$8 BASSANO'S CHURCH NOTES. 



serve you and my country gentlemen upon my services to the best 

 of my abilities, who heartily wislies your prosperity. 



" Tho Brailsford." 

 That Thomas Brailsford was of Seyner is clear from the 

 following document : — " We whose names are here unto being two 

 of the Trustees of Thomas and John Brailsford, late of Seyner, 

 in the County of Derby, gentlemen, do hereby appoint you the 

 said C. F. to pay unto I. M. of M., in the County of , 



one of the creditors of the said John Brailsford, the sum of 

 j[, out of remainders of the purchase money of Seyner 



estate now remaining in your hands, the said sum being due to 

 the said I. M. upon composition for the sum of ^^59 3s. 2d. 

 actually due and owing by the said John Brailsford to the said 

 I. M , and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient 

 warrant. In witness, &c." 



So that it would seem that the poor old antiquary, when over 

 seventy years old, was honestly giving up- his life interest in the 

 family estate, to pay a composition upon his son's debts, whilst he 

 himself was a humble suppliant for the office of High Constable 

 of Scarsdale hundred. 



The notes continue to be made for five years after this date, 

 though we do not learn whether he was successful in his suit. Be 

 that as it may, he had evidently learnt the stern lesson " that a 

 heart must be tried by pain " as " gold is tried by fire." 



Amongst the list of those who were refused arms in 1601, was 

 the name of Brailsford of Senor, hut they were allowed by Dug- 

 dale to be in, or, a cinquefoil pierced, gules. The pedigree given 

 by Dakeyne, no doubt taken from the Brailsford MSS., differs 

 considerably from that given in the Heralds' Visitations; it would 

 seem that they were old vassals of the Savages of Steynesby, Lords 

 of Seynour, part of their lands being held of some Abbey, which 

 Henry VHI. sold to Thos. Goodwyn in the 35th year of his reign, 

 it then being in the tenure of Brailsford. Goodwin sold it to 

 Bokes, who sold it to Wm. B(;le of Alfreton, who, 5 Edward VI., 

 sold it to John Brailsford, and he died possessed of both properties 

 in I Elizabeth. Those who think it wrong to enjoy Church 



