92 THE OWNERS OK SHALLCROSS. 



altar-tomb in the chancel at Fenny Bentley. Her father* 

 participated in the glory of Agincourt,t and died in 

 1473. The arms of Shallcross and Beresford {arg. a bear 

 saliant sa. armed gu., tmizzled, collared, and chained, or) are 

 impaled in Harl. 6592, f. 25, and in the Widdrington Roll. 

 These families again intermarried, vide under Richard, XVI. 

 They had issue, descended maternally from Hassall, of Arcluyd, 

 county Chester, and Basset, of Blore, county Stafford, the 

 following : — J 



I. — Anthony, next representative. 



II. — John. May be identical with the John Schalcros, who 

 with Humphrey, pledged themselves before the justices of the 

 peace at Derby, in 1496, to pay 2s. for a fine due from James 

 Carryngton, of Chapel-en-le-fryth, for trespass. They were also 

 pledged for similar amounts due from Thomas Aleyn and 

 George Baylle, also of the same place. § In 12 Hen. VIII., 

 1520, a John Shalcross was a juror. {Court Roll.) 



III. — Another son, Humphrey, named after his uncle Hum- 

 phrey Beresford, of Newton Grange. From whom Humphrey 

 Shalcrosse, whoi bore a mullet for difference {Visit, of London, 

 1633). His seal is found on a conveyance from Thomas Savile, 

 Earl of Sussex, Receiver of the Honour of the High Peak, 

 1629, to Francis and Sandford Neville, 1647. The seal is red, 

 indistinct, from a signet ring with marks of the setting, | in. 

 by I in., on the saltire is an obscure mark of cadency; crest. 

 The Will of this Humphrey was sealed with his seal. His son, 

 Humphrey, a loyalist, who purchased the manor of Digswell, 

 CO. Herts., about 1625, left a daughter, Dorothy, whose arms 

 are impaled with her husband, Sandford Nevill, of Chevet, on 

 a fine marble tomb in the chancel of Roystone Church, co. York ; 

 her daughter Dorothy married Algernon, second son of William, 

 second Earl of Salisbury, and had issue. Humphrey's eldest 



* Burke's Peerage, under Waterford. 



t A Beresford was at Cressy and Poictiers bearing banner or pennant 

 charged with black bear [Eight Centuries of a Gentle Family). 

 X Harl. 886, f. 15. 

 § Butlerage of the Y OTCits, Exchequer Accounts, Bundle 113, No. 39. 



