22 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



both of which names, it is to be noticed, frequently 

 occur in the Leicestershire pedigree. 

 IV. — Henry, most probably the ancestor of the Bradshawes 

 of Wyndley,* near Duffield, from whom doubtless 

 descended, later on, the Bradshaws of Barton 

 Blount.t 

 I. — ^William the eldest son, succeeded to the Bradshaw estate 

 under the entail of 1429, and is described as "William Brad- 

 shawe, of Bradshawe,' in four leases, three of which were granted 

 to Roger Cooper, tailor. The first is^dated 5th July, 1444, and is 

 a lease of "The Bradmersh Lands,'' settled in 1429, which are 

 here described as being in the township of Bouden. 



The second, dated 25th March, 1457, is a lease of the same 

 lands for twenty years subject to the annuity settled on Joyce, 

 mother to the said William. 



The third, dated 2nd March, 1458, is a lease of 

 lands called " Holyhmedo," without doubt identical with the 

 Hollow Meadow of to-day, the Holumedue settled by the deed 

 of 1332, and the HoUe Medow, the ownership of which, twenty- 

 five years later, was destined to produce so much controversy. 



The fourth, granted 4th October, 1458, to William Redfern 

 and Emmot [Emma], his wife, is a lease for ten years of " the 

 Turncroft " (which had been settled in 1398 and again in 1429), 

 " by Joyce Bradshawe, widow, and William Bradshawe, her son, 

 of which one quarter of the rent was to be paid to the former 

 during her life, and afterwards to revert with the other three- 

 quarters to William." 



Twenty years later, namely, on 25th March, 1478, William 

 Bradshawe executed a lease for ten years in fa\our of his son 

 " Harry." The substance of this lease, which appeared in full 

 in last year's Journal (vol. xxiv., p. 40), makes it evident that he 

 intended it to take the place of a will. It provides, after his 

 death, for the maintenance of his wife, Elizabeth,! daughter 

 of Edward Kyrke, of Whitehough, in Chapel-en-le-Frith — but 

 for no other child than his son and heir. Both his name, as 

 " William, the son of John Bradshawe, " and that of his brother, 



* Appendix C, pnge 51. 



t Glover's Derbyshire, II., ]). go. 



% Reliquary, viii., p. 238. 



