BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 43 



heir at his inquisition* post mortem, though, considering that 

 her uncle George succeeded to the real property and divided 

 the residue with the widow, it is doubtful whether she profited 

 much by her legal position. 



An inventory! of the contents of Bradshaw Hall was taken 

 after his death, on the 30th March and 3rd of September, 1635. 

 His widow appears to have lived on there till 1637-8, j but soon 

 after that date she married as her third husband Sir John 

 Pate, of Sisonby, Co. Leicester, who was created a baronet 

 1643, '1''"-^ ^^^^ ^652,§ aged 67, leaving two daughters his 

 co-heirs. Bradshaw was never again occupied by its owners, 

 and appears to have been let as early as 1637, for on 15th 

 October in that year the registers state that " Lettice Wigstone 

 daughter of Mr. Thomas Wigstone of the Bradshawe was 

 baptized." He, probably, was related to Mrs. Bradshawe, but 

 in 1640 Nicholas Lomas died there, who must have been a 

 tenant. 



IV. — George Bradshawe, the fourth son of Francis Bradshawe 

 and Anne Stafford, succeeded to the estates on the death of his 

 brother, Francis Bradshawe. || He was born 7th August, 1587,11 

 probably at Eyam. From ist January, 1620, to ist January, 

 1627,** he was in partnership with his uncle, Peter Bradshawe, 

 merchant in cloth, and other " Manchester goods.' Their ware- 

 house was in St. Augustine's, in London. During that time, 

 however, he was constantly engaged in personally managing the 

 estates which his uncle had bought in Ulster, in Ireland. He 

 also made two journeys thither in 1628 and 1629, after the 

 termination of the partnership, besides one in the interests 

 of the widow after his uncle's death, which occurred in 

 September, 1630. While in Ireland he evidently met and 

 married his wife, who is described in the "Visitation 

 of Derbyshire,!! 1634 (which is signed by himself, for 



* Appendi.x T, p. 66. f Appendix U, p. 66. % Appernlix T, p. 66. 

 § Nicholls' History of Leicestershire, vol. ii., pt. i, p. 823. 

 II Appendix X, p. 71. 

 IT Bible belonjjing to Geor^'e Bradshawe, destroyed in the fire of Dec, 



1901. 

 ** Appendix \V, p. 71. tt Appendix V, p. 71. 



