Meriel Lyttelton

[1] In 1603, at the Union of the Crowns, Meriel Lyttelton travelled north to Doncaster to meet the new king James VI and I.

Meriel Lyttelton's brother Henry Bromley of Holt was better placed than the Cornwalls to prefer his son for a position with the Prince, but he held back, waiting for a better time.

[5] In January 1606 two of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, Robert Wintour and Stephen Lyttelton, were found at Hagley and their armoury blew up, after the cook had betrayed them.

[6] Her brother-in-law Humphrey Littleton was executed at Red Hill by hanging with Edward Oldcorne, John Wintour, and Ralph Ashley on 7 April 1606.

[9] She wrote to a friend about her struggles with Thomas Coningsby, a Herefordshire relation, and uncle of Anne Cornwall, who was trying to obtain some woodland belonging to her.

[11] Meriel Lyttleton had rights in Halesowen and in June 1608 had a proclamation made against a Sabbath-breaking Sunday dairy produce market.

Amphylis Barnaby of Brockhampton hoped Meriel Littleton could help a cousin join Prince Henry's household
Memorial to Meriel Lyttelton from 1769, remembered "for Breeding up her Children in the Protestant Religion, Their Ancestors having been Papists ", St John the Baptist Church, Hagley