no THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



In 1655 he compounded for his estate, the composition 

 money being ;^400 ; the fines inflicted on composition varying 

 from two-thirds tO' one-tenth of the compounder's estate, when 

 money was worth four and a half times its present value. 

 Next year occurred the marriage, at Hope, of his eldest 

 surviving son. In 1658 he was, at six shillings, a subscriber 

 among the thirty-one from Shalcrosse to- the Easter Roll (total, 

 ^35 3-^-) for the parish of Hope. In the following year he 

 was again in trouble : — 



* 1659. .Sept. 14. No. 29. Col. Shawcrosset and the 2 taken with 

 him, to be sent up in custody to Council. 



Happily, this stout and valiant soldier lived to witness the 

 rejoicings of the Restoration. Subsequently he recorded his 

 arms and pedigree at the Visitation (Dugdale) taken 

 September 17th, 1663. J This pedigree is in the records of the 

 College of Arms, and a copy§ was truly extracted in 1779 by 

 J. C. Brooke, Somerset, for the Rev. Simon Jacson. The 

 arms are arg. and gu., and the pedigree, the last taken at the 

 Visitations, is of eight descents, ending with three children of 

 Richard and Anne Shalcrosse. But these pedigrees are scanty. 

 He sat on the magisterial bench at Bakewell March 27th, 1673, in 

 which year he died. 



He married Elizabeth, eldest of the three daughters of 

 Thomas Bagshawe, of the Ridge, who was descended from John 

 Shalcross (X.), whose arms — impaled in the Widdrington Roll — • 

 show the quarterings of Cockayne, Herthull, Deyville, Savage, 

 Rossington, and Edensor, with a seventh quartering of unknown 

 derivation. Unfortunately, Mrs. Shallcross strongly differed 

 from her husband's politics. Her political sympathies were 

 so objectionable to the Royalists, that Sir William Savile writes 

 thus, under date September 22nd, 1643 — "for L'. Coll. Shaw- 



» CaL of State Papers. 



t Not the first of his name to be apprehended (Shackles on Schakihros] 

 for political troubles, for in 1582 William " Shacrost," described as an 

 honest citizen, was a prisoner in the Tower of London. 



XAdd. MSS. 6668, f. 390. 



§ Kindly lent by Col. J. H. J. Jacson. 



