. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 39 lesson, and to give them a religious cast, produced results sufficientlyridiculous and objectionable. Take two as instances: The Pig. On God I build my hopes of grace,The Ancient Pigs my dwelling place. The Shin of Beef. Wake, and repent your sins with grief,Im called the 1 Golden Shin of Beef. A peculiar custom of doubtful origin prevailed here till 1798,that of keeping all the town clocks one hour fast. Traditionascribes it to the fact of a plot to deliver the town to an enemy-being
. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 39 lesson, and to give them a religious cast, produced results sufficientlyridiculous and objectionable. Take two as instances: The Pig. On God I build my hopes of grace,The Ancient Pigs my dwelling place. The Shin of Beef. Wake, and repent your sins with grief,Im called the 1 Golden Shin of Beef. A peculiar custom of doubtful origin prevailed here till 1798,that of keeping all the town clocks one hour fast. Traditionascribes it to the fact of a plot to deliver the town to an enemy-being defeated by the clock striking the hour of one instead oftwelve. September 26th, 1876. The Kev. J. H. Hill, , in the chair. The following gentlemen were elected members :—Bev. John Edward Stocks, Vicar of Market Harborough; Glover, , Emmanuel Kectory, Loughborough;William Winterton, Esq., Prebend Street, Leicester; Mr. RobertMichie, Midland Railway Station, Leicester. The following antiquities, &c, were exhibited :—By the Chairman : Photograph
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