Leicestershire Record Office and Leicester
70 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH£0LOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 Syston. 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. Castle Donington: Appointment by the Justices of Overseers of .the Poor, 30 Mar.
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