This is not in any way to interfere with the issue of the yearly volume of the Associated Societies, with whom, as heretofore, the Leicestershire Society will be in union. It is hoped that this mode of procedure will meet with the approval and encouragement of the members, into whose hands. the publishing Committee have now the pleasure of placing Volume I. Each writer is responsible for his own Paper. The first Paper, by the Rev. J. A. Poole, was not delivered before the Leicestershire Society, that Society not being then formed, but on account of its local interest and value, it is here, by permission of the author, reprinted, as an appropriate prelude to the pages that follow. Leicester, January, 1866. T. NORTH, HON. SEC. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PAGE The Churches of Leicester, by Rev. G. A. Poole, (with Illustrations). Formation of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archæological Cells at Ulverscroft Priory, by Mr. James Thompson Blackfordby, Leicestershire, by the Rev. J. M. Gresley (with Illustration) 27 Leicester Castle, by Mr. James Thompson (with Illustration) On Moulded and Coloured Brick, by Mr. Millican The Pilgrim's Tomb, by the Rev. J. M. Gresley (with Illustrations) Bi-Monthly Meeting, 23rd February, 1857 . Tradesmen's Tokens issued in Leicestershire in the Seventeenth Mansion at Donington on the Heath, by the Rev. J. M. Gresley Croxden Abbey, Abstract of Paper upon, by the Rev. J. M. Gresley The Principles and Aims of Archæological Societies, by Mr. T. North Bi-Monthly Meeting, 30th August, 1858 Recent Antiquarian Discoveries in Leicester, by Mr. James Thompson 214 An Ancient House at Medbourne, Leicestershire, by the Rev. J. M. |