 It is said that Nicholas De Shelton was among those barons presenting "Magna Carta" to King John, while Sir Ralph Shelton was knighted for his services to Edward III at the Battle of Crecy (1346).In the Tudor period Sir John Shelton, the twenty-first Lord of the Manor, and his wife Anne Boleyn were entrusted with the custody of Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth as children, partly because Anne was the aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn and the mother of Mary Shelton, the mistress of Henry VIII during his marriage to Anne.A portrait of Mary Shelton by Hans Holbein remains in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.