THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



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June Council of State to the Sequestration Commissioners, co's 



2. Cheshire & Derby. We formerly gave order for seizing 



& securing the estate of John Shalcross, but having since 

 taken oflf such seizure we desire you to do so & set free 

 his estate, unless there shall be some other cause for con- 

 tinuing it under security than the Order of Council. 



An autograph letter from him to John Kendal, in 1652, on 

 one side of a paper 8 in. by 6 in., on a business matter, is 

 preserved in the Egerton MSS.* We add a facsimile of his 

 signature : — 

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I have caused those words Mr Tourner writ wtli his owne hand and thought 

 fit to be Inserted in Mrs. Rigbys Answer unto the bill prferred by the 

 Attorney Gen'erall to be put in to macke the same plene.t And uppon 

 the execusyon of the commissyon saw her swere+ soe that I question not 

 now you will hould It full to all the charges therein expressed and lickwise 

 preside § wth effeckt to Joyne In com'issyon & soe to herringe.jl Mrs. 

 Rigby Intending to prfere a crosse bill hath caused her son in law Mr. 

 Allexander Rigby sarved with a suppinell & whom hath promised to 

 appere and not Rune Into contempe the bill. My son'e will show vou-& 

 Deliver you the suppine & I shall Desier your p'^formanse according to your 

 undertack in the note you gave Me under y' hand. 



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To his Respeckted frend Mr. John Kendall, May 17, 1652, thes p'sent. 

 We find him again unsettled in 1654. 



«•:» April 4. Council. Day's Proceedings. No. 4. A bond entered into 

 May 23, 1651, to the late Council of State by John Shalcross of Shalcross, 

 CO. Derby, also by Nich. Higgenbotham and Anth. Leyborne, for Shal- 

 cross' appearance before Council when summoned, and doing nothing to 

 the prejudice of the State, to be delivered up to Mr. Shalcross, to be 

 cancelled. 



[648, f. 198. t Plain. X Swear. § Proceed. 

 Cal. of State Papers. 



I Hearing. H Subpoena. 



