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Notes for Sir William Burley
And lord of the manor of Munslow.

Curiously, because they have everything else right, the Shropshire Visitation calls him John Burley with a wife Alice, dau. of Richard Lord Gray of Wilton.  The same records also shows a sheaf of Burley ancestors including three KGs (who have the same names as those in Grace Holmes' book of KGs).  But DNB agrees with this Visitation about his gt-gt-uncle Simon so it looks like this was a minor error of missing out one generation.

Worcs vis'n also calls him John - and in the Littleton pedigree he is "Henry or John"!
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Christopher Nash on 27 Nov 2005 found this on the British history on-line site regarding Munslow:

“Munslow had been subinfeudated by 1255, when the terre tenants,  
evidently coparceners, were John de Chandurs, Nicholas Seymour, and  
Ermyntrude, a daughter of John Hertwell, son of John Hertwell, the  
late terre tenant of Aston. They held Munslow of a mesne lord,  
William de Venables, whose tenure was evidently resumed by the chief  
lord before 1285. Ermyntrude's daughter Agnes conveyed her share to  
Seymour and his wife Alice. Seymour predeceased Alice, who was in  
sole possession of their Munslow estate by 1285. She conveyed it to  
Robert de Beke and his wife Maud, Ermyntrude's sister; (fn. 57)  
Robert and Maud presumably possessed John de Chandurs's share, for by  
1316 Robert was sole lord of Munslow. (fn. 58) Maud predeceased him  
c. 1324 (fn. 59) and by 1348 his son Nicholas de Beke (kt. 1348, d.  
1369) was lord. (fn. 60) Sir Nicholas's heir was his daughter  
Elizabeth, who married and predeceased Sir Robert Swynnerton (d.  
1386). (fn. 61) After Swynnerton's death Munslow seems to have passed  
to their daughter and heir Maud Peshall. (fn. 62) Maud's second  
husband (from c. 1388) was William Ipstones (d. 1399), (fn. 63) whose  
father Sir John (d. 1393) had Munslow manor, apparently as Maud's  
feoffee. (fn. 64) After William's death Maud may have had only a  
third of Munslow; in 1404 she and her third husband John Savage  
conveyed a third of the advowson to John Burley, (fn. 65) tenant in  
chief of the manor. The other two thirds of the manor may have passed  
in 1399 to William's daughters and coheirs Christine and Alice (fn.  
66) and were apparently later acquired by Burley.)<    [British  
History Online <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?
compid=22866>]”
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Arms Generally notes for Sir William Burley
From W F Carter's article in the Genealogist:
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DNB Main notes for Sir William Burley
Burley, William fl. 1436

Name: Burley, William
Dates: fl. 1436
Active Date: 1436
Gender: Male

Field of Interest: Politics, Government and Political Movements
Occupation: Speaker of the House of Commons
Sources: Manning's Lives of the Speakers (1851), pp. 86-91; Rot. Parl...
Contributor: G. F. R. B. [George Fisher Russell Barker]

Article
Burley, William fl. 1436, speaker of the House of Commons, was the son of John Burley of Bromcroft Castle, high sheriff of Salop in 1409. Sir Simon Burley [q.v.], who was beheaded on 5 May 1388, but whose attainder was reversed in the following year, was his great-great-uncle. In 1417 William Burley was first elected a knight of the shire for Salop. In the returns of the next twenty-four parliaments his name is to be found as one of the members of this county no less than eighteen times. The last parliament in which he was returned was that which was summoned to meet at Westminster on 9 July 1455. He was chosen speaker of the House of Commons on 19 March 1436, in the place of Sir John Tyrrel, kt., who was compelled by illness to retire from the chair. In the following parliament William Tresham was elected speaker; however, on 26 Feb. 1444 Burley was again voted to the chair, and continued to preside over the house until the dissolution of that parliament.
Little is known either of his domestic or political life. In 1426 he executed the office of sheriff of Salop. He died without male issue, leaving two daughters and coheiresses, the eldest of whom married, first, Sir Philip Chetwynd of Ingestrie, and, secondly, Sir Thomas Lyttleton, the author of the `Tenures.' From this last marriage the present Barons Lyttelton and Hatherton are descended. The youngest daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Thomas Trussel of Billesley, Warwickshire.

Sources
Manning's Lives of the Speakers (1851), pp. 86-91; Rot. Parl. iv. 502, v. 67; Parliamentary Papers, 1878, lxii. (pt. i.) 289-351; Notes and Queries, 4th ser. ix. 464.

Contributor: G. F. R. B.

published  1886
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