Family and Education
b. by 1498, s. of Thomas Myttonof Vaughan Place, Shrewsbury by 2nd w., prob. da. of one Stanley; half-bro. of William Mytton. m. (1) Alice, da. of one Bowdler, wid. of Thomas Withyford, 2da.; (2) Catherine. Kntd. 6 or 20 or 22 Feb. 1547.Date of birth estimated from first reference. Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 361-2; PCC 30 Loftes; CPR, 1547-8, p. 76.
Offices Held

Burgess (common councilman), Shrewsbury by 1520, coroner 1521 – 22, auditor 1522 – 23, bailiff 1523 – 24, 1527 – 28, 1531 – 32, 1537 – 38, 1541 – 42, 1546 – 47, 1552 – 53, alderman by 6 Mar. 1525; warden, Shrewsbury drapers’ co. 1520 – 21, steward 1526 – 27; commr. subsidy, Shrewsbury 1524, chantries, Wales and Mon. 1546, relief, Salop, Shrewsbury 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Shrewsbury, Rad. 1553, loan Salop 1557; escheator, Salop 1532 – 33; j.p. Salop 1538 – 47, Cheshire 1543 – 47, Herefs. 1543 – 54, Mon. 1544 – 47, Glos., Worcs. 1547 – 54, Rad. 1558/59; member, council in the marches of Wales by 1543 – d.; sheriff, Rad. 1546 – 47, 1552 – 53, Salop 1553 – 54; recorder, Bridgnorth in 1550 – d.; steward, Clun and Oswestry by 1561.Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 1), iii. 254, 256–8, 262; (ser. 4), iv. 205, 215; n.s. liv.182; LP Hen. VIII, iv. xiii, xiv, xvi, xviii, xx, xxi; CPR, 1547–8 passim to 1558–60; APC, i. 131; vi. 192; Shrewsbury Guildhall 66, f. unnumbered, 76(3), f. unnumbered; PCC 30 Loftes.

Main residences: Vaughan Place, Shrewsbury, Salop; Presteigne, Rad.
Author
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title

MYTTON, Adam (by 1498-1561)

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Oxford 1644
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