90 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



By his alliance with this equestrian house — his wife was a 

 babe when her father was slain — John de Schalcros had issue, 

 I. — John, of whom presently. 



II.- — Edward, living i8 Edw. IV., married a daughter of 

 Broster, widow to Hollingshed. He bore the family arms, 

 tinctured gu. and or, differenced with a crescent sable.''' His male 

 line, descended from his son Ottwell, of Stone.shaw(Widdring- 

 ton Roll), whose two sons, Edward and Darby, left surviving 

 sons, Charles, Ottiwell, Lawrence, John, Darby, and 

 Edward, has been traced with details to temp. Chas. II., 

 and beyond, with probability, in some of the families in 

 Cheshire, and in Lancashire bordering on the Cheshire 

 boundary.t It included Shallcross of Tower Ward, who bore 

 an annulet for difference (Visit of London, 1633). The great- 

 grandson of this Edward, Randle Smith, married Anne, daughter 

 of Anthony (XL). 



III. — Anne, married Edward Allen, or Aleyn, of Wheston 

 Hall, near Tideswell {sa. a cross potent or), a near relative of 

 one whom Punsglove made feoffee of the Grammar School at 

 Tideswell ; of an ancient Peak family, enrolled among the 

 gentry in 1570, whose male line expired in i7oo.;J: There is a 

 notice of Thomas Aleyn under John (X.). Their old house 

 came to the twelfth Duke of Norfolk, by whom it was sold. 



IV.- — Elizabeth, married, temp. Ric. III., Christopher Need- 

 ham, of Thornsett (arg. a bend engrailed as. betw. two bucks' 

 heads cabosscd sa.), and left issue. § Her son, Ottiwell Needham, 

 married the heiress of Cadman of Cowley. Her daughter Agnes 

 married John Cresswell,|| county Chester, and has issue, pro- 

 bably, Robert Cresswell, who married Dorothy, daughter of 

 Leonard (XIII.). 



* Harl. 1535, f. 26, where the arms of " Shawcross of Stowshawe " 

 are coloured. See also Visit, of Cheshire, 1580; Harl. 1424 and 1505; 

 Lane. Visitations, seventeenth century. 



t Including the family of the writer. 



+ Glover, ii., 304. 



§ Harl. 1484, f. 36. 



il In 1438, John de Cresswall signs an inquisition at Macclesfield. 

 Perhaps son of the John Cresswell, forester, who died 1397. 



