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In PR1773 both as Shilley, Bucklemaker at Blue Court, Saffron Hill ,and Shelley, Goldworker, Christophers Court , Bartholomew Court. Grimwade regards this to be a mistake and that only one man is involved.

But there may be two !

One was prosecuted on 22nd February 1781 at the Old Bailey at which Samuel Shelley convicted and given a years labour for buying stolen plate. The trial account is very lengthy and goes into considerable detail as to the value of scrap and secondhand silver, It gives the detail that Shelley had several staff and lived at the far end of the Strand from St Pauls. The trial shows him as a nasty piece of work !
One would think that was the end of his career !

However we have three more Shelley references after 1781.

3rd October 1787- Old Bailey Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
The Informations of Samuel Shelley of the Strand Silversmith
"Samuel Shelley says that the Paste Shoe Buckle now produced is his property and was feloniously Stolen in
his Shop"

Westminster Pollbooks: Votes in Westminster Elections, 1749-1820 1st January 1788 - 31st December 1788
Samuel Shelley ,Goldsmith of Norfolk Street , district of St Clement Danes and St Mary-le-Strand voted for Townshend

Heal records Samuel SHELLEY, goldsmith Bartholomew Close 1773 -(which is close to Saffron Hill) and at 149, Strand 1784 -1793
Again a post 1781 reference.

Samuel Shelley signed a bond in 1754 as a goldsmith of St Martin, Ludgate parish to marry Elizabeth Ingram.
The christening records at St Luke, Finsbury in 1758 and 1760 of Richard and Ann, children of Samuel and Elizabeth Shelley, show their father as a bucklemaker but no address.
Their son William was christened at St Sepulchre, Holborn in 1773; the record shows no further detail.
Their daughter Ann was christened at St Andrew, Holborn in 1778 when their address was Blew (sic) Court.

Samuel Shelley involved in the precious metals business as a jeweller and a bachelor from St Martin parish in Strand signed a bond in 1774 stating an intention to marry a minor and ward of Court by the name Catherine Tufnell. The marriage required the permission of her guardian Richard Baggeridge. No entry in a London marriage register has been found following the signing of this bond nor any other evidence of the intended groom except the possible link to Land Tax assessments made on Samuel Shelley from 1787 until 1802 on mainly unidentified property owned by the Duke of Norfolk in The Duchy Liberty in Strand but including property identified in Norfolk Street.