THE ROTHLEY CHRONICLES

The Rothley History Society has launched a new series of publications called 'The Rothley Chronicles'

Chronicle 1:

A VICARAGE LIFE

The first Rothley Chronicle

A Vicarage Life by Mary Manton (nee Becher) is a first-hand account of her life as a teenager at Rothley Vicarage in wartime.
A poignant story written originally in answer to her own children's questions about their mother's childhood.
Size 298mm x 210mm, 12 pages with illustrations.

Chronicle 2

ADVOWSON ANCHORED

The second Rothley Chronicle

The story of the Patronage of Rothley Parish Church is a piece of original research written by Terry Sheppard. It details the many transactions and involved people from when the patronage began to be bought and sold between 1837 up to 1939 when it was vested into the permanent home of the Martyrs Memorial Trust.
Size 298mm x 210mm, 16 pages, illustrated,

Chronicle 3

ROTHLEY TEMPLE IN THE OLDEN TIME
Phases of English Life

Eliza Conybeare

The charming story of a childhood which had the run of Rothley Temple in the retirement phase of Thomas Babington's life. Eliza Conybeare (nee Rose) was born at Rothley Vicarage in 1821, lost her Vicar father in 1822, and continued to live in the Vicarage for many years afterwards with her family.
In 1874, at a house-party in Cromer, the now widowed Eliza wrote and performed this piece to the guests.
Chronicle 3 reproduces Eliza's text with added illustrations, maps and further text to locate the story in its time and its setting.

Size 298mm x 210mm. 20 pages with illustrations

Chronicle 4

LORDING IT OVER MEDIAEVAL ROTHLEY

The Text of this Chronicle is a version of Chapter 2 of Vanessa MacLoughlin's doctoral thesis on the soke of Rothley, submitted to Leicester University in 2006.
The soke was an unusual and rare grouping together of settlements which secured for itself certain privileges exempting it from external jurisdiction over aspects of its secular and ecclesiastical life. Rothley was the focus of the soke, and the seat from which Lordship over the manor and soke was exercised.
The Author's text takes us from the conquest up to the time when the manor and soke passed from the Hospitallers to the Babington family, after the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century.
The Chronicle includes two illustrations and a table taken from the author's chapter. Other illustrations have been added.

Copies are available at £1.50 each or £2.00 if posted within the UK. Please contact Terry Sheppard, tel. 0116 230 2931