PEDIGREE OF SHELLEY, OF ALL CANNINGS. (Harl. MSS. 1443, fol. 244 b:-1565, fol. 26 b:-5184, fol. 53.) (The Baronets represented by Sir Bysshe Shelley, Bart., 1806, whose grandson was Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet.) ARMS. Sable, a fesse engrailed between three whelk shells or. JOHN SHELLEY, M.P. for Rye (Hen. V. and VI.) John Shelley, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Mychelgrove, of Mychelgrove, co. Sussex. of Chirton, whose son Robert married a daughter of Richard Lavington, of Wilsford, and so was brother-in-law, (if not a nearer relation,) to the head of the All Cannings branch. The first of the GOUGH family that was connected with All Cannings, was the Rector of 1593. His family belonged originally, it would seem, to Stratford, in South Wilts. He was presented to the Prebend of All Cannings also by Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who claimed the right to that appointment as well as to the Rectory. A law-suit ensued, of which we shall say more in an account of the Prebend of All Cannings in a subsequent page, the result of which was the establishment of the right of the Dean and Canons of Windsor to the patronage of the Prebend. Hugh Gough had a large family, several of whom rose to positions of eminence, his eldest son becoming first of all Chancellor of the Cathedral in Limerick, and afterwards Bishop of that See; another being Chaplain to the Earl of Hertford; and a third Steward to the Earl of Warwick. One of his younger daughters was married to John Willis, a Fellow of the College at Winchester. The SHELLEY family belonged originally to the county of Sussex. In the time of Henry VII. by the marriage of John Shelley with Elizabeth, heiress of John Michelgrove, of Michelgrove, in the above-named county, that place became the principal seat of their family. Their connexion with All Cannings, in which there is no trace of their ever having been residents, commenced with Edward Shelley, who in 1555 became the Lessee of the manor from Dame Elizabeth Shelley, (probably his sister,) the last Abbess of St. Mary, Winchester, as related in a preceding page (p. 12), and terminated most likely with the expiration of their lease in 1595. They were a distinguished family;-as early as the reign of Henry VI. one of them represented Rye in Parliament; another was Justice of the Common Pleas in the time of Henry VIII., and 1 Stow, in his Annals, tells us, that Judge Shelley, in the time of Henry VIII., was sent by that King to Cardinal Wolsey, then Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor, to demand the surrender of York Place (now Whitehall) belonging to his See, into the King's hands. The Judge told the Cardinal, "That the King had sent for all the Judges and all his learned Council to know their opinions thereon, whose opinions were that his Grace (the Archbishop) must make a recognisance before a Judge acknowledging the right thereof to belong to the King and his successors, and that therefore the King had appointed and |