INTRODUCTION

In the previous chapter, we laernt how the Strelley family, with their main home in Strelley, Nottinghamshire, had come into possession of the two Estates which since befiore domesday had formed the Shipley Parish. In brief, the "Feudal Aids" (land tax records) for 1284 listed Robert (III) de Strelley as holding Shipley in the name of Hebicabell his wife, for a fee of William de Ros (who then held the lordship of Ilkeston by marriage to Eustachia, the great-granddaughter and heiress of Robert de Muskham). Then, in around 1290, with the marriage of their son, Robert (IV) de Strelley, to Elizabeth le Vavasour of Shipley, came the uniting of the two manors of the township and Shipley became a single landholding of some 2000 acres for the next 300 years.

AD 1600

Sir Philip Strelley had inherited the lands but relatively little money. It was he who was forced to sell Shipley to pay family debts.

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