THE LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

NINETY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, 1949

S1x meetings of the Society were held this year, at which the following papers were read :

28 January

18 March

29 April

20 May

Professor Jack Simmons of University College, Leicester: 'The Early History and Archaeology of the Leicestershire Railways'.

Dr. F. T. Wainwright of University College, Dundee: 'The Place-names of Leicestershire'.

(Annual General Meeting). Dr. C. H. Thompson, County Archivist: 'The Melton Mowbray Town Records'.

Professor A. Hamilton Thompson, C.B.E., F.B.A., President of the Society: 'Superstitions regarding the Middle Ages'. (This paper was printed in the 'Transactions, xxv. 33-50.)

23 September Dr: R. W. Greaves of Bedford College, London: 'Unpublished, Records of the Corporation of Leicester, 1689-1835'.

24 November Dr. W. G. Hoskins of University College, Leicester: 'The Victoria History of Leicestershire'.

One excursion was held, on 21 July, when 54 members of the Society paid a visit to Rockingham Castle and Kirby Hall. They were conducted round Rockingham Castle by a member of the staff, through the kind permission of the owner, Sir Michael Culme­Seymour, Bt. After tea at the Sondes Arms Hotel, the party went on to Kirby Hall, which is now under the guardianship of the Ministry of Works. Mr. Albert Herbert, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.A., gave a fascinating description of the building, which was greatly appre­ciated by all those who were present.

REPORT 9

The Society suffered a loss by the death of its Patron, Lord Hazlerigg. Mr. C. L. Wykes, the Honorary Treasurer, was appointed a Trustee of the Research Fund in place of Mr. S. Parkinson, who has resigned; and Professor Jack Simmons became Honorary Editor of the Transactions.

The financial position of the Society caused increasing disquiet, especially in view of the rising cost of producing the Transactwns. It was necessary to reduce the size of Volume XXV, and further reductions will have to be made in the future if the Society's income does not substantially increase. At present it has a large annual deficit, which has risen from £I85 in I948 to £673 in I949· Speaking from the Chair at the Annual General Meeting on 29 April, Sir Robert Martin emphasised the gravity of the situation. Members are asked to do all they can to bring the Society to the notice of those who may be interested in its work, for its continued activity and efficiency must depend largely on an increase in its revenue.

The number of members of the Society remained stationary this year: seventeen were removed by death or resignation, and seventeen new members were elected.

The Society published two volumes in the course of I949: The Abbey of St. Ma:ry of the Meadows, Leicester, by Professor A. Hamilton Thompson (2Is.); and Studies in Leicestershvre Agrarian History, an offprint of Volume XXIV of the Transactions, bound in cloth and sold to the public at ms. 6d. Professor Hamilton Thompson's book can be bought from Edgar Backus, 44 Cank Street, Leicester; the Studies from the Society direct, at the Guild­hall, Guildhall Lane, Leicester.

IO THE LEICESTERSHIRE RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT

RECEIPTS

To Cash in hand at 1 January 1949 ... ,, Subscriptions ,, Interest on £101 5s. 4d. Leicester

3 per cent. Stock less Tax ... ,, Interest on £150 3½ per cent.

Conversion Stock 1961 less Tax ,, Interest on £700 3½ per cent.

War Loan Gross

,, Income Tax reclaimed 1947 / 48 ,, Income Tax reclaimed on Covenanted

Subscriptions

Sale of Transactions ,, Sale of Surplus Library Books ,, Reimbursement by Archaeological

Research Fund for Contribution to Aerial Survey of County paid in 1948

,, Balance due to Bank at 31 December 1949

£ s. d. £ s. d.

l 13 4

2 17 10

24 ro o

4 8 z

43 5 8

5 0 0

266 l 0

29 I 2

47 13 ro 39 18 0

25 ro 6

IOO O 0

673 7 ro

£1,186 12 4

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY for the Year ended 31 December 1949

PAYMENTS

By Balance due to Bank at r January r949 Subscriptions: -

Canterbury and York Society ... English Place Name Society British Record Society ... Society for the Protection of

Ancient Buildings Council for the Preservation of

Rural England Lincoln Record Society

,, Printing and Issuing of Transactions for the year r948 (Vol. xxiv) ...

Less Special Donations

,, Printing and Stationery ,, Rent , , Postages and Sundry Expenses

, , , Fire Insurance ,, Lecturers' Fees and Expenses , , Bank Charges ,, Library Additions, Binding and

Honorarium ,, Aerial Photographs of County ,, Cost of producing Studies in

Leicestershire Agrarian History Less Sales

,, Cost of producing The Abbey of

£ s. d.

I IO 0 o r5 o I II 6

I I 0

I I 0

I I 0

335 7 II i:O O 0

ro4 r3 4 3I 8 II

St. Mary of the Meadows, Leicester 586 ro o Less Sales r76 4 3

,, Cash in hand at 3r December r949

I I

£ s. d. r84 IO 0

6 r9 6

325 7 II 35 7 I r3 3 0

2I 7 6 2 IO 0 7 6 6

I3 I2 2

57 9 II 30 8 7

73 4 5

4ro 5 9 5 0 0

£r,r86 r2 4

12 THE LEICESTERSHIRE FUNDS ACCOUNT

To General Reserve Fund: Balance brou~ht forward

Less Excess of Payments over Receipts, 1949

, , Excursion Secretary's Account

, , Balance due to Bank

C. L. WYKES, A.C.A. Honorary Treasurer

TRUSTEES OF

£ s. d.

774 18 l

£ s. d.

286 0 3 16 6 6

673 7 I0

THE LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

LIEUT.-COLONEL SIR ROBERT MARTIN, C.M.G., D.L.

ALBERT HERBERT, Esg., F.S.A. S. H. SKILLINGTON, Esg., F.S.A.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 31 December 1949

By £ror 5s. 4d. Leicester Corporation 3 per cent. Mortgage (Value £ror)

,, £r50 3½ per cent. Conversion Stock rg6r (Value £140)

,, £700 3½ per cent. War Loan (Value £647) .. .

,, Cash at Bank-Excursion Account

, • Cash in hand

13

£ s. d.

IOI 5 4

I2I 4 9

73r r8 o r6 6 6

j O 0

£975 r4 7

I have examined the Funds Account dated 3r December r949 and the Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 3r December r949 and certify such Accounts to be in accordance with the Books and Vouchers of the Society. I have satisfied myself that the Scrip of the above Investments is in the possession of the Bank.

PERCY RUSSELL, F.C.A., F.S.A,

Honorary Auditor

14 THE LEICESTERSHIRE RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT

£ s. d. To Balance at Bank at I January 1949 149 8 3

., Interest on £1,750 3½ per cent. War Loan-Gross 61 5 0

,, Interest on £175 3 per cent. Defence BondS-Gross ,, Interest on £150 2½ per cent. Defence BondS-Gross

,, Balance due to Bank at 31 December 1949

5 5 3 IS

47 16

0

0

9

To Balance brought forward ...

Less Excess of Payments over Receipts for the year

,, Balance due to Bank

£267 IO 0

FUNDS ACCOUNT

£ s. d.

2,291 16 8

197 5 0

£ s. d.

---- 2,094 II 8

47 16 9

£2,142 8 5

TRUSTEES OF THE

LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FUND

C. D. B. ELLIS, Esg., M.C., M.A.

ANTHONY HERBERT, Esg.

CAPT. L. H . IRVINE, M.B.E., M.A.

A. H. LEAVESLEY, Esg.

H. 0. WILSHERE, ESQ.

C. L. WYKES, EsQ.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FUND 15

for the Year ended 31 December 1949

£ s. d. By First Annual Contribution to

Victoria History of the County of Leicester 100 o o

,, Contribution towards Aerial Survey of the County (including reimbursement of £100 paid from General Funds in 1948) 167 IO o

Note.-The Trustees are committed to the payment of £100 per annum for five years towards the cost of the Victoria History of the County of Leicester

31 December 1949

£ s. d.

By £1,750 3½ per cent. War Loan (Value £1,617) ... 1,817 8 5

,, £175 3 per cent. Defence Bonds (Value £175) . .. 175 o o ,, £150 2½ per cent. Defence Bonds (Value £150) .. . 150 o o

£2,142 8 5

I have examined the Funds Account dated 31 December 1949 and the Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 December 1949 and certify such Accounts to be in accordance with the Books and Vouchers of the Trustees of the Research Fund. I have satisfied myself that the Scrip of the above Investments is in the possession of the Bank.

PERCY RUSSELL, F .C.A., F.S.A. Honorary Auditor

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Society wishes to express its gratitude to the following for

their assistance in producing this volume : the Ministry of Works and the Council for British Archaeology, for grants in aid of the

publication of Miss Kenyon's Report; Mr. F. L. Attenborough,

Principal of University College, Leicester, for the photographs

of All Saints' church, which he was kind enough to take specially for

this volume; Mr. C. T. Smith, Assistant Lecturer in Geography at

University College, Leicester, for drawing the map to illustrate Mr. Bott's paper; and Captain L. H. Irvine, who has once again-as

in many earlier volumeS-prepared the index.