THE OWNERS OF SHAI.LCROSS. 83 



[16 Edw. III., A.D. 1341.] 

 With a Seal of Arms of Richard de Schalcros. 



No. 15. — Know all men, etc., that I Richard de Schalcros, Chaplain, 

 have given to John son of Benedict de Schalcros, my brother, and his 

 heirs and deputies, all my lands and tenements with the appurts, which 

 I held by the gift and feoffment of the aforesaid Benedict de Schalcros, 

 my father, and Hugh de Guyt,* in the Middeliste fernilegh, etc.. To 

 have, etc.. Paying therefore annually as rent to me and my heirs one 

 pair of white gloves at the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr, etc. In witness whereof, etc., these being witnesses : Hugh de 

 ffredelegh,t then Bailiff of the Peak, Robert son of Benedict de 

 St. Schalcross, and others. Given at fferneleigh the Saturday next 

 after the feast of St. Dionysius the Martyr, A.D. 1342. 



The ancient armsj of the Shallcross family (A saltire between 

 four annulets), within an ornamental border, appear on the two 

 copies of the Seal attached to this deed. That in the Widdring- 

 ton Chartulary is somewhat larger than in Harl. 1093. 



This charter apparently concerns this property : — 

 [8 Edw. II., A.D. 1314.] 



No. 16 recites that Maud, daughter of William de ffernley, remises 

 to Adam, her brother, her right and claim which she has in her father's 

 lands and tenements in Middlefernley. Witnesses: — Benedict de 

 Schakelcross, Thomas son of Thomas le Ragged, and others. Given 

 at flfernilegh. 



*(?) Fritborn. 



+ Stredelegh, vide charter 10. 



+ The arms of Shallcross were painted on the walls of Taxal Church, 

 1586, together with Jodrell and Downes (Earwaker). There were also 

 " two coates in the glasse " of Shalcrosse and Downes. The arms were 

 fully displayed, with helmet and mantling, as of Shawcrosse of Shaw- 

 crosse, by Randle Holme, Harl. 21 13, f. 38. 



All the seals mentioned in the text, whether originals or drawings, 

 are preserved in the British Museum. There is, however, another old 

 seal extant, not there, that of John Shall Crosse, of Bledlow, together 

 with his signature, on a deed of 1681. He died in 1723, aged sixty-five, 

 and was buried in Bledlow Church, under a slab with an inscription. 

 He was probably a member of the Tower Ward branch. His wife was 

 a daughter of Paul Jodrell, of Dufiield, clerk to the House of Commons, 

 of a younger branch of Jodrell of Yeardsley [vide Jodrell, Bart., in 

 Baronetage), so that — singular to relate — the Shallcrosses intermarried 

 with both the senior and junior lines, though widely separated, of 

 Jodrell. He left a son, Henry, B.A., Oxford. 



Showcrosse, co. Dorset, bore the arms of the High Peak family. 



