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of Xicliolas and Henry Bradshawe was broken into by men armed with 

 bows and other weapons. Amon<^ the rioters were members of the Kirke, 

 Bagshawe, and Shalcrosse families, and a William Bradshawe who, when 

 the occui)ants could not be found, "stretched their bows and went into 

 the Church at Tideswell before the altar of the Mass, and sought there 

 for them to the great disturbance of the people. ' 



Thomas Bradshawe* was living at Tideswell 1473. William Bradshawe,t 

 the uncle, to whom Robert Pursglove, of Tideswell, Suffragan Bishoj) 

 of Hull, owed so much, probably sprang from this branch. He was a 

 London merchant in 1509. J 



The two members of the family who fought at Agincourt (1415) — Ralph 

 Bradshawe, in the retinue of John, Lord Grey, of Codnor, and Oliver in 

 that of Philip Leche, of Chatsworth — though undoubtedly Derbyshire 

 men, cannot be identified. Nor can a positive ancestor be found for Anthony 

 Bradshaw, whose pedigree is recorded in the Visitation of London, § 

 1633, and who is there stated to have sprung from William Bradshaw, 

 of Duffield and Derby. There was, however, one Anthony Bradshaw, of 

 Duffield, son of William, and who had a brother William, of Breadsall, 

 whose will was proved at Lichfield i6th August, 1604, with whom he was 

 probably connected. He doubtless belonged to the same family as Thomas 

 Bradshaw, of Duffield, whose will was proved at Lichfield, 21st April, 15^4, 

 and must not be confused with Anthony, son of William Bradshaw-e, of 

 Bradshaw, who founded the Almshouse at Duffield, and died 1614 (page 30). 



APPENDIX D. 

 From Wolley Charters, xii., 74. 



Nicholas Dikson, parson, of Claxbe ; Henry Bagshawe, of the Ridge, 

 gent. ; Thomas Bowdon, of Bowdon, yeoman ; Robert Ridge, of the Nether 

 Cliffe, yeoman ; Robert Kyrke, of the Milneton, yeoman, testify and 

 bear witness that 2nd August, 1483, William Bradshawe, of the Brad- 

 shaw, county Derby, yeoman, said plainly on his death-bed, in his whole 

 mind and reason, and took it straightlv on his charge before the above- 

 named ; and Rohn Browne, Edward Bagshawe, gent., Oliver Kyrke, and 

 Peres Browne, yeoman, late deceased, " as he shuld on sware before 

 God at his hegh Judement when the body and the soule were departyd 

 that the hoole medowe was never of the Lyght birches Land ne was never 

 geven to John Bradshawe, his brothere, and by cause that the foresaid 

 William Bradshawe desirid and re(|uirid vs upon oure truth and in the 

 way of charitie to testifye, etc. . . . We the forsayd Nicholas, gostely, 

 father of the foresevd William Bradsliawe, have putte oure seales." 



cf. An original MS. published in Reliquary viii. 236, which gives, 

 almost verbatim, the same evidence. 



* Pym Yeatman, section. vi., p. 367. 



\ Reliquary, vol. xviii., p. 33. 



X Feudal History of Derbyshire, sec. lii., pp. 141 and 142. 



§ Harl. Society, vol. xv. 



