Excerpt from Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts From the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, 1103 1327 Leading features, p. Ix. Early history, p. X. I. The King and the Borough, p. Xv. II. The Earl and the Borough. I. Manorialism in the Fields, p. Xvii. Ii. The Burgesses' services, p. Xxi. Iii. The Burgesses' rents, p. Xxii. Iv. The Burghal Courts, p. Xxiv. V. The Merchant Gild, p. Xxvii. Vi. The tolls, p. Xxxv. III. The Relations of the Merchant Gild and Borough Court. I. Power of the Earl's Steward, p. Xxxviii. Ii. Formulae in which the communities of the town and gild are described, p. Xl. Iii. Gildhall and Seal, p. Xlii. Iv. Officers of Town and Gild, p. Xliii. V. The Common Purse, p. Xlvii. Summary, p. Xlviii. Other problems. I. The burghal police, p. Xlix. 2. The tax-paying community, p. Xlix. 3. The Bishop's Fee and Tallage, p. Liii. 4. Accounts, p. Lvii. Conclusion, p. Lxi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.