LYTTELTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1595-1650), of Hagley and Frankley, Worcs.

Family and Education

bap. 20 Dec. 1595, 1st s. of John Lyttelton of Frankley and Meriel (bur. 15 Apr. 1630), da. of Sir Thomas Bromley of Rodd Castle and Hodnet, nr. Oswestry, Salop. Hagley par. reg.; PA, Lords Original Acts 1 James I, no. 58. suc. fa. 25 July 1601.CB i. 117. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1610, BA Broadgates Hall, 1614;Al. Ox. I. Temple 27 Oct. 1613;I. Temple admissions database. travelled abroad (France, Low Countries, 1615-16).APC 1615-16, p. 313. m. by 22 Nov. 1617, Catherine (d. 24 June 1666), da. of Sir Thomas Crompton of Driffield, Yorks. and Hounslow, Mdx. 12s. (6 d.v.p.), 4da.HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Sir Thomas Littleton’; CITR 144; Nash, Collections, i. 493. cr. bt. 25 July 1618; Kntd. 9 Nov. 1618.BRL, Hagley Hall mss, box 62, 352043; CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 558; CB i. 117; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 170. d. 22 Feb. 1650.CB i. 117.

Offices Held

Military: vol. ?Low Countries 1621 – 22; capt. 1624; ?col. Mar. 1628. ?Col. Ile de Ré expedition, Oct.1627.Harl. 5814 f. 47; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 390; 1628–9, p. 40. Col. militia horse and ft. (roy.) Worcs. 3 Sept. 1642; col. volunteers, 5 Sept. 1642.Northants RO, FH133, unfol.; BRL, Hagley Hall mss, box 29, 351505; box 31, 351506, 351507. Gov. Bewdley (roy.) 1642–4.J.R. Burton, Hist. Bewdley (1883), 39; J.W. Willis Bund, Civil War in Worcs. 1642–46 (1905), 35, 54.

Local: commr. arbitration, Ombersley, Worcs. 1622;CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 441. subsidy, Worcs. 1624;C212/22/23. Bucks. 1641;SR. Forced Loan, Worcs. 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, f. 62v. levy crown debts, southern and midland cos. and Wales 1628;HMC Rutland, i. 485. commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 Jan. 1629-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/3, f. 260v; C181/4, ff. 12, 194v; C181/5, ff. 6v, 219. sewers, Staffs. 1630;C181/4, f. 65. further subsidy, Bucks. 1641; poll tax, 1641.SR. J.p. Salop, Worcs. 11 Mar. 1641–?July 1646.C231/5, p. 434. Commr. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Bucks. 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), Worcs. 14 June 1642; Worcester 14 Sept. 1642; accts. (roy.) Worcs. 1 June 1644; Staffs. 22 Mar. 1645.Bodl. Dugdale 19, ff. 87, 105.

Legal: marshal, Christmas feast, I. Temple 1626, 1628, 1637, 1640, 1641.CITR 157, 170, 236, 257, 263, 294.

Mercantile: adventurer, Guiana Co. 1629.Bodl. Tanner 71, f.161v.

: 1st bt. (1595-1650), of Hagley 1595 – 1650 and Worcs., Frankley.

Likenesses

Likenesses: MI Worcester cathedral.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LYTTELTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1595-1650), of Hagley and Frankley, Worcs.

Will

20 Dec. 1649, pr. 21 Mar. 1650.PROB11/211, f. 314.

Estates

Lands in Arley, Staffs.PROB11/211, f. 314. In 1632 manors of Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Hagley, Churchill and Clent, Worcs. In 1645 lands in Clent, Hagley, Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Bettecote, Churchill and Arley re-conveyed to him after destruction of deeds.BRL, Hagley Hall mss, box 43, 351758. In 1639 he bought the manor of Westbury, Bucks., valued at £300 in 1647.B. Willis, Hist. and Antiquities of Bucks. (1755), 352; CCC 67.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

St Martin’s Lane, London, Nov. 1618;Herefs. RO, W15/2. Newcastle House, Clerkenwell, Mdx. Feb. 1650.CB i. 117.

Religion

Edmund Kettle to Churchill rectory, Hagley 24 Mar. 1618; Thomas Lyttelton to Halesowen vicarage, 5 Dec. 1620; Bartholomew Kettle to Hagley rectory, 16 June 1634; John Neale to Churchill rectory, 27 Jan. 1641.Worcs. Archives, 732.4/BA 2337/551, pp. 18, 22, 23.

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