JHE OWNEKS OF SHALLCROSS. 73 



Originally among the Shallcross muniments, it is even now in the 

 possession of the heirs of line.* This important document, 

 which is 8 ft. 4 in. long by 2 ft. i in. wide, is expanded with 

 twenty copies of the original charters. The pedigree is illus- 

 trated with forty-two uncoloured shields, 2^ in. by 2^ in., of the 

 family, sixteen being impaled with its alliances; i, Wendesley; 

 2, Beresford; 3, Jodrell; 4, Bagshawe of Ridge; 5, Browne of 

 Marsh; 6, Jodrell; 7, Davenport; 8, Jodrell; 9, Downes; 10, 

 Bradshaw; 11, Walker; 12, Cressy; 13, Smith; 14, Jodrell; 

 15, Walker; and 16, Bagshawe of Ridge. This skeleton pedi- 

 gree, which has the names within circles, commences with 

 Suanie de Skakelcros, to whom is given the family coat, and 

 it terminates with the birth of six children of John (XV.). A 

 third copy of the charters (3) is to be found in T/ie Reliquary, 

 vol. vi., printed from the Harleian MSS. by Mr. Jewitt, with 

 a skeleton pedigree of Shallcross. Copies were fortunately 

 available of the appendant seals, where they occur, in each of 

 these three transcripts. 



The present and fourth copy of these documents has been 

 sorted out from each of these three quarters, in elucidation of 

 the mediaeval history of the family; and these Latin deeds 

 appear for the first time in order and in English. They number 

 twenty-three, and according to date may be thus described : — 

 Eight have no date, and, as we have not the assistance 

 afforded by a sight of the mediaeval handwriting, we classify 

 them before 1290; there are twelve between 1290 and 1400, and 

 three after 1400. They name many persons and places of 

 historical interest, over which our present limits do not allow 

 us to linger. 



The first purchase is within the vill of Scakelcross itself, 

 and refers to land purchased by Richard de Scakelcross before 

 55 Hen. III., from Sir Robert Hyde, Knt., lord of several 

 manors in Cheshire, and of Shalcross and Femeley in Derbyshire. 



* I would express my acknowledgments to Mr. Shallcross F. Widdrington 

 of Newlon Hall, for the kind loan of this valuable roll, which I have named 

 the " Widdrington Roll " for convenient reference. 



