Presence of Lord Leicester, the nephew of the great Shelley to become the proprietor of that historical mansion, so oftenĮmbellished by the Court of Queen Elizabeth, and the It might well have excited the ambition of Mr. Each bank doth yield thee conies, and the tops, Fertile of wood, Ashore and Sydney copse, To crown thy open table doth provide, The purple pheasant with the speckled side. Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport, Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech, and the chesnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the muses met: There in the withered bark are cut the names Of many a Sylvan, taken with his flames, And thence the ruddy Satyrs oft provoke The lighter Fauns to reach the Lady’s Oak Thy copse, too, named of Gramage, thou hast there, That never fails to serve the seasoned deer, When thou wouldst feast, or exercise thy friends The lower land, that to the river bends, Thy sheep, thy bullocks, kine and calves do feed The middle ground, thy mares and horses breed. Thou joy’st in better marks, of soil, of air, Of wood, of water therein art thou fair. Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show, Or touch, of marble nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told Or stair or courts, but stand’st an ancient pile And these, grudged at, are reverenced the while. Waller and Sacarissa, (whose oak is still an object of veneration,) and honoured by Small inn on the verge of the Park at Penshurst, a mansion consecrated by the loves of In order to become acquainted with her, he took up his abode for some time in a Would have made my mother heiress to the estates.Īfter his wife’s death, an insatiate fortune-hunter, he laid siege toĬounty. Her life despaired of and which circumstance, had it occurred, by a freak of fortune, There the lady was attacked, on her arrival, with the small-pox, and
That convenient asylum for lovers, the Fleet, by the Fleet parson, and lost no time in Shelley to London, where the fugitives were wedded in Michell was not to be deterred by interdictions, and eloped with Mr. The guardian (the young lady was an orphanĪnd a minor) put his veto on the match, but, like a new Desdemona, Miss Should have captivated the great heiress of Horsham, the only daughter and heiress of the The prestige that never fails to attach itself to a travelled man, Polished manners and address, and it is little to be wondered at that these, in addition to To a good name, and a remarkably handsome person, he united the most Profession of a Quack doctor, and married, as it is said, the widow of a miller, but for
Land of promise but it was only such to him. The goods of fortune, and little chance of worldly aggrandisement. Timothy, who had also two sons, and settled-having marriedĪn American lady-at Christ’s Church, Newark, in North America where Bysshe was born, on the 21st June, 1731.Īs often happens to the junior branches of houses, he began life with few of Sons, Sir William, a judge of the Common-pleas, andĮdward from the latter of whom, in the seventh descent, sprung
Only say, that Sir John Shelley, of Maresfield Park, who dated hisīaronetage from the earliest creation of that title, in 1611, had, besides other issue, two Pedigree, and referring those interested in such matters to the Peerage, under the head of William, Lord of Affendary, brother of Sir Thomas Shelly, aįaithful adherent of King Richard the Second, who wasĪttainted and executed by Henry IV. Great antiquity in the above county, and is descended from Sir Shelley, as the name has been spelt at different epochs, is of Place, through whom that portion of the estate was derived. The Northumberland family, and that of Bysshe from the heiress of Fen Percy being derived from an aunt, who was distantly connected with Shelley was born at Field Place, on the 4th of August, 1792. Sussex boasts of two great poets, Collins and Otway-it may pride
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