BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 53 



o .he Ark 'p ?'""?' "^""' "' ^'^ ^'"-"'^ C^"^^^' ^'^'l 'he custody 



Knne ,ei of l;;""'' '"""''• ''■^" '^^'•^^"•'>' ^'-S^ter of Thomas 

 Kinnersle., of Loxley, county Stafford, he left, besides a daughter 

 Anne^ who married John Fowke, of Gunston, countv Stafford a son and 

 he.r, Henry, who died, 4 Edward VI. (,550), leaving bv his wift, E eTnor 

 the daughter of R:chard Curzon, of Kedleston, countv Derby, b" hi 



r "t"'.f"^^'" °^ """"^'^^ P°l^' °f Raciburn,-a son and hei 



Gern^an B.,dshawe, an idiot, who died ,, Elizabeth (.sg,). The ^.H "i 



It is worthy of notice that the Christian names most frequentlv occur 

 nng are Henry, Robert, and John, the names of three o th 'sons of 

 John Bra.is^hawe of Bradshaw, ,,., (page 31), whose w.fe, Jove" mn 



tTe w!:r ' t 'r '^^" ''.^ '^^"^"^ °^ ''^^ l---'^"^' 'h-ugh «h^ 

 tiie Uyndley estate was acquired. 



The Bradshawes, of Wyndley, were Foresters of Fee in Duffiekl Frith 



o? J 1 Bra^ h'" '"'Tl 't"" ""''■ «^"^>- ^'"•^" ■-•'""^ ^'^ 

 ot John Bradshawe and the heirs of Brukeshaw. This fact is stated 



jn^Uie fourteenth verse of a wonderful ,oem by Anthony Bradshawe of 



•• This fforest hath fforesters of fee wch p'tly hold their land 

 By svrices there in to do, as I do understand ; 



There names be Bradborne, Bradshaw, Bruckshaw, and the heirs 

 of stone, 



All which at fforest corts must be with others many a one."1[ 



BRADSHAWS OF CHESTERFIELD. 

 In the Chesterfield district, the Bradshawes were settled as earlv as .he 

 reign of Edward I.,- when Alexander de Bradshawe was li'ving at 

 Chesterfield. ^ 



John Bradshawett witnessed a Chesterfield charter, 6 Henrv IV Five 

 years later, Thomas de BradshavveJJ and William Bradshawe were sum- 

 moned to a great Court Leet held at Walton, on the Mondav after Uie 

 1- east of S t. Barnabas, n Henry IV. (1410). 



* Wolley Charters, iii., 95. 



A Shropshire Archxol. Jour., vol. vi., pt i p 6 

 ^^^^■^^^J^:^^- ^" ^'^ "■■" I'--^ =>' Lichfield 15^0 he is 



§ Collins' Peerage, vol. vii., ji. 29-. 



WReliquary, vol. xi., p. 194 



J.!'^l^" ''■ ^°- ^'' '''" '^'' I'-'l'" "" "Dufiield Forest- in this 



** Feudal History, by Pvm Yeatman. sec. iii o 241 

 Tt Sec. VI., p. 16. ' 1 • t • 



tllbid., pp. 57 and 58. 



