THE 



LIFE AND DEATH 



OF 



JOHN MYTTON, Esq. 



PART I. 



Ubi plura nitent. — HoR. 



T T may be unnecessary, perhaps, to go beyond five 

 centuries back for the pedigree of John Mytton. No 

 one, I believe, ever doubted his being quite thorough- 

 bred. In fact, no half-bred one could have done much 

 more than half what he did in the space of his short 

 life ; but, as I have before said of him, " nil violenhim, 

 est perpetimvi " — " 'tis the pace that kills " — and he 

 was no exception to the rule. It having, however, 

 been stated in the newspapers, that he had represented 

 the ancient borough of Shrewsbury in Parliament, I 

 shall merely show that, if the ancient relation of his 

 family to a town of which their ancestors had been 



