Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 3.djvu/537

 10* B. iii. JCXE Hugos.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

441

LONDON, SATl'KDAY, JUNE 10, 1905.

C N T E N T S.-No. 76.

NOTES : -William Shelley, 441 Convention of Royal Burghs of Scotland, 443 French Words of Uncertain Origin, 445 Hoyal Oak Day, 447 -Early Italian Halley Surname H. Alworth Merewether " SouwarrowNut" Sir Jonathan Trelawny Johnsoniana Pickwick, c. 1280 King's 'Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 447 Statues in London, 448.

QUERIES -."Persona grata" The Flag Stutt Family Human Sacrifices: Ghosts House of Lor<s, 1625-HO Griffith and Cre Fydrt La Scala, 448 " Yt-alls" : " Brewetts "Academy of the Muses Love Ales Burial- places of Celebrities "There shall no tempests Mow " Indian Kings, 449 Long Bredy, D.irset St. Pa'.rick Jack and Jill Horse-racing in Scotland Norden's ' Spe- culum Britannia;' Medieval Seal, 450 Sir It. Fanshawe, 451.

BKPLIES :-The Egyptian Hall, 451 Norfolk Folk-songs- Bonaparte in Kngland Owen Brigstooke, 452 Southwotd Church "England," " English" Dickensian London, 453 Cromer Street " Tandem " Turvile Ninths- London Cemeteries, 451 " A shoulder of mutton," &c. Baptist Confession of Faith Wace on the Battle of Hastings, 455 Swedish Royal Family Ntlsoii Column, 456 Thettre, Parkgate, 457.

NOTES O.V BOOKS -.-Hakluyfs 'Navigations' and ' Hak- luvtus Posthumus' Cambridge Grace-Book B Crisp's Visitation of Ireland ''The Bernards of Abington' 'The Burlington Magazine' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

WILLIAM SHELLEY.

WILLIAM SHELLEY, of Michelgrove, Clap- 'ham, Sussex (son of John Shelley, Esq., and

frandson of the Sir William Shelley whose iography is given in the 'D.N.B.,' Hi. 41), appears to have been born on 14 September, 1538 (Sussex Record Soc., iii. 8).

At the age of twelve he succeeded his father in 1550 (Dallaway and Cartwright's 'Sussex,' ii. ii. 77), and Sir Anthony Cook was ap- pointed his guardian (Strype, 'M.,' ii. ii. 246). The Thomas Shelley who entered Winchester College in 1555, aged twelve, from Michel- grove, must have been his brother, though the genealogies do not mention him (cf. 9 th S. xii. 426).

William Shelley's first wife was Mary (not, as Berry, in his ' Sussex Genealogies,' p. 62, says, Margaret), one of the daughters of 'Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Machyn, in his 'Diary,' under the year 1561, thus refers to her funeral :

" The xiii day of December was bered at Sant Katharyns chryst chyrche my lade Lyster, sum- tyme wyff of master Shelley of Sussex, and the dowther of the erle of Southampton late lord chanseler of Engeland, Wresseley, with a harord of armes and a ii dosen skochyons of armes."

What this certainly seems to imply viz,

that William Shelley was her first husband, and that she subsequently married llichard Lyster, son of Sir Michael Lyster, and grand- son of the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench is definitely asserted in Banks's ' Extinct Baronage of England ' (iii. 672) and 'D.N.B.' (Ixiii. 152). However, she bore Richard Lyster a son in 1556 (Berry's ' Hants Genealogies,' p. 240), and so, on the above theory, must have(l) been married to William Shelley, and (2) had her marriage annulled, and (3) remarried before William Shelley was eighteen, which seems improbable. Can we hold, as Machyn's editor apparently does, that William Shelley was not her first, but her second husband ?

William Shelley's second wife (who is quite ignored in Dallaway and Cartwright, and whose surname is not given in Berry) was Jane, born in 1544, only daughter and heiress of John Lingen, Esq., M.P., by Isabella or Sibyl Breynton, his wife. John Lingen, who died on 3 May, 1554, and was buried in St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, was the owner of extensive properties at Sutton, Stoke Edith, Kenchester, Crederihill, and other places in Herefordshire, as well as of lands in Shrop- shire (see Duncumb and Cooke's ' Here- fordshire,' iv. 52; 'Collectanea Topogr. et Genealog ,' iv. 109-10 ; Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 1900, p. 222; 'S.P. Dom. Eliz., 1 - cxlviii. 39, civ. 59).

In 1564 William Shelley was one of the Justices of Peace notified by the Bishop to the Privy Council as being "myslykers of religion and godlye procedinges " (' Camden Miscellany,' ix.). Subsequently, when the Sheriff and Justices of Sussex assembled at Steyning, in December, 1569, to subscribe the order of the Privy Council for the uniformity of public worship, he was absent (' S.P. Dom. Eliz.,' Ix. 18) ; and again on 5 March, 1576, his name was sent up to the Privy Council as of one suspected of recusancy (Strype, 'Ann.,' ii. ii. 22), and he was at the same time cited to appear before the Bishop.

On 11 August, 1580, he appeared before the Clerk of the Privy Council in accordance with some previous judgment ('P.C.A.,' N.S., xii. 150), and two days later was committed to the Fleet for his religion (ibid., 152). He was released on bail, possibly in response to his wife's petition to the Council ('S P. Dom. Eliz.,' cxlviii. 39), on 26 June, 1581, being bound to return by 20 August following ('P.C.A.,' N.S., xiii. 105), and was again released on bail for a month on 1 November, 1581, in order to visit his wife, who was lying ill at Sutton (ibid., 252). Apart from her illness he must have had much