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 Among other names which were familiar in Leicester town three or four centuries ago, may be noticed Biggs, Burgess, Berridge, Harvey, Hind, Pratt, Ludlam, Worship, Freake, Ive, Fowler, Middleton, Yates, Nix, Wilcocks, Manby, Davey, Davenport, Cotton, Eyre, Orton, Fletcher, Burton, Adcock, Alsop, Barlow, Hallam, Chamberlain, Gadsby, Vickers, Ward and Wood.

All these families, and many others, played their parts on the civic stage, and most of them remain within the old borough; so that the reborn city of to-day is united still by living bonds with the small mediæval community from which it has sprung. 176