Soon after Mr. Lee died under great disappointment at Paris, and several of his workmen returning to London, laid the foundation of Stocking Weaving in this county. The manufactory has been gradually increasing, but within these last ten years has rapidly advanced to its present flourishing state. The number of workmen employed in this branch is not less than 20,000 who produce from the raw material about 15,000 dozen per week. * A full account of this manufactory, in all its branches, is preparing for the press, and will be published in the course of the summer. ERRATUM. The reader is requested to correct the account of St. Martin's organ, as follows. Great organ, two open and a stop diapason, principal, 12th, 15th, ses-quialtia, cornet, clarion, trumpet. Choir organ, two diapasons, principal, 15th, flute, bassoon. Swell, two diapasons, principal, cornet, hautboy, trumpet. [Combe, Printer, Leicester.] HOTEL LIBRARY. T. COMBE, BOOKSELLER, Has on Sale the best Literary Productions, in elegant and other Bindings, and every new Work of Merit may be seen at the Library AS SOON AS PUBLISHED. Any quantity of Books purchased, or taken in exchange. _Printing_, _Binding & all sorts of Stationary_. Gold Paper, Ornaments and Borders--Coloured Papers and Pasteboards--Bristol and Ivory Boards--Whatman's Drawing Papers--Newman's Colours--Middletons Pencils--Varnish, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, and other Articles. A CIRCULATING LIBRARY, _which collects all the varieties of the Day_. Map of Leicester [Picture: The 1802 map of Leicester published by T. Combe] Footnotes: {23} "He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long, Up to the head drew he." CHEVY CHACE. {24} See an Essay on this subject by the Hon. Daines Barrington in the Archaeologia. {42} This sum is now distributed under the title of wood and coal money. {125} See Starke's Travels. {135} These altars, dedicated to St. Dunstan and St. Catherine stood, one where the present vestry is, the other in Heyrick's Chancel, so called from its containing the monuments of that antient family. Transcriber's Notes Original spelling, punctuation and grammar have been retained in this transcription. The following, however, have been corrected: page 35: "to to which this chapel" has been corrected to "to which this chapel" page 35: "joins the the prison" has been corrected to "joins the prison" page 43: "bridge over the the Canal" has been corrected to "bridge over the Canal" page 74: "a good and firm rood" has been corrected to "a good and firm road" page 75: "usefulness of urn-pike tolls" has been corrected to "usefulness of turn-pike tolls"