THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. II7 



Near this place rests that which was mortal of John Beresford, who 

 married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Shallcross, of Shallcross, in the 

 county of Derby, by whom he had frve sons and four daughters. He was 

 a near friend to many of honourable degree, on account of his liberality 

 of mind. By their hands he could have been carried to his grave, but he 

 himself forbade it, and committed his body for burial only to his brother 

 Edward, and his three sons (in a humble and obscure spot). He died 

 in the year of Christ, 1724, of his age 70. His sorrowing widow dis- 

 charging the last duty to her husband erected this memorial, who also 

 died 2ist March, 1745, at the age of 85. May they both with their 

 children rest in peace. 



Among their descendants is the Rev. E. A. Beresford, who 

 informs me that there was in the possession of the late Canon 

 Gilbert Beresford, of Hoby, some plate and books (the library 

 was sold in 1899) with the Shallcross arms, presumably brought 

 by this marriage. He has a portrait in oils of John Beresford and 

 of his wife. John Shallcross (XVII.) was one of Captain 

 Beresford's executors. Agnes, second daughter of their grand- 

 son, Rev. W. Beresford, married Sir H. FitzHerbert, of 

 Tissington, in 1805, leaving issue. 



IV. — William, living 35 Car. II., 1682. In that year on 

 March 20th, he signed at the Derby Assizes a loyal memorial 

 to the King from the Grand Jury, directed against an associa- 

 tion of the Protestant party, supported by William, subsequently 

 first Duke of Devonshire, which attempted to exclude the right 

 of the Duke of York (James II.) to the Crown as a professed 

 Roman Catholic. 

 V. — Anne. 



VI. — Ellen; had ;£5oo under father's Will; under 21 in 



1675- 



Richard Shallcross married, secondly, Dorothy, daughter of 

 William George, of Shrewsbury, a connection of the families 

 of Hazlewood and Chadwick, whom he may have met at 

 Shrewsbury while visiting his wife's relatives there at 

 "Rowley's Mansion."* By her, however, he left no issue. 



■•■•■ William Rowley, a scion of Rowley, settled as a draper at Shrewsbury, 

 and there built the fine brick house known as " Rowley's Mansion," in 

 the street now called Hill's Lane. There is an illustration of this house 

 in Owen and Blakeway's Shrewsbury, i., 408. 



