The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century

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The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century
James Thompson
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" 1 In the winter of this year the town seems to have been unusually gay, the players having the use of the Town Hall for the season, and the young gentlemen of the town having given an assembly in the Mayor's Parlour.
It will be remembered (see p. 20) that the Woolcombers, by a concession on the part of the Corporation, were enabled to obtain the freedom of the borough at a reduced payment, and thus to carry on their business unmolested ; but the Corporation still insisted on pre- venting any
...inhabitant from commencing any trade, who had not paid * History of England by Hume and Smollett, Valpy's Edition, vol. X. , pp. 375, 376.
52 LEICESTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
the usual sum of £20 for obtaining his freedom, and who had not been formally admitted to their body. In the year 1709 Nicholas Tebbutt, a tanner, and Thomas Hewson, sen. , Thomas Hewson, jun. , William Hewson, and Robert Tugman, joiners, were prosecuted for pursuing their occupations and keeping shops open in the town, without having previously become freemen.


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