The Minor Family of Somerset

He m. 2ndly before 1557 Bridget (Pigot) Banister, dau of Barthol
omew Pigot ofAston Rowan Co Oxford, widow of Thomas Banister o
f Brockden,by whom he had iss (see p 200) Her will as "Bridgit
t Lister of Mydhop, widdowe," 1 March 1600/01 -- to be buried i
n Gisburne parish Church next her husband--" son Michaell Lyster
" -- "son Martin Lyster" "son in law Thomas Southworth, Esq., s
onin law, John Lacye Esa., and his wife "Ellinge" "son mathew L
yster" daug Rosamond Southworth "my nece (ie grandaug.) Bridget
t Southworth" dau in law )ie.step-dau) Elizabeth Tempeste lat
e wife of John Tempeste" --" Edmund Lister my son departed" to "
son Mathew Lyster 40 marks for his better advancement inlearnin
g"--"I will that my funerell dinner be at my house at Midhope, b
y licence of my son Lawrence Lyster, Esq., Anne Tempeste, wife o
f Roberte Tempeste, Esq., Everild Lyster, wife of Lawrence Lyste
r, Esq., Elizabeth Tempeste wydowe of John Tempeste, gent., dece
ased, Edmund Brockden, John Clough alias Watterworth" admon 5 Ap
ril 1601 to Michael Lister, power being reserved for Martin Lyst
er, the other son and co-exort.
William Lyster of Lister of Thorntonand Midhope p 178 had issu
e by his second wife Bridget (Pigot Banyster, dau.Barth. Pigot
, and widow of Thurston Banyster of Brockden (besides Bartholome
w, fifth son, d.s.p. 1583 at Petworth; Capt Edmunds, eight son
, bapt Thornton 29 Sep 1572, served in Ireland about 1597-1600 s
aid to have died int he latter year; Mary, bapt at Gisburne 22 M
ay 1561; Ellen, m John Lacy of Lenthop,York., and had issue) th
ree sons and a dau._
Michael Lister, or Lyster, sixth son, of whom presently
Martin Lister, or Lyster, of Thorpe Arnold and of Middle Claydon
, Bucks; he must be the Capt Martin Lister who was sent with let
ters on Her Majesty's service to Sir John Norreys, General of th
e Queen's forces in Brittany in 1593, the Privy Council writin
g to Sir Joh, "Wee are torecomende this bearer Captaine Marti
n Lyster unto you to be preferred to anyplace you mai think fi
t for him, the rther b ecause he hathe bin, as he informeth us
, coronell of your horse troope, and one of those taken at the l
atedefeate in Britayne, and hath not as yet paid his ransom.
" He went to Ireland in command of a company in or before Marc
h 1594/5, and fought in Co. Galway, etc., M.P. for the borough o
f Clitheroe 1603-21. He (19 July 1644) settledupon Michael, Ma
rtin, and William, sons of his nephew Sir Martin Lister, hisman
or of Winterbourne, Yorks., with the exception of certain parcel
s of the same settled on the children of his nephew, Sir Willia
m Lister, one-third of the manor being settled on Dame Susan, wi
fe of Sir Martin, for her life, with remainder to the aforesai
d sons of Sir Martin. He m Dorothy (Pigot) Keble, daug Robert P
igot of Colwich and widow of Thomas Keble of Newbottle, Northant
s (by whom she had a dau. Jane, who m. Richard Pigot). Marti
n Lister d.s.p., being bur. at Thorpe Arnold 7 Sept. 1646; wil
l pr 16 Dec 1646, by Sir Matthew and Sir Martin Lister.