Mary, daughter of Richard Royston, bookseller to Charles I and Charles II. He was a Turkey merchant, travelled much in the East, was a director of the Bank of England, and in 1714 M.P. for Caine, Wiltshire. He purchased Debden Hall, with the manor of Deynes, Essex, in 1715 (Wright, Essex, ii. 140, 143). He died on 14 May 1751, aged 78, and was buried at Debden (Morant, Essex, ii. 562). He married Mary, daughter and heiress of Trench, merchant of London; she died in 1726, having had ten children.
He wrote, but apparently did not publish: 1. Remarks on a voyage or journey to the river Euphrates, &c., in April and May 1698. 2. Journal of travels through Germany and Italy to Scanderoon in company with Henry Maundrell and others, March-July 1696. 3. Journal of a voyage from Aleppo to Jerusalem in company with Henry Maundrell in 1697. All these are in Addit. HS. 10623.
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CHISWELL, TRENCH, orginally Richard Muilman (1735?–1797), a London merchant interest in antiquarian studies, was the only son of Peter Muilman, an eminent Dutch merchant, of Kirby Hall, Essex, by Mary Trench (Chiswe1l), daughter of Richard Chiswell the younger [q. v.] of Debden (or Depden) Hall, near Newport and Saffron Walden, Essex. The marriage of his parents took place in 1734 (see T. Pingo's medal—1774—of P. Muilman and his in the British Museum), and he may have been born about 1735. On the death of his mother`s brother (Richard Chiswell), on 3 July 1772, he beoame into possession of Debden Hall and of a fortunate about 120,000l. He at that time assumed the name of Trench Chiswell. He rebuilt the mansion at Debden, and laid out a large sum in improving his estate. He was M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire, a justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant of the county of Essex. In 1791 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He made some literary collections relating to the history of Essex, and is said to have possessed some ‘fine Caxtons,’ which were accidentally burned during his lifetime. It is stated by Nichols (Lit. Anecd. iii. 611)—who may, however, be confounding Richard Muilman (Trench Chiswell) with his father, P. Muilman—that Chiswell assisted in publishing ‘A New and Complete History of Essex,’ &c., ‘by a Gentleman,’ Chelmsford, 1770, &c. 6 vols. 8vo. It was mainly based on Morant's 'History of Essex,' and was published under the patronage and direction of Peter Muilman (Gough, Brit. Topog. i. 347; Upcott, Eng. Topog. i. 229 f.), who obtained views and other illustrations for it. The literary part of the book was in the hands of a writer who signs himself ‘the editor,’ perhaps Chiswell himself. Owing to a series of unsuccessful speculations in connection with West India estates, Chiswell’s mind became deranged, and he shot himself at his home at Debden on 3 Feb. 1797. He married a daughter of James Jurin M.D. by whom he had one child, a daughter, Mary, the wife of Sir Francis Vincent, bart.
[Manuscript autobiographical notes by P. Muilman in the British Huseum (King’s Library) copy of the New and Complete Hist. of Essex; Gent. Mag. lxvii. pt. i. (1797), 173, 249-50; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. lii. 610, 811, ix. 652, 799; Nichols's Lit. Illust. iv. 718; Wright's History of Essex, ii, 140.]
CHITTING, HENRY (d. 1638), genealogist, was a native of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (Addit. MS. 19165, f. 183 b). He was appointed Chester herald 18 July 1618; he visited the counties of Berks and Gloucester for Camden, Clarenceux, and the county of Lincoln for Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux (Nicolas, Cat. of Heralds' Visitations, pp. 7, 31). He died at Islington on 7 Jan. 1637-8, leaving in manuscript, l. The Extinct Baronage. 2. Of the Tenures of the County of Suffolk (Noble, College of Arms, pp. 210, 24l).
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CHITTY, EDWARD (1804–1863), legal reporter, third son of Joseph Chitty the elder [q. v.] was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1829, and practiced as an eqnity draughtsman. He published a series of reports of cases in bankruptcy with Mr. Deacon, beginning in 1833, and with Basil Montagu in 1839. In 1840 he went to Jamaica, whence he returned after many years’ absence, and died at Walham Green on 28 Sept. 1883. Besides his share in ‘Deacon & Chitty’ he is the author of Chitty's ‘Equity Index’ (1831), which reached a third edition in 1858, and a fourth in 1888; of an ‘Index to Common Law Reports’ (with Francis Forster) in 18-11; and of the ‘Commercial and General Lawyer’ (2nd edit. 1839). He also published the ‘Fly-Fisher's Text Book’ (1841) under the pseudonym of ‘Theophilus South.'
[Law List, 1840, 1863; Law Mag. September 1863; Gent. Mag. 1863, pt. ii. 683, 365.]
CHIITTY, JOSEPH, the elder (1776–1841), legal writer, practised as a special pleader under the bar for some years before his call to the bar, which took place at the Middle Temple on 28 June 1816. He never took silk, but enjoyed an enormous practice, trained in succession in his pupil
