I20 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



— tablet in the Church — leaving a posthumous daughter, Jane, 

 who died young. In 1684 he sold his estate at Rowley to the 

 Rev. John Harwood, of Shrewsbury, from whom, in 1709, it 

 passed to' Sir Richard Hill, of Hawkestone, Salop, who sold it 

 to the Davenports in 1723, in which family it still remains. The 

 mansion is now a picturesque old farmhouse. The year following 

 Monmouth's rebellion, he ser\'ed as High Sheriff for the county 

 (1686). In 1689 he was made a Commissioner under the Court 

 of Conscience Bill,* for the recovery of small debts. 

 In 1 69 1 a conveyance was made to him by Reginald 

 Dowries, of Overton, and his son Edmund, of the manor 

 and advowson of Taxal, which had been held by their 

 family since 1344. A release was executed in 17 15 

 tO' confirm the same by John Downes, second son of 

 Reginald.! John Shallcross sold the advowson in 1730, after 

 presenting in 1703 to Rev. Roger Bolton, in 17 14 to Rev. 

 William Newton, in 1726 to Rev. Joseph Dale, and in 1727 to 

 Rev. Edward Potts. J The manor he sold in 1733. He was 

 a considerable landowner on both sides of the Goyt. In 1695 

 his " tyth " at Wormhill, to carry on the war against Louis XIV., 

 was ^5 6s. He presented the Market House at Chapel-en-le-Frith 

 in 1700. On March 20th, 1 700-1, he, with Peter Wilbraham, 

 of Dorfield, made an arbitration in the dispute of the governors 

 of the Grammar School at Prestbury. A note of rents payable 

 to Thomas Eyre, Esq., assesses him, March 25th, 1703, at j£^ 

 for Black Edge. He served a second time as High Sheriff in 

 1710 (Glover gives John Harper, of Twyford, Esq. ; both served), 

 and he qualified as a justice for the county April 29th, 

 1712. He is identical with the John Shalcross who in 1712 

 was awarded allotments in Bowden, but not with the John 

 Shallcross of Shallcross, 1714, named in the "Return of 

 Papists' Estates. § Apparently about 1725, he built the 



* Hist. MSS. Commission. 



t Ormerod. 



J Or Pott, attended last illness of Roger Jacson, 1743. 



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