92 ARCH£0LOGICAL SOCIETY Nearer to Hathern, beyond the old toll-gate cottage (on the left facing Hathern) and the two newer farm cottages on the right, is a large arable field which breaks back some distance behind the farm cottages to Dishley Grange. In the corner of this field nearest to Hathern and fronting the Derby Road was an old mound, reputedly a tumulus. If it indeed was a burying place it would be classified as a round tumulus. The owner­ occupier of the Dishley farm had this bulldozed down to aid his ploughing operations. The scattered soil was raw red clay and for two years the crops have shown some loss of yield in this corner. The mound still shows slightly above the level of the field and also encroaches a little into the next field towards Hathern. Thorpe Housing Estate, Ashby Road Corner Site A large posr-war housing scheme is in progress in the Thorpe Acre portion of the town. An auxiliary arm of this is now being laid out on the Ashby Road. Having passed the old Burleigh Brook Park, and the brook on the right, and Burleigh Hall to the left, the road veers in a right angle towards the railway line and the foot of Thorpe Hill. In the last week in March 1952, Mr. Frank Atkins, 241 Alan Moss Road, discovered a piece of pottery in the trench he was making. Wisely he sent for advice and the pottery (reconstructed) proves to be a Roman pot of a type similar to that shown in Collingwood, Archceology of Roman Britain, fig. 57, no. 74. It may well be of the "Derbyshire" ware. It has been reconstructed by Mr. V. P. Jones of the School of Art and is to be deposited in Leicester Museum. GEO. H. GREEN

LEICESTERSHIRE RECORD OFFICE During the year ending 31 March 1952 the County Record Office has received a number of small but valuable MS. collections. The most important are the parish records of Kirby Muxloe and a number of Enclosure Awards (some with maps) for seven Leicestershire parishes. The principal accessions are as follows :

(I) PARISH RECORDS (a) Kirby Muxloe Parish. Parish Registers 1597-1925 (series not con­ tinuous). Rate Books-Poor Relief, 1809-1867; Highway Rate Book, 1836- 1839. Accounts :-Surveyors of the Highway 1776-1837; Constables and Overseers of the Poor 1796-1830; Parish Account Book 1836-1848. Kirby Town Book 1705-1775. Apprenticeship Indentures; Justices' Removal Orders and Certificates of Burial in Wool. Miscellanea. (b) Braunstone Parish. Rate Book 1832-1853.

(2) ENCLOSURE AWARDS, ETC. Croft: Award and Act. Hugglescote and Donington: Award, Map and Act. Humberstone: Award (also early Nineteenth Century Valuation Map). Leire : Award. Saddington: Award. LEICESTERSHIRE NOTES 93 Stretton Parva: Award and Act. Walcote: Award and Map. Gaddesby: a copy of the Chancery decree regarding enclosure pur­ suant to articles of agreement made 18 April 1650. (3) GUARDIANS-POOR LAW (a) Hinckley Union: Minute Books-Guardians, 1864-1922 (12 vols.). Assessment Committee 1874-1888 (3 vols.). (b) Blaby Union: Minute Book-Assessment Committee, 1911-1927. (c) Lutterworth Union: Minute Book Assessment Committee, 1902-1927. (4) BUSINESS RECORDS A set of account books of Thomas Footman, Dealer in Foreign Wines and Spirits who carried on the family business in High Street, Lutterworth, in the later nineteenth century. (a) Day Books, 1866-1893 (6 vols.). (b) Order Books, 1872-1887 (3 vols.). (c) Cash Books, 1863-1901 (3 vols.).

(5) MAPS AND PLANS (a) Four Leicestershire Maps: J. Cary, 1808; R. Creighton, 1848; S. Hall, 1860; W. Hughes, 1868. (b) Leicestershire Ordnance Survey: sheets 63 N.W.; 63 S.W. and 63 S.E. Surveyed 20 June 1835. Electrotyped 1872-3. (c) Burton Lazars : Estate Plan Drawn by J. White of Quomdon, April 1881 (ex-Bridgewater MSS.). (6) MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND ESTATE PAPERS Appleby Hall (Particulars of Sale, 1920); Belgrave; Bitteswell; Coston; ; Misterton; Pinwall Estate; Pulteney; Quenby (Particulars of Sale, 1913); Ratcliffe Culey; Stocker~tone Hall (Particulars of Sale, 1913). (7) PETTY SESSIONS Volume of Justices' Orders and Papers relating to Loughborough Sessions Division. (8) MISCELLANEA A number of unrelated miscellaneous documents, which include (a) four letters concerning the Parliamentary Election for the Northern Division of Leicestershire in 1874; (b) the Ancient Customs of the Court Baron of Earl Shilton, 1819; (c) a letter from .H.M. Consul, Cadiz, to Mrs. Sarah Buzley, dated 6 January 1830, concerning the murder of her son, who was a representative of Barrow & Prescott at Cadiz.

(9) REPORTS, liANDLISTS, ETC. Report of the Committee appointed by the Pilgrim Trustees in 1946 to carry out a Survey of the Provincial, Diocesan, Archidiaconal, and Capitular Archives of the Church of . Attached to the Report are the relevant 94 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCH£0LOGICAL SOCIETY sections of Part II relating to the dioceses of Leicester, Lincoln and Peterborough. Handlist of the Records of the Archdeaconry of Leicester, by C. E. Welch. L. A. PARKER

LEICESTER MUSEUM ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT The following accessions of groups of documents to the Archives Depart­ ment of the Museum duri.,g the past two years 1 are of sufficient general interest to merit special mention, but it may be pointed out for the infor­ mation of students that a summary list of all groups of documents acquired each year is to be found in the annual Report to the City Council of the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. Wyggeston's Hospital Records (1 D 51), deposited by the Hospital Governors These consist of the administrative records of the Hospital from its foundation onwards, together with land conveyances additional to those calendared by A. Hamilton Thompson, Calendar ... of Charters ... relating to the Hospital of William Wyggeston (which are also in the Museum, having been deposited in 1934). Thus the whole of the records of the Hospital are now together and provide a comprehensive picture of the economy of the institution and the administration of its extensive lands in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. The records include : Hospital and Masters' accounts of receipt and payment, 1520-1760; inventories of the terriers of Hospital lands, 1579-1748; law suits concerning the Hospital, sixteenth--eighteenth centuries; deeds, and some manorial documents, relating to Hospital lands, thirteenth-seventeenth centuries; Wyggeston family papers, sixteenth century; and papers and correspondence of the Masters of the Hospital, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. There are also a few sixteenth-century account books of the Newarke College, which pro­ vide an interesting account of its finances in the period just before its dissolution. Papers of the Deacon Family of Clockmakers (9 D 51), acquired by purchase These records of the well-known clockmaking family of Barton-in-the­ Beans2 provide day-by-day details of the kind of work done and the prices of materials and labour, and much information about Deacon clocks; they are particularly valuable when considered in conjunction with the Deacon workshop, acquired by the Antiquities Department of the Museum. The family was also prominent in Baptist circles, and another group of documents and correspondence relates to the Barton chapel. They include: account, work and watch repair books, 1769-1899; minute books of Clock Clubs, c. 1800-23; papers relating to the Baptist chapel of Barton-in-the­ Beans, 1777-1834; miscellaneous correspondence and music, eighteenth century. r Up to 31 March 1952. 2 See Trans. Leics. Arch. Soc., xxvii. 36-7. LEICESTERSHIRE NOTES 95 Leicester Borough Chamberlains' Accounts (20 D 51), deposited by the City Treasurer These financial records of the borough during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are not mentioned in any existing report or list of the records of the borough, for they were thought to have been destroyed at the time of the reform of the Corporation in 1835, until they were discovered in the City Treasurer's Department last year. They include: accounts of receipt and expenditure, 1776-7, 1779-1803, 18u-33; borough rentals, 1798-9, 1800-1, 1801-2, 1802-3; innholders' recognizances, 1717-47; borough charities accounts, 1740-77.

Leicester Civil Parish Records (21 D 51), deposited from the Rates Department by the City Treasurer These are various series of parish rate books, minutes of Vestry meetings, accounts and minutes of meetings of Overseers of the Poor, for the parishes of All Saints, St. Margaret, St. Martin, St. Mary and St. Nicholas, from about the mid-eighteenth century to 1830. AUDREY M. WOODCOCK