56 BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 



APPENDIX K. 



Vrom the original in the writer's possession. 

 " To all true Christen people that this present writing schall so rede 

 or here Robert Worth Baile of Criche in the Counte of Derby gentleman 

 Thomas Awbv of Kings Bromley in the County of Stailoide yoman Hugh 

 Bradshawe of the Morebarne in the Counte of Leycestre yoman and 

 John Bradshawe the younger of Lychfeld in the Counte of Stafforde 

 yoman send greting in oure lord evrlastyng for as moche as it is meritore 

 and nedfuU to eny true Christen man to testifie and bere record in eny 

 mater of trouth and in especially touching man's inheritance. 



" We therefore the said Robert Thomas Hugh and John of our owne 

 feightfull and true mynd with oute mede labor or corupcion testefye and 

 beyre wytness that the vjth day of M'che the xiijth yere of the Reign 

 of oure Sovergne lord Kyng Henry the viith (1498), John Bradshawe the 

 elder of Lychefeld in the Counte of Stafford yoman seid playnly at his 

 owne howse at Lychfeld aforesaid that he solde to Raynold Leegh of 

 Blakbroke in the Courte of Derby Squier no maner of land nor tenements 

 except onelv a meese with the appurtenance in the Township of Bawden 

 with in the Counte of Derby called Lightbyrche and toke it straitle upon 

 his charge as he shuld answere afore God when the body and the soule 

 shuld depte [depart] that the hoole Medowe was noo prcell of Lightbyrche 

 land nor that ever the said John Bradshawe by reason of the seid mease 

 nor never had it in his possession nor never noo title therto pretended 

 Moreover he seith that the seid Raynold send unto him a servante of his 

 called Nicholas Stonys to Lychfeld with certen wrytyngs desyryng hym Id 

 have sealed the same the whiche wrytyng the seid John at all tymes uttly 

 refused and denyed And after this the foreseid Raynold come to 

 Lychefeld hymselff to have moved the seide John to have been conformable 

 to the same extent and the same John Knowing his singular and over true 

 desire and mynd therein withdrewe hym from his company and wold in 

 noowise spevke with hvm in that mat' And aft"" this Thomas Awby before 

 named come to Blakbroke unto the seid Raynold for odr maters nothyng 

 prteignvng to the premesses And the seid Raynold desyred the same 

 Thomas faithfully to en((uere the forseid John Bradshawe weydr the hoole 

 medowe were any prcell of Lightbyrche land or not and the seid John 

 Bradshawe made full answere unto the said Thomas and upon his charge 

 toke that the hoole Meydow was nevr non of the Lyghtbyrch land nor 

 that ever he had any ryght or title theyto nor possession of nor in the 

 same as he shuld answer afore God at his hie Judgement and by cause 

 the forseid John hathe desyred and requyred us of oure trouthes and 

 in the wey of Charite to testefye and record the promisses for divers 

 causes hym thereto movyng and to the entent that ye trought myght 

 bettr be knowen to this present Wrytyng accordyng to oure heryng and 

 plevne knowlege W'ee the forsaid Robert Thomas Hugh and John 

 Bradshawe the younger have put oure seals youen at the place the day 

 and yere abofe seid." 



