William Shelley, of Michelgrove

6. John Shelley of Michelgrove, Esq. the eldest son, married Mary, daughter of Sir William Fitz-Williams, Knt. and Maud his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Sackvile of Buckhurst, Knt. (who surviving him, married Sir Robert Guldeford, Knt.) by whom he had two sons and six daughters;

1, William,

who married to his first wife, Jane, daughter and heir of Lingen of Sutton, in Herefordshire, Esq. and secondly Mary, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, relict of ■ Lister, Esq. son and heir of Sir Martin Lister, Knt. but left no issue.

He was attainted for treason, committed Dec. 15, 25 Eliz. whereby his estate was forfeited to the crown during his life, for he did not die till April 15, 39 Eliz. when, by virtue of an entail, the estates both in Sussex and Warwickshire descended to his brother John, of whom hereafter.

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Mary Wriothesley (d. December 1561), who married firstly, Richard Lyster, grandson of Sir Richard Lyster, and secondly, William Shelley of Michelgrove;[9]

• 9. Dugdale reverses the order of her marriages.

John (died 15 December 1550), father of William (not the same person as William Shelley of Hertford, also a prisoner in the Tower in 1580), who was attainted 15 December 1582 for complicity in Charles Paget's treasons, but not executed, and died 15 April 1597, being succeeded by his son John, created a baronet in 1611;

From http://fortunatusfamilia.com.au/getperson.php?personID=I08544&tree=...

Will of Sir William Shelley of Clapham, Sussex Date 08 February 1549 Catalogue reference PROB 11/32
Will of John Shelley of Michelgrove, Sussex 27 April 1551 PROB 11/34

WILLIAM SHELLEY, esq. Vol. 124, No. 164. (Proof of age.) Clapham, 19 Sept. 1 Elizabeth. Jurors state that W. S., son and heir of John Shelley, esq., deceased, is aged 21 years and 5 days on this date.

(date of birth is 14 September 1537)

From A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling and A M Rowland, 'Clapham', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part), ed. T P Hudson (London, 1980), pp. 10-21 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/pp10-21 [accessed 9 June 2015].

John's son William was imprisoned in 1580 for recusancy, (fn. 86) and was attainted in 1586-7 for his part in Throckmorton's plot. (fn. 87) Sentence of death was commuted, however, (fn. 88) and he was released from the Tower in 1596. (fn. 89) The family estates were leased by the Crown to John and Henry Shelley, Sir John Caryll and others, (fn. 90) but in 1604 they were restored to William Shelley's nephew John on payment of £11,000. (fn. 91)

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Birth: September 14, 1518 Michel Grove, Sussex, England removed June 2015. His uncle Richard Shelley, younger brother of his father, has known dates of 1513/14 - 1587

• Googlebooks Burke, John. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance. London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831. Page 582
• Googlebooks The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms, Volume 1.  William Betham.  Burrell and Bransby, 1801 - Baronetage.  "Shelley of Michelgrove, Sussex.". Page 68-69

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