NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEVS. 79 



This, however, may have been his eldest son and successor in the 

 estates ; if it be so, he only held them for four years, and must 

 have died without issue. 



12. Sampson de Strelley, Kt., married Elizabeth, dau. of Sir 

 John Hercy, Kt. On the i6th Nov. 1383, Sampson de S., John 

 de Grey, of Codnor, and others, were commissioned by the king 

 to enquire into the character of the obstructions to the navigation 

 of the Trent between Nottingham Castle and the sea, and especially 

 those caused at Col wick by the diversion of the stream to the mill 

 of Richard Byron. This Sampson was one of the witnesses 

 produced by Richard le Scrope in 1389, in the famous trial 

 between himself and Robert Grosvenor, with regard to the right 

 of bearing the arms: '■'Azure, a bend, or." His evidence, as 

 recorded in the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, is as follows : 



" Mons' Sampson' de Strauley dage du xl ans & pluis arme5 p xxvi ans 

 pducl p' la ptie de mons' Richard L;scrop jure3 & examine3 demande5 si le5 

 arme5 dasure ove un bende dor apptiej^nent du droit & de hitage au dit Mens' 

 Richard Lescrop dit q oyl & q il ad oy dire de^ veux chtrs & esquiers q las 

 auncesTs du dit mons' Richard ount este use3 & arme3 le5 dit3 du temps outf 

 memoir de home & toutelys esie en continuel & pesible possession de les dit3 

 arme3 le5 queux sount descedu5 au dit mon^'' Richard p droit descent de lynee 

 & de hitage & unqs en nuUe temps ne oyast dire le cont^rie demande3 sil ad 

 oy dire q fuist le priiB auncestrier du dit mons' Richard q portaist primflent 

 63 dit3 arme5 dit q noun qar Ie3 auncesfs du dit mons' Richard ount este de si 

 long temps qil passe memoir de home & le3 auncesf s du dit mons'' Richard 

 ount este use3 le5 av^ni(iii5 arme3 dont memoir ne court come il ad oy dire de 

 ce5 auncesfs Et dit qil ad veu & conu le dit mons' Richard estre arme5 en 

 mesme3 le; arme3 da5ure ove un bende dor publikement eu psence du Roy 

 Edward q mort este q Dieu assoille & en psence de tou3 le5 si's dev^nt Parys 

 Et mons' Hen? Lescrop estf arme3 en mesnie le5 arme3 ove un labelt blanc a 

 mesme la viage demande5 p qi il sciet q le5 dit3 arme3 sount a mons' Richard 

 dit q ensy ad oy dire de3 plusos chtrs & esquiers queux ount veu le dit mens' 

 Richard estre arme3 en mesmes le3 arme5 da3uf ove un bend dor p ans 

 demanded sil ad oy en ascun temps dascun chalange ou in?rupcion faiie p lej 

 auncesi' du dit mons' RoBt Grovens' ou p luy mesmej oa p ascun en son noun 

 p' lej dit3 armej a dit mons' Richard dit cteynement qil ne oy.ast unqs pier del 

 dit mons' Robert ne de ce} auncesVs tanc^ cest debate comenceast. " 



He died 13 Ric. l\., 1390 {vid. Thoresby's Thoroton, i.. 219). 



