LITTLETON, Sir Edward, 1st bt. (1599-1657), of Pillaton Hall, Penkridge, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. 12 Dec. 1599, 1st s. of Sir Edward Littleton† of Pillaton Hall, and Mary (bur. 13 Jan. 1665), da. of Clement Fisher of Packington, Warws.Great Packington, Warws. par. reg.; Penkridge Church Reg. ed. H.R. Thomas (Staffs. Par. Regs. Soc. 1946), 261; CB. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 28 Mar. 1617;Al. Ox. I. Temple 13 June 1618.I. Temple database. m. (1) (settlement 1 Oct. 1625 with £5,000), Hester, da. of Sir William Courteen of London, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.;Staffs. RO, D260/M/T/5/112; Penkridge Church Reg. ed. Thomas, 50, 55, 58, 144; CB. (2) by Apr. 1653, Catherine, da. of ? of ?Ffinant, Trefeglwys, Mont., ?s.p.PROB6/34, f. 31v; Staffs. RO, D260/M/E/429/22; G. Carew, The Title and Interest of Jeremy Elwes Esq and Other Creditors of William Courten (1659), 4; VCH Worcs. iv. 336. cr. bt. 28 June 1627;CB. suc. fa. 25 July 1629.C142/456/76. d. c. Aug. 1657.Staffs. RO, D260/M/E/429/22.

Offices Held

Local: commr. charitable uses, Staffs. 16 June 1630 – 24 Nov. 1632, 22 June 1637-aft. June 1639.C192/1, unfol. J.p. 8 July 1634–?, 9 Mar. 1641-aft. Aug. 1642.C231/5, pp. 143, 434, 536. Commr. swans, Staffs. and Warws. 12 Feb. 1635, 6 Feb. 1638;C181/4, f. 199v; C181/5, f. 91. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 29 May 1635-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/5, ff. 6v, 219. Staffs. 4 Dec. 1643, 20 Jan. 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 107, 251. Dep. lt. by Aug. 1635–?SP16/296/10. f. 21. Sheriff, 3 Oct.1636–30 Sept. 1637.Coventry Docquets, 367, 368. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;CJ ii. 267b; LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643;SR; A. and O. array (roy.), 16 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Custos rot. 6 Aug. 1642–?C231/5, p. 536. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. impressment (roy.), 16 Nov. 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 108.

: 1st bt. (1599-1657), of Pillaton Hall, Penkridge, Staffs. 1599 – 1657.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LITTLETON, Sir Edward, 1st bt. (1599-1657), of Pillaton Hall, Penkridge, Staffs.

Will

admon. 5 Feb. 1658.PROB6/34, f. 31v.

Estates

inherited manors of Huntingdon, Levedale, Longridge, Otherton, Pillaton Hall and Preston; prebends of Congreve, Coppenhall, Dunston, Longridge, Penkridge, Shareshill and Stretton; site of Penkridge College; Teddersley Chase; advowson of Penkridge; lands in Bickford, Chillington, Church Eaton, Forbridge, Hanbury, Hatherton, Penkridge, Whiston and Wolgarston, Staffs.; and manor and advowson of Shelsley Walsh, Warws.C142/456/76. In 1638, he purchased manors of Coven and Brinsford, Little and Great Saredon and Shareshill, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D260/M/T/5/5. By 1642, also owned lands in Acton Trussell, Apeton, Blymhill, Brineton, Drayton, Essington, Haughton, Hayhouse, Marston, Mitton, Moreton, Norbury, Rodbaston, Weston Jones, Weston under Lizard and Wilbrighton; and ‘free chapels’ of Coppenhall, Shareshill and Stretton, Staffs.SP23/100, pp. 555, 557-9; Staffs. RO, D260/M/T/5/113. In 1646, his estate was reckoned to be worth about £500 p.a.CCC 2082. In 1650, manor of Pillaton; mills at Acton and Bednall; property in Huntington, Levedale, Otherton, Penkridge and Wolgarston; and tithes in Congreve, Mitton and Water Eaton were valued at £324 p.a.SP23/100, pp. 570, 575-6. The estate of his heir was valued at £1,500 p.a. in the early 1660s and at £1,442 p.a in 1671.Staffs. RO, D1178/4; ‘The gentry of Staffs. 1662-3’ ed. R.M. Kidson (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. ser. 4, ii), 21. In 1666, Pillaton Hall was assessed at 25 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. for a Hist. of Staffs. 1927), 23.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

Addresses

lodging at Mr Tippins in Holywell, Oxford (1644).Wm. Salt. Lib. S.MS.454/2.

Religion

presented Gilbert Littleton to rectory of Handsworth, Staffs., 1636.IND1/17003, p. 15.

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