Catalogue description Correspondence of the Lyttelton family [Lyttelton Bequest]

Correspondence of the Lyttelton family; 1627-1701. As follows:-

(1) Two letters to Meriel Lyttelton, widow of John Lyttelton (d. 1601), from her sons, Edward and Thomas (Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Bt.), conc. an unsuitable match for their sister, 19 May 1627, n.d. fols. 1-4v;-

(2) Edward Lyttelton, to his brother, Sir Thomas, hoping that private disputes would not interfere, 19 July 1642. fols. 5-6v;-

(3) Correspondence with Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Bt., mainly 1642, conc. the raising of troops for the King's service including a letter from Sir Edward Nicholas to the Commissioners of Array for Worcs., 21 Aug. 1642, and a request from Lord Falkland for Sir Thomas to go to Shrewsbury to confer with the King, 19 Sept. 1642. fols. 7-8v, 20-5v;-

(4) Letters and papers conc. a dispute and proposed duel between Sir T(homas?) Leveson and Sir Thomas Lyttelton, c. 1642? fols. 9-10v, 15-19v;-

(5) Letter of Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Bt., conc. his marriage, correspondence of Sir Henry Lyttelton and Philadelphia Carey before their marriage and letter of congratulation from Henry, 2nd Earl of Monmouth (succeeded 1639), to his niece, fols. 26a-32v;-

(6) Petitions of Sir Henry Lyttelton to Oliver Cromwell for release from the Tower, and medical certificate from G. Bate to support the release of Lady Lyttelton the younger (Lady Philadelphia), 1655. fols. 11-14, 33-7v;-

(7) Henry Harris to Sir Henry Lyttelton warning him of a traitor, 23 Aug. 1662. fols. 38-9v;-

(8) Letters of Katherine Lyttelton (née Fairfax; d. 1662), to her husband Sir Charles Lyttelton (knt. 1662, 3rd Bt. 1693). fols. 40-53v;-

(9) Letters of Katherine Lyttelton (née Crompton, widow of Sir Thomas Lyttelton) to her son, Sir Charles Lyttelton, mostly addressed to him in Jamaica, c. 1662. fols. 54-61v;-

(10) Two letters from Philadelphia Lyttelton (d. 1663; wife of Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Bt.), to her brother-in-law, Sir Charles Lyttelton, in Jamaica, ?1662. fols. 62-5v;-

(11) Sir Henry Bennet, Sec. of State (afterwards 1st Earl of Arlington), letter (signed) to Sir Charles Lyttelton in Jamaica, 22 Feb. 1663/4. fols. 66-7v;-

(12) Instructions for Sir Charles Lyttelton to hand over the seal of office to his successor as Governor of Jamaica, Sir Thomas Muddiford, 24 Feb. 1663/4. With sign manual of Charles II. fols. 68-9v;-

(13) Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyttelton and his second wife (Anne Temple) and advice to him conc. his second marriage, c. 1665-78. fols. 70-86v;-

(14) Marshal Schomberg, letter to Sir Charles Lyttelton, 21 Feb. 1688/9. fols. 87-8v;-

(15) Sir William Coventry to the same, 18 Jan. n.y. fols. 89-90v;-

(16) Captain Churchill (afterwards Duke of Marlborough), two letters to the same, 10 May, 19 July 1678. fols. 91, 103-4v;-

(17) Sir Henry Coventry to the same, 7 June 1678. fols. 92-3v;-

(18) Thomas, 1st Earl of Cleveland, to the same, 20 May 1664. fols. 94-5v;-

(19) Lady Marlborough to --, 13 June 1700. fols. 96-7v;-

(20) Two letters, to Lady Lyttelton, and to the writer's sister Kate (Kathleen), the first reporting conversations with the King (James II), the second announcing the delivery of the Queen, 11 June 1688. fols. 98-100;-

(21) James, Duke of Monmouth, as Commander of the British forces in Flanders, to Sir Charles Lyttelton at Bruges, asking to know the strength of the regiments, 1678. fols. 101-2v;-

(22) Mary Lyttelton to her brother, Sir Charles, 5 Oct. 1699. fols. 105-6v;-

(23) Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Bt., Treasurer of the Navy, to one of the Lytteltons granting a favour, 30 Sept. 1701. fols. 107-8v;-

(24) Henry? Lyttelton, son of Sir Charles Lyttelton, letter to his mother from camp at Dundalk, Ireland, describing his escape from drowning, and terrible conditions in Ireland, 6 Nov. (1689?). fols. 109-10v.

Lyttelton, Thomas (1596-1650), 1st Baronet, Royalist

Charles I (1600-1649), King of Great Britain and Ireland

Lyttelton family, Viscounts Cobham

Note, fol. ii, by the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, PSA, that he had transcribed most of the letters into a quarto volume (at Hagley, see HMC. Second report. Appendix (1871), 36). Minute Book XI, 12 Jan. 1769, p. 6.

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