This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... TO THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF LEICESTER. 24, Carlton Road, Maida Vale, London, N.W. Gentlemen, The task of arranging the documents of your Muniment Room has been accomplished. A descriptive label has been attached to each of the historic charters, each of the numerous rolls of several different kinds, each set of the municipal and private deeds, and each package of the miscellaneous documents. Descriptive labels have also been attached to many other original writings, and also to several official copies of more or less important records, the originals of which were never in the possession of the Borough of Leicester. By means of these labels it will be easy for the searcher of the Leicester Muniments to identify every notable document or set of writings, not included in the volumes of Hall Papers and Chamberlains' Accounts. Of the notable contents of these last-mentioned collections of MSS. an adequate exhibition will appear in the Report on the Leicester Muniments, which has been submitted to the consideration of Her Majesty's Commissioners on Historical Manuscripts. The descriptive labels will also enable the searcher (who makes an intelligent use of the entries of the Double Index and the numerals painted on the falling fronts of the locked compartments of your New Muniment Room) to discover and recognize with little difficulty any particular record that may be the special object of his curiosity. The multifarious writings of the Leicester Muniment Room may be divided into (a) Books, (b) Charters, Letters Patent and Curious Documents, (c) Municipal and Private Deeds (comprising Conveyances, Leases, Quitclaims, Bonds, and other Indentures), (d) Rolls, (e) Miscellaneous Writings, and this classification has been adopted in the...