BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 35 



visiteiJ Eyam, following the widow of his cousin George 

 Bradshawe to the neighbourhood of Brampton, Co. York, 

 yet he died, by the irony of fate, that same year, in his 

 "City of Refuge," December, 1665. S.P* 



(2) Peter had the lease of Duffield Mill assigned to him 

 in 1632. 



(3) Francis, alive in 1638.1 



(4) Paul, concerned in the trial of the Chinley rioters, 

 inherited Bonsall Mill under his father's will. 



(5) Thomas. 1 ., , . , • r , . 1, 

 ' Mentioned m their lather s will, 



May, 1625. 



IV.— Bridget, tt 



V. — Ellen married — Ash, by whom she had i.ssue named 

 in their Cousin Francis's will, 1632.I 



(i) Francis Bradshawe, the eldest son and heir, was born 

 17th February,§ 1555-6, probably at Bradshaw. He married 

 Anne, one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Humphrey 

 Stafford, of Eyam, the last heir male of a family who had been 

 landowners in Eyam from the time of King John.|| Her father 

 being dead, she was at this time in the wardship of RoberlH Eyre, 

 of Edale, who had received her from the guardianship of George, 

 Earl of Shrewsbury. The marriage must have taken place when 

 both Francis and Anne were young children, a custom by no 

 means unusual theri. Indeed, he was little more than nine 

 years of age, for his father's covenant with Robert Eyre, dated 

 1 2th April, 1565, obliged him not only to settle on his son the 

 Bradshaw estate, but also to carry out the marriage on or before 



•Appendix Y2, p. 72. + Appendix T, p. 66. 



tt Appendix A, p. 50. tAi)pendix -S, p. 65. 



§ Appendix M, p. 62. 



II Archaological Journal, vol. xxiii., p. 83, in which the correct date 

 of the marriage, 1565, has, by a clerical error, been put ten years ton early. 

 II Appenflix I', p. 63. 



