Eleanor Mytton

Richard Mytton, Esq., m. 3rdly, Eleanor, dau. and heiress of George Harborae, Esq., recorder of Shrewsbury, and widow of Bichard Beeston, Esq., by whom he had issue,

• I. Adam (Sir), recorder of Shrewsbury, who m. 1st, Jane, dau. of Lancelot Lacon, Esq. of Lindley, co. Salop, by whom be had George, Henry, and Mary. Sir Adam m. 2nd, Mary, dau. of Thomas Holstock. but by her, had no issue.
• I. Jane, m. 1st to Edward Ireland. Esq. of Salop; and 2nd to the Rev. Thomas Higgons, D.D.
• II. Isabel, m. to Thomas Walter. (SIC: Thomas Oteley, Esq.)

Richard Mytton d 1591, and was .. by his great-grandson,

From Mytton Pedigree

     Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire (p. 87) thus refers to Richard Mytton, 1544:

     " RICHARD MYTTON of Shrewsbury, grandson of Thomas Mitton, as I suppose, the Sheriff of 1483. The manuscript chronicle of Shrewsbury in the Free School Library, known by the name of Dr. Taylor's Manuscript, thus records his death under the year 1591:

     "' This yeare & the 28th day of Nov'r, master Rychard Mytton, Esquier, called the Gentle Master Mytton, an alderman of Salop, who had been six tymes Bayllyf of the Towne, was solemnly buryed, being about an hundred yeares old.' His wife, a wealthy heiress, daughter of George Harborne, an eminent lawyer, and Recorder or Shrewsbury, has a great character in the same manuscript. ' The 30th day of January 1602, beinge Sundaye, departed this lyfe the worthy Mrs. Elnor Mytton, late wyfe of Mr. Richard Mytton, Esquire. She was buried the Thursdaye following, very solemnly, being of the full age of 90 yeares. She was of greate birthe, and verey good to the poore; vertuous and godly. She wold dayly pray most devoutly, three whoale houres before noon, and three whoale houres in the afternoone, and never storre' (perhaps stoode) ' but these tymes upon her knees. The God of peace no doubt hath received her to His Mercye. Amen!' These worthy characters fully experienced the truth of the apostle's declaration, 1 Tim. iv, 8, ' Sit anima mea vobiscum!'"

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• MYTTON, Richard (1500/1-91), of Shrewsbury and Halston, Salop and Dinas Mawddwy, Merion. m (2 or 3) Eleanor, da. of George Harborne, wid. of Richard Beeston of Shrewsbury, 1s. 2da. "He was buried in St. Chad’s church, Shrewsbury, where a monument commemorated him. An anonymous Shrewsbury chronicler also recorded the passing of ‘the gentle Master Mytton’ and later celebrated the virtues of his last wife, who survived him, dying on 30 Jan. 1602 also at the age of 90.10. PCC 3 Sheffielde; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), ii. 149; Blakeway, Salop Sheriffs, 87; Lichfield Wills and Admin. 1516-1652 (Index Lib. vii), 284.
• Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society page 390. "1 [Mr. Blakeway is evidently in error here. Thomas Oteley, who married a daughter of Richard Mytton, was of Ford, and left two sons, Walter and Richard; he was son, not of John and Anne, but of William Oteley, of Pitchford, Sheriff of Salop in 1500, who died in 1529, and Margery Bruyn. Thomas Oteley, of Whittington, the son of John and Anne, was evidently quite a different person. See Visitation of Salop, 1623; Harl. Soc., p. 381.—Ed.]
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