A few straggling houses were built nigh to the ditch and outworks;
beyond these the way was open towards the park. Here they arrived in due
time, entering in by a side wicket, which led them round to the back
part of the house by the gardens.
The proprietorship of the Lodge had latterly fallen to the lot of Edward
Mosley, by a deed of partition between his brother Oswald Mosley and
himself, a mercer of great note in Manchester, one Adam Smythe; these
parties having purchased, jointly, the lands of Nether and Over Aldport
from Thomas Rowe of Hartford, who had them of Sir Randle Brereton, the
next purchaser from William, Earl of Derby. The house and grounds, about
ninety-five acres, of Nether and Over Aldport, formerly belonged to the
warden of the college for the time being, and were held, by a rent of
four marks per annum only, from the Lord de la Warre. It was enjoyed
uninterruptedly by them until the dissolution of this community in the
first of Edward VI., when it was granted to the Earl of Derby along
with the rest of the college lands.
Elizabeth, however, in the twenty-first year of her reign, granted a new
foundation to the college: but the Earl of Derby, who still kept
possession of the college-house and some portion of the lands, suffered
the warden and ministers for some time to lodge there.
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