THK OWNERS OK SHALl.CROSS. I05 



Shalcross first married, before 1592, in his nonage, Margaret,* 

 daughter of WilUam Forde the younger,! of Mosse, Leek, his 

 stepmother's daughter, and widow of John Wedgwood, of 

 Harracles, who died 1658, aged 87 years, by whom he had no 

 issue. He married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Edmund 

 Jodderell, of Yeardsley Hall and Twemlow (arms impaled in 

 the Widdrington Roll), sister of Edmund Jodrell, High Sheriff 

 of Cheshire 1650-1. By her, who was buried at Taxal 

 March 24th, 1652-3, aged about 80, he left issue, 

 I. — John, of whom presently. 

 n. — Edmund. B.A., Oxford, 1625, from Emman. Coll., 

 Camb., M.A. 1629, in holy orders, paid ship-money, ;^i4, in 1636, 

 and was presented to the rectory of Stockport July 3rd, 1637, by 

 his mother, Mary, widow. He was named as one of the 

 disaffected clergy by Sir W. Brereton, in the list of delinquents, 

 as having " the parsonage house at Stockport, J the glebe land 

 thereto belonging and severall tenements in the sayd towne 

 and tythes of the parish . . . sequestred about the loth of 

 August, 1644." § His goods valued at ^268 14^. 10^., of 

 which a list is given, || were seized for the use of Parliament, 

 Februar)', 1644, some being claimed out of the inventory by 

 his wife and by Mrs. Rideard, Mary Hullme, the Mrs. Maid, 

 and some glasses by Mrs. Jodrell; and his wife tried to hide 

 some of her own treasures, valued at ;^34 15s., in a chimney. 

 He appealed, and journeying, as before, to London to see the 

 Committee, in July, 1645, with an escort of Parliamentary 



* Her son, John Wedgwood, of Harnicles and Mosse, was buried at 

 Leek in 165 1, leaving male issue. A lineal descendant was Penelope 

 Boothby, to whom the monument in Ashbourne Church by Banks. Her 

 daughter, Elizabeth Wedgwood, married John Jodrell, of Moor-house, 

 Leek, a scion of Yeardsley, and left issue. 



t Son of W. Forde, of the Mosse, by his wife Margaret, daughter of 

 John Bowyer, of Knipersley. 



t There is a tradition at Stockport that his father was a physician, and 

 attended the Sovereign on several occasions. Thomas Sliallcross, Esq., 

 was a gentleman of the Privy Chamber in 1737. 



%Add MSS. 1569, f. 125. 



\\Harl. 2130, ff. 151-4. 



