To BISHOP LYTTELTON 25 SEPTEMBER 1762 271

To BISHOP LYTTELTON, Saturday 25 September 1762

Printed for the first time from a photostat of the MS in the Record Office, Shirehall, Worcester, kindly furnished by the 4th Baron Hamp­ ton. The MS may have been given by Lyttelton or his descendants to the Pak­ ington family because of the letter's reference to the 'portrait of Sir John Perrot at Sir Herbert Pakington's' (see n. 3 below); it descended in the Pakington fam­ ily to the 5th Baron Hampton, who deposited the collection of Pakington family papers in the Worcestershire Record Office before his death in 1974.

Strawberry Hill, Sept. 25th 1762. My good Lord, BY THIS time I think you are settled at ,1 that is, in due course have left your diocese for Paradise, whither I must address a petition to you, as if you had been a popish prelate, and were al­ ready canonized. I once mentioned to you that Vertue says2 there is a portrait of Sir John Perrot3 at Sir Herbert Packington's.4 You would oblige me much if you could ascertain it. The folk of the house may not know it; the marks and tokens are that he was very like his supposed father Harry VIII. As I have not heard a word of your nephews this twelvemonth, that is, a fortnieht asro, when Mrs Anne6 his aunt told me he was to set out next day, I conclude he is with you. My compliments to him, and my respects to your Lord-Brother.? Pitt8 told me you was not en-

1. The seat of the Lyttelton family, Worcs; M.P. He was succeeded by his near Stourbridge, Worcs. son Sir John Pakington (ca 1722 - 30 Nov. 2. In Vertue Note Books, Walpole Soci­ 1762). HW did not know who occupied ety 1937-8, xxvi. 62, with HW's marginal Westwood Park at this time, as he ad­ note 'a Drawing from it in Mr Walpole's mitted to Lyttelton post 16 Oct. 1762. collection by Chamber [Thomas Cham­ 5. Thomas Pitt (1737-93), cr- O784) Bn bars].' Camelford. He had settled at Twickenham 3. (ca 1527-92), lord deputy of Ireland, in April 1762. HW wrote Mann 29 Aug. reputed to be the son of Henry VIII, 1762: 'I will make your compliments to whom he resembled in appearance. The Palazzo Pitti, when I sec it; but he has portrait is presumably that engraved by scarce been here; he is not well, and Valentine Green, after the drawing by drinking waters at Sunning Hill' (MANN George Powle, which appeared in T. R. vi- 73-) Nash, Collections for the History of 6. Anne Pitt (1712-81), sister of William Worcestershire, 1781-2, i. 350; it was in Pitt, cr. (1766) E. of Chatham; HW's cor­ the possession of Herbert Stuart Paking­ respondent (MORE 1 n. 1). ton, 4th Baron Hampton, and the Hon. 7. George, 1st Bn Lyttelton. Dorothy Pakington in 1948. 8. Probably William Pitt, 1st E. of 4. Sir Herbert Perrot Pakington (ca Chatham, who was Bishop Lyttelton's 1701-48), 5th Bt, 1727, of Westwood Park, brother-in-law and Thomas Pitt's uncle.