Sir Edward Littleton (head of the family 1558-1574), bearing the Littleton arms, and Alice Cockayne, from their tomb in the chancel. This Sir Edward inherited a large area in Teddesley Hay and upset neighbouring landowners with his enclosure policy.
English: Penkridge, Staffordshire: St. Michael and All Angels church. Sir Edward Littleton (d. 1574) and Alice Cockayne, from their monument in the chancel. "Here are the armes of Dame Alice Litleton Ung Di(e)u et Ung Roy ("one god and one king") Blazon: A bend within a bordure engrailed bezantee (Westcott) impaling Cockayne (Or, three cockrels gules) quarterly of eleven. Crest above, twice: A wolf's head erased sable. Alice Cockayne (1535– Nov 3 1602), the daughter of Francis Cockayne of Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire m: Edward Littleton (b: 1523 d: 1574) of Pillaton Hall, near Penkridge Staffordshire. From: LITTLETON, OF TEDDESLEY, A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 1 By John Burke[1] "The family of Lyttelton has been of long standing in the county of Worcester, and had considerable possessions in the vale of Evesham, particularly at South Lyttelton, whence the name has probably been assumed, in the beginning of the thirteenth century. Thomas De Luttelton, about the nineteenth year of Henry III. m. Emma, only daughter and heiress of Sir Simon de Frankley, knt. by whom he had an only daughter, Emma, who m. Augerus de Tatlynton (which Augerus was distrained in the 40th year of Henry III. for not taking upon himself the order of knighthood). Thomas de Luttelton m. secondly, Anselm, daughter and heiress of William Fitswarren, of Upton, in the county of Worcester, one of the justicesitinerant and judge of the Common Pleas, 12th Henry III. and sheriff of Worcestershire the following year, by whom he left three sons. This Thomas was a considerable benefactor to religious institutions, particularly to the convents of Pershore, and the abbey of Evesham. He was s. at his decease by his eldest son, EDMUND DE LUttelton, who resided at Coulesdon, and had lands at Naunton, in Worcestershire, which still continue in possession of a branch of the family of Lyttelton; dying without issue, his estates devolved upon his youngest and only surviving brother, Thomas De Luttelton, who represented the county of Worcester in parliament, from 9th Edward II. to the 34th Edward III. and was s. at his decease by his eldest son, THoMAs de Luttelton, who recovered the manor of Frankley, by a writ of right, on failure of issue to his cousin, Thomas de Tatlynton. This Thomas de Luttelton was esquire of the body of three successive kings, namely, Richard II. Henry IV. and Henry W.; and was rewarded with several grants of money, timber, &c. from each of those monarchs, pro bono et gratuito servitio, as expressed in the grants. He d. in the 1st year of Henry VI. and left an only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth de LUTtelton, who m. Thomas Westcote, esq. the king's servant in court, a gentleman of Devonshire, anciently descended: but she being fair, and of noble spirit (to use the phraseology of Lord Coke), and having large possessions and inheritances from her ancestors, de Luttelton, and from her mother, the daughter and co-heiress of Quatermain, and other ancestors, resolved to continue the honour of her name, and therefore provided, by Westcote's assent, before marriage, that her issue inheritable should be called by the name of Luttelton. Upon this marriage, Mr. Westcote settled at Frankley, and served the office of escheator of Worcester 29th Henry VI. (1450); soon after which he d. leaving four sons and as many daughters. He was s. by his eldest Son, Thomas DE LUTTElton (or Lyttelton, as he began to write it), who, having been brought up to the bar, was called, in 1454, to the degree of serjeant-at-law; and, in the following year, was nominated king's-serjeant, when he rode justice of the assize in the northern circuit. In 1464 (the fourth year of King Edward IV.) Mr. Serjeant Lyttelton was appointed one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas; and the king granted him, at the same time, out of the customs of London, Bristol, and Hull, 110 marks yearly, with the sum of 106s. 10}d. for a robe and furs, and 66s. 6d. for a summer robe, called linura. In the 15th year of the same monarch, he was created with the Prince of Wales, and other persons of distinction, a Knight of the Bath. Sir Thomas wrote his celebrated “Treatise on Tenures,” after he had ascended the bench ; a book, which Lord Coke has characterized, as the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was wrote in any human science.” Sir Thomas Lyttelton m. Joan, widow of Sir Philip Chetwynd, of Ingestre, in the county of Stafford, and daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Burley, knt. of Bromscroft Castle, in Shropshire, by whom he had (with two daughters) three sons, viz. [graphic] William, his successor, from whom the LoRDs LYttelton derive. Richard, of whom presently. Thomas, of Speckley, ancestor of the Lord Keeper Lyttelton, and of Sir William Lyttelton, Speaker of the House of Commons, temp. William III. See Burke's Ectinct Peerage. The second son, Richard Littleton, followed the profession of his father, and to him that learned and eminent person inscribed the “Treatise on Tenures.” He m. Alice, daughter and heir of William Winesbury, esq. of Pillaton Hall, in the county of Stafford, by whom he had issue, Richard, who d.s.p. Edward, who became representative of the family. Ellen, m. first, to John Cotes, esq. of Woodcote, in Shropshire, and secondly, to William Basset, esq. of Blore, in the county of Stafford. Margaret, m first, to Humphry Pigot, esq. of Shropshire, and secondly, to Clifton, esq. of Derbyshire. Lucy, m. to Robert Swinnerton, esq. of Eccleshall, county of Stafford. Anne, m. to Thomas Middlemore, esq. of Edgbaston, in Warwickshire. Mr. Littleton d. in the 9th of Henry VIII. and was s. by his only surviving son, SiR Edward Littleton, knt. who inherited in twelve years after the estates of his mother, upon that lady's decease. This gentleman had a grant from King HENRY VIII. for life, of the office of constable and keeper of the castle at Stafford; keeper of the king's parks, and bailiff of his manor of Fairbriggs, in Staffordshire. He was sheriff of Staffordshire in the 15th and 31st of the same reign, and in the 4th of Edward VI. He m. first, Helen, daughter of Humphrey Swynnerton, esq. of Swynnerton, and had surviving issue, Edward, his successor. Barbara, m. first to Henry Gower, esq. of Worcestershire, and secondly to John Folliot, of Pirton, in the same shire. Constance, m. to Sir J. Fuljambe, knt. Sir Edward was s. by his son, SiR Edward Littleton, knt. This gentleman was sheriff of Staffordshire in the 5th of Elizabeth. He m. Alice, daughter of Francis Cockain, esq. of Ashburne, in Derbyshire, by whom he had issue,..." See also: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.778, pedigree of Westcott of Raddon. See also: Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.428[2]