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frank-pledge at Hucklow. In the Subsidy Roll of 28 Hen. VI. 

 he is assessed at 2s. 6^d. He was a witness to a deed at 

 Chapel-en-le-Frith, 23 Hen. VI.* He may be the free tenant — 

 John Shalcross, Esq. — named in default of service at Chelmorton, 

 147 1, and also identical with the John Shalcross, senior, who 

 was witness to a deed in 14 Edw. IV. t It is possible that he was 

 concerned with other members of the Shalcrosse family, together 

 with members of the Kirke and Bagshawe families, in the assault 

 at Tideswell, 1442, on the house of Nicholas and Henry Brad- 

 shawe.| He married Agnes, a daughter, it would appear, 

 of Sir Thomas de Wendesley, of Wendesley, knight of the 

 shire, 13 and 17 Ric. II.; of a family seated there before the 

 reign of John. There was another of his name and place at 

 this period who married Agnes, a daughter of Robert de 

 Downes, of Shrigley, which Agnes was bom in 1376 and was 

 living 15 Hen. VI. The arms of Shallcross and Wendesley 

 {erm. on a bend gii. three escallops or) are impaled in the 

 Widdrington Roll. This Sir Thomas, the patron of the prior 

 of Breadsall, in 1384, was "an exceedingly despotic knight"; 

 he fell mortally wounded at Shrewsbury, with sword in hand 

 for the Red rose. He was buried under an altar-tomb in 

 Bakewell Church ; his effigy, in armour, wears the SS. collar, 

 the crux antiqiiarioriim ; on his helmet is the inscription " Ihc 

 Nazaren." 



Lineal ancestors of the Shallcross family were engaged on 

 opposite sides in Shrewsbury field. For the King, besides Sir 

 Thomas, were Sir Hugh Shirley§ and Sir Edmund Cokayne,|| 

 the two last being ancestors of the wife of Colonel Shallcross 

 (XV.). From Peter Warburton, who fought for the elder royal 

 line, represented by Roger Mortimer, the wife of Leonard (XIII.) 

 lineally derived. 



* Hutland Charters. 



t Rutland Charters. 



X There is another side to this story, in an assault " from sunrise 

 to sunset " by the above Bradshawes on the house of Bagshawe, brother 

 of Edward of Ridge Hall, at Tideswell [Rutland Papers). — Archceological 

 Journal, vol. xxiii., p. 55. 



§ Burke's Peerage, under Ferrers. 



11 Glover. 



