86 NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEYS. 



"My sister Wase, deceased;" "Leonard Stubbs, my nephew;" 

 and " Elizabeth, his wife, my neice." To his brother Robert, he 

 bequeaths all his estate and title of and in the manor of Linby, in 

 Nottingham, and to him and his heirs the patronage and advowson 

 of the parish church of Linby. To William Strelley, his brother, 

 he bequeathed all his estate in the Parsonage of Adbolson, 

 RatcHff, Basford, and Oxton, Notts. ; and to John, son of George 

 Savill, he bequeathed the advowson of Boresworth (? Bosworth). 



Robert Strelley, Esq., died Jan. 23rd, 1553-4, possessed of the 

 manor of West Langton, Leicestershire, then valued at ;^i8 12s. od. 

 a year, which he held of the Queen as of the honour of Leicester 

 and parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, by the service of a knight's 

 fee. His widow Frideswide was one of the Ladies of the Bed- 

 chamber to Queen Mary, from whom she obtained a grant of 

 divers manors in Yorkshire, Leicestershire, and Lincolnshire, par- 

 ticularly the site of the priory of Ulvescroft. Mr. Nichols, in 

 his "History of Leicestershire" (ii. 663), gives a pedigree of 

 the Strelleys of West Langton, derived from the Visitation of 

 Leonard and Vincent, in which the arms of the Strelleys of 

 Strelley are differenced by a crescent. They seem to have 

 descended from the old stock, but the link is not very clear. The 

 will was proven 15th March, 1553. 



Sir Geo. Gyfford (Will 1557-8, " Noodes " 2nd Register), 

 mentions his sister, Frydeswyde Strelley. 



A grant of augmentation of arms by William Henry, Clarenceux 

 King of Arms, was made to Robert Strelley, Esq., of Great 

 Bowden, Leicestershire, 20th December, 1554; obviously the 

 Robert of the preceding will. He was member of the Queen's 

 Privy Council, and had performed valiant service in Scotland at 

 the siege of Winstrell, " as well for his true and faithful service 

 done to Her Majesty at Fromyngham." The augmentation con- 

 sisted of the addition of a bordure indented ermines to the old 

 Strelley coat. — (Nichols' "Leicestershire.") 



18. Sir Robert Strelley, son of Sir Robert, married Isabel, 

 daughter of Thomas Kemp, and sister of John Kemp, Cardinal- 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. She died at Oxton, and was buried 



