72 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



assarted five acres at Kinder, part of Longdendale, Thomas 

 fil. Richard being the tenant. His relative, Oswalda, or Oswyn, 

 born temp. Hen. II., daughter of Stephen Shalcrosse, married 

 temp. John, Walter, son of Sir John Rudston, lord of Hayton, 

 county York (Arg. three hulls' heads couped sa. two and one). 

 Svain, who may have been bom temp. Ric. I., lived 

 apparently e. 1 197-1265, and was probably one of the foresters 

 who shared in the original building, c. 1225, of the "Chapel" 

 in the frith. Dying about the time of the battle of Evesham, 

 where Ferrars, eighth Earl of Derby, fought against his King, 

 Svain left issue, possibly by a daughter of Benedict de Worth, 

 of the Worths of Worth {arg. a cross raguled sa.); the Shal- 

 crosses invariably married in " a fair degree '" : — 

 I. — Richard, of whom presently. 

 II. — ^John, living 1259-60. 



III. — Robert, bail, with others, in 36 Hen. III. for Mathew 

 de Scorches. 



His son and successor, 



RICHARD DE SCAKELCROS (II.), of Scalcelcros, of 

 whom, with his younger brother John, we first hear in con- 

 nection with amercements under the forest laws in 1259-60. In 

 36 Hen. III. he was bail, with others, for Peter de Gaham. 

 In the same year he was amerced in vert in the demesne Park, 

 6d., and fined ^d. in the same year. In 41 & 42 Hen. III., a 

 Richard Shakelcross rented land at Chapel-en-le-Frith. This 

 Richard held lands purchased by him in fee from Sir Robert de 

 Hyde, as we note from the family chartularj', to which we must 

 now advert. 



Two copies of the chartulary of the Shallcross family were 

 made under the supervision of John (XV.) after the visitation of 

 1634, which are still extant. Of the original charters, which 

 would be upon small membranes, nothing seems known. These 

 copies are preserved in three quarters, viz. : — (i) In the breviate 

 of 5 July, 1639, found in Harleian 1093, ff. 19-22. (2) In a 

 roll of a skeleton pedigree of the family, upon paper mounted 

 on strong linen, made probably in connection with (i). 



