1 8 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



historian relates, he was instantly tried, condemned, 

 and executed, according to the summary method 

 practised in those ages. His reward for this very 

 important service is recorded in the Harleian MSS., 

 No. 433 ; in which is an abstract of the Letters 

 Patent, whereby " King Richard the Third grants to 

 his trusty and well-beloved Squire, Thomas Mytton, 

 and to his heirs male, the Castle and Lordship of 

 Cawes, and all appurtenances thereto, amounting to 

 the value of fifty pounds, and late belonging to our 

 rebel and traitor, the late Duke of Buckingham." 

 This Thomas Mytton married one of the daughters 

 of Sir John Burgh, and was an immediate ancestor 

 of the subject of this memoir. 



As has been shown, the first conspicuous ancestor 

 of this family was Reginold de Mutton, of Weston 

 Lizard, Shropshire, now represented through the 

 Wilbrahams and Newports, by the present Earl of 

 Bradford ; and it is in 1549 that we first find it seated 

 at Halston, when Sir Robert Townsend is stated to 

 have rented Mr. Mytton's large mansion at Cotow, he 

 — Mr Mytton — having removed to his more recent 

 purchase at Halston, or, as it was then called, Holy 

 Stone, much celebrated in history as the scene of 

 bloody deeds in the reign of the first Richard. At 



