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Expenses of tt)e Sijvtebaltg tutting t\)t 

 Summer ^sst^e of 1631. 



By C. E. B. Bowles, M.A. 



N approximate estimate of the expenses which the 

 holding of the office of High Sheriff for this county 

 entailed early in the Stuart period, may be gathered 

 from the following Accounts* of the disbursements 

 made during the assize week in July, 1631, on behalf of Francis 

 Bradshawe, of Bradshaw, who was High Sheriff for the county 

 that year. There are four and twenty of the original documents, 

 of which one is headed, " Laide down for Mr. High Sheriff for 

 Sommer Sisses for the Judges house July the xxv th ," and this 

 is endorsed by George Bradshawe, the High Sheriff's brother 

 and eventual heir, with the words, " Note of the expenses when 

 my brother was Sheriff of Darbyshire." Francis Bradshawe, 

 the eldest son of Francis Bradshawe, of Bradshaw, by his 

 marriage with Anne, daughter and co-heir of Humphrey Stafford, 

 of Eyam, was born in 1576.! His father, Francis the elder, 

 qualified as a Justice of the Peace for the county in 16 15. 

 This fact adds somewhat to the information regarding the 

 closing years of his life, in the history of the family, contributed 

 to the last volume of this Journal by the writer, who not having 

 then had access to the list of Justices of the Peace in Dr. Cox's 



*Wolley Charters, xii., 94-96. 

 fVol. xxv., p. 38, of this fourttal. 



