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let or hindrance for ever, paying thence annually as rent to Jnhn 

 Schalcrosse, his heirs and assigns, six silver pence on the feast of the 

 Assumption of the B. Mary, and rendering to the Chief Lords of the 

 fee the services therefore due and of right accustomed. In witness 

 whereof, etc. Given, etc., in the 9th year of the reign of King 

 Henry V. after the Conquest of England. 



This representative left issue, by Ellen his wife, 

 I. — John, of whom presently. 



II. — Another son ; probably the father of Benedict Shal- 

 CROSS, yeoman, whose son, John, and some of his relatives and 

 friends we find outlawed on a " plea of land " in the following 

 notice.* 



Court held at Chester before Lord Stanley, Knt., 12 Ed. IV. And 

 that John Shalcrosse, late of Fernelegh, in co. Derby, gentleman, 

 Edward Shalcrosse, late of the same, etc., gentleman, James Shalcrosse, 

 late of the same, gentleman, John Shalcrosse, late of the same, gentle- 

 man, John Bronkehurst, Richard Coup, Thomas Benet, Thomas Redferne, 

 of the same, yeomen, John Shalcrosse, son of Benedict Shalcrosse, of 

 the same, yeoman, Edward Shalcrosse, late of the same, yeoman, Richard, 

 son of Robert Pedley, late of Horwich, yeoman, Thomas Pedley, brother 

 of the said Richard, of the same, yeoman, etc., Nicholas Broune, son of 

 Edward Browne, late of Taxsall, yeoman, on the Saturday next after 

 the feast of the Annunciation (10 Ed. IV.) at Ketelshulme, with force 

 and armed, viz., with swords, bows, and arrows, in 2 acres of land 

 and appurtenances of Peter Duttonf and Elizabeth his wife, who was 

 the daughter and heiress of Robert Grosvenor,+ now dead, forced their 

 way and expelled them from the premises and disseized them of the 

 occupation and tenancy thereof, in contempt of the Lord the King, and 

 against the statute made and provided. 



III. — Ellen ; who probably married George Lister, of Little 

 Chester {erm. on a fesse sa. three mullets or). 



John de Schalcros died, like his father, in middle age, 

 5 Hen. VI., immediately after making the following deed : — 



[5 Hen. VI., A.D. 1426.] 

 No. 22. — Know all, etc., that I, John de Schalcros, de Schalcros, 

 have given, etc., to John my son and Agnes his wife all my lands and 



* Indictment Holt, No. 15, 18 m., Welsh Records. 



t Of Hatton, buried in the chancel at Waverton. 



+ Lord of Hulme ; see Peerage, under Duke of Westminster. His 

 grandfather was the defendant in the Scrope and Grosvenor contro- 

 versy. It was doubtless of the Shalcrosses mentioned above that the 

 Richard Shawcross derived who married Catherine (born temp. 

 Henry VIII. ), daughter of Sir Thomas Grosvenor. 



