Edward Peyto
{{Short description|English landowner (1589–1643)}}
File:Bust of Edward Peyto - St. Giles Church, Chesterton.jpg
Edward Peyto (1589–1643) was an English landowner.
He was the son of William Peyto (d. 1619) and Elienora or Eleanor Aston (d. 1636), a daughter of Walter Aston of Tixall, and widow of Thomas Boulding.
File:Peyto Gateway - St. Giles Church, Chesterton.jpg
His estates were at Chesterton, Warwickshire. He extended Chesterton House in the 1630s (now demolished) and was probably the builder of Chesterton Windmill. A brick gateway built near the church in the 1630s survives. It follows a design by Inigo Jones.Howard Colvin, Essays on English Architectural History (London, 1999).{{NHLE|num=1184709 |desc=Gateway |accessdate=18 May 2021}}
Peyto commissioned Nicholas Stone to make a monument for his parents in 1639.Walter Lewis Spiers, 'Account Book of Nicolas Stone', 7th Volume of the Walpole Society (Oxford, 1919), pp. 11, 76–7. He developed brickmaking and woad growing on his lands.Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge, 1987), p. 138.
Peyto was a Parliamentarian and took command of Warwick Castle during the siege of August 1642. He displayed a flag with a device of a Bible and shroud or winding sheet to discourage the besiegers.G. Phillips Bevan, Tourist's Guide to Warwickshire (London, 1882), p. 51.
He died on 21 September 1643 and was buried at St Giles, Chesterton. His monument is thought to be the work of John Stone, the son of Nicholas Stone. According to the Latin inscription on the tomb, Peyto was a man of letters who excelled at mathematics.Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge, 1987), p. 138.
Marriage and children
In 1625 he married Elizabeth Newton, daughter of Adam Newton (d. 1630), former tutor to Prince Henry. The marriage was commemorated with heraldic stained-glass at St Luke's Church, Charlton.Joseph Spooner & John Conradi, [https://vidimus.org/issues/issue-133/features/the-stained-glass-of-st-lukes-charlton/ 'The Stained Glass of St Luke’s, Charlton', Vidimus, 133 (October 2020)] Her sister Jane Enyon lived nearby at Bishop's Itchington. Newton's former colleague and executor, the architect David Cunningham of Auchenharvie took an interest in their business affairs.L. F. Salzman, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp121-124 'Parishes: Bishop's Itchington', A History of the County of Warwick, vol. 6, Knightlow Hundred, (London, 1951), pp. 121–124. British History Online] [accessed 19 May 2021]. Edward Peyto's children included:
- Edward Peyto (1626–1658), educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. His funeral sermon by Thomas Pierce was printed as [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A54841.0001.001?view=toc Empsuchon Nekron. Or the Lifelesness of Life on the Hether Side of Immortality. With (A Timely Caveat Against Procrastination) Briefly Expressed and Applyed in a Sermon Preached at the Funerall of Edward Peyto of Chesterton in Warwick-shire Esquire (R. Royston, 1659).]
- William Peyto, who married Elizabeth Verney, daughter of Greville Verney, 7th Baron Willoughby de Broke and Katherine Southwell.
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