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- Knight of the shire for Shropshire 1399, 1401, Jan 1404, Oct 1404, 1410, 1411. Sheriff of Shropshire 10 Dec 1408 - 4 Nov 1409.
From the History of Parliament:
Burley’s origins are obscure, but it seems likely that he was the John, son of John Burley of Wistanstow, Shropshire, who in 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 became a landowner of some substance, but whether the majority of his holdings were acquired through marriage or by purchase remains unclear.
In the course of his career Burley, a lawyer of considerable ability, served in the capacity of feoffee, steward or councillor for several members of the nobility who owned estates in Shropshire. [...]
On 14 Oct. 1399, during [Burley's] first Parliament, Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester, granted him the marriage of his ward, Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet, and he subsequently sold Burley the wardship of Corbet’s estates as well. After that Burley became a member of the quorum of the Shropshire bench, and he and Thomas Young I, another councillor of the earl of Arundel, served more regularly than any of the other j.p.s of the period. In October 1400 Burley, sitting at sessions with the earl, Lord Burnell and Young, heard the first indictments to be brought against Owen Glendower and his supporters, who had recently raided the earl’s lordship of Oswestry, as an outcome of which the Welshman was formally proclaimed traitor. Burley was to play an important part in the suppression of the rebellion: in 1404 during his fourth Parliament, at Coventry, he and Sir John Cornwall were assigned the task of supervising the musters of the royal armies as they assembled in the marches of North Wales. They were required to certify the King at frequent intervals regarding the strength of his forces, and were bound by oaths, sworn before the abbot of Lilleshall, to remain loyal to the Crown. [...]
Burley had long been a member of the Palmers’ guild of Ludlow, and also came into contact with the monks of Shrewsbury abbey, where, after obtaining a licence in December 1414 to alienate property at Alveley in mortmain, he founded a chantry. Although no longer a young man he enlisted in the retinue of the earl of Arundel for Henry V’s first expedition to France, which mustered on 1 July 1415, but he returned to England on 4 Oct. only shortly after the earl himself had been invalided home suffering from dysentery contracted at the siege of Harfleur. It may be surmised that Burley, too, had caught this disease: he made his will that same month and died at an unknown date before 18 Feb. 1416
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
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