LIFE OF MYTTON. 



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sa7ictuary at Halston, where he was taken to the pro- 

 tection of its possessor, John Fitzallen, Earl of Arun- 

 del. In the Saxon era the lordship of Halston 

 belonged to Edrio ; at which time there were on it 

 two Welshmen and one Frenchman. After the Nor- 

 man conquest, Halston became the property of an 

 Earl of Arundel, and was given by that family to 

 the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. In the 26th 

 of Henry VIII. the commandry was valued at 

 160/. 14^'. \od. a year. Upon the aboHtion of many of 

 the military religious orders, Henry VIII. empowered 

 John Sewster, Esq., to dispose of this manor to Alan 

 Horde, who made an exchange with Edward Mytton, 

 Esq., of Habberley ; which alienation was afterwards 

 confirmed by Queen Elizabeth. The church or chapel 

 of Halston is a donative, without any other revenue 

 than what the chaplain is allowed by the owner, and is 

 of exempt jurisdiction. Halston was the birth-place of 

 the famous General Mytton. 



Immediately after the funeral his last will was read, 

 in which he had bequeathed all that he had to leave 

 equally amongst all his children, and to which the 

 Hon. Thomas Kenyon, of Pradoe, near Oswestry, 

 and R. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P. for Shrewsbury, were 



appointed executors. He had previously, at Calais, 



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