executors about the provisions of his will. He died on 4 January 1549. Family Shelley married Alice (died 1536?), daughter of Sir Henry Belknap, grandson of Sir Robert de Bealknap of Knelle in the parish of Beckley, Sussex, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in his era. By her he had four sons: 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, and John (d.1592), second son, who was succeeded by his son John, created a baronet in 1611; Sir Richard Shelley; the third son, Sir James, was, like Sir Richard, a distinguished and widely travelled Knight of St. John; the fourth, Sir Edward, was a master of the household of Henry VIII, treasurer of the council of the north, and captain of Berwick, and was killed at the battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547. Their daughter Elizabeth married Roger Copley, father of Sir Thomas Copley. References Notes Attribution 1480 births 1549 deaths People from Arun District English MPs 1523 Recorders of London Serjeants-at-law (England) 16th-century English judges