44 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



his brother, who was then probably on his deathbed), as 

 being Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Culham, of Ireland. 

 In his Bible, till lately in the possession of the writer, the date 

 of his birth was followed by these words : " I did marrie ray 

 wyfe y« 12''' daie of Marche 1626." The baptism of his 

 eldest son is recorded in the registers of Chapel-en-le-Frith, 

 on joth February, 1630, as "Francis the son of George Brad- 

 shawe gent, and his wife of the forde, born the 17th day of 

 Feby." It must be assumed, therefore, that either he and his 

 wife were staying with his brother-in-law, Nicholas Cresswell, the 

 owner of Ford Hall, or that the Hall had been lent or let to 

 them for that special event. I'here api)ears no actual proof 

 that he had any settled home until after his brother's death, 

 1635, but as his daughter Mary was buried at Eyam, 1633,* it 

 is more than probable that he then had already taken up his 

 abode in the old hall of his mother's family, where his father 

 had lived, where he was probably born, and where he most 

 certainly eventually lived and died. It is not at all improbable, 

 as before suggested, t that about the year 1630 Eyam Old Hall 

 was being rebuilt, which would be during the period he was 

 living at P'ord Hall, as there are proofs that tradition is correct 

 in its statement that the old Hall of the Staffords was pulled 

 down and rebuilt by a member of the Bradshawe family. 



On the nth July, 12 Charles I. (1636), he executed deeds of 

 settlement of the Abney and other estates. Among the parties 

 to the settlements are " Henry Bradshawe the younger, son and 

 heir-apparent of Henry Bradshawe the elder of Marple, and 

 John Bradshawe, the younger brother of the said Henry, and 

 Philip Cullum of London, Merchant Tailor." Of these, as 

 before remarked, John Bradshawe became the notorious Presi- 

 dent of the High Court which sent King Charles to the scaffold. 

 His well-known neat signature taken from this deed is placed 

 beneath his portrait, which appears as the frontispiece to this 

 volume. Philip Cullum was probably his wife's brother. In 

 a deed dated 16th June, 16 Charles I. (1640), he settled on 

 his nephew, John Stephenson, " all his lands in Hope Eyam 



* Registers. t Page 41. 



