Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
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DeathMay 1688
GeneralOf Shipton Hall, Salop.
Notes for Henry Mytton


Mick Powis has found the following:

Thomas Mytton  1597 - 1656 was commander of the Parliamentary forces in Shropshire and North Wales from about 1644 to  1647. It seems he made his name as a colonel when he captured Wem and Ellesmere Castle, which must have given the Cockshutt family something to think about. By 1646 he was a major general, and took control of all of North East Wales. He captured Denbigh Castle, Ruthin Castle, Holt Castle, Caernarfon, Conwy and on 15 March 1646 Harlech. During the 1648 Royalist rebellion he captured Beaumaris Castle.

“Henry Mytton was his son. Shrewsbury archives has details of the wills of Thomas, Henry and Elizabeth (Powys) Henry's widow. Elizabeth1630 -1716, first married Richard Hunt, and then then Henry Mytton. Her will is in Shropshire  archives, the National archives site has quite a lot of detail. Elizabeth died in 1716. There is an interesting copy of the Shipton Parish Register now on line. With some of the earliest Powys  entries. There is a record of Elizabeth buried at Shipton. 12 April 1716. "Mrs Elizabeth Mytton relict of Henry Mytton Esq".
There are portraits of Elizabeth and Henry on an auction website 'Mutual Art'.
  
“There are also a number of letters between Sir Thomas Powys and Sir Littleton Powys and Henry Mytton, including one where they discuss Sir Thomas standing for Parliament in 1700 in Ludlow and Henry Mytton trying to drum up support for him.

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Mick also found portraits of Henry and Elizabeth.  The first pair is by John Closterman anddescribed on the  and these described on the Mutual Art website:

Two Works: Portrait of Henry Mytton of Shipton (1626-1688), half-length, in an ochre coat and mantle and a lace jabot; and Portrait of Elizabeth Mytton (1630-1716), daughter of Thomas Powys and wife of Henry Mytton, half-length, in a blue dress with gold and cream lining and a red wrap

A second pair of a later Henry Mytton and his wife is by British School, 18th Century and described as:

“Two Works: Portrait of Henry Mytton of Shipton (d. 1757), half-length, in a brown coat, holding a hat under his left arm, feigned oval; and Portrait of Martha Mytton (d. 1747), half-length, in a white satin dress with a blue wrap, 1757
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