BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 37 



Manners, whu seems to have had the duty of dividing the 

 estates of Humphrey Stafford, had apportioned that manor as 

 part of the share of his wife Gertrude. 



In conjunction with his brother, Godfrey Bradshawe, Francis, 

 in October, 1593, bought the manor and township of Abney, in 

 the parish of Hope, which joined his wifes estates. The deed 

 of conveyance is dated i6th October, 35 Queen EUzabeth, and 

 made between Nicholas Bagshawe, of Farewell, Co. Stafford, 

 of the one part, and Godfrey Bradshawe, of London, and Francis 

 Bradshawe, of Eyam, of the other part. Among the witnesses 

 are the names of Peter and Anthony Bradshawe, William 

 Simpson, and George and Rowland Eyre. Under date 28th 

 June, 1604, there is an item of receipt, called a pardon, for the 

 subsidies collected for James I. paid by Francis Bradshawe, 

 of Eyam." The fine on inheriting the estates at his father's 

 death is dated 5 James I., 1607. 



In 16 10,* he was engaged with the settlements on the marriage 

 of his eldest son and heir to Barbara, daughter of Sir John 

 Davenport, of Davenport, Co. Chester. After this date history 

 is curiously silent with respect to his life in consequence of 

 the non-existence of any original deeds or MSS. between 16 10 

 and 1619. Even the approximate date of his death cannot be 

 ascertained, and he appears to have died intestate, as there 

 are no signs of a will in any of the possible Probate Courts. 

 He probably died at Eyamt where he had lived. + He left issue 

 by Anne Stafford, his wife, who was dead in 1606: — I 



I. — Francis, eldest son and heir. 



II. — Humphry, named in his brothers deed of entail, 161 9, 

 probably dead before 1635. S.P. 



III. — Godfrey, probably dead in 1619, had a daughter and 

 heir, Frances, § who married Samuel Orton, of London, gentle- 

 man, and was found in the Inq. p.m. of her uncle Francis to 

 be his legal heir. 



IV. — George, eventual heir to his brother Francis. 



*\Volley Charters, xii., 87 and 89. 



t The earliest entry in the Eyam Registers is that of the death of Robert 

 Tallxjt, Rector, 20 Aiigt, 1630. 



J Appendix O, p. 63. § Appendix T, p. 66. 



