9° THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



and again for four horses in 1599-1600, and again in 1601 for 

 three horses, r5s. He was commended by Sir Edward 

 Hastings, of the Abbey of Leicester, whose father was Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant of the county in 1552, in a letter to the Lord High 

 Treasurer, 1591-4: — 



Jan. 23rd. Leicester Abbey. No. 23. Sir Edw. Hastings to Lord 

 Burghley. Recommends Leonard Shawcross, of Shawcross, in the High 

 Peak, as a fit person to be put into the Commission, he being a religious 

 and honest man, and the only gentleman in all the Peak who is a 

 favourer of religion, that part of the country being mostly frequented 

 by recusants.* 



In 1597 Leonard Shalcross had his arms carved upon an 

 oak panel, now in the possession of Mr. S. F. Widdrington, 

 who has kindly sent a drawing for this paper. 



The His/. MSS. Commission (Duke of Rutland) has preserved 

 a copy of an autograph letter from him to his cot/sin, Roger 

 Rowe (Rowe of Macclesfield) : — 



6 Sept. 1599. — Shalcrosse. — I have sent my shepherd, Ralph Bagshawe, 

 to you, to Haddon, to receive the money owing for my wethers. (Signed.) 



In i6or, in connection with his eldest son's untimely death, 

 he made an agreement with his grandson and successor, Richard 

 Shalcross. 



This representative doubtless built the second of the three 

 Halls of the family,! towards the end of the sixteenth century. 

 It was erected in the Elizabethan style, with its walls adorned 

 with tapestry of silk and silver. 



Leonard Shallcross married, first, before 1557, Margaret, 

 daughter of William Davenport, t of Bramhall Hall (his MS. 

 copy of Wycliffe's Bible sold a few years ago for ^1,750). 

 She was a sister of Sir William Davenport, knighted in Scot- 

 land in 1544, who' was grandfather of the Sir William Davenport, 

 an executor of Leonard's Will, 1601. The arms of Shalcross, 

 impaling Davenport (quartering Bromell), are in Harl. 6592, 

 f. 16 {arg. a cltev. beiw. three crosses-crosslet fichee, sa., for 



* Roman Catholics. 



t Taxal Church was rebuilt about the same time. 



t Male line extinct in 1829. The Davenports were rangers of Maccles- 

 field Forest : their crest, the haltered felon. 



