Io6 THE OWNERS OK SHALLCROSS. 



Horse, they were attacked by the King's party while passing 

 Dudley Castle, and he was accidentally slain, aged about 42 

 years, and there buried. He had found much opposition from 

 Mr. Sergeant (President) Eradshaw. An administration of his 

 goods was granted in P.C.C. June 26th, 1646, to his brother, 

 Edmund Shalcross, who is described as a man of ability, benevolent, 

 strictly just, and of learning. His study contained 588 volumes,* 

 secured with one Roger Harpur, of Stockport, and viewed 

 under the sequestrator's orders by William Thomson, of 

 Eramall. In the Stockport registers are five autograph entries 

 of sums received by him in connection with bequests to the 

 poor. He married Mary, or Margaret, daughter of Thomas 

 Rudyerd, of Rudyerd, county Stafford {arg. freity sa., on a 

 canton gu. a crescent of the f.cld), of an eminent Saxon family 

 (Royalists), which then contained Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, a 

 statesman and orator, and, as poet, commended by Ben Jonson, 

 but he died without issue. His widow made her Will, in 

 1677, with charitable bequests. James Rudyeard, of the Abbey, 

 confirms in his Will, dated 1709, a grant made by his aunt 

 of twenty shillings yearly, on Roach-grange, for repairing books 

 left by her to Leek Vicarage, and for buying new ones.+ 



Richard Shallcross died at The Hall in 1623, aged about 

 51 years, and was succeeded by his son, 



John Shallcross (xv.), of Shaiicross, bom in 1603. 



He and his wife appear to have resided at Ridge Hall, with her 

 parents, until his father's death. He is named in the Lay 

 Subsidy Roll of 2 Car. I.; and as " armiger," 1633, in 

 the Freeholders of Derbyshire. He received from the King 

 in 1634 the office of Receiver and Bailiff of the King's Rents 

 in his honour of High Peak. His report, " Comp. Johannis 

 Shallcross, Armigeri, Receptoris et Ballivi ibidem,']: makes the 

 total receipts ^361 "jS. 4^. In the same year the Heralds 

 (Chitting) took down " Mr. Shawcrosse of Shawcrosse his 



* An Edward Hill was his servant for seven years. 



t See Earwaker's East Cheshire, i., 386-7, for further information. 



XHarl. 6673, ff. 129-152. 



