. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE mesne lordship of the manor, but that in course of time this mesne lordship was, as in many similar cases, forgotten, and the immediate tenants were con^ sidered to hold directly of the honour of Lancaster, paying their rent at Salford manor-house. Another explanation is that one moiety became absorbed in the lordship of Manchester, the other moiety being that afterwards icnown as the manor of Hulme, held of Salford. Whatever may be the solution of this difficulty,' the actual possessors adopted the su
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE mesne lordship of the manor, but that in course of time this mesne lordship was, as in many similar cases, forgotten, and the immediate tenants were con^ sidered to hold directly of the honour of Lancaster, paying their rent at Salford manor-house. Another explanation is that one moiety became absorbed in the lordship of Manchester, the other moiety being that afterwards icnown as the manor of Hulme, held of Salford. Whatever may be the solution of this difficulty,' the actual possessors adopted the surname of Hulme' and were succeeded early in the 14th century by the Rossendales,'" and these by a branch of the Prestwich family, who also held lands in Oldham, perhaps a portion of the Hulme ; Of the Prest- wich family little is known '^ until the 16th century, when Ralph son of Ellis Prestwich entailed the lands. Edmund, his son and heir, being without issue, gave them ' by deed and fine' to his cousin Edmund son of Edmund Prestwich ; The elder Ed- mund died on 27 November 1577, holding the manor of Hulme and extensive lands in Manchester and Oldham ; Hulme was held of the queen as of her manor of Salford in soc- age by the ancient rent of 5/., and its clear annual value was j^; His successor, the younger Edmund Prestwich, died in 1598 holding the manor as before, and leaving as heir his son Edmund, then twenty-one years of ; The last-named Edmund died at Hulme in February 1628—9, holding the family estates, and leaving a son and heir Thomas, aged ; Thomas Prestwich, who was educated at Oxford," compounded for the two-thirds of his estate liable to sequestration for recusancy in. Prestwich of Hulme. Gules a mermaid proper crined or holding a glass and comb of the last. 8 The whole of Hulme may have befcn held half of Salford and half of Man- chester ; but the Prestwich inquisitions do not support th
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