THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. I07 



pedigree."* Some additions were then made to the visitation 

 of 1611,+ and the breviate of 1639 may about this time have 

 been added, or later, by the same representative, in 1663; 

 and the brief but important pedigree, with twenty inclusive 

 copies of the charters (the Widdrington Roll), was made under 

 his direction about this time {vide under Richard (II.). He 

 was High Sheriff of the county in 1638. We find in 1639 a 

 long lease between the King and John Shalcross, Esq., 

 concerning land in Bowden Middlecale, and nine cottages in 

 Youlgrave, and other small plots and houses over the Peak 

 district.^ He made an indenture of feoffment June 3rd, 1640, 

 with Philip, fourth Earl of Pembroke, whereby he received, 

 on payment of ^1,600, two parts in three in the manors of 

 Monyash, Chelmorton, and Flagg. John Shallcross,§ loyal to 

 the King in esse — us was his progenitor, John (IX.) — became 

 Colonel of Horse in the royal forces. In particular, during the 

 Civil Wars a petition for compensation was made by some 

 Parliamentary soldiers who were wounded in their assault upon 

 his Hall at Shallcross. The old house, || the scene of this 

 rencontre, stood a little to the west of the present Hall. In 

 September, 1645,^1 the Colonel gallantly held Chatsworth (old 

 house) for the King, on behalf of the young Earl of Devon- 

 shire, with a fresh garrison from Welbeck, from the Earl of 

 Newcastle, and a skirmishing force of three hundred horse. 

 It was then besieged by Major MoUanus for fourteen days with 

 four hundred foot, but the siege was raised by command of 

 Colonel Cell, who ordered the Major and his forces to return 

 to Derby (Glover). The year after these deeds of honour he 

 sold, probably from necessity, some of his estate. An abstract 

 of a conveyance, February 26th, is found in Add. MSS., 6670, 

 f. 453, from him to Thomas Gladwin, of Tupton Hall, of 



'» Add. MSS., 6668. 



t Harl., 1093. 



% Duchy Misc. Books, No. 58, f. 108. 



§ Another John Shalcross, of Stockport and Hyde, about 1640, was 

 Li Royalist. He had children baptized at Stockport. 



II See Mr. Gunson's pajier in Journal, vol. xxvii., pp. 186-7 



liThe King marched through the Peak, with about 3,000 men, the month 

 before, from Ashbourne to Doncaster. 



