GEORGE III GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING, CIRCA 1808
the oval revolving plaque with funerary urn to obverse, reverse inscribed Jona[tha]n Pytts Esq, the shank as an ourboros (the symbol of eternity of a snake eating its tail) decorated with enamel scales, inside shank engraved: Nat 2nd April 1731, Ob,, 10 Decr,, 1807
size K½

Jonathan Pytts Esquire of Kyre House, Worcester, specifies in his will (signed 7th August 1807): I give and bequeth to the said Right Honourable John Lord Northwick and Lady Caroline Rushout and to the two Honourable Miss Rushouts and their sister the Honourable Mrs Bowles (the several sisters of Lord Northwick) and also to the said Sir Charles Hamilton and Sir Edward Hamilton and likewise to William Batson Esquire the said John Hippisley the Reverend Francis Seymour the Reverend James Ingram the Reverend Vivian Wood Mrs James Robinson the Reverend Thomas Rorke John Barneoy Esquire the Reverend Edward Green of Burford my friends Doctor William Faulkner of Bath and Mr Vincent Wood late surgeon in the army and to my wife's sister Mrs Ingles (the wife of the Reverend Doctor Ingles] each the sum of ten pounds to purchase a mourning ring for my memory. (PROB 11/1476)
Jonathan Pytts inherited a large fortune from his maternal grandfather, Admiral Jonathan Collett who died in 1742. He succeeded his brother Edmund to the Kyre estate in 1781, becoming Sheriff in 1783, dying without issue in 1807.