BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 29 



}5ra(lsha\ve's brother-in-law, whose representatives in 1547 were 

 " John Passey, of Torksay, Co. Lincoln, and Alice, his wife, and 

 Hugh Cartwright, of East Retford, and Grace, his wife, daughters 

 and co-heirs of John Bruckshaw (previously mentioned), of East 

 Retford, Co. Notts., deceased." Thesi^ lands William Bradshawe 

 purchased in 1548. In 1561, he leased* a portion of them to 

 Edmond Eyre, of Lyttle Hodsock, Co. Notts., reserving to 

 himself " one honest chamber in the same messuage or house 

 to lye in or to laye in corne or other things." He married 

 Margaret,! daughter of Christopher Clayton, of Strindes Hall, 

 near Marple, Co. Chester. 

 He had issue : — 

 I. — Godfrey, his son and heir. 



n. — Henry, of Marple Hall, Co. Chester,^ born 6th Sep- 

 tember, 1535. He probably succeeded his father as tenant of 

 Marple,§ which estate he purchased from Sir Edward Stanley, 

 4th July, i6o6. His name was inserted in his brother Godfrey's 

 entail deed of 1570. He was buried at Stockport, 17th January, 

 1619-20, leaving, by Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of George 

 Bagshawe, of the Ridge, Co. Derby, a son and heir, Henry, 

 named in the deeds as Henry Bradshawe, the elder, who was 

 buried at Stockport 3rd August, 1654, leaving issue by 

 Catherine, daughter and heir of Ralph Winnington, of Ofiferton, 

 whom he married at Stockport 4th February, 1593-4. 



(i) Henry Bradshawe, of Marple and Wibersley, Co. 

 Chester, named in the deeds as " the younger," from whom 

 descended ihe Bradshawes of Marple Hall, now repre- 

 sented by the Bradshaw-Isherwoods. 



(2) John Bradshawe, bapt. at Stockport loth December, 

 1 602,11 M.P. for Co. Chester, better known as the President 

 of the High Court of Justice which tried and sentenced 



* Wolley Charters, xii., 47. 



•\ Keliquary, vol. ii., p. 224. 



t Appendix M, p. 62. 



§ Earwaker's Ec7st Cheshire, vol. ii., p. 65. 



'I The entry in the Register is : " December : 1602. John sonne of 

 Henrye Bradshaw of Mar]>le baptized the : loth Traitor " ; the last word 

 having been added by some loyalist, probablv after the Restoration. 



