64 History of the 



" The Bag-piper," and, as a tail-piece to the volume, " Symbolic 

 Figures." In Baines' History, also, are two plates containing 

 drawings of forty-one subjects from the sculptured panels. These 

 carvings are now in Lady Ellesmere's room at the New Hall, 

 Worsley. 



The ancient residence, Hulme Hall, or Holme, was, as stated, 

 on the banks of the Irwell. It belonged to Adam de Rosindale in 

 the time of Edward I., as is proved by a grant from the said Adam 

 of thirty shillings per annum to Henry de Trafford, out of his 

 Manor of Hulme juxta Manchester, for life, dated 31st of Edw. fil 

 Regis Hen. The property subsequently passed through a suc- 

 cession of hands, viz : — the Prestwiches, the Mosleys, and the 

 Blands, and in 1751 it was purchased by George Lloyd, Esq., 

 and sold by him in 1764 to the Duke of Bridgewater, whose canal 

 passes in the immediate neighbourhood of the site. The Duke, 

 who cared little for the picturesque and much for the practical, 

 divided the hall into separate tenements. It eventually fell into 

 decay, and is now demolished. 



It is an interesting circumstance that the hall was bought by 

 George Lloyd, Esq., of Manchester in 1751. It is presumptive 

 evidence that Lloyd was acquainted with its history, as being one 

 of the ancestral homes of a relative of his Rossendale progenitor. 

 The Lloyds were an important family in Manchester, Gamaliel 

 Lloyd (probably the father of George) was churchwarden from 1 7 10 

 to 1 7 18, and in 1745 he subscribed ;^50 to a fund for raising 

 troops to be employed against the forces of the Pretender. 



The name " Rossendale " as a surname, was at one time com- 

 mon enough. 



In the Preston Guild Rolls, viz., in the roll of Guild Merchant 

 of 3rd Henry the Fifth, t4i5, appears the name of " Will de Ross- 

 yndale IIIJs." The name is contained in the second list of bur- 

 gesses, which consists of those whose fathers were not in the guild ; 

 who could not, therefore, enter the guild by birthright, but were 

 admitted on payment of various stipulated fines, {d) The fine 



(d) Memorials of the _Preston Guilds, by W. A. Abram. 



