394 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.X.MAY 20, 1022. aggregate to 28,000. Though twice ac- ; by letters patent, of the whole of his quitted on the criminal charge the directors i estate. did not hesitate to bring a civil action for While she was herself either in, or on the the recovery of the money. Their victim | way to, London, and without her knowledge offered his private fortune and large deduc- ; and consent, her brother-in-law, Humphrey tions from his pay, but without avail. He Lyttelton, conveyed two fugitives, his cousin was thrown into prison and kept there Stephen and his fellow-conspirator Robert with but one short interval for a space of Winter, Master of Huddington, Worcs, to near six years. A new Governor of Bombay ' Hagley House, where their presence was be- Sir George Clerk ordered his release, j trayed by the man cook, and whence both He was released from prison on June 9, refugees were conveyed to the Tower of 1860, and from further prosecution by the I London. To serve as a warning to Stafford- directors of the Hon. East India Company | shire rebels, Stephen suffered the extreme on the 16th day of that month. i penalty of the law in the town of Stafford ; WILLIAM P. H. POLLOCK, i while Humphrey was executed at Redhill, THE LYTTELTONS AND THE POPISH PLOT ! W T rCeS ^ e y, g choicei ag a place of c<mceal . 3r his cousin Stephen, of Hagley ), so recently restored by royal favour to oi Worcs, was not the conspiracv firenerallv i / > j r + T> o^ c.+, T i^ , ^~ _.-u^i_ rn_-, _ ^--L -I. oi the proved innocence oi its Protestant so_styled, viz., that which Titus Sates, in j '^Crfordered to insert into their bpink ai , mor j a i bearings a significant reminder of j the fatal tendency of some of their kinsmen, three distinct though connected movements j ust then, towards conspiracy, against the Government of James I. two years TT__ after his accession, in the year of Gunpowder Plot, 1605 : (i.) a general wave of insurrectionary ' feeling on the part of the Papists, resulting from the penal laws of Queen Elizabeth ; (ii.) Gun HENRY CURTIS. COMPOSERS OF HYMN TUNES (12 350). 1. Thomas Hewlett was powder Plot, to destroy King, Lords, and Com- | organis t o f the Duke of Buccleuch's chapel mons ; immediately upon the successful issue I at r> a lkeith from 1865 to 1871, and for 18 months ?f- JT the ? e *3** be (li M a rebelhon m the i of 1868 and 1869 of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Midlands, under Sir Everard Digby. ! Edinburgh, the duties of the morning service The Gunpowder Plot failed,*" and it is the being performed by a deputy of St. Mary's Roman abortive insurrection in Worcestershire ! ^ fch ^o me time^' o^^Ne^Tto^^ris^^hurch which is obviously meant when a Popish ! Edinburgh, "froni November, 1873, till he died! April 10, 1874 ; buried in Newington cemetery, where a monument was erected to his memory by the members of the Edinburgh Choral Union " in acknowledgement of his musical talent and his great ability as organist of that Society." (Love's 1 Scottish Church Music,' pp. 169-70.) Plot in relation with the Lyttelton family is mentioned. Spink gives the following de- tails : Stephen Lyttelton (or Littleton), Master of Holbeach, Staffs, just over the borders of Co. Worcester, and his cousin, Humphrey I 2. The place of John Broderip's burial Lyttelton (or Littleton) of Hagley, Worcs, is not mentioned either in West's ' Organ- were executed in 1606 for complicity in ists ' nor in Mr. W. Barclay Squire's account Digby's rebellion. Humphrey was brother of him in the ' D.N.B.' The latter, how- of John Lyttelton of Hagley House, Worces- i ever, states that he died on some date be- ter, M.P. for that county, who had been | tween Oct. 1, 1770 (when he was last present convicted for high treason in connexion with the Essex conspiracy, Feb. 20, 1600/1, and died in prison in the following July. His widow brought up her three sons and five daughters in the Reformed religion, and upon the accession of James I. obtained a reversal at the quarterly meeting of the dean and chapter and the vicars choral at Wells), and April 26, 1771. West gives his death (like Mr. Chambers) in 1785. Both West and Barclay Squire state that in the latter years of his life Broderip was organist of Shepton of the attainder of her husband, and a grant, i Mallet, Somersetshire. Could he have been
