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North Joseph, relieving &; vaccina­ Router Joseph, cattle dlr. Church st Toon Jonathan, plumber, School st tion officer &; registrar of births &; Stamford, Spalding &; Boston Bank­ Towers Clifford, insur. agt. High at deaths for Syston district, Barrow­ ing Co. Limited (agency), open Turner Charles, draper, Melton road on-Soar union, Leicester road tues. &; fri. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Turner Fras. Bowman,horse trainer, North Josiah Joseph, assistant over­ (Harry Francklin, resident clerk), Brook street seer &; clerk to Parish Council, The Green; draw on Barclay &; Co. Turner John, grocer &; provision dlr Leicester road Limited, London E C UnderwoodChas boot ma.LE'icester Id North Matilda (Mrs.), butcher Sturmer Waiter, smith, High street Underwood Ruth Annie Agnes (Miss), ~orth Tom, builder &; contractor, Syston Burial Authority (S. K. boot & shoe dealer Leicester road Daniels, clerk) United Counties Bank Limited (sub· "Partridge William, baker, grocer &; Syston Church Institute (George branch) (Edgar Taylor, manager), beer retailer, High street Gadsby, sec.), Melton Toad Melton road; open tues. & fri.; "Payne Frank, smith, Melton road Syston &; District Constitutional As­ draw on Williams Deacon's Bank "Pickard George,baker &; confectioner, sociation CJ. T. Main, sec) Ltd. 20 Birchin lane, London E C Sandford road Syston Fire Brigade (John W. Free­ Vine Wine Co. (William Leake, man­ 1'ickard John Edward, grocer man, capt) ager), british wine makers & Plummer Oliver, fishmonger Syston Gas Co. (In. Th08. Main,sec) mineral water manfrs. Wanlip rd "Bedford George, beer retlr.Melton rd Syston Hand Laundry Co. (Fredk. Wakelin Harriett (Mrs.), teacher of IHley Sarah Ann (Mrs.), beer retailr. Tilley, manager), Melton road music, School street Chapel street Syston Penny Bank (Jsph.North,sec) Walker George, cab proprietor & Boyce Gascoine &; Co. Limited, boot Syston Village Hall (William P. timber dealer, &; parcel agent for &; shoe manufacturers Meadows, proprietor) Midland Railway Co Barson Charle!! William, news agent, Talbot Thomas Selby, baker Walker William, Bull's Head P.R. Leicester Toad Taylor H. A. &; Co. venetian, linen, High street Barson Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, wire &; general blind manufac­ Walton William, builder Leicester road turers, Steam blind works Ward Herbert, carrier Sharp George Thomas, plumber, gas- Taylor John, cabinet maker Ward John, coal merchant fitter &; painter Taylor Josiah, joiner, builder &; Wilkinson John. watch & clock ma. Sharp William, shopkeeper undertaker, Melton road Leicester road Sheffield George, butcher, Brook st Taylor Samuel, grocer, Melton road Wilkinson Lucy K. (Miss), teacher of Shelton Mary (Mrs.), I!hopkeeper Tilley Herbt.grocr.&; ale &; porter mer music, Leicester road Shelton Mary Jane (Mrs.), Midland Todd Robt. McLaren M.P.S. chemist, Wing John, Bell inn, & brewer Railway hotel High street Yates Florence (Mrs.), news agent & Smith John Robert, cycle maker &; Toon &; Son, painters &; decorators, tobacconist, Leicester road tobacconist, Leicester road Chapel street

THEDDINGWORTH is a village and parish, in­ aisle is a memorial window to Mrs. Elizabeth Lyne duding the township of Hothorpe, . (nee Crick), erected by her son, Robert E. Lyne esq. with a station on the Rugby and Stamford branch of the M.R.I.A.., F.R.G.S. of Dublin: the church was thoroughly London and North Western railway, 4~ miles west-by­ restored in 1858, under the direction of the late Sir ;:lJuth from , 8~ east-by-north from G. G. Scatt R.A. a,rchitect, and has 200 sittings, all and 106 from London, in the Southern free, with the exception of those in the BathuTst chapel: division of the county, Gartree hundred, petty sessional in 1898 a lych gate wa,s erected, at a cost of £100, by division, union and county court district of Market W. Stewart Sutiherland esq. The register dRtes from Harborough, rural deanery of Gartree (first portion), the year 1630' The living i.s a discharged vicarage, net -archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. yearly value £100, with residence and 55 acres of glebe, The passes through this parish. The in the gift of H. Merceron esq. of Tangley, And over. -church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Norman Hants, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Richard Frederick and Early English ·styles, consisting of chancel with FNlser Handcock B.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. -ai.sles, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled Here is aCo.ngregational chapel, erected in 1833, with r60 ~estern tower with spire, containing a clock and 5 s·ittings. The Institute here was erected in 1893 by bells, two of which are ancient, and has some fine monu­ JOIhn Smeeton esq. in memory of his son, Sydney Perry ments and mural tablet,s to the Bathurst family: the Smeeton, cm a site given by Earl Spencer, and contains north side of the fabric is Norman and the south Ea,rly reading and recreation TOOms and a small library. English: the stained east window, erected in 1858, is a There is a charity of £5 annually for the apprenticing memorial to Thomas and Isabella Lovell, and was placed of POOT children, and several other charities, amounting by their children: the chancel retains a piscina and to £4 108.. given away on St. Thomas' day by the vicar sed ilia, and has an alawster reredos, brought from and churchwardens. The Crick family, settled for up­ Venice: the aisles run the whole length of the chancel wards of two centuries at Theddingworth, were of an and nave, but a.re divided by carved oak screens: the old CambridgeSlhire and Northamptonshire family estab· north or 'Bathul'S,t chapel contains a fine organ; that on lis'hed in the latter county at an early date. The prin· the south, called "the Vicar's aislE'," contains. an old cipal landowners are Earl Spencer K.G. who is lord of $ak chest, about 9 feet long, 3 feet broad and 3 feet the manor, T. Guy Frederick Paget ·esq. of Woodend, high, bound with thick iron bands, running crosswise: Chichester, and Charles Edmund de Trafford esq. J.P. in the Bathurst chapel is a monument of the time of Hothorpe Hail, Rugby. The soil is heavy loam and of James I. with recumbent male and female effigies, but most of the paTish is grazing land. The crops are without inscription; here also is a marble monument baTley, beans and oat!'.. The aN'a of the towns-hip is to George Bathurst esq. his wife Eli1,abeth (V illi.ers) 1,619 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, and 17 children; he died 19 April, 1656, and his £3,042; in 1901 the popUlation was 201 in tlhe civil wife in 1650; there are d·emi-effigies of both in Puritan paris'h and 257 in the ecclesiastical, which extends into garb, and each holding a book; underneath are kneeling N orthampton;;hire. figures of 12 sons, 4 daughters and an infant, with a desk in the centre, on which is resting a human skull: Sexton, Jesse Lucas. in the Vicar's aisle is a bas-relief in marble to Griffith Post, M. o. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. Davis, d. 24 Jan. 17'22, who presented the church plate: &; I. Office.-Mi."s E. :Burton, SUb-postmistress. Let· in the south aisle is a monument with effigies to the ters through Rugby arrive at 5.10 a.m. &; 1.50 p.m.; Rev. Slaughton Clark and Rachel his wife, and a dispatched at 7.30 p.m memorial window to the Rev. Thomas James M.A. a former vicar, d. 18 Oct. 1863, and another to Rebecca Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1844, for .Jane James, d. 1860; and there are other memorial 64 children; itferage attendance, 47 ; Miss Sarah windows erected in 1890 to Robert E. Lyne esq. Elizabeth Houghton, mistress the Rev. Canon F. H. Sutton, vicar of Theddingworth Railway Sta.tion, John Alfred Barnett, station master (r864-73), d. r887, and, to Emily James (r890), the two latter erected by W. Stewart Sutherland esg-. whu also Carriers to Market Harborough.--Crolls, tues. from presented the fine carved oak font cover: in the north Husbands Bosworth, & BuUin, from Welford, tues PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Parsons Charles Lyne Beale William C. estate carpenter Cox Capt. Charles Folliott R.N. Scott Miss, The Laurels Burton Arthur & Ellen (Miss), South view Smeeton John J.P grocers &; drapers, Post office Finlayson Rev . .A.rchibald (Congrega- Smeeton Miss, Beeoh house Cherry Thomas, carpenter !ional), The Manse Sutherland William Stewart Ellson Hayes, butcher Handcock Rev. Richard Fredericl. COMMERCIAL. Green WiiIiam, grazier Praser B.A.