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

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, and widow of Thomas Boulding. Peyto Gateway - St

His estates were at

Chesterton, Warwickshire Chesterton is a small village in Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 123. It is about five miles south of Leamington Spa, near the villages of Harbury and Lighthorne. Parish The parish of Che ...

. 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. Peyto commissioned

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to make a monument for his parents in 1639. He developed brickmaking and

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growing on his lands. Peyto was a Parliamentarian and took command of

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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. 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

. According to the Latin inscription on the tomb, Peyto was a man of letters who excelled at mathematics.

Marriage and children

In 1625 he married Elizabeth Newton, daughter of

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(d. 1630), former tutor to

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. The marriage was commemorated with heraldic stained-glass at

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. Her sister Jane Enyon lived nearby at Bishop's Itchington. Newton's former colleague and executor, the architect

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took an interest in their business affairs. L. F. Salzman
'Parishes: Bishop's Itchington', ''A History of the County of Warwick'', vol. 6, Knightlow Hundred, (London, 1951), pp. 121-124. British History Online
ccessed 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 a
''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

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and

Katherine Southwell Katherine Southwell (died 1657) was an English courtier. She was a daughter of Sir Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard, and a granddaughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham. She was a gentlewoman in the household of Anne of Denmark, w ...

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