30 BRADSHAW HALL y\ND THE BRADSHAWES. 



to death King Charles I. John Bradshawe died 31st 

 Octnl)er, 1659, S.P., and was buried with great pomp in 

 Westminster Abbey. "■■ His iiody was, however, on 31st 

 January, r66i, exhumed with those of Cromwell and 

 Ireton. and all three were hung and buried at T\liurn. 

 III. — Francis, t born 14th June, 1543. Ha<l children living 

 1625. 



IV. — Anthonv Bradshawe, bom 3rd February, 1545,! at 

 Bradshaw, of the Inner Temple and of Farley's Hall, in Duffield, 

 owned the Dufifield Mill,| which he held under the Duchy of 

 Lancashire, as well as other lands in Duffielil and Holbrook. 

 Certain land J? in Crych, called Eariowcote, was granted by 

 "William Butler to Anthony i^radshaugh, of Duffield, and 

 another on ist April, 1604." He was the author of various 

 MSS., a portion of which was ])rinted by the Rev. Charles 

 Kerry in The Rcliqiiarx.\\ He and a friend paid a visit to his 

 brother Godfrey at Bradshaw Hall, in May 1603.II He was a 

 great benefactor to Duffield, where he founded an alms-house. 

 To quote his own words, " Being in** 38 Elizabeth's reign by 

 the Honble. Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, her Mat^ High Stew'^ 

 of the Honour of Tutbury, charged trusted and deputed to be 

 understeward there, and also having spent above 30 years 

 time partly in the Inner Temple and pardy in the C of the 

 Com. Pleas at Westminster, where I also practised above 30 

 years as attorney ... for the better instructing of my sons 

 and clerks which I employed under me in that office, I col- 

 lected certain little books . . . concerning my service doing 

 in the said courts. I have often meant, and in my little 

 monument standing in the church of Duffield do shew, that I 

 would provide for harbouring of four poor persons to continue 

 in," etc., etc. 



The alms-houses, which stood in the Town Street between 



* See Frontispiece. Of him Milton, in Def. Sec. pro Pop. Ang., p. 106, 

 says, "Johannes Bradscianus, nobili familia, ut satis notum est ortus." 

 t Appendix M, p. 62. 



JWoUey Charters, iv.., 56. § Vol. xxiii., p. 137. 



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** Reliquary, vol. xxiii., p. 137. 



