went to the Court of Chancery for redress, alleging that he was running the estates for his own profit and preventing Sir Vincent's heir visiting his mother. He used his position to marry his daughter, Elizabeth to the 2nd Baronet. After the Restoration Francis Thornes was one of the Commissioners appointed under an Act of 1661 for administering oaths of allegiance and supremacy to all office holders in Shrewsbury, and for removing from office all disaffected persons. Thomas Thornes, son of Francis, was the last Thornes owner of Shelvock. He was baptised at Moreton Corbet on 26 September 1630, and in 1653 he married Elinor, his first wife, daughter of Jonathan Langley of the Abbey, Shrewsbury. He later married Hester Littleton, daughter of Sir William Courteen, of London, and widow of Sir Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet of Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire, a zealous royalist, and then Anne, who married after his death George Bold. Thomas Thornes sold Webscott, in Myddle parish, to his brother-in-law Thomas Price. He died without issue, surviving his father by less than two months. While the Thornes' ownership of the manor ceased in the middle of the 17th Century, the family remained connected to the lands well into the 18th. 1700-1900 On the death of Thomas Thornes his widow retained possession of Shelvock, and married George Bold, but their right to the property was evidently disputed by the family, for in 1699 a deed of family settlement was executed, dated October 30, between them and several other relatives. By this deed it was agreed that all differences and lawsuits about the land and estate of the late Francis and Thomas Thornes were to cease. The Bolds were to hold for their lives and to keep in repair the capital messuage of Shelvock, the Heath Mill, and the demesne lands belonging to Shelvock, and several properties in Shotatton which were parcel of the demesne lands of Shelvock. After the deaths of the Bolds, the whole of the above were to belong in fee simple, free from encumbrances, to Francis Thornes' four daughters and their representatives. Anne Bold, therefore, and her second husband, George Bold, had possession of Shelvock from 1678; and they were still alive in 1707, but had to let it to some under-tenants. Lady Corbet (one of the recipients of the estate after Ann Bold's death) settled her fourth part of Shelvock estate on her