Individual Details

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*said of wife Joan* This Joan is stated in the pedigree to have been a daughter of -?- Fitzjames of Redlynch, and the arms of Lyte impaling those of Fitzjames occur twice in the ancient glass formerly at Lytescary.

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Thomas Lyte and Joan his wife were in the 32nd year of Henry VI the grantees of lands in West Marsh by Yeovil, Chilthorne Domer, Chilthorne Vagge and Stoke Dennis, from Sir Thomas Courtenay, Hugh Courtenay, and other feoffees of Alice Cokers, wife of Ni

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Among the muniments at Lytescary at the time of Charles I, there was a document of the year 1439 described as “the Pope’s Bull wherein he giveth full remission and absolution of synnes to Thomas Lyte and Joan his wife.” [C.P.B.

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Thomas Lyte was during his father’s lifetime described sometimes as Thomas Lyte of Okely and sometimes as Thomas Lyte, gentleman. [Ped I; C.P.B.]

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John Lyte (this man's son) was a juror on many inquisitions in the second half of the fifteenth century, and he is generally styled ‘esquire’ in those subsequent to 1468 - the last year in which there is any mention of his father (Thomas) - it is pr

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Thomas Lyte (this man) was succeeded by John Lyte (his son), who in a deed of the year 1470 described himself as son and heir of Thomas Lyte (this man) who was son and heir of John Lyte, (this man's father) [Ped I.]