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appeared before them at Ashbourne, and had promised to abide 

 by their decision ; that they had, after hearing all the evidence, 

 decided in favour of Henry Bradshawe, who had appeared 

 before them and abided the result, but that Reynold Legh had 

 refused to again appear as soon as he had heard the nature 

 of the evidence. 



The result of the trial was a bond, dated 2nd March, 

 1500,* in which Reynold Legh was bound over in ;^2o to respect 

 their decision. Henry Bradshawe^ — who was now left in peace- 

 ful possession of the Hoole Meadow — had succeeded his father 

 in the Bradshaw estates on his death in 1483. As we have seen, 

 a lease of those lands had been granted to him in his father's 

 lifetime. In 1484,! a power of attorney was granted to him 

 and Oliver Kyrke to deliver seisin of lands in Le Gyves alias 

 Hordron^ in Bowden. William Bradshawe, of Coombs, is one 

 of the witnesses. 



On 20th September, 8 Henry VHI. (1516), Henry Bradshawe 

 was a paity to a deed of settlement of lands lying in Trumflete, 

 Co. York, on the issue of Edward Knottesfurd and Alice Brad- 

 shaw, but there is nothing to show whether or not Alice was 

 his daughter. Her husband probably belonged to the Knottes- 

 fordes of Knottesford (Knutsford), co. Chester, a member of 

 which family,§ Ellen, daur. and co-heir of Roger Knottesford, 

 married as his 2nd wife Roger Jodrell of Yeardsley, co. Chester, 

 a near neighbour of the Bradshawes, who died Feb. 1548. 

 In 1519,11 17th April, a power of attorney was granted to 

 Nicholas Bradshawe, of Chapelle-in-le-Frith ; Robt. Gee, of 

 Lydeygate ;^ and Walter Marchington, to receive seisin of 

 lands which they held of Henry Bradshawe, of Bradshawe, in 

 Bowden. His will, which was made 2nd March, 1521,** and 

 proved April 30th, 1523, in the peculiar Court of Bakewell, left 

 the estates to his sons William and Henry in trust for Richard 



•Wolley, xii., 53. 

 t Wolley, iii., zt,. 



X A. S. heorder—a. keeping. Hence both words bear ihe same meaning, 

 viz., a fold. 



§ Karw;iker's East Cheshire, vol. ii., ]). 534. 



II Wollev, .\ii., 6g. 



t Now Ly.lgate. 



*■* Ajipendix G, page 58. 



