Handbook and guide to Manchester / [edited by C.W. Sutton].

  • British Pharmaceutical Conference
Date:
1907
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Credit: Handbook and guide to Manchester / [edited by C.W. Sutton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    manded the town to be built and occupied and manned; and commanded another force, also of Mercians, the while that he sate there, to take possession of Manchester, in Northumbria, and repair and man it.” The place-names in and around Manchester afford abun- dant evidence of the long period of the rule of the Saxons, to whom is due the division of the district into hundreds and townships. In 1066, and earlier, the hundred of Salford was held by King Edward the Confessor. He was superior lord of the whole hundred, but the only portion that he retained in his own hand was the manor of Rad- cliffe. William the Conqueror granted the land between the Kibble and the Mersey, including Manchester and Salford, to Roger of Poictou, but the grant was forfeited before the completion of the Domesday Survey in 1086. In that survey two churches—St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s —are mentioned as holding land in Manchester, and this has given rise to the statement that both churches were situate in the town It is now, however, understood that the Church of St. Michael was at Ashton-under-Lyne, originally in the parish of Manchester. The first baron of Manchester is regarded, though with some uncertainty, to have been Albert Grelley or Greslet, a favourite of Roger of Poictou. He flourished from 1086 to about 1100. His son, Robert Greslet, who undoubtedly held the demesne of Manchester, was a co-founder of the Cistercian Abbey of Swineshead, Lincolnshire. Eight of the Greslets held the barony and manor of Manchester, the last of them dying about 1313. The first of the family known to have lived here is Robert (1182—1230), and his residence is supposed to have been the Baron’s Yard or Hull, on the site of Chetham’s Hospital. He was one of the barons who demanded Magna Charta from King John at Runnymede in 1215, and he obtained charters for an
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