Medwin's Blunders--Lady Shelley's Statement of the Case--The
Michelgrove Shelleys--Sir William Shelley, Justice of The
Common Pleas--The Castle Goring Shelleys--Their Pedigree at
the Heralds' College--Evidences of the Connexion of the Two
Families--John Shelley, 'Esquire and Lunatic'--Timothy
Shelley, the Yankee Apothecary--Bysshe Shelley's Career--His
Runaway Match with Catherine Michell--His Marriage with the
Heiress of Penshurst--His Great Wealth--The Poet's Alleged
Pride in his Connexion with the Sidneys--His Gentle, but not
Aristocratic, Lineage.