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THE following notes on the Roman Sites of South-West Leicestershire are of a somewhat fragmentary character. They will be

SEARCHING through some old deeds in my possession a year or

I have been asked by the Publications sub-committee to write a few notes upon the church at Horninghold, which is now in a most lamentably dilapidated condition. The village of Horninghold, I may say, is in the south-east quarter of Leicestershire, about a mile from Hallaton, and seven or eight miles north-east

AMONG the parochial archives of Ullesthorpe are preserved the accounts of the Overseers of the Poor from the middle of the eighteenth century. They throw an interesting light upon village life of the period. In Ullesthorpe there were two Overseers, who were elected annually in April. It is with the accounts of these officials that this paper deals.

The Ivay Subsidy rolls, preserved in a long series at the Record Office in London, are so called because they represent taxation on lands and goods levied upon lay persons apart from the nobility, clerics and certain other privileged parties. They are Rolls, because the particulars, written on narrow slips of parchment fastened end to end, are usually wound up in roll form.

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