54 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



William Bradshawe,* of Chesterfield, was living from 1443 to 1461. In 

 1 50 1, Williamt Bradshaw, of Wadchelf, was appointed attorney concerning 

 lands in Brampton. Godfreyi owned land at Brampton 1523-4; and 

 either he or another Godfrey§ Bradshawe was possessed of land at 

 Wadshelf, 1570. The will of John Bradshaw, of Brampton, was proved 

 at Lichfield 1595-6. 



Georgell Bradshaw held land in Brampton, 1598, and in 1624 he paid 

 2s. 6d. for his lands in Walton-by-Brampton,1f when the Prince of 

 Wales was knighted in 1609. 



From 1600 to 1621 Edward Bradshawe was living at Wingerworth, 

 near Chesterfield. 



BRADSHAWS OF WIRKSWORTH. 



The Bradshawes were also settled in the parish of Wirksworth as early 

 certainly as 1556, the date when the will of Robert and Ellen Bradshaw, 

 of Iilrigehay, in parish of Wirksworth, was ])roved at Lichfield. They 

 were possibly descended either from the Chesterfield or the Windley branch, 

 or more probably from those of Alderwasley. Thomas Bradshawe, of 

 Wirksworth,** in his will, proved Oct. 24th, 1615, desires to be buried in 

 the churchyard at Wirksworth, " near my ancestors." He gives to Anthony 

 Bradshawe, sen., such money as he hath in his hands and which are in 

 his house at Wirksworth ; Anthony, son of his brother Richard, Arthur 

 and Edward Bradshawe, and the poor of Alderwasley have legacies. One 

 Anthony Bradshawe, of Wirksworth, died 1608, when his will was proved 

 at Lichfield. tt 



Thomas Bradshawe, whose will was proved Feb. 16th, 1617, leaves 

 a legacy to mend the roads, residue to Dorothy, his wife, and is to be 

 buried in the churchyard " on the south side of the chancel, where divers 

 of my kindred lye." 



Thomas BradshaweJt was churchwarden of Wirksworth, 1662, and his 

 initials are engraved on the font in the south transept. 



BRADSHAWS OF TIDESWELL. 



Descended without doubt from the Bradshawes of Bradshaw, which 



is not ten miles from Tideswell, a branch was settled here in the reign 



of Henry VL, in the twelfth year of whose reign (1433) William§§ and 



Nicholas were returned among the principal gentry. In 1442 1|[| the house 



* Pym Yeatman, section vi., j). 316. 



t W alley Charters, iii. 66. 



i Pym Yeatman, sec. vi., p. 30. 



§ Sec. iii., p. 2H. 



II Sec. vi., p. 31. 



*ilbid., p. 62. 



** Sec. iii., pp. 457 to 464. 



■H- Lichfield Probate Court. 



X% Cox's Churches, vol. ii., ]>. 552. 



§§ Glover's History of Derbyshire, vol. i., Apj)endi.\, p. 60. 



II ll Pym Yeatman, sec. vi., p. 344. 



