|thumb|right|alt=Exterior of building Lettice (or Letitia) Morison (or Moryson) was born to mother Mary and father
Sir Richard, who was
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance. She had one brother, Henry. She gave birth to four sons between 1632 and 1639, becoming Viscountess Falkland in 1633 when her husband's father died and he inherited the position of
Viscount Falkland. They then lived at
Burford Priory and
Great Tew manor, both in
Oxfordshire. Together the couple hosted the
Great Tew Circle in the 1630s, a discussion group based on the teachings of
Jacobus Arminius which featured philosopher
William Chillingworth and historian
Edward Hyde who later became 1st Earl of Clarendon and
Lord Chancellor. Having become
Secretary of State in 1642, Lucius Cary died at the
First Battle of Newbury during the
First English Civil War the following year. Cary's oldest son (also named Lucius) died in 1645 and her son
Henry took the title of
viscount. Grief at losing her husband and eldest son pushed the devout Cary further towards religion. Under the chaplaincy of John Duncon, brother of
Eleazar Duncon, she followed a pious lifestyle, donating money to serve the poor and building a school at Great Tew. She kept her
Royalist and
Anglican beliefs, but had
Presbyterian and
Roman Catholic acquaintances. Cary died at home of
tuberculosis on 24 February 1647 and was buried in Great Tew church. ==Legacy==