Io8 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



his two shares of the manor of Monyash, the purchase-money 

 being _;£^i,7i5. About the year 1645* an official return was 

 made of all the estates in the Macclesfield Hundred which were 

 owned by delinquents, and which Parliament had sequestrated 

 for the use of the public ; among them : — - 



John Shalcrosse, Esquire, hath an auntient message and some cottages 

 in the parish of Taxall, all of them sequestred about the time ut supra. 



The number of those who sought to obtain peace and freedom 

 from the Parliament now largely increased as the Royalist 

 cause sank ; yet it was doubtless with a keen pang, especially 

 under his private circumstances, that the Colonel the next year 

 sued out his pardon, paid the fine, took the Solemn League 

 and Covenant, and swore never to bear arms against the 

 ParUament. He was cleared of delinquency January 3rd, 

 1647:— 



John Shalcross of Shalcross, Esquier. — He is a Darbieshire man, and 

 hath sued out his pardon. 



It is deducible that this staunch Cavalier kept the peace 



for about three years, and his wife possibly resented the 



precarious allowance, not more than one-fifth of the delinquent's 



income, which was then all that was allowed them. She 



thought that the estate, free from fines, should have been 



allowed her, as she had ever been loyal to the Parliament, and 



she made an application for the benefit of the Colonel's 



sequestration. But subsequently, in 165 1, the Colonel, probably 



deeply moved by the event! of 1648, was again restless, for the 



following entries concern him in the Calendar of State 



Papers : — 



1051. Warrants from the Council of State. To apprehend Col. 



from C. (J. b. John Shalcross, who corresponds with the enemy, and seize 



. ''^' all the papers & writings in his lodjjings and brin" them 



Serjeant ij^r^-i 



Dendv sealed to Council. 



lOS'- No. 15. Col. John Shalcross to be discharged on like 



bond in ;^i,ooo, with two sureties in ^500. 



May 



May Council of State. Day's Proceedings. 



27. No. 5. John Shalcross to have liberty to continue in 



London for one month to settle his estate, & the order 

 of Council for seizing and securing his estate to be taken 

 ofiF, unless there be some other cause for continuing it. 



* Harl. MSS., 2130, f. 26, etc. 



t He lineally derived from Bradshaw through Jodrel of Yeardsley. 



