78 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



witness to a deed of the Femeley family (No. i6, infra) at 

 Ferneley. Soon afterwards he appropriated a certain waste 



land : — 



[lo Edw. III., A.D. 1335.] 

 No. 7 is an indenture, 10 Edw. III., between Thomas, son of Thomas 

 le Ragged, and Benedict de Schalkros, whereby the latter, for himself 

 and his heirs, encloses a certain piece of waste land (name undeciphered 

 by seventeenth century copyists). 



Benedict's wife's name was Margery {Eyre Rolls), who in 

 34 Edw. III. was executrix of the Will of Roger de Bosdon, a 

 suit being brought against her that year by Robert del Bothes.* 

 She may have been of the Bosdonf family {arg. a fesse sa. bdw. 

 three fish hooks of the second). In 32 Edw III. she had a servant 

 Isabel!. I They had issue at least four sons and one 

 daughter : — 



I. — Richard, in holy orders, of whom presently. 

 II. — John, apparently the first of the nine representatives of 

 this family name, of whom hereafter. 



III. — Robert. He was living apparently between 1290 and 

 1370, and was a witness of the deed of 16 Edw. III. (No. 15). 

 He extended his possessions at Schalcross by purchase, 

 19 Edw. III., as evidenced by the next charters: — 



[Undated, temp. Hen. III., a.d. 1216-1272.] 



No. 8 recites that Robert de Worth grants to Henry de Condy, his 

 nephew, all his lands in the vill of Schakilcros which Adam de Worth, 

 his brother, formerly held of him, nf which he had confirmation of 

 King Henry. Witnesses: — Robert de Dounis,§ Richard le Ragged, 

 Richard de ffernilegh, and others. 



This record, referring to lands in Shalcross, may be attached 

 to the next one, wherein Sir Robert Holland, knt.,|| gives a 



* Eyre Rolls, No. 14, m. 25. 



t Earwaker mentions several isolated members of this family. Entered 

 at Visit, of Cheshire, 1613. 



XEyre Rolls, No. 19, m. 18. 



§ A forester of Macclesfield Forest, 16 Edw. I., and father of Edmund, 

 charter 6. 



II Eldest son of Robert de Holland, who received large grants in 

 Derbyshire from the Crown, 1307. In 1335 he had livery of all his 

 father's lands, and was in the expedition against France, 1342. In the 

 latter year he was summoned to Parliament, as the second baron. He 

 died in 1373. The wife of Leonard Shallcross (XIII.) descended from 

 his brother Thomas, who became Earl of Kent on his marriage with 

 Joan Plantagenet, 



