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qwnstens.* To every one of mv sisters, ijs. To my son's chililren, 

 each a sheep. To my daughter Anne, ^^40 on her marriage. She to 

 keep from Nicholas Marchington, or otherwise to have nothing. To 

 my son Peter ii messuages for his life, with remainder to my rightful 

 heirs, etc. Leonard to be good to him. My wife to live with son 

 Leonard ; if she will not, then she shall have ;^20 of my goods, with 

 certain houses and land for her life=J^d share. To my daughter Em', 

 los. To Whaley brigge, ^^vi towards the making of a landshowte.f To 

 my poor men my gowns of black clothe, to be with me after my decease till 

 I be buried, and if I die in the night I will be buried or none, the nexte 

 daye following, as my executors will make answer in another world. All 

 such as do come to Shalcrosse to have meate and drink enough, and 

 I give XX nobles to xx of my poorest neighbours. My two sons executors. 

 Witnesses: — Master Raygnolde Downes, John Caryngton, Nicholas 

 fidlaT,^: parson of tacsale. 



Anthony Shalcrosse was succeecled by his son, 

 Leonard SHALLCROSS, or Shawcross (XIII.), of Shall- 

 cross. Born before the Reformation, c. 1520, he was probably 

 named after " Saynt Leonard att Tackessall.'' The Visitation 

 (Flower) of 1569 entered his pedigree and arms.§ There are 

 two crests — (i) A martlet arg. holding in the beak a cross pattee 

 f tehee gu., and (2) A cross pattee fitchee gu. ; the last being of 

 unique occurrence. 



Leonard was enrolled among the lando\\aiers of the High 

 Peak in 1570. The Attorney General of the Duchy entered a 

 pleading against him in 1585 for various encroachments on 

 Tunstead Wood, Hon\'ich, and the Marshe. On 26th March, 

 1588, he contributed ^25 to the fund for the defence of the 

 kingdom, on the threatened invasion by the Spanish Armada. 

 The following year he paid his contribution to the forced loan 

 in Derbyshire. He was summoned, 19th January, 1593, with 

 Nich. Browne, of the Marshe, and John Pott, of Stancliff, to 

 appear at Tideswell. In the same year he was executor to 

 the Will of his eldest son, who died in his father's lifetime. In 

 June, 1595, the High Peak Bailiff collected 6s. from this 

 Leonard towards furnishing three horsemen to serve in Ireland, 



* Quernstones. fLandshut. J Rector of Taxal, 1532-88. Witness 

 also to the will of Roger Jodrell, of Yeardsley, 1547-8. 



§ Harl. 886, f. 14b ; 1093, ff. 19-22. 

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