112 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



knowledge friends to the Parliament, and so also are those whom Bret- 

 land named not friends to the Parliament. And this deponent saith that 

 about two years agone she hearing that Mr. Bretland had gotten the 

 books whereby his Majesty's rents were formerly gathered by her said 

 husband of & for the hundred of the High Peak and being in Chapel-en- 

 le-Frith demanded of him the said books, that she might procure (if she 

 could) the place granted over to her brother Captain Edward Bagshawe, 

 now deceased, for the better maintaining of herself and her family (her 

 husband's estate being then under sequestration) he Mr. Bretland answered 

 that he would not part with it for that he took it for her husband's good 

 (who was then a delinquent) whereinto she answered " Why then will you 

 not deliver them unto me?" To which he said, " Because the Country 

 saith you are your husband's enemy," which Sir Edward Bagshawe, Knt., 

 being then in (our) company hearing said, " I pray you. Sir, wherein is 

 she her husband's enemy," to which Mr. Bretland said, " In that she is of 

 a contrary opinion to him, and would dispose of it to such persons as her 

 husband would not have to deal with it." And further, this deponent 

 being asked whether Mr. Bretland were well affected to the Parliament, 

 she saith she hath heard it generally reported that he is a man disaffected 

 to the Parliament, and she rather is induced to believe so because she has 

 known him several times to travell on the fast days and not come to 

 Church. Elizabeth Shallcross. 



From the above affidavit it would appear that the benefit of 

 Colonel Shallcross's sequestration was first given to Captain 

 Edward Bagshawe, and that after his death Mr. Bretland (of 

 Thornclifif Hall, 1607-54) obtained it, or, at least, the collection 

 of the King's rents. 



By Elizabeth Bagshawe, who was 17 years old at the time 



of her marriage, he had issue : 



I. — A son, buried in the chancel at Chapel-en-le-Frith 

 January 15th, 162I, unbaptized. 



II. — John, bom 1629, living 1638, died before 1650, s.p. 

 III. — Richard, born 1631, his successor. 

 IV. — Edmund, baptized at Taxal April ist, 1633. Buried 



April 4th, 1633. 



V. — Leonard, baptized at Taxal July 26th, 1634; he had a 



daughter, Sarah, baptized at Taxal July 24th, 1692. (A Leonard 



was buried in 1637.) 



VI. — Thomas, of Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculated 



July 23rd, 1656; died before 1675 (Will of R. S.). 



