BELEY, (Worcestershire) near the city of Worcestcr, is a Lp. that bel. formerly to Edmund de Mortimer, and was afterwards
alienated to the Beauchamps, Es. of Warwick; but on the attainder of one of them, in the R. of Rich. II. Thomas Holland,
D. of Surry, had a grant of it in special tail. It was afterwards the seat and native place of the great Ralph Sheldon,
Esq;