Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1913 — Ancient English City. [ARTICLE]

Ancient English City.

Leicester, England, where the manufacture of plain and fancy hosiery was introduced In 1680, and is now equaled only by Nottingham, is of great antiquity, though the greater part of the town is modern. Under the name of Ratiscorlon it was an important Roman station. It was also one of the five old Danish burgs, and until 874 was an ecclesiastical see. Its charter of incorporation was obtained from King John, and parliaments were held in the town by Henry V. in. 1414 and Henry VI. in 1426. In the neighborhood of the town are the remains of the abbey of Black Canons, which was founded in 1143.