NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEYS. lOI 



it and other gifts disposed as may appeare by his will dated Sep- 

 tember the 6th. Anno Dom : 1603, though this monument was 

 erected but 1630." 



Hitherto the descent of this Phihp, the Testator, has not been 

 discoverd by the Editor. 



Henry Strelley, of Hempsell (No. 25), 4ih son of Sir Nicholas, 

 had two sons ; John, 7vhose descendants tiow inherit Oakerthorpe, 

 and Ifenrj. On the 30th of October, 1626, Henry Strelley, of 

 Lees Hall, Derbyshire, gentleman, purchased 8 acres of pasture 

 in Bulwell Snape, from Christopher Newton of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 

 for ^^46 ; the original deed, now in possession of Thomas Hardy, 

 Esq., of Bulwell Hall and Kimberley, has the autographs of 

 Patrick Strelley (see under No. 24), George Charnley, and Ffrancys 

 Cooke. 



26. John Strelley, of Hempsell, is mentioned in the will of Philip 

 Strelley as the son of Henry Strelley, brother of Sir Anthony of 

 Strelley. It has been stated by some that the Strelleys of Oaker- 

 thorpe do not represent tlie ancient house of Strelley of Strelley. 

 It is for this very reason that such stress is here laid upon this 

 will of Philip Strelley entailing the estate at Oakerthorpe upon the 

 junior representatives of that house in 1603, as though he had 

 foreseen the speedy extinction of the senior line. The present 

 family of the Strelleys of Oakerthorpe are in possession of that 

 estate solely by virtue of their being the true representatives of 

 Henry the fourth son of Sir Nicholas Strelley of Strelley, upon 

 whose children that estate was entailed by the testator. No 

 genealogy is so indisputable as that attested by succession under 

 the law of entail. 



This John did not live to occupy the Oakerthorpe estate (he 

 occurs as late as 16 14) ; it was held by Ralph, the testator's only 

 surviving brother, until 1646, when the property devolved upon 



27. Henry Strelley, second son of the said John, who on the 

 13th of November in that year, succeeded, owing to the death of 

 his elder brother John in 1614, at the age of 22. This Henry had 

 three other brothers, Patrick, George, and Francis, who died 

 without issue. In 1642, according to the Morton Registers, 



