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of Chirton, whose son Robert married a daughter of Richard 

 Lavington, of Wilsford, and so was brother-in-law, (if not a nearer 

 relation,) to the head of the All Cannings branch. 



The first of the Gough family that was connected with All 

 Cannings, was the Rector of 1593. His family belonged originally, 

 it would seem, to Stratford, in South Wilts. He was presented to 

 the Prebend of All Cannings also by Edward Seymour, Earl of 

 Hertford, who claimed the right to that appointment as well as to 

 the Rectory. A law-suit ensued, of which we shall say more in an 

 account of the Prebend of All Cannings in a subsequent page, the 

 result of which was the establishment of the right of the Dean and 

 Canons of Windsor to the patronage of the Prebend. Hugh 

 Gough had a large family, several of whom rose to positions of 

 eminence, his eldest son becoming first of all Chancellor of the 

 Cathedral in Limerick, and afterwards Bishop of that See ; another 

 being Chaplain to the Earl of Hertford ; and a third Steward to 

 the Earl of Warwick. One of his younger daughters was married 

 to John Willis, a Fellow of the College at Winchester. 



The Shelley family belonged originally to the county of Sussex. 

 In the time of Henry YII. by the marriage of John Shelley with 

 Elizabeth, heiress of John Michelgrove, of Michelgrove, in the 

 above-named county, that place became the principal seat of their 

 family. Their connexion with All Cannings, in which there is 

 no trace of their ever having been residents, commenced with Edward 

 Shelley, who in 1555 became the Lessee of the manor from Dame 

 Elizabeth Shelley, (probably his sister,) the last Abbess of St. 

 Mary, Winchester, as related in a preceding page (p. 12), and ter- 

 minated most likely with the expiration of their lease in 1595. 

 They were a distinguished family; — as early as the reign of Henry 

 VI. one of them represented Rye in Parliament; another was 

 Justice of the Common Pleas * in the time of Henry YIII., and 



■ Stow, in his Annals, tells us, that Judge Shelley, in the time of Henry VIII., 

 was sent by that King to Cardinal "Wolsey, then Archbishop of York and Lord 

 Chancellor, to demand the surrender of York Place (now Whitehall) belonging 

 to his See, into the King's hands. The Judge told the Cardinal, " That the 

 King had sent for all the Judges and all his learned Council to know their 

 opinions thereon, whose opinions were that his Grace (the Archbishop) must 

 make a recognisance before a Judge acknowledging the right thereof to belong 

 to the King and his successors, and that therefore the King had appointed and 



