THE OWNERS OF SHALIXKOSS. 7 1 



at this period, he gave, for its support,* tithes out of his 

 pastures in Sachalcros. Later, in 1272, an inquisition of tithes 

 due to Lenton gives, amongst others, Shalcross and Fernilee, i is. 

 Three generations of the Peverels held the Castle of the High 

 Peak. The Shallcross family had a descent from Peverel 

 through the Gousell family, lineal ancestors of the wife of 

 Leonard (XIII.). The Gousells, of Hoveringham, co. Notts, 

 sometime lords of Hathersage, through marriage with its heiress, 

 also espoused Elizabeth, an heiress of the Fitzalans, Earls of 

 Arundel, who brought with her, among other quarterings, viz., 

 Fitzalan, Albany, Meschines, Lupus (Earl of Chester), Hamlyn 

 Plantagenet (as. floreitee or, on a bordure gu., eight lions of 

 England), Warren, Marshall, De Clare, and Macmurrough, 

 the arms of the fierce and haughty Peverel {quarterly, gu. and 

 voire, or and az. a lion ramp. org.). 



(2) The Owners: their Male Succession. — The earliest certain 

 patriarch of this house appears, like that of the house of 

 Douglas, in the tree, not in the sapling. Of those who bore 

 the early place-name of this family, both the Widdrington Roll 

 {infra) and Jewitt's Pedigree! commence with the Danish name 

 (Sueno, Suanus, Suenus, or Svanus) of 



SVAIN DE SCAKELCROS, or Skakelcros (I.), of Scakel- 

 cros, the immediate founder of this ancient family. He 

 lived, temp. John and Henry III., within the vill of Scakel- 

 cros, in the wide parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith, in a wild 

 and romantic part of England, on the banks of the Goyt, 

 a stream which divides Shallcross from Taxal, the counties of 

 Derbyshire and Cheshire, and the Forests of the High Peak and 

 of Macclesfield. It is certain that Svain was a landowner, 

 and derived his name from the vill. A brother of this 

 Svain, or at least a near relative, may appear in John de 

 Shakelcrosse, dead in 36 Hen. III., who in 7-12 Hen. III.,| 



*He gave a tithe of game, viz., of stags and hinds, of bucks and 

 does, and of boars and sows (Mon. Angl., i., p. 648). 

 t Jieliqttaiy, vol. vi. 



X Feudal History of Derhyshin. liy Mr. Pym Veatman, Section VI. 

 Other valuable items are from this work. 



