142p. 892/3 She was the only child of Thomas de Luttleton and Maud Quartermain. She married Thomas Westcote, Esq., the King's servant in court, a gentleman of Devonshire, anciently descended; but being fair, and of a noble spirit (to use the phraseology of Lord Coke), and having large possessions and inheritances from her ancestors, the de Luttletons, and from her mother, the daugh. and heiress of Richard Quartermain, and other ancestors, resolved to continue the honor of her name, and therefore provided, by Westcote's consent before marriage, that her issue inheritable should be called by the name of Luttleton. Upon this marriage her husband settled at Frankley, and served the office of Escheator of Worcester in 1451, and died soon after. By Mr. Westcote, his wife (who married 2nd Thos. Hewster) had issue with four daughters and four sons, vz., Thomas (their heir), Nicholas, Guy and Edmond. The last three had the name Westcote. See following agreement.
SOURCE: Harleian Publications, Visitaton of Worcestershire, 1569, Vol. 27, p.92, is the following agreement: It was agreed by Thomas Westcote and Elizabeth Luttleton, his wife, that Thomas their eldest sonne should be called Luttleton, and all the rest Westcote, with Thomas being called and christened Thomas Luttleton, at the Font. He was after a Justice of the law, temp. Edward IV, and writ the books called Littleton's Tenures. |