BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 2 1 



in 1332), had issue by Cicely Foljambe, his wife, John de 

 Bradshawe, jun., whose wife's name was Joyce, and in 1408, 

 his father and mother being both dead, John de Bradshawe, 

 jun., was in possession of the estates. ' 



For twenty years, however, nothing can be discovered which 

 relates either to him or to the estate; but in the year 14^9 

 there is reference made to both. In a deed of 1429 occurs the 

 first mention of Bradshaw as a place name. It is a conveyance 

 by John de Bradshawe, of Bradshawe, to William Bradshawe, for 

 trust purposes, of land cal]ed Bradmersh.* In the same year 

 he executed two entail deeds. Both are dated " at Bradshawe, 

 on the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, 8 Henry vj "' (1429). 

 In one were settled " two messuages of 40 acres 

 of land lying in Bradshawe and Turncroft, in the 

 township of Bowden," to the use of William, his eldest son, 

 and his heirs male (subject to his own life interest), and in default 

 for the use of his three other sons, John, Robert, and Henry, 

 successively in tail male. In the other deed a settlement is 

 made on himself for life and then on his sons, John, Robert, 

 and Henry, in tail male, of one messuage and 43 acres of 

 land lying at Lightbyrches. 



From these deeds, the sole available sources of information 

 as regards both John de Bradshawe and his family, we can 

 only ascertain the names of his sons, whom he had, presumedly, 

 by Joyce his wife, and of these : 



I. — William, who succeeded to the Bradshaw estate. 

 II. — John, who succeeded to the Lightbyrch estate, which 

 he sold to Reynold Legh, of Blackbroke.f He and 

 his son John were living at Lichfield in 1497. 

 III. — Robert, most probably the father of Hugh Brad- 

 shawe, of Moorebarn,! Co. Leicester, called as a 

 witness in the Hollow Meadow case in 1497. Hugh 

 is the first in the visitation of that county, 16 19, 

 and was the father of two sons, John and Robert, 



* This land, still a portion of Bnidshaw, retains both the name and 

 character of the Broadmarshes, and skirts the main road not far from the 

 jiresent Chapel-en-le-Frith Union. 



t See Appendices B and E, pages 50, 56. Blackbrook is at Chapel-en- 

 le-Frith. 



+ Appendix E, p. 56. 



