SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTEfR 



1632, his annual fine being £6 ly. \d}^ He 

 zealously espoused the king's side during the Ciril 

 War; was a commissioner of array in 1642; fought 

 in the wars with varying fortune, being made a 

 baronet in 1 644, and a knight afterwards on the field 

 of battle." He compounded for his estates in 1647," 

 but his exertions in the king's cause resulted in the 

 ruin of his house," and in 1660 Hulme was sold to 

 Sir Edward Mosley of Hough End in Withington." 

 Passing to the Mosleys of Ancoats," the Hulme estate 

 descended to Lady Bland, and was sold by her son 

 Sir John Bland in 175 1 to George Lloyd." In 1764 

 a portion was purchased by the Duke of Bridgewater." 

 Hulme Hall stood on a rise of red sandstone rock 

 overlooking the River Irwell just below where it is 

 joined by the Medlock, and about half a mile above 

 Ordsall. It is described by Aikin in 1795 as 'an old 

 half-timbered house,' and from the evidence of sketches 

 and drawings made while the building was still stand- 

 ing seems to have been a good specimen of the 

 domestic timber architecture of the county.'* It was 

 of two stories and built round a quadrangle, but no 

 plan has been preserved showing the disposition 

 and arrangements of its various parts. The river 

 front facing north-west appears to have been the most 

 picturesque side of the house, presenting an irregular 

 line of building, one of its three gables containing * an 

 oriel window with a projecting story above.' " The 

 approach was by an avenue of fine elm trees, and the 

 entrance seems to have been by an archway under a 

 tower on the south-east side of the quadrangle, on 

 one side of which the building was only one- 

 storied. The timber work to the quadrangle is said 

 to have been more ornate than that in the front 

 of the building, but some parts of the house appear 

 to have been of brick covered with plaster. It is 

 not easy to reconcile the various views of the hall 

 taken by different people at different times, or any 

 of them with the block plan of the hall as shown in 

 Green's map of Manchester (1794). In the i8th 



century the gardens of Hulme Hall ' were celebrated 

 for their beauty, and decorated with various works of 

 art and antiquity, among which were several Roman 

 altars and other remains of the former domination of 

 that warlike race, which had been discovered from 

 time to time in the immediate neighbourhood.' " The 

 portion of the hall facing the gardens, consisting of 

 two or three gables of two stories with the porch on 

 the extreme right, is described early in the 19th cen- 

 tury as containing ' a staircase of large dimensions and 

 massy appearance. It is composed of ancient oak, 

 which age had turned to a dark brown or black 

 colour. The upper rooms are panelled and have large 

 fireplaces with chimneypieces and twisted pillars in a 

 grotesque style. The interior is more perfect, and the 

 exterior more decayed, than the other parts of the 

 hall.' '' The hall was ' fast falling into decay ' in 

 1 807 (Britton), and was then let out in tenements to 

 poor families. In one of the rooms was a series of 

 16th-century oak panels sculptured with carved heads 

 and figures, but these were removed to Worsley Old 

 Hall about 1833 (or before), and are now in the new 

 hall there.'" Hulme Hall was pulled down about 

 1840 to give place to buildings and works in con- 

 nexion with the Bridgewater Canal, and murky smoke 

 begrimed workshops and mills now cover the site. 



It is said that in front of the hall, at the river 

 side, was a red sandstone rock called Fisherman's 

 Rock, in the face of which was a cave known as 

 Robbers' Cave.'"" 



In 1787 the chief proprietors were George Lloyd, 

 the Duke of Bridgewater, and William Egerton, 

 together paying four-fifths of the land-tax ; Thomas 

 Bullard or Bullock also had a fair estate." 



The increase of the population as Manchester ex- 

 panded from the end of the i8th century has led to 

 the erection of a number of places of worship. In 

 connexion with the Established Church, St. George's, 

 built in 1826-7, was consecrated in 1828 ;" Holy 

 Trinity, 1843;'' St. Mark's, 1852 ;" St. Paul's, 



18 Lucas's ' Warton ' (MS.) from 

 Thoresby. 



1' G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, ii, 222. 

 In 1642 he endeavoured to secure the 

 stock of powder in Manchester, and after- 

 wards took part in the siege of the town ; 

 Civil War Tracts (Chet. Soc), 15, 51. 

 He was taken prisoner at the defeat of 

 the Royalists near Ormskirk in 1644, 

 being then described as Colonel Sir Thomas 

 Prestwick ; ibid. 204. See also 0^ar in 

 Lanes. (Chet. Soc), 92. 



"" Cal. of Com. for Compounding, ii, 1443. 

 la 1 646 he desired to compound for his 

 ' delinquency,' on the Truro articles. He 

 was an officer under Lord Hopton. The 

 fine was ^£'9 2 5, reduced in 1649 to ;^443. 

 ^ Sir Thomas is traditionally said to 

 have been encouraged in his expenditure 

 for the king by his mother, who assured 

 him of a treasure she had hidden ; but 

 she died without revealing the place of 

 deposit, which was never found. Sir 

 Thomas died at the beginning of 1 674. 



'"^ A settlement of the manor, with 

 lands, &c., in Hulme and Manchester, 

 was made in 1657 by Thomas Prestwich 

 the elder and Mary his wife, Thomas 

 Prestwich the younger and Mary his wife, 

 Nicholas Mosley, Fabian Phillips, and 

 Edward Percival ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 160, m. 171. The sale to Sir 

 Edward Mosley was immediately con- 



firmed by an Act of Parliament in 1661 ; 

 13 Chas. II, cap. 2 (private). 



^ Under the will of Sir Edward Mosley 

 his cousin Edward, a younger son of 

 Oswald Mosley of Ancoats, acquired his 

 estates, Hulme on the subsequent parti- 

 tion being retained by him ; Mosley Fam. 

 Mem. 25, 29. See further in the accounts 

 of Ancoats and Withington. For fines 

 concerning it see Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 204, m. 66 ; 213, m. 84. 



Sir John Bland in 1 747 held the manors 

 of Heaton Norris and Hulme, with lands, 

 &c., in Hulme, Rusholme, Fallowfield, 

 Burnage, Birch Hall-houses, Chorlton, 

 and Heaton Norris j Com. Pleas Recov. 

 R. Mich. 21 Geo. II, m. 85. 



^'* A pedigree of the Lloyds, who con- 

 tinue to hold a large portion of the Prest- 

 wich estates, is given in Crofton's Old 

 Moss Side, 38. 



^ Raines in Notitia Cestr. ii, 68. It 

 was the Duke of Bridgewater who was in 

 1779 liable for the ancient 55. rent to 

 Salford ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals 14/25. 



^^ See Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xiv, 

 194. There is a lithographed drawing of 

 the hall in James's yieivs, 1825, and an 

 engraving in Britton's Beauties of Lanes. 



W Pal. Note Bk. i, 201. 



^ Mosley Fam. Mem. 32. 



M Notes by R. Mihie-Redhead to his 

 drawings of Hulme Hall. 



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8** The Hulme Hall sculptured panels 

 are engraved in Baines, Lane. (cd. i), iii, 

 144 ; see also Palatine Note Bk. i, 145, 

 172, 201. They were referred to and 

 woodcuts of two of the panels given by 

 Dr. Hibbert-Ware in his Sketches of the 

 Philosophy of Apparitions, 1824, and when 

 the Royal Institution was founded in the 

 same year, Dr. Hibbert-Ware suggested 

 that the trustees should purchase the panels 

 from Hulme Hall. See also Trans, of the 

 Scottish Antiq. Soc, 23 Dec. 1823, where 

 a drawing of the bag-pipes from Hulme 

 Hall is given to illustrate a paper by 

 Dr. Hibbert-Ware on the Ancient English 

 Bag-pipe. 



80* Manch. City News N, and Q. vi, 

 102, 104, 114. 



8^ Land tax returns at Preston. 



^2 This church was built from thr 

 Parliamentary grant. A district chapelry 

 was formed in 183 1 ; Lond. Gax. 21 June 

 1836 ; 16 June 1854. 



°* A district was assigned to it in 1854 ; 

 Lond. Gaz. 16 June. The church was 

 built and endowed by Miss Atherton of 

 Kersal, 



"^ A district was assigned as early as 

 1846 ; Lond. Gaz. 22 Sept. The congre- 

 gation for a time used hired premises, but 

 the foundation of the present church was 

 laid in 185 1 ; Mancb, Diocesan Church- 

 man, ii, 49, 



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