io2 MARKET HARBOROUGH. LEICESTERSHIR~. f.) [KELLY's he afterwards passed through this town as the prisoner of payable half-yearly to the king, his heirs and successors: the Parliamentary Commissioners. Prince Rupert plundered in the year 1776 an Act was passed in Parliament for the this town, but Henry, rst Earl of Stamford, and one of the "Inclosing of the Open Fields of Great Bowden, wherein the Parliamentary generals, receiving intelligence of this, freeholders of Market Harl:Jorough had rights of common, marched to its relief and obtained a victory 14 Sept. r642. appurtenant to 72 ancient cottages in Market Harborough," On the east side of the town Roman urns have been found and parcels of the said fields were allotted accordingly by the and there were formerly traces of a camp. award of the commissioners, dateq ::zoth June, I7n· The Poplars is a large mansion at the north end of the town, • The district around Market Harborough js a very rich belonging to Sir Richard Lewis de Capell Brooke bart. M.A. grazing country and celebrated for its hunting and other J. P. field sports. Henry de Vere Vane esq. of 74 Eaton place, London s w, is lord of the manor, deriving his title from a grant by King In x881 the population was 2,418, and of the ecclesiastical James, in the 14th year of his reign ( 1616-17 ), unto John Lord padsh 2,669; the area of the Market Harborough, Great and Stanhope, Matthew Patterston and Thomas Shrimpton, their Little Bowden Local Board district is 4,987 acres; rateable heirs and assigns, of all these the manors of Bowden and value, £37,124 (including [.925 in Northant:l); and popula­ Harborough, with all rights thereunto belonging, fairs, tion in r881, 5,531. markets and tolls ; an annual rent of £6 6s. 7d. is reserved, Parish Clerk, William Martin. Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office, East Langton, West Langton, Langhton, Lubenham, High street.-Miss Emily Jane Kebble, postmistress. Medbourne, Mowsley, Shankton, Sadding-ton, Slawston, Deliveries :-The town deliveries of letters commence at Smeeton-Westerby, Stonton Wyville, Theddingworth & 7 & 11.30 in the morning; at 5.30 in the afternoon & 7.15 Welham in the evening ; collections are made from the wall boxes LOCAL BOARD. in time for each delivery. Dispatches :~Letters are dis- patched from Market Harborough at9.50 a.m. tn London Offices, Corn exchange, High street & all parts; 1 p.m. to London, & the north; to Board