BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 45 



Glossop Folowe Hucklowe and Chinley and elsewhere in the 

 County of Derl>y especially naming ' the Messuage or chief 

 Mansion House at Eyam wherein the said George now dwelleth ' 

 in trust for his wife during her life and afterwards for the use 

 of Francis Bradshawe his son and heire.' 



In his will, made 17th June, 1646,* proved by his widow in 

 London, 21st November, 1646,* he leaves certain lands and 

 tenements to Peter, his second son, with remainder to " Francke 

 Bradshawe, his son and heir." To the said Francis Brad- 

 shawe he bequeaths " all the reste and residue of his mannors 

 mansion houses capital messuages farmes tenements cottages 

 milne lands etc. within the Realme of England," and he is to 

 pay, subject to the settlements made upon his mother, the 

 portions bequeathed to his father's " younger children, Peter, 

 Anne, Mary, and Elizabeth, which portions are to be increased 

 at the death of Lettice, now wife of John Pate, Esq." 



To Francis he specially bequeaths " his silver Bason and Ure 

 and his two silver Flaggons,t saving that Elizabeth wife of the 

 testator is to have the use of them at his Mansion house at 

 Eyam during her natural life." To her he leaves his dozen 

 silver plates. To his sister, Lucy Cresswell, ^5, and to each 

 of his servants 15s. His wife and eldest son are appointed 

 executors and residuary legatees. He names as his overseers 

 " My noble friend and father-in-law ^ Michael Joanes of Lincoln's 

 Inn Esqr. and my loving cousins Henry Bradshawe the younger 

 and John Bradshawe Esqr. of Grayes Inn his brother." 

 Thos. Bray and Nicholas Cresswell witness his signature. 

 The will is endorsed with an acquittance by John Garland to 

 John Bradshawe, Esq., for ^300, bequeathed to his wife Mary, 

 daughter of the testator. 



He died soon after the will was made, and was buried at 

 Eyam,§ probably in the chapel of St. Helen, the burial-place of 

 his Stafford ancestors, on 25th June, 1646. 

 . By Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Hugh Cullum, who 



* Wolley Charters, xii., 91. 



t These nre also specially mentioned in Francis' will, Dec, 1659. 



X This suggests that Lady Culiiam had remarried. § Registers. 



