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©fje 35tavg of dBtfiuartr Bagsijato, Titax of 



eaStletOU, 1723-1769. 



By J. Charles Cox. 



HE Bagshaws, of Derbyshire, are a family of great 

 antiquity. From the times of Stephen we constantly 

 meet with their name as landowners of importance. 

 From an early period they had estates at Abney, in the parish of 

 Hope, and at the Ridge, in Chapel-en-le-Frith. Subsequently 

 we find them at Wormhill, Litton, and Hucklow, in Tideswell 

 parish, at Ford, in Chapel-en-le-Frith, and at the Oaks, in the 

 parish of Norton. 



The family has produced several members of repute, the best 

 known being William Bagshaw, of Ford, eldest son of William 

 Bagshaw, of Wormhill, Hucklow, Litton, and Abney, who was a 

 celebrated Nonconformist minister. He was born at Litton, in 

 1628, and died at Chapel-en-le-Frith, in 1702. His energy, both 

 a c a preacher and a writer, procured for him the name of " The 

 Apostle of the Peak." His next brother, John, resided at Great 

 Hucklow ; he was High Sheriff of the county in 1696, and died 

 in 1704. His younger brother, Adam, inherited the Wormhill 

 estates, and was ancestor of the Bagshaws of that place. Edward 

 Bagshaw, Vicar of Castleton, was one of the Northamptonshire 

 Bagshaws, a branch of the Derbyshire family. We find him 

 speaking of the Bagshaws, of Wormhill, and of the Oaks, Norton, 

 as cousins. 



From the Episcopal Registers at Lichfield, we find that Edward 

 Bagshaw, A.M., was instituted to the Vicarage of Castleton, on 



