LEICESTER DIRECTORY. 348

POST OFFICE at Wm. Porter's. Letters Marshall Mrs Eleanor arrive and are despatched at 10 morning North Henry, vetel'mary surgeon and via . vict. Blue Bull EARL OF DVSABT AND LORD HUNTING­ Pepper John, gardel!l.er TOWER, Park; and Porter John, butcher Ham House, Surrey Porter William, office clerk Adcock John, rate collector, baker, and Priest John, master National School victualler, Blue Cow Senescali Thomas, office clerk Ash George, butcher and grocer Smith Isaac, cattle dealer Bartram William, chairmaker Stevens Thomas, shoemaker and grocer Benson Wm. brick and tile maker Weston Thomas, saddler Brown John and Edward, tailor, &0 Wildgoose Richard, office clerk Bnrton John, farm bailiff W oollerton William, shoemaker Coy Thomas, parish clerk FARMERS. Glassup Joseph Lawson Rev. James, M.A. Vicarage • are owners. Hack Matthew Lewis Robert, grocer • Adcock John Hand Thomas Manners Alfred, land agent to the Earl • Bartram William • Marshall John of Dysart Exton John ·Spencer John Manners Henry Allied, office clerk---- SEWSTERN, a village, township, and chapelry, in the parish of Buck- minster, and about a mile S. of that village, occupies a bold eastern declivity of the Wold hills, bounded on the east by , and distant ten miles E. by N. of . It contains 67 houses, 307 inhabitants, and 1257 A. 1R. of land, extending southward to Blue Point, near the junction of this county with those of Rutland and Lin­ coln. The Earl of Dysart owns most of the soil and is lord of the manor, which has a strong clayey soil. Thomas l\farshall and 'Villiam Jackson, Esqrs., Mrs. Stowe, and a few smaller owners, have land here. The ancient Ohapel was demolished many years ago, and tlle curacy consolidated with the vicarage of Buckminster; but a neat Ohapel of Ease was built by subscription in 1842, in the Elizabethan style, at a cost of £650. It has sittings for 140 hearers, and a small cupola, con­ taining one bell. The tithes were commuted in 1841, the rectorial for £300, and the vicarial for £4 per annum. Here is a Wesleyan Ohapel, erected in 1820 by subscription. Sewstern participates in the National School at Buckminster. A yearly rent-charge of £6 out of 12A. of land left by Thomas Bury in 1723, is divided among five poor widows, except 15s. for a sermon on St. Thomas's day, and 58. for the parish clerk. The feast is on the Sunday after October 10th. There is a foot post daily from Colsterworth at ten morning. Almond John, cattle dealer Robinson George, butcher Bartram John, chair maker Shields William, higgler Cramp William, joiner Townsend Charles, joiner Day Thomas lIartin, miller INNS AND TAVERNS. Ewin William, tailor Blue Dog, Richard Grice Exton Thomas, cattle dealer Red Lion, Elizabeth Challands Goodacre William, cattle drover Waggon and Horses, William Burrows Grice John, thrashing machine owner BAKERS. Christian Robert Harvey George, horse dealer White John Doubleday Henry Harvey William, mole catcher W oollerton Sarah Doubleday John Holmes Rev. Henry Cautley, M.A. cu- FARMERS & GRZRS. Exton Thomas rate of , Lincolnshire • are owners. Grice Richard Hudson George, blacksmith *Almond John Herring Ann LeadenhamEdward, thrashing machine Barber William,} *Rimmin gton Jno. Marston J aIDE'S, wheelwright [owner Sews tern Grange Royce Josepb Pogson John, gentleman Burrows William Royce Mark Rimmington Thomas, horse dealer Chambers Thomas Standland William