BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 33 



A year later, namely, in 1569, a great trouble arose about the 

 enclosure of the Chinley lands, and serious riots took place 

 there. Godfrey was very roughly handled, and was forced to 

 take proceedings against various ])ersons for breaches of the 

 peace. An account of the examination held prior to the trial,* 

 which took place in the Court of the Star Chamber, was 

 transcribed by the writer of this article for the Journal 

 in iSgg.f There are in existence several leases of the 

 Chinley lands granted by Godfrey, of which one, dated 

 February, 1580, is a lease of lands in Chinley to Sir Edward 

 Trafford, of Trafford. A special grantj of the Chinley estate 

 was made by Godfrey shortly before his death to Francis, his son 

 and heir, dated i8th December, 1606. On the loth April, 1570, 

 Godfrey executed a deed of entail of Bradshaw on himself for 

 life, with remainder to Francis, his eldest son, and then to 

 Leonard, Godfrey, Peter, and Henry, his other four sons, in tail 

 male, in default to his three brothers, Henry, of Marple, Francis, 

 and Anthony, and their issue male, with remainder to his uncle, 

 Henry Bradshawe.§ His nephews, Edward Bradshawe and John 

 Bradshawe, are the " lawful attorneys." In a list of the principal 

 landowners in the Hundred of the High Peak in i57o,|| appear 

 the name of Godfrey Bradshawe, of Bradshawe, and that of 

 his wife's brother, Leonard Shalcrosse, of Shallcross. On the 

 24th April, 1584, "one close called the waste parte of the 

 Bradmarshe of the demenes of Bradshawe was granted to 

 Anthony Barber by Godfrey and Francis, his son and heir."' 



Godfrey Bradshawe must have died early in the year 1607, 

 for on 22nd April in that year letters of administration^ were 

 granted by the official of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield in 

 the peculiar jurisdiction of Bakewell to Ottiwell Meller, of 

 Tideswell, at the solicitation of Emote Bradshawe, widow of 

 Godfrey Bradshawe, of Bradshawe, in Chapel-en-le-Frith, to 

 the goods of the said Godfrey. 



*Star Chamber Bills, 1569. tVol. xxi., p. 61. 



t Appendix O, p. 63. § See page 64 note. 



ll Reliquary, vnl. viii., p. 1S9. ^Wnlley Charters, xii., 75. 



