76 NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEYS. 



was living in 1262, when Eudo de Mapperley and Thomas were 

 employed in her service. 



7. Geoffry de Strelley, " son of Sampson." — (Haddon Muni- 

 ments, re Shirland Park. ) (Pipe 46 H. III.) He had a son Robert, 

 who was a tenant of No 9. Robert, son of Geoffry (de Strelly), 

 and Robert, son of Robert (de Strelley), sued Hugo de Strelley, 

 anno 10 Henry HI., a.d. 1225 — (Pipe Ro. Yeatman i., 195). 



8. Sir Robert de Strelley, Kt., son and heir of Walter (4), 

 attained his majority in 1228-9, when he did homage for his lands. 

 Anno 21 H. HI., 7 Nov., he held a knight's fee in Strelley and 

 Bilborough, with suit at court of Peverill, in Nottingham, once in 3 

 weeks ( Testa de Nevil). Strelley was held of the king in chief for 4o^ 

 This Robert held the vill of Shipley, Derbyshire, in right of 

 Hebicabell, his vvife, for half a knight's fee of William de Ros. — 

 (Kirby's Quest.) In 1252 he had a grant of free warren in 

 Strelley, Trowell, and Oxton. (See under Note I, for particulars of a 

 law suit between this Robert and Robert de Moyz, concerning 24 

 bovates of land in Hazlebach). Mr. Pym Yeatman, in his extracts 

 from the Red Book of the Exchequer, gives the following, from 

 which it would almost seem that this Robert held some oflSce 

 under Earl Robert de Ferrers. — " In 31 Hen. III. there was an 

 assize to enquire whether Sampson le Dunn and Galf de Skefing- 

 ton had disseized Robert de Ferrars (the Earl) of 15 tofts, 2 

 carucates, and 24 bovates, 2 mills, and 4 acres of wood and I^, 

 and one pound pepper-rent in Breadsall, which he claimed to hold 

 of the feoffment of James de Audeley. Sampson said that the Earl 

 commanded him that he should send to him his palfrey, which was 

 a fine one, and when he was unwilling to send it, the Earl sent 

 his knights to the town of Breadsall who seized the horse and 

 took it to a certain hermitage, and the same Earl held it in hand 

 for a long time, and afterwards gave it to Robert de Stradley, who 

 gave it to Hugo de Dun, with Nicholas de Marnham, the Earl's 

 steward. 



This Robert de Strelley died 12 Ed. I. (1284) seized of Strelley, 

 28 bovates in Chilwall— 16 of which he held of Henry de Grey 

 and the manor of Oxton. 



