BRADSIIAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 3T 



Diiffield Hall and the road, were pulled down in 1804. A stone 

 commemorating their dedication, in a rhyming acrostic, which 

 formed his name, was in 1816 still part of a fence in the pleasure 

 grounds at the Hall. " The little monument " still stands in 

 the church.* Above it is the Hradshawe coat. " Across its 

 centre, between the inscription projier and an acrostic, are the 

 small incised effigies, half-length, of himself, his wives and chil- 

 dren, distinguished by their resj)ective initials." He created it 

 in 1600 to himself, his two wives, and twenty children, but 

 before he died, in 16 14, he had added three more children to 

 his large family. His two wives were Griselda, daughter and 

 heir of Richard Blackwall, of Blackwall, and Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Richard Haughton, one of the family of Haughton, of 

 Haughton Towers, Co. Lancaster. Several of his twenty-three 

 children settled in the neighbourhood, not only at Duffield, but 

 at Makeney, Idridgehay and Belper, and the Duffieldf regi.sters 

 record their existence during the whole of the seventeenth 

 century. His poem| of fifty-four verses on Duffield, one of 

 which is quoted in Appendix C, page 53, has been published 

 in The Reliquary. He made his will i6th Sept., ir James I. 

 It was proved at Lichfield 3rd May, 16 14. He leaves his 

 signet ring, furniture, books, and MSS. to his son Jacynth, 

 who, with his own wife Elizabeth, is his executor, legacies to 

 nephews Henry Hunlock, Francis Bradshawghe of Bradshawghe, 

 Esq., Peter Bradshawghe and Henry Bradshawgh, and to John 

 Curzon of Kedleston a ring. His children. Peregrine, Cas- 

 sandra and Penultima were minors. The other children 

 who are mentioned are: — Sons: Joseph, Exuperie, Erasmus, 

 Vicesimus, " Jackson and his wife, Dawking and his wife, Crewe 

 and his wife"; daughters: Athanasia, Mildred, Brandina, and 

 Milicent ; Overseers, H. Hunlock, Thos. Bradshawe, Hy. Brad- 

 shawe. 



L — Elizabeth, born 24th August, i533,§ married John 



* Cox's Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iii., p. 138. 



■\ Heliquary, vol. xxiii., p. 1:54. 



X Ibid., p. 6g. 



S Appendix M, p. 62. 



