THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. Ill 



crosse wife, if you can conveniently gett her, take her prisoner, 

 and wee will treat of the rest of the businesse" — in a letter to 

 Major Beaumont, Governor of Sheffield Castle.* We find her 

 name mentioned, subsequently, under the ordinance of 

 March 27th, 1643,! in a payment to William Barrett, collector 

 for the Macclesfield Hundred : — 



Item, Received Sept. 6, 1644, of Mris Elizabeth Shallcrosse of 



Shallcrosse for Cookes ffarme which was omitted in my hist accompts, 

 li. 12 : J. 00 : d.oo. 



Item, more of Mris Shalcross of Shalcross for books bought of the 



Comittee for Sequestration, wh. bookes were part of sequestred 

 goods belonging to Edmund Shalcross late parson of Stockport, a 

 delinquent deceased, li. 13 : s.od : d.o8. 



The last entry may refer to Edmund's mother. 



Their political differences were probably accentuated by the 

 dolorous fates of their respective brothers, for of the lady's 

 two brothers who fought for the Parliament, Edward and 

 Henry, the former was slain at Tutbury. Nor would the attack 

 on their mansion, nor the lady s tending the beds of the 

 Parliamentary wounded, nor the Colonel's wars and financial 

 troubles, relieve their domestic disunion. We find an affidavit 

 fiom her in 1647 in apparent connection with her claims upon 

 her husband's estate. This affidavit does not contain all the 

 facts mentioned in her depositions, for she charged Mr. Bretland 

 with obstructing her brother, either Edward or Henry, when 

 he was at Glossop, and preventing, as far as he was able, 

 recruits from joining the Parliamentary Standard. This 

 interesting document thus runs (abstract) : — 



Royalist Composition Papers, June 2nd, 1647. Bullocke Smithy. 

 Elizabeth the wife of John Shallcross of Shallcross, Esquire, aged 42 years, 

 sworne and examined saith. That about a' month agone Captain Henry 

 Bagshawe, her brother, told her that he being in Glossop in a house 

 there in company withe John Bretland of Thornclifle in the County of 

 Chester, he heard the same John Bretland utter these words following 

 viz., that Sir John Gell, Sir Wm. Brereton, Sir John: Curson and divers 

 others were no better than traitors. And this deponent saith that Sir Joh^ 

 Gell, Sir William Brereton, and Sir John Curson are to this deponents 



* \l\M.\.ix^% HaUamshire, p. 139. 



t Return of Estates of Delinquents, p. 270. 



