Il6 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



Salop.* For 500 years had this ancient line held the lands 

 of Rowley, in Worfield, near Bridgnorth, one Roger carrying 

 the standard of de Montfort at Evesham, where he was slain, 

 and another fought at Agincourt, while Elizabeth, wife of 

 Stephen, was a benefactor of the chantry at Worfield in 

 18 Hen. VII. The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623, records six 

 generations, the alliances including Foxhall of Chelmershe, 

 Baker of Sevemhall, and Kinge of Birmingham. + Branches of 

 this family have held several baronetcies. Roger, the father 

 of Mrs. Shalcross, a barrister-at-Law of Gray's Inn, had first 

 adhered to the Parliament, but in 1647 he became the assignee 

 for his friend and neighbour. Sir William Whitmore, of Apley, 

 owner of Bridgnorth Castle, which had been captured by the 

 Parliamentarians in 1646, and he now gives Anne, his sole 

 daughter and the heiress of the pleasantly-situated dwelling- 

 place of his race, to the son of the Cavalier, to whom his 

 estate was eventually carried. By her, who brought the second 

 quartering of the Shallcross family {Arg. on a bend betw. two 

 Cornish choughs, sa., three escallops of the first), he had issue, 

 not apparently baptized at Taxal : 



I. — John, born in 1662, of whom presently. II. — Roger. 



III. — Elizabeth, bom in 1660, had a bequest of _;^i,ooo 

 under her fathers Will. She became, by licence, at Stockport 

 Church, January 20th, 1684, the second wife of Captain John 

 Beresford (arms as under Shakelcross (X.)), an influential county 

 magistrate and a strong Tory in Queen Anne's time, then head 

 of the Beresford family, and who left many traces behind him. 

 His branch was that of Fenny Bentley, but in 1681 he bought 

 back again to the Beresfords the old hall at Beresford, as did 

 Lord Beresford once again in 1829. He died at Ashbourne; 

 his wife at Cheadle, in Cheshire. There is a memorial in the 

 chancel at Fenny Bentley, near the tomb of their ancestor, the 

 hero of Agincourt, which has an interesting (Latin) inscription : — 



* Harl. 6668, f. 391, Mr. Shawcross of Shawcrosse, his pedigree. 

 t Harl. 1396 f. 274 b. 



