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A house nearly opposite has similar details and bears the date 1699. Other specimens of this kind of brickwork are at Queniborough Old Hall (1675), Mountsorrel, and . The style therefore seems to be a local peculiarity. (Photos. in Leic. Mus. together with drawings by Mr. R. ']. B. Keene and see Plate)

LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE The following records have been deposited during the year ended 31 March 1961: PARISH RECORDS r. Ashby-de-la-Zouch :· Poor Law Records-Removal Orders, 1692-1836; Settle­ ment Certificates, 1697-1814 and Examinations, 1732-1830; Apprenticeship Indentures, 1632-1834; Certificates of discharge of apprentices (2), 1781 and 1790; Bastardy' Papers, 1769-1834; Workhouse Quarterly Accounts and Vouchers, which include some weekly menus, 1774-1779; Town Book containing lists of Settlement Certificates, removal orders etc., 1721-1760; Rate Books, 1792, 1795, 1848-1853 and 1859061. Vestry-Minute Book, 1834-80; Orders (3), 1775-76; Account Book of Inspectors appointed under the Lighting and Watching Act, 1833-54. Charities­ Henry Sykes Charity-deeds, 1703-92, and Accounts, 1712-31; Newtown Lands Charity, Margaret White's Charity and Henry Curzon's Charity-Account Book, 1658-1753; Will (copy) of Elizabeth Wilkins made 14 July 1797 re request for the maintenance of a poor woman of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Orders of the Charity Commissioners re Margaret White's Charity, 1875 and the Poor's Charities, 1902. Ashby Woulds Enclosure Act, 1800. 2. Bruntingthorpe: Enclosure Act, 1775 and Extract from Enclosure Award. 3. : Appointment by the Justices of Overseers of .the Poor, 30 Mar. 18~6. 4. Cossington: Highway Rate Book, 1859-1862. 5. Frisby-on-the-Wreak: Valuation Book, 1890. 6. Keyham: Registers, 1563-1836. Overseers of the Poor-Accounts, 1809-37 (includes some Constables' Accounts) and Receipts, 1823-33. 7. Long Whatton: Registers, 1549-1887 (and Banns, 1861-1926). 8. Medbourne: Registers, 1588-1903; Service Registers, 1909-45; Churchwardens' Accounts, 1839-1947; Faculties, 1873-1951 (including one for Holt Church, 1878); Account Books for Church Restoration Fund, 1910-17 and Churchyard Improve­ ment Fund, 1918-24; Papers (2) on the relation of Blaston Church to Medbourne, 1793 and 1825; Terrier of Glebe Lands, 1774; Tithe Apportionment and Map, 1846; Altered Apportionment, 1922 and Tithe Redemption Certificates (3), 1923-28; Minute Book of the Holt Executive Committee of the Medbourne cum Holt Parochial Church Council, 1930. Charities-deeds for _land in Wilbarston and , Northants., 1658-1733; correspondence with Charity Commissioners re Medbourne Free School and Medbourne Charities, 1873-83 and Order of Charity Commissioners -Medbourne Free School, 1873. Medbourne School Cash Book, 1905-1949. 9. Ullesthorpe : Surveyor of Highways Account Book, 18rr-1836.

FAMILY AND ESTATE RECORDS r. Bosworth Family: Deeds of estates in Charley and Foxton, Leics., and Marston Trussell, Northants., and Sutton Holland, Lines., 1648-1902; Marriage Settlements, 1770-1813 and Abstracts of Tithe and Legal Papers. 2. Dixie Family: Court Rolls (16) for the Manor of , 1564-1642; Rental, 1595 and list of Capons and Hens due from Farms and Tenements, 17rr. Account Roll of Sir Wolston Dixie, Bart., Sheriff of Leics., 1727-28 and Letters Patent (copy), 1665; grant to Beaumont Dixie of market rights in Market Bosworth and licence to enclose 400 acres in Market Bosworth. Photograph by R. 'J. B. Keene No. 38 KING STREET, SILEBY 72 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH.IEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

MAPS AND PLANS Plan of land belonging to William Woodhouse in Frisby-by-Gaulby, 1727; Plan of the intended Canal from Coventry Canal to the Coal Mines at Measham, Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe and Ashby Woulds, 1781; Plan of the intended Canal from Ashby-de-la-Zouch · to the Coventry Canal with branches to Ticknall, Staunton Harold, Cloud Hill and Coleorton, 1792; Map of Tract of country surrounding Belvoir Castle, 1806; Map of Leics. and Rutland, published by Pigot & Co., early 19th cent. and Scale drawing of New House Grange, Sheepy, by T. H. Fosbrooke and P. H. Grundy, 1915. SCHOOL RECORDS

I. Market Bosworth Dixie Grammar School (additional deposit): Miscellaneous items including an application for the post of master, 1730; prize-day programmes, 1829-49; report by the patron of the school for improving its standard, 1856, and copies of the Bosworth Weekly Post, a school magazine, 1838. 2. Ravenstone Church of School: Managers' Minute Book, 1903-25.

MISCELLANEA Memoranda Book of Thos. Abell, framesmith of , 1852-61, and Miscellaneous deeds, 16th-19th cents., for the following: Asfordby, Bagworth, Barlestone, Braunstone, Fleckney, Goadby, Grimston, , , Osbaston, Oversea!, Plungar, Scalford, Thorpe Satchville, Magna and Willoughby Waterless.

LEICESTER MUSEUMS : ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT The following records have been received during the year ended 31 March 1961: OFFICIAL Plans and records from the Tramways Department, layouts of lines, sections, designs of cars and standards, 1900-23 (23 D 60).

INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Statements of account and abstracts for the Theatre Royal, 1913-48 (19 D 60). Records of Messrs. Mason, Iron and Metal workers, 47 Brunswick St., 1877-1912 (24 D 60). Wages and Account books of Messrs. Pickard & Sons, woolspinners, 1854-1957 (26 D 60). Files of bills for the running of the Nag's Head in Millstone Lane, 1873-6, 1883 (27 D 60). Architects' plans and drawings, various buildings in , c. 1900-50 (5 D 60). Receipt for the factory premises of the Whitwick Bauble industry, 1896 (8 D 60). Working records and property deeds of Messrs. Harrison, seed merchants, 1792-1900 (1 D 60). Prescription books of Messrs. Sturgess, chemists, 1840-1920 (3 D 61). Working records of Messrs. Hamshaw, · motor dealers, including early coachbuilding specifications, costings and designs, 1890-1952 (4 D 61).

LANDED PROPERTY Rothley Manorial court paper, 1668 (12 D 60). Title Deeds to No. 34 High Cross St., 1758-1884 (15 D 60). Abstract of title to an estate in Bromkinsthorpe, Leicester, under the will of Thomas Guy Paget, 1894 (17 D 60). Lease of the Newarke Grange, Leicester, 1619 (22 D 60). Papers relating to the working of the Ferrers estates, title deeds, papers in legal causes, 1860-1910 (25 D 60). Title deeds of the Shoulder of Mutton, Ashby Parva, 1636-1927 (29 D 60). Working farm papers, including reaping accounts, mainly Sibson and Walton, 1816-75 (30 D 60). Account book for the Ferrers estates during the minority of Robert . Shirley, later first Earl Ferrers, 1656-1666 (6 D 61). ARCHROLOGY IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND 73

PERSONAL · RECORDS Scrapbook and notes of the Simons family, 19th cent. (ND 60). Apprenticeship indentures and freemen's admissions of the Wallis family, 1831-88 (9 D 60). Diary of John Allt of Shepshed, 1791-1818 (21 D 60). Extracts from letters of Elizabeth March Phillips of Hathern, 1831 (28 D 60). Three scrapbooks kept by William Biggs relating to the public activities of himself and his brother John Biggs, 1839-56 (5 D 61).

LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1960-61 The following books and articles relating to Leicestershire and Rutland were published in the year ended 31 March 1961. Books reviewed in these Transactions are not included. F. A. Tarry, The Factory by the River (St. Mary's Mills, Leicester), 1961. V. J. Butler and R. H. M. Dolley, "More Light on a Mythical Moneyer of the Leicester Mint": Numismatic Circular, March 1961, lxix no. 3, p. 59. T. H. Corfe, The School on the Hill (King Edward VII Grammar School, ), 1960. Philippa Downes, John Ferneley, I78z-r860. A Commemorative Exhibition (Leicester Museums 1960). J. Gilbey, "The Ferneley Show at Leicester": The Field, 13 Oct. 1960, 643. G. H. Green, Historical Account of the Ancient King's Mills, Castle Donington (1960). Rev. C. L. S. Linnell, The Story of St. Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch (1960). Felicity Ranger, A Catalogue of Medieval Seals in six accumulations in the Archives Department of Leicester Museums. (Copy of thesis deposited with the University of , and copy in Leicester Museums, 1960.) J. T. Smith, "Medieval Roofs, a classification": Journal of R. Arch. Inst., cxv, 141 (Leicester Guildhall). T. A. Walden, "The Leicester Museum" (Presidential Address to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society): Trans. Leic. Lit. and Phil. Soc., !iv (1960), 5. G. Webster, "The Roman Military Advance under Ostorius Scapula": J.R.A.I., cxv, 49 ff. (objects from Leicester, Belt plate p. 84, no. 134, fig. 5, and no. 135 is fig. in Jewry Wall 84.6). Great Casterton, Rutland: preliminary report in Journal of Roman Studies, xlix (1959), II2. Lese Majeste Threat to Lear: The Times, 5 Dec. 1960. Early Spelling of the Name Leicester on Coins: Numismatic Circular, lxviii (1960), 105. "Our Stately Home": My Home, May 1960, 16 (Burton Hall).