Hl'story and ANTIQUITIES of LEICESTERSHIRE
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Hl'STORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE. lands arid rents, with the appurtenances, are held of Green, Henry Bond, and Richard Sharpe. the king in capite, as parcel of the hbnou'r, castle, At the general election in 1722, 24 freeholders and manor of Belvoir \ polled from this parish; and 17 in 1775. In 1393, it appeared thftt John de Ros, of Ham- Nett expence of she poor in 1776, was £.22. 6s. Sa\ lake, deceased, was seifed of one park, called Belvoir Mediuhiot three years, 17^3—1785, £-34- !£*• bV; Park, in Redmile, and of one croft, called Leycrofr, The earliest register begins in 1653. and of a pasture, called Blakebergh Hill, in the fame In the first twenty years are 10 marriages, no parish, held of the king in tapite, by knight's service, baptisms, and 131 burials; and, in the twenty years as of the honour of Belvoir; that the said John de ending in l'j'dS-, are 47 marriages, 182 baptisms, and Ros gave to Richard de Schropjhdre, for his good ser- 116 burials. vice, fifteen messuages, one windmill, and five bovates In the register is this observation : and an half of land, with the appurtenances, in Red- " George TopSin and Jone Harrison had the baines mile, which are held of the king 111 capite •, and that of matrimony published three several Sabbaths in the William de Ros, knight* is the brother and next heir parish church of Redmile, and was married before of the before-mentioned John1. the alderman of Grantharti, upon the 13th of Fe* In 1394, Mary the wife of John de Ros, brother bruary, 1654." and heir of John de Ros, died seised of a thirty-third Richard Reave appointed register 1653^ part of one knight's fee in Redmile, which the heirs Richard Reave, the elder, late clerk of the parifli, of John Petit held K buried Jan. n5 1673* In 1414, it appeared that William Ros, of Hamlakej Mrs. Lettice Vernon, wife of Edward Vernon, knight, who died in foreign parts, was seised of the rector, buried Aug. 18, 1719. site of the manor, with one carucate of land, in Red- Samuel North occurs curate in 1742,. mile, held of the king in capite, by knight's service, Henry Hough occurs curate in.1758. as of the honour of Belvoir j also of fifteen messua- " One Rawlinson, a woman of R.edmi!ej lived to be ges, one windmill,} and twenty-five bovates and an 2bout 110; and cne Green, a woman of the same half of land, with the appurtenances, in Redmile, place, lived to be about 115. held as aforesaid ; also of the reversion of one parkj " In a close on the Norch side of the town of Red- called Belvoir Park, in the parish of Redmile ; also iiiile are three hills, in a straight line, about 40 of the reversion of one pasture close, called Blakbergh* yards asunder, having very much the appearance of in the parish of lledmile 4. tumuli or barrows; but probably intended only for In 1421, it appeared that John Ros de Hamlake, some kind of antient exercise, as the close is called knight, deceased, was seised of two parts of the manor The Butt-close < of Redmile, and of two parts of one carucate of land^ " In this parish was formerly a small house of nuns. and of fifteen messuages and one windmill, and of The place where it stood is yet called AU'balbws% twenty-five bovates of land, all in the fame town; but there are no remains of the fabrick. Query. Whe- and that they were held of William Babington, Simon ther the place was not the hall or capital messuage Lake, and other feon'eess. mentioned in the inquisition of 1352-3? Betwixt In the subsidy of 1416 (when the county of Leicester Stonebrigg-lane and the Drift is an inclosure with was rated at £.757. iis. \i\d.} Redmile paid 54*. two old large pools in it, where many foundations of In ihat of 1445, Redmile was rated at £.z. 14s. j buildings have been dug up. and an abatement was made of 4.S. 8d. " It should seem also there was another religious In 1463, it appeared that Thomas de Ros, lord of house here, demolished long before the Dissolution ; Belvoir, who had been attainted in parliament for his the place where it stood being yet called Kirk-hill. attachment to the house of Lancaster, was seised of " In the pSrilh of Redmile is a marfliy piece of the manor of Redmile, with the advowson of the ground, whose water is supposed to be impregnated church there6; which were afterwards granted to with salt, or something of a saline nature. Not far William lord Hastings; and in 1483 it appeared that from it is a piece of ground, in Belvoir demesne, the said lord Hastings was seised of the advowson, calkd Bushy Salt-becks. Pigeons are observed much and that i,t was held of the king 7. to frequent both places9." On the accession of king Henry VII. this lordship " In Redmile paristi an attempt was many years since was restored to the family of Ros ; and is still pos- made in search for pit-coal; the soil promising it, sessed by their descendant John-Henry, the fifth duke which is first clay, and then a very black earth. They of Rut/and. funk about 20 yards, and then the waters rose so Among the records of Wigston's Hospital is a lease, fast, that in a very little space they lost 16 of she 20 dated May 1, 1620, to John Reft, of one arable land yards they had gained. Whereupon, thinking they and two leys lying in the Goffes at lledmile, for three had met with a subterraneous river, they threw in the lives, viz. John Reft, Dorothy Reft, and Elizabeth earth they had dug out; which was very ill done; Reft; rent %s. at Michaelmas and Lady-day ; and a for this water, whether proceeding from a subterra- clause of re-entry if no distress can be found 8. neous river, or only a very quick spring (had they The parifli in 1791 consisted of 76s oxgangs of made either a dike or bigger channel for it), mighe land in the open field, at about 18 acres an oxgang have been of great service to them, all their water upon a moderate computation; nine cottages, about thereabouts being of a brackish taste, bad for brew- three acres apiece; and about 340 acres of old in- ing, and bad for boiling of flesh, which it often turns closure, wood, &c. The open field was at that time red. In the earth they threw out of this pit they divided into three. The first year wheat and barley ; found many lumps of the yellow, •vitriolic, iron stone the second, beans and pease ; and the third, fallow. marchasite, called[pyrites aureus10." The whole number of acres in the parifli is at least " Speaking of unusual appearances in the air and 1700, of which more than three fourths are now the heavens," fays Mr. Peck, " I cannot here forbear duke of Rutland's, and the rest that of about 20 small taking notice of a most agreeable sight of this kind, freeholders. An act for its inclosure was passed in which I myself had once the great pleasure of be- the year 1793; of which some particulars shall be holding ; and it was thus. On the 12th of Decem- given in the Appendix, N° XVIII. ber, 1729, being at Redmile, in the Vale of Belvoir, In 1564, there were 33 families in Redmile. there fell such a thick mist, that I thought it impos* The number of families at present is 57, inhabitants sible (though it was then even mid-day) to find the 446 ) all of the Church of England. way home; and therefore entreated my friend, Mr. The freeholders in 1630 were, Richard Green, William Walker, then curate there (a young gentle- Thomas Roberts, Christopher Handley, Thomas man of good knowledge in simples, as also in matters 1 Esch. 7 Ric II. N° 68. Leic. * Esch. 17 Ric II. N° 49- Leic. 3 Esch. 18 Ric. II. N° 34. Leic S 3 * Esch. 2 Hen. V. NP 40. Leic. Esch. 9 Hen. V. N° 58. Leic. • Esch. 3 Edw. IV. .N 30. Lsic. * Esch. 1 Ric. III. N° 32. Leic. * Carte, MS. * Peck, MS. ex informatione viri reverendi Edw. Walker, curati de Redmile, 1729. 10 Peck, MS. from the information of the rev. Edw. Vernon, rector of Redmile, 1729.