vi PREFACE 



Great difficulty has been encountered in spelling 

 names of places and coverts. Various readings are to 

 be found in maps, directories, and guide-books, and I 

 have no means of saying whether the manner adopted 

 in these pages of spelling Munday's Gorse and many 

 other places is correct. In old accounts of runs (in 

 some modern accounts too) Ellar's Gorse has been 

 spelled Ella's ; Kinoulton sometimes has two n's, some- 

 times one only ; there is also a doubt whether Glen 

 Gorse should have another letter tacked on to it. 



In putting forth this book I have to render my best 

 thanks to the proprietors of the Leicester Journal for 

 their kindness in allowing" me access to their back files ; 

 to the proprietors of Baity s Magazine for permission to 

 reprint "The Dream of an Old Meltonian," and to my 

 friends, Mr. E. Penton and Mr. W. F. Boulton, for the 

 valuable assistance they have rendered. 



London, November 1898. 



