BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. I 7 



Hall in Bradshaugh Edge, where the said A. B. (Anthony) was 

 born, and his auncestors, whither the said A. B. verie willinglie 

 accompanied him and the better occasioned to visit his brother 

 and friends there." 



The proof of any connection between the Lancashire and 

 Derbyshire Bradshawes, if it ever existed, Hes hidden in the 

 mists of time, and will probably never be found. It is not impos- 

 sible, but there is no sign that it is probable. 



The name of Bradshawe, signifying as it does Broad Glade, 

 might have been assumed originally by either family from the 

 nature of the lands they held, or the two families, l)(jth of whom 

 were certainly landowners in their respective counties in the 

 time of Edward I., may have had one and the same sire, who 

 is quite as likely to have had his birth in the Peak of Derby- 

 shire, as in the wilds of Lancashire. 



It is now as hard to determine whether they had a common, 

 and that a Saxon, origin as it is to decide whether they derived 

 their name from the lands they owned, or whether they called 

 their lands after their own names. Considering, however, that 

 in the thirteenth century, when their names occur in County 

 Records, they are invariably described as " dc Bradshaw,'' the 

 former alternative is probably correct. 



As " the evidences without date afore the Conquest " alluded 

 to by Anthony Bradshawe have apparently disappeared, it is 

 to the Assart Roll that we must turn for the first members of 

 the Bradshawe family, who are recorded as living in the part 

 of the Peak now known as Chapel-en-le-Frith ; and as there is 

 evidence in it of more than one who had received grants of 

 land, and who was probably descended from the original 

 Derbyshire settler, it is not possible to determine for certain 

 which of them was the actual progenitor of the line of Brad- 

 shawes, of Bradshaw. In this roll, under date 18 John to 6 

 Henry III. (1215-1221),* Ivo de Bradshawe is recorded to have 

 made an assart of 14 acres in Whitehall. In the same place 

 and at the same date Walter de Bradshawet is found to be the 

 tenant under the king of 9 acres which had been formerly 



'Section vj., p. 260, oi Feudal Hist, of Derbyshire, by Pym Veatman. 

 \cf. Archaological Journal, vol. xv., p. 87. 



