05 THE OWNERS OB" SHALLCROSS. 



tenements, with all their appurtenances, in the Over ferneleigh in the 

 vill of WormehuU, in the county of Derby, to have and to hold, etc., 

 paying in rent to me the aforesaid John de Schalcros and to my heirs 

 four shillings. In witness whereof, etc., these being witnesses: — James 

 le legh, Richard de Shore, John de Bradeshawe,* and many others. 

 Given at Chapel-en-le-Frith on the Tuesday next after the feast of 

 St. Luke the Evangelist, in the 5th year of the reign of King Henry VI. 

 after the Conquest of England. 



He left as successor his son, 



JOHN SHAKELCROSS or SHALCROSS (IX.), of Shal- 

 cross.t In his favour his mother immediately made a release of 

 her widow's dower : — 



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



No. 23. — Know all men by these presents that I, Ellen, formerly 

 wife of John, son of Robert de Shalcros, in my free widowhood have 

 given, granted, released, and for myself altogether quitclaimed to John 

 my son, the whole right and claim which I had, or in any wise in future 

 can have, by reason of any statute, feoffment, or dower in all those lands 

 and tenements in the Over fernelegh in the vill of Wormehall in the 

 county of Derby, etc. In witness whereof, etc., these being witnesses : — 

 James de Legh, William de Ashton, and others. Given at Chapel-en- 

 le-flryth on Friday next after the feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, 

 in the 5th year of the reign of Henry VI. after the Conquest of England. 



Among the Bagshawe of Ridge Hall evidences there is a note 

 of one, now lost, dated 9 Hen. VI., "A feoffment from Thomas 

 Sonne of William de Bagshawe, to Edm. Trafford, Knt., and 

 Geffrey Bagshaw, Preist, of all his lands in the county of 

 Derby, with lettre of attorney to John Shawcrosse to make 

 livery." In 1431-2 he had rights of property at Tunstead 

 Wood. He was assessed as "gentleman" at the inquest of 

 knight's fees, 9 Hen. VI., having free tenure by socage land 

 in Wormhill. He appears to have inherited his father-in-law's 

 fidelity to the House of Lancaster, with other residents in the 

 Duchy, being enrolled among the gentry of the county in the 

 Return of the Commissioners, 12 Hen. VI., an enactment of the 

 Commons presumed as intended to disclose and restrain the 

 favourers of York. In 1441 he appears to have been excused 



* Vide " Bradshawes of Bradshaw," Journal, vol. xxiii., pp. 20, 21. 

 t Shawcrosse de Shawcrosse, Add. MSS. 6668, f. 392. 



