Publications
Marriage Settlement, A.D. 1343, Isabella Poynings and William de Cricketot, by W. Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., published 1862 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 14, article, pp.182-185) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2099] & The Keep [LIB/500233] & S.A.S. library View Online
The Poynings' Pedigree, by Cecil Henry Russell, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, p.227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library View Online
Hawis de Poynings , by Rev R. G. Griffiths, published February 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 5, article, pp.97-98) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library
The Sussex Lands of Thomas De Poynings, by M. S. H. [Mary S. Holgate], published May 1934 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 2, article, pp.37-38) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
The Sussex Lands of Thomas De Poynings, by M. S. H. [Mary S. Holgate], published August 1934 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 3, article, pp.82-83) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
The Sussex Lands of Thomas De Poynings, by M. S. H. [Mary S. Holgate], published November 1934 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 4, article, pp.103-104) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
Beaufou, Ponynges and Aguillon, by I. J. Sanders, published August 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 7, note, p.220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library
A lost parish, by Michael Burchall, published December 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 4, article, pp.190-195) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508845] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:From early in the 13th century until the first quarter of the 16th century there existed on the eastern edge of St Leonard's forest to the northeast of Horsham and a couple of miles southwest of Crawley, a parish with a church that has almost been forgotten. The former parish of Shelley extended in a narrow strip north-south and was probably that area which later became known as Crawley detached and which today is part of Crawley parish. It covered Shelley Plain, a narrow piece of land sloping down to a valley on each side - deriving its name from scylf and leah and which gave its name to both the area and a family surnamed Shelley - and extended as far north to what later became an estate called Buchan Hill near Ifield and which today is Cottesmore golf course. Its eastern boundary would seem to have been to the west of the old Brighton Road (A23) bordering an extended tongue of land belonging to Slaugham parish and what must have been the western part of the parish has now been absorbed in Lower Beeding along with the reputed manor and Shelley park. There is evidence that like Ifield and Crawley it lay within the Archdeaconry of Lewes in the 13th century but Shelley's later association and possession by the POYNINGS family of Slaugham has led to much confusion as to exactly under which jurisdiction it lay in medieval times. In 1824 Cartwright's map indicates that the eastern part of the old Shelley parish had been absorbed by Slaugham.