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CHAPTER XIII. 



ROLLESTON — THE GREAT FROST — END OF THE SEASON — 

 MR. H. S. CHARRINGTON. 



1890-1891. 



There is probably no more popular man in Derbyshire, 

 to-day, tlian Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., of Rolleston Hall. 

 The original home of the family was the little hamlet 

 of Moseley near Wolverhampton, where Ernald de Mose- 

 ley, a Saxon, was settled in the time of King John. 

 Rolleston itself, with its mansion, was purchased by 

 Sir Edward Mosley in 1614, from the representative 

 of the Rolleston family, and subsequently he also ac- 

 quired the Manor from the trustees of Lord Mandeville, 

 to whom it had been granted by Charles I. The mansion 

 was partially destroyed by fire in 1871, and was rebuilt by 

 the father of the present baronet. Sir Tonmau Mosley. 

 He used to hunt in his younger days, but increasing 

 weight — he finally weighed considerably over twenty 

 stone — compelled him to give it up. There is an amusing 

 story told of a tailor who put an advertisement in his 

 window on some cloth, " Three guineas the suit." " Squire " 

 Chandos-Pole, of Radburne, Sir Tonman Mosley, and 

 another very large man, determined to have a joke at the 

 tailor's expense, and went in one after another to give an 

 order. When the third customer had departed the enter- 

 prising tradesman took his advertisement down. 



Sir Oswald first went hunting with the Meynell Ingram 

 hounds in the days of Joe Leedham, and as quite a young 

 man used to be very fond of riding the young horses 



