[245a] The paper upon the family of Wyche, or De la Wyche, was read by the author in person, before a meeting of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, on the 18th of October, 1848, and the thanks of the meeting were voted for it to him.
[245b] Ormerod’s Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 302; Lysons’ Mag. Brit., Cheshire (note f), p. 356.
[245c] Lysons’ Mag. Brit., Cheshire, p. 482; Ormerod’s Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 302.
[245d] Lysons’ Mag. Brit., Cheshire, p. 482, referring to Heraldic Collections, by W. Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in the Heralds’ College, p. 78; and in a note in third vol. of Ormerod’s Cheshire, p. 302, he mentions the same fact respecting that embassy.
[246a] Ormerod’s Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 302 (note), in which he mentions the above arms to have been allowed them in 1663–64, and states that a pedigree of the family is given in Harl. MSS. 2040, 267.
[246b] Lysons’ Mag. Brit., Cheshire, p. 356.
It may be well to mention here, with reference to the family of Wyche, or De la Wyche, that Richard Wyche, of Davenham, had a son, Richard. The latter was a merchant in London, married the daughter of Sir Richard Saltingstall, Knt., the Lord Major, and died in 1621, leaving twelve sons and six daughters, of whom the Right Hon. Sir Peter Wyche, Knt., was the sixth son. Sir Peter was gentleman of the privy chamber to Charles I., for twelve years ambassador at Constantinople, and afterwards comptroller of the household, and a privy councillor. He died in 1643, leaving two sons and a daughter, of whom the elder son, Sir Peter Wyche, was envoy to the court of Muscovy, in 1669. The younger, Sir Cyrill Wyche, Knt. (named after his godfather, the Patriarch of Constantinople), established the Norfolk branch of the family, sat for many years in Parliament, was secretary to the lieutenancy in Ireland, and one of the lords justices there. The second Sir Peter Wyche had four sons, of whom John was envoy extraordinary at Hamburgh; Barnard, from whom a branch of the family in Leicestershire descended, and Peter and George, died unmarried. Sir Cyrill Wyche, the son of John, was appointed by Queen Anne to be resident at Hamburgh, when only nineteen years of age; and in the reign of George I., he was minister and envoy extraordinary to the circle of Lower Saxony, also envoy extraordinary to the court of Russia; and was created a Baronet whilst at the Hans Towns, December 20th, 1729, but dying without surviving male issue, in 1756, the baronetcy became extinct.—Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, title “Wyche.”
[246c] Lysons’ Mag. Brit., Cheshire, p. 356.
[246d] Ormerod’s Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 302.
[246e] Lysons’ Mag. Brit., Chesh., p. 356 (n. f).