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bought frum the widow of his late uncle Godfrey and her second 

 husband, and was that portion of the manor of Abney which had 

 Ijelonged to his uncle, and which had been settled by the latter 

 on his wife Blanche and their heirs male on the 20th August, 

 3 James I. (1606). 



In an indenture* dated 30th September, 8 James I. (1610), 

 " Francis Bradshawe senr of Eyam Co. Derby in consideration 

 of a marriage between Francis Bradshawe junr his son and heir 

 to Barbara Davenport daughter of John Davenport of Daven- 

 port Co. Chester Esqr agrees to enfeof Sr Richard Wilbraham 

 of Woodye Co. Chester Knt and the said John in lands in 

 Abney Hope Eyam Foolowe and elsewhere in Co. Derby 

 together with the mansion house of Bradshawe and lands in 

 Chapel-in-le-Frith and Bowden." This marriage probably took 

 place on that day, or certainly on or before loth October fol- 

 lowing, which is the date of a leaset for 40 years of the manor 

 of Abney at the rent of a peppercorn, granted by Francis 

 Bradshawe, junr., of Eyam, Co. Derby, to his father, Francis 

 Bradshawe, sen., of the same place, in fulfilment of an agreement 

 made previously to his marriage with Barbara his wife. On the 

 loth June, 1619,! he executed a deed of entail of his 

 various estates on his brother and other relations. This same 

 date, namely, 1619, is carved under his own and his wife's 

 initials on a stone which was found many years ago under the 

 stairs at Bradshaw, and probably either formed part of an 

 old* archway now demolished, which, says tradition, used to be 

 the entrance into the terraced gardens below the hall, or, as 

 is suggested on page 7, was over the original porch entrance. 

 The date is probably that of the completion of the hall, which 

 he must have been for some time engaged in rebuilding, but of 

 which there is no documentary proof. The place which gave 

 him and his wife shelter during the process is a matter for 

 speculation. The old hall at Eyam may very probably have 

 been their home at that time, and this, too, during his father's 



*Wolley Charters, xii. 87. 

 t WoUey Charters, xii. 8g. 

 X Appendix R, p. 64. 



