Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society . ston, in Hertfordshire. This appears from thepedigree, which was drawn up in 1619 (evidently by a Herald) forAugustine Chester, of Blaby, and is preserved amongst PhilipotsLeicestershire Collections in the Library of the College of seems that this pedigree never received official sanction, for it isnot recorded in Camdens Visitation of this county in 1619,although it could scarcely have been compiled for any otherpurpose. It is, however, one of the additional pedigrees, whichare found in a copy of the Visitat
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society . ston, in Hertfordshire. This appears from thepedigree, which was drawn up in 1619 (evidently by a Herald) forAugustine Chester, of Blaby, and is preserved amongst PhilipotsLeicestershire Collections in the Library of the College of seems that this pedigree never received official sanction, for it isnot recorded in Camdens Visitation of this county in 1619,although it could scarcely have been compiled for any otherpurpose. It is, however, one of the additional pedigrees, whichare found in a copy of the Visitation at the British Museum(Harl. MSS. 1180), and are printed in the Harleian SocietysEdition without any note to explain that they have been addedwithout authority to the original MS. The Arms here assigned to Augustine Chester are those of SirRobert Chester, of Royston, and the compiler of the pedigreeundoubtedly intended to convey that Augustine and Sir Robertsprung from the same stock. But the Historian of Leicestershire* * Nichols Hist, of Co. Leicester, vol iv., p. AvGean<rie Charles Chester, of Blaby,:yeoman, son & heir, Feb. 1599, died 5 June1641. I Charles Chester, of Blaby,= Bridget, 1st wifeyeoman, son & heir, born j buried 17 July22 Feb. 1628-9, died 1700, j 71. Charles Chester, of Blaby,= Alice, widow yeoman, son & heir apparent,buried 10 Feb. dat. 4 July 1677,proved 1678. 1678 Charles Chester, of Blaby, ==yeoman, grandson & heir,bapt. 6 March 1670-1, bur-ied 9 Nov. 1721. Alice Chester, dau. & heir,= Thomas Bassett,bapt. 11 Sept. 1702, married | of Aug. 1726. •4^ 176 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY. By Mr. Hartopp: Throe Old Deeds, one a Probate of a Willof 1077, a lease of Tithes date 1742, and a deed of conveyance of1696; also a small specimen of tesselated pavement of black andwhite tessorso, said to have been discovered on the site of LeicesterAbbey. The Be v. J. S. Watson, of Cotesbach, then read a paper:— O
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