of which he was then bailiff, secured him the favour of the new
monarch. He served the same municipal office ten times between 1464 and 1500,
and died in 1504. His son, William Mitton, quitted the residence of his ancestors
at Vaughan's Place and removed to Coton Hill, (5)
where he was living when Leland visited these parts: and I find in the Exchequer
of Shrewsbury relating to this William, which is so far curious as it proves
the deep humility with which a principal gentleman of Shropshire was obliged
to approach a peer of the realm in those days, even when claiming no more, as
appears, than his just due. The nobleman to whom it was addressed must have
been George, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, great-grand-son of the famous Lord Talbot,
by whose countenance, as we have seen under 1430, his "officer", Hugh
Burgh, ancestor of the present petitioner, was enabled, according to the allegations
of Hugh de Berwick, to disseise him of certain parts of his property.
"To the Right Honerable my Lord the Erle of Shrowesbury,
Stuard of the Kyng's most Honorable Howsold.
"In his moost humblist wyse, schowith unto your gud lordshop, your true
and feithfull orator, William Mitton, Esquier, son and heire to T. Mitton, late
of the Towne of Schrowsbury, decesed, how that Master Thomas Talbot, your brother,
now dede, whose sowle God pardon, of long tyme kept and witheld from the fadre
of your said orator certeyn lands and tenements within the town and franchise
of Shrowesbury forseid, which is the rightfull enheritaunces of your seid orator.
It may therefor pleas you seid Lordschip of your blessed disposic'on to considerac'on
of the true service whiche your seid orator, to the uttermost of his power,
hath doon unto your Lordschip, to be unto him special gud lord, and to ayte
and assist him to the recovere of the seid rightfull enheritaunces according
to the right and gud concyens. This at the reverens of God, and in wey of charite."
John Mytton, Esquire, now (1820) of Halston, is
twelfth in descent from Thomas Mitton and Elizabeth Burgh.
We now proceed with the genealogy, following the
Vellum Roll pedigree so far as it extends, and showing in italics any addition
or variation made by the Visitation of 1623, supplementing it by extracts from
Registers, etc.
I. HANKYN DE
MUTTON (Hankin Mutton) married Alicia
. . . . . ; he had a son-
II. Reginald de Mutton (Mitton) of Salop,
Esq., held premises in Shrewsbury, 1413; Bailiff of Salop, 13 Richard
II (1390). He married Elianor (Anna), daughter and heir of Hamo (Vichan),
son of Sir Thomas Vaughan (Vychan), Knight, of Shrewsbury, and had a
son-
III. Thomas de Mutton (Mitton) of Shrewsbury.
He married Agnes (Cecilia), daughter and heir of William Burleigh, Esq.,
of Shrewsbury (Arms: Ar., a lion ramp. sa., debruised by a bend
compony or and az.), son of William Burleigh of Salop, by his wife Isabella,
sole daughter and heir of William Tower of Salop, Esq. (Arms: Sa., three
towers, triple-towered ar.), by his wife . . . . daughter and co-heir
of John Preede (Arms: Az., three ells haurient in fesse ar.),
and had an only son-
IV. THOMAS
MYTTON (Mitton), Esq., M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1472.
Ten times Bailiff, 1464-1500; Sheriff, 1483. He married twice:
first, Elianor, youngest daughter, and one of the four co-heiresses (6)
of Sir John Burgh, Knight, Lord of Mawddwy (Arms: Azure, a chevron ermine
between three fleurs-de-lis ar.), by his wife Jane, one of the daughters
and co-heirs of John Clopton of Gloucestershire, Esq. (Arms: Gu., a bend
between six pears, or). Sir John Burgh was son
of Sir Hugh Burgh of Wattlesborough, Knt., by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and
sole heir of John Lord of Mawddwy, by his wife Catherine, daughter and heir
of Thomas Corbet of Cause, Esq., who was sone of William alias Wilcocke,
Lord of Mawddwy, and his wife Elianor, (7) daughter
and co-heir of Thomas ap Llewelyn of the House of South Wales. (Corbet--Arms:
Or, a raven ppr. Wilcock of Mawddwy--Arms: Or, a lion ramp.
gu., within a bordure engrailed sa. John ap Llewelyn--Arms:
Gu., a lion ramp. or, within a bordure engrailed of the last.)
Thomas Mytton, by his first marriage, had, with three daughters, an only son,
William Mytton (V), of whom hereafter. Thomas Mytton married, secondly, Stanley,
daughter of . . . Booth of Cheshire (but, according to Burke's Landed
Gentry, Anne, daughter of the Lord Strange of Knockin, and relict of Jeffrey
Kyffin, Esq.), by whom he had four children-
1. Sir Adam Mytton.
2. Alan Mytton, married . . . . . Wootton.
3. . . . . . daughter, married . . . . . Wentnor.
4. Mary, married Hugh Say of Hope Say.
An interesting anecdote of Thomas Mytton is related in the following extract
from Owen and Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury, vol. i, p. 245, describing
the incidents of the Earl of Richmond's (Henry VII) march through Shropshire
to Bosworth Field:-
"He delayed his march to Shrewsbury
till he was master of Forton and Montford Bridge, two points of main importance
to his designs, as he was thus provided with a passage into the midland counties,
even though this town should shut her gates upon him. Having secured that bridge,
which, if the Salopians had been hearty in the cause of Richard, they would
have broken down, his army encamped upon Forton Heath, and he despatched messengers
to Shrewsbury to summon the town. When they arrived at the foot of the Welsh
bridge, they found the place in a posture of defence; the gates shut, the portcullis
let down, and the bailiffs within ready to give their answer. The senior of
these magistrates for that year was Thomas Mytton, Esq., whom we have lately
seen as Sheriff of the county, engaged in the arrest of the Duke of Buckingham.
He is described in an old chronicle as ' a stout wise gentleman', and made answer
that he knew the Earl for no King, but ' only Kynge Rychard, whose lyffetenants
he and hys fellowe weare, and before he shoulde enter there, he should goe over
hys belly', meaninge thereby, continues our authority, ' that he would be slayne
to the grounde and so to (be) roon over (by) him before he entryd; and that
he protested vehemently upon the othe he dad taken.'
"Much conversaton, we may suppose, ensued,
but Mr. Mytton continuing resolute, the Earl ' retornyd', says our chronicle,
' wyth hys companye backe agayn to Forton . . . .' On the following morning
the negotiation with the Bailiffs of Shrewsbury was renewed, and the Earl assured
the magistrates that he did not mean to hurt the town or any of its inhabitants,
but only desired to pass on to try his right to the Crown. We are told that
Mr. Mytton began to yeald to these suggestions, but that on account of the oath
he had so lately taken to oppose the entrance of Richmond into Shrewbury, he
adopted the ingenious expedient of lying down on the ground and permitting the
Earl to step over him. Thereupon the portcullis was drawn up, and the Earl and
his retinue admitted within the gates, to the general joy of the inhabitants,
and received, we are assured, ' with an Ave chaire (Xaipe), and
God speede the wel! the streets being strowed with hearbes and flowers,
and their doores adorned with greene boughs, in testimony of a true hartie reception.'"
V. WILLIAM MYTTON
(only son of the first marriage of Thomas Mytton) of Shrewsbury, Lord of Mawddwy,
three times Bailiff of Shrewsbury, and M.P. in 1491. He married Cicely, daughter
of Sir Henry Delves, Knight, of Doddington, Cheshire, by whom he had
one son and two daughters. He died in 1512, leaving
1. Richard Mytton (VI), of whom hereafter.
2. Ellen, married to Wm. Gatacre of Gatacre, co. Salop.
3. Margeria, the wife of . . . . Dawes of Salop.
VI. RICHARD MYTTON of Shrewsbury, six times Bailiff of Salop, Lord of Mawddwy, Chief Stweard of the Manor of Church Stretton, and for John Lord Lumley in 1562. He died 28th November 1591, having been thrice married; first to Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Grey of Envil, by whom he had issue-
1. Francis |
2. Humphrey |
3. George |_ died
without issue.
4. William |
5. Richard |
6. Rowland |
7. EDWARD MYTTON
of Habberley, co. Salop, afterwards of Halston, an estate which he obtained
by exchange with Alan Hoord, Esq., who had purchased it from the Crown. Ancestor
of the MYTTONS OF
HALSTON AND
OF MAWDDWY.
8. Ursula, married to John Owen of Dolgelley.
9. Thomas Mytton, Esq., M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1554, who married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Edward Grenvil, Knt., and had seven children: John, Richard,
William, Thomas, Adam, Margaret, and Anne.
10. Elizabeth, married to Nicholas Gravenor of Showlde, Esq.
11. Cicely, married to Richard Acton of Acton-on-the-Hill, Esq.
12. John Mytton of Pontyscowrid, Esq. (VII), of whom hereafter.
Richard Mytton married, secondly (according to Burke, but not in the Mytton Vellum pedigree), a daughter of Jenkyn Pigott, Esq., of Rhuddlan, North Wales, and by her had a son, Richard Mytton, or Mutton, of Rhuddlan, whose great-grandson, Sir Peter Mutton, Knt., of Llanerch Park, Chief Justice of North Wales and M.P. for Carnarvon, had two daughters and co-heiress: i, Anne, who married Robert Davies of Gwysaney, co. Flint, from which marriage derive the DAVIES'S of Gwysaney (see that name under COOK of Owston); ii, Elinor, who married Kenrick Eyton of Eyton.
Richard Mytton married, thirdly, Elnor, daughter and heiress of Sir G. Harbrown, Knt. (in the Mytton Vellum pedigree she is stated to be second wife), by whom he had three children-
1. Isabell, married to Thomas Okeley, Esq.
2. Jane, who married, first, Thomas (or Edward, according to Burke) Ireland,
and, secondly, Thomas Higgon, D.D.
3. Adam (Sir), Recorder of Shrewsbury, who married, first, Joyce (or Jane),
daughter of Launcelot Lacon, Esq.; secondly, Mary, daughter of Thomas Holstock,
Esq., and had by her three children, George, Edward, and Mary.
Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire (p. 87) thus refers to Richard Mytton, 1544:
" RICHARD
MYTTON of Shrewsbury, grandson of
Thomas Mitton, as I suppose, the Sheriff of 1483. The manuscript chronicle of
Shrewsbury in the Free School Library, known by the name of Dr. Taylor's Manuscript,
thus records his death under the year 1591:
"' This yeare & the 28th day of Nov'r,
master Rychard Mytton, Esquier, called the Gentle Master Mytton, an alderman
of Salop, who had been six tymes Bayllyf of the Towne, was solemnly buryed,
being about an hundred yeares old.' His wife, a wealthy heiress, daughter of
George Harborne, an eminent lawyer, and Recorder or Shrewsbury, has a great
character in the same manuscript. ' The 30th day of January 1602, beinge Sundaye,
departed this lyfe the worthy Mrs. Elnor Mytton, late wyfe of Mr. Richard Mytton,
Esquire. She was buried the Thursdaye following, very solemnly, being of the
full age of 90 yeares. She was of greate birthe, and verey good to the poore;
vertuous and godly. She wold dayly pray most devoutly, three whoale houres before
noon, and three whoale houres in the afternoone, and never storre' (perhaps
stoode) ' but these tymes upon her knees. The God of peace no doubt hath received
her to His Mercye. Amen!' These worthy characters fully experienced the truth
of the apostle's declaration, 1 Tim. iv, 8, ' Sit anima mea vobiscum!'"
VII. JOHN MYTTON,
ninth, but second surviving son of Richard Mytton, Esq., of Shrewsbury, was
the first of the family who settled at Pontyscowrid, co. Montgomery. He married
twice: first, Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cole of London, by whom he
had an only daughter, Ellen, who married John Whitacre, Gent., and had one son,
Richard Whitacre. John Mytton married, secondly, Anne, daughter of John Burnes
of Salop, Gent., and by her had four children-
1. Richard Mytton (VIII), of whom hereafter.
2. Humphrey, who married Judith, daughter of . . . Turnil.
3. Edward.
4. Jane, who married David Davies of Egerley.
Over the chimney-piece in the large oak-panelled parlour at Pontyscowrid, the following inscription is carved:
1593. | I . N . R . I . | I . M . A . M .
The last initials are those of John Mytton and
his second wife, Anne, and the date probably marks the time of their residence
in this house, and the letters I . N . R . I . may be interpreted as "Jesus
Nazareth Rex Judæorum". John Mytton died intestate and was buried
at Meifod, 5th December 1605. Administration was granted to his grand-daughter,
Margaret Edwards, on 10th February 1614. (Mont. Coll., xxii, p. 249.)
VIII. RICHARD MYTTON
of Pontyscowrid, Esq., born . . . . married . . . . daughter of John Parrye,
Esq., (or . . . . daughter of . . . Garnons, co. Hereford), and died . . . .
having had four children-
1. James Mytton, (IX), of whom hereafter.
2. John, baptized at Meifod, 5th December 1605, and buried there 14th November
1613.
3. Margaret, married, at Meifod, March 1606, and buried there 5th February
following.
4. Annah, baptized at Meifod, March 1606, and buried there 5th February following.
IX. JAMES MYTTON of Pontyscowrid, baptized at Meifod, 18th January 1600; married Eleanor, daughter of Edward Jones of Sandford, co. Salop, and sister of Sir Thomas Jones, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and by her (who married, secondly, Humphrey Hughes, Esq., of Gwerclas) had three children-
1. Richard Mytton (X), of whom hereafter.
2. Elizabeth, married Charles Hughes, Esq., of Bryntangor, co. Denbigh, High
Sheriff of Merionith in 1698.
3. Dorothy, buried at Meifod, 10th July 1666.
James Mytton was buried at Meifod, 1st April,
1658.
X. RICHARD MYTTON
of Pontyscowrid (or Street-y-Verniew). Esq., baptized, St. Julian, Salop, High
Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1674; married Bridget, daughter of George Devereux
of Vaynor, Esq. (she was buried at Meifod, 29th October 1736), and he died and
was buried at Meifod, 30th December 1715, having had seven children-
1. James, baptized at Meifod, 1673.
2. Bridgetta, baptized at Meifod, 10th August 1675, and buried there, 4th
May 1676.
3. George, baptized at Meifod, 29th June 1677, and buried there, 29th December
1686.
4. Maria, baptized at Meifod, 10th January 1679, and buried there, 26th June
1680.
5. Richard (XI), of whom hereafter.
6. Catherine, baptized at Meifod, 5th February 1688, and married Edward Lloyd
of Aberbechan, 11th April 1710.
7. John, born 20th September 1692, and baptized at Meifod 4th October following,
and buried there 2nd October 1695.
XI. RICHARD MYTTON of Pontyscowrid, baptized at Meifod, 9th December 1683, High Sheriff co. Montgomery 1730; married, at Guilsfield, on 10th July 1717, Dorothy, only child and heiress of Brochwel Wynne of Garth, Gent., who was buried at Guilsfield, 30th April 1717 (by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Powell of Worthyn, who was buried at Guilsfield, 17th June 1714), son and heir of Thomas Wynne of Garth, Gent. (by his wife Hester, daughter of Brochwel Griffith of Broniarth), derived through Sir Gryffith Vychan, "Knight Banneret under Henry the fifth in Agincourt field in France", from "Brochwel Yscythrog, Prince of Powis (see "The Genealogie of the Ancient and Worshipful Family of WYNNE OF GARTH", by John Salusbury de Erbistocke, 16th January 1777, original in the possession of the Earl of Powis, printed in the Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. xii, p. 255). By this marriage Richard Mytton became of GARTH, and possessed of the Garth estate, consisting of lands in Guilsfield and elsewhere which had been in the possession of the Wynne family since the time of Brochwel Yscythrog in the 6th century (Wynne arms: Sa., three nag's heads ar.). She died and was buried at Guilsfield, 8th July 1728, and he died and was buried there, 25th November 1775, having had issue-
1. Catherine, baptized at Meifod, 6th February 1718; married
at Guilsfield, 16th April 1738, "Edward Devereux of the parish Forden",
afterwards the eleventh Viscount Hereford (see Peerage), and was mother
of Edward, 12th Viscount Hereford, and died 22nd February 1748.
2. James, baptized at Meifod, 22nd January 1719, and buried at Guilsfield,
25th July 1742.
3. Wynne, baptized at Meifod, 13th April 1721, and buried at Guilsfield, 15th
May 1722.
4. Richard, baptized at Guilsfield, 10th April 1722, ob. s. p.
5. Brochwel, baptized at Guilsfield, 19th December 1723, and buried there
on 23rd of the same month.
6. Devereux Mytton (XII), of whom hereafter.
XII. DEVEREUX MYTTON of Garth, Esq., born and baptized at Guilsfield, 22nd October 1725; married Anne, daughter of Richard Jones of Trelydan, Esq. (who died and was buried at Guilsfield, 10th December 1753). He died on the 12th May 1809, aged 84, "the senior magistrate in the county of Montgomery," having had three children-
1. Richard Mytton (XIII), of whom hereafter.
2. John Mytton, Esq., of Penylan, co. Montgomery, baptized at Guilsfield,
2nd December 1752, High Sheriff of that co. 1809, and married twice - 1st,
Bridget, daughter of Price Jones of Glanhafren, by Bridget, his first wife,
daughter of Edward Glynne of Glynne. She died 26th October 1819, and had issue-
i. Rev. Devereux Glynn Mytton, Rector of Llandyssil (1807-1857); married, 19th June 1810, Elizabeth Sarah, youngest daughter of Francis Lloyd, Esq., of Berghill, co. Salop. She died 6th October 1840, and he died 11th December 1860, aged 77. They had issue-
1. John Glynn Mytton, born 15th September 1811; married
Charlotte, only daughter of Colonel John Davies. She died 28th January
1844, aged 32 (M.I. Meifod Church), leaving an only daughter, Charlotte
Arabella Anne Glynne Mytton, born . . . . 1836, and died 15th December
1859, unmarried (M.I. Meifod Church).
2. Devereux Glynn Mytton, born . . . . 1815, died unmarried.
3. Bridget Mytton of Welshpool, living 1890.
4. Elizabeth Mytton, married . . . . 1841, Rev. Robert John Harrison,
M.A., of Caerhowel. She died in . . . . 1867, and he died 4th September
1872, having had three children-
i. Robert John Harrison, died an infant.
ii. Robert John Harrison of Caerhowel, born 27th September 1852, Lieut.-Colonel
of 4th Battalion of South Wales Borderers; married, 2nd June 1874, Charlotte
Henrietta, third daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte Montgomery, and
niece of the Earl of Powis, and has a son, Hugh Robert Edward Harrison,
born 1875.
iii. Elizabeth Sophia Harrison, living 1890.
3. Devereux Mytton, M.D., of Varchwell, in the parish of Guilsfield, baptized at Guilsfield, 4th December 1753; died 30th September 1841, in his 88th year (M.I. Guilsfield Church), unmarried.
XIII. RICHARD MYTTON of Garth, baptized at Guilsfield, 21st June 1751; married Letitia, daughter of . . . Lloyd, and died 8th April 1801, in his 51st year and in his father's lifetime. His wife died 13th October 1801, in her 54th year. M.I. Guilsfield Church. They had eight children-
1. Anne Mytton, born 11th July 1777, baptized 3rd August following.
2. Letitia Louisa Mytton, born 7th April 1779, and died 28th October 1787.
3. Mary Mytton, born 17th December 1780, and publicly baptized 16th April
following at Holy Trinity, Chester.
4. Richard Mytton (XIV), of whom hereafter.
5, Harriot Mytton, born 5th August 1785, and died 2nd January 1788.
6. James Williams Mytton, born 1st April 1788.
7. Devereux Mytton, born 14th August 1789, and died at Eton.
8 Letitia, bon 22nd November 1790.
XIV. RICHARD MYTTON, LL.B.Camb., of Garth and Pontyscowrid, officiated at Trelystan from 1820 to 1826, afterwards Chaplain of Barruckpore in the Presidency of Bengal, and to the Governor-General of India; born 4th January 1783; married, 5th March 1804, Charlotte, second daughter of John Herbert, Esq., of Dolvorgan, co. Montgomery (who was born 10th October 1778, and died 24th May 1872). He died 21st February 1828, leaving two children-
1. Richard Herbert Mytton, Esq., of Garth (XV), of whom hereafter.
2. Charlotte Henrietta Avarina Mytton, born 11th March 1805, died 13th February
1874, unmarried.
XV. RICHARD HERBERT MYTTON, Esq., of Garth, born 2nd December, 1808, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, in which he rose to a seat on the Bench of the Sudder, or High Court of Appeal; afterwards Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions of Montgomeryshire; Sheriff of that county, 1856; married, 15th May 1830, Charlotte, youngest daughter of Colonel Macgregor, Military Auditor General. He died 12th May 1869, having had twelve children-
1. Devereux Herbert Mytton (XVI), of whom hereafter.
2. George Mytton, Lieutenant Bengal Artillery, Aide-de-camp to Lieut.-Governor
of Calcutta; born 15th May 1834, and died at Dum Dum, 20th June 1856, unmarried.
3. Frederick Colvin Mytton, Capt. R.E., Bombay, born 13th November 1835, and
died at Lewisham, 31st May 1888, unmarried.
4. Henry Whitehead Mytton, born 18th September 1840; married at New Zealand,
on 12th November 1863, Maria Mary, daughter of Alexander Sherwood Jackson,
Esq., of Canterbury, New Zealand, and died at Rugby, Tennessee, 12th June
1890, leaving issue-
i. Ellen Mary Mytton, born 15th October 1864.
ii. Henry Robert Herbert Mytton, born 4th January 1866.
iii. Frances Harriet Mytton, born 18th June 1867.
iv. Richard Griffith Vere Mytton, born 15th November 1868.
v. Leornard Vincent Mytton, born 8th April 1870.
vi. Hilda Violet, born 30th September 1872.
vii. Charlotte Isabella, born 26th March 1874.
viii. Robert Arthur Carlyle, born 18th July 1878.
5. Robert Purrier Mytton, born 23rd September 1850; Barrister-at-law; married at London, on 26th August 1879, Annie, daughter of Stephen Crackwell, Esq., of London, barrister-at-law, and has issue-
i. Richard Devereux Hugh Mytton, born 7th February 1882.
6. Richard Mytton, born 13th March 1856, of Lopchoo, East Indies; married at Clifton, on 27th November 1889, Florence Edith, youngest daughter of E.D. Thompson Harrison, Esq., M.R.C.S., formerly of Welshpool, but then of Clifton, Bristol.
7. Charlotte Henrietta Mytton, born at Jepore, 30th April 1831; married, at Dacca, Robert Abercrombie, Bengal Civil Service, in 1850. He died 12th February 1889, leaving issue-
i. Frances Rachel Abercrombie, born 6th April 1851; married,
first, Walter Robert Hamilton, 4th Bengal Cavalry, in April 1871, who died
June 1882; secondly, William Percy Ashe, M.D.
ii. Harriet Catherine Abercrombie, born 9th May 1854; married, April 1875,
Ferdinand Albert Shaw.
iii. Marian Elizabeth Abercrombie, born 28th March 1856; married, July1878,
Charles Edward Harenc.
iv. Walter Devereux Abercrombie, born 5th December 1860.
v. Frank Sutherland Abercrombie, born 8th July 1864.
8. Mary Ann Fanny Mytton, born 26th September 1837, and died
at London, 30th December 1878, unmarried.
9. Eliza Jane Mytton, born 17th March 1839; married, at Guilsfield, on 1st
February 1872, Edward Francis Brown Brooke, Esq., eldest son of Rev. T. R.
Brown Brooke, of the county Gloucester, and has issue-
i. Gilbert Edward Brown Brooke, born 28th March 1873.
10. Letitia Clementine Mytton, born 26th September 1844; married, at Guilsfield, on 1st January 1869, William McCandlish, Esq., C.E., of Lewisham, and has issue-
i. William Herbert McCandlish, born 23rd October 1869.
ii. Charles Murray McCandlish, born 12th April 1871.
iii. John Alexander McCandlish, born 26th May 1872.
11. Emily Harriett Mytton, born 9th April 1847; died at Garth,
7th July 1888, unmarried.
12. Mary Helen Mytton, born 7th December 1852; married, at Guilsfield, 24th
January 1882, Francis Woolaston Trevor, Esq., (son of Edward Salisbury Rose
Trevor, Esq.), and has issue-
i. Charles Gerard Trevor, born 28th December 1882.
ii. Herbert Edward Trevor, born 26th May 1884.
iii. Frances Mildred, born 9th June 1886.
iv. Ronald Adair, born 7th March 1889.
XVI. DEVEREUX HERBERT MYTTON, Esq., of Garth, born at Baraset, Bengal, East Indies, 9th September 1832; late Captain 85th Light Infantry; Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1873; married, 23rd January 1873, Emma Lydia, only daughter of Edmund Storey, Esq., and has issue-
1. George Herbert Mytton, born 3rd Nov. 1873.
2. Hugh Frederick Mytton, born 17th January 1875.
3. Arthur Reignallt Mytton, born 21st August 1878.
4. Philip Aldred Mytton, born 5th October 1880.
5. Richard Llewellyn Mytton, born 3rd September 1883.
6. Dorothy Wynne Mytton.
7. Gwladys Ethel Mytton.
BLAZON OF THE MYTTON SHIELD OF 17 QUARTERINGS.
1. Per pale az. and gu., an eagle displayed with two heads or, within a bordure engrailed of the last. (MYTTON.)
2. Ar., a lion ramp. sa., debruised by a bend compony or and az. (Burleigh.)
3. Sa., three towers triple-towered ar. (Tower.)
4. Az., three eels haurient in fesse ar. (Pride.)
5. Az., a chevron ermine between three fleurs-de-lis ar. (Burgh.)
6. Gu., a lion ramp. or, within a bordure engrailed of the last. (Thomas ap Llewelyn.)
7. Or, a lion ramp. gu., within a bordure engrailed sa. (Mawddwy.)
8. Or, a raven sa. (Corbet.)
9. Gu., a bend between six pears erect or. (Clopton.)
10. Quarterly per fesse indented gu. and or, in the first quarter a lion pass. guard. ar. (Beysin.)
11. Sa., three nag's heads erased ar. (Wynne.)
12. Ar., three bull's heads couped sa., attired or. (Sir Aron ap Bledri.)
13. Or, three lions erased gu., within a bordure engrailed az. (Griffin ap Allon of Powis.)
14. Gu., a griffin ramp. or. (Llowdden.)
15. Sa., a chevron or, between three owls ar. (Griffith ap Jenkin of Broughton.)
16. Gu., three snakes nowed in a triangular knot sa. (David ap Jevon Goch, descended from Ednowen ap Bradwen.)
17. Same as 1.
FOOTNOTES
1. Burke, in his Landed Gentry (1817), gives
a somewhat different version. "Sixth in descent from Sir Hugh's son Roger
was Hawkin de Mutton, father of Reginald de Mutton, M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1373,
who married, first, the daughter and heir of Sir Hamo Vaughan, Lord of the Manor
of West Tilbury, Essex, and had by her two sons, Thomas and John. He married,
secondly, Eleanor, sister of Thomas le Skinner of Shrewsbury, and by her was
father of Sir Richard Mutton, who married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir
Adam Peshall, Knight, of Weston-under-Lizard, and was ancestor of the MYTTONS
of Weston. Reginald's eldest son, Thomas Mitton, Esq., married Agnes, daughter
and heir of William Burley, Esq.", etc. - Return
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2. Harleian Society's Publications,
vol. xxix, p. 361. - Return to Pedigree
3. The various Shropshire families of Mytton
gave originally for their arms the spread eagle, borrowed evidently from a very
ancient family of Mitton, seated at a place of the same name in Lancashire,
whose arms were: Per pale azure and purple, an eagle displayed with two heads;
of whom an account can be seen in Whitaker's History of Whalley, p. 448.
I have seen nothing which would lead me to suppose that the Shropshire Myttons
came from that Lancashire family, which may, however, have been the case. It
was General Mytton, I think, that first quitted this coat and assumed the cinquefoil,
on what grounds I cannot say; the family have now returned to the eagle. - Return
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4. Rymer, viii, p. 9. - Return
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5. The protection of "fenced cities"
and moated mansions came about this time in gradual disuse by the improved state
of society, arising from a more exact administration of laws. In the habitual
enjoyment of our present security, we do not enough regard the greatness of
the blessing, or the causes from which it springs. - Return
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6. The other co-heiresses were: Isabel, married
to John Lyngen, Esq.; Anereda, married to John Leighton, Esq.; and Elizabeth,
married to William Newport, Esq. - Return to Pedigree
7. "This Elianor was one of the daughters
and heirs of Thomas ap Llewelyn ap Owen ap Meredithe ap Owen ap Griffith, ap
Rees ap Griff ap Rees, Prince of South Wales, whose other sister, Ellen, was
mother to Owen Glendower, and parted lands with her said sister." (See
this pedigree at large in Dr. Powell's Wales, pp. 211-13.) - Return
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