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buried at Taxal with a stone memorial. He was succeeded 

 by his son, 



Anthony SHALCROSS, or Shawcross (Xn.) of Shal- 

 cross, or Shawcross.* It may have been in his time, perhaps 

 later, or even after the Civil Wars, that researches were made 

 upon the estate for coal, which became a source of profit to the 

 family. They were among the oldest collieries in North 

 Derbyshire. In Glover's list of collieries they bear the 

 family name — " Shallcross, or Shawcross, E. of Taxhall, 

 2^ m. W.S.W. of Chapel-en-le-Frith." He was doubtless the 

 last representative who lived and died in the original Hall, 

 described in the last volume of this Journal. His estate in an 

 inquisition, 7 Eliz., is called the Old Feofment, or Shalcros- 

 HALL Manor. He married before 1528+ Eleanor, daughter of 

 Nicholas Jawdrell, of Yeardsley Hall, in Taxall, of a family 

 settled in the Peak in the thirteenth century, and descended from 

 Roger Jaudrell, of Yeardsley, an esquire of the body to 

 Richard II., and at Agincourt ; which Roger was son of William 

 Joudrel, with the Black Prince (to whom John de Schalcrosse 

 was executor, supra). The wife of Anthony Shalcrosse was 

 lineally descended from the old families of Bradshaw, Sutton J 

 of Sutton (Sir Richard Sutton, who died 16 Hen. VIII., a co- 

 founder of Brasenose College, was nephew of George Jodrell, of 

 Yeardsley), Le Despencer, Dutton of Button, Venables of 

 Kinderton, and Savage. She traced a descent from the Earls of 

 Chester and of Mercia through the families of Davenport of 

 Woodford, Arderne of Arden and Alvanley, Orreby, Montalt, 

 Albini (Earls of Arundel), Ranulf I. and II., and Hugh II., 

 Earls of Chester, and De Talbois, to Algar, of Mercia, son of 

 Leofric, of Mercia, renowned for his ecclesiastical foundations. 



Anthony Shalcross was overseer in 1529 to the Will of Roger 



* Add. MSS. 6668, f. 397. 



t The Shallcrosses were a halfway house, connecting the chivalrous 

 honours of the long descended Cheshire lines with the best of the Peak 

 families. The arms are impaled in the Widdrington Roll ; sa. three buckles 

 arg., for Jodrell. 



t Sutton witnesses charter No. 6. 



