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if ever took a fee of a clergyman. Afterwards, being Recorder of 
York, he was knighted and made Judge of Common Pleas. In 
the case of ship money, though he was against the King—or rather 
for the Commons—yet His Majesty manifested not the least 
distaste, continuing to call him the honest judge.” 
It is not much known that a direct ancestress of Baroness 
Burdett Couts was buried in the Hutton place of sepulchre— 
St. Andrew’s choir of old Penrith church, as was also her daughter, 
Elizabeth Burdett, married to Mr. Anthony Hutton. It was in 
this way. Robert Burdett married Mary, daughter of Thomas 
Wilson, D.D., Dean of Durham, and Secretary of State to Queen 
Elizabeth ; and from her the Baroness Burdett Couts is lineally 
descended. Mary Burdett surviving her husband, was married to 
Sir Christopher Lowther; and her daughter, Elizabeth Burdett, 
was married to Anthony Hutton of Hutton Hall. 
On the death of Sir Christopher Lowther, his widow took up 
her residence with her daughter and son-in-law at Hutton Hall, 
where she continued to reside until her death in 1622. She was 
buried in St. Andrew’s choir, and a brass plate to her memory 
there is recorded by Bishop Nicolson in 1704. Her daughter 
on the death of her husband Anthony Hutton in 1637, erected a 
marble monument in St. Andrew’s choir, bearing the recumbent 
figures of her lamented husband and herself. There were two 
brass plates bearing inscriptions, one to the memory of the departed 
husband, the other telling what the yet living wife had done. 
“Here lyes the portraiture of Elizabeth Hutton, the wife of the 
late deceased Anthony Hutton, who, though living, desired thus 
to be placed, in token of her union with him here interred, and of 
her own expected mortality.” In this case, at least, we may infer 
that marriage was of “‘a failure.” 
It was a curious episode in a family history when Baroness 
Burdett Couts’ very great aunt stood in St. Andrew’s choir (where 
the choir vestry now is) and contemplated her own sepulchral 
effigy. 
The last of the family name was Addison Hutton, Doctor of 
Physic, who died in 1742. 
