THE OWNERS OF SHALLCKOSS. 85 



[is Ric. IL, 1389.] 



Not in the Widdrington Roll. Wi//i Seals {copies wauling). 



No. 18. — This Indenture made between Henry Schalcrosse of 

 Wingworth of the one part and John de Schalcrosse of Schalcrosse of 

 the other part, Witnesseth that the said Henry and John have taken 

 oath and sworn upon the Holy Gospels at Derby in the presence of 

 Sir Robert Redych, Chaplain, William Bagschagh, etc., and all those 

 who were summoned on the Assize of novel disseisin between the said 

 Henry de Schalcrosse and John de Schalcrosse to bind themselves each 

 to other in ;^2o of good money to submit to the decision and judgment 

 of Thomas de Tildesey and John Pygot, Hugh del Clough, and Richard 

 del Ferme, touching all the lands and tenements which the said Henry 

 claims as his right in a place called The Over fernelegh within the vill 

 of Wormehull in the High Peak, and that in case the said Thomas 

 Tildesey and his three associates may not be at leisure nor produced by 

 the said Henry and John de Shalcrosse, then they will take four others 

 of a similar position, to wit : two men of law of the realm and two 

 other good persons. And that in case the said four cannot agree without 

 an umpire, they shall take an umpire. And that he that refuses of 

 the said Henry Schalcrosse or John Schalcrosse to stand by the decision 

 and judgment of the said Thomas and his associates, or the four others 

 of a similar position as aforesaid, or of the umpire with respect to the 

 aforesaid lands and tenements, then he shall forfeit _zf2o and pay it to 

 him who agrees to submit to their decision, so that an end be put to 

 this matter before the feast of Saint Martin the Evangelist Bishop in 

 winter, and that in case the said Thomas and his associates, or the four 

 others of a similar position, or the umpire neither put an end (to the 

 matter) nor give judgment between the said Henry and John before 

 the said Feast, then they shall be at large and in the same position 

 as they were previously. In witness of which things the aforesaid parties 

 have in duplicate to these present indentures put their seals. Given 

 at Derby the Wednesday next after the feast of Saint Cedde, in the 

 13th year of King Richard the Second after the Conquest. 



Nine years later we find this John enjoying landed posses- 

 sions : — 



[Harlcian Charter, 17 Ric. II., a.d. 1393.] 

 Missing in Widdrington Roll. 



No. 19. — Let all know by these presents that we, Robert Bukhard 

 and Gregory Broune, Chaplain, have remised, released, etc., to John 

 de Shalcross and his heirs the whole right and claim which we have, 

 etc., in all lands and tenements with the appurtenances, which we 

 had lately by gift and feoffment from John himself, in Shalcrosse, 

 ffernylegh, Horewich, Wormyl, Herdewickwall, and Moinesall, in the 

 county of Derby. Yet so, etc. In testimony, etc. Given at Shalcross 

 on Friday next after the feast of the Circumcision of our Lord in 

 the 17th year of the reign of King Richard. 



