Thomas Shelley, of Mapledurham

Sir William Shelley, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas & Alice Belknap had 7 sons (including John; Sir Richard; Sir Edward; Thomas; & Sir James) and 7 daughters (including Katherine, wife of Henry Browne, Esq; Elizabeth, wife of Sir Roger Copley; Frances; & Margaret, wife of Edward Gage).

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Thomas Shelley Born about 1500 in Michelgrove, Sussex, England

Ancestors ancestors

Son of William Shelley M.P. and Alice (Belknap) Shelley

Brother of Edward Shelley, Elizabeth (Shelley) Copley, James Shelley, Margaret Shelley, Dorothy (Shelley) Parker, John Shelley, Katherine (Shelley) Browne and Richard Shelley MP

Husband of Mary (Copley) Shelley — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Descendants descendants

Father of Henry Shelley

Died 1577 in England

Biography

Thomas Shelley of Mapeldurham, son of Sir William Shelley and Allic Belknap, husband of Mary Copley.[1]

Thomas was his parent's second son. Sir William Shelley, Justice of the Common Pleas, died seised of the manor of West Mapledurham in 1548. By his Will dated 6 November, 1548, he left this manor and all lands in Hampshire which he had purchased of Sir John Roger to his son [this] Thomas, a recusant, in tail male. By an Inquisition (IPM) taken at Winchester 2 October, 1570, it was ascertained that Thomas Shelley, late of Mapledurham, had been a fugitive in foreign parts beyond the seas since 1 December, 1558, and was then living in Louvain, and that before his departure he had granted a twelve years' lease of all his lands and tenements in Mapledurham to Thomas Goldforde and John Jervys. He died seised of the manor in 1577, his heir being his son Henry, aged thirty-eight, whose name occurs five years later in a list of the prisoners for religion in the custody of Anthony Thorpe "keeper of the Whyte Lyon in Southwarke". At this time the manor house was the refuge of numerous priests, who were always sure to find a welcome, a place to say their Mass, and if necessary a secure hiding-place; and there are many references to it in the correspondence of the time.[2] Sources

   ↑ Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, pp 37, Shelley & 111, Copley.

   ↑ https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp85-93

The Visitations of Hampshire 1530, 1575, 1622 and 1634 edited by W.Harry Rylands, F.S.A., London, 1913, Visitation of Hampshire p.7, Shelley.