BRADSHAW HALL AND THE BRADSHAWES. 6 1 



APPENDIX K. 



KTCIIARD BRADSHAWE CONVEYS BRADSHAW TO 



HIS UNCLE. 



Tnilenture* dated 3 Dec, 34 Henry VHI. (1542), between Rii h:ird 

 Brnilshawe, of Bradshaw, county Derby, and William Bradshawe,. of 

 Mar])ule, county Chester. Conveyance of the lands and mansion house 

 of Bradshaw for the sum of one hundred and fourscore and three pounds 

 six shillings and eightpence. 



The witnesses are William Davenport, of Goytes Hall, gentleman ; 

 Alexander Elkock, of Stopford (Stockport), Mayre ; Wyllm Charlten, 

 Skulmasfer ; Raff Holins, priest ; Thomas Combes. The parchment is 

 endorsed with the following, written in 1635 at the death of Francis 

 Bradshawe, by George Bradshawe, his brother and heir: — '"Within these 

 are contained Deeds whereby it appeareth that one Henrv Bradshawe was 

 lord of Bradshawe his Cosinf (sir, properly grandson) and heir passed awav 

 all his lands in Bradshawe to William Bradshawe of Marple for ;^ioo and 

 twenty marks which William was father of Godfrey father of Francis 

 father of George now Lord of Bradshawe brother to Francis Bradshawe 

 <leceased son of the said Francis." 



The fine, or final concord, which confirms the above transaction is 

 dated at Westminster in the Easter Term, 35 Henrv VUL, 154^. 



APPENDIX L. 

 BRADSHAWS OF CHEADLE, CHESHIRE. 



In Cheshire, between Cheedle and Wilmslow, stands. Bradshaw Hall, 

 formerly the residence of a branch of the Bradshawe family. It was pur- 

 chased about 1550 from Sir John Savage by James Keisall, in whose family 

 it remained for several generations.:!; 



In the following, from a registered ])edigree in Heralds College, the 

 Christian names are suggestive : — 



John Bradshaw, of Bradshaw Hall, Co. Chester^ 



Alderman Thomas Bradshaw = 



Richard Bradshaw, born 28 July, 1695 = 



Thomas Bradshaw, and son, 

 Alderman of Dublin. 



* In the writer's possession. 



t In O. E. the term was legally applied to aiij/ collateral relative, and heie 

 it was probably loosely used for descendant. 

 J Earwaker's East Cheshire, vol. ii., p. 193. 



