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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 62
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 62
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
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62
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Journal
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Daniel Williams
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Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
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1988
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08 Jun 2023
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The Roman Swithland Slate Industry
Alan McWhirr
1 - 8
Swithland slate roofs and tombstones are a familiar sight in Leicestershire today even though extraction of the slate ceased during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the two hundred years before that date slate had been extensively quarried and used for many different purposes besides roofs and tombstones including clockfaces, sundials, milestones, cheese presses, fireplaces and salting troughs. Despite the importance of Swithland Slate to the economy of the county between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, a definitive account of the industry and its demise has yet to be written and there is remarkably little in print about its use in Roman times. Several writers have suggested that the Swithland slate industry was more important to the economy of the east Midlands in Roman times than had traditionally been thought, but no detailed analysis has been undertaken to support these statements. The purpose of this paper is to provide the evidence for that assertion
A Medieval Hall and Cross-Wing House in Queniborough
Martin Cherry
Peter Messenger
9 - 15
86, Main Street, Queniborough is an early-fifteenth century timber-framed house lying to the north of the principal village street about 120 metres west of the parish church . The object of this short article is to draw attention to the building's medieval construction, part of which - the wing - has been firmly dated by dendro-chronological analysis to the early 1430s, and to the subsequent development of the house and its associated outbuildings.
Langley Priory
Stephen P Douglass
16 - 30
This report represents the results of a structural and documentary survey of Langley Priory undertaken on behalf of the present owners Mr and Mrs J.B. Wagstaff. I would like to thank the owners for their interest and patience, Professor Maurice Barley for his invaluable advice and all of those others who offered assistance in the form of advice and help with the measured survey. Langley Priory is a remotely situated country house set in a fine landscaped park with lake, two miles south-west of Diseworth and three miles south west of Castle Donington. It was formerly in the West Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire now Derbyshire. The present house is built on or near the former site of a Benedictine nunnery.
The Greys of Bradgate in the English Civil War
Jeffrey Richards
32 - 52
It has become almost a commonplace observation that Civil wars can turn brother against brother and offspring against parent. Certainly the period of the English Civil Wars provides many such examples of internal family dissensions and conflict between the adherents of the causes of King and of Parliament. This article seeks, however, to investigate and to illustrate the differences to be found between two members of a family who were ostensibly on the same side. Both Henry Grey, first Earl of Stamford and his son, Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby are described by Chroniclers and Commentators as 'Parliamentarians' and 'Puritans' but an analysis of their respective positions and careers in both war and peace obliges a more careful examination of these blanket terms. By examining these two individuals in some depth it is hoped that our understanding of the people and the events which constituted the Great Rebellion and its aftermath, and their impact both nationality and locally, will be added to.
Ibstock
Roy Walker
53 - 71
In the year 1800 the village of Ibstock, lying below the slopes of Bardon Hill in the northwest of the county of Leicester, looked very different from what it is today: fewer houses, more fields. The latter were a relatively recent phenomenon, for prior to 1774 there had been three large open fields: Buftown Field to the north, Nether Field to the west, and Upper Field to the east. Enclosure had meant a more sensible and economic use of the land. When Mr Throsby made his excursion to Ibstock in 1790 he described it as a large place, consisting of about 160 well-built houses along one long street, 1 the present High Street. Ten years later as the nineteenth century opened little had changed. The first national census of 1801 had estimated that Ibstock contained 148 houses, inhabited by 152 families, a total population of 763.
Archaeology in Leicestershire and Rutland 1987
Peter Liddle
72 - 92
Archaeology in Leicestershire and Rutland 1987
Review: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire & Ruthland
David Wykes
92 - 93
The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire & Rutland. Extracted from An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in Central England. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1986.
Index
95 - 96
Index
Preliminaries
Daniel Williams
i - vii
Preliminary pages
Annual Report
vii - x
Annual Report
