l8 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



assarted by his father, Walter de Bradshawe, who was then 

 dead. This Walter* was accused of building, without a war- 

 rant, a house in Bowden, in 36 Henry III. (1252), and at the 

 same date Randolph de Bradshawe was also found to have 

 built a house in Bowden. 



We also ascertain from the roll that about the time of 

 18 John — 6 Henry HI. (1215-1221), William de Bradshawe was 

 found to have, at some previous date, made an Assart of 22 

 acres in Whitehall, that he was at that time dead, and that 

 Richard de Bradshawe was then tenant, who himself sub- 

 sequently, namely about 19-21 Henry HI. (1235-1237), assarted 

 half an acre, and again, about the years 1237-1242, another 

 four acres of meadow, all in Whitehall. In 36 Henry III. 

 (1252), he is found to be the possessor of a house, which he had 

 built with the licence of the bailiff, within the king's domain. 

 Again, either he or another Richard was accused of a game 

 tre.spass in 3 Edward I. (1275). In the year 1257, Thomas 

 de Bradshawe is occupying, as tenant, two acres in " courses,"! 

 and in 5 Edward I. {1277) he is holding a Burgage tenure in 

 Chapel-en-le-Frith, and is a juror in 1283; while during the 

 same period William de Bradshawe is occupying land in 

 Coombes. Thus we find that about the year 12 15 there were 

 living in what is now the parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith (i.) Ivo de 

 Bradshawe ; (ii.) Richard, the son of William de Bradshawe ; 

 and (iii.) Walter, the son of Walter de Bradshawe, all occupying 

 land as tenants of the king in Whitehall. | That Walter de 

 Bradshawe is also the occupier of a house in Bowden in 1252, 

 unless he be another of the same name ; as is also a fourth 

 member of the family, namely, (iv.) Randolph de Bradshawe. 

 That not long afterwards, namely, in 1257, Thomas de Brad- 

 shaw is resident in the same parish, and is apparently still living 

 there in 1283; while at the same date William de Bradshawe 

 is occupying land in Coombes, of which his descendants were 

 in possession two hundred years later.§ That these six men all 



* Section vj., p. 249. 



t Still known as The Courses, Chapel-en-le-Frith, where "Hall Hill" 

 probably now records the site. 



X Whitehall and Whitehough adjoin and are about a mile from Bradshaw. 

 § See ])age 25. 



