THE PARISH CHURCH TO RUSHEY GREEN. 137 
previously married John Leigh, of Addington, in Surrey, and after 
Roger Fitz’s death, re-married William Hattecliff, and lastly a 
Mr. Flemyng. The house must have been of some size, since 
during Mr. Hattecliff’s lifetime he entertained Cardinal Campeggio 
on his way to London in 1518. Isabella Fleming died in 1544, and 
in her will left 20s. towards mending the highway before her house 
at ‘*Rushet Green,” and amongst other things her kirtle of 
‘€crymison satton,” to make a vestment for the church, and her 
damask jacket of white and green to make an altar cloth. 
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PLATE 62.—THE ‘‘ELM TREE” INN, NEAR THE Pounp, HiGH STREET. 
The shops and houses from No. 17 Rushey Green to the 
Wesleyan Church, occupy the frontage of the estate known as 
‘‘ Rosenthal,” formerly the residence of Mr. Alexander Rowland, 
of Macassar Oil fame. The Wesleyan Church and the adjoining 
villas stand on the site of the house. The estate was sold about 
1888, when Davenport Road and Rosenthal Road were formed. 
The public footpath between the Wesleyan Church and the 
Pound formerly led over what were known as the ‘* Pound Fields,” 
now covered in part by Farley Road. 
The Pound, one of the most ancient institutions of the place, 
still remains, but of late years beasts found straying within the 
Manor have seldom been incarcerated therein, being dealt with by 
the police, although four ‘‘Pound keepers and Common drivers” 
are annually chosen at the Court Leet of the Manor. The ground 
behind the Pound, on which Farley Road and part of Honley Road 
is built, still belongs to the Lord of the Manor. Beyond the Pound, 
and built on a strip of land enclosed from the waste, was a small 
