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Bruckshaw, who died about 1547,* leaving two daughters, his 

 co-heirs, (1) Alice, married John Passey, of Torksay, Co. 

 Lincoln, who died 1554 ;t (2) Grace, married Hugh Cartwright, 

 of East Retford, Co. Notts. 



IV. — Anne, mentioned only in the visitations. 



I. — Richard Bradshawe, the son of John, succeeded as a minor 

 to the Bradshaw estates on the death of his grandfather in 

 1523. He attained his majority probably about 15th February, 

 1534, the date of a monetary transaction between him and 

 his uncle, William Bradshawe, of Marple. In this document he 

 is described as " Richard Bradshawe, of Bradshaw." The 

 following year, in an acknowledgment of the payment to him 

 of certain money by his uncles William and Henry, as his 

 grandfather's executors, he styles himself " Richard, son and 

 heir of John Bradshawe deceased.' This is dated at Marple 

 27th June, 27 Henr}- VIII. During his minority, Bradshaw 

 Hall had been in the occui)ation of his uncle, Henr}- Bradshawe, 

 to whom, in 1537, as mentioned above, he granted a lease 

 of the Turncroft Iand.s. It seems questionable, however, 

 whether Henry did not still continue to make Bradshaw his 

 home for some time afterwards; while his nejjhew may have 

 been living either with him or with his uncle William at Mar[)le, 

 which is about eight miles away. The alternative that Richard 

 was living alone at the Hail forces on us the question why 

 in that case should William Bradshawe, living at Marple, 

 have become, in 1533, the les.see of Bradshaw Hall? This 

 latter fact is gathered from an indenture^ dated joth April, 

 ;^^ Henry VIII. (1541), which quotes a former lease executed 

 {2^ Henry VIII.) by his nephew, granting to him for thirty- 

 one years Bradshaw Hall and lands, then in the occupation of 

 Henry Bradshawe and Elizabeth, his wife, with the power of 

 re-entry after a year's notice. This power is now exercised 

 and a new arrangement is made by which the uncle has a twenty- 

 one years' lease, with the reservation to the nephew of half the 



* Pages 28 and 29. 



+ Deed of Release from his widow to Wm. Bradshawe. 



*Api)endix H, i>;ij^e 59. 



