Kia ora
I know no Latin, information below about Burley, I am surprised at the brevity of the will given his status at the time? A few tips as to who got what would be helpful.
Nga mihi (best wishes) on a beautiful sunny autumnal day.
Bronen
John Burley/Burleigh 1350 of Wistanstow, Shropshire married Juliana de Grey (1412c) in 1457 and they were the parents of William Burley born 1390c Broncroft Castle, Shropshire, Margaret Burley 1387-1439, John Burley and Edward Burley.
John Burley made his will in October 1415 and is known to have been dead by February 1416.
Juliana Burley (de Gray) died in 1459
John Burley was an English lawyer and a knight of the shire (MP) for Shropshire six times from 1399. He was a justice of the peace for Shropshire and sheriff of the county from 10 December 1408 – 4 November 1409. He was also joint controller - with Sir John Cornwall - of the musters of the royal armies in Shropshire and North Wales from November 1404-January 1406, playing an important role in the suppression of the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr.
In July 1415 he enlisted with Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel to take part in Henry 's first expedition to France. Having taken part in the Siege of Harfleur, he and the earl were, however, invalided home in October 1415, shortly before the Battle of Agincourt.
John 1376 had an interest in the manors of Norton Cheyney and Upper Hayton and in property at Ludlow and Stanton Lacy. That John Burley acted as a feoffee for a neighbouring landowner, Sir Richard Ludlow, from 1383 until Ludlow’s death in 1391, and as such presented to Wistanstow church. It was as coheir with William Spenser of the lands of their uncle, John Burnell, that Burley held a portion of the manors of Whitton and Newton in Westbury; and over the years, in association with his wife, he was engaged in transactions regarding many other properties in Shropshire, for the most part situated in the valleys of rivers and streams flowing south to Ludlow. Burley’s holdings included land at Ashfield by Ruthall, the manors of Strefford, Brockton and Munslow and, most important, property at Broncroft, on the river Corve, where either he or his son built the house of red sandstone which Leland knew later as ‘a very goodly place, like a castle’. Burley became a landowner of some substance, but whether the majority of his holdings were acquired through marriage or by purchase remains unclear.
