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PUBLICANS. SHOPKEEPERS. CARRIERS. Bevin Samuel, v, Crooked Billet Bennett W. Edward, and butcher Dunkley John, shopkeeper and v, Dunkley John, &v, C"ownJt Thistle Hipwell John, and coal dealer, to Crown and Thistle Frost Wm, & V,.ShOlllder of lrflttton S.; Th. Frost William, shopkeeper and v, Palmer Thomas, and bootmaker Ward Elzh, to Leicester W. & S.; Shoulder of jfutton Turner Mrs. Catherine Lutterworth Th. EARL SHILTON is a considerable township and £140. The Baptist Chapel, originally built in 1758, ecclesiastical district, formed in 1853 from the parish was enlarged in 1844 j it contains about 400 sittings, of Kirkby Mallory, partly agricultural and partly an organ, and is endowed with £5 a year. The manufacturing, and consists of a long street, on the National School was built in 1859, at a cost of £1050, main road from Leicester to . It is 9 miles raised by subscriptions, assisted by a government S. W. by W. from Leicester, 1! N. W. from Elms- grant. The master receives £18 a year from AId thorpe station, 4 N. E. by N. from Hinckley, and 100 Newton's charity for teaching 20 boys, who each ft'om London. The township, which is in Kirkby receive a suit of clothing twice in three years; other Mallory civil parish; is in the hundred and rural boys are also taught in consideration of the interest deanery of Sparkenhoe No. 2, Hinckley union and of the £20 left by James Goodman. There are gas County Court district. Many of the inhabitants are works for Earl Shilton and , the net price engaged in the manufacture of boots, shoes, and to small consumers being 5s. per 1000 cubic feet. hosiery, aud there is also a considerable number of The Permanent Benefit Building Society has been in farmers. The open fields were enclosed in 1778, successful operation several years, and there are three when the great tithes were commuted. The Queen, Odd Fellows' lodges and as many more provident and as Duchess of Lancaster, is lady of the manor, but sick societies for both sexes. About 150 acres of land the rights thereof are reserved to the copyholders. are let to the poor in small allotments, at low rents. The chief rents were sold by Charles I. to the Earl of There are benefactions, amounting to £121 a year, Ilchester, whose desrendants still receive them, hut he expended in apprenticing boys, in education, food, pays them over to Guy's Hospital, London. A Court fuel and clothing. The principal landowners are the Baron is held here. Here was one of the castles of Corporation of Leicester, Messrs. J. Pool, J. Carr, the Earl of Leicester, but it was destroyed some and 'rhos. Clarke, and trustees of the late T. Atkins. centuries ago, and its site is still indicated by a Acreage, 1979; rateahle value, £5037 15s. 10d.; mound. After the death of Simon de Montfort, Earl popUlation in 1881, 2252. The feast is on the last of Leicester, at the Battle of Evesham, the manor. Sunday in October. was given by Henry Ill. to Edmund, Earl of Lau- ST. PETER'S CHURCH.-Services, Sunday, at 8 caster, his second son, and since then it has been (Commnnion), 10-30, 3-30, and 6-15. Rev. Robert part of the Duchy of Lancaster. The church, dedi- C. Hamilton, M.A. TVardens, Messrs. R. Fulshaw cated to St. Sirnon and St. J ude, is a neat and and S. Carr; Organist, D. Locksley; Clerk, John commodious structure, in the Early Decorated style, Line; Sexton, James Worthy. Hymns A. and M. comprising chancel, nave, aisles, separated from the nave by arcades of five bays, nOlth and south tran- CHAI'ELs.-Weslflyan: Services, Sunday 2 and 6, septs and porches, tower, and crocketted spire; with Monday 7-30. Chapel Rpr, John Hopkins.-Primi- five bells. It was rebuilt in 1856, except the tower tive: Sunday 2-30 and 6, Rd. Taylor.-Congrega- and spire, at a cost of £3500, which was raised by tional: Sunday 10-30 and 6. Rev. Jph. Shalcross. subscription and grants. It was restored in 1874. Chapel Keeper, Geo. Taylor.-Baptist: Sunday 2-30 The chancel contains a handsome stained window, and 6, Richard Lynes. and the interior is adorned with frescoes, mostly EARL SHILTON GAS LIGHT & COKE Co., Lim.- executed by the late vicar. An organ was placed Directors, Messrs. Pawley, Everard, Hobill, Sleath, in thE' church in 1875, at a cost of £200. The living Homer, and Chamberlain, Earl Shilton; Messrs. is a vicarage, to which the rectory of Elmsthorpe is Powers and Grewcock, Barwell; Secretary, Mr. F. annexed, of the yearly value of £200. There are 86 Rowe; Foreman at Works, Matthew Johnson. acres of glebe, and a parsonage house near the church, POST, MONEY OrtDER, AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE built in 1859, at a cost of £1000. There is an lnde- A~D SAVINGS' BANK.-Michael Pickering, sub-post- pendent Chapel (with an endowment of £20 a year), master. Delivery of letters through Hinckley, cam- which was erected in 1814 at a cost of £400, an mences at 7 a. m. Box cleared at 6-25 on week-days, organ heing added in 1869, at a further expense of 10-55 on Sundays. A wall box at the Belle Vue £80. The Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1875, the house is cleared at 6-40 on week-days, n'-10 on Primitive l\Iethodist Chapel in 1840, at a charge of Sunday. Atkins Miss Harriet Gas Light and Coke Co, Limited, Richardson William, saddler Best Joseph, mgr at Co-oprtv Store Frederick Rowe, secretary Shalcross Rev. Joseph(Congregatnl) Blockley John, miller, Smock mill Green Miss Mary . Sleath Mr. Thomas Bradbury Thomas, chemist Hamilton Rev. Robert U, 1II.A, the Spencer Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Briggs Thomas, framesmith Vicarage Toon Miss Mary Ann Carr Mr. Samuel, Belle vue HobillMr. Ralph Toon 'l'homas, framesmith Coley William, market gardener Homer Jph. (hosiery mfr at Hinck- Walker John and Reuben, painters Cooper Samuel, miller ley), the Mansion and plumbers :Foster Amos, ironmonger, brazier, Johnson Mttw, frmn at gas works Walton Miss Srh. Em, natI schlmstrs and tinner Mawson Geo, thrshng mchn owner Ward Mr. Charles Freer Geo, hairdresser (W. & S.), h, Pawley Mr. J ames West Thomas, veterinary surgeon Hinckley Pickering Henry, market gardener Whitnall Miss Elzh. J ane, inft schl Fulshaw Ralph, surgeon, district Pickering Michael, sub-postmaster union medical officer, and certified Preston Samuel & Son, solicitors BAKERS. factory surgeon (Tu), and at Hinckley Co-operative Society I Nuon James Gains Mrs. Elizabeth Hobill i Reynolds Samuel, natl schoolmaster Ward Bailey, and confectioner