BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 23 



" Juhn Bradshawe," as the owner uf Lightbyrches, appear in the 

 list of those who paid rent tu the king in the Duchy Rental of 

 10 Edward IV., 1471.* 



The writer has assumed that he who as William Bradshawe, 

 of Bradshawe, executed the leases of the Turncroft, Broad- 

 marshes, and Holle Medow is identical with William, the son of 

 John de Bradshawe, jun., upon whom the Turncroft was settled 

 in 1398. If this be so, and no other suggestion seems possible, 

 he must have been very young when the settlement was made. 

 But a post-nuptial settlement to guard the interests of the eldest 

 son was not uncommon. He is most certainly identical with 

 the William upon whom the estates of Bradshaw and the Turn- 

 croft were entailed in 14^9, because he alludes in the 

 depositions taken on his deathbed to the Light Byrch estates 

 as belonging to his brother John. He must, therefore, have been 

 very old when he died, in 1483 — too old to have been worried 

 with the controversy which arose as to the ownership of the 

 HoUemedow. 



This land (of which Perts Acre, settled in 1332, was at this 

 time doubtless a portion, unless it be identical with Light Byrch), 

 had some association with the Light Byrch estate, which had 

 been entailed by John Bradshawe in 1429 on his second son, 

 John, who sold it, probably after 1471, to Reynold Legh, of 

 B]ackbroke,t in Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Leonard now wrongfully 

 claimed the HoUemedow as part of the estate which he had 

 bought. 



The dispute, which lasted for more than seventeen years, 

 involved much trouble and expense before it was finally settled 

 in favour of the Bradshawes in 1500. 



The first step, of which there is any evidence, was taken on 

 2nd August, 1483, when Nicholas Dickson, jjarson of Claxbe, 

 Co. Leicester, took the depositions of William Bradshawe, of 

 " the Bradshaw,' on his deathbed, tu the effect that the Hoole 

 Medow had never been part of the Light Birch estate, and had 



* Feudal Hist, of Derbyshire, sec. vi., p. 374. 



t About the middle of the sixteenth century, Lightljyrch belonge<l to 

 the family of Mosley, and descen<led to Sir Oswald Moslev, who built 

 " Mosley Hall " upon it, after which it was sold to Mr. Gisbornc! Rcliquiry, 

 vol. viii., p. 233. 



