BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 57 



N.B. — This document, a])art from the interest of the subject-matter, 

 is important as being the only evidence known to exist of the connection 

 between the Derbyshire and Leicestershire Bradshawes. Although the 

 Heralds, in the Visitation of Leicestershire, state that " Hugh Bradshaw^e 

 of Moore Barne in Com' Leic : descended out of Lankesheir," this is 

 fairly conclusive evidence that he descended out of Derbyshire, or his 

 evidence with respect to the dispute would not have been taken. That 

 he was the son of Robert is almost self-evident. 



APPENDIX F. 

 FROM WOLLEY CHARTERS XH. 75. 

 (Undated — about 1500.) 

 " To the Kyng our Soveraigne lorde the Certificat of Sir Rauf Longford 

 Knyght and Thomas Meyverell accordyng to the Kynges letter to them 

 directed. Sewen [suing] to your most noble and habundant grace your 

 ])ore Subiectes Sir Rauf Longford and Thomas Meyverell that whereas 

 one Herry Bradshawe hath surmysed by his complaynt to your said grace 

 made that one Reynolde Lee pretendid tvtle to ij partes of a medowe 

 callyd Holmedowe lyeing in the Chapell in the Fryth and hath by dyverse 

 synyster suetis troblyd and vexed the seid Herry for the same. We 

 certifyen your seid grace that the said Reynold and Harry have apperyd 

 before vs your seid subiectes at Assheburne where the seid Reynolde 

 answeryd to the seyd complaynt and seid that one John Bradshawe was 

 seasid of a Mease callid lyght bvrches lyeing in the seid parisshe of the 

 seid Chapell in the Fryth in his desmesne as of fee and so seasid gafe 

 the seid Mease with thappurtenaunces to one John Bradshawe his younger 

 sone in fee by force whereof the same John was therof seasid in his 

 desmesne as of fee and so seasid gafe the seed mease with thappur- 

 tenaunces by his dede before vs sewyd to the seyd Reynolde in fee by 

 force wherof the seid Reynolde was therof sasid in his dssniesne as 

 of fee and furthermore the same Reynolde seid that the seid ij partes 

 of Holmedowe be appendant to the seid mease and that he w'as therof 

 seasid as appendant to the seid mease by force of the seid gyft unto the 

 tyme that he was by the seide Herry disseysed and Harry Bradshawe 

 seid that the seid Reynolde nor John Bradshawe the vonger were never 

 seasid of the seid ij partes of medow callyd Holmedow and that the 

 same ij partys of Medow be not appurtenaunt nor appendant to the seid 

 mease and for the jirove of the seid premysses the seid parties promysed 

 vs your seid subiectes that they wolde abyde the triall of suche persons 

 of the contray as hadde longe knowen the seid growndes and to abyde 

 the rule of us your seid subiectes and of Roger Vernon and Thomas 

 Babyngton and after dyverse persones whose namys ben comprisyd in ij 

 byllys whereof one is synyd with the hands of Roger Vernon ane other 

 sygned with the handes of Thurston Alen and William Coke seid that 

 the seid John Bradshawe the vonger never was possessid of the seid 

 medow but that William Bradshawe eldyr broder to same John was con- 

 tynuelly seased of the same ij partes duryng his lyfe withowte interuj)tion 



