Levett's daughter Mary, wife of London merchant Abraham Blackborne, married as his second wife Col. Thomas Thoroton of Flintham, Nottinghamshire. She is buried at Screveton, Nottinghamshire.[4] Their daughter Mary Thoroton married Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury.[5]
Rev. Richard Levett was presented to the rectory of Ashwell, Rutland, on 13 May 1646, by Sir Nathaniel Brent, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, Levett having received a Presentation by the Great Seal of England. This was clearly a Cromwellian Puritan appointment [1] Levett was the 'intruding minister.'[2]
Richard Levett's will on file at Somerset House shows that he owned two homes at Kew, one today's Kew Palace, and the other apparently the 'Queen's House'.[3]
Sir Richard Levett's daughter married Abraham Blackborne, Esq., a London merchant living at Clapham. From the inheritances of the Blackburne family, who were left large estates by Samuel Pepys' lifelong friend William Hewer, it appears that Abraham Blackburne was the son or nephew of another old friend of Pepys: Robert Blackburne, Esq., Admiralty Secretary and later Secretary of the original London East India Company, the predecessor of the Honourable East India Company. The intermarriage would not be unusual for those days, and Levett Blackburne, who inherited the Levett family estates at Kew, became a leading Lincoln's Inn barrister, Steward of Westminster Palace and longtime adviser to the Dukes of Rutland.[6] Levett himself was also awarded royal grants in colonies such as Nova Scotia and East Florida.
Rev. Richard Levett was presented to the rectory of Ashwell, Rutland, on 13 May 1646, by Sir Nathaniel Brent, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, Levett having received a Presentation by the Great Seal of England. This was clearly a Cromwellian Puritan appointment [1] Levett was the 'intruding minister.'[2]
