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PAPERS RELATING TO LEICESTERSHIRE PUBLISHED IN REPORTS AND PAPERS OF THE ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETIES, 1877-1931 by Jack Simmons Students of these Transactions are aware that great changes were introduced into them by Mr. George Farnham when he took over the responsibility for their editing in 1921: changes in format, in presentation, and in content. First of all, and most obviously, the size of each annual part was increased. Volumes i-xi (1855-1920) contain altogether 4,382 pages-an average of 65 for each year: vols. xii-xxvii (1921-51) contain 4,788 pages-154 for each year. It is true that, owing to the more spacious format adopted by Mr. Farnham, a smaller number of words was printed on each page. But, even allowing for that, we may reckon that our annual part or volume of Transactions is double the size of that issued to members of the Society before 1921. Again, the character of the papers has altered a good deal. They are longer and more academic than they used to be in the earlier days of the Society's history, and more strictly confined to Leicestershire-we no longer find papers on such subjects as "The Book of Common Prayer"1 or "St. Tudno's Church and the Earthworks on the Great Orme, North Wales". 2 Looking through the earlier volumes, one cannot help noticing the paucity of substantial papers, especially in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This defect was repeatedly commented on at the time. "It will be seen from the meagre list of papers read in the last twelve months", we read in the annual report for the year 1885, "how much we need more energy and industry amongst us, and how sadly we fail in this respect in comparison with the records of past years. In our last report mention was made of the few papers sent in for discussion, and this year has no better list to show."3 In the preface to vol. viii, written in 1899, the editor laments that "the number of contributors is very small, and the Committee would be glad to receive many more papers on antiquarian or archreological subjects from members". If we were to judge the Society in these years entirely on the work published in its Transactions, we should think poorly of it. But that would not be fair. For it has to be remembered that from its foundation in 1855 down to the year 1931 the Leicestershire Archreological Society was one of the Associated Architectural Societies, which produced an annual volume of Reports and Papers of their own. The Leicestershire Society's annual report was always printed there, as well as in its own Transactions, together with papers by its members on topics in Leicester shire history. Up to 1877 these papers were printed twice, both in Reports t Transactions, i. 288-93. 2 ibid., iv. 108-II. 3 ibid., vi. 155. PAPERS RELATING TO LEICESTERSHIRE and Papers and in the Leicestershire Transactions. But from that year on wards this wasteful duplication was abandoned,4 and from 1877 to 1931 a series of quite independent contributions to Leicestershire history was published in Reports and Papers. To estimate the activity of the Society, therefore, one must take both series of papers into account. This must substantially modify one's view of the Society's work. Every year, even in the sleepy eighties and nineties, at least one important Leicestershire contribution appeared in Reports and Papers, and sometimes the number was much greater: in vol. xxv of Reports and Papers (1899-1900) and again in vol. xxxi (1911-12) there were as many as five Leicestershire articles. After 1921, on the other hand, the number noticeably declined. Only six contributions appeared from Leicestershire in vols. xxxvi-xl of Reports and Papers (1921-31), and in 1931 the Leicestershire Archreological" Society ceased to form part of the Association. The reason is clear. It had become the Society's policy to concentrate on maintaining the high standard Mr. Farnham had set for its enlarged Transactions: it could not spare energy for Reports and Papers as well. There is no complete index to Reports and Papers, though four separate indexes to the first 25 volumes of the series (1850-1900) were published.5 It is not easy, therefore, to locate the Leicestershire papers that they contain. Since they are of first-rate importance and must be consulted by any student of the history and antiquities of the county, it seems worth while to list them. They are rightly to be regarded as a supplement to our own 'fransactions. A few very short and unimportant papers have been omitted here: nor does it seem necessary to include in this list a series of references to Mr. Hartopp's Leicestershire Marriage Licences, which was printed in the 27th and succeeding volumes of Reports and Papers, because an identical text was afterwards published in book form by the British Record Society. ' The papers are listed in the order of their publication. They are not indexed here, sint:e the subjects and places to which they relate are entered in the main index to this volume. Rev. J. H. Hill: Edward, first Earl of Rutland, son of Edmund, Duke of York, and grandson of King Edward III. xiv. 105-14. A. H. Paget: William Wyggeston and his Hospital. xiv. 260-71. Rev. Canon A. Pownall: Some Records of South Kilworth, chiefly taken from its Registers. xv. 242-61. , Rev. J. E. Stocks: On ancient Charters and other Documents lately discovered at Market Harborough. xvi. 284~90. Rev. W. H. Sandon: Stanford [-on-Avon] Church and its Registers. xvii. 121-53. (Includes some material on the Cave family.) 4 The Rev. R. Blakeney's paper on Melton Mowbray church (1893) was printed twice, in Transactions, viii. 18-24, and in Reports and Papers, xxii. 151-7. This was doubtless because it was read to a joint meeting of the Leicester shire Society and two of the Associated Societies-those of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire and of Northampton and Oakham. But this is the only paper that was thus duplicated after 1877. 5 The Rev. G. Rowe compiled an index to vols. i-viii (Lincoln, n.d.), and the Rev. G. T. Harvey compiled three others: to vols. ix-xiv (Lincoln, n.d.), to vols. xv-xix (Lincoln, 1890), and to vols. xx-xxv (Lincoln, 1905). 86 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH£0LOGICAL SOCIETY Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: Extracts from Leicestershire Registers . relating to the Hastings family. xvii. 309-12. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: Robert de Stretton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1360-1385. xix. 198-208. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: The Earliest Leicestershire Lay Subsidy Roll, 1327. xix. 209-312, 447-8; xx. 131-78. A. Gibbons: Notes on an Episcopal Visitation of the Newarke, Leicester, in 1525. xix. 442-6. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: Documents relating to Leicestershire pre served in the Episcopal Registers at Lincoln. xxi. 277-329; xxii. 109-50, 227-365: Rev. E. Venables: Architectural Notes of the Churches visited by the Lincoln and Nottingham Architectural Society at the Annual Meeting held at Melton Mowbray, 7 and 8 June 1893 [Melton Mowbray, Wymondham, Edmondthorpe, Stapleford, Wyfordby, Brentingby, Thorpe Arnold, Freeby, Garthorpe, Coston, Sproxton, Stonesby, Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Goadby Marwood, Croxton Kerrial, Knipton, Branstone]. xxii. 32-56. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: Some unpublished Documents relating to Leicestershire, preserved in the Public Record Office. xxiii. 213-52, 392- 436; xxiv. 234-77. (Vol. xxiii, pp. 430-6, are from MSS. at the British Museum.) H. Hartopp: Leicestershire Lay Subsidy Roll, 1603-4. xxiv. 601-27. Rev. S. T. Winckley: Royalist Papers relating to the Sequestration of the Estates of Sir Lewis Watson [of Rockingham, Northants.]. xxv. 371- 404. (Includes references to documents relating to Bringhurst, Drayton, Great Easton, Garthorpe, Langton, and S:xsonby.) H. Hartopp: The Parish Registers of Ratby, 1695-1710. xxv. 405-18. H. Hartopp: The Parish Registers of Houghton-on-the-Hill, 1582- 1639. XXV. 419-30. H. Hartopp: Some unpublished Documents relating to Noseley. XXV. 431-58; xxvi. 276-320. Rev. C. W. Foster: Institutions to Benefices in the Diocese of Lin coln, 1540-70. xxiv. 1-32, 467-525; further instalments were then published in Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, vols. v and vi; xxv. 459-544. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: The Lords Lieutenant of Leicestershire. xxvi. 259-71. W. J. Freer: Clerks of the Peace and Lieutenancy for the County of Leicester. xxvi. 272-6. W. Bradbrook: Extracts from and Notes on the Parish Registers of Misterton. xxvi. 449-57. W. J. Freer: An Account of recent Discoveries of Roman Remains at Rothley Temple. xxvi. 457-62. Transcript and Translation of Signet Bill conferring a Baronetcy upon Richard Halford, Esq., of Wistow, Leicestershire, 16 December 1641. xxvi. 206-19. PAPERS RELATING TO LEICESTERSHIRE A. P. Moore: Subsidies of the Clergy in the Archdeaconry of Leicester in the Seventeenth Century. xxvii. 445-95. J. A. Gotch: The Renaissance in Leicestershire. xxvii. 496-502. A. P. Moore: Note& on the Will of a medieval Archdeacon [William Donne, fourteenth century]. xxvii. 503-24. A. P. Moore: Proceedings of the £cclesiastical Courts in the Arch deaconry of Leicester, ;,:516-35. xxviii. n7-220, 593-662. Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher: The Sequestration Papers of Edward Farnham of Quomdon. xxviii. 775-90. A. P. Moore: Leicestershire Livings in the Reign of James I. xxix. 129-82. A. P. Moore: The Metropolitical Visitation of Archbishop Laud [in the Archdeaconry of Leicester]. xxix. 479-534. Rev. W. G.