20 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



family is either seen or heard. This is due, withcHit doubt, 

 to the carelessness of their descendants in the guardianship of 

 " the evidences,"' though it is true that a disastrous fire early in the 

 nineteenth century is known to have destroyed a certain amount 

 of deeds and MSS., together with plate and portraits, a calamity 

 repeated a year ago. The silence is broken after a lapse of 

 sixty-six years by a charter dated at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Monday 

 next after the Feast of St. James, 21 Richard II. (1398), in 

 which " John, son of John de Bradshawe, senior, grants to 

 William, son of John de Bradshawe, junior, seven acres of land 

 lying in Tumcroft.' * This is the first reference to this croft, 

 which, as will be noted, is specially mentioned in several of 

 the deeds, and, with the Hollow Meadow, still forms part of 

 the Bradshaw domain. There is nothing, however, to show 

 the relationshi]) of the parties to this deed with those to that 

 dated 1332. It may be that John de Bradshawe, sen., was 

 son of Richard, or he may have been his brother. The Heralds 

 Visitation^ begins the pedigree with a John de Brad.shawe, 

 who by his marriage with Cicely, daughter of Thomas Foljambe, 

 was father of William. He would be doubtless the John de 

 Bradshawe, jun., of the deed, who granted the Turnrroft to 

 his son William. 



But Heralds Visitations are very fallible and give no dates, 

 and from two deeds we' ascertain that the mother of William 

 was Joyce, while the following proves that Cicely Foljambe, 

 who, as is not unusual, is here called by her maiden name, had 

 a life interest in the estates, which being released from it by 

 her death, her son, John de Bradshawe, re-settled in 1408. It 

 is dated at Baudon, 6th May, 9 Henry IV., and being translated 

 reads thus : " I, John de Bradshawe, grant, etc., to Roger Leche, 

 Knt., John Stafford Armiger, John Alot Chaplain, all the lands, 

 etc., in the Ville of Bauden, which lately descended to me in 

 right of heirship after the death of Cicely Foljambe."' 



The pedigree, corrected by the light thrown on it by these 

 two muniments, would therefore probably run thus : " John de 

 Bradshawe, sen. (who may have been the son of Richard, living 



* See Note, p. 19, where it will be seen that the name is still retained. 

 t See Appendix A, pnge 50. 



