obliterated - Clapham Sussex
A rosary hung over her right wrist - Alice Belknap 1475-1537 kneels with 7 daughters (one with a book could be a nun) behind husband judge Sir William Shelley 1476-1549 of Michelgrove & 7 sons www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4qv65N
William's prayer scroll "Adoram[us] te xpe [=Christe] ihesu et benedicim[us] tibi " (We worship Thee Christ Jesus and we bless Thee) Alice's prayer scroll has been obliterated.
William was 2nd and eldest surviving son of Sir John Shelley 1526 & wife Elizabeth Michelgrove 1513 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/G3Di4S
He was the older brother of Sir Edward Shelley of Worminghurst 1554 flic.kr/p/5Ae7Tm
He trained as a lawyer , became recorder of London in 1520 and a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1527. He was sent to Cardinal Wolsey to demand his surrender of York House in 1529 and soon afterwards entertained the king at his newly built manor house at Michelgrove Sussex., described as one of the finest houses in the county.
The Shelleys remained staunch adherents of the old religion, and Inevitably Sir William was caught up in the Reformation engineered by Thomas Cromwell . Bending with the prevailing wind he kept his position as judge trying John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and 3 monks from the London Charterhouse on charges that they denied the king as supreme head of the Church of England and found them guilty to be executed at Tyburn Later he tryed the Yorkshire rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace
He was one of the judges at the trial of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1536 and the trials of her supposed lovers Sir Francis Weston, Henry Norreys, William Brereton and Mark Smeaton.
(. A letter from his son Richard, to Lord Burghley, says that:"the king knew my father, whom in his youth he loved very well. And albeit in my Lord Cromwell’s tyme he passed stormes and with great lose (which after was recompensed liberally) yet fynallie, the king made moche of him agayne and witsaved to tell me at Detford and I sho[w]ed to his Majestie of his greate chere he had at Mychelgrove with great comindacion of my father’s uprightness ..... ")
He m c1500 Alice daughter of Henry Belknap 1488 of Oston, Warks , Beccles & Knell in Beckley, near Rye, & Margaret daughter of Sir Richard Knollys and Margaret daughter of William D'Oyly (Mary was co-heir to her brother Sir Edward Belknap of Knoll Warks d1521 (with sisters Mary wife of Gerard Danet of Bromkinthorpe / Tilty flic.kr/p/rEkB2G , Anne wife of Sir Robert Wooton, and Elizabeth wife of Philip Cooke)
They lived in the parish of St. Sepulchre, London
He also built a house in Michelgrove Sussex where he entertained Henry VIII c1529
Children
1. John Shelley of Michelgrove 1550 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9V762 m Mary daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, Alderman & Sheriff of London of Milton & Gainspark, by Mildred daughter of Richard Sackville, of Buckhurst (Mary m2 John Guildford 1565 son of George Guildford and Elizabeth Mortimer)
2. Sir Richard Shelley (1513?–1566) diplomat and the last Grand Prior of the Knights of Saint John in England, who retired to Spain on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, having had his land and possessions confiscated for his adherence to the Catholic faith. Serving in Malta during the Turkish siege and later went to Venice,, he was returned to favour and negotiated some commercial treaties on her behalf.
3. Sir James 1560 (distinguished and widely travelled Knight of St. John)
4. Sir Edward - killed at the battle of Pinkie 1547. master of the household of Henry VIII, treasurer of the council of the north, and captain of Berwick, paymaster to the English army that invaded Scotland in October 1542
5. Thomas of Mapledurham m Elizabeth daughter of Sir Roger Copley of Gatton +++
1. Elizabeth m Roger Copley +++
2. Catherine m Henry son of Sir Matthew Brown
3. Frances died unmarried
For his funeral “My desire ys to be buryed withoute any pompe or costly cerimonies… I will have no herse but 4 honest tapers aboote my body yf myn executors thinke that convenient.”
- Church of St Mary Clapham Sussex
obliterated - Clapham Sussex
A rosary hung over her right wrist - Alice Belknap 1475-1537 kneels with 7 daughters (one with a book could be a nun) behind husband judge Sir William Shelley 1476-1549 of Michelgrove & 7 sons www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4qv65N
William's prayer scroll "Adoram[us] te xpe [=Christe] ihesu et benedicim[us] tibi " (We worship Thee Christ Jesus and we bless Thee) Alice's prayer scroll has been obliterated.
William was 2nd and eldest surviving son of Sir John Shelley 1526 & wife Elizabeth Michelgrove 1513 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/G3Di4S
He was the older brother of Sir Edward Shelley of Worminghurst 1554 flic.kr/p/5Ae7Tm
He trained as a lawyer , became recorder of London in 1520 and a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1527. He was sent to Cardinal Wolsey to demand his surrender of York House in 1529 and soon afterwards entertained the king at his newly built manor house at Michelgrove Sussex., described as one of the finest houses in the county.
The Shelleys remained staunch adherents of the old religion, and Inevitably Sir William was caught up in the Reformation engineered by Thomas Cromwell . Bending with the prevailing wind he kept his position as judge trying John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and 3 monks from the London Charterhouse on charges that they denied the king as supreme head of the Church of England and found them guilty to be executed at Tyburn Later he tryed the Yorkshire rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace
He was one of the judges at the trial of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1536 and the trials of her supposed lovers Sir Francis Weston, Henry Norreys, William Brereton and Mark Smeaton.
(. A letter from his son Richard, to Lord Burghley, says that:"the king knew my father, whom in his youth he loved very well. And albeit in my Lord Cromwell’s tyme he passed stormes and with great lose (which after was recompensed liberally) yet fynallie, the king made moche of him agayne and witsaved to tell me at Detford and I sho[w]ed to his Majestie of his greate chere he had at Mychelgrove with great comindacion of my father’s uprightness ..... ")
He m c1500 Alice daughter of Henry Belknap 1488 of Oston, Warks , Beccles & Knell in Beckley, near Rye, & Margaret daughter of Sir Richard Knollys and Margaret daughter of William D'Oyly (Mary was co-heir to her brother Sir Edward Belknap of Knoll Warks d1521 (with sisters Mary wife of Gerard Danet of Bromkinthorpe / Tilty flic.kr/p/rEkB2G , Anne wife of Sir Robert Wooton, and Elizabeth wife of Philip Cooke)
They lived in the parish of St. Sepulchre, London
He also built a house in Michelgrove Sussex where he entertained Henry VIII c1529
Children
1. John Shelley of Michelgrove 1550 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9V762 m Mary daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, Alderman & Sheriff of London of Milton & Gainspark, by Mildred daughter of Richard Sackville, of Buckhurst (Mary m2 John Guildford 1565 son of George Guildford and Elizabeth Mortimer)
2. Sir Richard Shelley (1513?–1566) diplomat and the last Grand Prior of the Knights of Saint John in England, who retired to Spain on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, having had his land and possessions confiscated for his adherence to the Catholic faith. Serving in Malta during the Turkish siege and later went to Venice,, he was returned to favour and negotiated some commercial treaties on her behalf.
3. Sir James 1560 (distinguished and widely travelled Knight of St. John)
4. Sir Edward - killed at the battle of Pinkie 1547. master of the household of Henry VIII, treasurer of the council of the north, and captain of Berwick, paymaster to the English army that invaded Scotland in October 1542
5. Thomas of Mapledurham m Elizabeth daughter of Sir Roger Copley of Gatton +++
1. Elizabeth m Roger Copley +++
2. Catherine m Henry son of Sir Matthew Brown
3. Frances died unmarried
For his funeral “My desire ys to be buryed withoute any pompe or costly cerimonies… I will have no herse but 4 honest tapers aboote my body yf myn executors thinke that convenient.”
- Church of St Mary Clapham Sussex