THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. II5 



Taxal, or it may have been his son. Subsequently he 

 confirmed an indenture with the Duchy in respect of a 

 waiver of manorial rights, in consideration of the satisfac- 

 tion of 100 acres of land in lieu thereof. Among the 

 papers of Mr. W. H. G. Bagshawe is the original convey- 

 ance between Richard Shallcross and Thomas Eyre, dated 

 May 3rd, 1674. This indenture refers at length to the 

 arrangement made shortly before the outbreak of the Civil 

 War between the Crown and the free tenants of the Peak 

 Forest as to disafforesting, whereby Charles I. was to have 

 a third of the wastes for enclosing, and the tenants two-thirds. 

 John Shallcross, his father, was a principal manager for the 

 King of the partition of the commons; and he himself claimed 

 a considerable part of the wastes of Shallcross, Fernilee, and 

 Fairfield, as pertaining to his manorial rights. In recognition 

 of this claim, the Crown agreed to assign loo (Cheshire) acres 

 of the King's award to John Shallcross when the agreement 

 was completed. It was not, however, until after the Restora- 

 tion that the division* was carried out, then equally between 

 the King and the freeholders, and as soon as this was com- 

 pleted Charles II. sold the Crown's share (1674) to Thomas 

 Eyre, Esq.,t who covenanted to carry out the stipulated arrange- 

 ment as to the loo acres with the then Shallcross representative, 

 the allotted portion being in Fairfield township. We give a 

 copy of this representative's signature. 



In 27 Car. II. Richard Shallcross signed the Duchy Special 

 Commission to enquire into the bounds of Duchy lands. 



Richard Shalcross was married, first, at Hope, June 12th, 1656, 

 by Launcelot Lee, Esq., J. P., Salop, in the presence of 

 Roger Rowley, Esq., and Mr. Francis Barney, Minister of the 

 Church of Woodfield (Worfield), county Salop, to Anne, 

 daughter and heiress of Roger Rowley, of Rowley, county 



* In a plan showing the division of the Commons in the possession of 

 Mr. W. H. G. Bagshawe, of Ford, a house at Cadster, in Taxal, belonged 

 to Richard Shalcross. He is not the R. S. of the text, but one R. S. who 

 died 1662. 



+ See Journal, vol. xxiv., page 32. 



