John,
Totally unrelated to this post. I am also a shiels, shielle, shiles researcher on the west side of the pond. Would be interested in your family data, but ancestory wants $$$ to get your email address ;( .
Here's my only link to the UK:
June. 16, 1664,
Northumberland CO, VA.
Be it known unto all men by these presents that I THOS. PADLEY of
London,
Mercht., have appoynted my trusty & wel beloved Friend THOS. SHIELLE of
Maryland, Mercht., my true and lawfull Attorney to demand & receive
of EDW.
SANDERS. Chyrurgion & Planter in
Virginia, the summe of Twelve
thousand &
Six hundred pounds of tobacco in caske by him due unto me with all
costs &
on the receipt to give due acquittance and if needful as fully as I
my selfe
might doe if I were personally present holding firme watsoever shall be
lawfull don in ye p:mises: In Witness I have set my hand & sealed
dated in
London the 17th day of June 1664, & in ye 16th yeare of Raigne of or:
Soveraign
Lord King Charles the 2d.
Sealed & delivered in ye presence of
JOHN GEORGE, WM. DOWNINGE THO. PADLEY
JA:
Ewing, Not
Bests, Glenn