THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. II3 



VII-— A daughter, buried in the chancel at Chapel-en-le- 

 Frith, December i8th, 1623. 



VIII.— Elizabeth, baptized at Chapel-en-le-Frith December 

 22nd, 1624; married Edward Downes, of Shrigley and 

 Worth, 1630-94, and had issue Edward Dowries, 1662-1747, 

 who continued his line.* She was buried at Prestbury July 20th, 

 1677. 



IX- — Frances, married Thomas Higginbotham,t of 

 Buglawton, Macclesfield.]: They had issue, Frances, her uncle 

 Richard's God-daughter, living 1675, and Elizabeth, who married 

 Hulme, of Buglawton. This Elizabeth, in 1725, left ^4 per 

 annum for providing clothes for six poor inhabitants of Taxal, 

 distributed on St. Thomas's Day; io.f. for a sermon on the i6th 

 of October, being tlie day of the death of her father; 5^. 

 yearly to be laid out in penny loaves ; and 5^. to be expended 

 in repairing the tomb of the family (Earwaker). Mr. Joshua 

 Hulme used to pay this charity. The 5s. for tomb repairs is 

 annually paid into the Whaley Bridge bank. 



The vicissitudes of the career of Colonel Shallcross ended 

 in 1673, when hedied§ aged 70 years, and was interred at Taxal. 

 We hope that the little rift within the lute — differences which 

 had allied the Shallcross and Bramhall cousins against their 

 relatives at the Yeardsley and Ridge Halls— had been long 

 healed, and both, we trust, dormiunt in somno pads. His wife 

 may have been intombed January i8th, 1681. Upon an extant 

 altar-tomb, with an arched canopy, east of the Church, is an 

 inscription II on the flat-stone under the canopy, which thus 

 runs : — 



Here Lyeth the Body of Elizabeth | Shallcross Wife of Jo" Shallcross, Esq.-^] 

 of Shallcross, & y^ Body of Frances | Higginbothom, Daughter of y^ said | 

 Jo" Shallcross, Wife of Tho. Hig|ginbothom, Esq. of Buglowton j Buried y^ 

 2d day of Decern' 1682. j Also y<= body of Tho. Higginbothom, | Esq. buried 

 October ye 21 | Anno Domini 1706. 



* Earwaker's East Cheshire, vol. ii., p. 321. 

 t He gave a silver paten to Taxal Church the year he died 

 t Will of R. S. (XVI. ) 



§ Another Jo. Shalcross of Shallcross died in 1667. 

 II It is remarkable that this memorial does not notice the Colonel's burial 

 Ihere is an obvious conjecture. 



