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threatened and disturbed in his office as toil-collector. The exaction was felt to be as vexatious as it had been in the previous century.

Before the end of the 14th century the repairs of bridges, as well as of all other town property, were placed in the hands of the two Chamberlains of the Borough.[1]


  1. Thompson's omission of the word "bridges," when he enumerated the duties of the Chamberlains, both in his History of Leicester, and also in his Municipal History, is a pure inadvertence.

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