. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1742.—Jonson. 1743.—John Taylor. 1744.—George Chapman m$ 110 OLD ENGLAND. | Book V, roofs, and numerous projections, their carvings and their Hall no longer exists. It was pulled down a short timesince. Our engraving was taken just before its demolition. Theplace belonged to the family of Prestwick from the middle of thefifteenth to about the middle of the seventeenth century. A curiousmystery may be said still to attach to the spot. The dowager LadyPrestwick, during the
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1742.—Jonson. 1743.—John Taylor. 1744.—George Chapman m$ 110 OLD ENGLAND. | Book V, roofs, and numerous projections, their carvings and their Hall no longer exists. It was pulled down a short timesince. Our engraving was taken just before its demolition. Theplace belonged to the family of Prestwick from the middle of thefifteenth to about the middle of the seventeenth century. A curiousmystery may be said still to attach to the spot. The dowager LadyPrestwick, during the Civil War, encouraged her son, who belongedto the Royal party—but apparently had been wavering in his alle-giance on account of pecuniary difficulties—to remain firm to theRoyalist cause, saying she had treasure to supply him with. It wassupposed she referred to some hidden stores about Hulme. Butwhen she was dying she was speechless, and so, if she had a secretof the nature supposed, it was buried with her. Nothing remarkablehas since been discovered at Hulme. The bountiful and home-keeping
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