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LEICESTER. St. Margaret's Church, 585052 Prior to the construction of a vestry on the north side of the chancel (now, 1953, in progress), R. Offley took the opportunity of cutting a trial hole at the foot of the east wall of the north aisle. He revealed the foundation which was composed of roughly laid undressed stones, without mortar, to a depth of 4 ft. 6 ins. The ground was much disturbed by burials but produced sherds of Roman pottery. (Photograph in Museum.) GLENFIELD, 538062 The fifteenth-century alabaster figure of a lady of the Fulleshurst family3 after lying exposed in the old church for some 70 years was, after two year's effort by the Department of Antiquities and Mr. D. A. Blakesley, removed by the Parish Council to the new church, largely at private expense. This effigy is usually known as "The Lady of Glenfield" who is reputed to have lost her way and to have been guided home by the church bell, in gratitude for which she gave to the church the field she was standing in when she heard the bell. There seems to be no authority for this story, which is told of other places also. SAPCOTE, 487934 During August 1952 a main sewer was laid through the east end of Park Field 486934 at Sapcote. Though it ran a good 15 feet deep there were no finds of any description, and no traces whatever of habitation. The ditch was sectioned, but showed no traces of silting, and the four feet of filling seemed to be homogeneous throughout, suggesting a short period of use. This site is not the historic castle, for which we must surely look to the great moat (still wet) in the Vicarage garden. In passing we note the field name of Toot Hill, 488934, still used for the local wakes, where a stake is said to have disappeared totally when being driven into the ground. (Toot is used of castle mottes in the South Midlands.) The field is full of mounds and hollows of no cl~ar shape. The old green roads to the west of the church are interesting. During the laying of the sewer the old springs (whence it was hoped to make a spa in the early nineteenth century) were tapped and flowed in some quantity. Mr. R. J. Abbott watched the site and supplied the local information herein. SHARNFORD, 484919 Contractors working in the lane to the north of ·the main road in March 1953 found a human skeleton at a depth of about 2 ft. 6 ins., lying approximately east and west. It was much damaged, but was probably of an adult about 30 years old, the teeth being large and completely sound. It lay in natural sand. THEDDINGWORTH, 665859 During a recent visit to Theddingworth we were told two interesting legends. One is that King Charles I, on his way from Naseby, hid at The Lodge, a timbered structure, and the other that until quite recently the phrase "The nine-o­ clock horses will get you" was used to frighten children. This referred to the stage-coach: were bad children sent to be apprentices in or ? The inn known as the Greyhound was nicknamed "Sots Hole" after the con­ struction of the Canal and the behaviour of the labourers therein. It was used as a threat for disobedient children to be sent there.

LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE During the year ending 31 March 1953 the following deposits, have been received by the County Record Office : (1) PARISH RECORDS (civil) Thurcaston Parish. (a) Overseers of the Poor : Account Books 1770-1838; Assessment books 1812-1837; Appointments of Overseers and Lists of the Poor. (b) Union: early papers relating to Thurcaston. (c) Rate Books 1838-1860 (Thurcaston) and 1838-1857 (). (d) Constables' Appointments

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1850-1851 (Thurcaston and Cropston). (e) Apprenticeship Indentures 1686-1832. (j) Settlement Certificates and Removal Orders 1775-1858. (g) Bastardy Papers 1799-1829. (h) Jury and Electoral Lists 1832-1850. (i) Enclosure-Charnwood Forest and Plain Book of Claims. (j) Miscellanea. (2) ENCLOSURE AWARDS Frisby on the Wreak. (No Map.) (3) TlTHEAWARDS Frisby on the Wreak-altered apportionment, 30 September 1953. Illston on the Hill-13 December 1849 (photographic copy). (4) MANORIAL North Kilworth. Court Rolls: 1534; 1585; 1591; 1596; 1597; 1601; 1602; 1603; 1605; 1606; 1607; 1672; 1767. Estreat Rolls: 1622; 1627; 1629. Miscellaneous Papers. (5) TURNPIKE to Ashby de la Zouch Road and to Rempstone Road. Minute Book, 1841-1885. (6) EDUCATION Market Bosworth, Dixie Grammar School. (a) Plans and Rental of Estates 1827-1862. (b) Bundle of Deeds. (7) MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND ESTATE PAPERS Ashby de la Zouch and 1870; Barrow upon Soar 1743; Fleckney 1808; Lutterworth 1734-1876 (bundle of deeds relating to the former estate of the Kettering Baptist Chapel); Newton Burgoland 1697; 1631-1737; 1791 (the smock mill); Thurlaston (thirteenth century). (8) MAPS Borough of Leicester, 1840. (9) REPORTS National Buildings Record-Report of the Leicester and Leicestershire Committee. L. A. PARKER

LEICESTER MUSEUMS ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT During the year ended 31 March 1953, the Archives Department of the Museums has received several .very interesting collections of documents, and also the most important accession ever to come to the Department, the official records of the Corporation of Leicester up to the year 1835, in addition to those already held by the Museums. A summary list of the principal accessions is as follows: Leicester Borough Records (20 D 52) Deposited by the Town Clerk and transferred from the Town Hall, except the charters and confirmations of incorporation (temp. Elizabeth I onwards), and the Freemen's rolls, which still remain in the Town Hall. The following date limits to classes are tentative until the records are fully catalogued, and in most cases indicate broken series. On these records, see Hist. MSS. Comm., 8th Report, App. i, pp. 403-41 (inaccurate and incomplete), and M. Bateson and H. Stocks (ed.), Records of the Borough of Leicester, vols. i-iv (incomplete). 'Judicial. Merchant gild rolls, II96-1380; portmanmoot rolls, 1260-1379, 1572-96; coroners' rolls, 1297-1327; sessions rolls and recognisances, 1607-1837. Administrative. Tallage rolls, 1267-1371; cannemol rolls, 1260-1339; assize of bread rolls, 1291-1379, 1443; muster rolls, 1574-1612; subsidies and benevo­ lences, 1492-1648; Common Hall minutes, 1806-35. (Common Hall minutes, 1477-1806, and Hall Papers, 1583-1709, were pre­ viously deposited and are also held in the Department.) Financial. Mayor's accounts, 1300-79; chamberlains' accounts, 1377-8, 1518- 1603, 1773-1836; Corpus Christi gild rent rolls; 1458-1542; borough rentals, 1452, 1543-1750, 1800-4. 82 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH£0LOGICAL SOCIETY

(Chamberlains' accounts 1595-1773, and various years between 1773 and 1836 were previously deposited and are also held in the Department.) Deeds and drafts. Charters, deeds and conveyances, twelfth-nineteenth cen­ turies (rr5 boxes); draft leases, papers in legal suits, receipts, quittances, etc., sixteenth-eighteenth centuries (58 boxes). Miscellanea. Borough cartulary and custumal, fourteenth century; the Easter Book of St. Mary's, sixteenth century; Sir Thomas White's and other charities books, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries. (The Town Book of Acts, the Old Locked Book, Corporation oath books and other miscellaneous volumes, fifteenth-eighteenth centuries, were previously deposited and are also held in the Department.) Records of St. Nicholas parish, Leicester (23 .D 52) Deposited by the vicar and churchwardens of St. Nicholas. They include: Removal orders, 1702-1839; apprenticeship indentures, 1700-1866; certificates of legal settlement, 1704-1815; militia papers, 1796-1827; rating books and papers, 1760-1836; sessions papers, 1790-1826; miscellaneous receipts, 1700-1837; eccle­ siastical and vestry papers, 1829-90. Family Papers, relating to the Freer family of Leicester, Knipton and Oakham (16 D 52) Presented by Mrs. H. V. Currie of Guildford. They include: Letters written from the front during the Peninsular War, 1807-14; other family letters, 1813-1900; commissions in the Army and Militia, 1780-1874; family probate and other testa­ mentary business, 1786-1900; military papers of General J. H. Freer and others, 1855-60; deeds relating to Barton, co. Warwick, and other properties, 1728-67. Documents relating to Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester (22 D 52 and 1 D 53) Two small groups of documents supplementary to the main archives of the Hospital (see Trans. Leics. Arch. Soc. xxviii. 94) deposited by Ironside and Co., Solicitors, and the Leicestershire Archreological Society. They include: medieval land charters, thirteenth century; a copy of the Huntingdon Statutes of the Hospital; papers in legal suits, seventeenth century; Masters' account books, 1560-8; and Hospital account rolls, mid-eighteenth century. Land documents Two collections of miscellaneous deeds acquired by purchase (10 D 52 and II D 52). The bulk of them relate to Leicester, but some relate to various other places in the county, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. Miscellanea Patent issued to Thomas Loseby or' Leicester for horological inventions and improvements, 1852 (8 D 52). Satirical broadsides and other addresses to electors issued during the Leicester borough Parliamentary election of 1837 (9 D 52). Letter from Lord Portland concerning the effect on the poor of Lekester of the rise in the price of grain, 1799 (12 D 52). Playbills of the Royal Opera House, Leicester, 1884-1915 (13 D 52). Billheads of Leicester tradesmen, and notices of concerts and assemblies in Leices~r, eighteenth-nineteenth centuries (14 D 52). Collection of tickets and invitation cards to public functions in Leicester, nineteenth century (15 D 52). Application for additional curate to serve the chapelry of Knighton, Leicester, 1838 (19 D 52). Printed pamphlet, "A speech delivered at the Guildhall, Leicester .... by the Rev. Robert Hall", 1817 (2 D 53).

Publication by the Archives Department: A Handlist of Leicestershire Parish Registers Transcripts, price 2s. 6d. AUDREY M. WooococK LIGHT DIVISION THEATRE

GALLEGOS On Saturday Evening, the 6th of March, 1813 WILL BE PERFORMED FORTUNE'S FROLIC MEN Robin Roughead, Lt. Hennel, 43rd Regt. Snacks, Lt. Pattenson, 43rd Regt. Mr. Franks, Lt. Pemberton, 95th Regt. Rattle, Lt. Havelock, 43rd Regt. Clown, Lt. Hopewood, 95th Regt. Servant, Lt. Hamilton, 95th Regt. WOMEN Miss Nancy, Lt. Lord C. Spencer, 95th Regt. Dolly, Lt. Hble. C. Gore, 43rd Regt. Margery, Lt. Grubbe, 43rd Regt Villagers, etc.,

TO WHICH WILL BE ADDED THE FARCE OF RAISING THE WIND MEN Plainway, Lt. Pattenson, 43rd Regt. Fainwou'd, Lt. Hopewood, 95th Regt. Diddler, Capt. Cator, Royal Artillery Sam, Lt. Hennel, 43rd Regt. Richard, Lt. Considine, 43rd Regt. Waiter, Lt. Hamilton, 95th Regt.

WOMEN Peggy, Lt. Ed. Freer, 43rd Regt. Miss Durable, Capt. Hobkirk, 43rd Regt. NO ADMITTANCE BEHIND THE SCENES VIVAT WELLINGTON [Printed at Freneda]

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