36 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE 13RADSHAWES. 



the 7th May next. Probably the exact day was 4th May, 1565, 

 this being the date of the receipt of " three score and ten 

 pounds "' which was paid by Godfrey Bradshawe to Robert Eyre. 



In 1568, a deed was executed to enable Francis Bradshawe 

 and Anne, his wife, peaceably to enjoy a fourth part of the 

 lanfls lately the inheritance of Humphrey Stafford, and on the 

 ]oth September, 12 Elizabeth (1569), an order was made by 

 George, Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord of the Manor of Eyam, 

 binding Godfrey Bradshawe " to assure to his eldest son Francis 

 all his lands after his death to him and his heirs male," certain 

 arrangements being made with respect to the lands the latter 

 acquired with his wife. 



In 1575, a bond was signed with respect to the division of 

 the Stafford estate by John Savage, Rowland Eyre, and Row- 

 land Morewood, the respective husbands of Alice, Gertrude, and 

 Katherine, the other three daughters and co-heirs of Humphry 

 Stafford. 



There is no evidence to show what became of the two 

 children after their early marriage. It may be presumed that 

 the husband went to school, and that his wife either went back 

 to her guardian, or, more probably, lived with her husband's 

 parents. Nothing more appears with respect to their joint 

 lives until 8th January, 18 Elizabeth (1576),* when an arrange 

 ment was made by which Eyam Hall and its lands, the old 

 re.iidence of the Stafforda, was settled upon the young couple 

 and their eldest ron, and as in the original deed, the place for 

 the Christian name of their son and heir is left blank, it may 

 be presumed either that he was not as yet born, or — -and this 

 is perhaps the more probable explanation^ — that he had not 

 been at that time baptized. Eyam Hall thus became the resi- 

 dence of Francis Bradshawe and his wife. 



As regards the right which his wife had in the manor of 

 Rowland, in Great Longstone, Francis Bradshawe received, on 

 19th April, 1578,1 ;£6o from Rowland Eyre, to whom John 



* Appendix Q, page 64. 



\ Reliqiiarv, vol. x., p. 236. 



