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have been a case of fisticuffs and a bloody nose, for no weapon 

 is mentioned in the indictment, and the injury done to liis 

 dignity was probably much more serious than to his person. 



21. Sir Nicholas Strelley, only son of Sir Nicholas and 

 Catherine, daughter of Lord Delaware. He married, first, Sarah, 

 daughter of Simon Digby, Lieutenant of the Tower ; second, 

 Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Gresley ; and, third, Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir John Spencer, Kt., by whom he had four sons and 

 four daughters : — 



Sir Anthony, of Strelley; Nicholas, of Beauchief; John; 

 Henry, of Hempsell (from whom the present Mr. Strelley, of 

 Oakerthorpe, is descended) ; and Isabel, Margaret, Jane, and 

 Alice, the wife of Sir John Byron, Kt., who died in 1609, and 

 was buried at Colwic. 



In the year 1537 the Abbey of Beauchief and the surrounding 

 district was granted to Sir Nicholas Strelley for the sum of ^^223. 

 It passed into the family of Pegge (through the failure of male 

 issue) by the marriage of Gertrude Strelley, sole heiress, with 

 Edward, son of Edward Pegge, of Ashbourne, in the year 1648. 



On the 27th of March, 1539, the funeral procession of George, 

 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, started from Winfield Manor, where his 

 body had remained from the 26th July, 1538, for interment at 

 Sheffield : among the chief mourners was this Sir Nicholas 

 Strelley, Kt. 



"He died at Strelley, 25th August (3 Eliz.), 1560, seized of 

 Strelley and Bilborough and the advowsons of both the churches, 

 as well as lands in Bulwell, Cossall, Wattenbow, (? Watnall) 

 Farnesfield, and Basford, as by an inquisition taken at Nottingham 

 the year following appeareth, Sir Anthony Strelley, his son and 

 heir, being then 30 years of age." — (Thoroton's " Nottingham- 

 shire," ii. 220.) 



22. Sir Anthony Strelley, son of Sir Nicholas (21) by 

 Elizabeth, his third wife, born 1528. Married Joan, eldest 

 daughter of George Baynham, Esq., of Closewell, Gloucester, by 

 whom he had issue eight children : — 



I. Sir Philip Strelley, of Strelley, 1589. Died 4 James 



