48 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



marriage is the first entry on that page of the registers, in the 

 middle of which begins the pitiful proof of the destniction it 

 wrought. Her experience of married life was but short, for she 

 died the following January.* 



Tradition relates that on the first appearance of the plague 

 in Eyam Mrs. Bradshawe, with Mary, her only svirviving child, 

 fled from the village. Nor is this improbable, though there is 

 no absolute proof beyond the fact that she lies buried in 

 Treeton church, having died 9th November, 1677.! In any 

 ca.se, she would most naturally have been with her daughter 

 Anne at the rectory in January, 1666,* when her first child was 

 born, and which event ended so pathetically and so fatally. 

 Imagination easily fills in the last ten years of her life; that, 

 when she had seen her eldest daughter laid to re.st in Treeton 

 church, she lived on at the rectory with her widowed son-in-law 

 until his re-marriage, | and that then she was unwilling to 

 return, a solitary old woman, to the home at Eyam, which from 

 that time, like the hall at Bradshaw, was forsaken by its 

 owners. She probably from henceforth made her home at 

 Brampton, and having seen her youngest and only surviving 

 daughter, Mary, married, interested herself in the bringing u]) 

 of her three grandchildren until her death, which occurred only 

 seven weeks before that of her eldest grandson, Francis 

 Bradshawe, on whose death, in December, 1677, the estates 

 devolved on John Bradshawe, his only brother and heir. In 

 April, 1683, John Bradshawe held the Great Court Baron of 

 the Manor of Abney, and a year later he bought more land 

 in the county of Derby, at Great Hucklow, which is two miles 



* Appendix Y, I, p. 72. 



t Appendix Y, 3, p. 72. 



J He left at his death, 27th Dec, 1680, a wife and seven children. 

 Overtaken by a storm at Brassington, co. Derby, he perished, and was 

 buried there, and the curious inscription on a brass tablet to his memory 

 in that church has been recorded by Dr. Cox in his Derbyshire Churches, 

 vol. ii., ]i. 445. 



