34 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



Godfrey had issue by Emma, his wife : — 



I. — Francis, his son and heir. 



II. — Leonard, part proprietor of the Chinley Lands in 1568.* 



III. — Godfrey, who bought the manor of Abney in conjunc- 

 tion with his eldest brother, Oct., 1593. He married Blanche, 

 by whom he left no issue on record. She re-married Alexander 

 Glover, of Westminster, in or before i6io.t 



IV. — Peter Bradshawe, who appears by his will to have made 

 an immense fortune by trading in what were called Manchester 

 goods, taking, latterly, as partner his nephew George. | There is 

 a petition in the Calendar of State Papers, dated 2nd July, 

 i6o9,§ from Sir Peter Bradshawe and others to Lord Salisbury 

 concerning the stay in assigning an extended lease of their farm in 

 Chinley, alias Maystonfield, which they purchased ; but there 

 appears no other evidence that he was ever knighted. He|| 

 seems to have been ejected from these Chinley lands by 

 James I. in 1622, who, for a considerable sum of money, 

 granted them to two " London gentlemen." He boughtH the 

 manor of Litton, near Eyam, 1620, which was sold by his 

 descendants in 1686. 



He made his will 23rd May, 1625,** devising property in 

 Ulster in Ireland, Duffield, Bonsall, Castleton, Eerneylee, 

 Coombs, and Bentley Mills, and other estates in Derbyshire, 

 besides property in Staffordshire, Leicestershire, and London. 

 He left his personalty to his wife, Amy, sister of John Johnson, 

 and Lady Burd, and to his children, Edward, Peter, Francis, 

 Paul, Thomas, William, and Elizabeth. He died Sept., 1630.^ 

 (i) Edward, his son and heir, inherited the manor of 

 Litton, tt and although he fled from Litton when the plague 



* Archaological Journal, vol. xxi., p. 61. 



t Deed quoted, p. 38. X f'fige 43- 



§ Reliquary, vol. x., p. 107. 



II Reliquary, vol. ii., p. 146. 



\ Lyson, p. 279. 



*'' Glover's Hist, of Derbysh., vol. ii., p. 219. 



tt Edward Bradshawe, in a lease (Wolley Charters, xi., 8), in which he is 

 described as "ofGraie's Inn," in conjunction with Peter, Francis, Paul, Thomas 

 and William Bradshawe, his brothers, sons of Peter Bradshawe, deceased, 

 granted the Manor of Litton to John Bradshawe and William Ellis, of Graie's 

 ^nn, for five hundred years, at a pepper-corn rent. This is dated 24th May, 

 1640, and was no doul)t for the purpose of a settlement. 



